Win32 API

Getting rid of warnings
I am trying to get rid of a few annoying warnings in my project - I have got rid of most of them but a few remain which I cant seem to get rid of. The first one is while using FD_SET/FD_CLR for adding and clearing sockets. I get the warning: warning C4127: conditional expression is constant The other one i... 2 Apr 2006 12:53

interacting with a Windows Service
Hi all, I turned my application in a common user-mode Windows service, which starts at boot time. It works fine, but it seems I can send only predefined messages to my service: install, uninstall, start, stop, pause, continue...That's good, but I need also to send "customized messages" to the service, to trigge... 3 Apr 2006 06:56

Overlapping, what does it mean?
Hello, I use a WaitForMultipleObjects function using 6 different events for reading/writing to a Comport. It all works more or less fine using 'ReadFile'/'WriteFile'/'GetOverlappedResult' and I think that I understand what is happening. It may sound stupid, but I cannot find any simple explanation what the ... 30 Mar 2006 09:14

Page File Size
All, I've written a program that retrieves the total page size using the GlobalMemoryStatus API however, when I cross check this against the value reported by the Windows NT diagnostics its way out by over a 100 MB. I've noticed the MSDN docs says dwTotalPageFile : "Indicates the total number of bytes that ... 30 Mar 2006 05:49

newbie win32 program doesn't compile...
Hi, I'm trying to make "a simple windows"-tutorial from http://www.functionx.com/win32/Lesson01c.htm but I get a few errors/warnings: ------ Build started: Project: win32_empty, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Compiling... winmain.cpp c:\documents and settings\dell\skrivebord\win32_empty\winmain.cpp(... 2 Apr 2006 07:56

What book would have good IShellFolder Interface info ???
Preferably with coding examples of each and all the interfaces. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. data smurf ... 29 Mar 2006 20:30

Source for GDI+?
Hi Folks: Can someone point me to a source for GDI+? I'm running Win2K and would like to get the current GDI++. I tried to load GDI+ through MSDN, but I have to go through some validation process for my Win 2K. This program tells me: --------------- Validation is not cur... 27 Mar 2006 18:39

Get Z Order Number
Hi, I have a list of handles of internet explorer windows and want to know which was the last one that a user was looking at. I was thinking I could do this by looking at the z order for each one, so I really have 2 questions, Is this the best way of doing it? And if so, how do i get the zorder for each HWND?... 27 Mar 2006 11:27

ReadFile 'bytes to read' limitation: 64016 bytes??!
Hi! ReadFile(hFile, pMyBuffer, 64016, &nBytesRead, NULL); // Works ReadFile(hFile, pMyBuffer, 64017, &nBytesRead, NULL); // Does not work! Interesting! ReadFile fails and GetLastError() returns ERROR_NOACCESS (Invalid access to memory location.). This seem to happen for all values greater than 64016. What's... 26 Mar 2006 03:40

Global hook to foward mouse messages to host app
Hi all I'm having a problem implementing a message forwarding scheme from a global hook. What I want to do is detect mouse messages in a certain window and forward those messages virutally unchanged (except perhaps for POINT transforms) to another window. The problem I'm having is using PostMessage to forward ... 14 Apr 2006 12:56