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Wes Aday13-Jul-06 7:10

13-Jul-06 7:10

Find something that interests you and then try to learn all you can about it. "Improving" VC++ and MFC is a very open field and you will get lost quickly.

Why is common sense not common?

Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level where they are an expert.

Re: any Idea for a Project?

cppcook13-Jul-06 7:17

cppcook

13-Jul-06 7:17

Agree.
A better idea is to find a project and finish it. Like design a simple calculator?

Re: any Idea for a Project?

earl13-Jul-06 7:49

earl

13-Jul-06 7:49

You can always try rentacoder

Re: any Idea for a Project?

Semion_N13-Jul-06 8:06

Semion_N

13-Jul-06 8:06

thank you!

SnaidiS(Semion)

Re: any Idea for a Project?

David Crow13-Jul-06 7:49

David Crow

13-Jul-06 7:49

One of the things that I used to do when I had time to kill was to pick a function, or an API, and write a whole program around it. I learned a lot this way.

"The largest fire starts but with the smallest spark." - David Crow

"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb

Re: any Idea for a Project?

FarPointer13-Jul-06 8:58

FarPointer

13-Jul-06 8:58

Got to the MFC src file (..\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\MFC\SRC) it has lot of good code and will give you internal details about each thing.

Regards,
FarPointer
Blog:FARPOINTER

Re: any Idea for a Project?

Semion_N13-Jul-06 8:05

Semion_N

13-Jul-06 8:05

OK thank you!

SnaidiS(Semion)

Re: any Idea for a Project?

Semion_N13-Jul-06 9:02

Semion_N

13-Jul-06 9:02

OK-Thank you man!

SnaidiS(Semion)

GetKeyboardState();

Max++13-Jul-06 6:18

Max++

13-Jul-06 6:18

Anybody know,How to use GetKeyboardState()function?
Please give me some example about this?

Re: GetKeyboardState();

Randor 13-Jul-06 6:31

Randor

13-Jul-06 6:31

BYTE state[256];
GetKeyboardState((LPBYTE)&state);

if(state[VK_CONTROL] & 1)
{

...

}

Tutorial or Learning Tools.

WREY13-Jul-06 6:03

WREY

13-Jul-06 6:03

Does anyone know of any tutorial tools that might be helpful in getting up to speed with VC 8?

Time past, whenever MS came out with a new version of VC, they'd produce a CD for those who might need a little help getting acquainted with the product.

I've just barely become acquainted with VC 7, and now VC 8 has me stumbling all over the place.

Thanks.

Smile | :)

William

Fortes in fide et opere!

Re: Tutorial or Learning Tools.

David Crow13-Jul-06 7:45

David Crow

13-Jul-06 7:45

Three possibilities:

Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2005[^]

Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner[^]

Enterprise Application Development with Visual C++ 2005[^]

"The largest fire starts but with the smallest spark." - David Crow

"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb

Problems of Updating contents in an Edit box in vc6

cppcook13-Jul-06 5:22

cppcook

13-Jul-06 5:22

Hi all,

I am writing a VC++6.0 application. I need to read from a text file and display the file content in an Edit Box. I use the following codes:

CEdit m_fileContent;
CFile pFile;
m_fileContent.SetWindowText(""); //clear
pFile.open(.....);
int length = pFile.GetLength();
CString* strContent = new CString("");
pFile.Read(strContent->GetBuffer(0),length);
m_fileContent.SetWindowText(strContent->GetBuffer(0)); //update file content
strContent->ReleaseBuffer(0);
delete strContent;
pFile.Close();

Now the problem is: When I first opened a file, it's fine. But When I opened a second file, if the length of the first file is longer than that of the second file, the content is not cleared. Any ideas? thanks,

Gavin

Re: Problems of Updating contents in an Edit box in vc6

Zac Howland13-Jul-06 5:30

Zac Howland

13-Jul-06 5:30

CEdit m_fileContent;
CFile pFile;
m_fileContent.SetWindowText(""); //clear
pFile.open(.....);
int length = pFile.GetLength();
//CString* strContent = new CString("");		// why are you putting CString on the heap?  This is a waste.
CString strContent = _T("");
pFile.Read(strContent.GetBuffer(0),length);
strContent.ReleaseBuffer();
m_fileContent.SetWindowText(strContent); //update file content
//strContent->ReleaseBuffer(0);	// need to do this before using the buffer anywhere
//delete strContent;		// not needed
pFile.Close();

If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

Zac

Re: Problems of Updating contents in an Edit box in vc6

cppcook13-Jul-06 7:15

cppcook

13-Jul-06 7:15

Thanks a lot Zac and David!

Re: Problems of Updating contents in an Edit box in vc6

David Crow13-Jul-06 5:41

David Crow

13-Jul-06 5:41

Try:

CString strContent;
pFile.Read(strContent.GetBuffer(length), length);
strContent.ReleaseBuffer();
pFile.Close();
m_fileContent.SetWindowText(strContent);

"The largest fire starts but with the smallest spark." - David Crow

"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb

How the application knows whether the machine is Laptop or Desktop?????

nagamohan_p13-Jul-06 5:04

nagamohan_p

13-Jul-06 5:04

Hi,

How the application knows whether the machine is Laptop or Desktop or Hand Held...I have tried win32_SystemEnclosure by using WMI but I'm getting the wrong info ie, what I'm expecting is not the one...

Is there any api call...Please suggest me or locate where I will get source code asap...

Regards,
nag.

Re: How the application knows whether the machine is Laptop or Desktop?????

David Crow13-Jul-06 5:34

David Crow

13-Jul-06 5:34

I'm not sure of anything that is 100% foolproof. In what ways does a laptop differ from a desktop? The presence of a battery is one difference. However, you can have a laptop on AC power without a battery. Can you use Win32_BIOS.TargetOperatingSystem, or the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName registry value, to determine if the device is a handheld or not?

"The largest fire starts but with the smallest spark." - David Crow

"Judge not by the eye but by the heart." - Native American Proverb

Re: How the application knows whether the machine is Laptop or Desktop?????

Jun Du13-Jul-06 5:47

Jun Du

13-Jul-06 5:47

They don't. Whether a PC called "laptop" or "desktop" is rather arbitrary. OS doesn't care, except for some special OS like "Windows for Pocket PC".

Best,
Jun

Sound detection [modified]

Ivan Cachicatari13-Jul-06 4:48

Ivan Cachicatari

13-Jul-06 4:48

hi gurus,

how to detect the sound input and show this like messenger voice chat?

Thanks.

Ivan Cachicatari Blog[^]
www.latindevelopers.com

-- modified at 10:48 Thursday 13th July, 2006

code formatting style [modified]

aafcls13-Jul-06 4:19

aafcls

13-Jul-06 4:19

Hello,

This may seem like a simple question, but in Visual Studio is it possible to set coding style, specifically:

I like to write like this:

method<br />
{<br />
   for<br />
   {<br />
      statement<br />
   }<br />
}

but Visual Studio auto formats it like this (and I hate it!):

method<br />
   {<br />
   for<br />
      {<br />
      statement<br />
      }<br />
   }

How can I set it my way?

-- modified at 10:21 Thursday 13th July, 2006

Re: code formatting style

C^hris L^osinger13-Jul-06 4:22

C^hris L^osinger

13-Jul-06 4:22

your formatting got lost (try <pre> around your code).

if you're asking about bracket indentation, there's a setting in Tools / Options called "Indent braces" that might help

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Inheritance problem

khb13-Jul-06 3:27

khb

13-Jul-06 3:27

Hi together,

I tried to compile the fdstream classes from www.josuttis.com with VC6, but didn't succeed. I cut down the code to what doesn't work:

#include <streambuf>
#include <istream>
 
class mybuf : public std::streambuf
{
protected:
	int m_i;
public:
	mybuf(int i) : m_i(i) {}
};
 
class myistream : public std::istream
{
protected:
	mybuf buf;
public:
	myistream(int i) : std::istream(0), buf(i) {}
};
 
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	myistream strm(5);
	return 0;
}

On this code I get the following two errors:

error C2512: 'basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >' : no appropriate default constructor available
error C2614: 'myistream' : illegal member initialization: 'istream' is not a base or member

I can't figure out what's the problem. It seems std::istream(0) isn't accepted, but I don't know why. Dead | X|

Can anyone help me?

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards,
Marcus.

Re: Inheritance problem

Zac Howland13-Jul-06 4:21

Zac Howland

13-Jul-06 4:21

khb wrote:
error C2512: 'basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char=""> >' : no appropriate default constructor available

std::istream is a typedef for basic_istream<char, char_traits<char> >. basic_istream has the following constructor:

explicit basic_istream(basic_streambuf<Elem, Tr> *_Strbuf, bool _Isstd = false);

Do you really want your streambuf to be null? If so, try casting 0 as follows:

std::istream((std::streambuf*)0);

If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

Zac

Re: Inheritance problem [modified]

khb13-Jul-06 5:13

khb

13-Jul-06 5:13

Yeah, the streambuf should to be null, as in the original implementation it is replaced by an instance of the inherited streambuffer class using rdbuf().

However, casting 0 to std::streambuf* results in the same errors.

If you have another idea on how I get the istream constructor called correctly, I would be really happy.

Thank you very much for your help,
Marcus.

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