Perhaps you can do what you want to do with a global message hook (SetWindowsHookEx). I've found that there are very few things you can't do with SetWindowsHookEx that involve windows, threads, and...

"John K." <john@NOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:eGLRa.184324$lK4.5231951@twister1.libero.it... Yes, AFAIK hooking SetForegroundWindow is the only way, assuming that you really want to emulate such...

How do I use MsgWaitForMultipleObjects? particularly I need help with the first 2 parameters. My program is hanging on some computers (seems like only win. XP) So I am trying to find the problem, I...

hi all im trying to use GetKeyState function to know that whether an ALT or Control key is doen or not , the function returns a value of type SHORT, but i have a confusion as in the documentation it...

Martijn wrote: If you read the documentation about SHGetMalloc, you'll see this: " This interface must be used to free memory that was allocated by the Shell or to allocate memory that will be...

I have just started having the strangest problem. The code ends up boiling down to the following (it is more contorted than it appears...

Hello, I'm programming in C++ with Visual.Net. I'm trying to find the cdrom drive letter but I only can find the CDROM drive letter. I'm using GetLogicalDriveStrings and GetDriveType. If someone can...

Raskolnikow wrote: | I have some beginner questions about C(++), | so please be gentle if the things I ask are trivial. | | What I want to do is a program (in Windows) that | - changes the current...

Hello, how can I name an Istorage with a name more than 31 char? Thanks for yours answers...

Hi! Using LockResource (when loading a bitmap resource via FindResource/LoadResource) returns a pointer to a bitmap in memory. I want to get a pointer pointing to the same stuff that i get using...

Hi, Forgive me if I have misunderstood something, I'm fairly new at this and I am trying to wrap my head around the stuff I need to understand :) Is it possible to get a list of the groups that...

"Basim Kakakhail" <basimkakakhail@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:dbd656b6.0307160507.5fc3e8a9@posting.google.com... I assume you mean that your callback gets called... :) Sure...it's Adown +...

Hi All, How would I go about having my app read the menu settings of another app? For instance, take Calc.exe, how could my app read the 'View' menu to see if Standard or Scientific was selected, or...

Does anyone have any idea how to programmatically change the video driver acceleration level? I have been searching MSDN but all it ever says is: open the display control panel, select...

Hi all, I noticed that (because of the installation of some software I can't manage to track down anymore) RUNDLL32.EXE and SERVICES.EXE eat all CPU time when the CPU would otherwise be idle.. I...

My question is very simple, how do I get the instance handle (HINSTANCE) of the currently running DLL. In an exe I would just get the hInstance parameter from: int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,...

Hi, After successfully hiding the horizontal scrollbar of a tree-view control, I now want to custom draw the vertical scrollbar (if visible) of the tree-view control. I tried earlier this day...

Tree view controls don't support multiple selection, so deleting "all" (= 0 or 1) selected tree items is easy. -- Tim Robinson (MVP, Windows SDK) http://www.themobius.co.uk/ "Dmitri Zhukov"...

In my dialog box, I am redrawing a rectangel based on the position of sliders. I use this code to see if the sliders have moved case WM_VSCROLL : GetWindowRect(hDlg, &rect); InvalidateRect(hDlg,...

hi there, I am trying to dump a lot of floats to a file and want to save space. Here is my main loop which is looped several thousand times fprintf(fptr, "%f %f %f ", normals, normals, normals);...