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Attached is the full release for the access program for the win32-docs.zip downloaded from GitHub:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32

This provides a way to use and access documentation (mainly the API Names) from the GitHub documentation effort off-line, and searchable.

The documents can be viewed in the .md format or in a .html format. Searching is provided in the .md display, and of course intrinsically in the web browser viewing .html.

TimoVJL provided the code/method to search the win32 documentation for API NAMES from which I created a database and the rest of the program. See readme_v4.txt, for other external source code attributions.

It is possible that the MD_Files_3.db3 could be expanded in the future to include all topics in the win32-docs.zip and that would not require changing the basic program to be immediately useful. TBD

John Z

#64

Work in progress / Re: ChatGPT examples

Last post by Vortex - November 09, 2025, 10:01:13 AM

Console application to get the boot time :

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/* ChatGPT code */

#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    FILETIME ftNow, ftBootUtc, ftBootLocal;
    ULONGLONG now100ns;
    ULONGLONG uptimeMs;
    ULONGLONG boot100ns;
    SYSTEMTIME st;

    /* current system time as FILETIME (UTC, 100-ns intervals since 1601) */
    GetSystemTimeAsFileTime(&ftNow);
    now100ns = ((ULONGLONG)ftNow.dwHighDateTime << 32) | ftNow.dwLowDateTime;

    /* milliseconds since system start */
    uptimeMs = GetTickCount64(); /* Vista+; returns milliseconds since boot */

    /* convert uptime to 100-ns units and subtract */
    boot100ns = now100ns - (uptimeMs * 10000ULL);

    /* convert back to FILETIME structure */
    ftBootUtc.dwLowDateTime  = (DWORD)(boot100ns & 0xFFFFFFFF);
    ftBootUtc.dwHighDateTime = (DWORD)(boot100ns >> 32);

    /* show UTC boot time */
    if (FileTimeToSystemTime(&ftBootUtc, &st)) {
        printf("Boot time (UTC)  : %04u-%02u-%02u %02u:%02u:%02u\n",
               st.wYear, st.wMonth, st.wDay, st.wHour, st.wMinute, st.wSecond);
    }

    /* convert to local time and show */
    if (FileTimeToLocalFileTime(&ftBootUtc, &ftBootLocal) &&
        FileTimeToSystemTime(&ftBootLocal, &st)) {
        printf("Boot time (local): %04u-%02u-%02u %02u:%02u:%02u\n",
               st.wYear, st.wMonth, st.wDay, st.wHour, st.wMinute, st.wSecond);
    }

    return 0;
}

#65

User contributions / Re: Boot time

Last post by Vortex - November 08, 2025, 10:10:06 PM

Hi Timo,

Keep up the nice work.

#66

User contributions / Boot time

Last post by TimoVJL - November 08, 2025, 03:01:42 PM

Inspirate from
http://masm32.com/board/index.php?msg=140972
I might fix this later.

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#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <windows.h>

#define NTSTATUS  LONG

typedef struct _SYSTEM_TIMEOFDAY_INFORMATION
{
    LARGE_INTEGER BootTime;                     // Number of 100-nanosecond intervals since the system was started.
    LARGE_INTEGER CurrentTime;                  // The current system date and time.
    LARGE_INTEGER TimeZoneBias;                 // Number of 100-nanosecond intervals between local time and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
    ULONG TimeZoneId;                           // The current system time zone identifier.
    ULONG Reserved;                             // Reserved
    ULONGLONG BootTimeBias;                     // Number of 100-nanosecond intervals between the boot time and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
    ULONGLONG SleepTimeBias;                    // Number of 100-nanosecond intervals between the sleep time and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
} SYSTEM_TIMEOFDAY_INFORMATION, *PSYSTEM_TIMEOFDAY_INFORMATION;

#define SystemTimeOfDayInformation 3
// enum SYSTEM_INFORMATION_CLASS

//NTSTATUS WINAPI NtQuerySystemInformation(int SystemInformationClass,
//    PVOID SystemInformation, ULONG SystemInformationLength, PULONG ReturnLength);

typedef int (WINAPI NTQUERYSYSTEMINFORMATION)(int SystemInformationClass,
    PVOID SystemInformation, ULONG SystemInformationLength, PULONG ReturnLength);
typedef NTQUERYSYSTEMINFORMATION *LNTQUERYSYSTEMINFORMATION;
// FILETIME SYSTEMTIME
void __cdecl WinMainCRTStartup(void)
{
    HANDLE hLib;
    static LNTQUERYSYSTEMINFORMATION NtQuerySystemInformation;
    SYSTEM_TIMEOFDAY_INFORMATION stodi;
    FILETIME ft;
    SYSTEMTIME st;
    char szBuf[50];
    hLib = LoadLibrary("ntdll.dll");
    NtQuerySystemInformation = (LNTQUERYSYSTEMINFORMATION)GetProcAddress(hLib, "NtQuerySystemInformation");
    NtQuerySystemInformation(SystemTimeOfDayInformation, &stodi, sizeof(stodi), 0);
    (*(LONGLONG*)&stodi.BootTime) -= (*(LONGLONG*)&stodi.TimeZoneBias);
    ft.dwLowDateTime = ((LARGE_INTEGER*)&stodi.BootTime)->LowPart;
    ft.dwHighDateTime = ((LARGE_INTEGER*)&stodi.BootTime)->HighPart;
    FileTimeToSystemTime(&ft, &st);
    wsprintf(szBuf, "Date: %04d-%02d-%02d\nTime: %02d:%02d:%02d", st.wYear, st.wMonth, st.wDay,
        st.wHour, st.wMinute, st.wSecond);
    MessageBox(0, szBuf, "Boot time", MB_OK);
    ExitProcess(0);
}

#67

Work in progress / Re: win32-doc md files

Last post by John Z - November 08, 2025, 02:09:03 PM

It looks like I have got 3.0.2 working in Pelles C at least for unzipping to a file or memory.

I'll need to run some tests to see if it works for zipping too.

Making progress in either case.

John Z

Update - looking nice, it was able to zip a file and both 7z and WIN zip could access it and the file was extracted intact and readable.

#68

Assembly discussions / Re: Rich Edit sample

Last post by Vortex - November 08, 2025, 09:15:32 AM

Same example built with binary resource template :

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include DlgBox.inc

.data

DialogBox:

INCBIN "MyDlg.bin"

.code

start:

    mov     eax,RichEditANSIWndProc
    invoke  GetModuleHandle,0

    xor     ecx,ecx
    invoke  DialogBoxIndirectParam,eax,\
            ADDR DialogBox,ecx,ADDR DlgProc,ecx

    invoke  ExitProcess,eax

DlgProc PROC hWnd:DWORD,uMsg:DWORD,wParam:DWORD,lParam:DWORD

    .IF uMsg==WM_CLOSE

        invoke  EndDialog,hWnd,0

    .ELSE

        xor     eax,eax
        ret

    .ENDIF

    mov     eax,1
    ret

DlgProc ENDP

END start

#69

Work in progress / Re: win32-doc md files

Last post by John Z - November 06, 2025, 11:22:03 PM

Quote from: TimoVJL on November 06, 2025, 07:06:38 PMLike in this:
https://github.com/kuba--/zip

Thank Timo! I'll give this one a try - maybe simple enough for me to use.

John Z

Update: An older version of this (1.19) is what I am using now. Back in about 2020 I went through the 1.19 code and succeeded in getting it to work for Pelles C. Now looking at this version 3.0.2 it is just as difficult under Pelles C as 1.19 was

but structurally it has changed a lot so a file difference does not highlight changes compared to what I did in 1.19 SO it is basically going to be starting all over......

#70

Work in progress / Re: win32-doc md files

Last post by Vortex - November 06, 2025, 07:14:31 PM

Hi Timo,

Mentioning about Miniz, are your referring to this project?

https://github.com/richgel999/miniz

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