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I see that many big commercial programs use registry for saving its configuration settings (for internal use and for windows-wide use). For instance, read value "Path" and you will know where last...

To Waldo2k2: thnkx, you helped.
Yes, it's not necessary to use so many functions.

Another back issue on Win98SE: desktop / background window after closing dialog remains not refreshed. What I...

I inserted all known commands for activating dialog box, but it appears greyed (non-activated) on Win98 - user still must click the mouse to reach window. Therefore on W2K dialog behaves OK.

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You're 100% right! There was large fonts on developers machine. After change to small, my dialog looks OK on all reincarnations. Thanks!

I provide code for my question:


IDD_START DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 253, 148
STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | DS_SETFOREGROUND | DS_CENTER | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
CAPTION "My caption"
FONT...

why icon of my thread looks so strange: letter with black hole in center of it?

I simply try to put a picture of bitmap (100x116 pixels, indexed color) in my dialog (VC++ 6.0 resource editor on Win2K). Compiled dialog looks OK, but on other Win versions (98, 95, XP) picture...

Hi, I try to write a program which must splash until another program (Acrobat) is launching. My code:

ShellExecute(NULL, NULL, sPath, sPrm, NULL, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED);
SetTimer( NULL, 1, 100, NULL...

I'm intrigued in topic also. I tried Okiesmokie suggestion for alien dialog window, but works only this:
SendMessage ( hMem, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MAXIMIZE, 0);

I realize that for controlling dialog...

So well, it is impossible to create such control without MFC, isn't it?

Yes, thanks a lot, now I see - WM_COPYDATA message is right method when I have C++ or VB apps on both sides.

Besides I wonder whether it's possible to write application which sends a...

Sorry, Unregistered post was mine.

Hi All,

I try to write simply WinGUI dialog that collects user input and returns it to calling program. But I see that WinMain could return only int :confused:
How can I return and get string...