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Re: Dialog Box
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

OR SendDlgItemMessage(hwndDialog, IDD_LISTBOX, LB_ADDSTRING,0,(LPARAM)Buffer); "Frank Kaehler" <AAAfktozz@gmx.net> wrote in message news:bdriht$vutld$1@ID-184416.news.dfncis.de...

CreateToolhelp32Snapshot() does not work on NT any alternative??
Posted on July 1st, 2003 | 0 Comments

I have written a function to get the CPU Time usage for a running executable. CreateToolhelp32Snapshot() fails on Windows NT 4.0 and gives a message "The procedure entry point...

Creating a process on a remote computer
Posted on June 30th, 2003 | 0 Comments

What's the easiest way to launch an application on a remote computer (not using task scheduler)? -Lance

Re: Hot to determine if two pathes are on the same physical drive ornot?
Posted on June 30th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Jerry Coffin wrote: But different volumes can be on the same physical drive and the physical drive decides if it makes sense to put the file readings into different threads. That's what I thought......

How do I (Administrator) delete the subkey under SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root?
Posted on June 30th, 2003 | 0 Comments

the subkey under SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root are read only for me even I am Administrator, I need to delete some subkey under this key, how can I do for it? thanks henrry

Getting path of executed program
Posted on June 30th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Hi there, Is there a way I can get the path of the program I am running? I have a program and in that directory, I have a help file. I want to open the help file using ShellExecute() but since I...

Where to store preferences files?
Posted on June 30th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Greetings, how do you find out where preferences files are stored on Windows? MSDN left me scratching my head. I need paths to suitable directories to store global application preferences and the...

Re: Change color of text in dialogs
Posted on June 30th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Handle WM_CTLCOLOREDIT in the dialog procedure. -- Tim Robinson (MVP, Windows SDK) http://www.themobius.co.uk/ "Christofer Bustad" <tosse.bustad@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote in...

Re: WaitForSingleObject abnormal termination when a equivalent program has been called
Posted on June 30th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Greetings Newsgroup, Well i have tried ShellExecute and ShellExecuteEx as well both reproduce the same problem. I am beginning to think there may not be a concrete solution to this. Well if there...

Device drivers
Posted on June 29th, 2003 | 2 Comments

i want to be able to interact with my program when the focus isn't on my program i.e, it should be able to capture keystrokes without focus. also can i disable Ctr+Alt+Del by intercepting from the...

MFC Q: Where to call Invalidate() or InvalidateRect()?
Posted on June 29th, 2003 | 2 Comments

I'm an MFC newbie struggling to understand the architecture and the documentation, and right now I'm very befuddled. My program -- for various reasons -- has to draw "everything" on the screen with...

Re: What am I doing wrong with GetPixel()?
Posted on June 29th, 2003 | 2 Comments

"Norm Dresner" <ndrez@att.net> wrote in message news:gH1La.24958$0v4.1898264@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net Just guessing but from the GetPixel documentation: "If the pixel is outside of the...

Splitting large files (and mpegs)
Posted on June 29th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hi there, This should be asked in two sections. First, I have a file which is 1400MB and I want to split it into 2 700MB files so that I can fit them onto a CD. How can I split the file into two...

Re: which handle returned?
Posted on June 29th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Maybe the first one; that is, the control which comes first in the tab order. You don't know the lookup algorithm that GetDlgItem uses, and there's no mention in the documentation as to what happens...

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...