When appending to a file using Windows batch commands, how to append immediately after the next word in the file? For example, these commands echo here is the date of > c:\arun.txt date /t >> c:\arun.txt write the following text to the arun.txt file: here is the date of 29-03-2010 But I want the output to be like this: ...
I've got an application that has a bug right now, but we're unable to update the end-user to get the fix out. What a possible workaround would be is to change the working directory to the application's install directory, but from what I can tell, there's no way to do that outside of the program itself. Is there some sort of Windows API c...
I got a source for console program written in c++ for linux Is there a (automated) way to compile this source to run in windows? and what about linux functions and libraries called in this file? Thanks ...
I was developing a small application using Qt4 to get it cross-platform, but when I compared the result I found a really disturbing issue. On both Linux (KDE4) and Windows 7 my screen resolution is 1680 x 1050 but on KDE my application widgets are bigger and there is not enough place to have both important widgets opened without one be...
I have the problem I just installed the new Monodevelop 2.2.2 on Windows but I haven't the database add-in and I cannot add-in with the basic repository. Are-there other repository for that ? Thanks with advance. Narglix ...
Is it possible to change the border width for a single window? I know you can change the border width for all windows, but I want to change only one. ...
I have several child windows, all with the same parent. I want to cascade/tile these windows and was happy to find the TileWindows and CascadeWindows functions. But they don't seem to work on my windows if they don't have a caption (and they don't have one)! With caption everything is fine. Why is this? ...
hello i want to get startet with programming with WIN32, therefore i wrote a programm that creates a process but in the line of code where i create the process the programm gets an error an dosn't work (abend). i don't know if the code in programm 1 is wrong or the code in the second programm that should be created by the first. ( I don'...
I need to test if a variable is set or not. I've tried several techniques but they seem to fail whenever %1 is surrounded by quotes such as the case when %1 = "c:\some path with spaces". IF NOT %1 GOTO MyLabel // This is invalid syntax IF "%1" == "" GOTO MyLabel // Works unless %1 has double quotes which fatally kills bat execution IF ...
Hello. Here's my batch file to parse a directory, and zip files of certain type REM Begin ------------------------ tasklist /FI "IMAGENAME eq 7za.exe" /FO CSV > search.log FOR /F %%A IN (search.log) DO IF %%~zA EQU 0 GOTO end for /f "delims=" %%A in ('dir C:\Temp\*.ps /b') do ( "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\cmdline\7za.exe" a -...
I have a Windows system service that needs to communicate string information to an application running under the user's account. The strings will appear to the user so I want to make sure that the strings that the service passes to the application are in the same language as the user account. How can I tell what display language the curr...
Using the Quicktime API on Windows, there doesn't seem to be any API exposed to enable hardware acceleration. If you open movies with the Quicktime app, DirectX acceleration can be enabled by use of the GUI under the Edit/Preferences/QuickTime Preferences/Advanced Tab. Is it possible to pass a DirectX surface or similar to get H/W accele...
I have 16 radio buttons in an application of mine.. I have to set a variable based on which one was selected.. and I've produced some very ugly code doing this.. private void Foo_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { convertSource = 1; } private void Bar_CheckedChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { co...
I am calling a command-line program from my Perl script. When these programs crash, I am prompted with a messagebox asking me if I want to notify Microsoft. Since this is an automated system it would be desirable if I could suppress that message and continue with other things in my script. Is this possible? ...
I want to scan FAT32 disk (I just need file path and file name) as soon as possible in C++, Scan every files on FAT32 disk. Is there any API to do this? Many thanks! ...
How can I enable “Always use the selected program to open this kind of file” option in Open With dialog box? I already checked following registry entries: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer Value of "NoFileAssociate" Set to 0 ( as reccomended on Microsoft site ) HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Unknown...
im tyring to get this to work: #define UNICODE #define _UNICODE #include <wchar.h> int main() { wprintf(L"Hello World!\n"); wprintf(L"£안, 蠀, ☃!\n"); return 0; } using visual studio 2008 express (on windows xp, if it matters). when i run this from the command prompt (started as cmd /u which is supposed to enable unicode ?...
Yesterday I asked a question about starting an application hidden on windows mobile : See Here According to ctacke's answer I want to create my own message pump to prevent Application.Run method to show the form, but I don't know how to do that. It would be OK if you can show me an example on how to create a custom message pump in c# or...
I need to change thw environment variable Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("TMP") for a Windows service in .NET 2.0 that is running with its own user account. The server is a Windows Server 2003, SP2. Can anybody tell me how to change the Windows environment variable for that user? ...
Folks, I'm using git tools such as git bisect run which need to call a command to build and test my project. My command to do is nant which is a windows program. Or a build.cmd script which calls nant. It's easy to get the bash to call the nant build to run. But the hard part is how to get the standard output written to a file? I eve...