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IE toolbar respond when page has downloaded

How to make a IE toolbar respond to everytime a page is completed downloaded? ...

Can I send string to IME (Windows) to get translation?

For example (I'm using Korean IME btw) can I get 태우다 from sending "xodnek" (as a string)? If that isn't possible, can I get 태우다 from it's individual characters ㅌㅐㅇㅜㄷㅏ (which is from the keys "xodnek"). ...

Microsoft broke .NET compatibility?

A few days ago my .NET 3.5 applications began to fail while start issuing the error "Unable to find a version of the runtime to run this application". As I did not do anything with them, this looked weird to me. After some investigation, I discovered, that the reason is Windows automatic update which installed service pack for .NET 3.5...

OpenGL extensions causing linker problems

I'm trying to get the addresses for the VBO addon. In my stdafx.h I have the gl.h, glext.h and wglext.h If I do: glGenBuffersARB = (PFNGLGENBUFFERSARBPROC)wglGetProcAddress("glGenBuffersARB"); glGenBuffersARB(0,0); in stdafx.cpp, this will compile. but if I try to use glGenBuffersARB(0,0); in any of my other h or cpp f...

When are IO completion port packets sent and when not?

I'm currently working on an IPC mechanism based on named pipes using a IO completion port. Unfortunately I have some troubles with the msdn documentation because it's quite unclear to me in which cases calls to ReadFile/WriteFile result in a completion packet. The case when FALSE is returned with ERROR_IO_PENDING is clear, but what abo...

How to Output Unicode Strings on the Windows Console

Hello, there are already a few questions relating to this problem. I think my question is a bit different because I don't have an actual problem, I'm only asking out of academic interest. I know that Windows's implementation of UTF-16 is sometimes contradictory to the Unicode standard (e.g. collation) or closer to the old UCS-2 than to ...

Secure applications on Windows?

The Sony Playstation 3's in-built DRM/Copy Protections makes it a very attractive platform for developers (less piracy) same perhaps with iPhone. I believe this is achieved by virtualising the OS, sandboxing the applications. Can we have that security on Windows? are their any plans or means? ...

Batch file to search and copy file names to new TXT file

Hi, I want to search *.cpp files in current directory and want to save the file name in *.TXT file. I did this by using the Batch command dir |find ".cpp" > Listfile.txt But there I am getting file name with entire paramenters like created date and size. My need is I want only file name Current output 06/25/2010 06:17 PM ...

There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package

I need help with this. It started with me trying to update Java & when I tried this is the message I got: "ERROR 1723: There is a problem with this Windows Installer Package. A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor." I've already tried deleting Java 6 update 14, but ...

game server management for windows open source :D

hey, I was thinking of starting to develop a gaming server manager type thing similar to http://www.gamepanelx.com/ but for windows as I haven't found anything in the open source community. Has anyone? some ideas i had: release it under some open source license ... haven't quite decided Multi level user authentication + authorizati...

Controlling the microphone input state in System.Speech.Recognition

Hello I'm creating a program in C# using System.Speech.Recognition that recognizes voice commands and translates them to internal commands for another process. Is there any for my app to internally control the state of the microphone input? (on/asleep/off) This question is similar to this one but its accepted answer turned to C++ which...

Where to download all needed OpenGL libraries, includes and compiled dll's to make up-to-date games?

Is there any packages for this purpose, one download link? Edit: got VBO working now, so this question is useless for me atm, i can accept answers though if there ever comes one. ...

auto indentation on common lisp emacs + slime + sbcl in windows

Hello, all! I can't use auto indentation function on emacs + slime + sbcl when I define my function and so on. My .emacs file configuration is this: (setq inferior-lisp-program "D:/emacs/sbcl_1.0.37/sbcl.exe" lisp-indent-function 'common-lisp-indent-function slime-complete-symbol-function 'slime-fuzzy-complete-symbol ...

how to integrate spiders and scrapy-ctl.py

Hi all! I am new to python and scrapy and hence am getting some basic doubts(please spare my ignorance about some fundamentals,which i m willing to learn :D). Right now I am writing some spiders and implementing them using scrapy-ctl.py from the command line by typing: C:\Python26\dmoz>python scrapy-ctl.py crawl spider But I do not w...

Is it possible for an application to take ownership of a window from another application?

Basically, I have two applications that run sequentially (second is started by the first, and the first exits immediately after.) I'd like to pass ownership of a window the first application created to the second application. The actual contents of the window don't need to be passed along, it's just being drawn in by DirectX. Alternativ...

Multi-Threading on multi core architecture

When you have a situation where Thread A reads some global variable and Thread B writes to the same variable, now unless read/write is not atomic on a single core, you can do it without synchronizing, however what happens when running on a multi-core machine? ...

How did Chrome create a different GUI for the browser?

I am interested in how Chrome was able to write such a good looking GUI? What libraries and methods did they use? I am particularly amazed that it acts 100% like a regular GUI - you can drag it by the blue strip and the regular buttons [_, o, x] are made differently. Also tab dragging is so seamless. In fact you can drag a tab outside o...

stunnel client accepts connection even when stunnel server is down?

I'm using stunnel 4.26 in windows environment to encrypt database traffic between web server and Oracle database. In general it works but I've got couple weird issues and I was wondering if somebody would know answer for it. So I have a web server machine where I run stunnel in client mode. With connection parameters like [SOME NAME] ...

How can I retrieve a Windows Computer's SID using WMI?

I'm not looking for User SIDs. I'm looking for the computer SID, which active directory would use to uniquely identify the computer. I also don't want to query the active directory server, i want to query the computer itself. ...

What does the "Unloaded" prefix mean in a Windows stack trace?

I've the hellish problem of a third party DLL appearing to cause a recursive stack overflow crash when it gets unloaded. I wind up with this pattern on the stack (using windbg): <Unloaded_ThirdParty.dll>+0xdd01 ntdll!ExecuteHandler2+0x26 ntdll!ExecuteHandler+0x24 ntdll!KiUserExceptionDispatcher+0xf <Unloaded_ThirdParty.dll>+0xdd01 ntdll...