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Is everyone familiar with this game? Just reply with the first word that comes to your mind when you think of the last word posted. You can't respond to the post with a comment, just the word that comes to your mind. It can only be a word or a …

Hi, I have to write an address book using structs for a class. I have 90% of the code done, but I am having trouble ordering it. It is supposed to read in 10 entries from a file and then sort them by last name. All the information also has …

I am trying to get something to print to my screen aftre i type in the source code. Eveytime i compile and run it it just flashes a dos screen real fast and goes away. How can I see what it is printing to the screen. If anyone can help …

Hi, Everybody, I wrote the program to connect to the Microsoft Sql server 2000. I have also defined constrains and triggers on Tables of SQL. Now I want to catch the error message generated by the triggers or constraints in c prog and want to show it to user. Can …

there is of course a way to put settings in your registry that will allow you to right-click on a dll or ocx file and then click Register or Unregister fromt the context menu. However, for those of you who don't like messing with your registry (or don't know how) …

I am busy to make a program that starts with a menu, where you can choose different options. One of these options to execute a program. for example : download software in an flash-prom with loader.exe loader idpartno.sr(where idpartno.sr is the code to be downloaded. Thanks for helping.

I cannot figure out how you go about playing a Wav/MIDI file in a VB Program. I found one thing but it didn't work. This is a little old but the version is Visual Basic 4.0. It actually runs on Windows XP!!

returns TRUE or FALSE depending on whether or not a file exists

this is a wrapper around the AnimateWindow API. this allows random animations in a dialog. I just call it in the dialog's OnInitDialog() handler. The 'fade' effect has not been implemented because I didn't like the idea of having to call RedrawWindow or something like that because sometimes the borders …

Returns the name of a folder in a CString after allowing user to browse for it. This is just a wrapper around the SHBrowseForFolder API, but it's great for only allowing a user to browse for folders!

I don't know if this function may be helpful to anyone, but I just converted from a VB function recently to C++. I'm converting a text file string that is nine characters to a decimal value that has funny characters in it because it is exported from an old VAX. …

I don't know if this function may be helpful to anyone, but I just converted from a VB function recently to C++. I'm converting a text file string that is nine characters to a decimal value that has funny characters in it because it is exported from an old VAX. …

I've never been to school for programming (other than some very preliminary VB5 classes in a Data Processing course). The company I now work for taught me what I needed to know about VB6 and database design. I then taught myself C++ and some minor DirectX programming and think that …

How to use Data base connectivity in c++, files are not very useful..

I have a row of images on the left side of a web page that act as buttons with javascript for the changing of the image if it's rolled over. That works fine on most of the pages because besides that they're all text. Now I've created a few new …

Here is my date code [QUOTE]<%= FormatDateTime(strDate, 1) %>[/QUOTE] I just put this in but it is showing Saturday, December 30, 1899 and wont change. What is wrong??? Wacko [url]www.wackosonline.com[/url]

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I can read which key is pressed using getch(). For example i can read whether left arrow is pressed or not. But i want know whether both left arrow and up arrow is pressed at the same time or not-- I want to move an object diagonally across the screen …

How do I use the resources I created in Visual C++. For eg, I created a dialog box. How do I call that in my program. :cry:

Polymorphism is what makes using inheritance so powerful ( in my opinion). Here's a quick example of it using objects. This example uses 3 classes: CCar, and CSportsCar and CLuxuryCar which are derived from CCar. [code]class CCar { //constructors and other stuff... virtual CString GetType() { return "Car";) } ; …

:rolleyes: right, im goin 2 sound like a right dunce now but here goes... what exactly is Visual C++? i've found things about it, but nothing which is easy to understand. any help would be appreciated

Blackjack class is derived from card class ( see attached playingcard.h and blackjack.h) I have problem with: void blackjack::DealCards() function. I want to use function deal_hands from card class to set the value of pcard1 pcard2, dcard1 and dcard2. How could I do that???

i need to write a programme where the customer has a list of products to choose from and to indicate their weight. Upon doing this the price of product per Kg is displayed in another box and once the weight is entered Command Button is pressed and the transaction is …

I'm trying to change my default browser for IE to Google. Following the instructions in the Help, it says to click the Search button on the toolbar, then 'Customize' and choose from the options displayed. But every time I click the customize button, it starts trying to go to some …

Is there a way in VB to use a '#define' macro something like in c++? In C++ I can do this: #define CHECKPTR if(!ptr) AfxMessageBox("Pointer is null"); then everywhere I wanted to do that check, (of course the pointer would always have to be named 'ptr'), I could just write …

Hi, I have a question about the RTTI library typeinfo. I used typeinfo to qurry the type of an int as in the following, ... #include <typeinfo> .... int i; cout << typeid.name(); ... This is suppose to produce int as output but instead I got i, the name of …

Hi, I am trying to connect to a Microsoft Access DB using VB6, when I create a new connection I Dim DB as Connection, then Set db = New Connection. When the program is ran the complier doesn't recognize the word 'New'. Is there a link I can go to …

Ok I'm trying to create a program here and i have three buttons. Add Clear Exit when i enter the name/title and click add i get the name/title in the listbox but as soon as try to add a new name/title it just replaces the old one. could someone help …

where can i get a vb trainer template [img]http://forum.game-deception.com/images/smilies/frown.gif[/img] I want to have a timer with a hotkey to disable and enable it.