Windows Programming

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Welcome to this board!

Welcome to the Windows forum in C++.com! In this forum, users can to talk about any topic related t...

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by artful1st

Agregar un control de ActiveX a un Project de Visual C++

Steve White and Michael Satran you two are liars, where is: Project/Add a Project/Components and co...

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by ffej2ffej

compiling an SFML c++ program on a Windows computer

I have an old Dell laptop that has Windows 10. I have tried a few times to install g++ (unsuccessfu...

[5 replies] Last: When you installed VS, did you change the installer configuration to a... (by seeplus)

by seeplus

Saper game please help

and what has this to do with Windows programming. It seems like a console program? You can treat th...

[1 reply] : Yes, I do have a solution, multiple ones as a matter of fact, but yo... (by George P)

by markofn1

PCH errors after c++20

Recently, c++20 came out and I updated one of my big projects to c++20, however I am running into so...

[15 replies] Last: Any time I create a new project in VS I always choose to not use preco... (by George P)

by KapaBaHwuk33

alt tab to console app

I need to alt tab to console app with function. Using #include <windows.h> Have this piece of code...

[1 reply] : here are instructions to AOT a console window. https://www.thewindows... (by jonnin)

by PolkaDotBowTie

Visual Studio 2022

I am trying to learn C. I am using Windows 10. My problem right now is with Visual Studio 2022. I...

[6 replies] Last: Thank you to everyone who took time to reply. (by PolkaDotBowTie)

by Mulligan911

Implicit type conversion and time measurement

I'm implementing a game loop in `c++` using the `timeGetTime` function like below: // ... ...

[5 replies] Last: A possible consideration of using <chrono> is cross-platform, if the... (by George P)

by Cyclone

Can't Add a new wiindows form

Hi, I am using Visual studio 2019. I can't seem to add a new form to my C++ CLI application. If I...

[3 replies] Last: There is no CLR Windows form in the list. (by Cyclone)

by lcmarincek

Windows Programming for beginners

Hi I´m an experienced C++ programmer, but always developed software using Linux. Now I need to ...

[6 replies] Last: the web can be confusing, but microsoft's developer documentation is r... (by jonnin)

by Mulligan911

Game loop and time measurement

There is the function `Sys_Milliseconds`: int curtime; int Sys_Milliseconds (void) ...

[1 reply] : Get that Déjà vu feeling all over again. https://www.cplusplus.com/f... (by salem c)

by oddy

About multi-lingual support on MinGW

One day I downloaded a version of MinGW. When I was trying using it to compile a C++ source file, I ...

[4 replies] Last: @kigar64551 I found that when I am under Windows 7 the MinGW compiler... (by oddy)

by rtischer8277

How to edit 'Inherit from parent or project defaults'

In the Visual Studio IDE I need to do the following: I am looking for a way to edit in particular t...

[1 reply] : This question was answered on Stackoverflow. See ArenaLor's Answer at ... (by rtischer8277)

by Ander1son0

MoveAFlileFromPCToFlashDriveUsingDMA

Hello, guys, how can i move my "sample.txt" file from my PC (NTFS) to a flash drive (FAT32) using DM...

[2 replies] Last: And if the OP is looking for something less Win-centric and more C++ t... (by George P)

by Manannan

Troubles Calling C++/CLI .NET Framework From .NET Core

For over two years I have been developing a web front end for ScummVM as a 'challenge project'. ...

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by LukeProducts

System Idletime

Hello all, i just want to get the users idletime, meaning how much time passed after the last use...

[4 replies] Last: I do not know how, where, etc. But somewhere, windows tracks the idle... (by jonnin)

by byronhawkins

Cross compiling for Windows on ARM

I have a tablet PC with an ARM processor running Windows 10, and I'd like to compile programs for it...

[4 replies] Last: Compilers are never available natively for ARM, including Visual Stud... (by George P)

by toyboat1000

How to pause a for loop

I want to make a system that counts up to 5 on a win32 screen but my issue is I cant figure out a wa...

[7 replies] Last: you can also just move the for loop into its own function as a thread.... (by jonnin)

by Cambalinho

how initializate a template class static variable?

template<typename T> class Form { public: static int i; Form() { i++; ...

[14 replies] Last: can i do these: typedef static inline Static; ? error line: " 'Sta... (by Cambalinho)

by dodge55

new LNK1104 error in Visual Studio

I thought a recent link error was due to having left a resource open, which is causing an 'Access De...

[7 replies] Last: Nope. ProcessHacker provides the same info as the MS tool does. The ... (by kigar64551)

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