I am working at blitting to back frame buffers a changing variety of bitmaps to create animations. When completed, that would be sent to the screen. I want to do this with minimum processing and minimum RAM. Svetoslav Chekanov, on another page Fast 2:1 Image Shrink (Scale Down)[^] said,

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Device dependent format is blitted faster to the screen.

I did not know that. I have been using Device Independent because it seemed to be easier to work with. I will now consider this Dependent vs Independent. I found a discussion with some interesting observations. C++ Windows API: Is there any alternative of the SetDIBits for device-dependent Bitmap?[^] In that I found:

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The difference is insignificant, more than swamped by the time it takes to copy the bitmap to the frame buffer.

May I have some feedback on this "is insignificant" comment (from the Windows API link) if it is correct or not? I also read on that page,

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In a DIB, each scanline is always a multiple of 4 bytes. In a 24-bit DIB, that means you will have extra padding bytes unless the width is a multiple of 4.

I did not know that. I will now have that to consider. Looking forward to learning more about this.

@steve, Microsoft security:

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I don't trust 'security' products made by Microsoft.

I understand that. Microsoft was not always that way. Would you please supply a list of Windows 7 updates and service packs that you use? Maybe use with modifications? ClamWin: I was reading on their site,

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Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware.

For Windows 7, as you use ClamWin, having to manually scan each file seems time consuming. I use malwarebytes and just tell it to scan all drives on its own, and it does it. Please explain how one at a time is better for you, if it really is one at a time. BIOS vs UEFI: Staying with Windows 7, not going off topic; Did you install Windows 7 via BIOS or via UEFI? Whichever you did, how do you see this choice affecting your anti-WannaCry barrier(s)?

Spaghetti code I like that. May I use it free of charge and without having to give reference?

"Do not lie flat on bench." Maybe that could that have been interpreted to mean that while laying on a bench lay on your side or curled up? The manufacturer might have received complains from users having side hip pains and removed that instruction.

What is the best anti-trojan/virus/etc. for Windows 7 ? Hello. This is a general question asking for specifics, not opinions. Please either give references with your answers or state if they are from direct experience. I have been tasked with building an older system with Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate. I have been reading that Windows 7 is vulnerable to the WannaCry trojan/virus/etc. and others of that type. Yes, I have been searching the net. I want further input from what I have found. I am looking for a (if possible) 100% effective way to block those trojans while being able to surf the net (with Windows 7) and view any page therein. I would like to use Firefox 100+ and definately not Google chrome. Do not tell me to upgrade to a newer version of Windows as that is not an option. Do not tell me to change to Unix or Linux or some version of those as that is not an option. Thank you for your input.

I should have mentioned this before but I did not think sufficiently of it. It looks like you are willing to accept a load of responsibility that is upon you. Good. Be the "i" in every team that you are on. The weak minded cannot see that i in team because they are not it. It looks like you already know that you are it. OK, so, force yourself to succeed while (inadvertantly) dragging the complainers, whiners, and lazy forward to success. Let them fail on their own time. This is your time to succeed. Yes, I complain and while myself. :(( Thank you for giving the chance to see that. I shall work on removing that from my own preferrendums.

No. It was not a reply to you. It was a reply to Gopika Ravikumar's original post. Not to you. The line of it went to you, and when I saw that I tried to change it but my internet connection locked up. Richard Deeming said, "Says the person whose only other message on this site is a "do all my work for me" question in the database forum." That is not nice. That is arrogant. Then when the poster, who seems to think that this is a "helpful" site tried to placate Deeming and received, "But if you turn up and dump a list of requirements and expect us to do all the work for you, you've come to the wrong site." More arrogance from Deeming. I do not care how many points he has. That means nothing as he has proven multiple times in degrading other people that are simply asking for help. Maybe I should have contacted the advertisers on this site and pointed out to them how offensive some memebers like Deeming are. Maybe the advertisers will consider that the negativity transfered to readers is also by association transferred to their product. I have been thinking about that. I like your posts, generally. You seem to get flustered by new people's questions occationally, but you do not agressively degrade them. I might some day like to meet you and simply listen to what you have to say in general. Have lunch. Sit and listen. That sounds nice. But, bullies like Deeming, I have a tendency to get in a bully's face, nose to nose. I would cross a room full of people to stand in the face of a bully. I have always been that way. You can delete my account if you like. It is OK. I have learned what I mostly came here to learn, which was how to break apart files into bits and analyze them for security purposes. I noticed 7 negative 16's on my reputation history today. I guess that means that I have found a bully and am standing in his face, right where I enjoy being. You guys depend upon advertising revenue. Think about that. If I am to advertise on your site, then it had better be a lot less negative. I come from heavy industry, where there is a lot more money simply in the cash flow than your tiny advertisers that you have now can pay. CFOs that have MBAs are [supposedly] trained like I was in head to head competitive strategies. Advertising on a negative site can preclude a viewer's tendencies toward disliking or at least feeling uncomfortable with any and all that they encounter (like advertising) while perceiving negativity. Bullies or me. If we are together I will be in their face. Deeming is a bully, lik

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You make a list of the messages that you intend to send and then you send them one at a time. Your question makes perfect sense.:thumbsup: Start here: SMPP protocol with c at DuckDuckGo[^] And then read a lot. SMTP, I guess as you might be attempting to do, is just sending email. Not what I have done recently, but this is how I would approach it. Thank you for asking.

Read this site a lot. Then ask logical questions that are "logical" to a beginner (if you are a beginner), then get flamed by self-delusional idiots (that have vast amounts of points on this site) that tell you how stupid that they think you are, then occationally get an incredibly useful answer from a few of the old-timers here. Some try to verbally kick you. Some try to gently guide you. Wading through the idiots to get to the useful is like finding gold. Or, you could search duckduckgo.com (which is kind of Bing blindfolded) for +"Active" +"eCommerce" +"Flutter App" . Maybe I will buy this company and delete the accounts of the self-engrossed bullies.

7 is the best if you want control of you own server. Otherwise it is a game of maybe.

In Windows Task Manager you might want to look at: PID CPU Mem Usage Handles USER Objects I/O Reads I/O Read Bytes Keep the Task Manager open and watch to see if a process is doing this. If not then you might be right. Thank you for asking.

What are you trying to accomplish with this message?

Not everyone is a smartass. This might help: https://melroselabs.com/docs/tutorials/sms/send-sms-with-smpp-using-csharp/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23607116/smpp-server-and-client-applications-c-sharp https://ozeki-sms-gateway.com/p_107-how-to-send-sms-from-c-sharp-with-smpp.html https://sourceforge.net/projects/easysmpp/

I agree with the Microsoft store part.

The Microsoft app store might be a good idea. I guess that your app might be a stand-alone executable, if so then be careful how you write your XML that you include in the executable. It is not complicated. Microsoft has some guidelines that help you get on their list. Do it. Make some money. Do not be afraid of competition. Do not worry about competition so much that you do not have a product out there. Thank you for asking.

Some more details about what this does step by step might help others to help you. Nice code though. Thanks. :thumbsup:

MSI installer. Something to consider more. Thank you. :thumbsup:

I agree.

Going by your question, "My question is how do you keep it all organized?": Organization should start with what is most important. Then to what is next important. And so on. That is it. All that answers your question about organization. For this to work: Make each of these work. Include error checking to each before moving to the next. Test them each before moving on to the next. Use switch or if then or whatever code is easiest for you (your personal self) to use and follow later. It is not so complicated. Just do as I said, one at a time. Take your time. Do not get into a hurry. Do not take short-cuts. Make *your* code readable to *you*. If you write most of it with simple if-then-else and if that is most comfortable to you, then that is how it should be coded. Thank you for asking. Here is an example. If you have a character moving in a scene with walls and background, then this all has to be rendered to some output. Remember this is just an example. First create or load or put together the background. Then effects to the background, like lightning or explosions. Then the walls. Then effects to the walls like splatter eminating from bullet hits etc. Then the stationary items in the space like blocks or resources etc. which are upstaging the character. Then effects to those stationary items. Then movable items or characters that are upstaging the character. Then effects to those particular movable items. Then the character. Then effects to that particular character. Then do similar to that which is down stage of the character. Upstage is further away from you than the character. Downstage is closer to you than the character. Now that I have answered your question as it was asked, I feel like I might now get into other things. The following might be tangental to the question, but I at least answered the question first. If you are doing this in Microsoft Windows and if you are blitting the images (still or virtually moving), then you might want to use 2 or three or many more buffers, blitting to each buffer as you go from the furtherest away from you to the buffer that is closest to you. Put all of these together and blit to the screen buffer. Then put the screen buffer to the screen. If you have 5 buffers and the background is buffer_5 then when you have buffer_4 complete, add buffer_4 to buffer_5 and save it as buffer_4. This can be done by starting buffer_4 as a solid color (example RGB