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Hi all,

Usually, when people come here looking for free work, they get run out on a rail by some of our veteran members. Since I've been around here for about two years now, I hope that won't happen to me. ;)

I'm currently working on a small C++ project called PastIconsFlusher. It runs on Windows XP only, and flushes the 'Past Notifications Area' in the Taskbar.

A very simple and small program, to be sure. I am using the Win32 API.

I have open-sourced it, and received some decent feedback.

Here is a download site hosting PastIconsFlusher, if you want to take a look:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...r/1141525602/1

So, here's where you come in. I have had a request from a user to port this program to Windows Vista. I cannot do this.

I do not own a copy of Vista, and I will not download one. I cannot afford one at this juncture in time.

If you are a programmer of intermediate to advanced knowledge who knows the Win32 API for Vista, I would be more than happy to have you come on board and update the program for Vista.

Because this is a open-source program, I cannot pay you (nor can I afford to) That's the punchline. I just want to update this little program for Vista because I have had decent feedback on it - and maybe I could help a Vista user out.

So, if you're interested, reply here and I will PM you. If you just feel like eating me for lunch because I'm asking for free help, I guess you can do that too. ;)

Regards,
Paul

PRM, we don't eat people for lunch because they ask for free work. That's a perfectly legitimate offer in the Jobs Forum. We eat people for lunch because they want their work done for them for free when they think that a credit on their sloppy website is tantamount to worthwhile remuneration.

I don't have Vista, either (and not likely to in the near term), or I would do it for you (presuming I was capable).

I think I got Vista capability written in. I found some info on some 'Vista Tips' type of sites, and I found some decent code at MSDN showing me how to check for the Operating System version.

But I would like some beta testers before I release this to the general public.

Reply here if you want to see the code or if you want to be a beta tester. Of course, you need to have Vista to be a beta tester. :p

That's a neat little app. For kicks I compiled an x64 version and tested it under XP x64. Was only really one hiccup, the function pastIconsFlusher() didn't have a return statement so I changed it's defined return type to void. Other than that it worked like a charm.

I could probably beta test for you on Vista during week days when I have access to a machine. But if there are non-trivial changes needed to port it to vista I'm not sure i'd have the time.

Hi Eoin,

Thanks for the reply.

I probably ought to change pastIconsFlusher() to a return type of void anyways.

Did you change any code besides the one return type under XP x64?

If you'd like, I can send you a current (as of today) binary and the latest code. The code you were looking at is now a few days old, and I've made changes to it already (Vista paths, checking which operating system is installed, etc.). Send me a PM if you're interested.

The only other thing I did was comment out the unistd.h include because VS didn't have that file. Would I be right in guessing you use MinGW?

I'll pm you during the week to take a look at the most recent code, not much point sending it to me till I'm back at the Vista machine.

Kind regards, Eóin.

I am using MinGW indeed - the compiler I'm using is Bloodshed.net's Dev-C++ 4.9.9.2.

Sounds good - glad to have you on board. :)

Anyone else up for beta testing?

I will beta test, I run vista on vmware. :-)