Hello, folks, I am looking for a Win32 API to do disk formatting, i.e, formatting hard disk to FAT or FAT32 or NTFS format. What Win32 API should I use ? Anybody know ? Thanks ! Any response would be appreciated !

>>DirectX include/source/lib directories to the top. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hello, thanks for you reply first. On my system I have installed Platform SDK and DirectX 8.0 SDK. It seems the DirectX 8.0 SDK has been integrated with Platform SDK. So, I can NOT find the DirectX include/source/lib directory as you menthioned. Could you explain a little more detail ? Or what should I install on my system ? Thanks for your help again.

Hello, folks, I got trouble using one of the DirectShow sample filters, i.e, Ball filter. I got a link error. If I compiled and linked the code sample, the filter would generate something like ball.ax. Could anyone tell me how to use this ball.ax ? I have included required *.h and ball.lib but I still got a linking error ? The linking error is as follows: BallAppDlg.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall CBouncingBall::CBouncingBall(struct IUnknown *,long *)" (??0CBouncingBall@@QAE@PAUIUnknown@@PAJ@Z) ../Release/BallApp.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals Anybody help me ? Any response would be greatly appreciated ! Thanks !

Thanks ! Your response really helps !!:)

If I use StretchBlt, can I print "color" image ? (I mean, if my printer is color...) Another API I found is: DrawDibDraw, can I also use this API to print "color" image ?

Christian, One more question about StretchBlt.. suppose my bitmap data to be printed is in some buffer like this: pCurrentImage, (i.e, as the following class CRGBImage { public: BYTE* data; int m_nWidth; // in pixel int m_nHeight; }; Now I already get something like this: CRGBImage* pCurrentImage... Then I want to print this image data, so I wrote the following codes. CPrintDialog dlg( FALSE ); CDC dc; dc.Attach( dlg.GetPrinterDC() ); //calculate printing area(width and height) int pwidth = dc.GetDeviceCaps(HORZRES);//get width of printing area int pheight = dc.GetDeviceCaps(VERTRES);//get height of printing area Now, how can I copy my bitmap data to dc ? And, for the following StretchBlt API: BOOL CDC::StretchBlt( int x, int y, int nWidth, int nHeight, CDC* pSrcDC, int xSrc, int ySrc, int nSrcWidth, int nSrcHeight, DWORD dwRop ); (Take the width for example) The above parameter nSrcWidth = pCurrentImage->m_nWidth, right ? And, how about the nWidth ? How to calculate it if I want to print to the original dimension of my bitmap ? How to calculate pSrcDC ? (Do I just use: dc.StretchBlt(...) as dc mentioned above ? Because there are 2 DCs, I got kind of confused !! ) And, when to put "COLORONCOLOR StretchBlt mode" as you mentioned last time ? I know I probably asked too many questions. Your any reply would be greatly appreciated.. :)

CPrintDialog dlg(false); dlg.GetDefaults(); HDC hdc = dlg.GetPrinterDC(); ASSERT(hdc); CDC DC; DC.Attach(hdc); m_PrintAreaHorz = GetDeviceCaps(hdc, HORZRES); m_PrintAreaVert = GetDeviceCaps(hdc, VERTRES); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ DC.DeleteDC(); Christian, Thanks for your reply. But I got another question as quoted as "^^^^^" above. Does this print to the "original size" of this bitmap file ? (i.e, original width and height of this bitmap):)

Hello, I have a program written in Visual C++ and I want to add some codes that can help me know this program is being debigged (ex: in debug mode in Visual C++ ) in run-time. Does anybody know how to do that ?