Yes, sounds like a service. However, what is a service going to do with some WindowText if it doesn't even know if anyone is logged in? :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [Why QA sucks] [My Articles] I only read code that is properly formatted, adding PRE tags is the easiest way to obtain that.

jacobjordan wrote: Many many thanks. My pleasure. :) Also, I believe that one are two songs are not hurt so much and you can still download the mp3s legally, given that you own them. :) It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

lol, Didn't mean it had to be .NET, just had to work in it. Thanks. Giveaway of the day .com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dream.In.Code | Programmer's Heaven | CodeGuru "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely."

Um, not what i want. I don't want to get the current process, i want to get the CPU and memory usage. I have no interest in the current process. Giveaway of the day .com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dream.In.Code | Programmer's Heaven | CodeGuru "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely."

I use it a lot when I want large strings, like pieces of xml, to be readable in code. with @ you can write something like this: string xml = @" <xml> <test> <value>1</value> <value>2</value> </test> </xml>" instead of: string xml = "<xml><test><value>1</value><value>2</value></test></xml>" Dawn is nature's way of telling you to go to bed.

In that case I believe you have to do it in parts: - create a stream for new file / memorystream - read first portion of the original file and write it to output stream - append needed data to output stream - read the second portion of the original file and write it to output stream - close the original file and write over it based on previous output stream. Of course this can be varied (read only the second portion into memory and write over it in file with new data + what's in memory etc).

To get a pointer to an object on the heap, you have to fix in to a specific address so that the garbage collector is no longer allowed to move it around in memory: fixed (TreeNode* Current = null) { // here you can use the pointer } Why do you need a pointer to a TreeNode anyway? Despite everything, the person most likely to be fooling you next is yourself.

A million thanks. I had tried something like that, but it was so complicated and didn't even work. Can't believe it was that simple. void Play() { try { throw Ball(); } catch (Glove) { } finally { Play(); } } "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely." "Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back."

There is an excelent article by Marc Clifton that I think would be of great help to you: Article[^]

Did you have to configure it with the mass of the mouse (and that of your hand) and the coefficient of friction between it and the mouse pad? You forgot to add in the speed and acceleration of my cursor. And of course, no, it does not ask for any of those things. if (your.Life != lifestyles.Programming) { me.Hate(your.Life) = true; } Do not click this link

A few suggestions: Only do paint routines in the proper painting events (OnPaint). Do not alter the painting in mouse events or any other events. Use the SetStyle of custom controls to allow for DoubleBuffering/more precise painting control/paint event mapping. DoubleBuffering is a key in reducing flickering. This sort of ties with my first point, but be sure that your logic is separate from your actual painting. One of my articles Basics of Falling Blocks in VB 2005[^] has helped many people reduce flickering in their programs because of the painting concepts discussed. Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my homepage Oracle Studios Discounted or Free Software for Students: DreamSpark - downloads.channel8.msdn.com MSDN Academic Alliance - www.msdnaa.com

Under .net, any class of object is only allowed to 'inherit' from one other class of object. There are sound reasons for this, since multiple inheritance causes considerable complications and confusion. Nonetheless, there are many circumstances where something resembling multiple inheritance would be desirable. For example, a container control should be inherited from a basic control (obviously), but it should also support a standard method of enumerating its contents, which would suggest that it should be inherited from a 'things whose contents can be enumerated' class. It's not possible to have a container control (or anything else) inherit from more than one class, but it is possible to use interfaces to make it be a 'thing whose contents can be enumerated' in addition to being a control. The primary differences between inheritance and interfaces are Classes can be inherited from at most one other class, but can have an unlimited number of interfaces A class that inherits another class will by default use the properties, methods, and fields of the base class; there are no "default" implementations for interfaces. If ten classes support an interface, the code for every property or method in the interface must be repeated in all ten classes even if it is identical in every case. While it is possible (and often useful) to declare an object variable or parameter as being of an interface type (e.g. "iDisposable") it is not possible to create a new variable of an interface type. If rather than having "Control" be an inheritable class, .Net were to use an iControl interface, then every type of control would have to include code for dozens of methods and properties; it would be a total nightmare. Inheriting the "Control" class allows controls to use mostly default behaviors and simply implement the things that are unique to each type of control. Since a container control isn't inherited from a container class, it must explicitly implement code to handle enumeration (the iEnumerable interface) but that's far less of a hassle than would be implementing every control property on every control.

A .BMP file consists of a BITMAPFILEHEADER structure[^] followed by a BITMAPINFO or a BITMAPCOREINFO struct, followed by the pixel data. This one's WELL documented :) ICO (icon image file format)[^] Searching ".someextension file format" on Google always seems to give me good results. Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

Hi, in my latest experiment, I came up with a really simple way of modifying nearestneighbour into copy_from_left/top; it suffices to indicate half a pixel translation, as in this C# code. The source image has size (w,h) and is translated to (x,y) and scaled up by the fraction zoomT/zoomN: Rectangle r=new Rectangle(x, y, w\*zoomT/zoomN, h\*zoomT/zoomN); g.InterpolationMode=InterpolationMode.NearestNeighbor; g.DrawImage(image, r, -0.5f, -0.5f, w, h, GraphicsUnit.Pixel); So instead of using the pixels 0, 1, 2, ... w-1 of the source image, I am actually using the pixels -0.5, 0.5, 1.5, ... w-1.5 which means whenever I need something in some interval (say the first -0.5 to 0.5) it will take the nearest integer, which is the middle of the translated interval, i.e. the left/top of the original interval! Can't get more simple than that. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Voting for dummies? No thanks. X|

Well said. I can't bear the ones who think programming/technology is everything and look down upon the people who aren't in tech. Cheers, Vıkram. The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.

First of all, it's spelled with one 'r': G-a-r-y. laughingandliving wrote: I would say you are an unimaginative person You're going to base that on a single post in an online forum? laughingandliving wrote: more than likely not a very good engineer Hmm. Then my employer's been making a mistake for the last 18 years, giving me a better-than-average raise. laughingandliving wrote: I have yet to steel anything (except market share.) It's spelled steal, in this usage. laughingandliving wrote: You bonehead. I do have a normal human skull. Given my age (not quite 47) the sutures between the component pieces have joined together into a solid piece (excluding my jaw, obviously). Software Zen: delete this; Fold With Us![^]

Actually you do have 537 window handles open at one time. To see details on the windows (or for that matter actually believe you have 537 windows open), you can open Spy++ which is an application installed by Visual Studio for debugging aspects of programs and the OS. Spy++, which should be able to be found in the start menu and will list every window/sub-window currently displayed in windows. Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my homepage Oracle Studios Discounted or Free Software for Students: DreamSpark - downloads.channel8.msdn.com MSDN Academic Alliance - www.msdnaa.com

There's several on CodeProject: Audio Library Part I - (Windows Mixer Control)[^] A Synchronized Volume Control for your Application[^] And one[^] elsewhere.

SetSuspendState[^] API, or Application.SetSuspendState[^] in .NET.