Hi Everybody,I m creating a chat application. Now if both the end users who are chatting with each other have there chat window open they get the chat message. So now i need to check that when the chat window isn't open i need to open a dialog & display the message in it. I do come to know whet...

Is is possible to print on a network printer without installing the printer on my workstation. I know the IP adress of the printserver. I am looking over for help in using TCPMon , LPR from my application.<br/>thanks

I'm working on a simple console application. It takes some command line parameters containing a path of a Win32 executable. What I need to do is execute that program, maximize the window, then capture its contents and output it to a file. My question is, after creating the process, how should I...

Hi all,Does anybody knows how to:I have a COM client connected through a proxy to the COM object in local server. Is there a method for the client to get known about the server crashed without polling on some interface method, waiting for error ?Best regards,vips :confused:...

I'm trying to modify controls in a dialog in another application from my program. I'm getting the hwnd I need from EnumWindows and using EnumChildWindows to get the control ID's.I've figured out how to set the text in text boxes, but I can neither read nor set the combobox... an...

What do limit traffic speed/volume (apart for each ip client) on internet-server (2rd network adapters) in Win32 api. All packets forwarding to internet through NAT.

Hi,I have a ton of questions re the mouse. I will quickly describe it below to give you an idea of what I am looking for (ie more complicated than just drawing a line... )Any ideas where I can find this info? Please? Yes, I use MSDN, but its over my head at times like now (I am very new at this) and...

I have some simple uart drivers that are basically wrapping the Windows API calls to make a simple uart/communication API library.When I conenct and transfer data, it works just fine, all is happy and right in the world. However, anytime after I close my handle to the COM port device and I try to co...

How can I use the win api to make the current console app find its own EXE filename when using the win-lcc compiler?

Hi people, look i start making my applications from scratch to get a good understanding how windows is working, but all the examples i have seen, they use a Dialog Boxes to put controls, like scroll bars, button, etc. I will like to use my main window with controls, i have not seen examples until...

p.shi2_netname = TEXT("ttt");//st_option.strSharedName; p.shi2_type = STYPE_DISKTREE; // disk drive p.shi2_remark = TEXT("TESTSHARE to test NetShareAdd"); p.shi2_permissions = 0; p.shi2_max_uses = 4; p.shi2_current_uses = 0; p.shi2_path = TEXT("C:\\AB");//st_option.strDir;...

Can someone explain the COMTIMEOUTS on baud rate?

Hi, Here is my requirement...There are different applications like MsWord, NotePad, Wordpad etc. Now my application will be continously running in the background. It should capture the Print command given by the user be it in any application. For eg. When user clicks on the menu -- File --> Print...

Hi there,<br/>I know how to enable interrupt mode of the parallel port, <br/>but how do I define my InterruptHandler function??<br/>Thanks tryge

I am trying to solve the following problem for more than a month.I have made a serial Communication (with a microcontroller)through pc's parallel port Pins in win 98 through the instructions _outp and _inp . Everything works fine until i try to explore disk A:\ (Floppy Disk) or run scan disk....

I just wrote some Java to JNI to C++ code to get and set values of the windows registry under the root Win32RegKey.HKEY_CURRENT_USER and path "Control Panel\\Mouse". I can change the DoubleClickSpeed, SwapMouseButtons, and MouseSensitivity registry values but they don't take effect on the mou...

I want to Create a Process with CreateProcessAsUser from as PrintMonitor running under the System AccountHello, I want start a application from a Portmonitor after finisch the Print of the document. Currently i start the application with createprocess but the application running under the system acc...

somebody have a snippet about how to color individually items in a list view?

do i have to change the COMMTIMEOUTS -values, for any Baud Rates (in case i m giving the user the ability to select diff. Rates) ? <br/>Do someone have any example for it ?

Hallo!<br/>I have an usb device which is detected as fixed drive in WinNt,2k,xp. I want to get a mounted drive letter for this device. Does anybody know how to do it? Code sample if possible.<br/>Thanx.

Hi,I am trying to access the menu items of another window in the desktop. This particular window has no menu assigned to it. Instead the menu bar of this window exists as a window itself, descended from the parent window. I have observed that the same structure exists for Microsoft Visual Studio and...

I've created a helper DLL plugin for a larger app that is autoloaded by the app. The larger host app registers a class name via RegisterClassW() and makes use of the CreateWindowEXA() windows API function to create various windows of the earlier registered class name.I'm in a situation w...

Hello Everybody,I have a problem in opening a dialogbox. I want to open a dialog box internally from one of my function.Which means that whenever control comes to my function, that function will open a window and then start interacting with that window.When i open that Window explicitly Means using...

Hello Everybody,<br/> I have a problem how do i Append a string in an RichEdit box in Win32 API.<br/>Thanking You,<br/>Sonali....<br/>HAVE A GUD DAY!!!!!

We've got a problem with a new XP window PC. We've installed VB on it and we can not use the API Libraries. If you go to Project, References you can see that in the main box appear something like that: "MISSING:windows API (ANSI)". How we can solve this problem? Thank you.

Hi, I am working on DMA writes at high speeds from a Camera using a PCI Board. The data is collected without any problems. But time and again, there is some pause of the DMA and only that portion of the data is lost. Is the stall due to any specific periodic check by the OS? or are there any othe...

As I understand it if one has the ES_NUMBER style on an Edit box in the resource file the edit box should only accept digits as input. It looks like this: CONTROL "", EDIT_LATBOX, "EDIT", ES_LEFT | ES_NUMBER | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE |...

In a windows program WinMain() gets called first, which later on calls (often invisibly to the programmer, depending on the api being used) main(). But doesnt this mean that windows programs are not strictly c++ programs since c++ stipulates that main() be the first function called?Thanks in advance...

hello alli am bit confused to see the results of following piece of codeplease help me out......i executed following piece of code to see the devastating effect ofpagefaults on a processvoid main(){int i;int *arr;int * arr1,*arr2;char ch;arr= new int[5000000];for(i=0;i<5000000;i++)arr[i]=0;arr1=...

Hi all,<br/>You've known a service program must call StartServiceCtrlDispatcher() function when it starts. But I want to write a program that can be started as a service, but also can be launched as a normal console application in logged user environment.<br/>Anyone helps me, please!

i have some doubt in VC++. actually in 1 project, they have used 1 treecontrol. that treecontrol is custome tree control. i mean third party tree control.(owner drawn tree control). they have written that tree control from scratch.( right from cwnd. they haven't us...

Hello there,I have written an application for serial port communication. The application was to send data to an embossing machine and to print it. The problem i am facing is that the application is running 100% perfect on a Win98 system while when i run it on the Win2k the system hangs. I debugged a...

Please help !I created a Combo box dynamically. m_hWndComboLevel=CreateWindow("COMBOBOX", "", CBS_DROPDOWNLIST | WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBS_HASSTRINGS | CBS_SORT | CBS_AUTOHSCROLL | WS_VSCROLL, rc.left, 40, (rc.right-rc.left)*17, 100, this->m_hWnd,...

Need to get the start cluster number for files on the disk drive.<br/>I was trying to do this with Int 21h Function 440Dh Minor Code 71h, only to read elsewhere that it doesn't work for NT.<br/>Has anyone done this before?

I've coded a program (attempted to anyways) which detects data being recieved on the parallel port and prints it..#include <windows.h>#include <cstdlib>void printError(char *caption) { char buffer[70]; FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, NULL, GetLastError(), 0, buffer,...

I have written some very simple (non-overlapped) windows (NT/2K) serial port drivers. The definitions to be used for baud rates have two different values, CBR_56000 and CBR_57600 (in addition to the others).I notice that using a terminal emulator to test (Hyperterminal) set at 57600, I can connect t...

First off, I'd like to express how impress I am with this board. I hadn't visited the dev-archive.com site for several years, and never knew that this board was here! Its an awsome resouce!Now, my question:I've done quite a bit of windows programming, but and pretty much new to Seri...

Hello,I create several toolbars in the WM_INITDIALOG handler of a modal dialog box.Although the toolbars have WS_TABSTOP style set, I cannot include them in the tab order. That is, when navigating among dialog box controls with TAB key the toolbars never get the focus.What should I do to enable tabs...

Hello,i'd like to when the user passes the mouse over the tab control text, that it change its color to light blue as if it were highlighted, all examples i found were using MFC and confusing, can anyone tell me which apis i should lookup for..or give me any examples of doing that without using...

For some RS232 serial drivers, the flushbuffer() function reads all data until there is none such that the input buffer is free. What are your opinions on the output buffer? Should a flushbuffer() function wait until the output buffer is free too? My guess is no, since that is dependant on the other...

Hi,<br/>How do I get a copy of ntddcdrm.h.<br/>I am calling a method DeviceIoControl(...) in one of my application.<br/>Please pass if you have one.<br/>-Espee

Hello,I am looking for a fast way to create a data structure to hold a directory tree and information on files in the directory tree. As the filesystem that is being loaded into the data structure is large, speed is a significant issue.I am aware of three possible techniques to get the information...

I use <br/>net share <br/>to share a folder from command line, but<br/>I don't know how to set share permissions for shared folder (not permission for security) programmatically?<br/>Thanks a lot!

I'm trying to iteratively remove registry values from a registry key. The following snippet is where my process is breaking. I think it has to do with me not resetting the string buffer when I make my second call (any subsequent call) to RegEnumValue. I haven't done much C++ programming...

Is there any way of reading data out of input buffer without using COMMTIMEOUTS structure?

Child window of console application. When WriteConsole(), their contents are overwritten. The only way I found of avoid this was to create it with GetDesktopWindow() as parent and, for always seeing it, use HWND_TOPMOST. Very, very, very ugly and nasty. Child window, of course, with WS_CLIPCHILDEN...

I accidentally hit "new thread" instead of "reply". Can a mod please delete this for me since when I tried it said I didn't have permission.<br/>Thanks.

I want to add monitor and under that monitor i want to add virtual port on windows NT and 2000.<br/> Can any one help me?<br/>Thanks in advance,<br/>Regards,<br/>Pralay

Hi all,How can I detect that the LAN network cable was unplugged? I found similar threads in this forum with advice: using OnClose message of the sockets. But it does not work if no client is connected. And I need to find out the network status anytime.Any ideas, please?Thanks in advance,David...

Hello, im using zlib and trying to append a file to a zip that has already 1 file, im using minigzip which comes as example in zlib, the only thing i changed is:void file_compress(file, mode)char *file;char *mode;{local char outfile[MAX_NAME_LEN];FILE *in;gzFile out;// strcpy(outfile, file);// strca...