I want to display an image at 'true size' in my application. For that I need to know the pixel size of the display. I know windows display resolution is nominally 96dpi, but for my purposes I want a better guess. I understand this information may not always be available or accurate (e.g. older CRT displays), but I imagine with the pre...
I heard that on Windows you can login from a web browser to the web server without going through the usual login entering username and password but using instead the credentials from Windows directly, using the NTLM protocol. How is this achieved? Does the web server need to support some additional authentication? Update: I'm asking f...
I'm a long time Mac user, with a fair bit of programming experience and I wanted to try programming for windows. The thing is I don't know where to start, what should I learn first ? .Net, Win32 ? [Clarification]: My ultimate goal would be to create a more or less complex application using the latest APIs however I like to know the unde...
Hello, I'm using XAMPP v1.7 on an Win XP-64 bit machine, my Symantec AV is turned off as is my Windows Firewall, and I can't connect to localhost from a browser. I originally had these errors: [Wed Jan 07 16:24:55 2009] [error] (OS 10038)An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket. : Child 2716: Encountered too many...
I installed the combined package of ICC 11.0.066 for x86 & x64 targets, with all options (IPP, TBB, MKL). Attempting to run the uninstaller from Control Panel > Programs and Features immediately errors out with the dialog: Another instance of uninstall was launched. Please wait while it is finished ... This happens after having a...
I have an application for Windows XP. This application is deployed with the hardware. The application is the only application that ever runs on these machines. These machines are never connected to the internet. I'm interested in instant-on (or quick-on) options that bypass the Windows XP startup for these machines. This is similar ...
I want to change the appearance of a window's caption bar, so I decided to override the OnNcPaint() method of CMainFrame. But when I did this, I found a problem. If there is another window covering my window, and I drag the window quickly, the content of the client area of my window disappeared, which came to sight only when I stopped th...
Instruction on accessing a interface to an application, in plain C/C++ without: MFC ATL WTL Basically, I would like to make use of a COM object. Working sample source code or guidance - to using (functionality) a COM object, not creating a COM server. Regards ...
I have Perl 5.10. How can I connect to the server using the single sign-on method? I have to send a service ticket to the server and save the credentials returned by the server. Is Win32::IntAuth is useful for this? How can I use the Win32::IntAuth module in script? I have installed the Win32::IntAuth module in Perl v5.10. Please sugge...
We're working on a device driver for Vista. There's a known bug in SPO (that was fixed in SP1). We have a workaround that only works in SP0 (and destroys the behavior in SP1). Is there a Windows API or another way to tell what Service Pack version is installed? (Programmatically). ...
A couple of times recently I have noticed that 'something' is causing the Windows System Process to sit at 50+% and it will not quit until the PC is rebooted. Happening on Win2k and Win XP so far. This is particularly troublesome because it currently appears to be triggered by MSVC 2005/Incredibuild and rebooting the build servers is n...
Hi, I want to extract the Icon/Thumbnail (different size) of a file from windows shell on my project. I am able to extract the thumbnail with out any issue, but the problem came when working with files that don't have thumbnail view. The issue is I am not able to get the bitmap as the windows explorer shows. I am getting a black color wh...
I need to know how much physical memory a windows machine has, using Perl. I've tried using Win32::SystemInfo. However this module states the following caveat: On Intel x86 computers with more than 2 GB and less than 4 GB of memory, the MemoryStatus function will always return 2 GB for TotalPhys. Similarly, if the total available me...
I and my colleagues have an intermittent problem running junit tests or tomcat from within Eclipse. Sometimes the tests will run. Sometimes they will not. There appears to be no pattern and we are not in sync. IE mine might run and others will fail. Stopping/starting Eclipse can resolve the issue (sometimes). Pulling out the network ca...
I have a situation that has been partially covered by other answers at SO, but I cannot find a complete answer. In short, we are trying to use URL's for our specific data types that when double clicked will open up our application and load those data sets into that app. We have this part working. (for example, an URL might look like t...
For software applications like games, does this mean software companies have a lot of extra coding to maintain 3 branches of certain libraries? I know this is hard to say, but for game development in general, are there specific areas in the software where they will have to write 3 times in order to work in all 3 flavors of windows? I'm...
Hello, I have a bat file that I should use to delete a part of one file and save into another one. I need to delete all the symbols between text "[aaa bbb]" and "[ccc ddd]". That is if I have the text: [aaa bbb] 1 2 3 [ccc ddd] I should have as output: [aaa bbb] [ccc ddd] Thank you EDIT: I would like to clarify the question. I sho...
I've tried msysGit and Git on Cygwin. Both work just fine in and of themselves and both run gitk and git-gui perfectly. Now how the heck do I configure a mergetool? (Vimdiff works on Cygwin, but preferrably I would like something a little more user-friendly for some of our more... Windows-loving coworkers.) Thanks! ...
I have several servers hosted with GoGrid, and every time I reboot one of my cloud servers, the system clock is incorrect. The server isn't a member of a domain, so I just have the OS set to sync with an Internet time server. This only happens once a day, and I don't see an option to make this happen automatically upon reboot. So I'm lef...
Some of the fellows in the office think that when they've added threads to their code that windows will assign these threads to run on different processors of a multi-core or multi-processor machine. Then when this doesn't happen everything gets blamed on the existence of these threads colliding with one another on said multi-core or m...