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I am using the WC_LISTVIEW control to create a table that is filled with data at runtime. The table is working fine. However, I cannot display multiple lines in
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Unable to refer to typedef struct definitions done in Win32 Header files (.h files in External dependencies) when consumed from WinRT C++ Library #include <m
I'm writing a keyboard input system for Windows based on Raw Input. It is implemented with RIDEV_NOLEGACY flag set, and legacy keyboard messages are generated m
Some of my Chinese software users noticed a strange C++ exception being thrown when my C++ code for Windows tried to list all running processes: 在ࣩ
I'm trying to create a Python script that opens MS Access and runs a Macro. I have the following script: import win32api,time from win32com.client import Dispat
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I want to change the cursor when the mouse is over a certain control. I'm having the png of my cursor. How do I achieve it in C++ ? I tried like this as descri
How does one obtain SeDebugPrivilege in Python? I believe both the Ctypes api and PyWin32 are both individually capable of doing it, i don't care which API is u
My question is: How to use WaitForMultipleObjects to wait until there is something the be read from an anonymous pipe? The code below is a minimal reproducible
When Address Sanitizer is enabled, the Open Dialog Box cannot be shown. It hangs forever. Thank you. It hangs when running hr = pFileOpen->Show(N
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I am trying to build a WebRTC library. It has a bunch of build python scripts one of which is trying to access C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Redis
I'm trying to use windows-rs to use GetNamedSecurityInfoW microsoft api docs to read file permission information, but I keep getting error code 87 corresponds t
I have created a window class using the win32 api. It creates a window, passing in this as a parameter so that I can create and grab the object instance inside
Why is HANDLE event object(synchronization object which is created by CreateEvent function) in winapi assumed to be valid in thread function? From multithreadin
Short version Is there an IShellItem that corresponds to a user's entire profile? Or given all known KNOWNFOLDER constants: is there a way to know if the KNOWNF
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