Background: I have a little video playing app with a UI inspired by the venerable Sasami2k, just updated to use VMR9 (i.e. Direct3D9 with DirectShow) and be less unstable. Currently, it's a C++ app using raw Win32, through necessity: none of the various toolkits are worth a damn. WPF, in particular, was not possible, due to its airspac...
Is there anything similar on Windows what would achieve the same as the InputManager on OS X? ...
In VS .NET, when you are selecting a folder for a project, a dialog that looks like an OpenFileDialog or SaveFileDialog is displayed, but is set up to accept only folders. Ever since I've seen this I've wanted to know how it's done. I am aware of the FolderBrowserDialog, but I've never really liked that dialog. It starts too small and...
I need to ShellExecute something as another user, currently I start a helper process with CreateProcessAsUser that calls ShellExecute, but that seems like too much of a hack (Wrong parent process etc.) Is there a better way to do this? @PabloG: ImpersonateLoggedOnUser does not work: HANDLE hTok; VERIFY(LogonUser("otheruser",0,"passwor...
Given the key for some registry value (e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\blah\blah\blah\foo) how can I: Safely determine that such a key exists. Programmatically (i.e. with code) get its value. I have absolutely no intention of writing anything back to the registry (for the duration of my career if I can help it). So we can skip the lecture ab...
Despite primarily being a windows user, I am a huge fan of rsync. Now, I don't want to argue the virtues of rsync vs any other tool...this is not my point. The only way I've ever found of running rsync on windows is via a version that is built to run on top of Cygwin, and as Cygwin has issues with Unicode, so does rsync. Is anyone fam...
I'm looking for an answer in MS VC++. When debugging a large C++ application, which unfortunately has a very extensive usage of C++ exceptions. Sometimes I catch an exception a little later than I actually want. Example in pseudo code: FunctionB() { ... throw e; ... } FunctionA() { ... FunctionB() ... } try...
I'm writing C# code that uses the windows IP Helper API. One of the functions I'm trying to call is "GetBestInterface" that takes a 'uint' representation of an IP. What I need is to parse a textual representation of the IP to create the 'uint' representation. I've found some examples via Google, like this one or this one, but I'm pretty...
So, I am a total beginner in any kind of Windows related programming. I have been playing around with the Windows API and came across a couple of examples on how to initialize create windows and such. One example creates a regular window (I abbreviated some of the code): int WINAPI WinMain( [...] ) { [...] // Window...
I'm trying to find out the 'correct' windows API for finding out the localized name of 'special' folders, specifically the Recycle Bin. I want to be able to prompt the user with a suitably localized dialog box asking them if they want to send files to the recycle bin or delete them directly. I've found lots on the internet (and on Stack...
What is the normal way people writing network code in Delphi use Windows-style overlapped asynchronous socket I/O? Here's my prior research into this question: The Indy components seem entirely synchronous. On the other hand, while ScktComp unit does use WSAAsyncSelect, it basically only asynchronizes a BSD-style multiplexed socket app...
Apologies in advance if I use duff terminology in this question, I'm working at the edge of my understanding of Win32. I have developed a COM component (dll) that implements an Edit() method displaying a WTL modal dialog. The complete interface to this COM component corresponds to a software standard used in the chemical process indust...
Is is possible to read a disk directly with .Net? By directly I mean via the device bypassing the file system. I think I would go about this by opening the device some way "\Device\Ide\IdeDeviceP2T0L0-1" for example. If I can't open the device with a .NET api knowing which Win32 API to use would be helpful. ...
In Visual C++ a DWORD is just an unsigned long that is machine, platform, and SDK dependent. However, since DWORD is a double word (that is 2 * 16), is a DWORD still 32-bit on 64-bit architectures? ...
I'm a web developer (PHP, Perl, some ASP.NET) with some desktop app experience (VB.NET, Python, Adobe AIR), but I'd like to learn Delphi so I can write small, Win32 apps that I'll know will work on any Windows or Linux+WINE machine. Right now I'm using Turbo Delphi (2006, freebie), but really need some kind of "Dummies book" to get star...
How do I determine the (local-) path for the "Program Files" directory on a remote computer? There does not appear to any version of SHGetFolderPath (or related function) that takes the name of a remote computer as a parameter. I guess I could try to query HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProgramFilesDir using remote-regis...
How do you run Emacs in Windows? What is the best flavor of Emacs to use in Windows, and where can I download it? And where is the .emacs file located? ...
How do I detect if the system has a default recording device installed? I bet this can be done through some calls to the Win32 API, anyone has any experience with this? I'm talking about doing this through code, not by opening the control panel and taking a look under sound options. ...
Looking for an example that: Launches an EXE Waits for the EXE to finish. Properly closes all the handles when the executable finishes. ...
Is there a way to track which window currently has keyboard focus. I could handle WM_SETFOCUS for every window but I'm wondering if there's an alternative, simpler method (i.e. a single message handler somewhere). I could use OnIdle() in MFC and call GetFocus() but that seems a little hacky. ...