How do I program CTRL-F with windows speech recognition macros?
According to the documentation it should be as simple as ^F But this is not working. The program beeps so I know the command did register however the find text window does not popup ...
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Fast recursive grepping of svn working copy
I need to search all cpp/h files in svn working copy for "foo", excluding svn's special folders completely. What is the exact command for GNU grep? ...
Is there a way to use java.util.Preferences under Windows without it using the Registry as the backend?
I want to use the java.util.Preferences API but I don't want my program to attempt to read or write to the Windows registry. How would I go about this? ...
Is it possible to programatically find out what process is locking a file across a network
I have a file on a Windows 2003 server which is locked by a process running on another Windows 2003 server. Is it possible to find out which process on which machine is locking this resource. I don't mind which language I use to do this. ...
Application Settings
What is a fairly standard way for storing application settings, mainly for windows but also easy to move over to other platforms. There's basically 4 groups of settings I want to have: Global settings, affects all users, and may be moved between machines Global system settings, affects all users, but specific to that system (eg defaul...
VMWare Server 1.0.7 on 64-bit Windows 2008 Issue
Normally when using VMWare Server 1.0.7 you are asked if you would like to connect to the local machine or a remote host. Installing the same software on 64-bit Windows 2008 only gives the remote host option. I have tried entering the local machine name as the host and entering creds that have admin rights to the server but I just get ...
MFC: Showing / Hiding Splitter Panes
In my application I have a number of panes from m_wndspliter classes. What I want to do is at run time show and hide one of these panes. Whilst with the following code I can show and hide the view associated with the pane, I can't temporarily remove the pane itself. CWnd * pCurView = m_wndSplitter2.GetPane(2, 0); if( !pCurView == NULL ...
Recommendations for an enterprise management dashboard
Like many organizations, I don't have a single software application that I run to support the enterprise. I have many different software components that facilitate the business and these software components are deployed to multiple machines. All of these applications were built with some enterprise monitoring and management in mind. S...
Native Windows Application Development Options
Long winded title, short question: If one wants to develop for Windows but not have to rely on any external dependency (no runtime, thus ruling out .net), what supported, alive and fully functioning* alternatives are there? Visual Basic 6 is dead, Visual C++ is obvious and Delphi seems to be the prime choice for that, but I wonder if t...
py3k RC-1: "LookupError: unknown encoding: uft-8"
I just installed the first release candidate of Python 3.0 and got this error after typing: >>> help('modules foo') [...] LookupError: unknown encoding: uft-8 Notice that it says uft-8 and not utf-8 Is this a py3k specific bug or a misconfiguration on my part? I do not have any other versions of Python installed on this French local...
Enumerate windows like alt-tab does
I'm creating an alt-tab replacement for Vista but I have some problems listing all active programs. I'm using EnumWindows to get a list of Windows, but this list is huge. It contains about 400 items when I only have 10 windows open. It seems to be a hwnd for every single control and a lot of other stuff. So I have to filter this list s...
How can I limit CreateWindowEx to alphanumeric input only?
I know that ES_NUMBER exists to limit CreateWindowEx to numeric input only, is there a similar mechanism for limiting it to only alphanumeric (a-z,0-9) input? Or another way to do something similar. I know I can check after the fact, but I would like to limit it as the user types. Thanks. ...
Why would WaitForSingleObject return WAIT_FAILED
MSDN says If the function fails, the return value is WAIT_FAILED. To get extended error information, call GetLastError. The code is: HANDLE m_mutex_handle; /**< m_mutex_handle. The handle to the created mutex. */ m_mutex_handle = ::CreateMutex( 0, false, NULL ); ::WaitForSingleObject( m_mutex_handle, INFINITE ); But what...
stdcall over-ride by visual studio ?
In xp 32bit this line compiles with not problem however in vista 64bit this line: m_FuncAddr = ::GetProcAddress (somthing); gives the following error error C2440: '=' : cannot convert from 'FARPROC' to 'int (__cdecl *)(void)' GetProcAddress is defined as WINBASEAPI FARPROC WINAPI GetProcAddress (somthing) And m_FuncAddr as...
c# winforms: determine first run of program
I need to present a wizard once, the first time my windows forms application is run after install. I could use a user setting like firstrun = false I suppose. But I also need handle the case where the program is uninstalled, then reinstalled. How will that user setting be reset? It's already present in the config file in ...\Users--user-...
Create an icon in memory with win32 in python
What's a good way to generate an icon in-memory in python? Right now I'm forced to use pygame to draw the icon, then I save it to disk as an .ico file, and then I load it from disk as an ICO resource... Something like this: if os.path.isfile(self.icon): icon_flags = win32con.LR_LOADFROMFILE | win32con.LR_DEFAULTSIZE ...
Does Windows provide a monotonically increasing clock to applications
This question is inspired by Does Linux provide a monotonically increasing clock to applications. Maybe I should be more precise: I'm looking for a clock function which is strictly increasing, thus never returning the same value, independant how quick two calls follow each other. ...
How does COM registration work in Windows
I'm an application packager trying to make sense of how the COM registry keys (SelfReg) interrelate to the given .dll in Windows. ProgID's, AppID's, TypeLibs, Extensions & Verbs are all tied around the CLSID right? Do CLSID's always use Prog/App IDs or could you just have a file extension class? Which bits are optional? Some of it see...
TZ Multiple TimeZone under Windows
If I start a number of process that could represent clients that is running in different TimeZones I can (depending on the actual code) use the TZ enivroment to make them look like they come from different timezones. Is there a more proper windows way to simulate this, without starting 24 virtual machines? ...
Impersonation MFC C++
Hi, I want to impersonate other user in windows, for example: I create a directory with permission only for user A and for the administrators, when logon with user B and run .exe I want to impersonate user A to have permission to edit/remove/insert in that specific directory. How can I do it? I found this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en...