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how to get the device id of a pocket pc

reyd_todo4-Jun-07 5:54

reyd_todo

4-Jun-07 5:54

I need help on how to get the device id in program for a particular pocket pc. I'm using Embedded Visual C++.

Handling of multiple threads

zudroj4-Jun-07 4:02

zudroj

4-Jun-07 4:02

Hi, can anyone help me?

I need to run 4 threads(each thread handle the same function) in my app.

The function looks like this:

void ThreadFunction()
{
Do something...

Do something, but only one thread at one time //it doesn't consume much time

Do something...

EndThread()
}

1) How should I start threads? (CreateThread(),AfxBeginThread(),...)
2) How should I end threads? (EndThread() - ???)
3) How should I handle the part of code that must be processed only by one thread at a time?

Thank you very much for any help.

Petr

Re: Handling of multiple threads

Mark Salsbery4-Jun-07 4:35

Mark Salsbery

4-Jun-07 4:35

How to start a thread can depend on what the thread procedure uses -
For just Windows API, CreateThread()
If using any C Runtime (CRT), use _beginthread/_beginthreadex
If using MFC, use AfxBeginThread

Ending threads should be done by letting the thread procedure return normally.

Anything that needs to be thread safe (done by only one thread at a time) should be synchronized.
Mutex and critical section objects work well for this.

See Joseph Newcomer's article Using Worker Threads[^] for lots of handy info.

Mark

"Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder

Re: Handling of multiple threads

zudroj4-Jun-07 21:20

zudroj

4-Jun-07 21:20

Thank you for your help. I am using MFC.

I have already read something about synchronization.
If I use Mutex, it must be defined outside the ThreadFunction(). Am I right?

If I need to wait until other thread stopped using of critical part of code, what should I use? WaitForSingleObject() function?

Re: Handling of multiple threads

Mark Salsbery5-Jun-07 4:26

Mark Salsbery

5-Jun-07 4:26

zudroj wrote:
If I use Mutex, it must be defined outside the ThreadFunction(). Am I right?

Not always. If more than one thread in your process needs to use the mutex, then you need its
handle outside the threadproc, somewhere where other threads can access it.

If the mutex is used only by that thread in the process (for example, a named mutex for
synchronizing different processes) then you could create/open it IN the threadproc.

Define it wherever it can be accessed by all threads that need the handle.

zudroj wrote:
If I need to wait until other thread stopped using of critical part of code, what should I use? WaitForSingleObject() function?

Yes. When WaitForSingleObject() returns and indicates you own the mutex, make sure to call
ReleaseMutex() when you're done executing critical code so other threads can assume ownership of
the mutex.

Mark

"Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder

Re: Handling of multiple threads

zudroj5-Jun-07 21:36

zudroj

5-Jun-07 21:36

Thank you.

All I needed is working well. Cool | :cool:

Re: Handling of multiple threads

CPallini4-Jun-07 5:05

CPallini

4-Jun-07 5:05

zudroj wrote:
1) How should I start threads? (CreateThread(),AfxBeginThread(),...)

Maybe the big design decision is between creating a worker thread or a User-Interface one (see [^] and [^]).

zudroj wrote:
2) How should I end threads? (EndThread() - ???)

Gracefully. Ask the thread itself to terminate (setting a flag, using a use a Synchronization Object [^], for instance, an Event, ...).

zudroj wrote:
3) How should I handle the part of code that must be processed only by one thread at a time?

Again, use a Synchronization Object [^] (for instance a Critical Section).

Smile | :)

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.

Creating a color table

TheDelChop4-Jun-07 2:50

TheDelChop

4-Jun-07 2:50

Hi guys,

I am trying to use the Win32 API to fill a bitmap, using the function GetDIBBits(). My source bitmap is a 32-bit image, but I am hoping to create a 4-bit destination bitmap. I am of the understanding that this requires me to create a color table, and keep it in a BITMAPINFO structure. Does anybody see a problem with this snippet of code?

<br />
pbmi = (PBITMAPINFO) LocalAlloc(LPTR,sizeof(BITMAPINFO));<br />
      <br />
      // Initialize the fields in the BITMAPINFO structure.<br />
<br />
      pbmi->bmiHeader.biSize = sizeof(BITMAPINFOHEADER) + 16*sizeof(long);<br />
      pbmi->bmiHeader.biWidth = bmp.bmWidth;<br />
      pbmi->bmiHeader.biHeight = bmp.bmHeight;<br />
      pbmi->bmiHeader.biPlanes = bmp.bmPlanes;<br />
      pbmi->bmiHeader.biBitCount = 4;<br />
<br />
      pbmi->bmiHeader.biCompression = BI_RGB;<br />
      <br />
      if (pbmi->bmiHeader.biSizeImage == 0)<br />
        pbmi->bmiHeader.biSizeImage = WIDTHBYTES((DWORD)pbmi->bmiHeader.biWidth *                                                             <br />
         pbmi->bmiHeader.biBitCount) * pbmi->bmiHeader.biHeight;<br />
      <br />
      pbmi->bmiHeader.biClrImportant = 0;<br />
          <br />
      for(i = 0; i<16; i++)<br />
      {<br />
        pbmi->bmiColors[i].rgbRed = 0;<br />
        pbmi->bmiColors[i].rgbBlue = 0;<br />
        pbmi->bmiColors[i].rgbGreen = 0;<br />
        pbmi->bmiColors[i].rgbReserved = 0;<br />
      }<br />
<br />
      // Bright Red<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[1].rgbRed = 255;<br />
<br />
      // Red<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[2].rgbRed = 128;<br />
<br />
      // Bright Green<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[3].rgbGreen = 255;<br />
<br />
      // Green<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[4].rgbGreen = 128;<br />
<br />
      // Bright Blue<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[5].rgbBlue = 255;<br />
<br />
      // Blue<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[6].rgbBlue = 128;<br />
<br />
      //Yellow<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[7].rgbRed = 255;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[7].rgbGreen = 255;<br />
<br />
      //Brown<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[8].rgbRed = 128;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[8].rgbGreen = 128;<br />
<br />
      //Bright Magenta<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[9].rgbRed = 255;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[9].rgbBlue = 255;<br />
<br />
      //Magenta<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[10].rgbRed = 128;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[10].rgbBlue = 128;<br />
<br />
      //Bright Cyan<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[11].rgbGreen = 255;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[11].rgbBlue = 255;<br />
<br />
      //Cyan<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[12].rgbGreen = 128;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[12].rgbBlue = 128;<br />
<br />
      //Gray<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[13].rgbRed = 0;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[13].rgbGreen = 128;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[13].rgbBlue = 0;<br />
<br />
      //Bright Gray<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[14].rgbRed = 192;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[14].rgbGreen = 192;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[14].rgbBlue = 192;<br />
<br />
      //White<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[15].rgbRed = 255;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[15].rgbGreen = 255;<br />
      pbmi->bmiColors[15].rgbBlue = 255;<br />

Am I missing something here?

Thanks

Re: Creating a color table

CPallini4-Jun-07 3:57

CPallini

4-Jun-07 3:57

TheDelChop wrote:
Am I missing something here?

Yes, you didn't allocate memory for the colour entries (pbmi->bmiColors[]).
You have to do:

pbmi = (PBITMAPINFO) LocalAlloc(LPTR, sizeof(BITMAPINFO) + 15 * sizeof(RGBQUAD));

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.

Specific editing of a CString

jasn Smith4-Jun-07 2:50

jasn Smith

4-Jun-07 2:50

I am currently a student and have wondered into the realm of c++. The problem is that I am creating a program that can edit NC code for multi-axial milling machines. The problem is as follows.

I have the line of text that I wish to edit, this has been stored as a CString. And would look something as follows: N650 G1 X152.5 S5200

The only part of this string that I want to change is the S5200, and would like to change it to say S8000.

It isn’t possible to read the different parts of the code into the CString as the whole line is read from an XML. And the number of characters before the S5200 is not always constant

Is there a way to read the CString until the S Character is found and then write over it?

Any help with this would be much appreciated and my apologies if this is a menial question, it is however hard to find such information on something so specific.

Regards

Jason Smith

Re: Specific editing of a CString

_AnsHUMAN_ 4-Jun-07 3:10

_AnsHUMAN_

4-Jun-07 3:10

CString::Find() and CString::Replace() can help you in achieving this. Smile | :)

Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
Wink | ;-)

_AnShUmAn_

Re: Specific editing of a CString

David Crow4-Jun-07 3:29

David Crow

4-Jun-07 3:29

jasn Smith wrote:
Is there a way to read the CString until the S Character is found and then write over it?

Yes, assuming no other "S" precede the one you want.

"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow

"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Font Size Displays [modified]

_AnsHUMAN_ 4-Jun-07 2:48

_AnsHUMAN_

4-Jun-07 2:48

Hi All,
I was just understanding how does MS set the font sizes. In an MFC application if we use CreateFont() API to create a font and set it's size to 8 and style to FW_BOLD.Something like this: myFont->CreateFont (8,0,0,0,FW_BOLD,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,"Tahoma");
This creates a font on the screen that is hard to read due to it's small size. But when we open MS-WORD and set it's font size to 8 and FONT to Tahoma, the user is able to read the text properly.
So are the values displayed in list box in MS-WORD used to set the font size? or they are just to let the user see the values and don't have much meaning?
In my application I would like to Create a font that shows as what Tahoma (size 8) is seen in MS-WORD.I am able to do this but not without setting the value (in bold above) to 12,14 or 16

Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
Wink | ;-)

_AnShUmAn_

Re: Font Size Displays

Arman S.4-Jun-07 3:15

Arman S.

4-Jun-07 3:15

It is ten times smaller then the real font. So pass 10*N to have a font with size=N.

--
=====
Arman

Re: Font Size Displays [modified]

_AnsHUMAN_ 4-Jun-07 3:24

_AnsHUMAN_

4-Jun-07 3:24

I figured that out. but that is applicable in case of CreateFontIndirect(). I had tried it, but still the size differs from what is actually seen in WORD
-- modified at 9:31 Monday 4th June, 2007

Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them.
Wink | ;-)

_AnShUmAn_

Re: Font Size Displays

Mark Salsbery4-Jun-07 4:47

Mark Salsbery

4-Jun-07 4:47

Font heights are in logical units. MS WORD is WYSIWYG so the logical units you enter in the
font dialog are converted to the correct size font based on the size of the displayed document.

If you aren't worried about exact font sizes, use an arbitrary negative height.
If you need your font size based on actual dimensions then you'll need to convert the logical
units to device units: Height = -MulDiv(PointSize, GetDeviceCaps(hdc, LOGPIXELSY), 72);

Mark

"Posting a VB.NET question in the C++ forum will end in tears." Chris Maunder

subclassing an activex control in mfc [modified]

dkmr4-Jun-07 2:27

dkmr

4-Jun-07 2:27

Hello,

Here's the problem:

I have an ActiveX control and I want to change - more exactly cancel - the way it handles some basic input window events in a MFC application. (It doesn't export the events of course)

I've tried the "classic" SetWindowLong way for Win32 API subclassing but it doesn't seem to work and I didn't really expected (or maybe I'm not using it right.. I don't know..)

I have the ActiveX Control placed in a dialog. The class instance variable for the Control is a member variable of the dialog class.

In OnInitDialog I have the next lines of code:

CWnd * wnd_ctrlax = GetDlgItem(IDC_PLUGIN1);<br />
HWND handle_ctrlax = wnd_ctrlax->GetSafeHwnd();<br />
old_wnd_proc = (WNDPROC)SetWindowLong(handle_ctrlax, GWL_WNDPROC, (LONG)Subclassing);

old_wnd_proc and Subclassing are both declared global. (Maybe here I'm doing something wrong...)

The new WndProc looks something like this:

LRESULT APIENTRY Subclassing (HWND hWnd, <br />
                              WORD Message, <br />
                              WORD wParam, <br />
                              LONG lParam)<br />
{<br />
<br />
     if (Message == WM_LBUTTONDBLCLK)<br />
     {<br />
     // AfxMessageBox(_T("Done!!!"));<br />
     return 0;<br />
     }<br />
<br />
     if (Message == WM_LBUTTONDOWN)<br />
     {<br />
     //AfxMessageBox(_T("Done!!!"));<br />
     return 0;<br />
     }<br />
<br />
     return CallWindowProc(old_wnd_proc, hWnd, Message, wParam, lParam);<br />
}

I've put breakpoints in the new WndProc handles for the mouse click messages. Of course they never get trigerred.. but the WndProc is entered = a breakpoint on the return CallWindowProc line is triggered continuously.

It just doesn't catch my mouse input in the control = the old functionality remains the same.

If somebody had the some problem or knows an answer for subclassing an ActiveX control and can give me a hint I'll really apreciate it.

-- modified at 8:37 Monday 4th June, 2007

Re: subclassing an activex control in mfc

Naveen4-Jun-07 15:54

Naveen

4-Jun-07 15:54

dkmr wrote:
CWnd * wnd_ctrlax = GetDlgItem(IDC_PLUGIN1);

When you insert an Activex to your dialog, two windows are created. In your case the first one is the IDC_PLUGIN1. The other window is created as the child of IDC_PLUGIN1. This widnow is the actaull activex you see. So get the child window of IDC_PLUGIN1 and try subclassing it.

nave

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how to make an indicator

bigphish4-Jun-07 2:14

bigphish

4-Jun-07 2:14

my application runs in two modes.”online” mode and “offline” mode.by default,application will be in offline mode.when clicking online button in the tool bar,mode will change to offline.what i want is an indication system.when application is in online,an icon should come indicating "ONLINE" untill mode changes to OFFLINE.and vice vorsa.i 'm using MFC.using toolbar,or dialoge bar ,what s the code to create this?same button in the toolbar is using to swiching between two modes.for first click" online " button should come and on second click "offline".try it out.

Re: how to make an indicator

David Crow4-Jun-07 3:32

David Crow

4-Jun-07 3:32

You could either put the indicator in the toolbar, or at the bottom in the status line (i.e., similar to the CAPS and NUM indicators).

"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow

"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Re: how to make an indicator

vivekphlp4-Jun-07 23:38

vivekphlp

4-Jun-07 23:38

i think its better to use a dialog bar

Proud To Be an Indian

Re: how to make an indicator

David Crow5-Jun-07 2:37

David Crow

5-Jun-07 2:37

vivekphlp wrote:
i think its better...

I was merely giving options, not opinions.

"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow

"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne

Re: how to make an indicator

vivekphlp5-Jun-07 18:31

vivekphlp

5-Jun-07 18:31

ok sorry

Proud To Be an Indian

Adding a new image (img tag) to the document in Internet Explorer

ajitatif angajetor4-Jun-07 1:30

ajitatif angajetor

4-Jun-07 1:30

Hi everone,

I'm developing an Internet Explorer add-on,which will put an extra image on the document's specified location.Everything works fine,but Internet Explorer won't display the image if it is located in the local system (the user's computer,i mean).Since I'm sure the image url (formed as 'file://c:/folder/image.gif') is correct and IE displays images on the internet,I think it's a kind of security feature of IE.

Does anyone have any idea on how I can put a local image on the document without asking the user to alter security settings? Unsure | :~

How to align toolbars?

Anurag Gandhi4-Jun-07 1:13

Anurag Gandhi

4-Jun-07 1:13

I have created an SDI application. There i have created 3 dockable toolbars without using Rebars. The problem is that all toolbars appears in a separate line. I want them to be on after the another. How to do this.
Please help me.

Anurag Gandhi.

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