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Re: Benchmarking Linux vs. WinXP
Posted on June 28th, 2003 | 2 Comments

In article <bde0e3$rs02u$1@ID-37212.news.dfncis.de>, tonreG.Frisch@Dream-D-Sign.de says... The difference in floating point speed, is probably due to a difference in the compilers -- I'd guess...

Get key pressed?
Posted on June 28th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Is there any way (in a consol program) to see what key is being pressed, and resume the program is no key is being pressed? I'm using visual C++ 6.0

Re: _unlink vs. Unix unlink semantics
Posted on June 28th, 2003 | 0 Comments

In article <bd4a9s$9gm$1@news1.radix.net>, dickey@saltmine.radix.net says... No -- the C (and C++) standards require that including a standard header only declares names required to be declared,...

Use dll from specified directory?
Posted on June 28th, 2003 | 13 Comments

Hi, Can I have my (and only my) app seek for a dll in a folder like: C:\Programme\MyDlls\... Thank you, -Gernot In order to reply, revert my forename.

list view (report) selection involving shift+click
Posted on June 28th, 2003 | 2 Comments

When I try to perform the standard bulk selection maneuver (click top element and shift+click bottom element) the control scrolls the top selected element into view the moment I hit the shift key. Is...

Are memory mapped files cached?
Posted on June 27th, 2003 | 1 Comments

I'm trying to assess the potential benefit of implementing a cache on top of a database server I wrote that uses memory mapped files. I don't know if Win32 does caches memory mapped file access, and...

Edit control in child windows
Posted on June 27th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I am having to test/update a legacy app written for Windows NT on Windows 2000/XP. This app creates multiple child windows (not MDI) for a parent window. Each child window may contain various edit...

How to tell when a dialog box has been rendered?
Posted on June 27th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I have a modal dialog box that has to gather some time-consuming information which it presents in a list control report view. Right now the information gathering is in OnInitDialog()--this means that...

Re: Why is the default struct member alignment 8 bytes in my compiler (vc++ 6)?
Posted on June 27th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Alignment is handled in two parts. The alignment needed by the struct which depends on the types of the field within the struct and the compiler alignment setting. A struct that only needs 2 byte...

Re: Question where to re-direct
Posted on June 27th, 2003 | 5 Comments

"Gisle Vanem" <giva@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:3ef5b81e$1@news.broadpark.no... What is this?

RegisterHotKey failing with any attempt
Posted on June 26th, 2003 | 0 Comments

RegisterHotKey( hwnd, 1, MOD_WIN, VK_F2 ); I've verified hwnd, tried GlobalAddAtom, tried different keys and modifiers, but no matter what I try it fails. FormatMessage( ... GetLastError() ... )...

Re: Repeaded read of resultset problem
Posted on June 26th, 2003 | 1 Comments

johnbrown105@hotmail.com (John Brown) wrote in message news:<ee1f9e62.0306241732.a8a8bb4@posting.google.com>... I have adopted the parts to my code, but it has no effect. It would be, that my SQL...

Problem with simple multithreaded console program
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hi, I wrote a little console application to make my first steps with multithreaded application. I use beginthread to create two new threads, I have a global variable to stop the threads, I have one...

Create non-visible window?
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Is it possible: 1. create a widow that is initially non-visible 2. make some modifications to it 3. then make it visible It's step #1 I need help with. Mark

Re: Displaying custom context menu for a specific file
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 1 Comments

"Warren Simington" <warrens@acuprint.com> wrote in message news:3ef8bbce.19533227@news.la.sbcglobal.net... the reference and code code code.. :) - Sten

COM CreateProcess Problem
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I am trying to within my COM server that runs as a certain user IUSR_WHATEVER call into a server interface ISomeInferface that runs as SYSTEM. The Interace function I am calling is suppose to...

Application Memory Use
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I have a C++ application which if run on a machine with 32MB, starts off at about 2500-3000K. After some time it relinquishes some memory and may run as low as 1000K. (from CTRL-ALT-DEL) The same...

IFrame DOM access from external app
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I apologize if this is not the most appropriate group to post to. I would like to find out how an external app can get access to IE's DOM that is contained within a FRAME or IFRAME element embedded...

How to circumvent WH_CALLWNDPROC limitation?
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 1 Comments

John K. wrote: I have no real experience of these issues but... could you just give all windows the WS_EX_NOACTIVATE style? Then, when any of them receive a click, you can put in your own logic...

Re: Win9x dialog underscores missing on Win2K
Posted on June 25th, 2003 | 0 Comments

"Bob Masta" <no_spam@aol.com> wrote in message news:3ef8a820.831130@news.itd.umich.edu... want's to use the default for the OS at hand (s)he should be allowed that. Personally i think supporting...