Comments by SMD111 - CodeProject

SMD111 23-Sep-14 17:18pm View

>>It is not related to Windows API.
I use API function calls only, that is what I meant.
>>There is nothing supporting PDF in Windows.
I perfectly understand what you mean.
>>You need some 3rd-party code.
Exactly! I need 3-rd party code in the form of a DLL but cannot find one, only ActiveX...

SMD111 23-Sep-14 16:36pm View

I just love it how you used the word "us"!
Anyway, in other words, if you know the answer, it would be nice to offer it. But if you don't know the answer (what is the clear case with you here), why bother to waste electricity and contaminate somebody's post with verbal garbage?

SMD111 23-Sep-14 16:12pm View

I thought this forum existed for people to be able to get a useful advise, not useless smart-ass remarks.
I'll be patient.
All information I am seeing on the topic can be divided into the following categories:
1) Using .NET, C# and the likes... I specified pure WinAPI in my question.
2) Using separate PDF converter/creator applications and ShellExecute() calls to those applications from C code. Cheap.
3) Using ActiveX libraries. I have never used those with C projects and don't see reliable tools to extract their functionality into a DLL.

SMD111 23-Sep-14 15:12pm View

I am doing that now.

SMD111 21-Mar-14 14:25pm View

Good idea, thank you. I coded it today and it works.
In case it helps somebody, I am putting a snapshot of the code in the "solutions" section.

SMD111 19-Mar-14 13:15pm View

It is not a good approach but the last resort. In my original post I indicated that the problem originates in the SDK that comes with the hardware device I am using. I have no control over that code. Instead, I have a very bad experience arguing with that company about undocumented behavior of their software in my previous projects.

SMD111 18-Mar-14 17:18pm View

One must check the return value of GetModuleBaseName() function because it often returned zero in my case. I also found that the technique described above only retrieves a list of 32-bit processes (the ones that appear as "name.exe *32" in the Task Manager).

SMD111 18-Mar-14 14:22pm View

Thanks, I do get a list of processes using calls to EnumProcesses(), OpenProcess() and GetModuleBaseName() functions.
However, using this method I get at least 50 processes named Ä, and then pairs like these:
75 notepad++.exe
76 Äotepad++.exe
77 firefox.exe
78 Äirefox.exe

Something is not working here.

SMD111 20-Oct-11 16:29pm View

Thanks again, I've been reading a lot on MSDN. To clarify my question, I'll use two citations from there:

"A simple message loop consists of one function call to each of these three functions: GetMessage, TranslateMessage, and DispatchMessage."

"An application's main thread starts its message loop after initializing the application and creating at least one window. After it is started, the message loop continues to retrieve messages from the thread's message queue and to dispatch them to the appropriate windows."

So, what is retrieving and dispatching messages in the absence of the message loop, like in my example above?

SMD111 20-Oct-11 13:42pm View

Thank you, Albert. I thus understand that in this case the GetMessage() -> DispatchMessage() loop is only a hook in the main thread used to catch WM_QUIT and make WinMain() return?

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