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TBitBtn help
Posted on August 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

(if this isn't the correct newsgroup for this question, a redirect would be most appreciated...) I've got a TBitBtn on a form, and it works fine except for one thing - it always looks like it's...

Re: WM_PAINT priority
Posted on August 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

"Eric Smith" <eric3057@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:ceb68bd9.0308050109.f040df0@posting.google.com... Hi, the answer ist 'no'. The only differences are possible the thread priority of...

Attaching windowless app to a console
Posted on August 5th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Would I be correct in saying that under NT/2K it is NOT possible for a GUI app (which in this case happens to be windowless) to attach to the console from which it was launched? A day searching...

PX8 Desktops for Windows
Posted on August 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Never enough screen space for all the windows you need? Check out PX ver 8 here http://personal.riverusers.com/~rcoll Local Arizona company announces PX8 - the easy way to get multiple desktops...

type of HINSTANCE?
Posted on August 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hello, I would like to know what C-type HINSTANCE is? By browsing through documentation and grepping through the sources (of the latest platform SDK), I've been able to determine that HINSTANCE__*...

how to make two windows controls have the same edge
Posted on August 5th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Hello, How would i link two edges of two controls together so that the user could contract one to enlarge the other? Like how expolore does it with it's treecontrol and listview ~Thanks~

Where does taskmgr.exe get its information from?
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 5 Comments

Hi, Where does taskmgr.exe get its information from? At least on Win2k, I have found that OpenProcess indicates an error (Access denied) for any process not owned by my login (eg one owned by...

Where is welcome page for this group?
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I would like to read intro to this newsgroup. Thanks.

Memory allocation strategy
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 3 Comments

I need to write a small utility to process some text files. The files could be over 1 MByte in size. In the bad ol' DOS days, I would allocate input and output buffers of 64K each (16-bit seg...

QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 6 Comments

Could someone please elaborate as to the purpose of the QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency API calls? From what I've been able to determine from the MSDN help, they are very...

Treeview problem in WinXP
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 4 Comments

I have a program written in SDK C that displays a standard Windows Common Control TreeView using a set of icons. It works perfectly on all my test systems except on Windows XP. The original code is...

Re: A question about Memory allocation and freeing
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Looking at total memory usage (e.g. through Task Manager) is a really bad way of detecting memory leaks. It's like guessing how fast you're driving by looking at how fast the other cars are...

Virtual RS232
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hi I wont create virtual RS232 port looks like real port for another Windows 2000 aplication. I wont read/write data from this port sendig/to another aplication. How can I do it? Regards Mark

console apps
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

is it true that writing console apps in windows enviroment is a performance wise horror? (since it will add at least one subsystem on top all others)

Re: How to reach http site?
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

ShellExecute() -- AMcD http://arnold.mcdonald.free.fr/ (still in fossilization progress but now in english, thus the whole world can see my laziness)

Re: Replacement of CommandLineToArgvW - needed for Win98
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

"vc" <vcotirlea@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:11e7a684.0308040625.3b02b884@posting.google.com... argc and argv are not passed to WinMain() but they are not completely gone, either, merely just...

Re: Replacement of CommandLineToArgvW - needed for Win98
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

which language are you using? -- Regards Steven Burn Ur I.T. Mate Group CEO www.it-mate.co.uk vc <vcotirlea@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:11e7a684.0308040625.3b02b884@posting.google.com...

Match drawn color to window background
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Greetings. I'm having trouble matching the background color of a small drawn area to the background color of the window. I've been setting the window background with WndClass.hbrBackground set to...

Multi-desktop applications?
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

("desktop" below means the objects that CreateDesktop(), OpenDesktop() and SwitchDesktop() handle. I am not talking about "virtual desktops" that software like GoScreen implement by simply hiding and...

Re: serial interrupts in vc++ 6.0
Posted on August 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

"shakeel-ur-rehman" <shakeelj2k@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:cb950e29.0308032026.7fb9d85@posting.google.com... No. The nearest equivalent to interrupt-driven serial I/O under Windows...