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JensB9-May-03 1:24

9-May-03 1:24

Hi
Does anyone know a tool which i can use to add a field in Dbase IV database?

I'm know using the librairies of Codebase. But no tool found for adding fields Frown | :(

Greetings
Jens

How to delete a single line in a text file?

julych9-May-03 0:54

julych

9-May-03 0:54

How to delete a single line in a text file (with or without MFC functions)?

Re: How to delete a single line in a text file?

Johnny ²9-May-03 1:09

Johnny ²

9-May-03 1:09

Theres no easy way, you'll need to read the original file in, and write it out to another file without the line of text. Then delete the original and swap the new one in place

Re: How to delete a single line in a text file?

Hari Krishnan (Noida)9-May-03 1:31

Hari Krishnan (Noida)

9-May-03 1:31

Hi,
consider CStdioFile::ReadString(It reads single line) and use intermediate buffer to write.
Hope this Helps.

regards
~Hari~

Large Icon Display

Kyudos9-May-03 0:44

Kyudos

9-May-03 0:44

I'm writing an 'about' dialog class and I wanted to display the application icon on it at 48x48. I can't find any resource that tells me how to do this. If I use a CStatic control it automatically resizes to 32x32, even when I specifically use an icon that only has 48x48 in it.

I can't believe this isn't possible...is it?

Thanks,

Dan

Re: Large Icon Display

Johnny ²9-May-03 0:52

Johnny ²

9-May-03 0:52

Does it have to be an icon? If you convert the icon to a bitmap then you can display that and have it any size you want

Re: Large Icon Display

Kyudos9-May-03 1:05

Kyudos

9-May-03 1:05

Strictly, no, it doesn't have to be an icon. However, I wanted to take advantage
of the intinsic transparency of icons, rather than messing around with blt functions to make my bitmaps transparent. That seems like a lot of work for an about box.

Dan

CFile::Open problem

Trollslayer9-May-03 0:38

Trollslayer

9-May-03 0:38

I'm having a problem writing to a remote drive on a NT4 PC.
With two PCs writing different files simultaneuously to the same target PC, sometimes on one of them at Cfile::Open I get a CFlieException cause set to 1 - non specific. Just added CFile::shareDenynone to the Open statement and testing.
Any other suggestions to check out as this is an intermittent problem ?
Thanks.

Elaine Rose | [Rose]

The tigress is here Big Grin | :-D

GDI+

sharlila9-May-03 0:33

sharlila

9-May-03 0:33

well my question really divides into two:
i wanted to save new pictures from old pictures, and add the time to them.
that's when i got to my first question:
[1] i could only save the new pics as gif and bmp, other formats gave me
invalid parameter. why? and how do i fix it?
then i thought to myself "ok, nevermind, i'll just save it as bmp, and then
open it from a new Bitmap object and save it as another format". - wow, it
actually worked, but then i got to my second question:
[2] i can't delete the temporary bmp file, since it's being used, even when
i used pointer to a bitmap and deleted it, it still couldn't delete the
file. why? and how do i fix it? (i used the DeleteFile function)

can anyone help me about these two questions, or one of them, please!

thanks

directshow

sharlila9-May-03 0:21

sharlila

9-May-03 0:21

hey,
is there any way to priview video which i am getting from a webcam, and also
capture it to disc in a compressed form, at real time.
if anyone knows please tell me, i couldn't get it to work (the capture to
disc part), and i haven't seen any examples on it.

thanks

Re: directshow

Trollslayer9-May-03 1:18

Trollslayer

9-May-03 1:18

The directX SDK has examples that do this. its about a 160MB download but does everything.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A19BED22-0B25-4E5D-A584-6389D8A3DAD0&displaylang=en[^]

Elaine Rose | [Rose]

The tigress is here Big Grin | :-D

where?!?!

sharlila9-May-03 7:50

sharlila

9-May-03 7:50

i've downloaded the directx SDK, and i haven't found any example
on the issue, however, i managed to resolve my problem alone, i
forgot to use addFilter on the compressor filter.
however i don't understand why it brings me so much CLSID_VideoCompress...
and yet most of them didn't work. what gives?

try, throw and catch statement

Raphael Kindt8-May-03 23:53

Raphael Kindt

8-May-03 23:53

Hi world...

OS = Win2K with VC++6.0
I have some problem but I don't know who causes this problem (I suppose that's the use of exception)...!!! Confused | :confused:

The problem is that I catch a BSOD! Dead | X|

How the use of exception can gives me a BSOD???
Can I throw exceptions OR use return inside a catch statement?
Is that permitted?

Thanks in advance...

Hello World!!! Smile | :)

from Raphaël

Re: try, throw and catch statement

G. Steudtel9-May-03 1:16

G. Steudtel

9-May-03 1:16

If you can I don't know, but you may (at least this month).
If you return you should delete the exception, usually by calling e->Delete().
You may also throw this same exception again, or throw another one. In this case you also should Delete() the old exception.

If you throw the same exception it won't be caught by this code, because it is thrown outside the try block. In this case it acts like it is passed through.

G. Steudtel

Re: try, throw and catch statement

Raphael Kindt9-May-03 1:35

Raphael Kindt

9-May-03 1:35

G. Steudtel wrote:
If you can I don't know, but you may (at least this month).
Oops... Sorry... But I'm not an English expert... Blush | :O

I don't use CException of MFC!!! I use exception class from the C++ standard library. Thus, How to reproduce the delete method of MFC?

Re-thanks...

Hello World!!! Smile | :)

from Raphaël

Re: try, throw and catch statement

jhwurmbach9-May-03 2:14

jhwurmbach

9-May-03 2:14

You throw by value, and you catch by const reference.
No need to delete, you make these Exceptions on the stack, and if you re-throw it will get copied.
This way you can catch a derived exception as its base (say std::exception), re throw the std::exception object and catch again as a derived exception.

And NEVER EVER touch MFC exceptions....

I have a small hierarchy of exception classes, eventually derived from std::exeption, and their c'tors are filling the error-string with a sensible message, and then add filename and line number of the error to member strings, so I can have a look when debugging.

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.

How to write protect a folder and files

seewan8-May-03 23:52

seewan

8-May-03 23:52

I want to make sure that no one deleted my data files in my program . Is there a where i can write protect a folders or files so to prevent it from deleted . Also is it possible to set a folder to be a system folder so it can be invisible ?

variables in namespaces

Themis8-May-03 23:26

Themis

8-May-03 23:26

Hi, I want to ask if I can have a variable in a namespace that all namespace's functions can hava access to it, for example:

<br />
namespace foo<br />
{<br />
  int x;<br />
<br />
  extern void yak();<br />
  extern void bar();<br />
}<br />
<br />
void foo::yak()<br />
{<br />
  x++;<br />
}<br />
<br />
void foo::bar()<br />
{<br />
  x--;<br />
}<br />

Can I make both yak() and bar() to operate on x? I get a linking error this way, saying that I've multiple definitions of int foo::x.

Thank you, Themis

Re: variables in namespaces

Johnny ²9-May-03 1:01

Johnny ²

9-May-03 1:01

You can try something like:

namespace foo
{
extern int x;

void yak();
void bar();
}

(you dont need to define the functions as extern)

Then just make sure you instance the variable in one place only:

int foo::x = 0;

Resource leak?

Gavin Jerman8-May-03 23:21

Gavin Jerman

8-May-03 23:21

BoundsChecker v7 is reporting the error 'Argument 2 in ReleaseDC (HDC__ hdc = 0xE00105F5) still contains non default/stock objects.' in the d'tor for CClientDC in the code:

void CHListBox::updateWidth(LPCTSTR s)
{
	CClientDC dc(this);
	CFont * f = CListBox::GetFont();
	CFont* pOldFont = dc.SelectObject(f);

	CSize sz = dc.GetTextExtent(s, _tcslen(s));

	dc.SelectObject(pOldFont);

	sz.cx += 3 * ::GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXBORDER);
	if (sz.cx > width)
	{ /* extend */
		width = sz.cx;
		CListBox::SetHorizontalExtent(width);
	} /* extend */
}

I'm fairly confident that there is no leak. Do you agree?

Gavin

Re: Resource leak?

Anonymous9-May-03 1:03

Anonymous

9-May-03 1:03

CFont* GetFont( ) const;

Return Value

A pointer to a CFont that contains the current font.

The pointer may be temporary and should not be stored for later use.

so maybe

CFont * f = new CFont( CListBox::GetFont() ); ??????

Re: Resource leak?

Anders Molin9-May-03 1:16

Anders Molin

9-May-03 1:16

Gavin Jerman wrote:
I'm fairly confident that there is no leak. Do you agree?

Yes.

- Anders

Money talks, but all mine ever says is "Goodbye!"

Finding Logged In User Access Level

jerry0davis8-May-03 23:14

jerry0davis

8-May-03 23:14

I need to find out if the currently logged in user has administrator access to their PC. Does anyone know how I can do this please?

I'm writing a custom installation app, and need to make sure the logged in user has administrator access to the PC otherwise some of the files, especially MFC dlls won't copy properly.

Thanks

I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe

Jeremy Davis
http://www.astad.org
http://www.jvf.co.uk

Simultaneous sounds?

Gadjuka8-May-03 23:07

Gadjuka

8-May-03 23:07

I'm making a small program (in MFC) that needs to play several wave-sounds at the same time. I tried to use PlaySound(), but with that it seems you can just play one file at the time (the previous played file stops and the new begins to play, or the second waits till the first have finished).

How do I play several wave-files simultaneous?

Re: Simultaneous sounds?

G. Steudtel9-May-03 0:54

G. Steudtel

9-May-03 0:54

Hi,

I encounterd the same problem, and found no solution.
I think it's the system which locks the "loudspeaker" resource.
Well, actually it's the soundcard device.
The only workaround would be to switch the playing of the sound faster than the user can hear the tones. But this will be heard by cracks, and also the sum of the wav file times will be the total playing time, not the time of the longest wav file.
By considering the difficulties and drawbacks of this method I choose not to follow this way.
Instead now I try to find a tool for mixing two wavefiles outside the application, and later on play this mixed wave file in my application.

G. Steudtel.

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