I am starting to believe that you can do nothing with Windows API. I have two windows. One has a DWM thumbnail in it. What I want to do is, I want to be able to capture the screen of the window with the thumbnail into the other one. When I do this, using bitblt, everything is copied except the thumbnail. It just isn't there in the bitma...
I'm having some trouble with the Win32 listview, and I hope someone has some wisdom. When scrolling very quickly (via the wheel), occasionally, the listview appears to scroll, only to jump back to the selected item so it is in-view. In other words, the list undoes your wheel scroll to show you the selected item at the top/bottom of the l...
I'm using WMP engine to convert audio to WMA format, but I didn't see any API that I can put a alubm art to WMA file. is there a way to do that? Thanks in advance. ...
I have a Win32 native VC++ application that upon entering WinMain() starts a separate thread, then does some useful job while that other thread is running, then simply exits WinMain() - the other thread is not explicitly stopped. This blog post says that a .NET application will not terminate in this case since the other thread is still ...
Various questions have been posted on the subject of off-screen rendering, especially as it concerns a Win32 service, such as the following questions in which Mesa3D has been suggested as an option... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/513650/offscreen-rendering-to-a-texture-in-a-win32-service http://stackoverflow.com/questions/883717/c...
I have one application which reads user default locale in Windows Vista and above. When i tried calling the API for getting User default Locale API is crashing. Below is the code, It will be helpfull if any points the reason #include <iostream> #include <WinNls.h> #include <Windows.h> int main() { LPWSTR lpLocaleName=NULL; co...
I've recently fixed a bug in a VB6 application, but I'm not sure, what exactly went wrong. The offending part was a wrong API declaration of CreateEvent. This is, what API Viewer generated: Declare Function CreateEvent Lib "kernel32" Alias "CreateEventA" (lpEventAttributes As SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, ...) As Long The next one is the wro...
Is it possible to paint on the scrollbars of standart controls like TMemo, TListbox, etc..? All I need is to draw some basic shapes on the scrollbars and I'm trying to avoid implementing whole scrolling stuff from stratch. Any pointers? TIA! ...
Using Visual Studio 2005, the debugger tells me that a deadlock has occurred just after startup of the app I'm writing - I'm well in to WinMain() at this point. The callstack shows that we are in a critical section, while calling AFX_MANAGE_STATE2 (for the 666th time, spookily enough) from within an MFC DLL. This has just started happe...
I'm trying to create a Win32 window that has rounded corners and is resizable both horizontally and vertically. My first approach was to create BITMAP of a rounded rectangle and draw it to the screen in conjunction with setting the windows style to WS_EX_LAYERED and setting the transparency key to the outside color of the rounded rectang...
I am using the Windows API and would like to be able to search through a specified directory and return the names of any files that reside within it. I've made a start at it however i've hit a brick wall as i'm unsure of how to go any further. Here is my progress so far: #include <stdio.h> #include <windows.h> void main() { HANDLE f...
Hello, I have a process that is created on windows machine (Lets call it PRS). The amount can be different amount. The processes are created by a nother process (Manager) which is defined as a service. the Manager get instructions and reacts according to the request (for example creating a new PRS, stopping PRS etc'). When creating (usi...
I want to create a process in Win32 .NET can I determine FOR the OS which PID the application will get ? Update: 1) I am asking it because I have a problem in which I have 2 .NET application (the same ones) that I have each one of them got parameter ID and I want using a script (using the parameter) to decide which is the one and get ...
I'm working with some legacy exchange code and I am having trouble finding information about some methods/constants. A google search reveals others using similar code, but with no explanations. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find proper docs? One constant I am looking for is: SYNC_ASSOCIATED. ...
I installed a global hook using win32 but I need to communicate with my main application. How should I do this? I guess the dll can have a function where I set my apps HWND and then the hook can sendmessage it? or should I search the window titles to find my application from the hook and sendmessage that way? What's the best strategy and...
I'm trying to get the list of users currently logged into a machine. On Windows 7, I can call LsaEnumerateLogonSessions, then WTSQuerySessionInformation with WTSConnectState. But on XP, each LSA session has 0 for the TS Session field (unless it's a Remote Desktop session), which always has WTSConnectState of WTSActive, and I end up lis...
I am using the below code to popup the authentication dialog. I want to hard-code the password in my code and make it a read-only text box. What should I do? IDD_LOGIN_AUTH_DIALOG DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 148, 82 STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU CAPTION "Authentication" FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg" BEGIN LTEXT ...
Ok... I want to make win32api WriteProcessMemory works. (*Just for learning winAPI on .Net platforms ! ^_^*) I'm using Nemerle but the syntax is similar C# and I can read C# code sure. So here is my steps : 1) get win api function [DllImport("kernel32.dll",SetLastError = true)] public static extern WriteProcessMemory (hProcess : Int...
I'm saving a file on an USB drive and need to make sure that it's completely written to avoid corruption in case the USB drive is not removed properly. Well I've done some research and it seems this is possible via calling the FlushFileBuffers Win32 function. But the problem is, I'm saving using boost::serialization and thus don't have a...
There is any way to run another process with ordinary rights from a process running as administrator? From a process with elevated rights I want to start a process with ordinary rights like it were started from explorer. I tried impersonation but I didn't work. ...