Can anybody please lead me, how can i develop direct draw "version 8" based
project. The only files i can find in standart SDK and my SDK supports
ddraw4 objects so i cant use some new funcs and defs. (like
DirectDrawCreateEx) Should i install specific SDK for directx8 for eVC++ ...

You know, the IE explorer in Winodows Mobile 2003 2nd edition support GIF
animation, so MS must have implemented GIF animation. Does anyone here know
how we can implement GIF animation using smartphone 2003 SDK.
Thanks

I am developing a tool, which needs the functionality of recording and
playing audio-data (wav). Mainly the tool has to be realized with J2ME,
but recording audio should be realized in C. My device is an iPaq 4700
with WindowsMobile2003SE.

 Does anyone know if Trolltech's QT is supported under CE5.0?
Thanks,
Tom

Hello again
I let my app read information from a data file. Among the data are some
strings as well. After reading the information about how long the string in
the file is, I create a new TCHAR array using the new operator and then

I want to drive my buzzer on a X86 platform.
I read that CE is simpler than XP/2000 and that I can access to hardware
directly so:
How can I write I/O on Windows CE 2.0?

My application should use the dialog only to show the current progress and
after its finished, it exits. My problem is, that the dialog isn't drawn or
updated.
In Delphi i would just call Application.ProcessMessages in between, in Java

I am looking for a good compress/decompress API for
Pocket PC or Windows Mobile. The application I need
to build must fullfil the following:
- Needs to be Freeware

My small app is nearly finished, but i have two problems left both with the
GUI:
CStatic - Is it really impossible to get annother background color than the
default grey or set it to transparent? I found no methods or properties to

I created my own file manager for PocketPC using the wxWince
library.  However, I am having trouble lauching helper applications
when a user double-clicks on a document with a known extension.
Currently I am using CreateProcess to launch the helper app, and

I have 3 COM-ports on my PC.
Is it possible to open one COM-port on emulator application,
second on PC application, connect these two ports with cable
and to send data from one to another?

I was debugging my program when I found one strange thing - some functions,
like GetModuleFileName(NULL , szString, MAX_PATH) and
SHGetDocumentsFolder(L"\\", szString) returned strings to (szString+12) !
And all the program executed with errors, because it expected value at

I'm relative new to C++, havn't used MFC and i want to write my first small
application with embedded vc++. Until now i programmed with VB, Delphi and
Java for many years, but i habe a little trouble with the msn-help.
I just want to start another application.

I'm looking for a JavaScript engine to include in my PocketPC project.
Does anyone know a library that works with wince?
I already took a look at the Mozilla JavaScript engine but I couldn't
compile it on my computer. Do you think it's possible to compile it for

i have 2 questions.
1. i want to get the handle of the window which is currenlty shown and
gets the user input.
i have to call getforegroundwindow() or getactivewindow()