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Thanks for the reply, but...I don't see to have a C:\Users folder.  I've never seen that folder either.
Is there any other way to make an app run on startup without having admin privileges?
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Go to Start -> Programs -> StartUp, right click on it and select Explore.
You will now be able to see the path for the StartUp folder.
You can use the SHGetSpecialFolderLocation[^] API and give the nFolder parameter as CSIDL_STARTUP.
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Okay, I've just realized I don't know how to make a shortcut. Any hints?
Edit: Is there any particular reason why I should use SHGetSpecialFolderLocation instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath?
modified on Thursday, November 5, 2009 10:44 PM
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And unless I'm very much mistaken, we're back to using COM again. 
No problem, thanks for your advice. 
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COM is like alcohol. Good for anything.
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hxhl95 wrote: Edit: Is there any particular reason why I should use SHGetSpecialFolderLocation instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath?
It all depends on whether you want the folder's PIDL or its path. They are not interchangeable functions.
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"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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A regular user should not be able to force another user to execute some of his code, and Vista has been the first Windows version to enforce this: regular users can't access someone else's private folders (such as StartUp), nor can they modify registry hives with global scope such as LOCAL_MACHINE.
And if you find a way to do it anyway, it is doomed to be a bug, and will be fixed in a service pack or a new release.
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
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That's true, but it sounds like if I use superman's method, I'll be able to get my app to run for the current user (not all users though). That sounds good enough to me. 
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Current user is no problem, there are many ways to do it.
The personal startup folder is Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.StartUp) which returns a different location on different Windows versions.
[EDIT]Sorry, that is .NET stuff...[/EDIT]
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
modified on Friday, November 6, 2009 6:34 PM
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And then we run into the same problem up there (in the other "sub-thread"). 
It's okay, I'm going to see if I can get COM to work...my copy of the SDK doesn't have it for some reason. Going to download some other copy.
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CP hosts several articles on creating shortcuts, such as this one[^]. Alternatively you can distribute one with your app, and copy it to where ever you want it.
Luc Pattyn
I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages
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Edit: Ridiculously stupid post was here. Ignore it. Please. I did NOT write something that stupid.
Apparently I fail at reading documentation. Problem solved now, thanks a lot.
modified on Friday, November 6, 2009 8:49 PM
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Menues on right mouse click are "Floating", "Docking", "Tabbed Document", "Auto Hide", "Hide". I have a CDockablePane that I want to remove some or all of these menu options.
Is there a way to do this (if so can you point me to an example or give me a snippet of code to do so)?
I made a class:
class CMyClass : public CDockablePane
I then wrote
IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC(CMyClass , CDockablePane)
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyClass , CDockablePane)
//{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CPeepOutlookBar)
ON_WM_RBUTTONDOWN()
END_MESSAGE_MAP()
// eliminate RButton Down Menues from Navigation Pane
void
CMyClass ::OnRButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint pt)
{
// don't do anything;
return;
}
but this didn't eliminate the right mouse click menu.
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That is weird.
We were typing the same thing at the same time.
Rather, I was echoing what you were typing.
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You would have been first but you wasted at least 2 seconds making your FALSE red.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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HA HA HA.... 
Damn. I'm never going to paint anything RED anymore.
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I'm Using directsound for ogg file playback.
Also using the code I took from this website for it.
http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Ogg_Vorbis_Player_Class.shtml
It works well but I'm trying to play a 2nd music/sound file straight after the 1st finishes.
At the moment i believe the 2nd sound file plays a second just before the first finishes thus creating a rather bad mismash of a sound.
Can anyone tell me from looking at the code why this is?
The only idea I have is that it has to do with the update function and how it returns the boolean "bdone", but since I have trouble trying to understand the complex parts of code I have no idea how to fix it.
What i'm doing now is play first sound.
If the sound is finished playing (bdone=true).
play second sound.
if (flag==0)
{
oggPlayer1.Play();
flag=1;
}
if ((oggPlayer1.IsPlaying() == false) && (flag==1))
{
oggPlayer2.Play();
oggPlayer1.Close();
flag=2;
}
names have been changed from original code but it's still pretty much the same.
Thanks for any help.
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What about:
oggPlayer1.Play();
while (oggPlayer1.IsPlaying());
oggPlayer1.Close();
oggPlayer2.Play();
while (oggPlayer2.IsPlaying());
oggPlayer2.Close();
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"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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I'm not sure that would work.
I did try but unsuccessfully because of this:
if (flag==1)
{
oggPlayer1.Update();
}
if (flag==2)
{
oggPlayer2.Update();
}
each instance must have it's own update.
I did try usuing brackets round the while loop but it still won't work.
The changed code looks like this.
if (flag==0)
{
oggPlayer1.Play();
flag=1;
while (oggPlayer1.StoppedPlaying()==true)
{
oggPlayer1.Close();
flag=2;
}
}
if (flag==2)
{
oggPlayer2.Play();
while (oggPlayer2.StoppedPlaying()==true);
oggPlayer2.Close();
}
Doesn't even play the second file.
Though, and this is the important part, even if it did work I'm not sure it would help. The problem is not the code for playing it's the code that tells it when it stopped.
oggPlayerX.StoppedPlaying (change of name so it's easier to understand, it is true when music is stopped) returns the value true TOO early.
At least from what I can hear.
Using my old code sound 2 seems to play before sound 1 has actually finished yet obviously sound 2 only plays once the boolean StoppedPlaying returns true.
So in essence:
Sound 1 plays
StoppedPlaying returns true
Sound 2 plays
Sound 1 audibly stops a second after sound 2 starts
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GLGunblade wrote: Doesn't even play the second file.
Maybe because flag never equals 2. I'm not sure why you are using flags anyhow. That's what the IsPlaying() method is for.
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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This doesn't work.
oggPlayer1.Play();
while (oggPlayer1.StoppedPlaying())
{
oggPlayer1.Close();
oggPlayer2.Play(true);
}
if ((oggPlayer1.StoppedPlaying())==false)
{
oggPlayer1.Update();
}
if ((oggPlayer2.StoppedPlaying())==false)
{
oggPlayer2.Update();
}
How I've done it.
I used flags cause it was easier to get it working, at least it played the second sound then.
if (flag==0)
{
flag=1;
oggPlayer1.Play();
}
while (oggPlayer1.StoppedPlaying())
{
flag=2;
oggPlayer2.Play(true);
}
This works... to a point.
OggPlayer1.Close();
breaks the program and is commented out, and even when commented out the second sound doesn't even play properly.
[edit]
Just noticed that oggPlayer1.Close will contiunally get called so a flag is needed.
i.e. stoppedplaying is true and flag =1, then in that statement flag = 2 and close only gets called once without breaking the program.
I much prefer if statements since they don't give me headaches.
Why I use flags here.
StoppedPlaying will never equal to true with your code.
Since this is obviously within the update function it will continually loop past
oggPlayer1.Play()
While the sound does not reset and continues as normal, in the background the code is telling the while loop that yes it is true that sound 1 is still playing even when stopped.
I'm not sure how it keeps the sound playing without looping back on itself, I guess it's how the update function works.
Regardless without a flag it will never return false (sound has stopped playing).
Secondly this still doesn't solve the update problem, in the second example where I do use flags (And I'm pretty sure it's not flags causing my problem) and the second sound does play, though for a short period before the whole thing hangs up, the sound STILL audibly plays too early.
I apologise, I really do, you are trying to help and I really do appreciate it but even before trying your original code I never expected it to work.
Not because your code is bad or wrong, it isn't, but because it still does not change the fact that the boolean oggPlayerX.StoppedPlaying() still returns TRUE TOO early. I do not see how an if statement exchanged for a while loop would change this fact.
Unless i'm missing something huge on how a while loop and an if statement works.
modified on Friday, November 6, 2009 6:38 PM
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Why are you calling StoppedPlaying()? Admittedly, I've never used OGG, so I don't know if the Play() method is synchronous or asynchronous.
"Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw later in life what you have deposited along the way." - Unknown
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
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