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Dear all: When I saved a text data file, how can I distingiush between binary and asccii text file..? I can't find any option in the _lwrite function.. I want to read my data in a text editor...
I get the unresolved external symbol error message when trying to build my program.    unresolved external symbol _Process32Next@8  unresolved external symbol _Process32First@8  unresolved ext...
I need the complete RTF(Rich Text Format) file grammar / syntax. Because I want to be able to save my custom "document" format in RTF. Thanks for your help
I want to take a Dialog I created in the resource editor and use it as the only window in the application (as far as a user is concerned).  The problem is that anything which is not a control ...
I've got an existing console program that we'd like to add a COM interface to.  We'd like it to be a COM server for a particular interface, that will query it for some data. Using VC++ 5.0 an...
Hi; I am a beginning programmer a few months out of school. I have been trying to become a windows programmer and have been studying Charels Petzold's "PROGRAMMING WINDOWS95" I have had trou...
I'm developing an application that will print documents without any user interaction. This is to be done by reading the registry entries under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<document type>\shell\print and...
Is there a way to get the handle for eg. the Netscape window. FindWindow won't work here, since I don't know what the title of the window would be (netscape inserts the title of the page in th...
I have implemented a modeless dialog box as an irc-style chat window for my network application (game).  I created it using vc++ 5.0 with MFC.  My current implementation is this... When a new ...
Hi, I have handled OnClick and OnDblClick methods on the tree control. I wanted to see if the user had clicked or double clicked on a node in the tree, however the HitTest always returns null...
hello everybody I want to check if a certain process is still running (not terminated). All I have is the PID. Does anybody know how to do this (must work with 95/98/NT). regards Pacman
What is the difference?  I have used both functions extensively but have never found a difference.  Can someone please explain the difference? e.g.  PostMessage( hwnd,WM_CLOSE,0,0 ); yields t...
In windows 95, 98 and VC++6.0. I want to protect deleting a specific file or directory. for example,, after my program sets a file or directory, my program's monitoring the file or directory s...
How do I wait until a Thread a submitted (_beginThread) finished properly.
Hi I can't seem to get EM_SCROLLCARET to work in richedit 2.0. I can use EM_SCROLL, but EM_SCROLLCARET always returns 0. And the docs say that EM_SCROLLCARET can be used with richedit 2.0...
hello,    i cant find the correct message in msdn to tell the edit box i want to send it text.   can someone tell me what the correct msg is and where in msdn i can find this info to work with...
Do anyone out there have there the source code for DefWindowProc?
I want to change the color of a button on my dialog. I know I have to check WM_CTLCOLORBTN. But I need some code snippet please. The HWND of my button is BUT. Ok thanks
If somebody can explain why when we are pressed twice on a owner draw style button  with a short period of time parent  window get only one command message.
Rcmd.exe from the nt resource kit allows me to run a console base app on a remote computer but I cant work out the correct syntax to pass my cmdline. My cmdline that works from the command ...
I am writing an app, which needs to be able to start and kill other apps. Killing is not a problem, but I'd like to be able to tell the app to close ( allowing it to cleanup ), then kill it af...
i want to put a background bmp + move some bmp on this background how do  i draw a bitmap on a regular cwnd ?