I am calling the SetDlgItemText() function to set the text of an edit box for an about window. For some weird reason though it won't work, and the GetLastError function gives a Control ID not found...

Hi, I am working with Borland 4.53. I have to show a URL in my 'About' Dialog and on clicking on it the related wep page should open. Is this possible in Borland 4.53. If not is there any 3rd...

Hi guys, I need to enumerate the running processes on my computer. I have found something in psdk but I don't know how to get the filename of the process once I have retreived its handle. DWORD...

Dear All, Can anyone tell me which function of Windows 32 API I should use to do a Absoluted Values? Thx. Best, Eric

Hi all i am using spin control and my question is that if i know the Handle of the spin can i know that how much jump would the spin take if i click the up or down keys of the spin, i am asking it...

I am observing a problem involving a pthreads-win32 condition variable. When the main thread waits on a cv, it does not wake up when the cv is signaled. I believe that the root of the problem is that...

A basic question from a fledgling windows programmer: How would one code a multi-column list box with column headers using "pure" API calls in C? I have searched the web for this, but in the few...

I'm running a process with stdout redirected into a file, and after waiting for it to terminate (WaitForSingleObject on the process handle), I read the file. This usually works, but once in a...

When a value is entered in an edit box, I want to take an action after the return key (VK_RETURN) was pressed, I can't seem to do it though, using WM_KEYUP or WM_KEYDOWN. And this (probably extremly...

Hello, I am writing a dialog based app in which I want to hide the main window and place an icon in the system tray when the user clicks the minimize button. Everything works ok, except whenever the...

Richard Heathfield wrote: GDI will take care of it for you. Norm

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Hi, I use VC7.0 and get the described error in this code: CFileDialog fd(TRUE,"dxf","*.dxf"); #if (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500) fd.m_pOFN->lStructSize = OPENFILENAME_SIZE_VERSION_400; #endif

Hi all I'm sad to say "I'm stuck", but it quite covers where I'm currently at in my dev. process. I've made a program based on dialogboxes. All the dialogues, are encapsulated in objects as an...

Hi there, I was playing around today and decided to be a bit lazy. I am calling a dialog box from a console application. Everything works fine in debug mode (VC6) but when I run it in release...

Hi, I have installed my Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 in Windows 98 long time back. Few months ago I have upgraded my OS to Windows XP. If I am trying to print the Windows version (WINVER) from the...

I'm setting up the common dialog Color Chooser so I can have a user change the program colors. I have this working fine. When I put my own ""Revert TO Default Colors" button in place of the Define...

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I installed gcc-2_95_2 under cygwin. Wrote a test program and got the following message. What am I missing? Thanks for your help. $ gcc test.c /lib/libcygwin.a(pseudo-reloc.o)(.text+0x49):...

Hello I have crashed my ntfs harddisk unbootable. In order to solve this, I have downloaded ntrecover.exe from sysinternals.com and programmed a program, that read blocks from the hard disk over the...