Hi, I'm searching for C++ classes (MFC) gathering media infos in JPG,GIF,BMP,PDF,MP3,MP4, etc... To make it clear, I don't want to display or modify the files, I'm simply interested in lightweight and fast routines to get the basic infos like width/height/colors in images or number of pages in PDFs (somewhat like the properties tab in Windows' Explorer). I don't need big and high sophisticated projects with hundreds of whistles and bells... I remember there are books about file "standards" and formats but I don't really want to reinvent the wheel and start from scratch. I'm now searching for days, but all things I found are to complex. Don't let me be misunderstood, they're all great and kudos to the authors but for the purpose I'd like to use somewhat 'over-dozed'. If I succeed I'll make a article with the results, so the routines should be free of royalties. Could someone please give me a hint or lead me to some links? greetings, ralf.

Thanks a lot !!!! greetings from (frosty) germany, ralf.

Well I tried, but I'm probably too stupid... I only arranged to change the keyboard layout, pah! Programming in MFC, I saw that a lot of system strings moved to references in language DLL's, but I didn't manage to create a user with a different language. Maybe someone can help me? btw: I only want to have a simple screenshot of this simple system menu for my simple tool I'd like to share the sourcecode. greetings, ralf.

Hello together, I'm currently doing the documentation of a tool I'd like to publish on codeproject and I need a screenshot of the systemmenu (the one appearing after click on the top left icon or rightclick on the titlebar in almost any window) from an _english Windows Vista_ system. Because I'm working on a german system I can't do it myself to get it in english, so would someone please be so kind to press Alt-PrtScr while this menu is shown? Thanks a lot in advance... ralf.

Hi Armond,

Armond Sarkisian wrote:

I tried to research the cmd.exe command but it doesn't start a whole new window. Anyone can help on this?

does 'start cmd' the trick for you? (type 'help start' to see the options of the start command) greetings, ralf.

Hi dan,

dan neely wrote:

Also the question itself probably should've been posted in the c++ forum with a note that these are newly added constants for vista and not contained in the older SDK.

I already did but got the advice to post it here, see: [^] greetings, ralf.

o.k. I'll answer the question by myself (it took me almost a day to download the SDK because of a very slow internet connection). It seems the constants are only available in the Vista SDK (W2003ServerR2 and earlier don't have them) PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_EMF // doesn't exist in winspool.h PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_FRIENDLY_NAME 0x00100000 PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_MACHINE 0x00080000 PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_USER 0x00020000 PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_MACHINE 0x00040000 hope, this will help someone... Does someone know where PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_EMF is defined?

o.k. I'll answer the question by myself (it took me almost a day to download the SDK because of a very slow internet connection). Anyhow: PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_EMF // doesn't exist in winspool.h PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_FRIENDLY_NAME 0x00100000 PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_MACHINE 0x00080000 PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_USER 0x00020000 PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_MACHINE 0x00040000 btw: to the fellow who rated this question as '1': I hope you face the situation where you are on service abroad and only have a GSM connection... have fun waiting for help/support.

Hi together, I need some constants from winspool.h (the SDK installed on this machine is too old since they were introduced with Vista). Could someone with a current SDK please have a look in winspool.h and give me the values/defines for PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_EMF PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_FRIENDLY_NAME PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_MACHINE PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_USER PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_MACHINE (I need the values, MSDN mentions them, but not the values and googling for them didn't give a result) thanks a lot in advance, ralf.

Hi Russell,

_Russell_ wrote:

winspool.h[^] ...but there isn't that macro ... are you sure that these values are defined there?

I'm sure, but the problem is: they are new with Windows Vista and the SDK I have is too old. So the wine sources also have to be updated (as soon someone finds the values). In MSDN they are mentioned, but not the corresponding values: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535768.aspx[^] btw: The wine sources also don't have the following ones: PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_FAX 0x00004000 Windows XP: If set, printer is a fax printer. This can only be set by AddPrinter, but it can be retrieved by EnumPrinters and GetPrinter. PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_TS 0x00008000 Windows Server 2003: Indicates the printer is currently connected through a terminal server. Thanks for your efforts, ralf.

Hi together, I urgently need some constants from winspool.h (the SDK installed on this machine is too old). Could someone have a look in winspool.h and give me the defines for PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_EMF PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_FRIENDLY_NAME PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_MACHINE PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_USER PRINTER_ATTRIBUTE_PUSHED_MACHINE (I need the values) thanks in advance, ralf.

Nemanja Trifunovic wrote:

UTF-8 is not required to start with a byte-order mark, and files with UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE encodings are actually forbiden to start with it.

Sorry, why UTF-16(little/big endian) are actually forbidden?

Did you try it with ON_WM_CTLCOLOR_REFLECT ? for my purposes, it worked... class CTransparentCheckbox : public CButton { public: CTransparentCheckbox(); //{{AFX_VIRTUAL(CTransparentCheckbox) //}}AFX_VIRTUAL virtual ~CTransparentCheckbox(); protected: //{{AFX_MSG(CButtonEx) afx_msg HBRUSH CtlColor(CDC* pDC, UINT nCtlColor); //}}AFX_MSG DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP() }; ////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // CTransparentCheckbox CTransparentCheckbox::CTransparentCheckbox() { } CTransparentCheckbox::~CTransparentCheckbox() { } BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CTransparentCheckbox, CButton) //{{AFX_MSG_MAP(CTransparentCheckbox) ON_WM_CTLCOLOR_REFLECT() //}}AFX_MSG_MAP END_MESSAGE_MAP() // Handler for WM_CTLCOLOR reflected message (see message map) HBRUSH CTransparentCheckbox::CtlColor(CDC* pDC, UINT nCtlColor) { ASSERT(nCtlColor == CTLCOLOR_STATIC); // Set transparent drawing mode pDC->SetBkMode(TRANSPARENT); return (HBRUSH)GetStockObject(NULL_BRUSH); } greetings, ralf.

How about starting with: EnumDeviceDrivers(aDrivers, sizeof(aDrivers), &cbNeeded) (SDK) and test if the driver is in the list? You could get additional infos with GetDeviceDriverBaseName(aDrivers[i], szBaseName,sizeof(szBaseName)) and GetDeviceDriverFileName(aDrivers[i], szDriverFileName,sizeof(szDriverFileName)) greetings, ralf.