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Windows NT 4.0 DDK download

szilardcs24-Jul-06 5:07

szilardcs

24-Jul-06 5:07

Hi !
Does anybody know where I can download the Windows NT 4.0 Driver Development Kit ?
Many thanks in advance !

Re: Windows NT 4.0 DDK download

toxcct24-Jul-06 5:46

toxcct

24-Jul-06 5:46

and how many forums do you plan to ask like that ? Frown | :(

have you searched the Microsoft website[^] ?

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Error in loading DLL in Windows XP and WIndows 2003 Server

BlrBoy24-Jul-06 4:44

BlrBoy

24-Jul-06 4:44

Hello All

I am trying to load a DLL dynamically using LoadLibrary (). It works fine with Windows
2000 Professional. But when i am trying to load it in XP or 2003 Server I get error "The specified module could not be found" Error.

DLL is present in the path where EXE is present. (C:\Program Files\Test Application\MyDll.dll").

When loading the DLL i am specifing full path as parameter.

I placed the DLL path to C:\ and in System32 directory and changed the path still I get the error.

DLL is basic C DLL. Unfortunately I did not get lib file along with DLL so i have load that DLL
dynamically only.

For MSDN i found that
Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP1: The default value of HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\SafeDllSearchMode is 1 (current directory is searched after the system and Windows directories).

But after searching Windows Directory it has to come to current directory to find DLL. But it fails D'Oh! | :doh:

Please tell me any idea why this strange behaviour with Windows XP and 2003 Server!!!!.

Thanks for your Time
Ravi

Re: Error in loading DLL in Windows XP and WIndows 2003 Server

Mike Dimmick24-Jul-06 6:14

Mike Dimmick

24-Jul-06 6:14

There are probably other DLLs which this DLL depends on, which you also need to redistribute. Use the depends[^] tool to discover what they are.

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

Importing Makefile project to Visual Studio

pgav24-Jul-06 4:21

pgav

24-Jul-06 4:21

Greetings,

I'm working on a project that needs to easily port between Windows and Linux platforms. As such, we've decided on using multiple development platforms to work with the code (much of which is already written). (For those interested, we're using Eclipse with GNU tools for Linux testing, and Visual Studio for Windows testing).

The question is the following: How do I force Visual Studio to read the Makefiles when building the project? I know that Visual Studio has the ability to work with Makefiles, however, I'm not able to make it work with already written code. Anyone have to do this before?

Thanks.

Patrick

Re: Importing Makefile project to Visual Studio

David Crow24-Jul-06 4:57

David Crow

24-Jul-06 4:57

pgav wrote:
I know that Visual Studio has the ability to work with Makefiles, however, I'm not able to make it work...

Are you using nmake.exe?

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Re: Importing Makefile project to Visual Studio [modified]

pgav24-Jul-06 5:19

pgav

24-Jul-06 5:19

I know of nmake.exe... but where do I find it/use it?

Patrick

-- modified at 11:19 Monday 24th July, 2006

Re: Importing Makefile project to Visual Studio

David Crow24-Jul-06 5:48

David Crow

24-Jul-06 5:48

It's in the \vc98\bin folder.

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Re: Importing Makefile project to Visual Studio

Mike Dimmick24-Jul-06 6:16

Mike Dimmick

24-Jul-06 6:16

Note that nmake and GNU make syntax are often not compatible, so you might have to either download and use GNU make on Windows, or bite the bullet and maintain both a GNU-compatible makefile and a Visual Studio project file.

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

Multiple dialog boxes

alitokmen24-Jul-06 4:10

alitokmen

24-Jul-06 4:10

Hello.

I have an application that needs to launch multiple dialog boxes. To do this, I create the first dialog box in modal, and the others as non-modal.

Yet, I have one issue: when I launch the other dialogs, they don't have a title in the task bar and when I minimize them they get minimized just over the task bar. So, it's as if I did specify it to be a child (but I had put "parent" to NULL)...

How can I have multiple dialogs, that would have their own button in the taskbar, in one application?

Thank you

S. Ali Tokmen
http://ali.tokmen.com/

Re: Multiple dialog boxes

Michael Dunn24-Jul-06 18:56

Michael Dunn

24-Jul-06 18:56

Add the WS_EX_APPWINDOW style to the dialogs.

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How to use standard bitmaps in a toolbar

Franken24-Jul-06 2:12

Franken

24-Jul-06 2:12

Hi all,

I would like to create a toolbar with standard bitmaps like a play, record and a pause button but I do not know where I can find these bitmaps or how I can use these.

Could somebody give me a hint?

Thanks.

Re: How to use standard bitmaps in a toolbar

kitty524-Jul-06 2:50

kitty5

24-Jul-06 2:50

what I've done in the past is open up the tool bar and draw what you'd like for each button.
you can adjust the size of the toolbar (length and width) by going in to your ".rc" and looking for:

<br />
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br />
//<br />
// Toolbar<br />
//<br />
<br />
IDR_MAINFRAME TOOLBAR  45, 45<br />

the "45, 45" are the length and width of the toolbar

Kitty5

Re: How to use standard bitmaps in a toolbar

Franken24-Jul-06 3:14

Franken

24-Jul-06 3:14

Thank you Kitty5,

but there should be a way to use all these standard bitmaps. I think they are somewhere in the system32 folder in windows xp.
I don't like to redraw these icons if they already exist. Yes, it is easy for such simple bitmaps like a green triangle as play button or a red circle as record button. But it becomes harder if you try to redraw e.g. this folder bitmap of the open icon.

Re: How to use standard bitmaps in a toolbar [modified]

kitty524-Jul-06 3:22

kitty5

24-Jul-06 3:22

this might help:

ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/MS.MSDN.v80/MS.VisualStudio.v80.en/dv_vcresed/html/971c181b-40f5-44be-843d-677a7c235667.htm

Kitty5

-- modified at 9:29 Monday 24th July, 2006

also, those file folders, etc. are located in:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\SHELL32.dll
... not sure how u'll get the bitmaps out of the dll file...

The "brute force & pig ignorance" solution

normanS24-Jul-06 19:57

normanS

24-Jul-06 19:57

Use the brute force & pig ignorance solution - it's simple, easy to explain, and it works. And you don't have to think too much.

Open an application which uses the icons you want on its toolbar (Windows accessories /Audio recorder, for example.)
Press Alt-PrtScr to copy the application window image to clipboard.
Paste the image into Windows Paint (or whatever graphics editor you choose)
Copy the images of the toolbar buttons one by one, and paste into Resource editor for your toolbar.

Type Cast Problem

Uday Janaswamy24-Jul-06 2:02

Uday Janaswamy

24-Jul-06 2:02

Hi all,

I am unable to get a clear idea why i am getting wrong.

//=======================================================================

int x;
unsigned long y;

x = -1;
y = 100;

if(x > y){
MessageBox("X is greater than Y");
}
else
MessageBox("Y is greater than X");
//=========================================================================

in the above statement first statement is being executed why.

please let me know.

Uday

Re: Type Cast Problem

C^hris L^osinger24-Jul-06 2:13

C^hris L^osinger

24-Jul-06 2:13

x is being cast to an unsigned int. (UINT)-1 = really_big_positive_number

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Re: Type Cast Problem

Uday Janaswamy24-Jul-06 2:30

Uday Janaswamy

24-Jul-06 2:30

//====================================This is the Solution

int x;
unsigned long y;

x = -1;
y = 100;

if( x > (int) y ) //Typecaste here
{
MessageBox("x>y");
}else
MessageBox("y>x");
//=================================================================

any more suggestion please let me know

uday.

Re: Type Cast Problem

Stephen Hewitt24-Jul-06 13:53

Stephen Hewitt

24-Jul-06 13:53

Chris is correct of course; 'y' is unsigned while 'x' is signed. If you check the output window in your IDE the compiler should have issued warnings indicating that you're mixing signed and unsigned values in the assignment and comparison. The reason -1 is actually interpreted as the largest positive number relates to how 2's compliment arithmetic works; you may want to look this up if you’re curious. You used a type cast to fix the problem ; while this works a better solution (if appropriate) would be to simply make 'y' signed. I would also suggest that if you must type cast use static_cast instead of a C-style cast. e.g.

static_cast<int>(y)

There are many reasons to prefer C++ casting operators to C-style casts: in this case visibility applies (in other casting examples there are more pressing reasons to prefer C++ casting operators).

string trim

tanarnelinistit24-Jul-06 1:44

tanarnelinistit

24-Jul-06 1:44

If I have a string definfed as this: char sir[17] how can i remove any new line or carriage return from the end or the begining of it?

Re: string trim

_AnsHUMAN_ 24-Jul-06 2:00

_AnsHUMAN_

24-Jul-06 2:00

tanarnelinistit
wrote
remove any new line or carriage return

void check(char p[])
{
	for(int i=0;i <   strlen(p)-1;i++)
	{
		if(p[i]=='\n')
			//Don't copy to another location
                else
                        // Copy char to another one
// Similarly check for /r
	}
}

Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
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Re: string trim

James R. Twine24-Jul-06 3:03

James R. Twine

24-Jul-06 3:03

   Go the end of the string, start backing up character-by-character while whitespace (or whatever you want to trim) is found. When you find the first non-matching character, place a NUL into that location to terminate the string at that point.

   You do not have to do something crazy like copying the string or moving it into and out of a string object.

   Peace!

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Re: string trim

Blake Miller24-Jul-06 12:13

Blake Miller

24-Jul-06 12:13

What about beginning of string?

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Re: string trim

James R. Twine24-Jul-06 14:09

James R. Twine

24-Jul-06 14:09

Just reverse the algorithm, being sure not to walk past the end of the string.

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