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How do i get a treeview style [+] or [-] in a listview colloum using pure API
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 1 Comments

subject^ Hi, How do i get an expandable/collapseable colloum to be inserted into a listview using pure C++ win32 api's? Any links or tutorials would great, thanks =)

How to pass user defined data types via a message queue?
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi all, I am using VC++ 6.0 and have successfully sent simple messages to a message queue. I used some sample code from MSDN to get the thing going initially. None of the samples explain how to send...

Sending SIGINT
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Anybody know how to do the equivalent of "kill -2 <pid>" under Windows? Where 2 is SIGINT. I'm using CreateProcess on a program that opens some files. This program (a MingW console program) can only...

Reconnecting Drives at starup
Posted on September 27th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hi, y'all, First time on this NG - hope I'm in the right place! I run Win XP Pro. In the KB article 283492, NOT reconnecting mapped drives at start-up, MS says, "This behavior is by design." Has...

how to insert "Outlook Mime Editor" into a project, error is "Unable to Instantiate"
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have a win32 application, and i'm "Inserting An ActiveX control" using the resource editor in MSVC++ 6.0. I'm trying to insert a outlook editor thingy (the one that outlook express uses to...

GINA
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Dear All, My Program Resumes the Computer Running Windows XP From Standby or Suspension and performs certian work.i am using SetWaitable Timer and WaitForSingleObject for these .This is working...

Monitoring audio levels
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I'll trying to monitor the microphone or line in audio level from my audio card with the windows API commands mixerGetControlDetails((HMIXEROBJ)pDlg->m_hMixer,...

Extracting small (but not "system small") icons from ico/exe/dll files
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 5 Comments

Hello all, I need to extract and display 16x16 icons from ico, exe, or dll files. I'm having a problem when the system small icon size is 12x12 - ExtractIconEx apparently pulls the 16x16 icons out...

VirtualLock not working
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 1 Comments

I tried the following code (actually from a posting in another newsgroup): ------------------------------------------------ LPVOID BigMemory = NULL; #define numtoalloc 200000 LPVOID BigMemory =...

VirtualLock on XP
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hi, I'm trying to lock a large amount of memory on XP so it doesn't get paged out (I know I'm not supposed to do this but it is in a controlled environment). When I use the VirtualAlloc and then...

Newbie : Windows API Stuff
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hello: First let me say I know about this much... "" ...about using the Windows API - and would really appreciate some insight from those 'in the know'. I've been forced (kicking and screaming)...

Graphics for software
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I'm famous for posting questions to the wrong groups, but, to me, this is an issure for completeing a program so... One of the things our programs ( and manuals ) always suffer from is...

Propertysheets/pages and random crash
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hello I have a simple property page that on either its startup or close the following occurs (randomly): NTDLL.DLL!_RtlpValidateHeapEntry@12() + 0x34e52 NTDLL.DLL!_RtlDebugFreeHeap@12() +...

List of latest visited folders?
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi, Is it possible to keep a list of the latest folders visited by the explorer? Something like the Historial of IE, but for the local file system. O:-) TIA

Help on CTreeCtrl : no resize bitmaps
Posted on September 26th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hello, I'm using a CTreeCtrl, on a monochrome LCD display, with a CImageList. My problem is that windows resize the bitmaps so they are looking dirty on screen, while they are the right size in...

Moving the screen cursor in a console app (was originally: Newbie help)
Posted on September 25th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Originally posted by "Kris M" in comp.lang.c on 20 Sept 03 (follow-ups set to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32): I can not seem to figure out how to move the cursor to a specific location on the...

Strangeness with SetFocus()
Posted on September 25th, 2003 | 4 Comments

I have an app with a main window that has an edit control on it, and I'm trying to keep the keyboard focus on the edit control whenever the app is active. I'm trying to reset it WM_ACTIVATEAPP, but...

What does this error message mean?
Posted on September 25th, 2003 | 3 Comments

I have written a tiff viewer that uses opengl for windows. It was wrote and compiled on Windows 2000 Pro. using gcc 3.2. It runs fine on this machine a PIII 450mhz with an ATI rage card. It also...

Displaying order of records in DAO
Posted on September 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I use the following code to open a table, with CDaoRecordView, CDaoDatabase and CDaoRecordset: char *sqlstr = "SELECT * FROM tblCustomers ORDER BY nID...