in the callback function, which case is used to change the window text?i have an opengl app, and would like to display the framrate in the app top tab, is there some sort of case WM_UPDATE or somthing, i couldn't see anything, but the winapi code is so huge, im lost when i try to find somthing,...

When i paint rect, i have a problem (image)<br/>The last rect cover the previous rect. So,how to solve this problem?<br/>Anyone here can help me ?<br/>Waiting for ur help . Thank so much !<br/> http://www.Photo-Host.org/view/897022untitled.jpg

How can I make an edit control perform some action when the user presses the Enter key? I tried WM_KEYDOWN but it doesnt seem to process - I'm guessing the WM_KEYDOWN is actually sent to the edit control and not the window the control is in. I'm not sure how to implement it processing EN_U...

Hi ~<br/>I'm just finishing off my application, and as it is very small and compact I want to disable the re-sizing of it. I there a Window Style? I couldn't find one. Or is there a piece of code for the WM_SIZE event? Please help.<br/>Thanks;<br/>~ Christopher Howarth

I grabbed this code from a tutorial that I found here: http://www.codeproject.com/system/windows_nt_service.aspWhen I compile this code in MSVC++ 2005 express I get the following error.SERVICE_TABLE_ENTRY DispatchTable[]={{"Service1",serviceMain},{NULL,NULL}};error C2440: 'initializing' :...

I'm writing an application to enumerate all device drivers, I've used a sample code from MSDN (see attachment), on x86 everything working fine, but on x64 the EnumDeviceDrivers function fails with error code 0x8 (ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY), tried to increase ARRAY_SIZE, same problem. It work...

hi,i've created a mousehook for a window i've created using the following code ButtonWND = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_LEFT, className, butText, WS_CHILD, atoi(xVal), atoi(yVal), atoi(width), atoi(height), currentWND, NULL, currentHInstance, NULL);ShowWindow(ButtonWND, SW_SHOWDEFAULT);HHOOK_...

Hello, i have this problem:when click with mouse in "X" of window the program not close, program minimize in systraywhy?#include <windows.h>#define WM_NOTIFYICON 11#define WM_EXIT 12#define WM_CLICKHELLO 13NOTIFYICONDATA TrayIcon;HINSTANCE hinst;LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPA...

I'm in a situation where I need to launch a new process then automate it to navigate its single menu and thru a file dialog. The main application to launch the new process and automate it needs to be able to wake up during a specifc web request (web app initiated) or act as an always waiting /...

hi All..<br/>i was wodering of the way to check if a value in the registry like if this key exist or not:<br/>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion<br/>with the Value "AnyValue"<br/>i searched google but didn't find anything..:(

hi all :DI searched google on how reading from registry and i have found this codeint main(){ char buffer[500]; unsigned long size = sizeof(buffer); DWORD type; HKEY hKey; RegCreateKey(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,"SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Visual Basic 5.0",&hKey); RegQueryValueEx(hKey,"Version",NULL,&type,...

Hi, I'm having a little trouble with buttons... I'm still new to windows prgraming and so on and I think that I'm probably doing something wrong, so what I want to do is the following:1- create a button with a certain text (DONE)2- when the user presses the button, it's text chan...

Hello All,Im trying to show a result from a FORTRAN program with a WINAPI dll. This dll is a Dialog Dll. Fortran will send a String, which i want to show on a WINAPI Listbox.The Calling-Convention, Dll-Initiation, and showing String per "printf" is succesfully done. But as im trying to write the Str...

Hi guys,How do I access system( windows/ linux ) user's password? After the user has logged in, I want to access user's system password and SET that password to my application's textEdit.I dont want to modify the password but just access it and SET it appropriately.Is there any functi...

I have a monitoring app that can be run by any user on the system, and set to monitor the output of an outside server. What I need to do is to ensure that these client 'monitor' apps (with extensive user interface components) are running 24x7, for each user that has installed it.To that en...

Hello,I am developing Vss hardware provider on Windows Server 2003. It is building by VS 8.0 and running as a service.In GetTargetLuns, the target's VDS_LUN_INFORMATION fields are filled, disk-signature is set to Guid Null as recommended in the MSDN.In LocateLuns, the target is exposed to the s...

Hello,I have a question regarding to named pipes. I want to make a log application which sends the log data over named pipes. Now I have searched in the msdn documentation, but I'm not sure if the WriteFile functions takes care that the whole message is written to the pipe before the next Write...

Hi,I've added my own button to a window in an external program. This is working fine. However the problem is because this window contains child windows my button is diffucult to access as it is drawn underneath the child windows.seeing this, i then decided to EnumThreadWindows on the hooked win...

Hi ALL,A big hello to everyone on dev-archive.com. This my first post so please be gentle with me!. OK, my problem is that I'm using a standard Win32 dialog box which contains an IP address control. But the problem is that the IP address control is not showing up in the dialog. I've c...

Hi,I've trie the following code but i cannot hook into the childwindows of a program i have hooked into. Basically I have managed to hook into a window and i want to enumerate the windows. When i find the window i want i will add a new window (BUtton) to that child window.the code is childWND =...

Hi can anyone help me.I've added a window (button) to an external program. The proble is it is usless at the moment as it appears beneath the other child windows on the hooked window. I'm detecting and ading the button the WM_CREATE mesage. Is there anyway I can specify it to be draw at th...

When debugging, and i come cross a line such asUpdateWindow (hwnd) ;which will send a paint message, when debugging, even if i press f11 (step into), debug, does not go into wndprocess. Is there a way of debugging where it also steps through the cases in wndprocess when their called?the only way i c...

Hi there,Here the set up: on MS Windows 2003 is running primary domain controller (PDC)in native 2000 mode and with in the domain is created a G_GS domain group. The group is identified by windows like 'Security Group - Global'. G_GS group has a few members: nested groups ( global security...

Hey all,<br/>Is there any function to get the GUID of a wave device? For example using something like:<br/>waveOutMessage (deviceid, [DRV_QUERYDEVICEGUID], dwParam1, dwParam2);<br/>Or any other way...<br/>thanks.

Hi all.<br/>Can you help me?<br/>How i can to get HASH of username and password in visual c++.

Problem : my hook procedure is not working when the main window losts focus or minimized...description:i have written a global hook procedure to track the keystrokes. the hook procedure resides in a dll and i am calling it from the main window. from the dll i am displaying the keycode using a messag...

just want to know how to hangle colors for various controls in win32 api... i am not getting it to the right place... examples or internal and external links may help... how to color the foreround and background of any window ? ...

Hello everyone!My Vista service starts a process in the session of the active console user. Is there a way to give this process all the privileges that the parent service has?Note: The process should run in the active user session with the corresponding session id (in order to interact with the desk...

Hello all,I am stuck with this problem: I have a simple non-MFC application using a dialog. The dialog is handled by the usual CALLBACK dialog procedure. The dialog contains a button, initially disabled, which I would like to enable based on certain conditions. Now, how do I do that?If it was an MFC...

How to learn MFC<br/>I want to write GUI software <br/>I should use MFC or other(delphi , vb)

My application just runs on backgroud and I don't want to show any windows. how can I use WSAsyncSelect?<br/>Myabe I could create an hidden window (if it is possible), but I would prefer to have a better solution if it exists.

I create a Property Sheet ,with PSH_MODELESS |PSH_NOAPPLYNOW style. It has two pages . Note pfnDlgProc :BOOL CALLBACK PageProc_0 (HWND hwnd, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) // PageProc_1 is similar { switch (uMsg) { case WM_INITDIALOG: return TRUE; case WM_COMMAND:...

So I'll start with my background:I have a couple years' experience working with c++ console applications. My only experience in doing GUI work was with a little tic tac toe game I made using Qt in Linux. I'd like to be able to make some windows programs with GUI's, but I'm n...

Hi ~I'm writing a small program which extends the features of MS Notepad. I am having a little problem trying to get the rich text box to grow with the window when expanded. I am following theForger's WinAPI tutorial. Before WinMain I declared a RECT to hold the client area size, or som...

Hi,I'm having a problem detecting the WA_ACTIVE event.I have an event hook on a program and i want to detect when it is activated and then do my stuff accordingly.i can detect the WM_ACTIVATE message (i've tested this), but can;t filter any of the WA_ACTIVE ro WA_CLICKACTIVE messages. am i...

I have captured the screen and copy the image to clipboard.<br/>Now, i want to write the image from clipboard to bitmap file.<br/>but i don't know how to write a bit map file, any suggestion for me,.please??

Hi,<br/>Is it possible to grab hold of a window at coordinates x, y ( and possible z?). I'm not too bothered about the z values of the window as its going to be the top most window anyway.<br/>Thanks Matt.

Hi all,i want to stop users resizing and maximising a particular window i have hooked into using SetWindowLongLONG test = SetWindowLong(pCwp->hwnd, GWL_STYLE, WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW & ~(WS_THICKFRAME));however even though i'm getting a return value i can still resize, maximise, etc. am i doing...

Hi All,I am writing an application to record the Desktop Screen for certain period of time. It should be stored in format of type multimedia data. On research i came to know that , I should make use of AVI APIie., AVIFIleStream etc., Do i am on right path.Can any one help me to get this done.Thanks...

I must have N worker threads that call LoadLibrary("my.dll") do some stuff with a function exported by this DLL and call FreeLibrary. Is safe to call Load/Free Library in this way & scenario?

hi everybody<br/>i have 2 question<br/>1:how to use regular expression in c++?(are exist class about regular expression?)<br/>2:i have c# dll how to load it in c++ project?

Hi,Please see if you can help me out on this.I have a CD that contains files (doc, xls, htm etc.) pre-encrypted with a program written by me. If someone simply inserts the CD and reads the files in Word, Excel or IE, he gets encrypted garbage.I want the user to always access the proper content of th...

I want to find out the handle of the window that contains caret. I first thought that GetFocus gives this value. But in Microsoft Word, if you press Alt key, then GetFocus gives handle of menu bar but caret is in the document area. In this case, I want the handle of the document area.Let me know how...

I am having trouble converting a sample Win32 app to be Unicode compatible. Here is the original code (which compiles under Multi-byte setting):Header:#if !defined WINNIE_H#define WINNIE_H//-----------// winnie.h// (c) Bartosz Milewski, 1995, 97//-----------#include <windows.h>// Forward dec...

I'm looking for a code strategy to trap crashes and asserts and either email or post the relevant information to a URL ( or just generate an error file and send it the next time the program is run). This would be generated from a debug build so relevant items like a breakdown of the call-stack...

There are some windows which are such that if we press a key, then no text appears on screen. Example: menu bar. When focus is on menu bar, then on pressing a key, the key does not appear on screen. Rather, the key may act like a shortcut.On the other hand, there are some windows on which we can typ...

Hi,I'm creating a program where I use Word as a an editor.My app catches several events from Word (Close,Save,...), but I need to be able to wait my app until the user has closed Word (I'm minimizing my app to the tray,where it has to wait until Word is closed).Does anyone have an idea on...

Hi,I am new to windows programming. In my code I would require to change the slider bar position (I am actually invoking the sliderbar from UI using win32 API, so I donot have source code of the application), which I have accomplished by sending message.::SendMessage( aControlHWnd, TBM_SETPOS, (WPAR...

hi, <br/>is it possible to subclass or create a new class for a button and apply this using createwindow? if so how do i go about doing this?<br/>ideally i would like to add the window (of class button) and change the font, etc.<br/>Matt.

hi all,<br/>i have developed an audio video capture application using Dshow and C++. but i can save the captured file as avi format. <br/>i can send the filter graph. can any body tell me how will i save in mpeg format. <br/>thanks, <br/>bidesh