Visual C

Mouse movement simulation
Hi All, I am developing a touchpad simulation application and in the touch pad simulation window (Rectangle), I have a pointer to show the mouse cursor. The window resolution is same as that of the touch pad. Now when the user moves his fingers over the real touch screen unit, I need to move the simulated mouse ... 12 Sep 2006 12:48

FFEF behaviour
Consider the following piece of code: void main() { std::wstring testString; testString = 0xfeff; testString += L"123456"; __int64 testI64; swscanf(testString.c_str(), L"%I64d", &testI64); } The swscanf() extracts the integer value from the string in Windows 2000, but it fai... 13 Sep 2006 18:11

throwing exceptions
I am trying to test some exception handling and have the following code. When I get into the 'catch' the 'ex' is a bad pointer. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks! try { throw(std::logic_error("Test of thrown logic error")); } catch (const st... 18 Sep 2006 14:53

What is VC++ (.net) Express?
There I was, using Visual C++ 6. But it was making me mad because it would just disable break points and not tell me why and it wasn't telling me where a breakage was occurring in my (devel) source code, just giving me an assembly dump. So I did a little googling to discover state of newest version of VC++ and fo... 16 Sep 2006 05:01

CListView not inserting items
Hi, I have an app (ie. Windows Explorer style) with a tree view, that should update the list view with names when items are selected in it. I cannot get the list view to show any values other than the column headings. I've tried using LVITEM, calls to SendMessage with the appropriate parameters, even tried using... 26 Sep 2006 22:47

what are the sdks?
Hi, I need to use some functions which belongs to some sdks. first of all I don't know what the sdks are and then I don't know if I have to do anything like including anything to be able to use these functions. I can not compile my code just using the functions. examples are createprocess() form the sdk process or... 14 Sep 2006 06:18

The software development process.
Hi All, Could you please advice how you provide the software development process ? I need some example to reference. In my understanding is: 1. Specification list and discussion. 2. Solution and schedule proposed. 2.1 Critical task analysis 2.2 Other task list. 2.3 Schedule estimation. 3... 5 Oct 2006 11:43

CPageSetupDialog
When I use CPageSetupDialog and press the printer button, a Dialog button with just the ability to select a printer pops up. Is there a way to just show this dialog or customize the CPrintDialog to look like this? I don't need to select pages or orientation or anything like that and I have my own print routin... 8 Sep 2006 15:50

Reading Files and ASCII Code
I actually have two questions. The first involves reading from a normal everyday txt file. I need to be able to read data from a text file a variable number of characters at a time. I may need to read in one character at one point, or three, or five. Is there a function that allows me to say: "read in x c... 9 Sep 2006 17:33

error C2061: syntax error : identifier '_Collection'
(Repost using my managed newsgroups ID) I'm getting a "syntax error" on a symbol which doesn't appear to me to be invalid. My question is, why is it a "syntax error"? My second question is, "is it possible to fix this?" Taking a cue from the source code of a *working* VC++ 6.0 ATL project I recently got to ... 2 Sep 2006 12:04