Ok, thanks! That's exactly the detailed explanation I was looking for :). It's nice to know about things not to do, but it's even nicer to know exactly why not to do them.

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Thanks, that function looks to be what I need, but it fails when I use the monitor handle given by EnumDisplayMonitors :(.

Shoot :(. Approximately how difficult to crack is the encryption usually used? Virtually impossible, I'm guessing? No, this is definitely not for cheating; in fact, almost the opposite. I'm trying to decipher the packets broadcast (sent to 255.255.255.255) by Halo 2 (xbox) on a local system-link network. I have two reasons for trying to do this: to make LAN tournaments easier to monitor, and to possibly connect the in-game names of people to the XBC name they use (so I don't have to worry about booting the wrong person).

I actually finally got it working, by putting extern "C" int __cdecl _fseeki64(FILE *, __int64, int); extern "C" __int64 __cdecl _ftelli64(FILE *); in my header :D.

Thanks; do you know of any resources or tutorials or source code on that subject?

Nevermind, figured it out: I use the normal COM code to find a shortcut's target, and just omit IShellLink::Resolve :).

Thanks! Qt does have its own version of PreTranslateMessage, and I implemented it like so: if(pMsg->message == WM_SYSKEYUP && pMsg->wParam == VK_MENU && bIgnoreNextMenuKey) return true;

I actually figured out what was causing the problem: the project was including a header file from a DLL project that had dllexport's that weren't being #define'd out. Once I #define'd them out, the .lib and .exp files stopped being generated and links (especially incremental) were noticably faster :).

I mean the former; it would be a complete nightmare to combine them, and definitely not worth it.

I have no idea how I'd go about doing that, though; my plugin never gets a HWND. I've actually worked around the no-hotkey problem by intuitively tying the function (don't skip this commercial) to the seekbar: if the user seeks twice inside a section containing a commercial within a few seconds, that commercial section is internally ignored.

Ok, thanks for the help! So I'll just try reading the file as binary, and see how that works. Is using fgetws the best way to fill a char array with the contents of a file, in a straight-Win32 app?

Yes, it's a member of the main dialog class, CFLModManager. I don't see how the first case would be possible; the second case might, I guess, but I just have one other thread, and it just communicates using SendMessage to the main thread's window. I'll try changing it to PostMessage (not sure if that'll do anything), and increasing a couple buffers that aren't CString's (I doubt they're overflowing, but just to be sure). What makes this crash so hard to debug is that I can't duplicate the crash, and it rarely happens to my users; ~1 crash a week (auto-reported) out of 10,000+ downloads. Fortunately, because it's so rare, it won't be that big of deal if I can't fix it; I don't think it's happened to the same person more than once.

Thanks, that worked; I didn't even need to implement the NCHITTEST message in my WndMainProc :).

Yes, that's how I'm capturing the STN_CLICKED event.

I'm not planning on putting my code on CodeProject (unless specifically requested), so that doesn't matter too much. Which license would you recommend for my guidelines, and which license would you recommend for CodeProject guidelines?

That was the first thing I looked for, but I couldn't find one - I only found an Access snapshot viewer, which only opened *.snp files.

Thanks, that worked perfectly! :D