I'm learning to write basic Win32 apps in C++ and am trying to pass typed text from one editable textbox to a new window after pressing a button. I noticed that the default text buffer capacity for such a transfer…
The Windows API CopyFile function is rather straightforward: BOOL CopyFileW( [in] LPCWSTR lpExistingFileName, [in] LPCWSTR lpNewFileName, [in] BOOL bFailIfExists ); ... If the function fails, the return value is zero. To get extended error information, call GetLastError. However, I found…
I am working on a software product that goes waaaay back. Part of our source code is a project that builds baseclasses. This is supposedly a project that ships with the Windows SDK and is used for developing apps that…
Concurrency::task.wait() throws invalid_operation exception: "Illegal to wait on a task in a Windows Runtime STA." This exception occurs since ~14th November 2022 and seems to be Microsoft update related. The exception does not occur, when building in Debug mode. Edit:…
i have been working on a small project. i am making a timer for my little brother's PC so that he will not be able to use computer more than set time by me in a day. The problem I…
I was taking a look at this Github project: https://github.com/LloydLabs/delete-self-poc This project uses the SetFileInformationByHandle API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/nf-fileapi-setfileinformationbyhandle) in a somewhat creative way to allow the deletion from disk of a locked file. I am attempting to implement this as part…
I am trying to understand the barriers to porting a C++ MFC application that runs on x86 Windows 10 to an ARM Windows 10 device with the Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The 32 bit application has the following characteristics: MFC with…
I have a Windows desktop program (Tweetz) that interrupts/prevents sleep mode when running. The nature of the program is to monitor twitter and update the UI as tweets arrive. I suspect the network activity and/or updating the UI is preventing/interrupting…
what I'm trying to do is to create chess game in C++ through WINAPI, and since I haven't ever studied them at School I'm having some problems (online documentation is quite bad, I wasn't able to find any example of…
Looking for the right general approach for making a UI really snappy. I'm thinking of developing a UI tool that might go beyond just some "in house" tool. It would involve elaborate and custom 2d elements and would need to…