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From: paulb@harlqn.co.uk (Paul Butcher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: New version of Dropper
Date: 1 Sep 92 13:35:33 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK

Version 0.3 of Dropper should be uploaded to cica sometime today.
New features since version 0.2 include:

- Default captions.
- Explicit "accepts dropped files" option.
- Slight changes to the icon borders to make them more visible on high-resolution screens.
- Faster handling of Windows exit.
- Better shell support including parsing of "run=" and "load=" lines in win.ini and "Exit Windows" button.
- Support for printing files.
- Snap to grid option.
- Stay in background option.
- Snap to edge option.
- Save settings on exit option and save now button.
- Single click launching.
- Icon arrangement.
- Setting of icon for DOS apps.
- Misc. bug fixes.

Dropper is a small program which allows you to perform drag and drop
to the Windows desktop. It is similar in many ways to the NeXT style
"icon dock" programs around at the moment.  Rather than requiring that
drag and drop is performed to a strip along one side of the screen
however, Dropper allows any part of the desktop to be used as a target.
Dropper requires Windows 3.1.

PaulB->msgCount++
From: jprice@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey R Price)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: Printer controlling DLL to cica
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:44:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: The Ohio State University

ORNTDLL.ZIP is now in the uploads directory at cica.

ORNTDLL is a DLL with several printer controlling features.
The zip'ed file contains the DLL, TPW source, Documentation, including an
example of using the DLL with ObjectVision.

Function           Description
-----------------  ------------------------------------------------------
Portrait           Change current printer to portrait orientation
Landscape          Change current printer to Landscape orientation
SetPrinterAs       Set current printer to a printer by name,
                   ex: "Apple LaserWriter II NTX"
SetPrinterCopies   Set printer to generate a specific number of copies.
                   In range 1-999

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From: karlth@rhi.hi.is (Karl Thoroddsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: WorkShift 1.5. Multiple screen desktop.
Date: 28 Aug 92 11:29:06 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
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WorkShift version 1.5.
----------------------

Requires Windows 3.1 or higher.

WorkShift is highly graphical virtual desktop program, that treats the
desktop NOT as a very large virtual screen, but rather as multiple screens.

-	Graphical preview of each screen.
-	Workshift restarts and resizes programs just as you left them.
-	Naming of screens, for quick identification.
-	Allows cut and paste between screens.
-	Quick Access to shifts via system menu.
-	Always on top feature.
-	Plus more.

WorkShift is a Shareware product.  Registration is $20 (large volume discounts).

Karl Thoroddsen. Internet: (karlth@rhi.hi.is)


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: stevesi@microsoft.com (Steven Sinofsky)
Subject: Re: Distribution of MFC library ?
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:55:32 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

I'm not a lawyer and this isn't a legal opinion, but in the
readme.txt in \C700\MFC there is a statement that expresses
the limited restrictions on distributing MFC derived applications.
Basically, you can distribute any .EXE/.DLL derived from MFC and
any source code you write.  You can't distribute MFC in source
code or library format without the permission of MS.  For
more information and an official opinion contact Microsoft legal.


In article <1992Aug25.032413.2379@nuscc.nus.sg> scstech@solomon.technet.sg (Arthur Lim) writes:
>I am in the processing of developing a development environment for
>Windows 3.1 and I am considering the use of Microsoft's MFC as the
>base for my development. As this product is going to be commercial
>and is a library (to be linked with user-code to form the exec),
>my primary concern is whether I can distribute the MFC modules
>used in my product without infringing on any copyright/licensing
>problem.
>
>Can anyone please comment (esp Microsoft staff) ? Any comment on the
>above approach to the development of a product ?
>
>Thanks !
>
>
>+======================================================================+
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>| (Voice) 065-240-3850           | Please prefix "For Arthur :" in the |
>| (Fax)   065-441-2811           | subject line when mailing. Thanks.  |
>+======================================================================+
>


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: reimer@fraser.sfu.ca (Kenneth Ryan Reimer)
Subject: Multiple NetBIOS sessions in Windows
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:40:19 GMT

Is it possible to have multiple NetBIOS sessions in Windows?  Specifically,
I want to know if it's possible to implement a simple server under Windows
that listens for NetBIOS connections, spawns a process which communicates
with a remote client and resumes listening for connections.  The idea is to
support several user processes (preferably up to the 32 session limit) each
with its own NB session.  

It would be something similar to Lotus Notes (although a lot simpler) but the
server would be a Win app rather than a DOS app.  The choice of Windows
rather than DOS should be obvious to the readers of this newsgroup.

What's needed is really a NB DLL that would be called by each user process
and would in turn control access to the NB TSR (ugh!) since it's probably not
shareable and would have to be treated as a critical resource.

If anyone out there has heard of this kind of thing, I'd *love* to hear about
it!  Please reply via e-mail to this address (or 76526.1454@compuserve.com).
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: shen@cis.uab.edu
Subject: Problem with Printing... Please Help
Originator: shen@saturn
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 02:50:32 GMT

Hello,
	I am writing a windows application and need to print an one
	page (all text) report.  I need to fit a lot of informations 
	onto one page.  This report uses LOGFONT and all I did is to
	TextOut everything I need.  I followed the examples on several
	books.  Everything seems fine until the Escape call to NEWFRAME.
	It returns SP_ERROR, which is the "General Error".  What is a 
	General Error anyway?  But..., This does not happen all the time.
	1/3 of the time it will print what I want and the other 2/3 of
	the time it will return the general error.  If I tried to just
	print half of a page it will be ok all the time.  Am I putting
	too much on one page?  Is there a limit to how much you can  
	print on a page?  I also tried to use banding on Petzold's 
	example.  But, still with no luck, it only works sometimes. I uses
	a HP LaserJet Series III.  Can someone help?  Any information
	on printing will be very helpful.  Thanks in advance.  

Cindy
From: "larry koester" <larry.koester@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: need info on visual b
Date: 31 Aug 92 06:46:25 EST
Reply-To: "larry koester" <larry.koester@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

SM>like to know more about VisualBASIC.  I keep hearing about it and
SM>What is it?  and how does it compare with Borland C++.

    Sulistio,
    If you are acquainted with QuickBasic, the syntax is very similar.
    However, the displays themselves are designed much like one would do
    in a draw program as objects.  Clicking on an object in design mode
    resents you with a default set of events to hook your explicit
    programming into.

    It's hard to describe to you, but much easier to do than C++.
    Probably the easiest way to program in Windows there is.  But the
    resulting program can be much slower than a C++ program, nor does
    VisualBasic in itself have the versitility of C++.  There are those
    who use it as a front end generator to DLLs that do the real work,
    but programmed in more powerful languages than VisualBasic itself.

    Larry
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
From: ldg@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (lawrence.d.goldsmith)
Subject: Re: MONEY to be made: VB & Grid Control!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:54:05 GMT

From article <anderson.27.715355124@mayo.edu>, by anderson@mayo.edu (Alfred I. Anderson):
> Several days ago I posted a message asking if anyone had information on a 
> GRID control (like that distributed with the Visual Basic Professional 
> Toolkit) that provided the ability to have character attributes of Forecolor 
> and FontSize to be set on a Cell-by-Cell basis at run-time.
> 
> I got an unexpected number of responses from people asking me to let them 
> know if I find such a control - they want it too.
> 
> In fact, I think people might even PAY for such a control!
> 
> 
> (The original note read:  
> Microsoft distributes the GRID control as an enhancement to Visual Basic in 
> the Professional Toolkit.  It is a very useful control!
> 
> Queston: How can the character attributes of forecolor and fontsize be set 
> on a CELL by CELL basis?
> 
> It is easy to give the entire grid these attributes.  However, I can't find 
> a way to adjust the attributes on a cell basis.  For example, all numbers 
> appearing in Column 1 should be in black unless they are negative in which 
> case they should appear in red.  Or, every 5th row should be printed in a 
> bold-face font, other rows printed in a normal font.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way of doing this?)
> 
> 
> 
> Alfred
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Alfred Anderson                Internet:    anderson@Mayo.edu
> Mayo Foundation - Rochester MN 55905
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
I believe that the answer to your problem is the MhSpread control that
is part of VBTools Version 2 from MicroHelp. There phone number is:
 800-922-3383

MhSpread supports all the things that you were talking about. In addition
VBTools also has numerous other custom controls too.

Larry Goldsmith ldg@hoqaa.att.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: rb450@rbhp58.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Guenter Schwaninger)
Subject: Re: grumble, grumble, damn help files...
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 12:36:31 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

Help compiler 3.00a does not work correctly. Try to get 3.00b or 3.10.


Guenter Schwaninger
rb450@rbhp24.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon)
Subject: Re: Using extended character set in menus
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 16:30:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Keywords: Windows 3.0

In article <55877@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> os2dev@flash.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Bruce Rienzo) writes:
>In article <kbbnz+=.whedon@netcom.com> whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes:
>>>I would like to display arrow symbols next to a menu item to indicate 
>>>that the arrow key is the accelerator for this item.
>>>
>>>How do I do it?
>>See "Programming Windows" by Charles Petzold, Microsoft Press, 
>>ISBN 1-55615-264-7, the section titled "USING BITMAPS IN MENUS"
>>Cheers,
>>Bill Whedon
>
>Thanks for this Bill but I don't have quick access to this book. I have 
>looked at the section on using bitmaps in menus but  it seems to me 
>that the entire menu item that is changed
>with ModifyMebu has to be a bit map.
>
>What I want to do is have a text string followed by an arrow symbol.
>Is there a slick way to write the string to the Menu item
>in the normal way and then add the arrow symbol either by:
>
>a) changing to another font, appending the arrow, then changing back to
>	the system font.
>
>b) appending the bitmap of an arrow to the existing menu item.
>
>Thanks in advance.

The nearest answer I can come up with is to create the bitmap on the fly
using text for your item, and drawing the arrow with GDI, then transfer
it to the menu ala Petzold.  I suppose you could do a little outside 
applet to create these menu bitmaps with text.  It would be sort of like
building ownerdraw bitmap pushbuttons.  I think you will find that using
graphics characters can give you some weird effects in Windows.  But, hey,
nothing ventured...
Bill Whedon
From: hlpell@sequent.com (Howard Pell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: grumble, grumble, damn help files...
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:47:52 GMT
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems (Canada) Ltd.

dgrimm@awm.cs.gmr.com (Don Grimm CS50) writes:


>  > A curious problem with generating a help file.  I'm using Word 2.0 to
>  > create the RTF file and then HC 3.00a to compile it.  

>  > The problem is with inserting a bitmap into the file.  I use the
>  > command {bml printer.bmp} and then some text.  But, instead of a
>  > bitmap, I get the text {bml printer.bmp}.  Does this have to be
>  > typed in a particular font?  Is there a limitation as to what 
>  > can precede or follow it?

>  > Enquiring minds want to know before I throw my laptop out off a ten story
>  > tower.

>  I have experienced the *exact* same problem.  I've noticed that if I
>  delete the line, then retype "{bml printer.bmp}" it works.  Until I
>  read the file back into Word and save it.  Then it does not work, and
>  I get the text "{bml printer.bmp}".

>  I examined the .rtf file and word is doing some funny translating or
>  filtering or something.

>  Any suggestions would be appreciated since I'm currently retyping all
>  my {bmc}'s every time I change my help file!

>  -later

>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Don Grimm
>dgrimm@awm.cs.gmr.com
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Hey, we're just like the Waltons.
>We're prayin' for the end of the depression, too.
>  -- Bart Simpson
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry to say, I do not have the answer ... I have another problem related
to help.

When I compile, I get errors for some of the jumps that the compiler can't
resolve.  So I edit the rtf file and retype the hidden text and recompile.
Those specific jumps are now resolved (the compiler doesn't complain) but
now it finds new jumps that it can't resolve.  Yet it resolved them on the
first pass!!!  I have taken a floppy into our local MS offices but they
have not had a chance to look at it yet.  I'm running V2.0 of Word and V3.00a
of the help compiler.  Any suggestions?

Howard
From: dgrimm@awm.cs.gmr.com (Don Grimm CS50)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: grumble, grumble, damn help files...
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:50:12 GMT
Reply-To: dgrimm@awm.UUCP (Don Grimm CS50)
Organization: GM Research Labs, Warren, MI


  > A curious problem with generating a help file.  I'm using Word 2.0 to
  > create the RTF file and then HC 3.00a to compile it.  

  > The problem is with inserting a bitmap into the file.  I use the
  > command {bml printer.bmp} and then some text.  But, instead of a
  > bitmap, I get the text {bml printer.bmp}.  Does this have to be
  > typed in a particular font?  Is there a limitation as to what 
  > can precede or follow it?

  > Enquiring minds want to know before I throw my laptop out off a ten story
  > tower.

  I have experienced the *exact* same problem.  I've noticed that if I
  delete the line, then retype "{bml printer.bmp}" it works.  Until I
  read the file back into Word and save it.  Then it does not work, and
  I get the text "{bml printer.bmp}".

  I examined the .rtf file and word is doing some funny translating or
  filtering or something.

  Any suggestions would be appreciated since I'm currently retyping all
  my {bmc}'s every time I change my help file!

  -later

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Don Grimm
dgrimm@awm.cs.gmr.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hey, we're just like the Waltons.
We're prayin' for the end of the depression, too.
  -- Bart Simpson
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: modal dialog child of modal dialog?
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:22:12
Organization: Natural Language Incorporated
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu


I'm pretty sure this can be done (Quick C has an example in the Project
options dialog), but I have tried it and it behaves strangely.  I
thought there might just be something I was neglecting to do.  I have an
MDI frame window. When you select something in one of the children, you
get a popup modal dialog box.  In this dialog, there are controls which
you can click to get yet another dialog, with more information.  Both
dialogs are created with DialogBox.  The first is a child of the MDI
Frame, the second is a child of the first.  The second dialog comes up
fine, but the system menu controls on both dialogs are black.  When I
exit the second dialog, the focus does not go back to the first and, in
fact, my whole application is hung.  Any advice on how to do this?

Thanks...

Muffy

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 sometimes it looks cursed/Depends on what you look at, obviously/
 But even more it depends on the way that you see~ - Bruce Cockburn
Date: Wed,  2 Sep 92 10:11:14 +0200
From: Martin_Schloeter@eurologic.fido.de (Martin Schloeter)
Subject: Re: How to catch floating point exceptions (under Watcom C/386)?
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
X-Comment-To: (Robert Lansdale)
Organization: Die ersten 100.000 Jahre... 

RL>      After a bit of debugging I came to realization today that the
RL> normal UNIX-like signal() handling mechanism does not function under
RL> Windows 3.1. In particular, it does not function when using Watcom C/386
RL> with their Windows 32-bit supervisor. A quick search through my Windows
RL> books turned up nothing and none of the FAQs mentioned exception handling.
RL> So, how may I intercept a signal in Windows, in particular a floating
RL> point exception?
With 3.1 comes the TOOLHELP.DLL which supports a kind of exception hooks. Look 
for InterruptRegister in the 3.1 SDK Online-Help.

Martin
From: marcusj@apricot.co.uk (Marcus Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Screen Saver needs Keyboard and Mouse Trap that works
Date: 25 Aug 92 14:58:42 GMT
Organization: Apricot Computers Limited

I am looking for a code fragment that hooks *all* keyboard and
mouse activity in Windows Standard and Enhanced modes in
Windows 3.0 *and* 3.1.  I have a fragment that works with 3.0,
using SetWindowsHook(WH_CALLWNDPROC, lpMyFilter) in a DLL, but it 
seems to miss out on keystokes entered in Windows 3.1 Write, 
for example.  This, as you may have guessed, is for Yet
Another Screen Saver, that must work with all released
versions of Windows 3.x.  I don't really fancy trapping
the hardware interrupts if there is an API way to do this.

Looking in the Windows 3.1 API manual, I see there is a 
SetWindowsHookEx() API function, is this what I need?
If so, does that mean that Windows 3.1 Write, for example,
gets its keyboard input in a different way from the 3.00x
version?

Thanks in advance.

Please mail me.

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             does not in any way represent my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: baruch@nynexst.com (Robert Baruch)
Subject: DLLs and Message Loops
Followup-To: NO! no follow up! xrn doesn't seem to have a 'post' button!
Keywords: DLL message task
Organization: NYNEX Science and Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 13:24:34 GMT


I have been agonizing over this for a week now, and all the books I've
read on the subject seem to tell me that "DLLs don't do that", in 
pretty much the same words.

Here's the problem:

I have a DLL of functions which make writing my application very easy.
After all, that's what DLLs are good for, among other things.   The problem
is, I want most of these DLL functions to be blocking.  That is, if a function
fails, and it may succeed later on (due, for example, to low memory
conditions), I want to sit around within that function, yielding control
to other applications, getting back control, trying again, and so on.

The trouble is this.  Because I want development of my applications to
be made as easy as possible for the end user, I want to keep the code
the user has to write down to a minimum.  The user will write his
own WndProc for the main window, and he'll also write the WinMain.
But when he calls my DLL function, the DLL may have to yield control
to other applications as above.  SO:  Can I put a message loop in the DLL,
which will then call the WndProc of the correct application?  I realize
that DLLs are non-tasked executables, so what happens if I put
a GetMessage or PeekMessage in a DLL?  OR, can I have the DLL IMPORT
a function from the application which does the message loop?  OR,
do none of these adhere to strict guidelines, making the code unportable
to Windows NT, and if so, how do I do what I need to do?

Thanks in advance,

--Rob

PS, I'm using Borland C for Windows, so Microsoft C switches, etc
are fairly useless to me!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: ygg6647@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Youren  Guo)
Subject: Fatal error in using RC
Summary: Fatal error in using Resource compiler
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 22:11:38 GMT
Keywords: Resource compiler

Hello,

I have a problem using the RC (in BC++ 3.0). Everytime when I comiple
the rc file, it gives me the following error message. 

RC006173(1) : fatal error C1059:

RC : fatal error RW1016: RC terminating after preprocessor errors

The machine I used has 8MB memory. The source files are not big.
Any knowledgeable person please tell me what the problem is here?
Thanks a lot!

-- 
Youren Guo		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
y-guo@uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc