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Using timer to InvalidateRect() causes flickers...
Posted on June 8th, 2008 | 5 Comments

In article <efcdbf6d-93ed-4d05-9e59- 931890ac575e@l42g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, songezo@cybersmart.co.za says... Yes, it's quite common to receive a lot of messages your code doesn't process...

Extending a WinSock TCP client with SSL
Posted on June 8th, 2008 | 4 Comments

"Eric" <wolleric@gmx.de> wrote in message news:19e389a2-e6ca-4b6b-940e-18ce4b91cd26@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com... Boris

Removing Visual Studio 2008 C Runtime Redistributable?
Posted on June 7th, 2008 | 2 Comments

In article <iKKdnUzc7qsnZNTVnZ2dnUVZ_hadnZ2d@comcast.com>, nobody@nowhere.com says... My advice would be to use a virtual machine -- i.e. run a copy of Windows under something like VMWare (free...

VirtualAlloc() and Physical Memory
Posted on June 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments

In message <30065fca-b917-4158-ba37-b684613090c7@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, dao@snakebrook.com writes You can only allocate chunks that are as large as the largest contiguous chunk in memory....

? Keyboard Hook (Combo-Keys, Owner Window)
Posted on June 7th, 2008 | 4 Comments

Alec S. wrote: You can distinguish modifiers keys by testing vkCode of KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT with a function like IsModifierKey(DWORD vkCode) where you return vkCode == VK_CONTROL || vkCode ==...

Align BYTE pointer on DWORD Boundry
Posted on June 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments

<alien.0101@gmail.com> wrote in message news:bbf6b1a6-52f2-484a-8446-2e22439d3994@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com... Its does not work at all if base is not already properly aligned. Anyway, some more...

Attempting to read content of Windows Vista magnification control(WC_MAGNIFIER)
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 3 Comments

Grzegorz Wróbel wrote: Playing around with DWM APIs I could find that Vista itself can do what I want (DwmRegisterThumbnail(), DwmUpdateThumbnailProperties()...), but again I am not able to get to...

About GetPixel and SetPixel
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Bradley wrote: Does hWnd contain a valid window handle? Did you check the return value of GetDC()? Are the values of x and y within the client area of the window? Is the window visible? (If...

LpStrDefExt member of OPENFILENAME
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments

On Jun 5, 2:49*am, Christian ASTOR <casto...@club-internet.fr> wrote: Thanks Christian.

(DLL) GetWindowLong return value pointing to changed data
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 6 Comments

* Beagle: OK, then. It /seems/ that your problem is a window that has an associated pointer to some C++ automatic object o, where the window outlives the object. The general solution is to...

simple IMAPS client without certificates
Posted on June 6th, 2008 | 1 Comments

I am starting to realize that perhaps I should have chosen the thread's subject more carefully since I'm not interested in details about the IMAP protocol but about SSL connection...

About creating toolbar using win32 api
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

"Bradley" <liubei07@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote in message news:g28u5a$dpo$1@aioe.org... You may find it helpful to look up 'rebar' in the same section that Christian pointed you to. A rebar acts...

win32 C newbie - linking to dll
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 10 Comments

As Mike said, the WINMM.LIB is needed only for the linker to create the EXE. Once you create the EXE, the LIB file is no longer needed. All you need is the DLL file that the LIB file corresponds to....

How to use up cpu cycles in multi-cpu machine
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 2 Comments

In article <a4531155-0545-4d1d-9bc1-9170d21e5cf0@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, Angus <anguscomber@gmail.com> wrote: Well, you can run your program twice -- Windows will tend to automatically...

Windows Sockets and heavy traffic
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 1 Comments

Pelle wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "a secure medium" (certainly TCP/IP doesn't qualify as a "secure channel"). IP is a best-effort packet-switching datagram protocol, and TCP is a stream...

Generate string with constant length from an other random string
Posted on June 5th, 2008 | 5 Comments

Trond Endrestřl <trond@ramstind.fig.ol.no> writes: My bad in parts. It should read snprintf(result, 12, "%12s", original); snprintf(result, 12, "%-12s", original);

DRIVER_INFO_6 structure for AddPrinter and AddPrinterDriver functions
Posted on June 4th, 2008 | 1 Comments

ssylee wrote: If you install the driver, how is it possible that you don't know where you put your files (DLL, ...) ?

Creating a Bitmap-file in code
Posted on June 4th, 2008 | 18 Comments

"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote in message news:48464bbf$0$3442$e4fe514c@dreader15.news.xs4all.nl... Highly authoritative: "Windows Graphics Programming" by Feng Yuan -- Scott McPhillips

Logging on a user
Posted on June 4th, 2008 | 51 Comments

Sten, Sten Westerback (MVP SDK 2005-6 :) wrote: No, it is not flawed just because you can't think of any reason for it ;-) Think about multiple desktops in a WindowStation and you want to...

How to do synchronous functions in Win32
Posted on June 4th, 2008 | 1 Comments

"Angus" <nospam@gmail.com> wrote in message news:g0sov6$lr3$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk... I really can't see the problem. A programmer uses one thing to copy (and convert) data from one...