I am starting to make my own apps and publishing them. The problem I face is that my apps are mainly for my purposes. What are some problems that you face while in windows? I need some desktop application ideas that are simple but helpful. ...
We have to install Windows SDK along with .NET Framework. Why do we need the SDK if we have the framework? EDIT: This isn't just the case for .net development. Also, if you want to develop Silverlight apps, you have to install additional sdk. Why? ...
Hi, I am trying to use a Ruby gem called shotgun that requires fork(2) command which I discovered is aa Linux command, and might be available in Cygwin. Is it possible to make it available through Windows command shell? ...
I have the following code: MSG mssg; // run till completed while (true) { // is there a message to process? while(PeekMessage( &mssg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE)) { // dispatch the message TranslateMessage(&mssg); DispatchMessage(&mssg); } if(mssg.message == WM_QUIT){ break; } // our stuff will go here!! Render(); listeners...
I note an applications handle when I use the shell function to open it. I then use that handle to close the application later. However the user can also close that other application himself. Can that handle then be reused by windows so that when I use that handle I close a different process. If it is possible is it likely? ...
I want to compile / install the IP2Location Python extension found here: www.ip2location.com/python.aspx I tried following the instructions at these sites: eli.thegreenplace.net/2008/06/28/compiling-python-extensions-with-distutils-and-mingw/ boodebr.org/main/python/build-windows-extensions But I am getting no where. The pr...
Is there is any way I can copy locked files on windows xp machine without having admin rights? I used unloker tool its great but needs admin rights to install and run. how it could be done in some programming language like perl/shell/c c++ etc. or if there exists some workaround for this. ...
Is there a way to define and send custom message types in Win32, to be caught by your Main message handler? For example, my main message handler captures messages such as WM_PAINT, WM_RESIZE, WM_LBUTTONDOWN etc. Can I create my own WM_DOSOMETHING? If so, how would I send this message? Ah, I actually just discovered this was asked before...
If I have a string that resolves to a file path in Windows, is there an accepted way to get a canonical form of the file name? For example, I'd like to know whether C:\stuff\things\etc\misc\whatever.txt and C:\stuff\things\etc\misc\other\..\whatever.txt actually point to the same file or not, and store the canonical form of the ...
Hi, I measure coverage for my code using gcov library and I would like to generate coverage report in user-friendly format. I've found lcov utility for that, but it's not compatibile with Windows environment (mainly because of the way the paths are parsed). Does anyone know about actively supported lcov port for Windows? It seems that ...
Is it possible to work on Windows Workflow project using Visual Studio express edition? if not is there any work around? ...
I had my development machine set up just fine and everything worked perfectly. But then I needed to shuffle some folders around and in doing so needed to change my apache document root. It was d:/htdocs It is now d:/web/htdocs I've updated it both times in httpd.conf; at DocumentRoot d:/htdocs and <Directory "d:/htdocs"> The problem i...
My os and drive is OS: Windows XP sp2 or Linux SUSE 9 or Cygwin Compiler: Visual C++ 2003 or Gcc or Cygwin PC and os are both 32 bits So, How can I create a super-huge file in secs I was told to use MappingFile functions. I failed to create files over 2G So... Your warm responses will be all appreciated thanks ...
On Windows, how can I find out when monitors (physical display devices) are added/removed/detached/resolution changed/etc.? I'd prefer not to poll EnumDisplayDevices(). ...
Hi, I'm working on a graphics transformation program, setting up a listbox to read in the names of files in a directory. The code is based off an example from my instructor, so I thought it would work fine, but it seems to create errors everywhere. I googled "error CS1519: Invalid token ‘,’ in class, struct, or interface member declarati...
What will happen when we subclass a windows dialog and dialog is closed? Scenario is that I am subclassing a dialog and application can launch many instances of that dialog. Is it necessary to add unsubclassing code to all the dialogs in thier destruction logic. I think when dialogs get closed there is no need to unsubclass them becau...
So I've been putting this graphics transformation program together and suddenly some change I can't figure out has made the app unresponsive. The menus no longer function, and it's supposed to draw axes and a grid on one of the panels... nothing. Any ideas? using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; us...
How do I tell ruby to create files with the attributes FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY and FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE? ...
I am doing some maintenance on software and have a problem that I do not understand. Application was developed using Microsoft Visual C++ 6 and runs on Windows XP. It consists of 21 applications that communicate to each other via UDP sockets. It is a simulation of an embedded avionics system used to debug the system in a PC environment....
Hello, I posted a similar but less specific question a couple hours ago, but the circumstances have changed. I'm working on a program that transforms graphics, presenting them in a panel in the upper left of the form. It was painting fine earlier, but now isn't and I can't undo, load old version, etc. Previously, the app was unresponsive...