Archive for November, 2007

26 Nov

How to locate important system directories

Using ShlObj unit and SHGetSpecialFolderLocation Windows API function, we can retrieve the location of a special folders, such as My computer, Desktop, Program Files etc… There are over 20 special folder locations.

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11 Nov

How to detect system idle time

If you want to detect user inactivity even if your application is in background (has no focus), it’s really simple. You can achieve this using GetLastInputInfo function.

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