I'm making a drawing application with WINAPI and OpenGL. To make things more efficient I only redraw the region needed so I invalidateRect(hwnd,myRect,false). I know OpenGL does self clipping but I want to do that for my rect. I want it to clip itself for the region I invalidated to make things even more efficient. Thanks ...
Looking for a variety of Windows Form (winforms) tutorials for visual studio.NET C++ I found a few basic ones: How to: Create a Windows Forms Application Walkthrough: Retrieving Dialog Box Information Collectively Using Objects Any others? Thank You. ...
Does ThreadFunc() gets called two times here? sometimes I notice a single call and sometimes none at all. #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> DWORD WINAPI ThreadFunc(LPVOID); int main() { HANDLE hThread; DWORD threadld; hThread = CreateThread(NULL, 0, ThreadFunc, 0, 0, &threadld ); printf("Thread is running\n"); }...
So between the two machines, there is no trust - they are in different domains. I've successfully connected to the remote machine using LogonUser API using logon type, *LOGON32_LOGON_NEW_CREDENTIALS*. I am able to retrieve the content of a directory using the UNC share, and create a file stream to "download" the file. So far so good. ...
I was wondering how I can show description text. By this I mean, for example if you hover over the Start button a small description will appear saying "Start". How are these invoked? Thanks ...
Hello, I'm creating a Win32 program that will be executed every time the computer turns on. I manage to do this by adding the .exe path into the registry. The problem is; I want to make the program appear minimized in the system tray when the computer is turned on but if I double click it [after the computer turns on and the program is ...
I want to read all files inside a given folder(path to folder) using FindFirstFile method provide in windows API. Currently I'm only succeeded in reading files inside the given folder. I could not read files inside sub folders. Can anyone help me to do this?? ...
int NM_Generator = 1; //Aray to store thread handles HANDLE Array_Of_Thread_Handles[1]; //variable to hold handle of North pulse HANDLE Handle_Of_NM_Generator = 0; //Create NM_Generator Thread Handle_Of_NM_Generator = CreateThread( NULL, 0, NMGenera...
Hi, why did it fail to load the library at link at compilation time? i don't care about freeing the library yet it just won't work. #include <windows.h> int main() { LoadLibrary("winmm.lib"); timeGetTime(); } ...
Does Windows provide some sort of evented API so I can run some code whenever a drive (say a usb stick) is attached? Similar to how ReadDirectoryChangesW is for events on the filesystem? I am not interested only in hardware changes, a user can also mount a volume, a ftp drive or similar. ...
i am using Win32 API. i have a thread in c and want to terminate it from out side the thread so can't use exitthread() i can't use any wait options cause i have to kill this thread and start it again in very short time. need help, ...
I have a problem with Aero Snap not working with the application I'm working on (Windows desktop, native C++ application), and I'm a bit confused as to what's happening, as it seems like it should just work, out of the box. I've used Spy++ on a mininal win32 application, and get the following messages when I press Win-Left: <00070> 000...
Does anyone know how MessageBox(...) could fail silently? MessageBox(g_hMainhWnd, buffer, "Oops!", MB_OK | MB_ICONERROR); ShellExecute(0, "open", "http://intranet/crash_handler.php", NULL, "", SW_SHOWNORMAL); For a little context, this code is called inside our own exception handler, which was registered with SetUnhandledExceptionFil...
I have an idea to write a multimotor taskbar application in c# for windows xp. So, does anyone have any information how to put a taskbar on the second monitor, to make it use windows styles, to prevent aplications running on the second monitor to appear in default taskbar, so on... Any help would be ...helpful ))) ...
I'v been reading about how tooltips work and it seems like I need to register each tool to the window. My issue is, I have a custom color wheel and I want it to show the tooltip for the rgb, hsv etc of that coor which means I won't be registering multipule tools. From the looks of it, the tooltip works with a string resource, and needs e...
Hello I want to set global hook that tracks which application is active. In my main program I am doing the foloowing : HMODULE mod=::GetModuleHandle(L"HookProcDll"); HHOOK rslt=(WH_CALLWNDPROCRET,MyCallWndRetProc,mod,0); The hook procedure which is called MyCallWndRetProc exists in separate dll called HookProcDll.dll. The hook proc...
So, I've been using JPIB to communicate with GPIB devices in my java program. However, I have run into a snag. Newer systems are built on 64 bit OS's. However, the jpib.dll file is written in 32-bit. I can't think of any kind of calls that it would need to make that are truly 64-bit dependent. The real trouble here is that the JPIB ...
I have a native DLL that is a plug-in to a different application (one that I have essentially zero control of). Everything works just great until I link with an additional .lib file (links my DLL to another DLL named ABQSMABasCoreUtils.dll). This file contains some additional API from the parent application that I would like to utilize. ...
I am porting some legacy code from windows to Linux (Ubuntu Karmic to be precise). I have come across a Win32 function GetDateFormat(). The statements I need to port over are called like this: GetDateFormat(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, 0, &datetime, "MMMM", 'January', 31); OR GetDateFormat(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, 0, &datetime, "MMMM", 'May', 3...
Is it possible to intercept a keystroke (and characters) sent to a window? By intercept, I mean play man-in-the-middle, instead of having just hooks onto the Window. I'd like to filter (i.e. eliminate some keystrokes) keystrokes to a window. ...