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hINTModuleState wrote: Thank you for this knowledgeable response indeed.
You are most welcome.
I strongly recommend that you read the two articles I linked to in my response to akirilov if you haven't done so already.
"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown
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hINTModuleState wrote: Joseph NewComer again !
So? 
Would you rather have I provided a link to Charles Petzold, Mark Russinovich or Matt Petriek instead where they state the same fact? 
I think Newcomer's site is a fantastic gold mine of information regarding development for Win32. The information is accessible, pedagogic and easy to understand. It clearly states what to do and what not to do, and usually why which is quite rare.
I've been developing for windows platforms for about 15 years and I've found that following the advices on Newcomer's site, helps a lot of people to stay out of trouble.
"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown
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Roger Stoltz wrote: I think Newcomer's site is a fantastic gold mine of information
That is exactly the point !
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hINTModuleState wrote: That is exactly the point !
Enjoy! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown
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In the past I thought that QueryPerformanceCounter achieves this by querying a counter that is incremented each time that a particular thread spends an addtional CPU cycle. It measure the CPU cycles from the turning on the PC, not "a particular thread" (this include all other threads).
You received the same result as Sleep, because ... well, Sleep is very accurate, that is why people use it instead of WM_TIMER.
Now to your question ... QueryPerformanceCounter will not do the job.
P.S. I doubt it cost a CPU time, as previously somebody stated, at least not more than WaitForSingleObject.
modified on Monday, November 24, 2008 10:39 AM
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akirilov wrote: Sleep is very accurate, that is why people use it instead of WM_TIMER.
I'm sorry, but you are so incredibly wrong.
Using ::Sleep() is a common mistake and is almost always wrong.
Read more here[^] and here[^] before advising someone on this matter.
"It's supposed to be hard, otherwise anybody could do it!" - selfquote
"High speed never compensates for wrong direction!" - unknown
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Hello,
I used the following procedure to find if the app is running under administrator account on XP:
IsUserAdmin()
{
BOOL b;
SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY NtAuthority = SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY;
PSID AdministratorsGroup;
b = AllocateAndInitializeSid(
&NtAuthority,
2,
SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID,
DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
&AdministratorsGroup);
if(b)
{
if (!CheckTokenMembership(NULL, AdministratorsGroup, &b))
{
b = FALSE;
}
FreeSid(AdministratorsGroup);
}
return(b);
}
The problem is that it will always return FALSE when running on Vista even if the account is with administrator's rights. That's because of the UAC, I guess. But how to check the real account type?
Thank you.
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mkoroudjiev wrote: The problem is that it will always return FALSE when running on Vista
It will return TRUE if the process is running on Vista AS an administrator.
Mark
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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OK, this is obvious. But how to find whether an account is standard or administrator's if the user is running the app with non elevated privileges?
Martin
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mkoroudjiev wrote: this is obvious
Not when your topic is "How to check if running under administrator account on Vista".
From the context of your app, it doesn't matter - if the app isn't running
elevated then even if an administrator is the invoker of the app, there's still
no administrative privileges for the app.
Checking if a user is a member of an administrator group is a different thing.
Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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I understand your point. Any suggestions on how to check if a user is a member of an administrator group?
Thanks.
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Hi All
How can i get installation path of application?
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Well it all depends on the approach a developer takes.
Do you want to acquire the installation path of your application itself?
If yes, than you should have the source code and you must be writing it somewhere in the registry (ideally) or to some text file during the installation. You can read it from either of the places.
If it's the installation path of a third party application, that you need than you need to know before hand where they are writing it.
Some things seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
_AnShUmAn_
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You can use GetModuleFileName to get the full path to your application.
Good luck.
Karl - WK5M
PP-ASEL-IA (N43CS)
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Do you want to get the path of an installed application which is listed in the Add/Remove programs?
If yes, then,
Windows keep the un-installation information under this registry key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall. Under this key for each item there will be DisplayName subkey, which holds the name of application and InstallLocation subkey, which holds the path of the installed application.
Refer this article[^] about how to iterate through the registry uninstall information and get those values.
Regards,
Jijo.
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I am using the listview in record view mode . Now I have selected the Listview row and it becomes blue . Now I want to remove the selection of this row without clicking on the list view . I want to write code on button click . is there any message to send to listview to diselect the row .
Ashish
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See SetItemState & SetSelectionMark
Some things seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
_AnShUmAn_
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not doing anything that I need . i.e. not diselecting the row
Ashish
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How are you using them? Can you post some code...
Some things seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
_AnShUmAn_
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I select the listview row it get highlighted with blue color. Now what I want ,I want diselected the row i.e. not highlighted the row without clicking on the listview i.e. from button . for that I write the following code on the button click
ListView_SetSelectionMark(GetDlgItem(hDlg,IDC_LIST1),-1);
but nothing happen list view row is still selected.
Ashish
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int i = m_list.GetSelectionMark();
ListView_SetItemState(m_list.GetSafeHwnd(),-1,LVIS_DROPHILITED,LVIS_STATEIMAGEMASK );
Some things seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
_AnShUmAn_
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still not working . I could not where you are using i;
Ashish
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you won't need to use i. The snippet was from a previous code and I just forgot to remove the GetSelectionMark() thing from the code before posting it. BTW it does work for me when I use it in ListView. Have you selected the property of always showing a selected item whatever the case may be. ie the user click out of the list view or otherwise
Some things seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
_AnShUmAn_
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