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I'm building a file explorer application and encountering an issue where IContextMenu::QueryContextMenu causes the cursor to briefly flash to the "appstarting" (arrow + spinner) cursor. This ...
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I'm a beginner with the Windows API and C Programming, I am trying to get the file size from my files, but my output is not so as expected. That's my code: #include <Windows.h> #include <...
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I need to know from within my app whether the person has a pending Windows Update available or not, and then prompt him to update his Windows if it's not updated yet. Is there a way to check if an ...
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I want to know if the computer I'm using has UEFI or Legacy BIOS. Is it somehow possible to detect this from Delphi code? I found ExGetFirmwareEnvironmentVariable which seem interesting, but I'm not ...
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I found this function that is supposed to get the names of all the actively plugged-in monitors on the computer: function GetMonitorNames: TArray<string>; begin Result := []; var ...
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I am migrating a Win32 application to Qt little by little; and I replaced the top level window with a QMainWindow instead. I am using the QWinHost from the qt-migrations github solution to do so, and ...
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I have a dialog-based MFC application build in Visual Studio. With my App I want to read a serial event from a potentiometer, which is attached to an Arduino board. The Arduino is working just fine, ...
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I am trying to compile my code with openssl library. My code is printf then the program received SIGSEGV signal. Code of test.c: #include <winsock2.h> #include <openssl/ssl.h> #include <...
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Some components like DirectWrite or WIC don't do UI, and as the caller I can ensure that I never use them across apartments, thus no marshaling is required. Can I use them on a worker thread without ...
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I'm getting many errors of the following type. Clearly, Microsoft has a definition of byte that clashes with Standard C++'s definition of std::byte (after a using namespace std, that I use in ...
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I'm writing a Win32 C++ function to iterate Portable Devices. After successfully opening and connecting to the device, I need to release it. (There's also a Close() but Microsoft's documentation ...
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I want to write a small program to work with the EvtSubscribe function. However, I encountered a problem. Every time the callback function is called, I print a message to the screen and then call ...
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In a previous thread I asked about listing real filenames stored on a Portable Device (e.g. an MTP Digital Camera). Per my answer I can now traverse the file system and display real filenames. Now I ...
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This is a follow up to my previous question about creating a debugger for C source files in Python. The current issue I am facing is monitoring changes to variables. I want to monitor 8 variables say ...
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I'm trying to get a hardware id with a .net console app (target framewotk is net8.0-windows10.0.17763.0). The code is rather trivial, just var token = Windows.System.Profile.HardwareIdentification....
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With my code which is just a regular RAW input example.... WM_INPUT, RIM_TYPEMOUSE... I'm getting on Windows 10 the full 1,000Hz of my mouse and on Windows 11 I'm getting about 128Hz. How to fix this ...
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I know you can use the Get-AppxPackage and Get-AppxPackageManifest cmdlets in Powershell to get the package family and it's specific application entry point. In this example with Windows Media Player ...
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I have a win32 app opening a log file on a network share using CreateFile and WriteFile (non overlapped) to write records. What I am seeing when the network share is lost, WriteFile reports an error (...
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An application can carry out any system command at any time by passing a WM_SYSCOMMAND message to DefWindowProc. If I don't have any windows, which window can I post/send WM_SYSCOMMAND to carry out ...
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If I want consistent scrolling behavior across platforms and different wheel resolutions, I need a way to make wheel input independent of the device’s physical precision. Different mice seem to have ...
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I am running a GUI app on a Windows device. The main thread for this is the UI thread. I'm adding functionality to turn off the display when the application is not being used for a certain time. I ...
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I tried drawing a rounded rectangle via the renderTarget, but encountered an issue where the image disappears every other frame—what could be the cause? #include <d2d1_1.h> #include <d2d1_2.h&...
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I'm implementing a tray icon for my game launcher on Windows (C++, Win32 API). The tray icon itself works fine: it appears in the system tray, I can right-click it to show a context menu, and double-...
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I am using Event Tracing for Windows to monitor disk io and network usage of processes. I have used ETW with KERNEL_LOGGER_NAME , EVENT_TRACE_FLAG_PROCESS , EVENT_TRACE_FLAG_DISK_IO, ...
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A few years ago I wrote a WPF program which displays Google Agenda items (with some transparency) directly on the screen of Windows desktop. This program works perfectly under Windows 10, by calling ...
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I wrote two versions of a little program in C++ with MSVC on Windows 11: First one: #include <iostream> #include <Windows.h> int main() { SetConsoleOutputCP(CP_UTF8); std::cout &...
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Im trying to apply the model's transforms by walking the node heirarchy, but the poses are wrong (im not trying to animate it, just load it in a pose by using the transforms given in the gtlf file) ...
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I am writing a Windows GUI application which uses many monitors, but all mouse controls are on the first monitor (and it is the system monitor, too). It is rather troublesome when the cursor moves ...
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I'm trying to get the active process (no admin privileges needed I think) and both hwnd and pID aren't NULL and the issue seems to be at this line: if (GetModuleBaseNameA(Handle, NULL, processName, ...
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I've created a custom DirectShow CTransInPlace filter meant to replicate the SampleGrabber filter and related interfaces with support for VIDEOINFOHEADER2 called SampleGrabber2. I currently have the ...
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I have a WinAPI (Win 10) C++ application that uses a Windows window capturing the WM_MOUSEMOVE event. I noticed that on rare occasions, the mouse coordinates are slightly outside the client area — for ...
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I'm currently using a COM component to initialize an instance of CCertRequest from CertCliLib. I would like to move to CSWin32 with that, but it seems the CCertRequest does not implement any ...
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I need to figure out the condition when I'm ready to display the final file list in a ListView after a series of FindNextChangeNotification events. If there are multiple events coming in quick ...
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Here is my code: #include "snake.h" void SetPos(short x, short y) { //获得标准输出设备的句柄 HANDLE houtput = NULL; houtput = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); //定位光标的位置 COORD pos =...
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I’m building a lightweight process monitoring tool in C# (.NET Framework 4.6.2). Here’s my situation: I cannot use WMI due to it's speed; (this is slow for antivirus app). I also cannot rely on ETW (...
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I make a software in Go. Because it made a long process, it displays a progression bar. I show one with a *fyne.widget.ProgressBar, and I would like to add another one directly on the taskbar button ...
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I am using Python to write a rudimentary debugger that will use Windows APIs to debug C source files. I am stuck on creating the software breakpoints. I did some research and found this article that ...
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I am creating heap allocated memory with execute rights using windows.h VirtualAlloc and VirtualProtect. void* write_into_executable(uint8_t code[]) { SYSTEM_INFO info; GetSystemInfo(&info)...
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While trying to resolve dynamic DLLs (api-ms*, ext-ms*), I face a problem with an undefined reference from kernel32.AddDllDirectory: api-ms-win-core-libraryloader-l1-1-0.AddDllDirectory, but there is ...
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I am trying to write a small app that needs to list the currently configured services using the Win32 API. Following several examples I found online, no matter what I do, I only get one character ...
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Short Version How can i select all text in a TEdit when the control gains input focus from the user clicking the edit box? Motiviation Following the Windows User Design Guidelines for a "search&...
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I'm having an issue with WinAPI Edit controls in a child window - they don't respond to mouse clicks, but work fine when placed in the main window. Other controls like buttons work normally in both ...
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The keyboard APIs of Win32 (Windows API family) are known to be confusing, and there are lots of SO answers about how to display approximate information to a human with enough polyglot skills to ...
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I'm looking for legitimate methods to make a Windows user‑mode process harder to terminate. PPL would be ideal, but Microsoft is very selective about who can use it. What alternative options or best ...
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I'm developing a module for Visual Basic 6.0 (or TwinBASIC) that allows us to use Windows Common Controls' PropertySheet and CreatePropertySheetPage functions with Visual Basic forms instead of Win32 ...
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The current Windows SDK seems to no longer have a DLL that provides a lot of the c runtime. I can find fopen in ucrtbase.dll, but fprintf is nowhere to be found. stdio has inline definitions: ...
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In order to enumerate the content of connected devices such as iPhones and a digital camera connected via MTP (USB), which aren't simple file drives, I looked at the example WPD API Sample. The ...
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I saw the following problem with my own app, but then I reproduced it with Windows Media Player, so I assume it's a bug in Windows. The question is, how can I avoid it or work around it in my own app? ...
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So I found the undocumented API to change sound device formats How to change microphone format programmatically However, it's still unclear how to enumerate the available endpoint formats that can be ...
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We have sandbox.exe, app.exe and app.dll. If users want to run the not sandboxed application, they run app.exe. If users want to run the application in the sandbox, they run sandbox.exe that loads app....
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