4 getCarName likely returns a temporary. After the assignment the temporary object is destroyed and the pointer item.pszText points to invalid memory. You must ensure that the string object is valid during the call to ListView_InsertItem. The const_cast is an artifact of the fact that the Windows API uses the same structure to set and … Read more
There is no standard library function to do this, but it’s not too hard to roll your own. There is an existing question on SO about doing this that was answered with source code.
I am using Python 2.7 and I want to use pywin32-214 on Windows 7. I installed pywin32-214 by using the msi installer. But when I import win32api in my Python script, it throws the error: What should I do? Can I use pywin32 api for Windows 7?
On a 64-bit Windows system, the reading of the various environment variables and some Windows Registry keys is redirected to different sources, depending whether the process doing the reading is 64-bit or 32-bit. The table below lists these data sources: So for example, for a 32-bit process, the source of the data for the %ProgramFiles% and %ProgramFiles(x86)% environment variables is the … Read more
You need to read the processor manual to drill this down. It is triggered by a “trap”, best described as an exception in the processor. A trap interrupts code execution and lets an operating system “catch” handler deal with the fault. A very common benign one is a page fault, raised when the processor tries … Read more
rcMonitor is the total resolution of the display rcWork is the max area you can use,eg if you went fullscreen maximized a window The work area is the portion of the screen not obscured by the system taskbar or by application desktop toolbars. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947 – SPI_GETWORKAREA
I am using Python 2.7 and I want to use pywin32-214 on Windows 7. I installed pywin32-214 by using the msi installer. But when I import win32api in my Python script, it throws the error: What should I do? Can I use pywin32 api for Windows 7?
The most likely explanations for that error are: The file you are attempting to load is not an executable file. CreateProcess requires you to provide an executable file. If you wish to be able to open any file with its associated application then you need ShellExecute rather than CreateProcess. There is a problem loading one of the dependencies of the … Read more
Acting as a part of the operating system allows you to do things like create login tokens. It’s unlikely that you would ever need to write a service that uses this privilege unless you’re writing an authentication provider. Since you can create access tokens, you can act as any user. Of course, this means that … Read more
CONIN$ is the console input device. Normally, stdin is an open file handle to this, but if stdin is redirected for some reason, then using CONIN$ will allow you to get access to the console despite the redirection. Reference.