windows

system and CreateProcess()

I have a command,I need to execute the same using C Program. I have stored the entire command ,with arguments, in the variable cmdline. When I am using system(cmdline),it is working fine. But on using the following: ret = CreateProcess(NULL, cmdline, (LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES)NULL, ...

Using close button in C#

I'm building an app in C# using VS 2008 - I've added a method of checking if a file has changed when it is closed, but this only works for the File>close menu. Is there any way to get the red X in the top right to actually do anything before shutting everything? If so, how? I've only been doing C# for a few days, and this is incredibly c...

Command-line tool to dump all Device Properties displayed in Device Manager

In Device Manager, clicking on a specific device takes you to a dialog box, whose Details tab shows all sorts of properties of the device. Is there a command line tool to dump this out? I need to diff all the properties of two devices. ...

Checking duplicate while inserting in SQLite

Hello All, I am trying to insert a data into SQLite database using Python. INSERT INTO DATA_TABLE(UID,LABEL) VALUES (NULL, "UK") WHERE "UK" NOT EXISTS IN (SELECT LABEL FROM DATA_TABLE); This query is dynamically generated from Python and I am checking whether the date is already exist in the table before inserting and its not w...

Skin Dialogs when using XP Themes?

I have been skinning dialogs by using the WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC, WM_CTLCOLORBTN messages as such:- case WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC: case WM_CTLCOLORBTN: hdc = (HDC)wParam; hwndCtl = (HWND)lParam; SetTextColor(hdc,RGB(0xff,0xff,0xff)); SetBkMode(hdc,TRANSPARENT); pt.x = 0; pt.y = 0; MapWindowPoints(hwndCtl,_hwnd,&pt,1); x = -pt.x; y...

My choice of Class Names is hampered by Windows XP Max Path Length issues with SVN / Domain Driven Design - any solutions

I'm using PHP 5.2 to make a website I like to have explicit names for my classes I also have a convention saying 'the path and name of a file' match the 'name of the class' So a class called: ABCSiteCore_Ctrlrs_DataTransfer_ImportMergeController would sit in my svn working copy at: C:\_my\websrv\ABCCoUkHosting2\webserve\my_library\...

Updating the Z-Order of Many Windows Using Win32 API

The scenario is that I have a list of window handles to top level windows and I want to shift them around so they are arranged in the z-order of my choosing. I started off by iterating the list (with the window I want to end up on top last), calling SetForegroundWindow on each one. This seemed to work some of the time but not always, i...

What does IMAGEM~1 stand for?

I saw it here: cimg_snprintf(st_path,sizeof(st_path),"D:\\IMAGEM~1.%d\\VISUA~1\\BIN\\convert.exe",k); ...

Annoying error dialog box when eclipse output-console scrolls. What's causing it?

When I run python scripts in Eclipse with Pydev - after a few seconds I get an eclipse Error dialog. The window title is "Multiple Problems have occurred". The box has a red X icon, adjacent to an error message "An internal error has occurred" The list of error windows all have the text "Reveal End of Document". If I click on detail...

Finding Unmapped Network Share Capacity in Windows

Hi, I need to find the underlying disk capacity (total size) of an unmapped network share in windows (in Win7, Vista, XP, Server 2008), given a UNC path (e.g. given something like "\\share_1\subdir"). I've looked all over the web for several days and seem to find no answer to this issue. I would appreciate any leads. Thanks in advance ...

Superscript text formatting for NSIS

I am developing an NSIS installer for a product that has a superscript in its name. Is it possible to encode superscript text in the installer script? In particular, I'd like to get the Name, BrandingText and Caption to display the superscript. I would be willing to switch to the NSIS Unicode build if that would definitively solve t...

Running M-x sql-postgres in emacs on windows

When I try to run an inferior psql process in emacs on windows, I seem to be getting no response. This seems to be a known problem the solution of which is to install the cygwin version of psql. Unfortunately, the cygwin psql appears to do absolutely nothing, even psql -V does nothing. Does anyone have a solution to either of these pr...

Is it possible to override hashbang/shebang path behavior

I have a bunch of scripts (which can't be modified) written on Windows. Windows allows relative paths in its #! commands. We are trying to run these scripts on Unix but Bash only seems to respect absolute paths in its #! directives. I've looked around but haven't been able to locate an option in Bash or a program designed to replace and ...

How do I use less CPU with loops?

Hi, I've got a loop that looks like this: while (elapsedTime < refreshRate) { timer.stopTimer(); elapsedTime=timer.getElapsedTime(); } I read something similar to this elsewhere (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1222574/c-main-loop-without-100-cpu), but this loop is running a high resolution timer that must be accurate. So ...

Using iocp in a job pool

When using iocp in a job/task pool to provide fast worker wake ups what is the best way to minimise the overhead of signalling the port - ie not having to do it every queue operation? void Worker() { while(1) { for(int spin = 0; spin < 5000; ++spin) while(queue.Count > 0) queue.PopFront()(); ...

How can I replace C# windows forms executable application icon?

Hello. I already finished my development. But I don't like the windows icon for the executable application. How to replace the default windows icon with my favorite one? Thanks. ...

Totally Lost on "Installing" OpenCV / ctypes-opencv for Python 3.

I'm trying to get OpenCV working with Python 3. A friend showed me ctypes-opencv that appears to work with Python 3. The problem is I totally can not figure out how to "install" or get any code working. I've followed all instructions I could find from a few people mentioning installs on google and none of those seemed to work or I couldn...

Eclipse not responding on Windows 7 for Android Development

I am having a lot of problem getting Eclipse with Android plug-in to work on Windows 7 64K. I am getting eclipse not responding a lot. It seem to happen pretty randomly. I know that Windows 7 is currently not support for Android SDK. However has anyone got this to work ? I am using the following: - Windows 7 64K - eclipse galile...

Createfile function

I am creating the file using Createfile function. The C program is working fine but I am unable to see the created file in the respective folder. Also "view hidden files" option is checked. ...

How do I launch a function and wait/don't wait on it depending on whether it's a GUI application?

I'm looking for a Python function which behaves just like the Windows command interpreter cmd.exe when it comes to waiting for newly launched processes to finish. Right now I'm using os.system() but this function always blocks, even when launching GUI applications (which, in case they were written in C/C++, have a WinMain function and w...