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Re: Help moving from VC6 to VC8, command line

19-Jul-06 5:54

Hi,

I'm an embedded C programmer trying to migrate a set of makefiles from using VC6 tools (with msdev.exe) to VC++ Express + Platform SDK (with vjproj.exe).
I find vcproj is rather underdocumented. Could someone please help me translate a few lines in the makefiles?

Old: msdev pname.dsw /make ALL /clean
New: vcbuild pname.vcproj /clean
... Could you please tell me if these lines accomplish the same thing? I think using "ALL" told msdev to make all the available configurations, but I can't find an equivalent with vcbuild.

Old: msdev.exe pname.dsw -ex macroName /nologo
New: vcbuild pname.vcproj ???????????????????????
... The -ex flag tells msdev to invoke a macro. I think if I were using VC7 and devenv.exe that I would use /command. I can't find anything similar for vcproj.

Old: msdev pname.dsw /make "FileName - Win32 $(MSDEV_CONFIG)"
New: vcbuild pname.dsw /rebuild /OUT:FileName "$(MSDEV_CONFIG)|Win32"
... I am using /rebuild because I read a post/answer that indicated vcbuild has problems with pre build events, generated cpp files, or projects which have more than one level of depencency, and that /rebuild should alleviate "most" issues. Do you know if this is still the case? Also, am I translating the use of FileName correctly?

Thanks!

jasper7719-Jul-06 10:41

19-Jul-06 10:41

jasper77 wrote:
Old: msdev pname.dsw /make ALL /clean
New: vcbuild pname.vcproj /clean
... Could you please tell me if these lines accomplish the same thing? I think using "ALL" told msdev to make all the available configurations, but I can't find an equivalent with vcbuild.

Old: msdev.exe pname.dsw -ex macroName /nologo
New: vcbuild pname.vcproj ???????????????????????
... The -ex flag tells msdev to invoke a macro. I think if I were using VC7 and devenv.exe that I would use /command. I can't find anything similar for vcproj.

Old: msdev pname.dsw /make "FileName - Win32 $(MSDEV_CONFIG)"
New: vcbuild pname.dsw /rebuild /OUT:FileName "$(MSDEV_CONFIG)|Win32"
... I am using /rebuild because I read a post/answer that indicated vcbuild has problems with pre build events, generated cpp files, or projects which have more than one level of depencency, and that /rebuild should alleviate "most" issues. Do you know if this is still the case? Also, am I translating the use of FileName correctly?

Well, I've indentified one problem: the new lines should use .sln instead of .dsw. However, the rest of my questions remain.

Thanks!

default buttons

aafcls19-Jul-06 5:18

aafcls

19-Jul-06 5:18

Hello,

I have a dialog with an OK and Cancel button, for example. Until a certain event takes place, the OK button is disabled, and the Cancel button is default (ie: has the thicker black outline). When the event takes place, and the OK button becomes enabled, I want it so that the OK button instantly becomes the only default button. With what keywords can I accomplish this?

Thanks Wink | ;)

toxcct19-Jul-06 5:22

toxcct

19-Jul-06 5:22

use

<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7sd15kw3.aspx" rel="nofollow">CDialog::SetDefID()</a>[<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7sd15kw3.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" title="New Window">^</a>]

for instance :

this->SetDefID(IDOK);    //considering that this is your dialog box class

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aafcls19-Jul-06 6:13

aafcls

19-Jul-06 6:13

can you please be more specific, I'm not sure how you mean to implement this.

toxcct19-Jul-06 6:19

toxcct

19-Jul-06 6:19

the this is the pointer within the CDialog class in which the processing event were caught.
i mean, if you're switching the default button when typing something in an edit box for instance, you override the EN_CHANGE message of that edit box, and as this editbox belongs to the dialogbox, the this pointer refers to the dialog box.

have you even copied the code to try it ?

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Re: Invisible Console Window

David Crow19-Jul-06 7:36

David Crow

19-Jul-06 7:36

aafcls wrote:
can you please be more specific, I'm not sure how you mean to implement this.

Just call SetDefID(IDOK). It's not any harder than that.

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Invisible Console Window

Dave Kerr19-Jul-06 4:42

Dave Kerr

19-Jul-06 4:42

Hi.

I am writing a console app that needs to be invisible. What is the easiest way to make sure that the Console window doesn't flash on the screen?

Cheers

Dave Kerr
codechamber@hotmail.com
http://www.codechamber.com

Ali Rafiee19-Jul-06 6:54

Ali Rafiee

19-Jul-06 6:54

The easiest way to do this is to change your main function to WinMain. And change the SubSystem in the Linker/System panel from Console to Windows. Recompile and you are done.

AliR.
Visual C++ MVP

Re: Invisible Console Window

Dave Kerr19-Jul-06 22:48

Dave Kerr

19-Jul-06 22:48

Hi Ali,

Thanks very much- that worked perfectly.

Cheers

Dave Kerr
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Problem when using a prolific USB to serail adapter.

Lifeson19-Jul-06 4:32

Lifeson

19-Jul-06 4:32

Hello everybody,

I have developped a Visual C++ application that drives a serial COM port (9600 8 N 1).
When I use the PC's COM port to dialog with the hardware, the application works correctly; but when I connect the hardware to a USB port via a profilic USB to serial adapter the application shows a error message and closes abruptly.

Does somebody encountered such a problem ? or any idea about how to solve or debug ? Confused | :confused:

Thank you in advance,
AG

Re: Problem when using a prolific USB to serail adapter.

Cedric Moonen19-Jul-06 4:40

Cedric Moonen

19-Jul-06 4:40

What is the error message ??

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

Charting control

Re: Problem when using a prolific USB to serail adapter. [modified]

Lifeson19-Jul-06 5:00

Lifeson

19-Jul-06 5:00

It shows the windows error dialog and when I look the details I get the following information :

EXE NAME="ERW.exe" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY"
MATCHING_FILE NAME="ERW.exe" SIZE="454656" CHECKSUM="0xA7F4B92D" BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.4.5.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.4.5.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="1.4.5" FILE_DESCRIPTION="Programmeur ERW" COMPANY_NAME="ELA Innovation" PRODUCT_NAME="ELA Read Write" FILE_VERSION="1.4.5" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="ERW.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="ERW.exe" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="(c) ELA Innovation. Tous droits réservés." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.4.5.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.4.5.0" LINK_DATE="05/16/2006 14:07:44" UPTO_LINK_DATE="05/16/2006 14:07:44" VER_LANGUAGE="Français (France) [0x40c]"

MATCHING_FILE NAME="Uninstall.exe" SIZE="35453" CHECKSUM="0x1CDEBCED" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="01/28/2003 14:21:01" UPTO_LINK_DATE="01/28/2003 14:21:01"

EXE NAME="kernel32.dll" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
MATCHING_FILE NAME="kernel32.dll" SIZE="1048576" CHECKSUM="0x60165972" BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180" PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180" FILE_DESCRIPTION="DLL du client API BASE Windows NT" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Système d'exploitation Microsoft® Windows®" FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="kernel32" INTERNAL_NAME="kernel32" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="© Microsoft Corporation. Tous droits réservés." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x10626E" LINKER_VERSION="0x50001" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.2180" LINK_DATE="08/04/2004 07:54:15" UPTO_LINK_DATE="08/04/2004 07:54:15" VER_LANGUAGE="Français (France) [0x40c]"

I presume this information is not usefull !!!
Unsure | :~

-- modified at 11:01 Wednesday 19th July, 2006

Re: Problem when using a prolific USB to serail adapter.

Cedric Moonen19-Jul-06 5:04

Cedric Moonen

19-Jul-06 5:04

Uuuh ??
Can you be more specific ?

algo_2112 wrote:
when I look the details

Where do you look at these details ?? And what is this information ?

I suppose the problem is simply that you cannot open the COM port (because you gave the wrong port number for example) and that you have a NULL handler that you try to use.

Did you use your debugger to see what's happening exactly ? This must be the first reflex to have ! Whenever you have a problem, use your debugger FIRST.

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

Charting control

Re: Problem when using a prolific USB to serail adapter. [modified]

Lifeson19-Jul-06 5:21

Lifeson

19-Jul-06 5:21

The application works correctly for a while then it suddenly closes and shows the classical windows error dialog inviting you to send a repport.

I can't debug because the application works correctly when I use the computer used for developping the application (where Visual Studio runs). The problem appears when I run the App on a laptop computer.

I was thinking about timing problems. Because I don't use the RS232 control signals DTS,...

-- modified at 11:48 Wednesday 19th July, 2006

Re: Problem when using a prolific USB to serail adapter.

earl19-Jul-06 6:41

earl

19-Jul-06 6:41

I heard from a developer of such devices (USB to Serial) that they were (1) very difficult to do and (2) most of them on the market don't work all that well.

Take this for what it's worth, but you may be hitting limitations of the device.

Have you considered periodically closing and reopening the connection? This may delay the issue...

earl

SetFilterCriteria

N.T.Srikanth19-Jul-06 4:32

N.T.Srikanth

19-Jul-06 4:32

Hi I m debugging a code which calls the fucntion SetFilterCriteria of SAX.
I want to know how the SetFilterCriteria function works in C++. I couldn't find a good example of it in MSDN. Hope someone knows abt it. Please reply asap.

Thanks in advance.

C/C++ cross-development environment

George_George19-Jul-06 4:17

George_George

19-Jul-06 4:17

Hello everyone,

I read some beginner materials for C/C++ cross-development environment, which consists a host machine and a target machine. The host machine can produce binary executable code for the target machine, which has a different hardware architecture compared with the host machine. For example, the host machine can be x86 CPU, but the target machine can be ARM CPU.

How mysterious it is! I am wondering what mysterious things do the host machine have in order to produce the binary code for a different hardware architecture machine. I think the host machine should contain,

- compiler/linker which works on host system but produce binary output for target system;
- .h header files for target system;
- dynamic library for target system, like .DLL for Windows and .so for Linux;
- shared library for target system, like .lib for Windows and .a for Linux.

Not sure whether my guess is correct. Any comments?

thanks in advance,
George

jasper7719-Jul-06 5:38

Re: C/C++ cross-development environment [modified]

19-Jul-06 5:38

George,

What you're talking about is embedded software. This is how computer chips control many things you don't think about as computers, from gas pumps and washing machines to mobile phones to airplanes and submarines. I've seen one claim that more than 90% of CPU's are in embedded devices.

The host machine must have:
1) A cross compiler; compiles and links on host PC, produces binary output for target system.
2) ... well, that's all it must have, actually, beyond what you typically find on a PC.

You could download the binaries from the host to the target via several different mechanisms, such as USB or serial. "Bringing up a board" to the point where it's ready to blithely program, compile, download, and run, is a major effort by itself, but kits are available for trying it out.

You can write code in any language that is supported by a cross compiler for the target; the most popular language in embedded systems is C, and then there's C++, assembler, and Java (J2EE). I think there's even a perl for embedding. The target system may (but not always) run a Real Time Operating System, or RTOS. MS's venture into this arena is the WinCE RTOS. See http://www.embedded.com/ for more info than you probably want right now, or the book "Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++" by Michael Barr for a walkthrough of a particular project using a particular kit. One of the first achievements is blinking an LED on the board.

George_George19-Jul-06 20:28

George_George

19-Jul-06 20:28

Thank you jasper77!

Your reply makes senses.

jasper77 wrote:
2) ... well, that's all it must have, actually, beyond what you typically find on a PC.

What do you mean "all" it must have? Could you list the materials in your mind which cross-development package should have besides compiler/linker? Like static/dynamic library, header files or something?

regards,
George

-- modified at 2:29 Thursday 20th July, 2006

jasper7720-Jul-06 4:46

20-Jul-06 4:46

George_George wrote:
What do you mean "all" it must have? Could you list the materials in your mind which cross-development package should have besides compiler/linker? Like static/dynamic library, header files or something?

Nada, zip, zelch, nothing else required. Really. All you need to create binaries to download onto a target is a cross compiler, which also links. When I say "besides what you typically find on a PC" I mean you have a means to edit files already... heck, you could even use Notepad. It's all just text files, really. Debuggers and navigational aids are mere luxuries.

Having said that, any company worth their salt wouldn't make their employees work with such a primitive development environment. They usually at least supply a source code editor, although I know many embedded developers who prefer to just use emacs, vi, or other open source tools out there. [Oh, can I say "open source" on a MS forum?] They often supply a debugger, if available (more on that later), or may even purchase an entire third party IDE.

I suppose now you're wondering, so how does one debug the program when it's running on a separate processor outside the PC? It's true that many embedded software is developed with environments that are quite primitive to the standards of anyone familiar with an IDE, although slick IDE's for embedded systems can be purchased for lots of money, and also Elipse is making a lot of inroads. [Can I mention Eclipse on an MS forum?] The good IDE's have software that is made to be part of the downloaded image, and an application that runs on the host (PC) that can talk to each other. The fact is, debuggers work closely with the CPU and have intimate knowlege of the cross-compiler, and when there are a wide variety of CPUs and compilers for which to do embedded development, only the most popular get good third party IDE tool support. In my current embedded software development environment, I don't even have a debugger. That's right, I have no way to set breakpoints and watch variables. I figure out what's going on with the system by reading logs (debugging with printf's!) and observing the behavior of the target system. Since I am an EE and not afraid of "the metal", sometimes I might also get an oscilloscope or a logic analyzer, put some probes on the target hardware, and observe the signals. However, since I currently work with a "System on a Chip" or SoC, where the CPU is part of an ASIC that also has a lot of the capabilities that would otherwise be done by separate chips on a board, I don't have as many convenient places to place hardware probes.

You may also wonder how to download; this forum is really not the place, so I won't go into much detail. I really recommend the Michael Barr book. He explains things in the kind of detail you're looking for. You don't actually have to buy the kit and perform the steps to learn from the book. Having said that, the company I work for now has a homegrown Windows program that talks to the target via USB. I can start this monitor, use commands in it to download the binary image to the memory on the target, get logs, and various other exercises on the chip (even writing to and reading from specific hardware registers), as it continutes to run. (This is why I'm on this forum... I'm trying to figure out if the old VS6 files, and the makefiles that build them, can be ported to VC++ Express... I'm a fish out of water.) But the specific ways to download software to the target vary with the type of memory used on the target. If you use ROM, the binary is burned to the ROM chips with a ROM burner attached to your PC (which has it's own program to use), and then the chips are thrown away if you want to change the code. If you use EEPROM (Erasable Programmable Read-Only-Memory) you can reuse the chips. If you use flash memory it's typcially on the board and you can download new software to it as many times as you please. The board in the kit used by the Michael Barr book has flash memory.

Now, if someone would just answer my separate question about equivalent build command lines for msdev and vcbuild, I'll be a lot happier!

George_George20-Jul-06 17:28

George_George

20-Jul-06 17:28

Thank you for your great reply, jasper77!

jasper77 wrote:
Nada, zip, zelch, nothing else required.

What are they? Embedded development tools' nicknames?

regards,
George

jasper7721-Jul-06 4:15