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Re: How to make a project that is opened as its own program

FlyingTinman15-Mar-05 16:47

15-Mar-05 16:47

If I understand your question you have been simply running your project
from the IDE ( pressing F5 or CTRL-F5 etc. )
When you do this, before the program runs it is first compiled,
and an executable is created ( e.g. yourapplication.exe )
The location of this executable can be found by looking at
Project->Settings on the [Link] tab.
Make sure you have the correct project and build debug or release)
selected in the left pane, and the name and location of the executable
will appear in the "Output file name" edit box ( you can change this )
If the path is a relative path it is relative to the project path
(where your source code is stored)

Using Windows Explorer you can copy (or drag-and-drop) that executable
file onto your desktop (or anywhere else) or simply make a shortcut to
it on your taskbar.
By default it will have the blue MFC icom but you can change that
by editing IDR_MAINFRAME in the 'Icon' resource

Steve T

I need a graphics library!!!

Jared F.15-Mar-05 6:12

Jared F.

15-Mar-05 6:12

Help me out! I would like to know how to make a graphics library/file. If you know how please help.

dudeoffrance

Re: I need a graphics library!!!

John R. Shaw15-Mar-05 11:28

John R. Shaw

15-Mar-05 11:28

Like you would any other library! You need to be more specific! Figure out what you want to know, make a list. Search the net for posted articles, then come back with specific questions.

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how to test a type int as a char

Jared F.15-Mar-05 5:45

Jared F.

15-Mar-05 5:45

I would like to know if there is a way to store a character in a type int variable. I would still like the variable to be able to store integers, but if a certain charcter is entered I would like the program to do something else.

example:

int number;

cout<<"Enter a number: "; //This is where I would like to enter 'c'
cin>>number;

if(number=='c')
{
...
}
else
{
...
}

can you please help?

dudeoffrance

Re: how to test a type int as a char

David Crow15-Mar-05 5:54

David Crow

15-Mar-05 5:54

dudeoffrance wrote:
if(number=='c')

Which is equivalent to:

if (number == 99)

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Re: how to test a type int as a char

namaskaaram16-Mar-05 3:01

namaskaaram

16-Mar-05 3:01

well yes u can.....
character is just i byte where as and integet is four bytes.....
by doing the above code.....that u have listed.....u will get the ascii value of the character......
search for the ascii table....it will give the corresponding values for a character variable.....
in ur case the character 'c' has an intef=ger value of 99.....

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Windows security (how to retreive the name of a security group using vc6)

nadzzz15-Mar-05 4:09

nadzzz

15-Mar-05 4:09

currently i have the SID of all group. I would like to iterate the list of sid and enumerate all group names. how could i do this?

you can tell me another way
thanks in advance.

Sebastien

Re: Windows security (how to retreive the name of a security group using vc6)

David Crow16-Mar-05 2:50

David Crow

16-Mar-05 2:50

Try LookupAccountSid().

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tray icon notifycation problem

ThinkingPrometheus15-Mar-05 3:52

ThinkingPrometheus

15-Mar-05 3:52

hiho@ll

my app uses a tray icon, which show some information using a tooltip if the mouse is over the tray

on my windows XP service pack 2 it works

on another windows xp service pack 1 it works

on another windows xp service pack 1 it doesn't work

and so on

it seems that my tray isn't notifyed, if the taskbar hasn't the focus
i mean something like this:

the working method:
1. click my app to the systray
2. do something other (open other windows, browser, office etc.)
3. move the mouse cursor over my tray icon -> show some information

the confusing method:
1. click my app to the systray
2. do something other (open other windows, browser, office etc.)
3. move the mouse cursor over my tray icon -> it doesn't show any information
4. click in the taskbar on any free space
5. move the mouse cursor over my tray icon -> it shows the information needed

????

can the taskbar have a focus?
why doesn't it work?

thx@ll

Re: tray icon notifycation problem

ThinkingPrometheus15-Mar-05 5:02

ThinkingPrometheus

15-Mar-05 5:02

hiho@ll

i've solved the problem!

did ya know that windows differs between always on top in the tray?

well if the application is set to always on top before minimize to tray it gets every mouseover etc. event

if it's not it only gets notified if the icon has been clicked Wink | ;)

multilanguge support for reading ini file

inbakumar.G15-Mar-05 3:48

inbakumar.G

15-Mar-05 3:48

Hi,

I developed ini read and write file, it doesn't support multilanguage, it means the ini file containing more than one language, how do i read multilanguage.

Always welcome for your suggestions,

Regards,
Inbhakumar. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

i need netcons.h

Sébastien Nadeau15-Mar-05 3:48

Sébastien Nadeau

15-Mar-05 3:48

can someone send to me netcons.h please.
sebnadeau@gmail.com

Re: i need netcons.h

David Crow15-Mar-05 5:55

David Crow

15-Mar-05 5:55

What's it for (i.e., what needs it)?

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VC ++ desktop service based on SOAP

ashutosh_tripathi15-Mar-05 3:15

ashutosh_tripathi

15-Mar-05 3:15

hello to all members

i am making vc++ desktop service application. this application communicate with clients on the port 3310.

i want to exchange data through SOAP objects. how can my service read and

reponse to client using SOAP.

i am new in vc++ services so i don't know how to handle this type of programming. please help me to sortout my problem.

ur suggestions are required.

thanks in advance.

Ashutosh Tripathi

CDHtmlDialog problem

ewanb15-Mar-05 2:34

ewanb

15-Mar-05 2:34

Hi,

I have a CDHtmlDialog derived class that is causing me a problem. Every 3rd time I create an instance and call DoModal() I get an access violation occuring inside the CDHtmlDialog::OnInitDialog method and it is being caused by the m_wndBrowser member being NULL.

The problem occurs in this part of the method:

if (m_pBrowserApp == NULL)<br />
{<br />
	// create the control window<br />
	m_wndBrowser.CreateControl(CLSID_WebBrowser, NULL, WS_VISIBLE | WS_CHILD,<br />
					rectClient, this, AFX_IDC_BROWSER);<br />
	lpUnk = m_wndBrowser.GetControlUnknown();<br />
	if (FAILED(lpUnk->QueryInterface(IID_IWebBrowser2, (void**) &m_pBrowserApp)))<br />
	{<br />
		m_wndBrowser.DestroyWindow();<br />
		DestroyWindow();<br />
		return TRUE;<br />
	}<br />
}

The call to m_wndBrowser.CreateControl() fails causing the m_wndBrowser to be set to NULL.

I tried reusing one instance of my class and repeatedly calling DoModal() on the same object and the same thing happened. Can anyone suggest what might cause the create call to fail after two previous successful calls?

All help appreciated because this has been bugging me for a while now.
Thanks,
Ewan

Re: CDHtmlDialog problem

Blake Miller15-Mar-05 12:51

Blake Miller

15-Mar-05 12:51

Are you calling the base class OnInitDialog() before trying to use the m_wndBrowser ?
Also, I assume that the m_pBrowserApp variable is set back to NULL at appropriate times, so that your tests are valid.

Re: CDHtmlDialog problem

ewanb16-Mar-05 2:05

ewanb

16-Mar-05 2:05

The code I showed was from the base class implementation not from my code. I only included it to illustrate where the problem was occurring. I'm not touching any of the members of the CDHtmlDialog class. That's why I'm confused by what is happening because none of my code does anything other than call CDHtmlDialog::OnInitDialog().

Re: CDHtmlDialog problem

Blake Miller16-Mar-05 11:35

Blake Miller

16-Mar-05 11:35

This seems a bit strange.
If your code is encapsulated enough, can you post the example of where/how you create the dialog instance and where you call DoModal() and anything you do to the dialog class instance between creating the instance and calling DoModal()?

It seems like sometimes either the browser widnow is not crated or the browser pointer is not null. Can you look into why that might be the case? It seems strange to me that the base class code does not verify that the create window call succeeds prior to trying to create the com interface.

Re: CDHtmlDialog problem

Ed K6-Sep-05 10:28

Ed K

6-Sep-05 10:28

Did you ever figure out what was going on? I'm having the same issue...or very close..

ed

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Direct X & DVD

AJ12315-Mar-05 2:23

AJ123

15-Mar-05 2:23

Just been taking a quick look over the SDK for DirectX and see that it has support for DVDs. Does anyone know whethere its possible to use the API to grab images from a DVD?

Cheers

COM Events: reference values

peterchen15-Mar-05 1:48

peterchen

15-Mar-05 1:48

Hi,
I'm trying to fire an even from an C++ ActiveX that has a "by reference" parameter:

dispinterface _IMyEvents
[id(4)] void ButtonClicked(IMyProperty * prop, [in, out, ref] VARIANT_BOOL * bDataChanged);

However, the Fire_Event proxy code generated by the wizard complains about the byref value:

pvars[0] = bDataChanged;  // pvars[0] is a CComVariant

it's just a warning (short * truncated to bool), but it clearly indicates it doesn#t work as intended (CComVariant does not support reference values).

So - anything I can do?
The only alternatives I see are:
- write the fire_xxx wrapper myself (yuck!!!)
- provide a COM object with a "SetModified" flag instead (seems overkill)
- hack CComVariant into accepting a VARIANT_BOOL * as BYREF value (yuck yuck)

(The mechanism I need is similar to IPropertyNotifySink, but I want to support VB clients, so I can't work with S_OK / S_FALSE return value)

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BSTR TO STRING

sunit515-Mar-05 1:45

sunit5

15-Mar-05 1:45

ALOK
I WANT TO CONVERT BACK A BSTR FILE TO A STRING FILE. IS IT POSSIBLE to CONVERT BSTR TO WIDE CHARACTER AND THEN (USING WideCharToMultiByte )TO CHARACTER

Re: BSTR TO STRING

ThatsAlok15-Mar-05 2:14

ThatsAlok

15-Mar-05 2:14

There are many ways to convert BSTR TO STRING , here i am mentioning TWO!

1.wcstombs(...)
2.using String Conversion Macro LIKE W2T,T2BSTR....., but you have to enable String Conversion Macro by using USES_CONVERSION; macro

yeah you can use
WideCharToMultiByte, but this api always confuse me lot! Big Grin | :-D

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Re: BSTR TO STRING

sunit515-Mar-05 2:41

sunit5

15-Mar-05 2:41

BSTR AND WIDECHARACETR(UNICODE) R SAME.

Re: BSTR TO STRING

ThatsAlok15-Mar-05 2:59

ThatsAlok

15-Mar-05 2:59

Buddy!
BSTR and Wide Character has almost same format for character representation. so you can use wcstombs or string conversion macro stated above!! to convert them from wide character to multibyte character string, just try!!!

or if you are using MFC , CString expose some function for BSTR tooo,like CString::SetSysString , CString::AllocSysString

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