Re: MultiByteToWideCHar Help? - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

status()11-Oct-05 5:56

11-Oct-05 5:56

Hello,

I want to know is it possible to catch when my c++(mfc) application is terminated (by other process or by itself), and can i retrieve the name of the process who killed my app. I need this for debug reasons.
Thanks!

Connect to Registry

Mila02511-Oct-05 4:06

Mila025

11-Oct-05 4:06

Is there any way to connect to the system registry in Windows XP Home Edition ? RegConnectRegistry doesn't work because bypasses the authentication layer - so how to get around this problem ?

Mila

Re: Connect to Registry

RadioOpa11-Oct-05 4:35

RadioOpa

11-Oct-05 4:35

Have you tried something like this:

if(::RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
"Software\\Example Company\\Example Program\\VersionBuilt",
0, KEY_READ, &hKey) == ERROR_SUCCESS)
{ // Get version
//dwSize = sizeof(dwValue);

DWORD nType = REG_SZ;

unsigned char pRegData[256];
DWORD nBuffLen = 256;
char* pLocation = "VersionBuilt";
RegQueryValueEx(hKey, pLocation, NULL, &nType, pRegData, &nBuffLen);
::RegCloseKey(hKey);

csVersion.Format( "%s", &pRegData[ 5]);

}

Re: Connect to Registry

Roger Stoltz11-Oct-05 5:05

Roger Stoltz

11-Oct-05 5:05

Are you really trying to connect to a registry on a remote machine running WinXP Home Edition?
If 'yes' then forget about it since the function to use is the one you mentioned, ::RegConnectRegistry, and will always fail on the Home Edition.
What you perhaps can do is write an application that acts as a server that you can connect to using sockets and develop your own protocol for reading and/or writing the registry on the remote machine.

If you are trying to read and/or write the local registry you should use ::RegOpenKeyEx or ::RegCreateKeyEx instead.

However, in either case, depending on what access rights the user have running the application that desires access to the registry, the operation might fail due to lack of access rights.

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Roger

Unicode presentation CEdit

RadioOpa11-Oct-05 2:59

RadioOpa

11-Oct-05 2:59

I need to display the corresponding characters of certain languages in a dialogue application. How can I convert and display values like 062A, 062B etc. ( UCS2, Arabic ) into the matching characters ?

Re: Unicode presentation CEdit

RadioOpa11-Oct-05 21:17

RadioOpa

11-Oct-05 21:17

?? Nobody´s able to help ?

MultiByteToWideCHar Help?

Amit j Patil11-Oct-05 2:35

Amit j Patil

11-Oct-05 2:35

hi
i am trying MultiByteToWideChar() it returns INVALID_PARAMETER error. is any one know abt it?
here is code snippet

char * chr="hello";
TCHAR str[255];
int nLen = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0,chr, -1, NULL, NULL);
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, chr, -1, str, nLen);

(i am trying it in eVC 3.0, WCE)
Thanks in advance

Re: MultiByteToWideCHar Help?

nm_11411-Oct-05 11:30

nm_114

11-Oct-05 11:30

try something like:

char * chr="hello";
WCHAR str[255];
int nLen = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0,chr, -1, str, 255);

-- or --

char * chr="hello";
WCHAR * str;
int nLen = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0,chr, -1, NULL, 0);
str = new WCHAR[nLen];
MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0,chr, -1, str, nLen);
//use str...
delete[] str;

Re: MultiByteToWideCHar Help?

Amit j Patil12-Oct-05 21:05

Amit j Patil

12-Oct-05 21:05

But i want o use CP_UTF8 code page as first parameter, since i want to convert my ascii string to Japnease.
Regards
Amit

Possible CDC issue

wdhough11-Oct-05 1:43

wdhough

11-Oct-05 1:43

I have an application that draws a diagram in the form of a bitmap and then displays this in a window. There are limits placed in my code that do not allow
the CSize properties cx and cy to be set to more than 32000 in 'SetViewportExt' and 'SetWindowExt'. This limits my the amount of my diagram that i can draw, and believe it or not someone has managed to make a diagram that exceeds that would exceed the cy component of this diagram. I took these limits out in order to be able to display the whole diagram and it worked well, the CSize objects passed to the 'SetWindowExt' and 'SetViewportExt' methods had cy components that exceed 32000, in fact they were in the region of 69000. However when i doubled the size of my diagram, which is draw as a bit map, it failed. Let us be clear the parameter is was now setting the CSize object to that would be passed to the two previously mentioned methods, were 140000 (cy component) and 2000 (cx) component. The failure was that i had lines running over the top of my diagram, i spoke to someone who was previously involved this project and they told me without those limits, i was "killing the DC", sadly he couldnt tell me, anymore, it seems that there is some sort of limit?

Can anyone help me with understanding this, or perhaps offer a solution

Many thanks

Will

Diff between CFile and CStdioFile

karmendra_js11-Oct-05 1:35

karmendra_js

11-Oct-05 1:35

hi,

Can you tell me what is the Diff between CFile and CStdioFile. when to use each of these.

Thanks.

Re: Diff between CFile and CStdioFile

ThatsAlok11-Oct-05 1:46

ThatsAlok

11-Oct-05 1:46

karmendra_js wrote:
Can you tell me what is the Diff between CFile and CStdioFile. when to use each of these.

CStdioFile is derived class on CFile.. so all CStdioFile has all capibility that CFile have plus It's special file reading Function like ReadString():- which read one line at a time etc.

karmendra_js wrote:
when to use each of these.

CStdioFile is benificial when you are using it with text based file.

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Re: Diff between CFile and CStdioFile

Roger Stoltz11-Oct-05 1:54

Roger Stoltz

11-Oct-05 1:54

The CStdioFile class inherits from the CFile class and provides more support for reading and writing text files.

Have a look in MSDN here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcmfc98/html/_mfc_cstdiofile.asp[^]

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Roger

Convert bmp to Text

sonu25211-Oct-05 0:39

sonu252

11-Oct-05 0:39

How can we get the capture text from any part of ui. E.g. in case if we have window that has some third party child control, now I want to extract the text from that control, OR in I.E. there is an applet and that applet is containing text, I want to extract text out of that applet. I do not want to use any specific library of applet or for that matter third party control. I believe, we need to first get image of that window(bmp), but then from that bmp how to convert in editable text?

Re: Convert bmp to Text

Roger Stoltz11-Oct-05 1:30

Roger Stoltz

11-Oct-05 1:30

If we're talking about windows that are actually textual windows such as edit boxes and similar, you can use ::ChildWindowFromPoint and/or ::WindowFromPoint and ::GetWindowText.

Otherwise I suggest you get yourself a nice OCR-library that recognizes the characters in the bitmap you caught.

Hope this helps
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Roger

Repeated calling of a function

nripun11-Oct-05 0:30

nripun

11-Oct-05 0:30

My aim is to repeatedly call a function, display the return values in an edit box, when i press a button. This should stop when i press another function.
I kept the function call and the display in an while loop which checks for the condition if the 2nd button has been pressed.
But it didnt work. The application hung. Maybe bcos the while loop never ended.
How will i go about it?

Say the function tat i want to call repeatedly is CalculateVolts() and UpdateData(FALSE) is used to update the edit box.
This is what i did.

<br />
OnButton1(){<br />
  while(flag_button2!=1){    //// the flag_button2 is 1 if i press Button2<br />
   int retVal = CalculateVolts();<br />
   m_editVal.Format("%f",f); //// CString object of the editbox<br />
   UpdateData(FALSE);<br />
  }<br />
}<br />
<br />
But since the application hung i cud never press Button2.<br />

Re: Repeated calling of a function

dharani11-Oct-05 0:46

dharani

11-Oct-05 0:46

1) You need to start a worker thread and in that the while(button2) should be waiting
2) Now in handler of Button2 , use CCriticalSection to set the value to button2 = 1
Your code did not work becasue
1) it is not multithreaded
2) as you said the control never went out of while() loop

redindian

Re: Repeated calling of a function

sonu25211-Oct-05 1:14

sonu252

11-Oct-05 1:14

1. Or the simpler way is just put sleep after UpdateData(FALSE)

Sleep(1000)

Re: Repeated calling of a function

ky_rerun11-Oct-05 7:51

ky_rerun

11-Oct-05 7:51

Sleep also locks exicution. If you have another thread it will allow that thread to run but it won't allow for what he is looking for.

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Re: Repeated calling of a function

Bob Stanneveld11-Oct-05 1:53

Bob Stanneveld

11-Oct-05 1:53

Hello,

Your control handler never leaves execution. This means that no message gets processed after you press button1.

You can solve this problem by posting a message to your own window after the call to UpdateData().

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Re: Repeated calling of a function

Tim Smith11-Oct-05 3:58

Tim Smith

11-Oct-05 3:58

In OnButton1, create a timer (i.e. SetTimer) with a delay of 1 millisecond. Let OnButton1 return. Inside the OnTimer method, update the edit control. Do not kill the timer. Inside of OnButton2, add a call to KillTimer to stop the timer.

This is very simple method of doing what you ask without having to create new threads or anything complicated. Since timer events are very low priority, the edit box will be allowed to update and the UI will continue to pump messages.

Tim Smith

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Re: Repeated calling of a function

Trollslayer11-Oct-05 4:45

Trollslayer

11-Oct-05 4:45

If you kill the timer in the OnTimer method then start it again after the edit control is updated. This guarantees a 1msec delay between actions, otherwise you could get a queue of timer events in the time all the processing takes.

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Re: Repeated calling of a function

nripun11-Oct-05 9:14

nripun

11-Oct-05 9:14

thank you.
I used the timer idea and it actually worked Wink | ;)

Re: Repeated calling of a function

PJ Arends11-Oct-05 15:45

PJ Arends

11-Oct-05 15:45

Trollslayer wrote:
otherwise you could get a queue of timer events

AFAIK WM_TIMER, like WM_PAINT, is a low priority and does not queue. A WM_TIMER message is only posted when the message queue is empty.

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Re: Repeated calling of a function

Roger Stoltz11-Oct-05 21:32

Roger Stoltz

11-Oct-05 21:32

PJ Arends wrote:
WM_TIMER, like WM_PAINT, is a low priority and does not queue

This is correct. This is handled by the kernel and there will never be any WM_PAINT or WM_TIMER messages in the thread's message queue.

Regarding timers it's ridiculous even thinking that such a timer will have a period time of 1ms. Windows is not a real-time OS.
What will happen is that you will not get multiple WM_TIMER messages in the queue, BUT the WM_TIMER handler won't get called in the rate you expected.
You can simply verify this by the use of ::QueryPerformanceCounter and logging the rate that the handler is actually called.
Joe Newcomer wrote an excellent article about this and can be found at
http://www.flounder.com/time.htm[^]

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Roger

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