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From: saustin@bbn.com (Steve Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Disappearing windows resources...
Date: 21 Jul 92 23:56:18 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

jpark@Ingres.COM (John Park) writes:

>It seems like Windows is eating my resources.  I have the following config:

In Windows, if an application gets some resources and does not
explicitly free them, they will become lost forever (until you
quit Windows).  One of your applications does this -- find which
one by starting one up, using it and quitting -- see which one
causes the resources to be significantly different afer exiting.

	Steve Austin
From: sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: ET4000 Video Drivers Benchmark
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:19:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network

This morning I upgraded the video drivers for my Orchid Prodesigner II
card.  I had been running with Windows 3.0a drivers dated 03/01/92 that I
had downloaded from Cica.  I downloaded et4win and et4cview from Cica and
installed.

To sum up:  the et4win drivers are true Windows 3.1 drivers (no I did not
test high res Dos apps in a window as the only one I currently had was Aces
of the Pacific which needs too much free memory) but they run slightly
slower than the Windows 3.0a drivers.  The et4cview drivers are also true
Windows 3.1 drivers and they are significantly faster than the Windows 3.0a
drivers.  I did notice a color palette change with these drivers, however.

Using WinTach (an excellent Windows performance benchmark program), my
relative system speed went from 4.62 to 5.26 (x386/25 base speed)!  This
was just from new video drivers!  Word processing went from 3.78 to 4.50
and scrolling is very visibly improved.

So, download and install the et4cview drivers from cica -- you won't be
disappointed.

______________________________________________________________________________
                                        |    jay@seaspray.uacn.alaska.edu
Jay C. Beavers                          |    sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu
University of Alaska Computer Network   |    sxjcb@alaska.bitnet
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: vscarafi@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (Vincent F. Scarafino)
Subject: Re: Windows/NT == VMS++?
Originator: news@pms001
Organization: Ford Motor Co.
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:22:21 GMT

Robert.Turner@brunel.ac.uk (Robert Turner) writes:
> klee@wsl.dec.com writes:=
> %Is there any truth the rumor that the name "Windows/NT" (WNT for short)
> %really means "one step beyond VMS", just as HAL (the computer in 2001) was
> %supposedly "one step ahead of IBM"?
> 
> But surely, HAL is one step BEHIND IBM :-} :-} :-}
> 
> 
 Well, it's interesting that HAL was born in January of 1992 (according to
the movie), and IBM released *their* series 9000 computers not too far from
that date!  Coincidence?  (Or maybe a sense of humor?)  :-)

Vince
From: rwallace@nebula.mentorg.com (Richard Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: Shareware Program
Keywords: database, ASCII
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:40:30 GMT
Reply-To: richard_wallace@mentorg.com
Followup-To: richard_wallace@mentorg.com
Organization: Mentor Graphics
Originator: rwallace@nebula
Originator: infidel@unix.cis.pitt.edu


Hi all,

Location
--------
  SIMTEL ( 192.88.110.20 ) in the windows directory.
  CompuServe

Program Name
------- ----
  winphn11.zip

Description
-----------
  This is a Windows program to view comma delimited ASCII database files.
  There are eight data fields and the title of each field is user definable,
  as well as the title of the program.  Each field will allow up to 32
  characters to be displayed.  The main purpose for this program is to give
  the user the ability to view a phone list, but other people have
  found other uses, such as parts list viewer.  A search is performed by
  entering a pattern into one of the fields and selecting the OK button
  on the menu.  The program will find all matches up 180 matches.  The
  user can then step through each of the matches.

Registration
------------
  Five dollars U.S.

Future Plans
------ -----
  1.  Allow user selectable case sesitivity for searches.
  2.  Allow mutiple instances of the program to run with different
      databases to search.
  3.  Allow coping of selected fields to the clipboard or other application.
      This is to allow grabbing a phone number to initiate a modem call,
      send email, initiate a FAX call, etc...

Get a copy of this application, give it a try.  If you have any constructive
criticism please let me hear it, as this is my first Windows program and
first Shareware attempt.

Please use the email address below!

Thanks,
Richard

email - richard_wallace@mentorg.com
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From: mark@sdd.hp.com (Mark Overton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamically changing Window attributes
Date: 24 Jul 1992 01:58:45 -0700
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdl157.sdd.hp.com

In article <YePihKi00WB4QR=1Y5@andrew.cmu.edu> ak10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew Joseph Kompanek) writes:
>
>1. Is it possible to dynamically hide/show a window border, title bar, system
>menu button, etc... given its handle (ie., after the window's been opened)?

SetWindowLong(hWnd,GWL_STYLE,your_new_style);
might do the trick.  I haven't tried it though, so I can't promise anything.

Mark Overton,  Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Div),  mark@sdd.hp.com

		C code.
		C code run.
		Please code run!
			    -- the C User's Journal

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: popkin@aethelbehrt.cs.odu.edu (Brian N. Popkin)
Subject: Re: Known Compiler Bug In BC++ v3.1....
Organization: Old Dominion University Dept. of CS, Norfolk VA
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 23:12:12 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.184922.2622@overload.lbl.gov> jdrx@ux3.lbl.gov (James Rudnicki) writes:
>If the BC++ 3.1 where not able to export functions, I
>wouldn't call it a bug!  I've only used a few programs
>in the short time I've had the new 3.1 compiler, and they
>all ran.  So at least WndProc is getting exported.
>
>Who told you this was a "bug"?

Borland Told me that when using C++ classes, functions get manageled when
trying to _export them.. To use smartcall backs...

Brian

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From: death@acca.nmsu.edu (The Grimm Reaper)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: FLAME: BORLAND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:48:34 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

rjrichar@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Bob Richards) writes:
: Personally, I have been VERY flustrated with Borland's "free" support. 
: The lines have been impossible to get through plus once you do get through
: you end up waiting roughly 20-30 minutes in long distance waiting to talk to 
: somebody.   Once you do get to talk to somebody you are given all of the
: obvious suggestions/answers.
: 
: It's pretty said that when you are paying near $900 for a product that
: you have to pay for "GOOD" support.     BORLAND LETS GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!!

Besides the long distance waiting which I too find very annoying, their
phone support, I believe, is excellent.  About the answers they give:  if
they are correct, then who cares?  If they aren't the answers you are
looking for, then tell them that.  From the price tag you mention I doubt
you are using TPW, but my experience with the TPW support has been
completely positive.  When the support guy had no clue what I was talking
about (File Man Extensions), he -called me- back the next day with the
answer.  That's customer appreciation.
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From: dz@irst.UUCP (Massimo Dal Zotto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: hiding scrollbars when not needed
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:24:50 GMT
Organization: I. R. S. T. , Trento - Italy


I would like to know if it's possible to hide the scrollbars in a window,
created with the style attributes WS_VSCROLL and WS_HSCROLL, when the 
entire document fits in the window so that scrolling is not needed.
I know that I could create the scrollbar controls explicitly, but this
requires also positioning and controlling them, so I would prefer to use
the standard window scrollbars if possible.
Thanks in advance.

Massimo  Dal Zotto

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From: briggs@progress.COM (Scott Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Is it really this bad, or is it just me
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:35:31 GMT
Organization: Progress Software Corp.

nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:

>In article <1992Jul29.155112.7877@microsoft.com> gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie) writes:
>>In article <1992Jul28.134522.11108@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> turnbull@ces.cwru.edu (John Turnbull) writes:
>>>In article <1992Jul28.090409.1@cortex> mboucher@cortex.prospect.com (Mike Boucher) writes:
>>>>

[stuff deleted]

>  OK, so what CAN you debug with a Windows debugger?   For instance, 
>  it is clear that I can't set a breakpoint in the message handler
>  for the scrolling messages.   But my WM_VSCROLL handler eventually
>  makes calls which invalidate the rectangle, resulting in a WM_PAINT 
>  message.  WM_PAINT is ordinarily a low-priority message but it
>  can be given higher-priority or still happen quite quickly. 

>  I've noticed if I'm debugging scrolling code that even if I 
>  set my breakpoint in my WM_PAINT message handler I still some-
>  times get "extra" WM_PAINT messages for a single click on
>  the "up" or"down" buttons on the scrollbar  -- although the 
>  problem is not nearly as bad as with WM_VSCROLL.   

>  I mean a GUI is a mouse-event driven environment, so it would
>  seem that this would make LOTS of things hard to debug!   Is
>  this true?

>  Is there a systematic way for me to know when this is a problem?
>  As a beginner Windows programmer I expect to make lots of problems
>  for myself but I don't want to have to try to guess when it's 
>  something *I'm* doing wrong and when it's someing *it* is doing
>  wrong.

>  I don't have this problem debugging graphics apps with the Apollo 
>  debugger "dde" on Domain Workstations (Unix) here at work.  Granted
>  this is a "real" OS, not a toy one, but still, it doesn't seem like
>  it should be that hard a problem for Microsoft or Borland to fix.
>        

Your probably not going to like this suggestion but;  get yourself
a secondary monochrome monitor and video card (total cost <$100).
and then use CVW /2.  When you hit a break point your focus 
shifts to the secondary monitor so you don't get spurious (sp?)
messages sent to your WNDProc.  I use this setup on my machine
at work and at home.  It works great.  If you don't know where to
easily find the hardware, head north to L&W Computers next to
the Pheasent Lane Mall in Nashua.

Scott --
Nashua, NH

PS. e-mail me if you have any questions
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 20:21:04 +0200
From: Thomas_Hornschuh@softstream.fido.de (Thomas Hornschuh)
Subject: Re: Stack overflow and OWL error -6 (out of mem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
X-Comment-To: (Rune Halfdan Holst Huseby)
Organization: SoftStream Development, Dortmund, Germany 

RH> So here the other day, after adding another module to the program, I got a
RH> Stack Overflow. OK, I thought, I'll just raise STACKSIZE in my .DEF-file a
RH> little bit (I had to raise it from 8000 to 21000, don't know why, the
RH> module ain't recursive and don't contain much automatic variables).

Do you use some of the Windows Common Dialogs (Font, File Selector)? They 
occupies much stack space.

RH>    1: How should I reduce the size of needed stack?

It's difficult, because Windows tends to be very recursive (nestet SendMessage 
calls).

RH>    2: Is it possible to seperate det Stacksegment from the Datasegment?

Not directly in your app. But you can put most of your code in a DLL and only 
the Startupcode in the EXE. Then the Datasegment for the .EXE can be entirely 
used for the stack, and you DLL uses it's Data segment for Data only. But you 
must deal with the SS!=DS issue, which is dificult in small and medium modell, 
where library calls are want near data pointer.


RH>    3: Should I use Large memory model (now I'm using Medium), even
RH>       though it is recommended not doing so?

I think it's the easiest way. C++ objects in small and medium modell can only 
be created at the local heap. To use far pointers, you must switch back to ugly 
C structures. Or you can build only small objects, that contains far pointers 
to the actual data. The objects would be only wrappers. Very error prone!

It's far easier to switch to large modell. The way Borland handles large modell 
does not interfere with Windows memory managment. Borland by default stuffs all 
static data in the automatic data segment and adresses it via the DS register 
even in large modell. So it does not prevent windows from creating multiple 
instances of the program.

MSC up to Version 6.0 always created a far data segment for the static data, 
which prevents Windows from starting multiple instances of a program. The 
problems with large modell have always been problems with MSC rather than 
Windows.

Windows does not know anything about memory modell. It only asks: Does the 
programm have one or more static data segments? If the answer is "one" Windows 
is happy.




Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: elting@infix.emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de (Andreas Elting)
Subject: DLLs for CNTRL-P interface for a SONY Videorecorder
Organization: University of Munich
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:45:33 GMT

Hello out there,

I'm desperately looking for a Windows 3.1 DLL or source code to 
implement the CNTRL-P interface to a SONY video recorder.

We are using Toolbook under WINDOWS 3.1 and want to connect
a videorecorder through the serial port to our PC.

We already got the right cable, but we don't have any 
informations about the CNTRL-P protokoll (control sequences and so on).

Do you have any ideas where to get them?

Thanks in advance,

Andreas


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: rca@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Robert C Allender)
Subject: MIDWEST WINDOWS PROGRAMMING COURSES??
Originator: rca@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 05:38:31 GMT

I'm trying to find someone who offers MS-Windows programming courses /
seminars in the midwest (Milwaukee or Chicago would be ideal).  If you
happen to get information on such a thing, please E-Mail the contact
information to me.  For the benefit of anyone else who may be
interested, I'll post any info. sent as a summarized file by Tuesday.

Thanks!
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From: Steve_Goyette@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Goyette)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Formating IN Visual Basic
Date: 30 Jul 92 05:14:54 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Hi,

        Guess the previous message didn't tweak anybody's fancy.  I guess I'll
give it another try.

        Does anybody know how I can Format a Disk from Visual Basic using the
API.  Is this possible?  I know that a formatting routine exists in File
Manager, Can I access this using DDE? If so, how???

        After you've digested all of that, can anybody tell me why I bother????
(Just kidding!!) Windows programming can be very frustrating!!!




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From: baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: How many children does this window have?
Date: 31 Jul 92 01:46:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dep't., U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD

Subject: How many children does this window have?

This is something that ought to be REAL simple, but I just can't figure it
out.  I am using ObjectWindows with Borland C++ 3.0 to develop a Windows
3.1 application.

In function CanClose() of my application's main window, I wish to check
whether the window has any children before asking whether the user is sure
he wants to close the window.  That is, the window will close immediately
if there are NO children; but a MessageBox will ask "Are you sure?" if there
are any children.

I thought I'd just do the following (in CanClose()):

   PTWindowsObject kid;

   kid = GetFirstChild();

   if (kid != NULL)
   {
      /*  DO MESSAGEBOX HERE */
   }
   else
      return TRUE;

This works fine if there are children, but causes a general protection
fault if there are no children.  Why?  Well it seems that GetFirstChild()
is an inline function that returns, simply:

     ChildList -> SiblingList

If there are no children, ChildList is NULL.  (Is this brain-dead,
or what?  A call to GetFirstChild() when there are no children will
always cause a general protection fault since it dereferences NULL.)

"So," I hear you saying to yourselves, "if ChildList is NULL when
there are no children, then why not just test (ChildList != NULL)?"  An
excellent idea, but thanks to the data-hiding instincts of the same
software designers who gave us the bug described above, ChildList is a
private data member of TWindowsObject.

The only thing I can think of is to use ForEach() on a pointer to a function
whose only purpose is to increment a counter; this will return a count
of the child windows.  However, this is a gross kludge and, for all I know,
ForEach() suffers from the same idiotic bug as GetFirstChild().

So, does anyone out there have the simple answer?  If you do, please post
*and* e-mail me at baldwin@spectrum.lanl.gov, as my access to my normal
mail machine and news-reading machine is unreliable at best (it requires
a 3000-mile telnet connection).

SUMMER ADDRESS:  baldwin@spectrum.lanl.gov (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: ebergman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Subject: Testers Needed for Astronomy Lab for MS Windows
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 16:40:54 GMT


*** Beta Testers Needed for Windows 3.X Astronomy Program ***

I need people to text version 1.09 of Astronomy Lab for MS Windows 3.X.
If you are interested, please send me an e-mail message containing the
following information:

Name:
E-Mail Address:
Beta testers must agree to not distribute the test version of the software.
Beta testers will be sent the final version of the software when testing
is complete.  Astronomy Lab is shareware.

Beta software will be sent via e-mail as uuencoded .zip files.  You
will need to uudecode the files, and then unzip them on your PC.
UNIX users:  do a "man uudecode" for further information.

Testers will send feedback via e-mail to:

ebergman@nyx.cs.du.edu
- or -
uunet!edoc9!erict


Eric Bergman-Terrell

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Astronomy Lab is one of the most versatile and comprehensive astronomy 
programs available for Microsoft Windows 3.X.  Astronomy Lab produces 7 
movies that simulate a host of astronomical phenomena, 15 graphs that 
illustrate many fundamental concepts of astronomy, and 14 printed reports 
that predict the most important astronomical events.  All movies, graphs, 
and reports are customized for the user's time zone and location.

Astronomy Lab requires Microsoft Windows 3.X or later running in standard 
or enhanced mode, 1 megabyte of available memory, and a mouse.  Reports, 
graphs, and movie frames can be printed on any Windows compatible printer.
Astronomy Lab will use an 8X87 compatible math coprocessor if one is 
installed.

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From: Steve_Goyette@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Goyette)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Visual Basic
Date: 25 Jul 92 09:13:14 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

Hi,

        Just wanted to know if there were any specific Usenet or Internet areas
that are more specific to Visual Basic.  If not, the chances of creating one.
Also, does anyone know of any Visual Basic specific BBS's around the
country(ies) (Canada/US)  Anyway, just wondering...



                                                Steve Goyette

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: r3mjb@vax1.cc.uakron.edu (Michael J Brumbelow)
Subject: LRESULT & CALLBACK
Summary: Fustration to The MAX!
Organization: The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:26:50 GMT

For those Win_Guru's,

I am Making a normal windows application. All of a sudden I get this little
remark from the compiler:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 1.11    
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-90. All rights reserved.
	cl -AM -c -DWINVER=0x0300 -Gsw -I\WINDEV\INCLUDE -Ow -W3 -Zp Bog.c
Bog.c
Bog.c(9) : error C2054: expected '(' to follow 'LRESULT'
Bog.c(9) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier 'CALLBACK'
 
Here's what line nine looks like:

LRESULT CALLBACK MinWndProc (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

I need help and I need it fast, like yesterday!

Sincerely,

Mike.

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