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DesktopCaretX() and DesktopCaretY()

Same as DesktopMouseX() and DesktopMouseY()
but gives location of Caret instead of Mouse.

The caret is the blinking object that is used to enter text.
When you type, the letter appears at the caret, and the
caret moves forward by 1 space.

My program works ok on Windows XP and Windows 7 But if I run the program on Windows 98, 2 alerts appear C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Myprog.exe A device attached to the system is not functioning and Error Starting Program The Myprog.exe file is linked to missing export USER32.DLL:SetLayeredWindowAttributes Is...

I wish....

The manufacturer has told me that this particular display doesn't have a virtual com port driver.

They do have some displays that have a virtual com port driver, but not this one.

The device is a Posiflex PD-2605 USB pole display.

http://www.posiflexuk.com/ebrochures/PD%202600.pdf

I need to send a few bytes of data to a device connected to one of my PC's USB ports.

Any guidance on how this can be done with PB greatly appreciated.

Thanks once again ABBKlaus

Hi ABBKlaus
Any clues as to why the nice red line no longer works in PB 4.xx ?
Regards
Tony

Any guidance/sample code on how to map a network drive like

NET USE Z: \\XPDEVPC\XPDEVDIR

using PB on Win XP greatly appreciated.

How can I latch my PureBasic 4.10 program
onto the current active window (which was
not created by my program) so that I can
ascertain properties of the current active
window such as WindowX() and WindowY()

Thanks for that. I think the GetCaretPos Function in the windows API is what I need though. The GetCaretPos function copies the caret's position to the specified POINT structure. Syntax BOOL GetCaretPos( LPPOINT lpPoint ); Parameters lpPoint [out] Pointer to the POINT structure that is to receive th...

By 'data entry cursor', I mean the blinking vertical line
which appears when you use the keyboard to enter
information into a field on a form. It shows where the
next character you type will appear.

Is there an equivalent of DesktopMouseX() DesktopMouseY()
for the data entry cursor?

Hi netmaestro Thanks for the code. I'm trying to fully understand what this code does. Most of it makes sense, but why do we need the PokeL() ? Also, is it possible to draw a transparent line to make the original desktop visible again? Global *mem *mem = AllocateMemory(1024) Procedure.l DesktopOutpu...

Thank you all for your help. Much appreciated.

Hi, I'm new to windows programming. I'm trying to write a program that will draw a line from screen position 0, 0 to 1023, 767. (IE. a diagonal line from the top left to the bottom right.) The bit I'm having trouble with is that I would like the line drawn on top of whatever is on the screen at that...