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by Pierre Bellisle
Feb 03, 2024 2:41
Forum: Windows
Topic: Tabcontrol color winmain
Replies: 10
Views: 789

Re: Tabcontrol color winmain

I see your'e going well, I got an example written in Oxygen BASIC if interested, maybe it can help a little...

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by Pierre Bellisle
Mar 24, 2023 3:48
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows Service
Replies: 9
Views: 3410

Re: Windows Service

All is fine then. Great! About " $ ", it prevent the string following it to see " \ " as an escape character. The string between quotes will be literally used. There is a topic in the help about $, you will also see the "Option Escape" there. I often use it, specially w...
by Pierre Bellisle
Mar 23, 2023 15:04
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows Service
Replies: 9
Views: 3410

Re: Windows Service

Jim, After a month, I'm probably too late, still, here is an answer... The handle scHandle you gave couldn't be the result of "Cast(SC_HANDLE, GetModuleHandle(NULL)" in my code, it come from OpenService(), as in "hService = OpenService(hServiceControlManager, pg->wsServiceName, SERVIC...
by Pierre Bellisle
Feb 05, 2023 8:40
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows Service
Replies: 9
Views: 3410

Re: Windows Service

:)
by Pierre Bellisle
Jan 01, 2023 4:44
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points
Replies: 9
Views: 1766

Re: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points

Thank for sharing.
I saw your "Happy new year" message.
Happy new year to you too dodicat and to the FB community!
by Pierre Bellisle
Jan 01, 2023 0:20
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points
Replies: 9
Views: 1766

Re: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points

Hey dodicat!
I do not see any alignment of the thumb with tick mark.
Did you post the right code?
by Pierre Bellisle
Dec 31, 2022 1:24
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points
Replies: 9
Views: 1766

Re: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points

kcvinu, Here is some compilable code... #Define JumpCompiler "<D:\Dev\Free\Compiler\fbc64.exe>" #Define JumpCompilerCmd "<-s gui -w pedantic "D:\Dev\Free\bas\~~Default.rc">" #define unicode #Include Once "Windows.bi" #Include Once "Win\CommCtrl.bi" #...
by Pierre Bellisle
Dec 30, 2022 20:24
Forum: Windows
Topic: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points
Replies: 9
Views: 1766

Re: How to convert physical points of a TrackBar tics into logical points

Here is an extract of the revelent code for a TrackBar that is not custom draw... It will snap the thump to be aligned with the nearest tick. Tested OK... // Code assume RANGE MIN is zero, adjust code if needed TrackBarRangeMin_1 = 0 TrackBarRangeMax_1 = 255 CASE WM_CREATE / WM_INITDIALOG STATIC Tic...
by Pierre Bellisle
Dec 20, 2022 0:05
Forum: Windows
Topic: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works
Replies: 12
Views: 1694

Re: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works

AngFerreiras,
If you don't need the elevated Administrator's drop file workaround,
just delete the IsUserAdmin() function and the 'If IsUserAdmin() Then'...'End If' part in my code above.
by Pierre Bellisle
Dec 19, 2022 23:51
Forum: Windows
Topic: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works
Replies: 12
Views: 1694

Re: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works

Yes, with proper hListbox control handle, ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx() will work...
Using hWnd, only ChangeWindowMessageFilter() work.
by Pierre Bellisle
Dec 19, 2022 23:38
Forum: Windows
Topic: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works
Replies: 12
Views: 1694

Re: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works

I have a slight problem. Running Pierre's code with admin rights sees dropping files fail. In Pierre's code, I changed... It is not exactly my code if you change it. ;-] ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx() won't work, ChangeWindowMessageFilter() will. For the 'splitting hairs' part, maybe you are right...
by Pierre Bellisle
Dec 19, 2022 7:27
Forum: Windows
Topic: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works
Replies: 12
Views: 1694

Re: WinFBE, Need some help to make Dropfile event works

To make an elevated application accept, let's say, files from Windows Explorer, one must use "ChangeWindowMessageFilter". This is not an issue, this is normal UIPI (UAC) behavior. See How to Enable Drag and Drop for an Elevated MFC Application on Windows Here is an example of a listbox tha...
by Pierre Bellisle
Jun 23, 2021 5:47
Forum: Windows
Topic: Retrieving the command line parameters with __getmainargs
Replies: 4
Views: 2205

Re: Retrieving the command line parameters with __getmainargs

Some APIs... 'Show every arguments Dim ArgCount As LONG Dim pArgArray As LPWSTR Pointer = CommandLineToArgvW(GetCommandLineW(), @ArgCount) For index As LONG = 0 TO ArgCount - 1 Print Str(index) & ") [" & *pArgArray[index] & "]" Next : Print LocalFree(pArgArray) 'Show ...
by Pierre Bellisle
May 31, 2021 4:54
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Resize array so that ubound gives -1?
Replies: 4
Views: 1084

Re: Resize array so that ubound gives -1?

...keeping track of the item count... Note that having ubound() as -1 does not always mean there is zero item in an array... lbound may be negative or above zero redim items(-5 to -1) redim items(5 to 9) ubound may be negative or equal zero redim items(-5 to -1) redim items(-4 to 0) In those cases,...
by Pierre Bellisle
Mar 07, 2020 1:23
Forum: Windows
Topic: SystemTimeToFileTime
Replies: 23
Views: 4130

Re: SystemTimeToFileTime

Minor observation. How about using GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()... ' ======================================================================================== ' Returns the current system time as a FILETIME structure. ' ====================================================================================...