Hi everybody, i have an (ANSI) C++ application that hosts the WebBrowser control. I write an HTML file to the control via m_spMsHtml->write( sfArray ). The I use the HTML editing functionality of the webbrowser to modify the source, lateron I read the content back and save it to a file again. This works quite good until I use special characters like german or greek characters with their HTML encoding. If a document contains characters like these: ä ü Σ α then the "write"-command already translates these into their unicode-equivalent, so they become to ä ü Σ α I would like to keep the HTML-equivalent. Is there any way to do this? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance! Jens Doose

Hi Everybody, we are using a cash system printer which is connected to the PC via USB. The printer has an endless paper roll and also has a paper cut feature. The printer supports 4 paper sizes: - "80x210 mm" - "80x297 mm" - "reserved48" - "reserved49" The first two paper sizes are the maximum sizes. So the printer cuts a print after 210mm or 297mm. If you choose "reserved48" in Excel the printout is exactly as long as needed. But if I choose this paper size in my own applications nothing is printed at all. The paper is thrown out about 1 cm and then cut. I examined a little bit about Device caps but every value seems to be invalid. The paper size specified in the DEVMODE is 1 pixel by 1 pixel, so not very much :-((( Does anyone know how to handle this? I really appreciate every hint! Thanks in advance, Jens

I think the only way you can do that is to owner-draw your window title bar. See here: http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/c/c0197.aspx Jens

Hi all, I always thought that it is possible to create own user rights in Windows XP like the ones you see in the "Local security settings" but I couldn't find anything about it. Is this just impossible? Or how can it be done? Thanks for any help, Jens

You used CRect(23,30,54,14); as the location to move the window to. This statement create a rect with the following settings:

- m_Rect {top=30 bottom=14 left=23 right=54}

• tagRECT {top=30 bottom=14 left=23 right=54}
  left 23
  top 30
  right 54
  bottom 14

Since "bottom" is less than "top" this is a rect with a negativ height. I am pretty sure that was not your intention, was it? ;-) Jens

If your using MFC one of the more common mistakes is that there is no command handler yet. In that case MFC grayes all the unavailable menu commands. Jens

In CMyDialouge::OnInitDialog() you wrote m_EditBox[i].Create(WS_CHILD|ES_MULTILINE| WS_VISIBLE|ES_WANTRETURN,CRect(0,0,0,0),this,1000 + i); m_EditWnd[i].MoveWindow(m You used m_EditBox AND m_EditWnd, may it be that this is your mistake? Jens

Never heard of that, but a look at MSDN with _FPE_INVALID lead me to SIGFPE and that lead me to signal(), a function you can use to set your own signal handler. I never tried that but maybe this is worth a try? Jens

And you will need a message loop. Jens

I am not quite sure what kind of parameters put_Picture expects, but maybe you could try to get a IPicture object with "OleLoadPicture"? Jens

In your host you can implement IDocHostUIHandler. See this howto http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;236312[^] Jens

As I remember the solution is using the function AssocQueryString. Unfortunately I have no source code here for an example. Jens

You do not have to use shared memory in this case. Just create an event in the GUI and in the DLL and use the same name for both CreateEvent calls. That should do the trick. Jens

Depending on your operating system you can use - the PSAPI functions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/perfmon/base/process_status_helper.asp) - or the ToolHelp functions (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/perfmon/base/tool_help_library.asp) Jens

That depends on the kind of data you already have. Is it the current process? Or do you have the name of the executable? Or a window handle? Jens

Well the context of this sentence deals with messages, and if you read a little bit more it reads Message broadcasts are sent to all windows in the system. If you have a thread that uses Sleep with infinite delay, the system will deadlock And this one makes sense. Think about a SendMessage call to all windows with no timeout and one of the threads sleeps endlessly. Then the calling process will also hang. But I don't see this as an evidence that Sleep waits actively. Jens

See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/sleep.asp Jens

My comment didn't answer your original question. I just wanted to state that I don't think that calling "Sleep" will cause the thread to wait actively. It would be rather dumb to implement a task scheduler which lets a thread that called Sleep wait actively, wouldn't it? To clarify: By "waiting actively" I mean a continous loop until a condition is reached, like this one: while ( true ) { if ( bConditionIsReached ) { break; } } Jens

I am not quite sure if Sleep really waits actively... See MSDN: The Sleep function suspends the execution of the current thread for at least the specified interval. Jens

You have to set the right font, I think it was Tahoma, but not 100% sure. Jens