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In Windows, events are kernel objects. I am thinking that because of this, they should be accessible across processes, given each process has security access and the name of the handle. Another engineer argued with me that they are used only within processes...but I believe he is wrong. Anyone know …

I am currently embedding python in a C++ module. I have a problem in that one of the functions I am trying to build must be capable of accepting various structures for processing specific commands. The function should be declared in C++ as follows [code] void Write(char *cmd, void* mystruct, …

Ok. So I wrote a simple boost python application. I put the exception handling code in. Now, as a test, I tried to run (purposely) a python script with a syntax error in it. The application crashes each time (Runtime Error!). How can I change the app so that it …

Aside from access specifiers (private, public, protected), what differentiates structures and unions from classes in C++? I have been told that in C++, classes and their associated components are instantiated in memory in pretty much random order, but structs and unions are instantiated in a fixed order? Is this true? …

Given all that I hear about the problems with global variables, is it possible to declare a windows CRITICAL_SECTION object as a member of a base class that will not be created for each derived class? I want to implement an instance counter that is threadsafe, so I thought about …