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How to detect that a user has logged in (Service & NT)

EiSl25-Oct-01 21:10

25-Oct-01 21:10

Hello folks,

I know that a service process (under NT/Win2k) should not communicate with GUI, since no user has to be logged in so no shell is available.

But...
When my service is crashing (unhandled exception), I want my general exception handler sends a messagebox to the user in case there's a user logged in.

So...
How can I detect if a shell exist (aka: a user is logged in), so I can safely shoot a messagebox.

Thanks,

EiSl

Re: How to detect that a user has logged in (Service & NT)

Nish Nishant25-Oct-01 23:41

Nish Nishant

25-Oct-01 23:41

hi
this might be a dumb technique but I think you can use GetDesktopWindow() and if that returns NULL, that probably means there is no user logged in

nish

Re: How to detect that a user has logged in (Service & NT)

Tomasz Sowinski25-Oct-01 23:54

Tomasz Sowinski

25-Oct-01 23:54

I think you should rather write this info to the Windows Event Log.

Anyway, if you need to interact with the desktop, first read 'Interactive Services' in your VC++ help. It should be under Platform SDK/DLLs, Processes, and Threads.

Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

Localization

ZAZA25-Oct-01 20:27

ZAZA

25-Oct-01 20:27

I am still trying to choose the language of the standard dialog boxes...
I succeed for all common dialog boxes (printer setup, save as...): Just for try, I put the right comdlg32.dll version (the english one, I am on a french OS)in the working directory of my app and what was my surprise to see that it is working!!! I run my app, clic the "open file" item and the english box was display. I let it open on the desktop and run notepad to clic the same item: the box has been open in french!!!

But I steel searching for the monthes and days names of the calendar. The call of the calendar APIs seems to be in the comctl32.dll but I can't load another version of this DLL as I do for comdlg32.

elisabeth.sever@europlacer.fr

C++ templates

Jim Crafton25-Oct-01 20:05

Jim Crafton

25-Oct-01 20:05

If you have a DLL that exports a number of classes, many of which a template classes, and you find that there is a common templated type that is being used over and over again, is there something special you're supposed to do for this ? I realize I may not be explaining this very clearly so here's an example:
so I have this:
template <class t=""> class A {
///whatever
};

and I find I am using A<int> all over the place in the library. Should there be some special instantiation of the template type ? Is this more efficient ? Does it even matter ?

Re: C++ templates

Michael Dunn25-Oct-01 21:00

Michael Dunn

25-Oct-01 21:00

I find I am using A<int> all over the place in the library.

A simple typedef A<int> AINT will save you a bit of typing. Since this is only a compile-time thing, there is no difference in the resulting binary.

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Cancel WaitCommEvent for non-overlapped IO

25-Oct-01 19:53

Guys,

Is there any way to cancel WaitCommEvent for non-overlapped IO ?

Thanx..

Re: Cancel WaitCommEvent for non-overlapped IO

Colin Urquhart28-Oct-01 13:02

Colin Urquhart

28-Oct-01 13:02

You can't...

Only one thing at a time can be done to a non-overlapped serial port.
See Q105302

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how to get mouse click function called on capture window

25-Oct-01 19:39

how can i get a responce to a click on a capture window. i tried ONLBUTTONDOWN but no responce

Re: how to get mouse click function called on capture window

Christian Graus25-Oct-01 20:57

Christian Graus

25-Oct-01 20:57

I found the only way to make this work was to keep firing a timer that called SetCapture over and over, and doing this in OnMouseMove:

CPoint pt;
GetCursorPos(&pt);

CRect rc;
GetWindowRect(&rc);

if (rc.PtInRect(pt))
    ReleaseCapture();

Here's the timer function:

if(nIDEvent == ID_TIMER_SETCAPTURE) // ID defined above
{
    CPoint pt;
    GetCursorPos(&pt);

    CRect rc;
    GetWindowRect(&rc);

    if (!rc.PtInRect(pt))
        SetCapture();
}

I did not find another solution that captured the mouse AND got the click messages inside the dialog class. If you find one, please LMK because I thought this very ugly indeed.

Christian

After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001

Downloading Dialog box

Gopi Krishna25-Oct-01 17:29

Gopi Krishna

25-Oct-01 17:29

Dear friends,
i've created one dialog box, which shows the downloading status of a file from the internet. but, the speed is a bit slower than the actual windows downloading dialog box. can any1 suggest how to make my dialog box downloads more faster than the windows one. thanx in advance...gopi

Help! Header Notification errors?

Jim Crafton25-Oct-01 17:25

Jim Crafton

25-Oct-01 17:25

Does anyone know if HDN_BEGINTRACK ever gets sent correctly ? I have a listview in report mode and when I click and drag the header divider, the HDN_BEGINTRACK message is never sent. Is this a known bug ? I looked on MSDN and didn't see much. I am writing in raw Win32, not MFC, if that matters.

Re: Help! Header Notification errors?

Christian Graus25-Oct-01 17:34

Christian Graus

25-Oct-01 17:34

Stupid question, but you're checking for it properly as a WM_NOTIFY message ? Have you tried Spy ++ to see if it gets sent ?

Christian

After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001

Re: Help! Header Notification errors?

Jim Crafton25-Oct-01 17:37

Jim Crafton

25-Oct-01 17:37

Yeah, I checked in spy, and as far as I can tell it never appears to get fired. Which seems rather odd to say the least. What's even weirder, is that HDN_ENDTRACK does get sent, and HDN_TRACKING does not get sent. very frustrating.

Re: Help! Header Notification errors?

Tomasz Sowinski26-Oct-01 0:00

Tomasz Sowinski

26-Oct-01 0:00

I believe this problem can be caused by HDN_BEGINTRACKW (Unicode) notification sent even if your app doesn't use Unicode and expects HDN_BEGINTRACKA mapped to HDN_BEGINTRACK by preprocessor. There was a similar question some time ago in this forum.

Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

how to save a *.eml?

cococut25-Oct-01 17:15

cococut

25-Oct-01 17:15

now In my database,I can get the name of sender and receiver ,
the text the sender send to,the time,and the attachment,
the question is how I can save these information to a *.eml?
any suggestions?
thank in advanve!
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OpenGL display of triangle mesh

Rick York25-Oct-01 16:15

Rick York

25-Oct-01 16:15

I am looking for a piece of code that might help save me some time. I have a file of raw triangles that define an object that I need to display using OpenGL. I would like to find some code that takes the mesh of triangles and generates GL triangle strips for them.

I have code that generates quad strips from a regular height field but it's not completely applicable. I could attempt to generate a height field from the mesh but I would prefer to not be confined to a regular grid of x-z coordinates.

Anyone seen anything good for this ?

Re: OpenGL display of triangle mesh

Jonathan de Halleux30-Oct-01 0:56

Jonathan de Halleux

30-Oct-01 0:56

Check the GNU Triangulated surface at
http://gts.sourceforge.net/

If you look for triangulation, you'll find it there.

Jonathan de Halleux, Belgium.

Fast file downloading engine needed

Gopi Krishna25-Oct-01 16:11

Gopi Krishna

25-Oct-01 16:11

Hi every1, i'm working on a file downloading engine presently. my is working properly but,the problem is i have to make it more faster downloading one than the windows downloading dialogue box. I have used vc++ for constructing my dialogue box.Can anyone help me in making such. it should download the file very fast like gozilla. can you plz send in the code, if you have alreadly done it. thank you very much...gopi

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plHigh resolution timers

25-Oct-01 11:40

Thre are some Win32 API finctions that take parameters
measured in unions that equal 100[ns].
e.g. functions related to JOB Kernel Objects.
Is it possible for OS to distinguish such a short interval ?
My question is whether the implementation of such a function
checks some registers, or sth. so often (every 100ns) or
it check the condition far (but still often) rarely (i.e
every 1 [ms])

Thanx in advance
Michal Januszczyk

Michal Januszczyk

Re: plHigh resolution timers

Rick York25-Oct-01 16:01

Rick York

25-Oct-01 16:01

They probably use QueryPerformanceFrequency which uses the RDTSC instruction of the Pentium-class processors. It returns the value of the CPU's clock tick counter. The frequency of the counter ranges from 200MHz for Pentium Pros to around 1.2MHz for P2s. This means an effective resolution of about 1uS or 1000nS in the worst case. They just gave themselves a bit of headroom by accomodating ticks of up to 10MHz (a period of 100nS.)

Go to the end of rich edit control

Erik Hammar25-Oct-01 11:29

Erik Hammar

25-Oct-01 11:29

Hi,
How can I move the edit cursor to the end of a rich edit control?
I need to append text to the end.
Thanks in advance,
Erik Hammar

Re: Go to the end of rich edit control

Christian Graus25-Oct-01 11:44

Christian Graus

25-Oct-01 11:44

I do it in Win32 like this:

::SetFocus (editControl);
::SendMessage (editControl, EM_SETSEL, (WPARAM)length, (LPARAM)length);
::SendMessage (editControl, EM_REPLACESEL, 0, (LPARAM) ((LPSTR) str.c_str()));

I'm sure the MFC class for a rich edit will have methods so you don't need to send messages like this. The basic idea is make the cursor select the end position of the text in there, and then replace the selection ( which is really a caret at the end of the line ) with the text you want to append. length obviously equals the length of the text already there.

Christian

After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001

RGB (for Christian)

25-Oct-01 11:23

Christian,
does this code correct for 8 bpp Bitmap?

WidthBytes=lpBitmap->biWidth/4;
if (lpBitmap->biWidth%4) WidthBytes++;
WidthBytes*=4;

How to use color table for 8bpp bitmap (for pixels)?

I think, RGBQUAD Quad = (LPRGBQUAD) Data;
in this case (for 8bpp) doesn't work
Am i ridht?

Re: RGB (for Christian)

Christian Graus25-Oct-01 11:53

Christian Graus

25-Oct-01 11:53

That looks promising. You'd need to then load the palette and look up the colour values based on the indexes. You're right, RGBQUAD will not work for 8/16 bit. To be honest, if it was me, I'd do it the lazy way and convert to a 24 bit DIBSection and then just read the bits off that in memory.

Christian

After all, there's nothing wrong with an elite as long as I'm allowed to be part of it!! - Mike Burston Oct 23, 2001

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