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Randor 2-Sep-09 10:20

Randor

2-Sep-09 10:20

Hi,

Spy++ is distributed with all other versions of Visual Studio except the Express Edition. As far as I know its not available for free download. There are probably some good alternatives on the internet if you search.

You could however install a trial of a full version of Visual Studio 2008 [^] and Spy++ will be available in the installation.

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

Re: Spy++

ant-damage3-Sep-09 4:22

ant-damage

3-Sep-09 4:22

Randor wrote:
You could however install a trial of a full version of Visual Studio 2008 [^] and Spy++ will be available in the installation.

But I have a nasty problem. I can't open any website related to microsoft or related to anti-virus. But I will download the trial version of Visual Studio 2008 via my mother's computer. Thanks

Re: Spy++

EliottA3-Sep-09 5:13

EliottA

3-Sep-09 5:13

ant-damage wrote:
But I have a nasty problem. I can't open any website related to microsoft or related to anti-virus. But I will download the trial version of Visual Studio 2008 via my mother's computer. Thanks

You might want to get a good anti-virus there.

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Re: Spy++

ant-damage3-Sep-09 5:32

ant-damage

3-Sep-09 5:32

About the trial version, it's too huge to download, and I don't have a fast internet connection, and I can only download 1GB of data per month.

Re: Spy++

EliottA3-Sep-09 5:33

EliottA

3-Sep-09 5:33

Something that came up with a quick Google is this[^], which claims to be the "Compact equivalent of Spy++ with visual interface, versatile & easy to use"

Good luck.

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Re: Spy++

ant-damage3-Sep-09 5:35

ant-damage

3-Sep-09 5:35

I'll see that! Thanks

Re: Spy++

ThatsAlok2-Sep-09 17:34

ThatsAlok

2-Sep-09 17:34

http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS287US289&ei=5TifSonhKYXR-QawwNzpDw&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CBAQBSgA&q=spy%2B%2B+download&spell=1[^]

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DeflateStream & GZipStream

ant-damage2-Sep-09 1:51

ant-damage

2-Sep-09 1:51

I've been using the DeflateStream and the GZipStream for a while and recently I found out that both streams produced an excessive amount of data when compressing data.

Here is my question: Is there a bug in the compression algorythm?

Re: DeflateStream & GZipStream

Randor 2-Sep-09 10:24

Randor

2-Sep-09 10:24

ant-damage wrote:
produced an excessive amount of data when compressing data

What are you compressing? The LZ77 algorithm can actually create MORE data depending on what your compressing.

ant-damage wrote:
Is there a bug in the compression algorythm?

No.

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-David Delaune

Re: DeflateStream & GZipStream

ant-damage3-Sep-09 4:13

ant-damage

3-Sep-09 4:13

I'm compressing a binary file. it is a 678KB file, and after compressing all bytes of it with DeflateStream I've got 1MB of data. I used the zlib compression library on the same file and I'v got a smaller file with 671KB.

I searched around the web and I found out that it's possible that the DeflateStream algorythm has a bug, and generates too much data compared with the original file data.

Re: DeflateStream & GZipStream

Randor 3-Sep-09 10:49

Randor

3-Sep-09 10:49

ant-damage wrote:
after compressing all bytes of it with DeflateStream I've got 1MB of data.

Did you mean compressing with GZipStream? Because... DeflateStream does not do compression.

ant-damage wrote:
I searched around the web and I found out that it's possible that the DeflateStream algorythm has a bug, and generates too much data compared with the original file data.

The GZipStream class does not check for incompressible data. Yes it is possible to create more data.. this is the nature of the algorithm. I guess it would be better if the GZipStream class detected that it would be unable to compress the data. Classifying it as a bug is debatable.

I agree with you that the GZipStream class should be smart and detect this situation.

Best Wishes,
-David Delaune

Re: DeflateStream & GZipStream

harold aptroot3-Sep-09 15:35

harold aptroot

3-Sep-09 15:35

Randor wrote:
DeflateStream does not do compression

Yes it does, if we are to believe the documentation[^], compared to GZipStream it leaves out the CRC and things like that.

Re: DeflateStream & GZipStream

harold aptroot3-Sep-09 15:41

harold aptroot

3-Sep-09 15:41

I have found that the results are better when you use the biggest possible Write (so buffer first, then write it all out at once). It's slower of course, but for some reason this implementation gives really poor results on small writes.

Such a big expansion seems excessive though. It can only happen due to crappy implementation, since the Deflate spec contains an escape mechanism to store uncompressed data with only tiny overhead, but then this implementation is not known for being good in any way.

Modeless Form display

jimi772-Sep-09 0:31

jimi77

2-Sep-09 0:31

Hi Guys this is my first post on the forum (Despite being a long time browser), i hope you can help me.

I am attempting to create and display a modeless form within some C++ code. It works fine when the form is displayed as a modal form using ShowDialog(). However when i use Show(), the form is displayed but with black spaces where the UI controls (Label and Button) should be. You can see that there should be something there but there isn't?

I'm guessing it may be somekind of threading issue? As in the main thread is attempting to create controls on a different thread?

Has anyone come across this issue before and if so how did they get around it?

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Re: Modeless Form display

Luc Pattyn2-Sep-09 0:48

Luc Pattyn

2-Sep-09 0:48

Hi,

whatever language you use, you shouldn't use multiple threads accessing controls on a single form; this[^] may be useful for you.

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Re: Modeless Form display

jimi772-Sep-09 0:59

jimi77

2-Sep-09 0:59

Hi Luc, thanks for the quick reply...

I'm aware that i shouldn't be using multiple threads to access controls on a single form, and as it stands i'm not intentionally doing this. My question is, is the modeless form being created in a new thread automatically (hence it's ability to return immediately from the call) and if so is this the reason why the controls aren't being displayed properly?

I've spent a fair while researching this and am not having much luck, i'm primarily a C#/.Net developer ans am having a little bit of difficulty with the C++ side of things at the moment.

Regards

Re: Modeless Form display

Luc Pattyn2-Sep-09 1:24

Luc Pattyn

2-Sep-09 1:24

jimi77 wrote:
is the modeless form being created in a new thread automatically

A form is created in the thread that executes some kind of Form form=new Form(...) statement, and that is independent of how it will be shown (modally/modelessly) later on. So you look at the code and you'll know.

jimi77 wrote:
is this the reason why the controls aren't being displayed properly?

You did not show any code, you did mention threading. How can anyone but you answer that question?

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Hello question about visual studio 2008, that wont even build a empty dll project correctly

nah133731-Aug-09 19:07

nah1337

31-Aug-09 19:07

Well i got installed visual studio 6.0 and with that i can creat a dynamic dll, i have all there librarys and include fails. So i added all the include fails and librarys to visual studio 2008 and that ____ still wont build even standard dll fail correctly gives some linking errors instead....
Note that thous librarys are from windows xp sdk and some others they should work on bouth compailer i belive...

:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(81) : warning C4346: '_It::iterator_category' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(84) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::iterator_traits<_It>' being compiled
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(81) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'iterator_category'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(81) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(82) : warning C4346: '_It::value_type' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(82) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'value_type'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(82) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(83) : warning C4346: '_It::distance_type' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(83) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'distance_type'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(83) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(224) : warning C4348: 'std::istreambuf_iterator' : redefinition of default parameter : parameter 2
1> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(226) : see declaration of 'std::istreambuf_iterator'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(226) : warning C4346: '_Tr::off_type' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(279) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::istreambuf_iterator<_E,_Tr>' being compiled
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(226) : error C2923: 'std::iterator' : '_Tr::off_type' is not a valid template type argument for parameter '_D'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(226) : error C2955: 'std::iterator' : use of class template requires template argument list
1> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(67) : see declaration of 'std::iterator'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(231) : warning C4346: '_Tr::int_type' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(231) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'int_type'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(231) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(289) : warning C4348: 'std::ostreambuf_iterator' : redefinition of default parameter : parameter 2
1> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\utility(291) : see declaration of 'std::ostreambuf_iterator'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(25) : warning C4346: '_A::size_type' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(597) : see reference to class template instantiation 'std::basic_string<_E,_Tr,_A>' being compiled
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(25) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'size_type'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(25) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(26) : warning C4346: '_A::difference_type' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(26) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'difference_type'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(26) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(27) : warning C4346: '_A::pointer' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(27) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'pointer'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(27) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(28) : warning C4346: '_A::const_pointer' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(28) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'const_pointer'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(28) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(29) : warning C4346: '_A::reference' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(29) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'reference'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(29) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(30) : warning C4346: '_A::const_reference' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(30) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'const_reference'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(30) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(31) : warning C4346: '_A::value_type' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(31) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'value_type'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(31) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(32) : warning C4346: '_A::pointer' : dependent name is not a type
1> prefix with 'typename' to indicate a type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(32) : error C2144: syntax error : 'std::iterator' should be preceded by ';'
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(32) : error C2208: 'std::iterator' : no members defined using this type
1>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\include\xstring(32) : fatal error C1903: unable to recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation

cpp unit testing

rnsk_for_u31-Aug-09 19:06

rnsk_for_u

31-Aug-09 19:06

Hi Everyone,

I want to write a cpp test. recently i hv learnt it but i am not able to write the test cases. so if u have any idea or tips then please share it. i need ur help.

thanking u.

Re: cpp unit testing

Tony Duarte2-Sep-09 16:57

Tony Duarte

2-Sep-09 16:57

I have the same question. When I Google I see .NET unit testing, and C++ unit testing, but I don't know if any of those will work for Managed C++. Anybody have success with a particular suite? (Hopefully open source)

Re: cpp unit testing

Richard MacCutchan10-Sep-09 9:27

Richard MacCutchan

10-Sep-09 9:27

rnsk_for_u wrote:
recently i hv learnt it but i am not able to write the test cases.

Learnt what? We are not mind readers here.

What are you trying to test, your own program? If so then only you can decide what needs to be tested.

Splitting 2 MB of datas....

spalanivel28-Aug-09 1:20

spalanivel

28-Aug-09 1:20

Hi,

In the strCommand I am having 2MB of Data and when i am trying to split with the new line it was throwing error.(to loop through all the data)

But it was working for minminum (ie 50 KB of datas like 0's and 1's).

How to over come this error? Very urgent.. Below is the code...

CString strCommand; // Holds 2MB of datas like 0's and 1's...

System::String* strDataReceived = "";
strDataReceived = strCommand;
__wchar_t split __gc[] = new __wchar_t __gc[1];
split [0] = '\n';
String *strSplitCommand[] = strDataReceived->Trim()->Split (split);

Please help..

Reg,
Subbu

Re: Splitting 2 MB of datas....

Mark Salsbery28-Aug-09 7:20

Mark Salsbery

28-Aug-09 7:20

What error on what line?

That code doesn't look like it would even compile...

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Re: Splitting 2 MB of datas....

Luc Pattyn28-Aug-09 7:43

Luc Pattyn

28-Aug-09 7:43

Hi,

IMO you should not try and split a 2MB string, what you should do is avoid you ever need nor obtain such a string in the first place. It doesn't make sense. Tackle the problem at the producer's side, not the consumer's.

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Waterfall image display

su_marvel26-Aug-09 23:00

su_marvel

26-Aug-09 23:00

Hi,

I need help in creating a waterfall display of my pixel data stored in a buffer. The stream of data needs to be displayed streaming down the screen as its being acquired from the camera.
I am using visual c++ (windows forms).
Can someone please help me to figure out how to achieve this display?

Thanks in advance

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