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Re: Shared pointer in VS2008

Stuart Dootson3-Mar-09 3:57

3-Mar-09 3:57

Could be the trial version - I seem to remember tr1 only got added to VS2008 in service pack 1 or with the Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack[^].

Anyway - std::tr1::shared_ptr works fine for me on VS2008 with service pack 1 installed.

PS - you'll need to tell shared_ptr (as a template parameter) what type it's pointing at!!!

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WaitCommEvent

komofilms773-Mar-09 3:05

komofilms77

3-Mar-09 3:05

Hello I want to read from com port1, and I used API

if (WaitCommEvent(hSerial, &dwCommEvent,NULL))
{
if (dwCommEvent & EV_RXCHAR)
{
DWORD dwNumberBytesRead;
if(ReadFile(hSerial, chRead, sizeof(chRead),&dwNumberBytesRead,&osReader))

I have got an extra Thread to read com port but if data is not send to port my program hangs up.
Is there any way to check if input buffer is changed and then ReadFile instead waiting for
WaitCommEvent ??, or if there is some other ways?

Thanks in advace

Re: WaitCommEvent

David Crow3-Mar-09 3:21

David Crow

3-Mar-09 3:21

komofilms77 wrote:
...or if there is some other ways?

See here.

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Re: WaitCommEvent

Stuart Dootson3-Mar-09 4:07

Stuart Dootson

3-Mar-09 4:07

When I've programmed serial ports, I've not used WaitCommEvent - I've set a timeout period with SetCommTimeouts[^] and just used ReadFile. If the serial port receives data or times out, then ReadFile returns successfully and will tell you how many bytes it received (0 probably indicates a timeout).

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convert cstring to LPBYTE

amit.code3-Mar-09 2:58

amit.code

3-Mar-09 2:58

I want to convert a cstring into LPBYTE but each time i convert it only first character get stored in the LPBYTE and rest of the string is truncated.
Thanks

amit

Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

Cedric Moonen3-Mar-09 3:02

Cedric Moonen

3-Mar-09 3:02

First important point: why do you want to do such a thing ? Are you aware about unicode/non-unicode ? If not, I highly suggest reading this article[^] before going further.

Post also your code to see what you are doing wrong.

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

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Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

amit.code3-Mar-09 3:08

amit.code

3-Mar-09 3:08

Hi .. thanks for prompt reply. I am getting a file in cstring and i want to parse. The parser take the data in LPBYTE format and file data contain few words in languge other than english thats why i am taking cstring to store it. But when i convert cstring to lpbyte only first character get stores. Meanwhile i am going through the link you have sent.

amit

Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

David Crow3-Mar-09 3:05

David Crow

3-Mar-09 3:05

amit.code wrote:
I want to convert a cstring into LPBYTE...

How are you doing it? Something like:

CString name("Name");
const LPBYTE lp = (const LPBYTE) (LPCSTR) name;

amit.code wrote:
...but each time i convert it only first character get stored in the LPBYTE and rest of the string is truncated.

How are you verifying this?

Is Unicode defined?

Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

amit.code3-Mar-09 3:12

amit.code

3-Mar-09 3:12

Yes .. i have also tried the method that you mentioned. I am parsing that whole data that comes in lpbyte but it shows only one character. During debugging I am verifying it also throughg watch window.
Thanks

amit

Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

Code-o-mat3-Mar-09 3:29

Code-o-mat

3-Mar-09 3:29

Could it be that you are feeding a unicode string to something that expects a simple ASCII string? Also note, that LPBYTE is porbably not recognized as a string by the debugger, thus it will only show you the pointer's value (the address it is pointing at) and maybe the one byte it is pointing at.

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Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

amit.code3-Mar-09 3:44

amit.code

3-Mar-09 3:44

hi.. thanks for reply. You are right in your first point, when i convert cstring to string and than pass it to LPBYTE than whole data is being assigned and yes we can see the whole data during debug in lpbyte but during conversation from cstring to string data not written in english language being wrongly modified and there what i am getting problem. Thats why I am trying to convert cstring directly to lpbyte.
Thanks

amit

Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

Code-o-mat3-Mar-09 3:50

Code-o-mat

3-Mar-09 3:50

Then -as other people already pointed out- please show us how you actually do the conversion.

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Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

«_Superman_»3-Mar-09 16:18

«_Superman_»

3-Mar-09 16:18

Try this.

BYTE string[MAX_PATH];

::WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, (LPCTSTR)cstring, -1, (LPSTR)string, MAX_PATH, 0, 0);

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Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

amit.code4-Mar-09 1:47

amit.code

4-Mar-09 1:47

Thanks for reply.. i have tried your suggestion but it fails to convert character of other language. Meanwhile i found a workaround solution of this one.

amit

Re: convert cstring to LPBYTE

Destiny77711-Aug-10 14:23

Destiny777

11-Aug-10 14:23

Nice change to ACTUALLY see a code example that actually works...

Too many times I have to weed out the trash where people don't have the common courtesy of showing an actual code example.

They beat the dead horse to death without any clue to help those that aren't intimately familiar with all the ins and outs of C!

Thanks "Superman"!

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Most of my programming of the last 5 to 10 years has been in Visual Basic where strings are strings.

C++ has so damn many string types that it is very easy to get confused when converting the different flavors of strings to anything and back.

If I had my way, more people would learn to program in Assembly where data is data and you have to determine what to do with it.

My first programming job for the first 5 to 7 years was purely in Assembly Language. I learned a bunch of things very quickly that way.

We all too lazy in the last 20 years it seems when programming.

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Senior Software Engineer / Systems Analyst for over 32 years.
Age 53

How to Convert my project from VC++ 6.0 to VC++.NET

manoharbalu3-Mar-09 0:01

manoharbalu

3-Mar-09 0:01

I have an application developed in VC++6.0 using MFC MDI application type. I want to convert my application to VC++.NET.

Pls List out the steps about how to convert my application to VC++.NET?
Also Provide me any automation tools for converting the VC++6.0 application to VC++.NET (i.e., converting the .DSP, .DSW files to .SLN files in .NET)

Re: How to Convert my project from VC++ 6.0 to VC++.NET

Eytukan3-Mar-09 0:29

Eytukan

3-Mar-09 0:29

What does it tell you when you try to a open VC6 solution with a VC++.net IDE?

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Re: How to Convert my project from VC++ 6.0 to VC++.NET

Maximilien3-Mar-09 0:49

Maximilien

3-Mar-09 0:49

- Open up the 6.0 DSW (or DSP) of your project in Visual Studio.NET (year of your choice) and the IDE will ask you
to convert the project files.
- Click Yes/OK
- Once that is done, save, and rebuild your project.
- Fix all the new errors and warnings.
- Test your application.

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Re: How to Convert my project from VC++ 6.0 to VC++.NET

manoharbalu3-Mar-09 18:08

manoharbalu

3-Mar-09 18:08

Is there any automatic tool for doing this conversion.

Re: How to Convert my project from VC++ 6.0 to VC++.NET

Rolf Kristensen7-Mar-09 1:31

Rolf Kristensen

7-Mar-09 1:31

Do you want to convert your MFC application into a .NET application ? Then one can activate the /CLR compiler switch and it will compile it as managed C++.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ms173265.aspx
Later you can convert your managed C++ into C#, and change your MFC dialogs into WinForms.

Or do you just want to upgrade to a newer version of Visual studio ? If so then Visual Studio will automatically upgrade the project files of you MFC application. And you might have to resolve some issues as the C++ compiler is more standard compliant.

excel API

trioum2-Mar-09 23:48

trioum

2-Mar-09 23:48

I want to connect the excel file to my MFC gui grid . Also As any change occured into the cell of the
excel file it also reflect into the MFC gui . Is there any api for both functionality.

Trioum

Re: excel API

Stuart Dootson3-Mar-09 2:47

Stuart Dootson

3-Mar-09 2:47

You could set up the Excel file as an ODBC data source and then use standard database functionality to connect that to your grid?

As for getting notifications of changes...not sure about that.

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Excel Automation error.

SRKSHOME2-Mar-09 23:23

SRKSHOME

2-Mar-09 23:23

Hi all,
I am trying to add excel add-ins programmatically through C++ code.
It is srunning fine on xp or lower OS. But it is giving an 'Unhandled exception' on Vista.

m_xlAddins = xl.GetAddIns();
if(xl.GetVersion()=="12.0") //if it is office 2007 then only install it.
{
m_xlAddin = m_xlAddins.Add(strAddin,covTrue);
m_xlAddin.SetInstalled(TRUE); //---> giving an error on vista.
}

Could anyone help me please?

Re: Excel Automation error.

David Crow3-Mar-09 3:08

David Crow

3-Mar-09 3:08

SRKSHOME wrote:
m_xlAddin.SetInstalled(TRUE); //---> giving an error on vista.

Could this be attempting to write to a location on the disk or in the registry for which it does not have sufficient privileges?

Synchronizing fstream - Need suggestions/ideas

PankajB2-Mar-09 22:20

PankajB

2-Mar-09 22:20

Hi there.

I have created a dll(text based logger) that can be used to create a text based log.

Now, my problem is, let's say, this component is being used by several other components and those several components are logging into the same text file. Now, that’s a problem...Synchronizing problem.

Need suggestions to resolve this problem.
Any work around will be appreciated.

Thanks
PanB

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