I just stumbled on this article on MSDN that says a path can be 259 characters + NUL termination, but if you prefix it with "\\?\" WinAPI allows you to use the maximum total path length of 32,767 characters. Eager to see it working I tried using that prefix from Explorer (On XP SP3) but it doesn't work at all (on any path). If you...
I am trying to draw behind the desktop icons and didn't manage to do it. Then I found out that the RDW_NOERASE flag used in RedrawWindow is disabled in windows vista. I tried to start the program in xp compatibility mode and with administrative privileges. I does not work. The code is ok. I tested it in xp and it works perfectly. ...
Hi, I am runing a .bat file from a php using exec on a Windwos php server, where php is run using fast-cgi (and nginx). The command line to run this script is pclose(popen("start / ". $cmd, "r")); Where $cmd is somethign like "mybatfile.bat 45 1" When I run the batch file manually it runs a python program to read a database, ...
Configuration as in the options you see in the Keyboard/Mouse settings under Windows. I have some .NET programming experience. ...
Is there a way to change the console font in Windows in python 2.6? I'm on Windows 7. ie: import os os.console.font = 'Lucida Console' *EDIT (posted this an answer by accident) Some more information and questions: I looked into the windows API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682073%28v=VS.85%29.aspx It look like it ha...
It seems that all the major investment banks use C++ in Unix (Linux, Solaris) for their low latency/high frequency server applications. Why is Windows generally not used as a platform for this? Are there technical reasons why Windows can't compete? ...
Hello everyone, I would like to know if there is any way I can control a Windows application using Java code. I have already googled it, and found that it can be done using JNI or a library called NewJawin. I want to control Windows Media Player using Java code, e.g. play, pause, and change songs, but could find no relevant example to ...
I'm having a very difficult time listing and closing the sessions of folks using Mstsc /admin. Does anyone know the API to use if the server is a normal server and not a terminal server per-se? ...
How to simulate Keyboard Events in Code in not active window? How to use SendWait() without SetForegroundWindow()? SendWait example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171548.aspx ...
I'm using e-TextEditor for some tasks and can't figure, why when i using some Russian text and process it in bundle script i'm always getting something like http://gyazo.com/f38c69babe1f95ff786711fe684aee77.png . I'm think this is cygwin bug, because webkit must render it correct in UTF-8 encoding. I'm tested some guides thats describes ...
Hi I have a website where my customers can login. Some of them complains that the URI is too complicated. It is unique for each customer and looks like this: http://www.example.com/login.asp?rld=213&companyID=127432 What I would really like is to have a path like this one: http://example.com/Wallmart (Wikipedia does this) I´ve tr...
I have a php script that runs on unix but I need it to run on windows. setTimestamp is unix only and I need the windows equivalent. http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.settimestamp.php Example: foreach($config['feeds'] as $feed){ // in case we didn't save a last checked date, set it to sometime in the 70's $last_date = new Date...
I was given a DLL that I'm trying to use. The DLL contains the function "send". this is what I did: #include <stdio.h> #include <Windows.h> int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { HMODULE libHandle; if ((libHandle = LoadLibrary(TEXT("SendSMS.dll"))) == NULL) { printf("load failed\n"); return 1; } if (Ge...
So, is there a limit to how deeply environment variables can be nested in Windows? I do a lot of development work and I'm trying to set up my development environment vars, and a lot of them nest off each other, ie. GLEW=%THIRD_PARTY_ROOT%\GLEW GLEW_1_5_5=%GLEW%\glew-1.5.5 GLEW_BIN_PATH=%GLEW_ROOT%\bin GLEW_INCLUDE_PATH=%GLEW_ROOT%\incl...
I have a asp.net web app and a windows service running on separate machines. How can i enable the windows service subscribe/listen to events raised by the asp.net app on the remote machine? What methods can i use? An example of events that can be raised on the asp.net app is a user uploading a file. Once the upload has completed the ...
On Linux $_SERVER["_"] contains path to PHP interpreter executable (for example /usr/bin/php -r 'echo $_SERVER["_"];' will print /usr/bin/php). On Windows XP with PHP 5.3 $_SERVER["_"] is NULL. ...
In the Windows 7 "Custom DPI Setting" window, there is a setting called "Use Windows XP style DPI scaling". Does anyone know how to detect if this setting is in use? ...
I am trying to create a window service to create a small keylogger application. I am new to window service and sole purpose is to learn. How all the events that are available in winforms can be obtained in window service. I am searching for it on google. But not getting good stuff and currently reading about keyhook dll ...
Possible Duplicate: Color picking from given coordinates Is it possible to get the current RGB tuple of a given pixel? Pseudo Code: print getpixelcolor(100,100) Which would return something like (35,42,245) ...
I want to work on windows API. I have an interest in creating network application that can communicate with web as well. I haven't thought any application yet. But before doing all this . I want to know where to start with. What all I need to start reading. I have created lot of database interactive applications with window forms. But w...