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| | Hi, I'm trying to create a simple program in Win32 and I can't find how to accept input in the form of text. Like "What's your name: ___" then the user enters their name and my program can evaluate the input. I have already googled this for a long time, … |
| | Hello, I am new to posting, but have searched these wonderful forums for a couple years. I am programming a game as a hobby. And I have been searching for a way to read what the user types. e.g. User types in "hello" and I can take that and send … |
 | Hi there, Can anyone tell me how to change my win32 programs icon (top left). I'm running MSV C++ Express 2010, so i don't have MFC. Theres a few tutorials on how to do this but using resource files? Which apparently MSV doesn't support. I want to be able to … |
| | Hello Yesterday I downloaded this: [B][COLOR="Red"]Infected Executable File Removed[/COLOR].[/B] My Panda antivirus didn't see anything wrong with it, but it is some sort of spyware or trojan. Since I ran it last night, my IE opens up sometimes with an IQ test page '=) Today I ran a quick scan … |
| | Hey there, I've been attempting some Win32 programming for a while now, but I just can't seem to find a function where I can get the HWND by the resource ID. Just an example: [CODE] CreateWindowEx(NULL, L"BUTTON", text, WS_TABSTOP|WS_VISIBLE|WS_CHILD|BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON, x, y, width, height, parent, (HMENU)IDC_BUTTON_OK, GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL); HWND btn = … |
| | Hello I'm trying to make a window with Windows API. Whenever I run my application, the buttons look like Windows 98 buttons. How do I make the buttons look like XP buttons on Windows XP and Win7 buttons on Windows 7? My compiler is Mingw. [CODE]CreateWindowEx( 0, "BUTTON", "OK", WS_TABSTOP …  |
| | Hi all, having a bit of trouble with getting OpenGL picking to work in Win32. Note that pretty much the exact code works in GLUT, though i suspect that the reason i cant get it to work in Win32 is that it is not clear exactly how GLUT handles windowing … |
| | Dear All, I am developing an app that will hook on to the ExtTextOutW and capture the text to be displayed on the screen and log it to a file. I am doing this on Windows XP and VC++ 2008. I have managed to do the above for a notepad … |
| | Hi .. this is my first post here... i have been trying to solve this problem for two days ..but no luck.. here is my problemm... I am using win32.. I can able to get notified on new device insertion and removal using DBT_DEVTYP_DEVICEINTERFACE [CODE]if ( DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL == wParam || … |
| | I want to make a native win32 program that simply moves the cursor to x=100 y=200 on the screen, and then clicks the left mouse button once. Where do I start? For once, Google got me nowhere. I use VC++ 2010 to compile. |
| | Hi; I am making one small application which can store data to my online mysql server. But with c++ win32 how can I do it? Please help me. |
| | Hi, several applications use as much as CPU as they can while starting up. This takes one and sometimes several minutes. I'm using WinXpPro SP3. I suspect it is the registry or a service that is not started but should or maybe a replaced driver/DLL. It happens with and without … |
| | Okay, this just makes me feel stupid. I'm pretty good at programming for the console so I figured I would try a Win32 program. Apparently I'm stupid because I cannot even compile hello world. Heres the code I copy and pasted. [CODE] #include <windows.h> int APIENTRY WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, … |
| | Hey everybody, I am currently having difficulty using GetOpenFileName() and GetSaveFileName(). The keeps returning the error " undefined reference to `_GetOpenFileNameA@4' ". I can't seem to find a fault in my code, so is it the compiler or is it the code? I am using CodeBlocks. [CODE]void DoFileOpen(HWND hwnd) { … |
| | Hey guys, I've recently started learning WinAPI and I want to make a Tic Tac Toe game with it but I have a problem I have a main window ("field") and 9 child windows ("tiles") and I want to make the tiles clickable so that a click calls the Beep() … |
| | Hello everybody, I am currently developping a GUI interface game for windows XP. I am currently having difficulty changing the background of a EDIT box created with CreateWindowEx(). It's default background is white (which is the color I want). But the user is not supposed to be able to adjust … |
| | Is it possible to use child window created in Win32 API as a container for another windows (controls - buttons, edit fields etc.)? Or is there any other way how to use container in Win32 API? The goal is to create a simple user interface for application? |
| | Hi. I have a richedit control and when dropping text from another control I would like to change the format of that text. I wonder which messages I should trap or how to do this in plain Winapi. (I have already subclassed the pasting message) Thank you. |
| | I am trying to store a single random number from 0 to 99 to a variable. This is what I used in my code to do that: [code]time_t t; time(&t); srand((unsigned int)t); int rTSB(rand() % 100);[/code] I am trying to make a single random picture show up when you start …  |
 | Forget it, i just solved it, jeje, sorry. Thanks, and god bless you |
| | Hi @ all, b4 things get serious. :icon_smile: Im using MFC with VCPP 6. I have a simple dialoge based app. Im using a triggered event with which I want to update the content of a CEdit box. The ASSERT of IsWindow fails because m_hWind = 0, I figure this … |
| | Well, i'm developing a program, ( API ) and i'd like to use a [url=http://www.snap2objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/6.jpg]non standar font,[/url] for some section of my program. My question is, how can i do this, i mean, i supose i have to install the font on the user pc, but how do i do … |
| | I'm trying to make a button to open a new form in a Win32 Forms App. Lets say the form I'm opening is called Form2 and the button is called button1. Any help will be greatly appreciated. |
 | Hello, I'm trying to get from the screen, the region, or rectangle (the coordinated) of the part that is being painted. For example when I move some window or I have some action on the screen I want to get only that part of the screen image that is being … |
| | Hi all, I have two problems, the first being the most important: 1. I have a Win32 (Non-MFC) app with a window and a win32 menu on it (HMENU), and I've been searching all day for a way to display shortcuts (like "Ctrl+C") on the menu items. I know there's … |
| | Hello, This is my first post here. I had learned c/c++ for about half a year, and hope now to move into win32 non-console programming. I use VC 6.0 as my IDE and had successfully created a simple "Hello World" project (built by VC 6.0) However, I do not know … |
| | Hi2all! What better use for working with databases in C + + and win32api? (static lib with source code, classes or simple source code, examples) |
 | First..Im very beginner with winsock and network programing.. Im doing a simple app that can act or as server or as client. What Im doing is that I open the app twice in the same computer, in one I choose server, and in the other client. With the server part, … |
 | Hi all, this is just curious question on C++ and winapi. I have heard that win32api is written in C and at the same time I have heard people saying that "light weight" applications can be written using API. This boggles my mind on how C++ works with C-based API. … |
| | The question given like this using the CreateProcess () in the Win32 API. In this instance, you will need to specify a separate program to be invoked from CreateProcess(). It is this separate program that will run as a child process outputting the Fibonacci sequence. Perform necessary error checking to … |
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