I have a VB 6 MDI application. It responds to the depricated SwitchToThisWindow function, but not the ShowWindow and SetActiveWindow functions. I know ShowWindow and SetActiveWindow are declared correctly because I can use them with any other application. EDIT: My goal isn't to use these functions, it is simple to switch the focus from ...
I am using the ToolStripDropDown to host the user control as the pop-up window. The problem is when a context menu strip is displayed from within this pop-up window, the pop-up itself closes in the moment the context menu opens. I have tried to subclass the ContextMenuStrip and added WS_EX_NOACTIVATE to CreateParams but nothing changed. ...
My program needs to know when the user has enabled "Single-click to open an item (point to select)" in the folder options window in file explorer. I have a mouse aid program and I need to know what this setting is set to programmatically? Is this available in the registry or something? ...
Hi, I have a process ID, what I want to do is return the class. If it is the desired class then return the caption, how do I do that? C Visual Studio 2008, XP SP3 ...
Hi there, Using visual basic in say Excel, I am able to declare WinAPI functions using the DECLARE keyword - e.g. Declare Function SetLocaleInfo Lib "kernel32" Alias "SetLocaleInfoA" ( _ ByVal Locale As Long, ByVal LCType As Long, ByVal lpLCData As String ) As Boolean However when using this syntax in a *.VBS file - it fa...
I have a problem with ReadFile function in a virtual serial port: char tmp[128]; int multiplo=0; DWORD err; COMSTAT stt; ClearCommError(hcom, &err, &stt); do{ if(ReadFile(hcom, tmp, stt.cbInQue, &err, NULL)){ tmp[err] = '\0'; memcpy(bfIn+multiplo, tmp, err); multiplo = multiplo + err; }else retur...
i have used following code to animate a form while form show bottom to top animation function called, while form hide top to bottom animation function called. the code works well for bottom to top animation while i am trying to call top to bottom animation while hide animation doesn't doesn't works, the form hides simply without effect....
When I want to redraw a window, is there any preferred function to call between InvalidateRect and RedrawWindow? For instance, are these two calls equal: (win would be a HWND) RedrawWindow(win, NULL, NULL, RDW_INVALIDATE); InvalidateRect(win, NULL, NULL); The main question(s): When should I use one or the other? Are there any differ...
Hello! I have been using CopyFileEx since the beginning of times and it has been working great. If the file is not locked, it will copy the file. If the file is locked, it will not and GetLastError will report the error. All fine and dandy. However, there are some files that are partially locked, PST outlook files being the best exampl...
Hi. I have a list of all printers available in WinXP. I need the code (ideally .NET) to filter out all the virtual printers from this list. Is it possible to do? I analyzed all the properties of Win32_Printer wmi class but can't see any suitable one. Please help. ...
I am using the RegisterHotKey Win32 API to listen to the Ctrl_V key combination and using the WndProc method to handle this hot key notification. Now, even if I don't perform any operations in this method apart from calling base.WndProc(ref mesg), the Paste operation doesnt seem to be getting passed onto Windows and hence, paste is not w...
Hello, I have a simple Win32 app writen in C, in which I would like to open PDFs. I know I can compile and link to Poppler library, but is there a way to use Acrobat Reader? Kind of like what browsers do, if you have Reader installed, they are automatically able to display PDF in a window though some plugin interface. The problem is, I n...
Hello, I have a simple Win32 C app, which I would like to enable to display PDFs (they do not have to be files - they could be in-memory as well). I would like to control at least the zoom level and whether is should be shown as single, standalone pages or continuous "flow" of pages. I'm asking for anything else than Acrobat Reader, Popp...
I have a window mobile application which needs to detect power off and perform some operation before the device shuts down. I have been able to detect that the device is shutting down using pinvoke to the RequestPowerNotifications win32 api. However I can not figure out how to block the power off for long enough to run my code. ...
i am looking a tool for monitoring the windows messages fired by an external application in real-time. some time ago i used winsight32 (tool that ships with Delphi), but is very memory expensive and freeze my laptop. ...
How do I get property or tree Grid value in component on 3-th software on my program witch WinAPi? Spy++ and analog return GetWindowText only caption window "PropertyGrid". i need read data from other program im my program ...
I have a Windows box that is running three applications. When the applications are started each application creates a borderless window which is positioned such that they overlap in a particular way. At the moment, when I click on a control on the bottom window, it comes to the top of the window stack. I need to ensure that each windo...
MFC File: winctrl4.cpp (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\atlmfc\src\mfc) CString CRichEditCtrl::GetSelText() const { ASSERT(::IsWindow(m_hWnd)); CHARRANGE cr; cr.cpMin = cr.cpMax = 0; ::SendMessage(m_hWnd, EM_EXGETSEL, 0, (LPARAM)&cr); CStringA strText; LPSTR lpsz=strText.GetBufferSetLength((cr.cpMa...
Hi, I have a client side application that uses Kerberos authentication to connect to remote service. When reseting the password for the SPN in ADSI without renewing the ticket, the authentication fails (of course). The question is, if there is a way to know in advance that the ticket is not valid\ expired. Thanks!! ...
I need to get the aboslute path of a file uploaded by the user in PHP. How can I do that? Im doing this cause I need to post the information to an API via cURL ...