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Re: Which ICON within a pe file is shown by the Windows Explorer?

CPallini29-Jan-09 7:18

CPallini

29-Jan-09 7:18

Have a look here [^].
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Re: Which ICON within a pe file is shown by the Windows Explorer?

Joseph Marzbani30-Jan-09 2:25

Joseph Marzbani

30-Jan-09 2:25

Thank you. That's why you're a Gold member and I'm NOT.

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No Designer View (VS2008 C++)

Andreas_198329-Jan-09 6:06

Andreas_1983

29-Jan-09 6:06

Hi,

I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and seem to have a problem with the form designer. I'm new to MFC and want to create a project that allows me to use the form designer. I create a new MFC application form and all the code is created. When I build and run this project, there is a basic window with a few components. However, I can only seem to see the code for this application. Is it possible for my to open this in the form designer and manually edit the form in the editor rather than through code?
Thanks

Re: No Designer View (VS2008 C++)

CPallini29-Jan-09 6:36

CPallini

29-Jan-09 6:36

If you have the Express Edition then no cookie for you: the visual resource editor is not included.
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Re: No Designer View (VS2008 C++)

Andreas_198329-Jan-09 6:45

Andreas_1983

29-Jan-09 6:45

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I have the professional edition but still no luck Frown | :(

Re: No Designer View (VS2008 C++)

CPallini29-Jan-09 7:21

CPallini

29-Jan-09 7:21

See [^].

Re: No Designer View (VS2008 C++)

Cedric Moonen29-Jan-09 7:21

Cedric Moonen

29-Jan-09 7:21

In VC2005 (and I guess it is similar with VC2008), you have to open the resource editor. On the left side, you have your solution explorer (which is listing all the files from your project). If you look carefully, you should see tabs at the bottom, click on the one called "Ressource View" (or Ctrl + shift + e). There you should be able to browse and edit your resources.

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Re: No Designer View (VS2008 C++)

Andreas_198329-Jan-09 7:32

Andreas_1983

29-Jan-09 7:32

Ah, that's perfect, thanks. Would've preferred the easier WinForm methods of having it in the solution, but not complaining Smile | :)

Convert PCL to image

Cosmin Ciuraru29-Jan-09 5:28

Cosmin Ciuraru

29-Jan-09 5:28

Hello,

I'm communicating with a logic analyzer (HP 1660A) over RS232. I issue a command which tells the analyzer to print screen its display and send it over to the controller (my pc) through serial communication. I'm saving the result (which is usually abut 25kB) to my computer and I would like to view it as a TIFF or other format. The problem is that the response from the analyzer comes in PCL format, therefore suitable to be sent to a printer and printed directly, but not to be opened as an image. I have tried a few PCL to image converters to do the job, I found one which does it properly, however I've used the trial version and I am reluctant to purchase it. I've given you the background of my labour. I would appreciate any kind of help, a reference to the commands in pcl 1 and what should I do in order to extract the data and format it properly from the PCL file. I have no experience with PCL and image processing whatsoever, so please, give me a hand here. Thank you.

P.S. I've obtained the PCL file from the analyzer, both in C# and matlab... I have one slight problem in C# with the serial port control, some images have some uninterpreted characters in the image, when using the above converters. I say all these because I need an algorithm or some indications, no matter the programming language, so please feel free to post.

Re: Convert PCL to image

Jonathan Davies29-Jan-09 6:41

Jonathan Davies

29-Jan-09 6:41

There are some commercial tools around to do this such as PCLTool SDK but I've never used them. (I resorted to photographing my scope's display to get images). Presumably this is the only format you can get from it?

Re: Convert PCL to image

Cosmin Ciuraru29-Jan-09 6:58

Cosmin Ciuraru

29-Jan-09 6:58

I've tried using PCLReader, which is freeware, but it has a problem in that it strips about 3 characters from the right hand side of the image (I mean the entire right portion, for a 3 character width). The same issue I have with PclToImage from Oak. The only one that does the job properly is EscapeE from RedTitan, but, unfortunately, this is not free and I work on a school project.
The device accepts commands and queries. When I use a command, I can save the image in TIFF format on a floppy disk, but I am not to use the floppy too often, because it is the only storage medium on the analyzer, and also the boot device and it will break down very fast. So I must use a query, to send the image through RS232 to the pc and the only output type is PCL. Thank you.

ShellExceute() ?

Software200729-Jan-09 5:13

Software2007

29-Jan-09 5:13

I would like to open a URL file("http:\\A\\file.ext"), but I would like to find out if the file is actually there before opening it using ShellExecute. The error codes don't help much, because if the file isn't there, it would still open the browser, but won't display contents, but the error code will still succeed. I tried using ShellExecute( "Find" ) to find out if the file is there before I open it, but I think I may have used it wrong because it never finds it based on the err code (5) that I keep getting. Anybody have an idea of how I can do this ?

Thanks

sft

Re: ShellExceute() ?

Code-o-mat29-Jan-09 5:25

Code-o-mat

29-Jan-09 5:25

Is that file on your local file system? If so, then simply try using FileExists[^] to check if it is there before trying to open it in your browser.

> The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. <
> Life: great graphics, but the gameplay sux. <

Re: ShellExceute() ?

Software200729-Jan-09 5:39

Software2007

29-Jan-09 5:39

Hello,
no, its a web file. I just want to be able to open the file successfully...ShellExecute("open","http:\\www.gooogle.com"..) will return as successful even though it might not be there or no contents displayed.. I would like to check the valididty of the URL before opening it in other words.

Thanks

sft

Re: ShellExceute() ?

Code-o-mat29-Jan-09 5:49

Code-o-mat

29-Jan-09 5:49

I believe ShellExecute itself will only report you if it could run the specified/associated application/command, and since you specified something starting with http:\\, it will run the associated browser and feed this to it, and since it CAN run the browser it will say "success", it doesn't care what the browser actually does with the URL. I doubt you can check if the URL is valid or not by using ShellExecute, you will have to either try finding some library or class or such that checks if an URL is valid or not for you, or you will have to do the check yourself. Of course i could be wrong...

> The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. <
> Life: great graphics, but the gameplay sux. <

Re: ShellExceute() ?

Stuart Dootson29-Jan-09 6:16

Stuart Dootson

29-Jan-09 6:16

You'll need to do a bit more work than just using ShellExecute, I suspect. Have a look at MFC's Internet and HTTP classes[^]. CHttpFile::QueryInfoStatusCode[^] will likely be 200 if the file is present, 404 if it's not.

What's the benifit for using a service class? [modified]

followait29-Jan-09 4:57

followait

29-Jan-09 4:57

INT WSAInstallServiceClass(
  __in          LPWSASERVICECLASSINFO lpServiceClassInfo
);

typedef struct _WSAServiceClassInfo {
  LPGUID lpServiceClassId;
  LPTSTR lpszServiceClassName;
  DWORD dwCount;  LPWSANSCLASSINFO lpClassInfos;
} WSASERVICECLASSINFO,  *PWSASERVICECLASSINFOW;

Just a collection of WSANSCLASSINFO?
And the programmer needs to keep the array of WSANSCLASSINFO consistant
(hold some common attributes that make sense to the service class)?
It seems that the consistency is not promised, in another word, the inconsistency can't be detected
mechanically.

============================================
Here is a sample in the book,
the content of the array aNameSpaceClassInfo seems arbitrary, does it?

WSASERVICECLASSINFO   sci;
WSANSCLASSINFO        aNameSpaceClassInfo[4];
DWORD                 dwSapId = 200,
                      dwUdpPort = 5150,
                      dwZero = 0;
int                   ret;

memset(&sci, 0, sizeof(sci));
    
SET_NETWARE_SVCID(&sci.lpServiceClassId, dwSapId);
sci.lpszServiceClassName = (LPSTR)"Widget Server Class";
sci.dwCount = 4;
sci.lpClassInfos = aNameSpaceClassInfo;

memset(aNameSpaceClassInfo, 0, sizeof(WSANSCLASSINFO) * 4);
// NTDS name space setup
aNameSpaceClassInfo[0].lpszName = SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_CONN;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[0].dwNameSpace = NS_NTDS;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[0].dwValueType = REG_DWORD;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[0].dwValueSize = sizeof(DWORD);
aNameSpaceClassInfo[0].lpValue = &dwZero;

aNameSpaceClassInfo[1].lpszName = SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_UDPPORT;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[1].dwNameSpace = NS_NTDS;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[1].dwValueType = REG_DWORD;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[1].dwValueSize = sizeof(DWORD);
aNameSpaceClassInfo[1].lpValue = &dwUdpPort;

// SAP name space setup
aNameSpaceClassInfo[2].lpszName = SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_CONN;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[2].dwNameSpace = NS_SAP;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[2].dwValueType = REG_DWORD;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[2].dwValueSize = sizeof(DWORD);
aNameSpaceClassInfo[2].lpValue = &dwZero;

aNameSpaceClassInfo[3].lpszName = SERVICE_TYPE_VALUE_SAPID;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[3].dwNameSpace = NS_SAP;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[3].dwValueType = REG_DWORD;
aNameSpaceClassInfo[3].dwValueSize = sizeof(DWORD);
aNameSpaceClassInfo[3].lpValue = &dwSapId;

WSAInstallServiceClass(&sci);

modified on Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:19 AM

What's "Winsock namespace SPI"?

followait29-Jan-09 4:10

followait

29-Jan-09 4:10

In MSDN, it says:
A namespace provider is a locally-resident piece of software that knows how to map between the Winsock namespace SPI and some existing namespace (which could be implemented locally or be accessed through the network).

I'm not clear about some concepts:
1. Winsock namespace SPI (and what does SPI stand for here?)
2. some existing namespace

The concepts are too abstract to me, any sample?
Thanks very much.

Re: What's "Winsock namespace SPI"?

led mike29-Jan-09 4:15

led mike

29-Jan-09 4:15

followait wrote:
and what does SPI stand for here?

Great question. What can you do? Oh I know, how about this[^]

Problem running on other pc

Thilek29-Jan-09 2:27

Thilek

29-Jan-09 2:27

hi guys,

i have coded a simple program that give the list of files in a directory. i use Visual C++ 2008 to code it. But when i copy and run the exe file from debug folder on other pc its showing " application failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail". what should i do ? i need to do this program to run portable in any windows base pc. kidly help me.
Thank you.

Regards ,

Thilek

Re: Problem running on other pc

Code-o-mat29-Jan-09 2:35

Code-o-mat

29-Jan-09 2:35

Do you have any specific reason why you are "distributing" your DEBUG build? If no, try with a RELEASE build instead.

> The problem with computers is that they do what you tell them to do and not what you want them to do. <
> Life: great graphics, but the gameplay sux. <

Re: Problem running on other pc

ATM@CodeProject29-Jan-09 2:38

ATM@CodeProject

29-Jan-09 2:38

Hi,
Change the Microsoft foundation classes in the projet settings(projectmenu->settings->general tab)to Use MFC in a static library.
Then execute the appln again .Then copy the exe file and try to run in another pc.

Re: Problem running on other pc

Thilek29-Jan-09 2:43

Thilek

29-Jan-09 2:43

where can i find the projectmenu... is it on the tool bar ?

Re: Problem running on other pc

Cosmic Egg29-Jan-09 9:11

Cosmic Egg

29-Jan-09 9:11

Why is it so difficult to find project menu ???
Alternatively Press Alt + F7

Re: Problem running on other pc

Thilek30-Jan-09 3:40

Thilek

30-Jan-09 3:40

i did as u said but now its showing error...

Embedding manifest...
mt.exe : general error c101008a: Failed to save the updated manifest to the file ".\Debug\testing.exe.embed.manifest". The parameter is incorrect.

kindly help me...

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