I have read two helpful articles about spawning a console application and
using anonymous pipes to provide the standard input and capture the standard
output and standard error.

These articles were:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682499(VS.85).aspx

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190351

I really don't use standard input, but when capturing the standard output
and standard error, I used a loop in the parent program like:

stdout_pipe_exhausted = FALSE;
stderr_pipe_exhausted = FALSE;
while (!stdout_pipe_exhausted || !stderr_pipe_exhausted)
{
Use ReadFile(stdout) to get the stdout data, and if no data or pipe
broken stdout_pipe_exhausted = TRUE;
Use ReadFIle(stderr) to get the stderr data, and if no data or pipe
broken stderr_pipe_exhausted = TRUE;
}

I'm developing an application and using SetSystemPowerState() to send
system in to Suspend and Hibernate state. And I wake up system by
setting Waitable timer.
This application works fine on Intel 32 bit machine. But on x64 (AMD
or Intel) machine, SetSystemPowerState() API fails with error code
0x00000032 (Description: The network request is not supported.). I'm
not involved in network operation in application even though why
return value says network request is not supported.
Can anybody tell me why API fails on x64 machine?

Hello

How do I monitor how long the system has been idle ?

Thank you in advance

Regards
Karbhari

Just a quick question. I'm converting one of my DOS programs to
Windows. In DOS, it is easy to have text on the screen flashing
(simply set the correct bit of the attributes, and Bob's your uncle)
and so a (fairly minor) feature of my program was that the user could
choose to have text flashing or not. My question is, is there an easy
way of doing this in Windows? I would suspect not, and that it would
need a window to be repainted in different ways, driven by a timer.
But is there an easier way?

Thanks in advance .
Paul.

Hi,

My box was just re-imaged (by IT, I didn't have a choice). The new
image has only VS 2008 on it. In my code, I have a class, NameRes,
that handles for my program all of the name resolution operations such
as getaddrinfo( ), etc. On VS 2005, this code compiled fine.
However, not so with VS 2008.

The class looks like this (stripped down to illustrate):

class NameRes {
char* hostAddr;
char* servAddr;

protected:
addrinfo hints;
addrinfo* lAddrList;

public:
// c-tor d-tor, etc.

int GetAddrInfo( ); // options for getaddrinfo( ) are handled by
the class

};

I am writing a windows program and in my winproc loop none the popups
will work. I can get message boxes to work after the main statement.
The only thing I am doing different is my windows setup is in the form
of an object.