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Hi, im having a bit of trouble when it comes to outputing a path to a folder and not a file. Firstly Im using borland c++ builder 6 and it does come with an open and save dialog feature. My problem is it wont let me path to a folder …

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hi, im using borland c++ builder and I have created a list view which contains 4 colums of data. Im happy with this bit however I would like to make it so the user can select a row from the listview. I have managed to get it so the user …

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Hi, i think i have a pretty random question here and something i thought i would be able to do but unfortunately im struggling. I have an example I have found on the msdn website. It works fine however i want to move all the code so that it just …

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Hi, I have a dialog box and basically I have set it so that the user can select multiple file. When it is set to just select 1 file I can get the string for the path of the file by [code] AnsiString LinkPath = (OpenDialog1->FileName); [/code] However when I …

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Hi, I have a console application that works fine. The users puts in the path of a folder and my program looks at every file in that folder. This is exactly what I wanted only now I'm moving it over into a GUI. Im using borland c++ builder 6 and …

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hi, I was wondering if it is possible to get the last write, modified and create times and dates for registry keys and values? The below registry key is the one im interested in. I have a program that reads the value of this key, but I would also like …

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hi, im just after a bit of input from some of you guys as reagrds to a new programming task i thought i would try and attempt. I would like to create a histogram of an image. I hope ive got my termanology right but i think thats a graph …

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Hi, at the moment i have a program that examines a file, does some processing and then outputs the results in a file. Is it posible to examinemultiple files stored in a folder all at once, then output the report files in a seperate folder without having to run my …

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I was wondering if there is a way to convert an OLE date and time into a readable format using c++? I have looked at some of what time.h offers but cant find anything to convert OLE thanks

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hi i have the following hex string 40 E3 4E DA 04 2B FE 7C and i need to convert this to 39541.813009259260. I believe this is a hex to ieee float conversion. I thought that it was a case of viewing the hex in binary format the inverting the …

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hi, im having trouble when outputing the data from my program. i am trying to output numerous amounts of data into 1 txt file when running through a loop, but everytime it writes to my file it overwrites the previous data stored with in it. Can anyone offer some advice …

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Hi i have my code that finds every instance of my search criteria in a text file and tells me the position in the text file it is located at. The next step i want to do is stream the bytes that follow each instance of my search criteria into …

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hi, i am totally new to this and i would appreciate some advice or if you guys know any articles i could look at to research. I want to create a program that will copy the contents of RAM to another file. I have no idea where to start! It …

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Hi I have the following string of hex '38 55 FD FF'. Somehow i need to get the value -174792 from it. I think it involves reversing the bits to 'FF FD 55 38' then showing its binary representation and reversing all the bits so that 1's become 0's and …

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Hi, i need to search for a string in a file. I am trying to use memcmp() but i have never used this before and have no idea how it works. Looking at its description it compares 2 blocks of memory but im not sure this is what i want …

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Hi i use borland c++ builder as my c++ compiler. As a default option you can use a form defined as below [code] __fastcall TForm1::TForm1(TComponent* Owner) : TForm(Owner) { } [/code] does anyone know how to get a handle on this form, ive tried always but none with success thanks

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Here is my scenario i have a file 2000 bytes long. I want to read bytes 500 - 1500 so that i have the middle 1000 bytes stored. I then want to disect the 1000 bytes into 20 bte chunks and preform calculations on ever 20 byte sectiong until the …

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Hi my problem is as follows. I want to stream a certain amount of bytes from usbimage2.txt until my buffer is full then write them to new.txt. My first problem is my buffer. If i give the buffer a value of say '4' it compiles with no errors. However i …

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Hi i want to use create file to get a handle on my USB device so that i can stream from it. However i am having problems. To me i appear to have the syntax correct but i get errors returned in the form of "Undefinded symbol HANDLE" "statement is …

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My query is as follows. I have a file that is 16384 bytes in size. However i would like to break this down into 512 chunks of 32 bytes each. I am familaiar with straight forward loops but is there a way to initialise a loop to run for the …

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Hi, basically i was wondering if there was anyway of directly accessing and writing to a harddrive? for example i have a specific sector on my harddrive which i would like to directly insert some code? does anyone know of any C++ functions or commands to do this? thanks

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hi basically i have a couple of questions. I have an image of a thumb drive. I have gone through the image extracting information from the file allocation table until i have all of the files saved as strings. Basically i would like to progress from this stage to reconstrcuting …

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i have created a program that write protects USB devices, but can this be done for firewire?? i know there are no settings in the registry like they are for the USB write protection. Has anyone any ideas how i could achieve this? thanks

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Hi, basically i want to parse an image of a small FAT SD memory card that i have aqquired to display its directory structure. Ive tried scowering the web for some information or resources to study but i cn't find anything. Does anyone know of any info available to allow …

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Hi, my question is as follows. I have 2 computers, connected with a crossover cable. I would like to be able to copy files from computer 1 to computer 2 across the cable. I aim to create a program in c++ that wil allow the tranfer of files between the …

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Hi, i would like to be able to create an icon that appears in the tray by the clock in the bottom left of the desktop. I've looked around and found a little help on msdn but im struggling to understand everything on it, i have the following code (from …

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Hi basically i have a program that gets a handle on a USB device lusing '\\\\?\\e:' but i want to be able to get a handle on it using its device instance id 'STORAGE\REMOVABLEMEDIA\7&324ACC50&0&RM:' How do i impliment this, i have tried the following below and it just doesnt work …

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