Mark R

I'm just starting out with Windows C/C++ GUI programming. I'm trying to understand the 'big picture' of Windows GUI. I know that in Windows XP, you have GDI & GDI+ built on the GDI32 system, and Direct3D built on the DirectX system, and in Vista/7 you have everything (GDI, Direct3D, Direct2D etc.) built on the DirectX system. Where does Win32 fit in to all this? Is it built on one of the layers I've mentioned, something lower level, something else again?

If A calls B, then I just have to put B first in the ml file, and all is fine. If A calls B and B calls A, how do I do this? Either way round I get an "Unbound value" error because the second function hasn't been defined yet.

I find that you can't really fit much on a 1366x768 screen, but 1920x1080 results in the pixel pitch being too small on a laptop-sized screen. Are there any laptop manufacturers left that still produce laptops with a more sensible medium resolution?

The manuals are available in PDF form here: http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Page... , but it would be useful to have physical copies. Does anyone produce these, and if so where can I buy them? If there isn't anywhere, I would be interested to know what the legal situation of printing them (myself or getting a print shop to do them properly) would be.

I'm using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I want to know what files a currently-running program currently has opened.

So, will a drive that fits in a 1520 fit in a 1525 and vice versa?

I have the updates for XP Pro for integrating using nLite, so what I want to know is whether I can use the same updates for an XP Home disk?

I'm wanting statistics with breakdowns by age and by graduate/non-graduate (as in, including 40-45 grads vs. 40-45 non-grads, not two tables one by age and one by grad/non-grad), preferably with accurate high-earning data (so if the highest group is 45k+ with 7% of people, say, that's no good, as I have no idea what the mean is for that group).

On the Wikipedia article about ice skates, it says "The bottom of a modern ice skate blade, unlike the blade of a knife, has a crescent-shaped hollow, creating two sharp edges on each skate...The depth of this hollow is known as the Radius of Hollow (RoH). The Radius of Hollow is typically between 1/4" and 1" depending on the type of skates and the user."

I've never noticed this when ice skating (admittedly I've only been a few times), and I can't quite visualise what that would look like - could anyone expand, or point me to a photo showing this feature?

Thanks!

I'm familiar with Howes Models in Kidlington, a few miles out of Oxford, but I was wondering if there's anywhere in Oxford itself that you can get balsa wood from.

Thanks!

With Windows 7, the same key is for 32 and 64 bit versions - so if your computer came with 32-bit Windows 7, and you had Windows 7 64-bit media, you could reinstall the 64-bit version with the same key. Will the same be true for Office 2010?

I am running Windows 7 x64 Professional, and have JRE6 (32-bit), JRE6&JDK1.6 (64-bit) and JRE7&JDK1.7 prerelease (64-bit). When I'm running a Java application, how do I tell which VM it's running under?

I have a Firewire port in my laptop, but I don't know whether it's Firewire 400 or Firewire 800. I don't currently own any Firewire devices. How can I find out whether it's 400 or 800 speed?

The seller of the item I wanting to get has sent me these photos:

http://www.markr.org.uk/t7800/09032010012.jpg

http://www.markr.org.uk/t7800/09032010013.jpg

http://www.markr.org.uk/t7800/09032010018.jpg

The item I'm thinking of buying is:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it...

As the photo on the item is generic, I contacted the seller and he's sent me these photos:

http://www.markr.org.uk/t7800/09032010012.jpg

http://www.markr.org.uk/t7800/09032010013.jpg

http://www.markr.org.uk/t7800/09032010018.jpg