temporaily set background to colour like RDP In my program I'd like to force the background to a straight colour, like RDP. But I don't want to write over the user's settings, in case my program can't restore it.. i.e. if the machine crashes. Is there a way tell Windows to temporarily use a blank background without overwriting the the user's settings.... 18 Jun 2010 13:32
EA game trashed Aero This may be too off-topic. What's a group that's interested in the internals of Windows 7 and fiddling with them more than this one? Installed Electronic Arts' "Battlefield: Bad Company 2" on my XP system. It helped open up my system to a bad trojan. Wiped the drive, installed Windows 7. Reinstalled the game,... 14 Jun 2010 00:51
U++ 2467 released Website: http://www.ultimatepp.org Download: http://code.google.com/p/upp-mirror/downloads/list U++ is BSD licensed C++ cross-platform rapid application development suite focused on programmers productivity without sacrificing runtime performance. What is new in version 2467: Core * [W]String got new varia... 9 Jun 2010 06:25
Installing Windows XP using F6 in a PC without a floppy drive? Some drivers (for a RAID in my case) are provided by Dell exclusively in floppy format. Like most PCs these days, mine does not have an idea what a floppy drive is. Perhaps I should buy a floppy drive with a USB interface? Will it work at the WinXP OS install (F6) level? Thx, -Ramon ... 11 Jun 2010 23:37
Drawing onto HDC allowed only X times? Hello I have made a simple 2d Game engine in Win32 C++. I use double buffering to draw the objects onto the client HDC. But I think I maybe drawing too many times to a HDC causing an error or something? [b]I have the executable that really simply shows my problem so I really encourage you to download it instea... 9 Jun 2010 09:42
gtk+ and Visual C++ Hello, does somebody know how to install gtk+ under Visual C++? I've downloaded "gtkmm-win32-devel-2.20.0-1.exe" and installed it. But there are thousands of files. Is there a tutorial? Greetings, Franz -- Franz Bachler, A-3250 Wieselburg E-Mail: fraba (..) gmx.at Homepage: http://members.a... 8 Jun 2010 16:01
transparent toolbar Hi there, I noticed when using the "toolbar styles" "TBSTYLE_TRANSPARENT | TBSTYLE_FLAT" to make the toolbar transparent, you are still left with the "white edge" of the toolbar being displayed. Is is possible to make this edge transparent/disappear also? Thanks. ... 8 Jun 2010 14:51
Precision: Draw a Rectangle at Point (1.3, 10) When drawing onto the client area what is the precision available. Is the precision 1 pixel unit or maybe 0.1 pixel unit or maybe (I hope) 0,01 pixel unit For example; I want to draw a Rectangle that starts extactly at the pixel position (1.3,10). Will the rectangle be drawn exactly in that position or will i... 5 Jun 2010 07:03
Correct code to get CPU usage Hi everyone: I've been struggling to come up with a correct code to determine CPU usage on the Windows-based system. So far I came up with the following. The code is called internally from WM_TIMER message that is called once every 100 milliseconds, but if compared with the Task Manager's CPU usage, it does ... 7 Jun 2010 09:38
Huffman-Packing-Code Hello all, I would like to get a working C-Code-Example which compress a file with the huffman algorythm. huffman inputfile.txt outputfile.txt Greetings, Franz -- Franz Bachler A-3250 Wieselburg E-Mail: fraba (at) gmx.at Homepage: http://members.aon.at/fraba oder http://home.pag... 16 Jun 2010 11:01 |