I can't figure out how to receive ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI messages for menu
items which are part of a nested popup menu in my menubar. If anyone can
throw some light on this I would be very appreciative!
Here's the details. I'm using eVC 4.0 to write an MFC app for PPC2003.

I am trying to implement a function that will play MIDI notes (C,D,...)
All I can find is the waveOutWrite() function that will play a buffer.
Any hight level function to play a tone in any frequency that I will choose?
Or at least a function that will get a MIDI note number (0. ...

Is it possible to overwrite the Keybd_event and SendMessage?
Thanks.... Miky

It is possible to intercept the message WM_KEYDOWN that have generated the
Keybd_event or SendMessage function before of the application?
Thanks....
Miky

I am having trouble with the debugger. I have an application with an OCX
control, both of which we developed in house. When I launch the
application to debug it (F5) I hit several break points that shouldn't
be there. I have gone into the PB and deleted all breakpoints, as well

     I have modified a sample touch screen driver to suite the
controller ADS7843 and its working well upto mdd layer. Its reading the
values and passing it to the ddsi functions. Even the interrupt and all
is working. But the pointer is not pointing to any where. Can any one

How to write a custom exception-handling routine for "new"?
First, I was using programing with MFC in eVC 4.0 for WinCE 4.2. I use new
operator frequently, so I want to check if it can allocate the memory
successfully, and if it fails , I want to handle the error myself.

I am developing an application for IRIS reader using  enbedded visual
c++. While creating the dialog boxes, i tried adding a bitmap as the
background for the dialog. with this the static text labels reatain
their old back ground color. How do i program my code so that i can

I have two network cards in my device.
My application can browse web by IWebBrowser2 control.
But I have some reasons that make me to browse web by the special network
card.

I am implementing the serial communication, I want to use MsgQueue to read
data for a thread and write for another, but I don't know how to use
"OpenMsgQueue" and "CreateMsgQueue", and who can show me a example?
Thanks.

I have made a small vc++ program that runs on CE500 and uses the standard
serial communication routines.
The program is working correctly under normal condition.
However the CE500 device receives bytes while booting AND  RTS and DTR are

I've in my device a following registry :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Ident and a field named Desc = "MyDescription"
I must retrieve this string value but I've a problem because the string
contains after every char one null character :

Is it possible retrieve a device name and device description from my Windows
CE ?
Thanks
Stefano

i'm going to port my project from vc++ 7.1 into embedded vc++
4. it's natural to encounter some incompatibilities. one of them is the
error arised when i wanted to compile the line:
   int ret = open(fn,O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_BINARY,S_IWRITE);

 My  APP icon is default(MFC) icon!
 I  redraw for Resource->ICON->IDR_MAINFRAME.
 I ReBulid ALL ......
 I can get new ICON in My APP ON Folders->Explore->ICONS view!