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Thanks! Got it working. Regarding the timer, it's a bit of a dumb reason. I'm porting a Win32 application which used a WM_Timer, and since I had to override the WndProc anyway to catch Windows...

Thanks to all for your advice. I have so many hours sunk into my Windows Forms application that I've decided to slowly keep chipping away at that. My calls to unmanaged code suddenly started working...

Of the suggestions above, is it true that only MFC be used to graphically build GUIs within Visual Studio?

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I have a Win32 C++ application which works pretty well, but I don't like the GUI and I want to replace it with one designed graphically, a la Windows Forms. What is the best strategy to...

Ah! Thanks for that catch. I was able to extract the pointer from it and now everything is running.

If I may ask one more question about my program... I have a Form1.h which contains many...

m is a System::Windows::Forms::Message%. The whole function appears as follows:



virtual void WndProc( Message% m ) override
{

// Listen for operating system messages.
...

I'm working in C++. I briefly tried porting all of my code to C#, my native language, but there are too many Win32 API calls and I'm not nearly enough of an expert to figure out how to port them (I'm...

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First, I hope this is the right forum. I thought that this should go into Managed C++ but someone else just posted a Windows Forms question there and was told that was the wrong place (but...

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A while ago I wrote a program to interface with a scientific instrument. The program works as intended but if I leave it on for long periods of time it behaves sluggishly, and task manager...

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I've made a simple application that accepts text files output by several scientific instruments, parses them, interfaces with Excel, and plots them. One feature of the program is supposed...

Edit: I solved the previous problem I had with figuring out how to put error bars into my Excel chart. I now have one more question which I suspect has a simple answer, but I can't find the toggle. I...

Thanks guys! I managed to spawn my temperature controlling function in a new thread and have its function depend on a global temperature variable set by the message loop in the original thread....

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I'm a brand new WinAPI programmer trying to figure out the language, and I'm a bit stuck. I have the following scenario:

I am controlling a laboratory instrument via the instrument's...

Thanks for your help! I tried the multithreading and that was too tough for me but I read a few Win32 tutorials over the weekend and was just able to construct a simple program to send and receive...

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I'm trying to write a program that passes Windows messages back and forth from another program that controls a laboratory instrument. I'm in a bit over my head but with the help of the...

That's a little bit annoying. In that case, could you tell me if there's a better way to execute the following?




int main()
{
List<string> results = new List<string>();...

I have a quick question about how to condense two lines into one.

The following code works:

bool pass = false;
MyFunction(ref pass);

I would like to turn it into the following:
...

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I'm trying to write a short program that changes the "Read and Execute" permission on a single exe. I have no idea how to access that parameter, and a google search did not help me find it....

Thanks! I put a getchar() after my scanf and now everything is working. I'm used to working with Console.ReadLine() in C# rather than scanf in C, so I'd never seen a problem like that before.


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Sorry for posting in C++; I didn't see a C forum and I figured there should be a lot of cross-language forumgoers here. If there is a better place to put this thread, please relocate it.

A few of...

Sorry to bring this thread up back from the dead... I was unable to rep you so I just wanted to say thanks again for your help. That's twice in a row now that you've helped me out.

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I'm trying to parse a string and I'm having trouble getting arguments from it. The string may appear as follows:

"Banannas(1) garbage Apples(2) iheartcodeguru"

where each substring...

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I'm trying to compare some classes and list them in order based on multiple attributes. This is a bit beyond me, so I went online to look for a public domain algorithm to do it. I believe I...

Thank you so much for the help! That was an excellent explanation. After posting last night I realized that I was actually using a different data structure than I had described in the OP, given that...

I've been working on a segment of a project all day and can't get past this bottleneck. I need to make permutations out of some generic lists/arrays, and I don't know how to do it. My problem is that...