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change icon in visual studio 2013 express?

How would i change my icon for my application in visual studio 2013 express edition? ive looked around for a few hours and nothing i find seems to explain what ...

[2 replies] Last: ive made the .rc file, im just not sure where to put the .rc file i ma... (by closed account 9i3hURfi)

by GarryPlusPlus

[Win32] Compiling C++ Code As A Library

Hey there, I have been working on a WIN32 API library and recently tried to compile it (for the first time) using MINGW [G++] and I have come across a compi...

[4 replies] Last: Thanks for the help guys. So a few things I found. -mwindows doesn... (by GarryPlusPlus)

by DeXecipher

Is it worth it to wrap WINAPI

With all the free tools such as QT, GTK, etc. Is it worth the effort to make a gui library from my sdk?

[2 replies] Last: IMNSHO, no. The only qualifiers I'd put on that are two. First, ... (by freddie1)

by mekkatorqu

[Win32Api] List View Report questions and bugs (?)

okay, so I'm creating a listview with report style, however I'm having some troubles with it, I'm creating it in .rc not via function, like this CONTROL ...

[3 replies] Last: On the listview extended styles page on MSDN it says: Use the LVM_SE... (by knn9)

by FrancisVTalan

How to Prevent Chars and Special Chars in cin?

Good day guys, sorry im actually new in programming and my teacher asked us to make a Cashier program. So i used the do and while and also the switch case thing...

[2 replies] Last: I think the op is reading in as an integer and is trying to avoid inva... (by giblit)

by Leonardo321

copyfile error 5 access denied!

cant copy file i get error 5 access denied i disabled uac and my account has admin rights and its not helping me. i checked the directories and they exist .

[14 replies] Last: Try right clicking and running as admin. (by Avilius)

by selenium

Graphic drwan by GDI keep flashing....

I am trying to make the rectangle drawn by GDI will move with mouse cursor when user clicked the rectangle. And i am using this source as guide, http://gfxg...

[9 replies] Last: Ok, Thanks very much Disnch and knn9, now i am going to mark this post... (by selenium)

by NSwiftae

Rogue-Like game issues

Hey everyone! I've been trying to make a rogue-like game with C++ and Windows API, no other libraries such as Curses. I'm trying to do this so I can understa...

[3 replies] Last: Sounds like you aren't using the latest version of VC++ which has supp... (by cire)

by HellfireXP

Coding to support IntelliSense

I'm working on a larger project to make Allegro5 simpler to use for myself. What I want to do is be able to setup a "palette" of colors that I can use with Int...

[2 replies] Last: VAX does look nice; hardly worth the price tag though. Either way, th... (by HellfireXP)

by jonbonjovi

Calculating number arrays from a text file.

I wish to create a program in C++ that can conduct a linear regression calculation on an array of numbers. e.g. Text File 33 46 60 42 96 66 38 80 37 51 ...

[1 reply] : Use list or vector of vectors The list will store vector of integers.... (by codewalker)

by AceDawg45

How to set buttons in the center of the window?

So, I started working with windows.h again, because Qt seems like I am not really learning anything, and in Qt you could set things in the center and then resiz...

[7 replies] Last: [quote=AceDawg45]I will try that, but do you know any other tutorials ... (by closed account z05DSL3A)

by selenium

Need advice on how to do the "dynamic collision" with GDI.

I know how to detect the collision of 2 known object by giving giving them 2 point(e.g 1 at left top and another one at right bottom corner), and i can always u...

[5 replies] Last: No problem. He has multiple others as well as that one. (by Avilius)

by venkat raghvan

Manage shared variable in multithreading application

I design one sample multithreaded application in which i read one file in one thread using circular buffer with checking isfull or not also write same buffer to...

[1 reply] : Protect shared variable access with calls to EnterCriticalSection() an... (by modoran)

by as0re

Rock Paper Scissors Game

Hello there people, I have been coding in c++ for a while now, but im still a newbie and I am trying to make a simple rock, paper, scissors game. Any help in ge...

[2 replies] Last: Thanks, i sure will. (by as0re)

by Gameman

DirectX tutorials

Anyone has any good DirectX tutorials?

[4 replies] Last: Thank you (by Gameman)

by ChongHan

MS Visual Studio version choose??

Hi all I am Newbie and seeking for a compiler tool to do my C++ project. So there are many version of MS Visual Studio, which version will you as a expert to...

[2 replies] Last: I am a noob as well and I would recommend MS Visual Studio 2013. (by as0re)

by xeef

directX and heap coruption

going nuts struct TRI { WORD v0, v1, v2; TRI(WORD w0, WORD w1, WORD w2) { v0 = w0; v1 = w1; v2 = w2; }; }; BorderIndexCount = 48; //if...

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by liyun

set global path in VS 2012 Express

Hi, All, I have a solution that has 15 projects. I set the include and lib path for each of the projects. Is there a way to set them once for the whole solut...

[4 replies] Last: Modoran, I have read the link before and I read it again, but I still... (by liyun)

by mekkatorqu

[win32api] Editable List View Report?

I want to make items to be editable in the listview, so I can click/double click on them and edit the values, is this possible in report style list view, or do ...

[4 replies] Last: is there a way to actually allow other columns to be selected? why is ... (by mekkatorqu)

by zsteve

KeyboardProc polls multiple times

I've created a keyboard hook via SetWindowsHookEx() (not low level), and everything works fine, but every time I hit a key, the KeyboardProc is called multiple ...

[2 replies] Last: hook=SetWindowsHookEx(WH_KEYBOARD, kbProc, hInstance, NULL); LR... (by zsteve)

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