Hello everyone. It seems I figured out most of my problems by simply multi-threading my application! However, I am running into a little bit of an error: "Stack around variable 'x' was corrupted." It works properly (after hitting abort on the Debug Error), but obviously I cannot have an error everytime someone runs the application. So he...
I noticed Firefox 4, Opera and Chrome, and IE 7/8 put buttons and controls in the title/caption bar, how is this done? Thanks http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3307/slayerf.png ...
Hello, The docs for MAKELANGID specify that MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL) Means 'Language neutral'. This seems to be English on my machine (tried it with FormatMessage), but what does it mean in general? Is it guarenteed to be English? Thanks! ...
all of we know the .net api is wrapper for win32 api now how can i find which .net function map in which win32 function i seen this list http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302340.aspx but i need to know other function if i need any tool? ...
Hi Geeks, Can anybody tell if I can use the Windows APIs in my qt application? If yes can anybody tell me the procedure to do it? I need to use the msdn winapi "GetSystemPowerStatus" in my qt application to show the battery status in my qt GUI based application. ...
Hello i trying to get a text from a RichEdit field with WM_GETTEXT, but i run into some problems, so I found EM_STREAMOUT, this is especially for RichEdit. I found this code and played a little bit with it, but i can't get them to work: delegate uint EditStreamCallback(IntPtr dwCookie, IntPtr pbBuff, int cb, out int pcb); struct EDI...
I am trying to get the actual system messages that are represented by the intergers returned in the wParam property of the message. Is there anyway to do this or a function that can achieve this? ...
How can I set the row height of a custom drawn list view? Or does it require an owner drawn list view? ...
hi everyone, I'm trying to reuse windows clock that exist in timedate.cpl which is a dll, I know how to communicate with it using SendMessage to get and set time. My problem is this control is a private window class so i tried to load the dll first then create a window with name ClockWndMain but it fails and the reason is window class n...
I'm making some win32 string API calls and am assuming that the strings come out as wide strings, which is valid on XP and newer. How can I assert this? Is this a runtime check or a compile-time check? Am I doing it wrong? Here's an example: typedef std::basic_string<TCHAR> TString; inline TString queryRegStringValue(HKEY key, const TS...
I am using the win32 PrintWindow function to capture a screen to a BitMap object. If I only want to capture a region of the window, how can I crop the image in memory? Here is the code I'm using to capture the entire window: [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport(strUSER32DLL, CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)] public ...
I'm modifying someone else's code which uses TCHAR extensively. Is it better form to just use std::wstring in my code? wstring should be equivalent to TString on widechar platforms so I don't see an issue. The rationale being, its easier to use a raw wstring than to support TCHAR... e.g., using boost:wformat. Which style will be more c...
I need to make use of thread-local storage in a cross-platform project. Under *IX I am using pthreads and can avoid memory leaks thanks to the nice destructor function pointer passed as the second argument to pthread_key_create, but in Windows TlsAlloc has no such thing. Nor can I find a general place where any function is called on thre...
I can get the coordinates of a windows entire area, and the coordinates of the client area using the GetClientRect and GetWindowRect Win32 calls. My problem is that the GetClientRect always returns 0,0 for the top left. How do I figure out what the actual client region is relative to the window rect? ...
I get the following error when trying to build OpenSSL on Win32: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\errno.h(92) : error C2220: warning treated as error - no 'object' file generated C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\INCLUDE\errno.h(92) : warning C4005: 'EADDRINUSE' : macro redefiniti...
I am creating a service using CreateService. The service will run again fine if it happens to crash and I would like to have Windows restart the service if it crashes. I know it is possible to set this up from the services msc see below. How can I programatically configure the service to always restart if it happens to crash. ...
Hi, is the order of overloaded methods in the vtable always the same across win32 compilers? Problem: I have "interfaces" (pure virtual classes with no data members). They can be used via pointer from different compilers (the client gets the pointer by calling a standard c dll factory method). This works fine across different compiler ...
I have to register a .dll file named MatchMolDLL.dll. To register the DLL I followed these steps: 1) Goto RUN 2) Type “cmd” 3) Type “regsvr32 MatchMolDLL.dll” However regsvr32.exe reports: "MatchMolDLL.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found." How can I register it? If I had to link this .dll file ...
Hello, Why is it that the following code does not print the same value each time it is run? Is there something that I overlooked? Thanks. #include <windows.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <winhttp.h> #pragma comment (lib, "winhttp") int main(void) { DWORD dwSize = 0; DWORD dwDownloaded = 0; LPSTR pszOutBuffer; BOOL bResults = FAL...
I have multiple cursors (which are actually forms) that can be controlled by their respective mouse. (1 cursor for 1 user). I use SetCursorPos to position the default cursor (the original system cursor) in a position that will not take away the focus from my application, and use ShowCursor(false) to hide it. I have a class that gets ...