Hi Folks:

I'm pleased with my new development system, VS 2008.

There are a couple of things I used to be able to do
with VC6, but can't figure out how to do with VS 2008.

How do I mark a location, so I can return to it later?
This is done with in VC6.

Thanks
Larry

I've written a number of report programs that are running perfectly
at many customer sites. However, at one site, the print lines
are squashed to about 30 lines per inch, although the character
widths seem to be OK. I use CreateFontIndirect() to try to find
something as close as possible to an Arial font that will be scaled
to fit my report lines across the page. I don't care too much about
the height of the characters, since I can calculate how many lines
will fit on a page. But at this one site, the character height
is ridiculously small, while the width, being properly set, yields
an equally ridiculous aspect ratio.

Here's a sample code snippet; it assumes that "printerdc" already
contains the handle of a valid printer device context:

HDC printerdc;
HFONT fontpd;
LOGFONT logfont;
TEXTMETRIC tm;

Hi to all.

I'm working on code which needs sometimes to call some helper 3rd
party command line tools so I need to redirect child's std. input/
output streams.

I found this demo code on MSDN: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682499.aspx

I extended it so the parent process can post some data to stdin of the
the child process as well. However I have still problems with that:

-- How the parent process can check if there is something in the pipe
buffer to read of if there is enough room to write (in case of child's
stdin)?
-- How to keep order of childs request on stdout/stderr/stdin?
-- How to prevent parent to block in ReadFile() if there is just few
bytes? Of course I don't want to read byte by byte..

In other words, I would need something similar to select() or poll()
syscall on Unix, which waits until any file descriptor in set is ready
to read and/or write.

Unfortunately I could not find any reasonable solution on MSDN nor
Google...

Hallo!

I am to write a kind of meta-application, i.e. an application
which provides it's own funcionality and is able to "open" a
bunch of external applications.
I could imagine that the meta-application is a MFC MDI app, say
meta.exe,
which, when it opens an external exe, say a.exe, shows the
main window of a.exe not as a popup window, but as a child of some
MDI child frame instead. (Hope I could make it clear what I wish to
do.)

Simple means like CreateProcess or ShellExecuteEx cannot achieve
such a behaviour. So what would be the best way to implement it?

Hi Folks:

My app, and my favorite game, have been having problems
on PCs running XP.

I'm wondering what happens if XP decides to ask if the
application is to be blocked when the application is in
full screen mode.

I don't knot that this is my problem, but I'd like to
make sure it isn't a problem.

Is there a way to tell XP that I don't want the app, or
any processes it spins off, blocked before running the
program?

If not, how do I handle this?

Thanks
Larry