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Create file error when open LCD

I'm try write a application to addjust LCD backlight.But it failed at the
first step Create file.GetLastError return 161.
Somesone can tell me what's wrong with it?
Sorry for my poor english.
thx
Below is my code
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPTSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
TCHAR *pszDevice=_T("\\\\.\\LCD");
HANDLE hLCD=NULL;
hLCD=CreateFileW(pszDevice,
GENERIC_READ,
FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
NULL,
OPEN_ALWAYS,
0,
NULL);
DWORD dwError=GetLastError();
if(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE!=hLCD)
{
MessageBox(NULL,_T("Got Lcd"),_T("MyMessage"),MB_OK);
}
CloseHandle(hLCD);
return 0;
}

Hi ft1860!
I don't think you can do it that way, although I never tried it. You should check out power management API:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...pplicationsToTurnSmartphoneBacklightOffOn.asp
This example is for smartphones but should work on a PPC just as well.
P.S.:
Error 161 is "The specified path is invalid" so you should check the device name (no idea what that might be).

levenum said:
Hi ft1860!
I don't think you can do it that way, although I never tried it. You should check out power management API:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...pplicationsToTurnSmartphoneBacklightOffOn.asp
This example is for smartphones but should work on a PPC just as well.
P.S.:
Error 161 is "The specified path is invalid" so you should check the device name (no idea what that might be).
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hi levenum
Thanks your comment,but according to this document
http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.co...r/base/ioctl_video_set_display_brightness.asp
It say we can set the current AC and DC backlight levels by invoke DeviceIoControl with IOCTL_VIDEO_SET_DISPLAY_BRIGHTNESS parameter.
So first I must create a handle of LCD,but I cann't open it successfully,
why?

oh,I make a mistake
IOCTL_VIDEO_SET_DISPLAY_BRIGHTNESS is Win32 function.
On smart device,I should use SetPowerRequirement to set the backlight.
But when I invoke SetPowerRequirement on my Universal with D0 or D4,it say success ,but nothing happened.

maybe you have to access backlight by BKL1: device.
CreateFile(L"BKL1:", ....
or write the brightness value into registry.. that works for sure.
buzz

buzz_lightyear said:
maybe you have to access backlight by BKL1: device.
CreateFile(L"BKL1:", ....
or write the brightness value into registry.. that works for sure.
buzz
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Thanks
I'll try it.

It seem that SetPowerRequirement D0-D4 just Open or close backlight,
but what I want is adjust the backlight's brightness.

ft1860 said:
It seem that SetPowerRequirement D0-D4 just Open or close backlight,
but what I want is adjust the backlight's brightness.
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then just do it through registry.
buzz

buzz_lightyear said:
ft1860 said:
It seem that SetPowerRequirement D0-D4 just Open or close backlight,
but what I want is adjust the backlight's brightness.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
then just do it through registry.
buzz
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oh,thanks
It almost work.
It works fine on my Universal,but it doesn't work on my x50v with WM5.
I should not debug it on my x50v,there is so many bugs in Dell's WM5 update.
Another question is how to get the max brightness value.On my Universal it is 10,but on my x50v it is 8;
below is my new code
#include <WinReg.h>
#include <pm.h>
TCHAR tszAppName[] = TEXT("PMSAMPLE");
TCHAR tszTitle[] = TEXT("Power Manager Sample");
HINSTANCE g_hInst = NULL; // Local copy of hInstance
HANDLE g_hEventShutDown = NULL;
HANDLE g_hPowerNotificationThread = NULL;
HWND g_hSystemState = NULL;
//***************************************************************************
// Function Name: SetBacklightRequirement
//
// Purpose: Sets or releases the device power requirement to keep the
// backlight at D0
//
// Arguments:
// IN BOOL fBacklightOn - TRUE to leave the backlight on
//
void SetBacklightRequirement(BOOL fBacklightOn)
{
// the name of the backlight device
TCHAR tszBacklightName[] = TEXT("BKL1:");
static HANDLE s_hBacklightReq = NULL;
if (fBacklightOn)
{
if (NULL == s_hBacklightReq)
{
// Set the requirement that the backlight device must remain
// in device state D0 (full power)
s_hBacklightReq = SetPowerRequirement(tszBacklightName, D4,
POWER_NAME, NULL, 0);
if (!s_hBacklightReq)
{
RETAILMSG(1, (L"SetPowerRequirement failed: %X\n",
GetLastError()));
}
}
}
else
{
if (s_hBacklightReq)
{
if (ERROR_SUCCESS != ReleasePowerRequirement(s_hBacklightReq))
{
RETAILMSG(1, (L"ReleasePowerRequirement failed: %X\n",
GetLastError()));
}
s_hBacklightReq = NULL;
}
}
}
#define REG_BACKLIGHT L"ControlPanel\\Backlight"
//#define REG_VAL_BATT_TO L"BatteryTimeout"
//#define REG_VAL_AC_TO L"ACTimeout"
#define REG_VAL_BN L"BrightNess"
#define REG_VAL_ACBN L"ACBrightness"
unsigned int OldBattBN=0;
unsigned int OldACBN=0;
void RegOptionBL( DWORD dw1,DWORD dw2)
{
HKEY hKey = 0;
DWORD dwSize;
HANDLE hBL;
static bool bOpened=false;
if ( ERROR_SUCCESS == RegOpenKeyEx( HKEY_CURRENT_USER,REG_BACKLIGHT, 0, 0, &hKey ) )
{
if( !bOpened )
{
bOpened=true;
dwSize = 4;
RegQueryValueEx( hKey, REG_VAL_BN,NULL,NULL,(unsigned char*)&OldBattBN,&dwSize );
dwSize = 4;
RegQueryValueEx( hKey, REG_VAL_ACBN,NULL,NULL,(unsigned char*) &OldACBN,&dwSize );
// dwSize = 4;
// dwValue = 0xefff ;
// RegSetValueEx( hKey,REG_VAL_BATT_TO,NULL,REG_DWORD,(unsigned char *)&dwValue,dwSize );
// dwSize = 4;
// dwValue = 0xefff ;
// RegSetValueEx( hKey,REG_VAL_AC_TO,NULL,REG_DWORD,(unsigned char *)&dwValue,dwSize );
dwSize = 4;
RegSetValueEx( hKey,REG_VAL_BN,NULL,REG_DWORD,(unsigned char *)&dw1,dwSize );
dwSize = 4;
RegSetValueEx( hKey,REG_VAL_ACBN,NULL,REG_DWORD,(unsigned char *)&dw2,dwSize );
}
else
{
if (OldBattBN)
{
dwSize = 4;
RegSetValueEx( hKey,REG_VAL_BN,NULL,REG_DWORD,(unsigned char *)&OldBattBN,dwSize );
}
if (OldACBN)
{
OldACBN = 4;
RegSetValueEx( hKey,REG_VAL_ACBN,NULL,REG_DWORD,(unsigned char *)&OldACBN,dwSize );
}
}
RegCloseKey( hKey );
hBL = CreateEvent( NULL, FALSE, FALSE,L"BackLightChangeEvent" );
if( hBL )
{
SetEvent(hBL);
CloseHandle( hBL );
}
}
}
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPTSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
int nResult = 0;
// Create mutex to track whether or not an application is already running
HANDLE hMutex = CreateMutex(0, 0, _T("_PMSAMPLE_EXE_MUTEX_"));
// check the result code
if (NULL != hMutex)
{
if (ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS != GetLastError())
{
SetBacklightRequirement(TRUE);
RegOptionBL(8,8);
Sleep(5000);
RegOptionBL(-1,-1);
SetBacklightRequirement(FALSE);
}
else
{
}
CloseHandle(hMutex);
}
return ( nResult >= 0 );
}

WM6 - how to Query WLAN "connection" status

I am desperately trying to work around some unknown problem caused by our NDIS IM driver on WM6 and HTC TyTn ( TyTn at least, but most likely other devices as well ). I started some other threads regarding different facets of this problem, and no help is coming. Now I am just trying to work around it.
in short the problem is when power events happen the WLAN will never connect.
The work around is programmatically open the control panel with STControlPanel class and press the down button 1 time then the f1 key ( right dash ). This "presses connect" on the last configured access point. This works around my problem, however, I need to detect when the access point has connected. There is a "connecting" and "connected" message for the access point in this control panel dialog ( control panel # 17 ).
My Question: Is there some way to get this text "connecting" or "connected" from the control panel #17?
I have tried wzc, ndisuio, winsock, and other "non control panel" ways to detect connected state, but the IM problem fools all these methods. The only thing I have ever seen that successfully shows when the problem has occurred is the "connecting"/"connected" status in the control panel 17.
Please Help Someone.
p.s. If I can get this worked around, we sell a commercial grade ndis intermediate driver toolkit letting you easily write plugins without any of the hard driver details. We have redirectors, transparent proxy, tunnelers, virtual adapters, lots of good stuff. Also the same plugin will work on all windows desktop platforms vista - 98, WM5/6 and CE and also linux and solaris...

Hello skk
What about notification API?
Here is the solution (simple concept) for Your problem. Interesting parts are in bold.
SNapiTest.cpp
Code:
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "SNapiTest.h"
#include <windows.h>
#include <commctrl.h>
#define MAX_LOADSTRING 100
// Global Variables:
HINSTANCE g_hInst; // current instance
HWND g_hWndMenuBar; // menu bar handle
[b]
const DWORD WM_WIFISTATUS = WM_USER + 1;
bool g_connecting;
bool g_connected;
HREGNOTIFY g_hNotify;
HREGNOTIFY g_hNotify2;
[/b]
// Forward declarations of functions included in this code module:
ATOM MyRegisterClass(HINSTANCE, LPTSTR);
BOOL InitInstance(HINSTANCE, int);
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);
INT_PTR CALLBACK About(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);
int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance,
HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
LPTSTR lpCmdLine,
int nCmdShow)
{
MSG msg;
// Perform application initialization:
if (!InitInstance(hInstance, nCmdShow))
{
return FALSE;
}
HACCEL hAccelTable;
hAccelTable = LoadAccelerators(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDC_SNAPITEST));
// Main message loop:
while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0))
{
if (!TranslateAccelerator(msg.hwnd, hAccelTable, &msg))
{
TranslateMessage(&msg);
DispatchMessage(&msg);
}
}
return (int) msg.wParam;
}
//
// FUNCTION: MyRegisterClass()
//
// PURPOSE: Registers the window class.
//
// COMMENTS:
//
ATOM MyRegisterClass(HINSTANCE hInstance, LPTSTR szWindowClass)
{
WNDCLASS wc;
wc.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
wc.lpfnWndProc = WndProc;
wc.cbClsExtra = 0;
wc.cbWndExtra = 0;
wc.hInstance = hInstance;
wc.hIcon = LoadIcon(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDI_SNAPITEST));
wc.hCursor = 0;
wc.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH) GetStockObject(WHITE_BRUSH);
wc.lpszMenuName = 0;
wc.lpszClassName = szWindowClass;
return RegisterClass(&wc);
}
//
// FUNCTION: InitInstance(HINSTANCE, int)
//
// PURPOSE: Saves instance handle and creates main window
//
// COMMENTS:
//
// In this function, we save the instance handle in a global variable and
// create and display the main program window.
//
BOOL InitInstance(HINSTANCE hInstance, int nCmdShow)
{
HWND hWnd;
TCHAR szTitle[MAX_LOADSTRING]; // title bar text
TCHAR szWindowClass[MAX_LOADSTRING]; // main window class name
g_hInst = hInstance; // Store instance handle in our global variable
// SHInitExtraControls should be called once during your application's initialization to initialize any
// of the device specific controls such as CAPEDIT and SIPPREF.
SHInitExtraControls();
LoadString(hInstance, IDS_APP_TITLE, szTitle, MAX_LOADSTRING);
LoadString(hInstance, IDC_SNAPITEST, szWindowClass, MAX_LOADSTRING);
//If it is already running, then focus on the window, and exit
hWnd = FindWindow(szWindowClass, szTitle);
if (hWnd)
{
// set focus to foremost child window
// The "| 0x00000001" is used to bring any owned windows to the foreground and
// activate them.
SetForegroundWindow((HWND)((ULONG) hWnd | 0x00000001));
return 0;
}
if (!MyRegisterClass(hInstance, szWindowClass))
{
return FALSE;
}
hWnd = CreateWindow(szWindowClass, szTitle, WS_VISIBLE,
CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
if (!hWnd)
{
return FALSE;
}
// When the main window is created using CW_USEDEFAULT the height of the menubar (if one
// is created is not taken into account). So we resize the window after creating it
// if a menubar is present
if (g_hWndMenuBar)
{
RECT rc;
RECT rcMenuBar;
GetWindowRect(hWnd, &rc);
GetWindowRect(g_hWndMenuBar, &rcMenuBar);
rc.bottom -= (rcMenuBar.bottom - rcMenuBar.top);
MoveWindow(hWnd, rc.left, rc.top, rc.right-rc.left, rc.bottom-rc.top, FALSE);
}
ShowWindow(hWnd, nCmdShow);
UpdateWindow(hWnd);
return TRUE;
}
//
// FUNCTION: WndProc(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM)
//
// PURPOSE: Processes messages for the main window.
//
// WM_COMMAND - process the application menu
// WM_PAINT - Paint the main window
// WM_DESTROY - post a quit message and return
//
//
LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
int wmId, wmEvent;
PAINTSTRUCT ps;
HDC hdc;
static SHACTIVATEINFO s_sai;
switch (message)
{
case WM_COMMAND:
wmId = LOWORD(wParam);
wmEvent = HIWORD(wParam);
// Parse the menu selections:
switch (wmId)
{
case IDM_HELP_ABOUT:
DialogBox(g_hInst, (LPCTSTR)IDD_ABOUTBOX, hWnd, About);
break;
case IDM_OK:
SendMessage (hWnd, WM_CLOSE, 0, 0);
break;
default:
return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
}
break;
case WM_CREATE:
SHMENUBARINFO mbi;
memset(&mbi, 0, sizeof(SHMENUBARINFO));
mbi.cbSize = sizeof(SHMENUBARINFO);
mbi.hwndParent = hWnd;
mbi.nToolBarId = IDR_MENU;
mbi.hInstRes = g_hInst;
if (!SHCreateMenuBar(&mbi))
{
g_hWndMenuBar = NULL;
}
else
{
g_hWndMenuBar = mbi.hwndMB;
}
// Initialize the shell activate info structure
memset(&s_sai, 0, sizeof (s_sai));
s_sai.cbSize = sizeof (s_sai);
[b]
g_connecting = false;
g_connected = false;
{HRESULT hr = RegistryNotifyWindow(SN_WIFISTATECONNECTING_ROOT,
SN_WIFISTATECONNECTING_PATH, SN_WIFISTATECONNECTING_VALUE,
hWnd, WM_WIFISTATUS, 0, NULL, &g_hNotify);}
{HRESULT hr2 = RegistryNotifyWindow(SN_WIFISTATECONNECTING_ROOT,
SN_WIFISTATECONNECTED_PATH, SN_WIFISTATECONNECTED_VALUE,
hWnd, WM_WIFISTATUS, 0, NULL, &g_hNotify2);}
[/b]
break;
case WM_PAINT:
hdc = BeginPaint(hWnd, &ps);
// TODO: Add any drawing code here...
EndPaint(hWnd, &ps);
break;
[b]
case WM_WIFISTATUS:
{
DWORD newValue = (DWORD) wParam;
WCHAR caption[] = L"Wifi Status";
if ((newValue & SN_WIFISTATECONNECTED_BITMASK) == SN_WIFISTATECONNECTED_BITMASK)
{
if (!g_connected)
{
g_connected = true;
g_connecting = false;
MessageBox(hWnd, L"Connected!!", caption, MB_OK);
}
break;
}
if ((newValue & SN_WIFISTATECONNECTING_BITMASK) == SN_WIFISTATECONNECTING_BITMASK)
{
if (!g_connecting)
{
g_connecting = true;
g_connected =false;
MessageBox(hWnd, L"Connecting...", caption, MB_OK);
}
}
break;
}
[/b]
case WM_DESTROY:
CommandBar_Destroy(g_hWndMenuBar);
[B]
RegistryCloseNotification(g_hNotify);
RegistryCloseNotification(g_hNotify2);
[/B]
PostQuitMessage(0);
break;
case WM_ACTIVATE:
// Notify shell of our activate message
SHHandleWMActivate(hWnd, wParam, lParam, &s_sai, FALSE);
break;
case WM_SETTINGCHANGE:
SHHandleWMSettingChange(hWnd, wParam, lParam, &s_sai);
break;
default:
return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
}
return 0;
}
// Message handler for about box.
INT_PTR CALLBACK About(HWND hDlg, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
switch (message)
{
case WM_INITDIALOG:
{
// Create a Done button and size it.
SHINITDLGINFO shidi;
shidi.dwMask = SHIDIM_FLAGS;
shidi.dwFlags = SHIDIF_DONEBUTTON | SHIDIF_SIPDOWN | SHIDIF_SIZEDLGFULLSCREEN | SHIDIF_EMPTYMENU;
shidi.hDlg = hDlg;
SHInitDialog(&shidi);
}
return (INT_PTR)TRUE;
case WM_COMMAND:
if (LOWORD(wParam) == IDOK)
{
EndDialog(hDlg, LOWORD(wParam));
return TRUE;
}
break;
case WM_CLOSE:
EndDialog(hDlg, message);
return TRUE;
}
return (INT_PTR)FALSE;
}
Needed includes:
// TODO: reference additional headers your program requires here
#include <snapi.h>
#include <regext.h>

snapi.h
Thank you so much for your post. I just found snapi.h, I assume this is snapitest.h?

IT WORKS!
It works! You are my hero RStein. You are a god among men.

Great. ) Thanks for sharing the results.

Finding Windows and their executable filepaths

I've just spent a lot of time looking for ways to tie Windows and process exe files together and I saw a lot of people asking after similar topics.
It was somewhat frustrating because of numerous little difficulties - using CreateToolhelp32Snapshot unpredictably fails, GetProcessById is no good if the process wasn't started with StartInfo, because you can have multiple windows to a process it's hard to identify which is a processes mainwindow.
But I solved my problem, a solution that I haven't seen elsewhere, so I thought I'd share it here. This is my solution to the specific problem of finding a window to match an executable file path....
This is on WM6, using CF2 in C#.
Used as follows (with S2U2 as the example):
Ionwerks.Window w = new Ionwerks.Window(@"\Program Files\S2U2\S2U2.exe");
IntPtr WindowsHandle = w.handle;
Code:
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace Ionwerks
{
delegate int EnumWindowsProc(IntPtr hwnd, IntPtr lParam);
class Window
{
private EnumWindowsProc callbackDelegate;
private IntPtr callbackDelegatePointer;
private IntPtr m_handle = IntPtr.Zero;
private string moduleFileName = "";
//Construct from path
public Window(string path)
{
moduleFileName = path;
Enumerate();
}
public IntPtr handle
{
get
{
return m_handle;
}
}
private void Enumerate() {
callbackDelegate = new EnumWindowsProc(EnumWindowsCallbackProc);
callbackDelegatePointer = Marshal.GetFunctionPointerForDelegate(callbackDelegate);
EnumWindows(callbackDelegatePointer, 0);
}
[DllImport("coredll.dll", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern bool EnumWindows(IntPtr lpEnumFunc, uint lParam);
[DllImport("coredll.dll", EntryPoint = "GetModuleFileNameW", SetLastError = true)]
private static extern uint GetModuleFileName(IntPtr hModule, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string lpFileName, uint nSize);
[DllImport("coredll")]
private static extern uint GetWindowThreadProcessId(IntPtr hwnd, out int lpdwProcessId);
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
private static extern IntPtr OpenProcess(int flags, bool fInherit, int PID);
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
private static extern bool CloseHandle(IntPtr handle);
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
private static extern bool IsWindowVisible(IntPtr handle);
private string ModuleFileName = new string((char)0x20, 255);
private int EnumWindowsCallbackProc(IntPtr hwnd, IntPtr lParam)
{
//get windows process
int pid = 0;
GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, out pid);
IntPtr pHnd = OpenProcess(0, false, pid);
//get processes image
GetModuleFileName(pHnd, ModuleFileName, (uint)ModuleFileName.Length);
//if paths match up
if (String.Compare(ModuleFileName.Substring(0, ModuleFileName.IndexOf('\0')), moduleFileName, true) == 0) {
//only interested in processes mainwindow
if (hwnd == Process.GetProcessById(pid).MainWindowHandle)
{
m_handle = hwnd;
}
}
CloseHandle(pHnd);
return 1;
}
}
}

thanks man! your code helped!

simple explanation ... ?.... what that codes for and how to use

fade to black

I want my form to fade to black until the app. exits, when I click my self-made exit-button. I've got my inspiration from the apps. "S2U2" and "PocketCM" ... they fade to black really smooth and fast.
I already got my app working... but it is extrem slowly.
for those who are interested in my application
Code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace TransparentSample
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public struct BlendFunction
{
public byte BlendOp;
public byte BlendFlags;
public byte SourceConstantAlpha;
public byte AlphaFormat;
}
public enum BlendOperation : byte
{
AC_SRC_OVER = 0x00
}
public enum BlendFlags : byte
{
Zero = 0x00
}
public enum SourceConstantAlpha : byte
{
Transparent = 0x00,
Opaque = 0xFF
}
public enum AlphaFormat : byte
{
AC_SRC_ALPHA = 0x01
}
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
extern public static Int32 AlphaBlend(IntPtr hdcDest,
Int32 xDest,
Int32 yDest,
Int32 cxDest,
Int32 cyDest,
IntPtr hdcSrc,
Int32 xSrc,
Int32 ySrc,
Int32 cxSrc,
Int32 cySrc,
BlendFunction blendFunction);
Bitmap backBuffer = null;
Byte alpha;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
backBuffer = new Bitmap( pictureBox1.Image);
alpha = 0x00;
}
protected override void OnPaintBackground(PaintEventArgs e)
{
// Prevent flicker, we will take care of the background in Form1_Paint
}
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
if (backBuffer != null)
{
Graphics gxBuffer = Graphics.FromImage(backBuffer);
gxBuffer.Clear(Color.White);
gxBuffer.DrawImage(pictureBox1.Image, 0, 0);
Graphics gxSrc = Graphics.FromImage( new Bitmap( backBuffer.Width, backBuffer.Height));
gxSrc.Clear(Color.Black);
IntPtr hdcDst = gxBuffer.GetHdc();
IntPtr hdcSrc = gxSrc.GetHdc();
BlendFunction blendFunction = new BlendFunction();
blendFunction.BlendOp = (byte)BlendOperation.AC_SRC_OVER; // Only supported blend operation
blendFunction.BlendFlags = (byte)BlendFlags.Zero; // Documentation says put 0 here
blendFunction.SourceConstantAlpha = (byte)alpha;// Constant alpha factor
blendFunction.AlphaFormat = (byte)0; // Don't look for per pixel alpha
Form1.AlphaBlend(
hdcDst,
0,
0,
backBuffer.Width,
backBuffer.Height,
hdcSrc,
0,
0,
pictureBox1.Width,
pictureBox1.Height,
blendFunction);
gxBuffer.ReleaseHdc(hdcDst); // Required cleanup to GetHdc()
gxSrc.ReleaseHdc(hdcSrc); // Required cleanup to GetHdc()
// Put the final composed image on screen.
e.Graphics.DrawImage(backBuffer, 0, 0);
}
}
private void btnExit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
tmrFade.Enabled = true;
}
private void tmrFade_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// timers interval: 100ms ... so this should take 1Sek.
alpha = (byte)(alpha + (byte)25);
if (alpha == 250)
{
alpha = 0xff;
Application.Exit();
}
this.Refresh();
}
}
}
Have you got a better idea to solve this?
thanks

Look for DIBSection, but in .NET that's not gonna be easy.

You might be right about .NET
I already thought about coding in c++ ...I think that's what I am going to do.
Thank you

Hide Soft Input Panel

Hi, I've searched the forum but cant find what i need.
I'm developing using VS2008, VB.Net.
All I want to do is on each form_activated to remove the SIP from my program, cant find a simple solution, can anyone help?
Cheers.

Have a look at :-
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/fo.../thread/6af088ad-3554-4141-938f-d78fdb9c27a0/

Hi,
Thanks, I tried that and the button is made invisible but if you press on the area where the button was, it re-appears again.
Also, I cant get it to work on the form activated, only on a button click.

This approach is rather more brutal. It will get rid of it, but you won't see it again until you do a soft restart!
Code:
using System;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
namespace TestDevApp
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
[DllImport("COREDLL.DLL", SetLastError = true)]
static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string lpWindowName);
[DllImport("COREDLL.DLL", SetLastError = true)]
static extern bool DestroyWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void Form1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
IntPtr hWndSipButton = FindWindow("MS_SIPBUTTON", "MS_SIPBUTTON");
if (hWndSipButton != null)
DestroyWindow(hWndSipButton);
}
}
}

Hi stephj,
That works perfectly, but like you say it is a bit brutal, is there no way of rebuilding the button on application exit without having to do a device reset?
Or instead of destroying the button just make it invisible or make it so that when the user selects it it just doesn't pop up the keyboard?
It's so much that I dont want the button there, it's more a case of i dont want the user to be able to use it.

Looks like it is a bit of pain to do in .NET, as we do not have much control over the Command Bar, when it is created.
In Win32 C++ it is no problem, as we can hijack the code that responds to the WM_CREATE message, which actually creates the Command Bar
SHCMBF_HIDESIPBUTTON works a treat.
Code:
case WM_CREATE:
SHMENUBARINFO mbi;
memset(&mbi, 0, sizeof(SHMENUBARINFO));
mbi.cbSize = sizeof(SHMENUBARINFO);
mbi.hwndParent = hWnd;
mbi.nToolBarId = IDR_MENU;
mbi.hInstRes = g_hInst;
mbi.dwFlags = SHCMBF_HIDESIPBUTTON;
if (!SHCreateMenuBar(&mbi))
{
g_hWndMenuBar = NULL;
}
else
{
g_hWndMenuBar = mbi.hwndMB;
}
// Initialize the shell activate info structure
memset(&s_sai, 0, sizeof (s_sai));
s_sai.cbSize = sizeof (s_sai);
break;
Still trying a few things out, but don't hold your breath.