My situation (simplified): I have 2 FreeBASIC programs. Program #1 collects data and does some processing and puts the results into named shared memory. Then sends a message (WM_USER) to program #2. Program#2 gets the message, reads the data, does some more processing and presents the results. I am ...

People are still posting their own GUI and owner drawn widgets but so far I did not see any alternative to the Windows ChooseFont dialog. And one of my pet peeves is the humble LABEL widget. Microsoft does not call this widget a label, instead using the name STATIC, perhaps because you can left and ...

Thank you jj2007 and SARG for the info. My initial interest in the WTSapi32.dll was from this link http://codexpert.ro/blog/2013/12/01/listing-processes-part-4-using-remote-desktop-services-api/ which seems to provide a very easy solution. However, I shall explore the methods that you have suggested...

Hello TouristTrap,

Thank you for the link. That looks like it will accomplish what I want and so I will give it a try.

Cheers,
ring0

Hello Tourist Trap,

Thank you for your offer but I am not looking for a way of making speech under windows.
As far as I know WTSapi = Remote Desktop Services API
It can be used to enumerate processes by name which is what I want to do.

Cheers,
ring0

Hi,

Does a FreeBasic include file for WTSapi32 exist and if so where can I get it?

Thanks,
ring0

OK, just wanted to let everyone know that I have found and solved my problem. SOLUTION: when your ListView control is located on a dialog window - mine is and I did not previously state that - then the process of requesting custom draw notifications becomes a little more convoluted. The following we...

@jj2007: I do not see that your code is doing anything materially different to mine. Is your entire program in assembler or just this part of it - and why? I used to program in FASM but for windows apps I think a higher level language is more appropriate. @Josep: I think I have seen that example els...

OK thanks Josep, I shall return CDRF_DODEFAULT but I still have the problem that I never receive CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT or CDDS_SUBITEM - any ideas on that??

ring0

Hi, I am having trouble with ListView custom draw and I hope some kind soul can review my code and tell me where I have gone wrong. My objective is modest - I only want to set the background colour of particular cells. PROBLEM: I get the message for CDDS_PREPAINT but no other CDDS messages. My guess...

Hello St_W,
thank you for your assistance, removing the NULL has stopped the crash!
Cheers,
ring0

Hi, I am having some problems with ChooseColor, using FB1.05, win32. I notice in another post dated 2015 ?? that the headers for this are broken. Is that still the case? Should ChooseColor structure definition and ChooseColor function call work OK?? Code below compiles without errors but program cra...

Hummm, so embarassingly simple.
Thankyou counting_pine.

My first attempt to write a class fails to link. Error = "TERM.o:fake:undefined reference to `SERIAL::~SERIAL()" I am using FBide and FB 0.24. #Include once "windows.bi" Type serial Private: comPort As Handle ' handle returned by create file comName As String ' Registry name used...