See: SHGetKnownFolderIDList function
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... lderidlist

> The checkbox is being added and is initially checked via the first two statements. How can it be possible? This small test works correctly: #define UNICODE #INCLUDE ONCE "Afx/CWindow.inc" USING Afx CONST IDC_CHECKBOX = 1001 DECLARE FUNCTION WinMain (BYVAL hInstance AS HINSTANCE, _ BYVAL ...

Windows XP on a 4K monitor is completely unusable. See: https://external-preview.redd.it/x-UxJp6Gm7rWb4DhR9hbMDHXYsv7rnG4fl63sr2LuW0.jpg?auto=webp&s=3175728dc6b0acc1bfc7adb35c9635373e605035 Windows XP current share is a meager 1,29% See: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows...

Whats wrong with the XP based Win32 API to not be used in the first place and only offer the "new" Win32 API calls Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020 And Windows XP support ended on April 8, 2014. What's wrong with XP based Win32 API? Among many other things, it has not support t...

The MASM member was using "." instead of "period"

I answered freebasic!!!!.

but apparently that's not correct. Two other trys and I exceeded my attempts.

The hard part is "FreeBASIC". Most people will try "FreeBasic", "Free Basic", "freebasic", etc.

The goto is innocent of the crash, but I haven't seen a worse way of trying to close an application.

When you call CreateDIBSection, pMainDIB will receive a pointer to the location of the DIB bit values. Therefore, allocating memory to it with Allocate((cdXSize)*(cdYSize)) before calling CreateDIBSection is useless, and as CreateDIBSection will change the value of pMainDIB, when you call Deallocate...

> I don't think the goto is any problem.

The problem is that in the way you're using it, you are bypassing the normal sequence of Windows events.

Closing the Window: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... the-window

It crashes when closing the window here (Win10 fbc 1.07.1 compiled with gcc 5.x). Most likely due to this part: '' ... Select Case message Case WM_CHAR If (wParam = VK_ESCAPE) Then Goto wmDestruimos End If Return 0 '' ... Case WM_DESTROY wmDestruimos: KillTimer (hWnd, cdIdTimer) hGDITmp = SelectObj...

The memory used by the temporary buffer created by GdipBitmapLockBits is freed when you call GdipBitmapUnlockBits. GdipBitmapLockBits and GdipBitmapUnlockBits must always be used as a pair.

There is a third one that I'm using: I use include files instead of modules, but many of the includes use a namespace. I prefer to use include files instead of modules to benefit from conditional compilation and dead code removal.

- growth rate field is stored with every string There are instances in which an application may need to do hundreds or even thousands of string concatenations, e.g. my TypeLib Browser. In such cases, changing the grow rate makes a very big difference in speed. - pre-allocates 260 bytes, even for em...

Because, eventually, we will break some user code, I found this existing usage of USTRING usage on this forum:
ustring: Dynamic zstring library.

Now you will understand why I did use CWSTR for my class. I was almost certain that it will never be used as a keyword :)

> In over 20 years as a Windows user, I've never seen this - weird

It happens every time that you download a .chm file from the web. Best way to avoid it is to upload the .chm file zipped.