Questions tagged [windows]
Microsoft's well-known operating system. Use this tag for code reviews where the code is targeted specifically for this platform, when no other more specific tags exist.
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part of a c++ program which mods a game using code injection
https://github.com/speedrun-program/amnesia_load_screen_tool/blob/main/code_injection.cpp
https://github.com/speedrun-program/amnesia_load_screen_tool/blob/main/file_helper.h
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ds - A directory switcher via tags in Windows command line
I have this repository.
The idea is that there is a file tags sitting in the users home directory, and which contains the tag declarations of the format ...
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A Windows hook that detects the foreground window change
I tried to implement a windows hook to grab foreground window event. This code is probably bad because I didnt understand much. Can you tell me if that is better than a simple while loop that checks ...
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Code lines counter
It is a Windows command line utility for counting lines of code in a source code directory.
It will count loc and sloc.
I read from a file character by character using fgetc in the CountLines(...) ...
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Battleships console game - my first code in c++ using classes
Below my first code in c++. Its running fine. I feel I could improve a few things in my code. Please feel free to comment
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Optimizing Netwide Assembler codes in Microsoft Windows
I am a novice in assembler programing, I will will appreciate if someone could review these NASM assembler code for me. Is about encoder decoder.
The encoder performs the following:
pads the ...
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"Hello world" in x64 assembly for Windows - Shadow space / Stack alignment
I`m currently trying to delve into x64 assembly under windows using NASM, and created a minimalistic "Hello World" application.
It is mainly meant as an educational resource for me and ...
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Code for setting all child controls to the default message font on Windows
If you aren't aware, if you hand-code a GUI with the Windows API you will find your controls look quite ugly by default due to their font. Running this code:
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Simple networking framework in C++
Question: What do you think about this design and the implementation? This is a simple networking framework for IPv4, IPv6 TCP client and TCP server for Linux and MS-Windows in C++14. It uses a single-...
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Simple networking framework in C
Question: What do you think about this design and the implementation?
This is a simple networking framework for IPv4, IPv6 TCP client and TCP server for Linux and MS-Windows in C. It uses a single-...
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Create a shortcut with admin rights for the current vbscript or any other application with arguments using an array
I made a subroutine in order to create a shortcut for the current vbscript or any other application with arguments using an array that can be called as follow :
Create a shortcut to the current ...
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A POSIX getdelim() and getline() implementation for MSVC
Tired of always having problems in reading arbitrary length lines from file under Windows, I tried to write a POSIX getdelim() and ...
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ASCII game in console [closed]
Overall, I want to make a game in console, something Pokemon-like but with typical rpg scenery - swords, magic and all that. I want to make player able to move around the map, find dungeons, fight ...
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Synchronization \ backup of directories and files (Python)
stackexchange members. I'm just learning to write. I set myself a task a few days ago and today I completed its implementation. The task was to create a "backupper" (I was inspired just by ...
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Creating a new WinForm each time pressing a button in a main WinForm
I have WinForm C# application that every time you press on the green button:
It opens a new WinForm window. This is the code after pressing the green button:
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A C WinAPI program for showing the color of the screen pixel pointed to by mouse cursor with clipboard support - follow up 2
Now it seems that I was able to make some progress with my program. See what I have:
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C++ logger for Windows
I have written a simple logger in C++ on Windows that I want to use to log info and errors from multiple threads to DbgView:
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Python module to print in printer
I made a code that simplifies the job of sending anything to print with the Windows API. The module has a Document object which stores a reference to the actual device context within it. You can ...
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All In One Stock, Program for My business
I built my first program to solve an issue occurring at my self-owned business.. This program I made after learning a bit of C. It took about a month to make and what it performs is
various functions ...
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Reliably setting keys in Windows Registry for a VBA addin
We have a PowerPoint VBA addin which is installed using an MSI installer written with WIX (Windows Installer XML).
For the addin to be picked up (for all users) by PowerPoint, name-value pairs need to ...
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Dividing shared resources for homogeneous multithread processing
I'm trying to implement a homogeneous multithreading example that multiple threads process portion of a huge task. In order to achieve this, I thought of clustering data/resource and multiple threads ...
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C++ Determine if a file is older than int hours
I have an MFC application where I need to determine if a file's last write time is older than n hours.
I thought there was a method to get total seconds from either system or file time, but I ended up ...
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Windows 10 wallpaper-scroller script with Gif support
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Hello, I'm a python beginner. I haven't had anyone use my code or anything. I want to improve and become a "professional python developer". I thank you for taking the time to help me ...
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Generating a random ipaddress in C
I was looking to receive some feedback on the function I wrote to generate a random ip address. The code is pretty messy and just wanted some feedback regarding optimizations, memory leaks and best ...
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Network utility tool
I wrote a little program in C based on some requirements:
Ping every IP from a file and check the result
Show, by network adapter, ONLY the IP, subnet, default gateway and DNS
Check the speed between ...
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In a search of perfect batch script for editing the hosts file
I want to edit Windows hosts file in the best way for the end user, using a batch-only solution. I ended up with this script, which works fine, but since I don't have enough knowledge, the syntax is ...
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Delphi function to canonicalize the capitalization in a file path
I'm building a small Delphi application where a user can input a file or directory manually by typing it or by selecting it from a dialog . Since it can be input manually, I want to ensure that I save ...
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powershell script for creating a Domain Controller
I don't have a lot of experience creating/managing an active directory environment. This will be more of a lab environment where a solution could be tested. It will not have lots of regular users etc, ...
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My little C++ library for comfortable programming
I've tried to make a little library in C++, to gather all useful and necessary functions. I wrote the code(in one file, to make it more portable). Unfortunately, it works on Windows only.
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Win32 Snake game
I made a trival snake game below to practice my C++ and Win32 programming skills.
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A simple C WinAPI program for terminating processes via process image names - follow-up 4
(See the previous version here.)
What's new
get_last_err_msg renamed to MyGetLastErrorMessage
The caller to ...
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Batch file for Wget downloads
I've just written this to facilitate my Wget downloads and I was wondering if anyone can review it for me.
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Custom Error Handler Library in C++
Is this code clean and optimized? When taking memory snapshots, it seems a bit high.
Anything I have done wrong or can do to optimize it?
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convert ID3DXMatrixStack to DirectXMath
Is it right it convert ID3DXMatrixStack to DirectXMath like that:
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Process Injector using ctypes and the Windows API
To get some practice with the Windows API and ctypes, I decided to write a program capable of injecting and running shellcode inside of another specified process.
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Enemy damaging with regen system
Small project i made to practice my c++, im a beginner and want to know all about optimizing code.
Enemy starts off with 10 HP and we can damage them for 1 HP by pressing F1,
If their HP is below ...
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Getting hard-drive serial number on Windows
The point is to get the serial number of one of the hard drives on Windows. My code is based on an example from MSDN. I tried to make it an exception-safe, self-contained function. It works, to the ...
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Windows high resolution timing class
I'm attempting to implement a high resolution class used to time the execution time of functions in Windows. After using this documentation, I have come up with the following:
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Dialog that controls external USB device that tests the latency of gaming computers - SysLat Cleanup #4
I have several static variables in my dialog class that I'm declaring in the header and then defining immediately in the cpp file. They are being used in an application with 2 threads, and these ...
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USB implementation of device that tests system latency on gaming computers - SysLat Cleanup #3
Here's my open source project: https://github.com/Skewjo/SysLat_Software.
The hardware controlled by this software can be found at https://syslat.com/. This is the 3rd question in a series of ...
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Detect discontinuities in Windows clock in Java
Please review the code below, which detects discontinuities in Windows system clock in long-running programs.
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Simple Tetris game
I made this simple Tetris game where I only have 2 blocks, the square and the line. Also the game ends after 20 blocks are created and the player wins. I was wondering how I can make it better overall....
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Creating a simple windows instance capable of rendering Direct3D graphics
I've just started to learn recently about Direct3D, when I've learned to create a simple window I started wondering if I could automate this process, so whenever I would need to create a window I ...
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Implementing dynamic array without STL
For my game engine that I'm trying to write without using STL I implemented dynamic array class(some kind of std::vector). I would like to know whether this code suits best practices. I'm also not ...
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Make Flutter app on Windows a drop target to accept files
My aim was to provide functionality for a Flutter app on Windows to accept drag-and-dropped files.
Flutter apps are written in Dart and compiled to native code, but since this is a cross-platform ...
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Exporting Shellbags, Jump Lists, and LNK files with PowerShell
I'm new to PowerShell (started yesterday) and was wondering if there is a way of exporting Shell bags, Jump lists, and LNK files from the Reg to a local computer's desktop using PowerShell? I have ...
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program that fully documents every file on drive
I have a program which goes through your drive and does two things:
For every file extension it creates a file "file of extension_name" and whenever it encounters a file with that extension,...
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A simple C WinAPI program for terminating processes via process image names - follow-up 3
(See the next follow-up here.)
This is the 4th version of the program killer tool:
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A simple C WinAPI program for terminating processes via process image names - folllow-up 2
(See also the previous follow-up.)
Now, I seem to improve my program partially via the answer in my previous follow-up. It goes like this:
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a simple implementation of unix2dos for windows
On linux there is the utility called unix2dos which converts UNIX EOLs(\n) to DOS EOLs(\r\n). However on windows there is no such tool so as a result I decided to make one.
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