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 JohnOfC

DPI scaling issues (1,2)

I am not getting the scale ratio right, what am I doing wrong?. The button always moves at a differe...

[21 replies] Last: i used mvs 2019 with option 'run code analysis on sulution' alt+f11 ... (by freddie1)

by dodge55

DC understanding

This forum has been great to learn faster when my Petzold book and online searches fail to help with...

[1 reply] : I also use 'hdc_main' as a global DC when printing text to the windo... (by freddie1)

by volang

getaddrinfo parameters

I got something like this: void func(addrinfo * ip_list) { addrinfo hints; ZeroMemory(&hin...

[3 replies] Last: Don't forget to call freeaddrinfo() to free the memory allocated by ge... (by kbw)

by SubZeroWins

SFML window size?

Working on that book "Beginning C++ Game Programming" on the 1st Timber project. My desktop recomme...

[2 replies] Last: // get screen resolution void MainApp::GetDesktopResolution(int& hor... (by Geckoo)

by dodge55

Automatically Activating a button after CreateWindow

I have 6 buttons created like this with different tasks: CreateWindow(L"BUTTON", L"OVERVIEW", WS_...

[5 replies] Last: Finally, change the PostMessage() call above to SendMessage() and note... (by freddie1)

by dodge55

Using different text colors on the same printed line

If I'm using the default system font, which is not symmetrical, how can I print a list of 3 items pe...

[6 replies] Last: Thanks for the responses. I think I'll just spread out my display lik... (by dodge55)

by dodge55

Creating a child window that can't be dragged

I have the following code that creates an About Window. AboutBox is called from WndProc(). How do ...

[5 replies] Last: JohnOfC - perfect. Thanks. Works great. (by dodge55)

by CandyK

Possible to make VisualStudio stop breaking on errors caught by try/catch while debugging?

Hey In Visual Studio19, I can only figure out how to make it ignore the error in general, but I don...

[1 reply] : Under Debug > Windows > Exception Settings, uncheck everything in the ... (by helios)

by RobertThompson9

Looking for C++ IDE for Windows (1,2)

Can someone point me to where I can find a C++ IDE for Windows development? Embarcadero won't let...

[33 replies] Last: Hey Just download it from here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/do... (by CandyK)

by tr29038

Compiling using wxWidgets and mingw

I am trying to compile a program that, for now, solely includes wxWidgets's necessities. I have a...

[1 reply] : MinGW is not Visual Studio. Your make is including files only needed ... (by Furry Guy)

by ronenp88

problem with LPWSTR

I have this code which with address being "c:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe" as input won't work: ...

[6 replies] Last: It wasn't working because you weren't converting from a narrow string ... (by kbw)

by dodge55

WM_PAINT - round 2

So, I want to create a window with text "Please select file to open" in the center, but only on the ...

[7 replies] Last: Thanks, Furry Guy, you are right. Missed that. (by dodge55)

by danekbb

Control from c ++ PDF

I wanted to put the PDF file on one page. When opening with "# page = 123" or "/ A page = 123" in th...

[2 replies] Last: I'm testing on PDF versions 8.3 and 10.1.16 (by danekbb)

by CGooden

Path to learn Windows API (1,2)

I am a software developer that has been retired for 5 years, but now would like to learn some Window...

[31 replies] Last: LRESULT fnWndProc_OnMouseWheel(WndEventArgs& Wea) { int zdelta=GET_... (by freddie1)

by Rob190

Visual Studio: preventing unecessary recompiles of static libs (1,2)

MSVC Version 16.11.0 Preview 4.0, Windows 10. I have two MSVC C++ apps which share a number of stat...

[24 replies] Last: You're welcome. I'm not keen on putting everything in one solution. ... (by malibor)

by Dvd

QueryFullProcessImageName works while debugging and not in runtime

This function should print to the console the path of the desired process by its PID, but it only wo...

[2 replies] Last: Thanks a lot for the north (by Dvd)

by dodge55

WM_PAINT

I have a small snippet of code in my WndProc that has a WM_PAINT with nothing in it except return(0)...

[4 replies] Last: Many thanks for this. That answers my question. (by dodge55)

by damtran2509

Providing electronic car weighing station management software nationwide

Providing electronic car weighing station management software nationwide Nowadays, the control of t...

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by Geckoo

Letter Occurences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency Hello. I am working on a simple program so as to che...

[12 replies] Last: You are right Furry Guy. It is very important to foresee some user mis... (by Geckoo)

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