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I want to figure out what Windows does when you right-click a video file and check properties and I would like to write a similar piece of code in C++. I should be able to figure out how to read the file type and size, but I'm lost in how …

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What we are going to be covering in this tutorial This tutorial will show you how you can set up a PHP contact form on your web site which will send an SMS message, in this case we will make the contact form send you the information passed by the …

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**Yesterday, OpenAI's inaugural [DevDay](https://devday.openai.com/) conference in San Francisco unveiled a series of groundbreaking announcements, leaving the tech community humming with both excitement and a degree of uncertainty. The reveal of GPT-4 Turbo, a new wave of customizable AI through user-friendly APIs, and the promise to protect businesses from copyright infringement …

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heres a sample of using pointers on VB6: Option Explicit Private Const BI_RGB = 0 Private Const CBM_INIT = &H4 Private Const DIB_RGB_COLORS = 0 Private Const USE_BITMAP_ALPHA = &H1000000 Private Type BITMAPINFOHEADER biSize As Long biWidth As Long biHeight As Long biPlanes As Integer biBitCount As Integer biCompression As …

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Things don't have to be black and white all the time. Use a Windows API call to add some color to your text output.

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## Introduction ## MediaPlayer (`android.media.MediaPlayer`) is a popular way to play media files, and combining it with a SeekBar can greatly improve the user experience. In this tutorial, we will learn how to synchronize a MediaPlayer progress to a SeekBar position. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, …

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## Introduction ## In Android development, the MediaStore API is a great API to use if you are building a music player. In this tutorial, we will learn how to query for audio files in the MediaStore database. ## Goals ## At the end of the tutorial, you would have …

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## Introduction ## WorkManager is the preferred method of managing background tasks on Android. It also includes convenient extensions for RxJava3 and Kotlin Coroutines. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use WorkManager as well as how to observe the background task with the debugging tool Background Task Inspector. …

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## Introduction ## Based on the latest report from Appbrain, Samsung has the highest market share(*>35%*) among all of the Android OEMs, therefore it is important that your apps are tested against Samsung phones. In this tutorial, we will learn how to load Samsung Emulator skins onto our emulator devices. …

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## Introduction ## UI Automator is a library that allows you to create tests that can interact with other components besides your App, such as Settings or other Android components. In this tutorial, we will learn how to incorporate UI Automator into our tests. ## Goals ## At the end …

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What "Hello World" is to the console, the "Bouncing Ball" is to the Graphical User Interface. Nothing fancy, the ball is created via a call to the API function ellipse() and then bounced within the confines of the windows form. For the DEV C++ crowd: Let me know if you …

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Hi, I would like to know if there is a CMD command line in order to get a computer name on which an AD user is logged on. For example, inputting the username and as result getting the computer name

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I'm new to tkinter so i used a template tkinter code to have multiple page windows each page is in a different class, i thought diving in will make me learn better and it has, and also special thanks to stackoverflow. the kiosk app is all fullscreen, the start is …

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At the risk of making a total fool of myself... I got very excited when I discovered that Java's "only opaque rectangular windows" limitation has been removed. Full release is intended for Java 7, but working methods can be accessed thru com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities in recent releases of Java 6 (I'm using …

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Hi guys. I have two servers: 1. Client Facing Production Server 2. API Server. The Client facing sever (Server1) sends requests to the API Server (Server2). Server2 is hosted with one staric IP address and is accessible through three domain names, e.g. **www.domain1.com**, **domain1.com**, **test.domain2.com**. Often times the Server1 seems …

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Hey everyone, I'm looking to add a block / function within a C++ application that will search for open windows. For instance, wordpad and notepad. If either are open perform an action. I'm doing this within win32 API but my question is this. If I create something as such, this …

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Hi I am developing using C/C++ window application using winapi. I will be using some standard STL containers and some win api functions provided by windows.h. I would like use the app on different windows versions such as windows 7 and 10. The apps will be builded for x86 architecture. …

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Suppose that I construct my own programming language and my own compiler (for windows), I am free to use WINAPI like "CreateWindowEx"?

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I have a table that contains some cubes with servers and active status (see attached image): note: CUBE1 is repeated intentionally. The idea is the same cube is getting synced from the same server 1 as a data source (process_server) onto different target servers (query_server; say server2 is in region …

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i'm trying using the GNU compiler with command lines( using the ShellExecuteEx()). when i do: string FileName1="C:\\Program Files\\mingw-w64\\x86_64-7.2.0-win32-seh-rt_v5-rev1\\mingw64\\bin\\x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe"; run(FileName1,"-c \"C:\\Users\\Cambalinho\\Documents\\CB\\testfolder\\bin\\Debug\\test2.cpp\""); the object file is created. these line creates the exe: run(FileName1,"-o C:\\Users\\Cambalinho\\Documents\\CB\\testfolder\\bin\\Debug\\test2.exe C:\\Users\\Cambalinho\\Documents\\CB\\testfolder\\bin\\Debug\\test2.o"); (tested) but the exe have some dependencies... so seen the Code Blocks: x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe -Wall -g -std=c++14 -c …

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Hi I am trying to get windows positioned in specific order as show below ![desired.PNG](/attachments/large/3/6447240b1491d04046fa904f31659f9b.PNG) but I am unable to get and get always this ![wrong.PNG](/attachments/large/3/71f4b92c4f40a6afeeab7e3c2f136526.PNG) the code below is shown HDWP cmdWnds; cmdWnds = BeginDeferWindowPos(col.size()); for (int i = 0; i < col.size(); i++) { if (i == 0) …

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I wrote a script that manages services on the server and starts/stops etc...depending on the Task in the csv file, as well as changes the startuptype, again depending on the start up type in the csv file. CSV file: > Server,Service,Startup Type,Task > server1,SQL Server Analysis Services (MSSQLSERVER),automatic,start > server2,"SQL …

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I would like to be able to open a port on windows programatically. I don't care whether is power shell, or something else, but I would like it to be a script that I can simply run as I install a software program. I have no experience in this area, …

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I have a powershell script from PRTG that will ssh into a juniper device and allow me to exicute a command. I am trying to run "Request System Storage Cleanup" which works but the problem is the session asks for conformation of the clean up. Adding a carriage return and …

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Hi guys have a python software that i want to freeze for distribution. The problem is after freezing it with cx_freeze and i run it, it works fine on my development computer but when i sent it to my testing computer (window XP sp3 32bit) it give me this error …

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I have a ASP.net Web API, that I am trying to host on IIS 10 (Windows 10 Pro). If I access this Web API form Angular 2 app, I get the following error XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://172.26.50.17:8085/api/library. Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is …

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I know this title is rather confusing, but here it goes. I have a PHP cURL request and the return is in a string. Normally i can easily echo specific objects from the JSON response, but i have never dealt with string returns. Here is my php <?php $url = …

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I've never been a fan of readme files. They are fine for project files where you will likely need note of building an application, or for distribution packages where you might need extra information on installing a package. But sometimes you want to add a comment to a file (perhaps …

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Most common quiestion is: [quote]Is there any C++ GUI API?[/quote] My answer is MANY. There are many API's for making GUI applications. Here are some. [B] 1. WinAPI: (C based)(MFC is C++ based)[/B] [I]Its a great API and the best solution if you are windows programmer. First code will look …

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Hi everyone, I really hope that you can help me diagnose an issue with my new API. I'm having the following issue: I'm not happy with the performance of the app client at http://app.dazah.com that connects to it ... It uses cURL to issue about 3-4 API requests per page …

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Hi, I am working on a personal vb.net project that will allow me to capture a full-sized image of a given web page. I've been working on this for a few of days and have not found a method that is 100% reliable. Here's what i have tried so far... …

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Hi all, I'm trying to replace text in a CSV. The CSV line looks something like this: "Field One","Field Two","Field Three","Field Four" So I tried something like: (Get-Content $csvfile) -replace "Field`n", "Field" | Set-Content $csvfile

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i did a class for the timer precision using the timeSetEvent(). of course i can have more than 7 instances from the Timer class(with 200ms or something so small). is these a limitation or what? class Timer { private: static unsigned int TimerCount; UINT_PTR timerid; UINT m_uResolution=0; unsigned int TimerID=0; …

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Good Morning, For the last few weeks I've been searching HIGH AND LOW. All forms, dozens of tabs open, and bought about 200 bucks in books. My goal is to learn the windows win32 API and I'm hitting brick walls everywhere I look. So far, I've learned that findwindow (or …

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1. Crystal Reports SAP Crystal Reports is known as a robust production reporting tool. With SAP Crystal Reports, you can create powerful, richly formatted, dynamic reports from virtually any data source, delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 24 languages. SAP Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into …

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Hi Dw. I'm new to C++ nor Win32 app dev. I want my app to stay open or running even if I'm not interacting with it. And how to write a close call. In VB to close it you just right: Close() How can I achieve these two? Also how …

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I'm getting "error C2039: 'AllocSysString' : is not a member of 'System::Char' error. I'm trying to assign the result to a string variable. wchar_t str; return str.AllocSysString(); But I'm getting the above error.

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Hello, I have an application that is not mine, that has 6 textboxes with values on it. I am trying to use the windows API to retreive the values from those textBoxes. I know that they exists in a control named "Panel1". So I have come so far in the …

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Hello, I wonder how it would be possible to get text from a datagridview in another form application? The datagridview has 5 rows and 5 columns with text in each cell. I know that this could be achieved with windows API but googling around I have not understand how to …

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i have my own region class: class region { private: BYTE* Get24BitPixels(HBITMAP pBitmap, WORD *pwWidth, WORD *pwHeight) { // a bitmap object just to get bitmap width and height BITMAP bmpBmp; // pointer to original bitmap info LPBITMAPINFO pbmiInfo; // bitmap info will hold the new 24bit bitmap info BITMAPINFO …

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There are two very obvious truths which need to be stated before going any further: Truth 1 - prevention is better than cure, so don't visit 'dodgy' sites or download anything anyone sends you a link to, and do keep your PC as secure as possible with the help of …

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I have a oracle query and i would like to run it by powershell using ODP.Net. Below is the query. set pagesize 100 set linesize 200 break on report compute sum of free_mb on report compute sum of act_size on report compute sum of used_mb on report col %used format …

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Hi I have encountered a problem where I cannot think of a solution. I'm attempting to work with event tracing but the problem is that a handle is not released even when the program exit, and the API appears such that once it is opened or started, it is closed …

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I'm learning win32 programming from [Here](http://www.functionx.com/win32/Lesson03.htm) and I have problem in part of tutorial about string table it gives me this error: Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call. This is usually a result of calling a function declared with …

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Hi Dw. I'm doing a research on how or whether VB.NET has some sort of support to listen to Windows OS events and be able to take over to be the core respond to certain events raised by an OS such as Copying/Moving of file(s) to other locations. What I …

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I have a powershell script in that script i am using datagridview. My script is working fine. All looks ok to me. My issue is i want to get the first column value of selected row. To fulfill this i need to add event (cell click/cell content click/cell mouse click). …

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Hello all, The issue I am having involves a user that uses a CAC to log in to a network. When the account is created, a 10-digit number printed on the CAC is associated with the users account and replaces their User Logon Name in ADUC. This users number was …

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Hello, My computer has been slow and having problems for the last week or so. A message popped up the other day that my son said something about my internet provider found a threat or something weird. He closed out of the internet quickly, so I never saw it, but …

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Imports System.Windows.Threading Imports System.Threading Imports System.Net Imports System.Drawing Imports System.IO Imports Microsoft.Win32 Class Window1 #Region "Fields" Private geoDoc As XDocument Private location As String Private zoom As Integer Private saveDialog As New SaveFileDialog Private mapType As String Private lat As Double Private lng As Double #End Region Private Sub GetGeocodeData() …

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hi, I was trying to download whatsapp for my pc and lots of rubbish came down instead. I have got rid of most of it but now every time I start IE searching.com comes up. Click on mu home page icon and ok. Also I've tried to uninstall all that …

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