Hi I'm trying to write a small application similar to the powertoys alt+tab replacement for windows XP. I have taken over alt+tab using SetWindowsHookEx(WH_KEYBOARD_LL, LowLevelKeyboardProc, hInst,...

My application has many cpp programs. In these programs, I run some commands using system("command"). Whenever the system() is called, a new command line window opens and the command start...

Hi there, is there someone can translate the following code into win32 api? Thanx CClientDC dc( this ); CBrush brush(GetSysColor(INDICATOR_COLOR)); CPen ...

I have a CTreeCtrl in a CPropertyPage on XP... everything using themes. I noticed that if I popup a window over the tree control and then click on the tree control itself, all sorts of funky painting...

I have an application that has to print a line at a time to a dot-matrix printer, as a security log. The application thus needs to have exclusive access to the printer, and the problem is that the...

Hi, Please help me ! I need to allow our application to run under User account on 2000 and XP, and to be able to create/delete/and edit files. I am installing it as an Administrator, and not all...

Hi all I have a problem with my listbox. Adding a new item to the listbox works fine (see code ). But when the list is full (ok, it is not full but I cant see any entry anymore) a scrollbar appears....

Hi Experts: I need to translate a TCHAR array into int, and soon float. MSDN's page...

I have a problem calling a class method from a static library. The method call always corrupt the caller's memory. I hope that some experts out there can give me some pointers on this. Let me give...

You don't have to do anything special. \ is only an escape character when used inside a string in C or C++ source code. -- Tim Robinson (MVP, Windows SDK) http://www.themobius.co.uk/ "NTLDR"...

Hello, can anyone tell me the max. dimensions of a rtf? I think it's 22 inches or am i wrong??? Marcel

Bob,\ Your answer intrigued me, and now I'm interested in trying an event handler on my "realtime" pitch processing software. It has always been a single threaded process, using the CALLBACK_WINDOW...

Hello, i've some problems loading symbol information from some shared objects (dll). The first attempt to load works fine, but after this each next symbol load fails without settings an error code...

Hello, Is there a way to find out if the menu is active, other than figuring it out from messages like WM_INITMENU and WMENTERMENULOOP. I am looking for a function like this bool...

I'm trying to port some C code to Windows 2000. Unfortunately, some of the paths handled by the application exceed the PATH_MAX limit (260). I have successfully used the Unicode interface to...

I have this line and many like it subjectEdit=CreateWindowEx(0,"EDIT","",WS_CHILD|WS_BORDER|ES_LEFT|ES_AUTOHSC ROLL|WS_GROUP,200,32,150,25,mainWindow,NULL,hThisInstance,NULL); but for some reason i...

Hi newsgroup not sure if this is win32 related but since it is a 'windows' function I try it here :-) I would like to print a tab (\t) in a string and then add that string as an item to a...

Hi Group, I try to intercept a click with the right mouse button on a menu item. When the menu is showing, a right mouse click results in a WM_RBUTTONDOWN message, but it seems unrelated to the...

I have a kernel event object. The main process creates it and other processes open the event object. In the main process I want to find out how many HANDLES point to the kernel event object. Does...

Hello everyone, I'm currently looking at an alternative for the ODBC SDK for my Win32 applications and I though using ADO/OLEDB would be a good option since this is what we use in our VB...