Hi Folks:

Developing on XP Media, VC6, WIN32, no MFC.

I'm doing my first MDI app. Things are going OK, but I've run
into a little problem, and I'm hoping someone can offer some advice.

Is there some Windows supported mechanism to enforce a parent
child relationship between two windows in an MDI frame? I don't
see anything in the MDICREATESTRUCT that looks promising.

The user selects one of the menu items, and the MDI child
pops up. Let's call this Window A.

A button in Window A is hit and this causes another MDI child
to open. Lets call this Window B.

Window B was created by a button in Window A, and I'd like
Window B to behave as Window A's child.

Now the user selects another item from the menu and a new top
level MDI child pops up. This is Window C.

Window C is now on top of the Z order, obscuring Window A
and it's child, Window B. This is proper behavior.

Hi,

When I asked about threads a while ago, several here gave me excellent
help (thanks) but I remember being told by these folks to use
_beginthreadex( ) instead of CreateThread (if memory serves, that's
what I was asking about). Is something like this true for
CreateProcess to? I thought I'd ask before writing too much code
using CreateProcess( ). From the "See Also" section in MSDN, it
doesn't look like there's much else to choose from, but I'm not very
familiar with the Windows development environment.

Thanks,
Andy

Hi!
I have a question about programming MS Terminal Services.
I'm working on the software that uses mapped serial ports from the
terminal.
The software includes the application which starts while the session
is in the logon process (gina asks the credentials).
The problem comes when I try to reconnect to the disconnected session:
new session, which only serves the logon process is created, the
application reads data from the mapped port
and then this session dies, switching to the existing one.
I need the opened ports to be closed.
As I see, I only can get the notification about the logon session
termination by processing the WM_WTSSESSION_CHANGE message.
But the message is sent asynchronously and it is completely impossible
to close the port correctly before the logon session dies.
After that...

Hi,

What I want is to get desktop's bitmap bits obscured by a window in DMW
composition on mode. Is this achievable from the application level?

Before Vista it was practically undoable, the only desperate attempt I
am aware of is Feng Yuan's "WM_PRINT hook"
(http://www.fengyuan.com/article/wmprint.html). But apart from other
flaws it doesn't support layered windows that do paint themselves using
UpdateLayeredWindow() rather than using Windows WM_PAINT paradigm.

Is this task in Windows Vista with DMW composition turned on any easier?
Needless to say the DMW has all the data to perform easily such
operation, but can this data be exported to the application? The point
is to create custom glass effect (on application level) and for this the
application needs to know the background it lays on.

Thanks,

MrDRamos@hotmail.com wrote:

Assuming the user uses MS Windows NT, 2k etc the filenames are encoded in
UCS2/UTF-16, available via the wchar_t win32 APIs.

MultibyteToWideChar using CP1252 and the the reverse using UTF-8. Note that
this can be made to work according to the user's current settings, so if I
set my codepage to IS08859-15 (not unusual for a German) it would work just
the same for me. Complete Unicode awareness and use of full-Unicode capable
APIs would be a better choice though, maybe even I have some Chinese
letters in my filenames...

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