Posts by rproffitt

Is there any detail you can share about this software? Maybe it requires a CPU feature or turning off DEP or something else?

I know you claim the machines are identical but if they were, why did you install Windows on each one? A clone of the HDD would have worked (along with the small changes after that.)

That network credential? That question is a tar pit. I don't see that issue here anymore but we are current on OSes and patches.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/attached-network-drive-does-not-remember/2d87c52e-fd24-4984-b824-2e3828980cba?auth=1 digs through the usual.

The one thing you learn is "this doesn't just work."

I have to ask why the date on the logs are last year.

-> Why is the date on the logs from last year?

Many systems blow up if the date+time is too far off.

I wish it was that simple. Win 7 (W7 for short) can be all over the map with you discovering that one W7 is 32 or 64 bit and one may have CPU extensions and the next does not. I take it that you are just learning about the PC in general.

If it is C++ libraries, the app's installer could clear that up.

That's a good guess. Rather than run it from the server, why not install it from the maker as intended and test if it runs on W7?
If it doesn't run, then back to it's maker to ask about updates or requirements.

For example I had an old old app that would not run if there was more than 16MB memory on a DOS machine. While it was possible to work around that, your everyday user would break if you told them how.

Here's my go to link for the set of scanners I use.
Read http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/how-to-remove-pup-option-603542/#post-f742c795-5881-433b-a29b-6d758efe5cd3

Read http://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/drive-bat-shortcut-virus/ where Grif adds a little more.

Good find. http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=52 appears to be the source discussion and CODE seems to be mentioned in the comments at:
http://wj32.org/wp/2010/03/30/howto-use-i_querytaginformation/

Alex appears to be active with a recent blog post in May, 2016.

Are you sure? VB6 is so old that I no lower create anything new with it. Since newer versions are out there in free form, skip this and move to a newer version. Your question about getting a single record is something in the archives.

WIsh I could help here. I had hopes we could find any existing tool in Windows or outside that showed what you were after then work with that to see how it was done. But that didn't work out.

Maybe we tackle it another way. Such as what caused you to dig into this. I shared a story about a friend programming to dig into network traffic and for him, it was something I knew about. A setting change and the traffic stopped. So while that didn't use any tools to trace it back to the source, that was good enough for him.

I'll share that I test such by booting up any other Live OS like Linux. I don't have to know Linux. It's to see if the issue is across OSes.
If it's fine in Linux then I consider restoring the machine to its factory OS and drivers.

Be sure to keep an eye on http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1119382/Show-the-windows-calculator-on-a-winform where it looks like the same topic and has some current ideas on this.

Another day and I just have to ask "Why do this?"

Don't get me wrong here. Just last month a buddy was trying to track down internet use on his new laptop and was coding, running scans and generally not doing anything fun. As it was a new W10 machine I mentioned and asked if he had turned off Windows Update sharing. He had never heard of this and that along with some other items were flipped off and his mystery internet activity is now gone.

But if it's not that, we really need to find and see what you are looking for in other tools so we can backtrace to how they do that.

I don't want to sound as if I'm dissing on your concept but this is a bad idea. Putting the password as the zip's password weakens your password's security.

How? There are a number of ZIP file password crackers so by using this password like that, you've degraded that password.

Why not make it a password for the site? Save yourself before you create a monster.

That's confusing. I've worked in vb 6.0 and also .net but never found any crossover from vb6 to .net. How strange.

Maybe the thread does not ever do the I/O? As no tool to date has revealed that, consider the case of an app I wrote long ago.

While it did do network I/O, the byte count was showing up in svchost because that's the API call I made and svchost did the actual work. No inspection tool I ever found would have traced it back to me exactly. Some may call that a glaring Windows fault.

I think we'll have to find that I/O in any tool, control panel, app or anywhere then work out how they did that.

We may also be bumping into security issues here. That is, given that our (still to be made) app wants to inspect an app on the inside, those memory blocks and such may not be accessible due to "security." But here I'm still trying to see where what you want to see has been exposed before by any means.

TL:DR. -> Let's find where what you want has been exposed and find how how to do that in our own code.

Which of the many controls and apps in Windows tells you what you are trying to push into your app?
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/list-services-running-under-svchostexe-process/ is a fine read that shows most of what you might be looking for in the GUI form so which of those pictures show what you are looking for?

It sounds like you are trying to craft another Task Manager. But I'm guessing.

I think I should have just pasted this in a code block. Here's what I think would work. Try it?

Create Table Non_Game
(
P_Id int Not_Null,
Item_Num Char(4) Not Null,
Description Char(30),
On_Hand Decimal(4,0),
Category Char(3),
Price Decimal(6,2)
)

OK, so I'm not confused, you are working thread IDs and not process IDs. I think I'd be checking the thread APIs starting with:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms684847(v=vs.85).aspx#thread_functions

If you can, reveail what you are trying to do to that thread.

I looked at BonnMotion and it is Java based and not something you run through make. I'd get back to their website about how to install.

JC, my bet is they added a R.P. to fix it. The commas look inconsistent, missing on the 2 lines on ON_Hand and maybe an extra on the last line.

Kinda wish they have formatted it so the lines had numbers.

Error messages from compilers and more have been misleading to hilarious for decades. How many of us have seen this? (all of us!)

Good to read that it's solved. Sorry but my aspfoo is weak. Not a system I've been working on for years now. I see "visible" did play a role so that part was right.

Your post reminds me of another question. Which is:

How do you get to Carnegie Hall?

The answer to that is the same as getting better at web sites. Practice, practice, practice.

There are folk that ask such questions but fib about the question in a vain attempt at SEO but let's go with your question.

Not only do you practice but you build a bigger team. If you need better graphics, there's a lot of untapped talent out there that may do the work for just a mention in the web site credits.

To me the question is clear and you have your documentation on MP3. Now you have libraries so what's missing here?

Even the H bit is documented. http://www.mp3-tech.org/programmer/frame_header.html
"Private bit. This one is only informative."

At this point I think all your questions have answers.

I don't see the full app but in the last vb.net app I did, the button has a name and a reference id number so it's possible to hide the one you need to hide (set visible to 0) and then not respond to in that button's handler.

Given the severe lack of the app's code, this is just me thinking out loud. I see you have many questions without answers. I wonder if it's the lack of sharing that hurting you or if few practice this system any more.

Just a guess. Maybe it's the missing or extra comma's?

Mr.M All the libraries to work tags are out there. If you want to alter them, go right ahead. One of the things I notice in this forum is that folk don't write code for anyone. They give general direction and will drill down and help fix a few lines of errant code.

I see great advice above and maybe you are looking for someone to code something up for you. Maybe that's why you are getting such slow responses.

So how to edit fields, is a done deal. Use existing libraries. Want to change how they work, change the code.

Just what the world needs. Another audio standard. Good luck with your works.

That sounds like you are trying to write one of those very bad apps that ransom folk for unlocking their files.

Asking for such help with creating ransomware is going to bring out some very negative replies.

-> Let me be clear here. It sounds like you are working on ransomware. You can guess how I feel about that.

I think everyone asked what you are trying to do. You have a reason to write some information for this MP3 and have decided how to do that but, here's the question again.

Why are you wanting to do this to MP3 files?

For example you may be trying to mark them as played or stamp them as yours or other. Tell what the reasons are and maybe that's already been solved without corrupting someone's MP3 collection. Which would get folk very mad at you!

My bet is the font is in the registry and was not found by you (yet.) I'm taking this as if this is a font showing up in other apps.

Why this happens is the app you installed used a non-standard way to add the font. As the method they used was not the usual way, we would be crystal ball users to guess what it did.

Best you can do is to use the tools, reboots and such to clean it up. Their uninstaller didn't clean it up so you are stuck with the mess they made.

Do tell what the goals are. There are many fine libraries out there and some are .NET with source. http://professionaltag.sourceforge.net/

Code looks incomplete. (it is) Without the rest not much to work with.

Try putting it in a fiddle if you can, like http://pythonfiddle.com/

This is where I pull out my 20 dollar USB DVDRW and use that instead. Your post is tantamount to "it's broken" with no detail.

If you have shared more like "Device manager shows Code 39" or such I would have other ideas. But you didn't tell much.

I can't find how many times you've posted this. All of them suffer from formatting issues with your post as the code is both in and outside of the code block.

Anyhow, I will have some time next weekend to try this out. Can you share how to set this up for a look see on a plain jane W10 machine?
Or is there an online "fiddle" that we can use?

First, VB6 is so old that it's something you need to avoid for any new system. As to the divisor you should chnage that to a variable that holds the number of exams.

Very strange post. Your subject title doesn't match with your post and tags. You should read:
https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/435023/read-this-before-posting-a-question next then try again.

On Linux, Windows and other OSes I can do that sort with the sort commandline. No code required.

Why would a business code this when it's just a command away?

I hold no such notion. While I fretted about this in the NiCad and NiMH days, today I won't lose any sleep over this. You will find folk fretting on and on and there's little you can do for them.

Plug in, enjoy the machine. If it offers the battery life extender, use it.

Given how well I'm seeing PHP work, I can't imagine a programmer suggesting avoiding PHP.

I would be guessing "open source" is another way for you to say "free" so there are free tools that are not open source that I use but here we are, quite a few posts and missing some details (diafol asked the questions.)

Answer those questions and I'm share how I might tackle this.

@cereal. My thought was "how strange to ask to use a daemon and as cron was such a thing, well, may as well point that out."

It should be interesting which solutions they chose at the end.

Surprise! To be a great coder, you learn more than one language and then learn more than one development system.

Over the years I have used command line compilers, IDEs, and very helpful systems like Visual Studio.

Today my apps use a variety of languages and systems from assembler, C, C#, SQL, HTML, XML, text files, and not to leave things out, protocols and design patterns.

-> Answer, there is no one best language.

@spluskhan.

I thought cron was a daemon. https://www.google.com/search?q=is+cron+a+daemon&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 seems to state it is!

Why does this look just like http://www.cppforschool.com/project/banking-system-project.html ?
I think you need to consider wholesale copies of code that you didn't claim as your own creation to not be such a good idea.

A second issue is your first post sounds like you want others to do your homework. There's a forum sticky at https://www.daniweb.com/programming/web-development/threads/435023/read-this-before-posting-a-question that needs to be read as you think about your next post.

First your question in your topic. The answer is that all languages have been used from Assembly to all others. I don't know of any language that someone has not used to write a Word Processor or other such app.

If we look at the source code to a major Word or Office look a like on Linux, Windows and Apple "LibreOffice", it's C++.
Source: https://github.com/LibreOffice

While this looks like a cron job, you didn't reveal enough about your system. Even Windows could make this yet another cron job. Or for some folk they like to use AUTOIT plus on a schedule with cron. https://www.google.com/search?q=autoit+cron+job if you never heard of such a mashup.

It looks like there are 3 duplicates on the same topic.

Maybe you need to narrow down the question?

I see some mention of the splash screen so I'd look deeper into that to see about adding a line of code to wait for a click input.

But posting the same question over and over is not accepted on all the forums I visit.

Since ping is not http or https, why would proxy play a role here? Read these to learn more.
If you wanted to ping your proxy then you do that!

No, not at all. I didn't deep dive into MethodInvoker but your question is close enough to a system I wrote in about 2008 using VS2008 C#. While not exactly what you did, it did involve threads and entirely new invocations of the same app. Communication was not that involved so I went with a cheap method. Later I would look into other communication methods but never retrofitted the app since it was working.

There are many priors on this and most if not all solutions involve more than a line of code. For my app that starts up many threads and even new instances of the app, I used a message file to get it done. This, for that app was not a problem. That is, I wasn't going to get fancy so a file with the answer was my answer.

OK, priors. Hans and Justin at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2214002/how-to-get-return-value-when-begininvoke-invoke-is-called-in-c-sharp go over invoke, and how to return a value. As you see, it's more than a few lines of code.

And testing is all well and good but to me this reads as if you don't know your own network and gear.

Here's an example where the router with its firewall really sends those that didn't know off the deep end.
"See Page 43: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/DGN2200/DGN2200_UM_3Feb11.pdf

"Your modem router has a firewall that blocks unauthorized access to your wireless network and permits authorized inbound and outbound communications. Authorized communications are established according to inbound and outbound rules. The firewall has the following two default rules. You can create custom rules to further restrict the outbound communications or more widely open the inbound communications:
• Inbound. Block all access from outside except responses to requests from the LAN side.
• Outbound. Allow all access from the LAN side to the outside"

Notice how an inbound access from WiFi is blocked? You'll want to change that.
Page 44 (using the page counter in the PDF viewer) shows the default is BLOCK ALWAYS.

This means features like access to a DLNA, NAS or other server can fail."

You've configured your router to block this, that, ping and must understand what all this does.

-> That's on top of understanding which IP to use in the client for local (LAN) or from the internet.