Re^4: Memory requirements for a Win32 GUI

Yeah, I thought about moving stuff to a central instance and only querying that instance - which would still leave the GUI burden on the particular instances.
Sending messages to users via NET SEND is an interesting idea... I'll see whether that's enough or whether I need to customize the message beyond NET SEND's abilities.
Thanks for the pointer to the Microsoft docs. Everything I had found was a little vague...

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Re^5: Memory requirements for a Win32 GUI by tachyon-II (Chaplain) on Apr 14, 2008 at 16:12 UTC
If you do end up having to do it the hard way wget has a windows port and will reliably do the URL retrieval for you. It is only 380K when compiled. You could use a short bit of C to exec it, add whatever C you need to check the downloaded file and then use C code like this to display your message box. `#include <windows.h> int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { MessageBox(NULL, "Goodbye, cruel world!", "Note", MB_OK); return 0; }` [download] See this if you want to hack on Win32 directly in C. You will find some basic windows URL downloading code in C (only 100 odd lines) here. Essentially the only bit you have to write is the code to do whatever task you want to do with your downloaded data. It should compile into an application under a few hundred K.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^5: Memory requirements for a Win32 GUI
by tachyon-II (Chaplain) on Apr 14, 2008 at 16:12 UTC

If you do end up having to do it the hard way wget has a windows port and will reliably do the URL retrieval for you. It is only 380K when compiled. You could use a short bit of C to exec it, add whatever C you need to check the downloaded file and then use C code like this to display your message box.

#include <windows.h>

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, 
    LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow)
{
    MessageBox(NULL, "Goodbye, cruel world!", "Note", MB_OK);
    return 0;
}
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See this if you want to hack on Win32 directly in C. You will find some basic windows URL downloading code in C (only 100 odd lines) here. Essentially the only bit you have to write is the code to do whatever task you want to do with your downloaded data. It should compile into an application under a few hundred K.

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