Have been updated Eclipse PDT using Window->Check for Updates feature. After restart all trird-party plug-ins seems like switched off. Starting with -clean command line key doesn't helps. Eclipse Installation Detals contains information about all my plug-ins correctly. Error log: eclipse.buildId=M20090917-0800 java.version=1.6.0_0...
Is there any API to send message to a thread? Basically I have only threadId available and I want to send a custom message to that thread. ...
I am hooking keyboard in application . Requirement is to hook keyboard in all threads in the process. I used SetWindowsHookEx API SetWindowsHookEx(WH_KEYBOARD_LL, (HOOKPROC)::KeyboardHookProc, hInst, 0); The hook is created for all the threads in process. This works fine until calling thread exists .As soon as calling thread terminat...
Is there any way to find out from threadId , if a thread has message queue or not? Basically there are some windows api which only work if a thread has message queue.window ...
Hello. I have lost many hours trying to grab exclusively the mouse in my application and re-releasing it. Right now, I am grabbing it correctly : the mouse cursor disappears from screen and I can read its properties fine. However, I can't release it correctly! The mouse cursor reappears on screen but no other application is receiving a...
Hi all, I have a DLL wich connects to a server through a single socket. I am facing the following problem : If server's IP address & port are false or server is down, the application using this DLL freezes until half a minute. My idea is to use non-blocking sockets to avoid that problem, by showing a window indicating connection progres...
I want to get started using Boost. I'm programming a C++ program in Visual Studio (obviously on a Windows machine). Boost's Getting Started Guide says: The easiest way to get a copy of Boost is to use an installer. The Boost website version of this Getting Started guide will have undated information on installers as they become avai...
I'm using CreateFile to open an asynchronous file handle to a Bluetooth HID device on the system. The device will then start streaming data, and I use ReadFile to read data from the device. The problem is, that if the Bluetooth connection is dropped, ReadFile just keeps giving ERROR_IO_PENDING instead of reporting a failure. I cannot re...
When you create a C++ console application under Windows you automatically get the console window created for you and std::cout outputs to the console window. I have a GUI application for which I also want to create a console window. I can create the console window using the AllocConsole() function, but how do I redirect / attach std::c...
A recent blog entry by a Jeff Atwood says that you should never parse HTML using regular expressions - yet doesn't give an alternative. i want to scrape search search results, extracting values: <div class="used_result_container"> ... ... <div class="vehicleInfo"> ... ... ...
I'm working on a project on Eclipse, more specific RAD build. The EAR file exported is around 40 mb, last week it was taking 1 minute, today its taking more than 10 minutes. I didnt change much code, nor changed any config related to the JVM. I export directly from RAD, right click on the project and export EAR. So whats going wrong? ...
I have a string in char* format and would like to convert it to wchar_t*, to pass to a Windows function. ...
The only difference is that Winmain takes char* for lpCmdLine parameter, while wWinMain takes wchar_t*. On Windows XP, if an application entry is WinMain, does Windows convert the command line from Unicode to Ansi and pass to the application? If the command line parameter must be in Unicode (for example, Unicode file name, conversion...
How can one determine what version of Windows and/or cmd.exe a batch file is running on? There is no cmd /version that I've been able to find and the results of SET in a command prompt session don't give anything obviously unique (between XP and Win7 anyway). Summarized Answer The internal command ver reports windows version number (w...
I'm sorry if this question is noob-ish but I'm not having much luck with Google. Can Ruby be used for UI based Windows apps? I'm not looking for a Rails app, just Ruby. Thanks ...
Is there an API to add to the a windows command prompt history? I writing a console program and it would be handy to pop some commands into the history buffer under certain (limited) conditions. ...
I am looking for a program that can take the program I made in Visual C++ 2008 and distribute it in a mature installer for Windows. I want an application that is FREE (or trial). The setup and deployment folder is not there when a select File-->Add-->New Project ...
There are a couple of files in our git-controlled codebase that I'd like to rename. Specifically, I just want to change the case of the file, so that sourceCode.java becomes SourceCode.java, for example. The catch: I'm on a Windows box, and the filesystem thinks those are the same file name. How can I get Windows and git to recognize ...
The RUNNING.txt that accompagne with tomcat distribution indicates the use of CATALINA_BASE variable to enable multiple tomcat instance. But how can i set the CATALINA_BASE environment variable for each tomcat instance directory. Thank you. ...
Hi all, I have a set of unit test cases that depend on a test.properties file. When I run the tests under Mac OSX or Linux using Maven ('mvn test'), they work fine. But when running under Windows 7, they can't find the file unless I copy it directly to the class folder. The code to return the properties is the following two methods: ...