windows

What could make GetCursorPos return incorrect coordinates of {0,0} ?

We are seeing bad behavior in an application when it runs on Server 2008 (not R2). This is a WinForms application, and Control.MousePosition is returning {0,0} no matter where the mouse is on the screen... Control.MousePosition just makes a P/Invoke call to Win32 api GetCursorPos(). Followup: I am using Control.MousePosition from W...

reading from File in assembly

i am trying to read a username and a password from a file in x86 assembly for the perpose of authentication obviously the file consists of two lines , the user name and the password how can i read the two lines seperately and compare them? My attempt: proc read_file mov ah,3dh lea dx,file_name int 21h mov bx, ax xor si,si ...

code to save on row change using bindingNavigator, bindingSource

When using a bindingNavigator and bindingSource and clicking a move button or add button or delete button, the bindingSource completes its action code before the click handler of the button (i.e. user code) This prevents a save action on the row change. I'd like to find a bindingSource hook, something like 'beforeRowChange'. I can subc...

system() call returns "Permission Denied" on Windows XP

I am experiencing a problem with a C program running on Windows XP that is getting Permission Denied (EACCES) errors when it tries to call system(). It doesn't seem to matter what I put in the command string, the commands all work manually but get Permission Denied errors when executed via system() The other interesting thing is that ...

Programming a windows service

I have started prgramming a windows service. I have added a notify icon from the toolbox. It has the small notify icon that appears in the systray as a member of those icons. It works so far. So far I have a blank form. I have used the DoubleClick for the notifyIcon to bring up the form (I will use the form for something later). Now...

Flicker/dead region issues maximizing an MFC window

I'm trying to make an MFC window (a CDialog) go fullscreen whenever the user attempts to maximize it. The window is being used as an OpenGL context. I'm attempting to do everything inside of the CDialog::OnSize callback. Here's the code that I'm using: void MyCDialogSubclass::OnSize(UINT action, int width, int height) { CDialog::OnS...

Problem using FtpWebRequest to append to file on a mainframe

I am using FtpWebRequest to append data to a mainframe file. Each record appended is 50 characters long, and I am adding them one record at a time. In our development environment, we do not have a mainframe, so my code was written and tested FTPing to a Windows-based FTP site instead of a mainframe. Initially, I was writing each recor...

Emacs under Windows and PNG files

Would anyone have any pointers on getting PNG images to display in Emacs 23 under Win32?.. I have installed the gnuwin32 set of utilities, including libpng and zlib; C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin is in path. JPG files started working but not PNGs. I'd appreciate any hints on getting this to work. EDIT: PNG thumbnails actually display...

How to know when to close socket when dealing with HTTP clients?

Hi, How can I know when to close the socket of an HTTP client (I mean a browser is connecting to my TCP socket server). Everything works perfect but in other for the browser to show what the server has sent, i have to shutdown the server (or call socket.Close()). It works fine if I call (socket.Close()) but I just don't know when.? I ...

gacutil - cannot launch on vista x64

I thought this was a privilege issue but I logged on as admin and still couldn't get more than a brief flash of the command window. I am just double clicking on the exe file I found in the 7.0 sdk As a side question, can you just go into the GAC manually and delete something?? Cheers, Berryl ...

Playing Multiple Sounds at Once in Qt

I'm trying to play background music along with sound effects using Qt. However, I can't get more than one sound to play at once. For example: QSound::play("Music.wav"); QSound::play("Effect.wav"); When this code is run (on Windows), you can hear Music.wav just start to play, but then it stops and Effect.wav plays. Is there any way to ...

How to launch new Firefox window with multiple tabs using Python

Hi, I want to create a MSWindows Python program that would launch a new Firefox window with multiple tabs each time it is run. For example if I want to search "hello", a new window pops out (even if a Firefox window is already open) and then launches a Google and Bing tabs searching for "hello". If I change the keyword to "world", a new ...

.htacess windows problem

Hi, In the root directory of a small site i'm developing i have the following .htacess file: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-F RewriteRule .$ index.php that basically allows me to have pretty urls as it remaps every path that does not exists on the server (eg : /user/details/145 ) as a call ...

C# Windows Service XML

Scenario I have a windows service written in C# that performs some processing based on parsing an XML file and use that data to carry out various tasks. The service also does various bits of logging - which uses settings from an APP.Config file. The Problem When the service is compiled, installed and run, the XML file seems to disappe...

Testing a wide variety of computers with a small company

Hello everyone, I work for a small dotcom which will soon be launching a reasonably-complicated Windows program. We have uncovered a number of "WTF?" type scenarios that have turned up as the program has been passed around to the various not-technical-types that we've been unable to replicate. One of the biggest problems we're facing i...

What's the best way to run a Linux virtual server in Windows 7?

I need a virtual server for web development, it'll host Apache+Postgres+Ruby+something else. What's the most effective software to run such a server? (ie with least virtualization overhead) Is there a way to run Linux as as service? I use VirtualBox at the moment, but it's inconvenient in some ways, such as it needs an emulator windo...

Equivalent for Java's System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") in C ?

As the title says, the java.io.tmpdir property in Java is really nice, and I can't find an equivalent for C. I'm writing for Windows and in Visual Studio. I don't want to just use something like C:\Temp because in later versions of windows the appropriate directory could be something like C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\Temp and a way ...

Why does Perl complain about "Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline"?

Hello, I am getting an error I do not understand. I am using File:Find to recurse a fylesystem on Windows using Activestate Perl 5.8.8 and trying to stat $File::Find::name; so I am not stat-ing a filename got from a text file scanning requiring chomp-ing or newline removing. I was unable to get file modification time, the mtime in: my (...

What are the requirements for HTA files?

They seem to open in an internet explorer type window, does anyone know: How long have HTA files been around? Have they been around since Windows 98? Do they rely on Internet Explorer being installed, and/or a certain version of it? If you choose another browser on the browser selection screen update for Windows 7, will HTA files still...

How to restore data on Power Failure using C++ programming on windows.

Hi, In my program I am writing a file of my programs states. I am writing the file many times to the file during the program run, because the program changes some variables that that i need to store very frequently. Now, if , for some reasons my power fails. Then most of the time I loose data in that file. Please, tell me any mechanis...