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Re: Including winsock2.h problem Budric B.19-Jul-07 10:59 Budric B. 19-Jul-07 10:59  I spent way too much time on this problem, that's why I know Optimizing hard drive write performance TragicComic19-Jul-07 8:02 TragicComic 19-Jul-07 8:02  I'm working on an application that captures uncompressed video from 2 high resolution (1024x768) video cameras at 30 fps. In order to stream to the hard drive without dropping frames, I need to maintain an average transfer rate of ~47 megabytes per second. The drives I am using are rated to be able to handled a sustained write of 75 megabytes per second all the way to the end. However, simply writing data with fwrite and timing the performance, I am coming no where near the necessary level of performance. If anyone out there has any experience with high performance file writing, I'd love to get some tips/pointers on ways to increase write speed. Adam Kraver www.captivemotion.com Re: Optimizing hard drive write performance James R. Twine19-Jul-07 8:12 James R. Twine 19-Jul-07 8:12     I believe the way to get the fastest file throughput is to use Overlapped I/O along with the NO_BUFFERING flag when the file is created/opened with CreateFile(...).  There are some gotchas with buffer size and alignment, but if you are good enough to be streaming real-time video, it is likely nothing that you cannot handle!    Also, just because your drive can go that fast does not mean that your system can.  Other factors (the drive controller being used, any hardware caching, what other stuff your system is doing).    Peace! -=- James Please rate this message - let me know if I helped or not!<HR>If you think it costs a lot to do it right, just wait until you find out how much it costs to do it wrong! Avoid driving a vehicle taller than you and remember that Professional Driver on Closed Course does not mean your Dumb Ass on a Public Road! See DeleteFXPFiles Re: Optimizing hard drive write performance Perspx19-Jul-07 10:38 Perspx 19-Jul-07 10:38  Yes, James is correct.. If you are using a SATA disk, it can transfer up to 150MB of data/sec, and a SATA II disk will do up to 300MB of data/sec so you have to be careful with this.. if it is an ATA disk, then you're looking at up to 133MB of data/sec.. FireWire external HDDs can transfer up 800MB of data/sec.. Bearing these in mind also note that Windows schedules other tasks and so it uses the disk(s) for these aswell so writing to a "non-Windows" disk (i.e. a disk which doesnt have the running Windows on it) and a disk which is also not being accessed will improve data-transfer rate.. Also check your motherboard FSB.. this will also affect the speed of data transfer to and from the hard disks.. Hope this helps! --PerspX "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." - Bill Gates Re: Optimizing hard drive write performance TragicComic19-Jul-07 11:38 TragicComic 19-Jul-07 11:38  James, thanks for the hint! So far, using CreateFile and WriteFile with NO_BUFFERING, I'm getting the performance I was expecting (and so far, the performance that it looks like I need). Of course, I'm testing this in a small test app, so I'm not sure what the final results will be in the capture app, but the results are quite promising. Re: Optimizing hard drive write performance Paresh Chitte19-Jul-07 19:05 Paresh Chitte 19-Jul-07 19:05  Programatically you can acheive this by implementing multithreading. Put the code of writing to disk in separate thread. Regards, Paresh. Re: Optimizing hard drive write performance TragicComic20-Jul-07 7:37 TragicComic 20-Jul-07 7:37  Before using CreateFile and WriteFile, I had done that, but unfortunately, the performance of fwrite couldn't keep up with my transfer needs (it runs about 1/2 to 1/4 the speed of WriteFile when using unbuffered writes, even when there is no other real load on the CPU). Converting strings using WideCharToMultiByte mhand7519-Jul-07 7:42 mhand75 19-Jul-07 7:42  I am having trouble converting from a unicode string to a single-byte string. Our application is a C++ COM server that is called from a .NET client. The COM object needs to be able to convert the strings it receives from Unicode to single-byte. To do this, I wrote this function: CString ConvertBSTRToString(BSTR bstrSrc) { CString strDest = ""; char* szDest = NULL; int nSrcLen = 0; int nDestLen = 0; nSrcLen = lstrlenW(bstrSrc); if (nSrcLen > 0) { int nCodePage = GetACP(); nDestLen = WideCharToMultiByte(nCodePage, 0, bstrSrc, nSrcLen, NULL, 0, NULL, NULL); if (nDestLen > 0) { szDest = (char*)HeapAlloc(GetProcessHeap(), 0, nDestLen + 1); WideCharToMultiByte(nCodePage, 0, bstrSrc, nSrcLen, szDest, nDestLen, NULL, NULL); szDest[nDestLen] = '\0'; strDest = szDest; HeapFree(GetProcessHeap(), 0, szDest); } } return strDest; } I initially tested this function on my system, which is setup with the Latin 1 code page (1252). I also setup my machine to allow for Russian input (1251). To test, I changed the above function to hard-code the code page to 1251 (instead of the GetACP() call). When I pass a string from the .NET client to the COM object, it performs the conversion to single-byte correctly. Of course the converted string does not look like the original Russian string since the code page running on my machine is 1252, but comparing the 1251 and 1252 code page shows that the characters in the string have the correct value. The problem comes in when I try to test the COM object on a Russian OS. When I do this the call to WideCharToMultiByte simply returns "?????". I assume the "?" is the default character the routine uses when it cannot perform the conversion correctly. I don't understand why this conversion fails? I verified that the code page being returned by GetACP() on the Russian system is 1251. I also did another test where I hard-coded the code page used in the conversion to be ISO 8859-5 (28595) on the Russian system. The conversion here was successful. I don't understand why the conversion would work for this Cyrillic code page, but not the Cyrillic code page that is the active code page on the system. Thanks for any advice. I know there is something I'm just not understanding about how this works. Re: Converting strings using WideCharToMultiByte DevMentor.org22-Jul-07 19:38 DevMentor.org 22-Jul-07 19:38  if you're using ATL there is a much simpler way! look for "ATL 7.0 String Conversion Classes and Macros" in msdn Yours Truly, The One and Only! how can I launch another application( like notepad.exe ) in my VC LeeeNN19-Jul-07 7:22 LeeeNN 19-Jul-07 7:22  I want launch another application, like notepad.exe or xxx.bat, in my VC application. I knew there is API can do it. but after searching on Web I could not find it. Please tell me what API is it. Thank you. Richard Re: how can I launch another application( like notepad.exe ) in my VC Mark Salsbery19-Jul-07 7:27 Mark Salsbery 19-Jul-07 7:27  One way is to use CreateProcess()[^] Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ "Thanks,I overlooked the docs." Re: how can I launch another application( like notepad.exe ) in my VC mid=574119-Jul-07 7:28 mid=5741 19-Jul-07 7:28  or ShellExecute() or _spawn(). Re: how can I launch another application( like notepad.exe ) in my VC Mark Salsbery19-Jul-07 7:34 Mark Salsbery 19-Jul-07 7:34  Yeah - I chose the first link I saw that had info on running both exes and batch files Cheers, MArk Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ "Thanks,I overlooked the docs." Re: how can I launch another application( like notepad.exe ) in my VC Michael Dunn19-Jul-07 7:40 Michael Dunn 19-Jul-07 7:40  See the FAQ 6.4 How do I run another program from my program?[^] --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Re: how can I launch another application( like notepad.exe ) in my VC LeeeNN19-Jul-07 7:58 LeeeNN 19-Jul-07 7:58  This link is pretty helpful. thank for all your guys' answer. Re: how can I launch another application( like notepad.exe ) in my VC Hamid_RT31-Jul-07 9:21 Hamid_RT 31-Jul-07 9:21  Or you can use of WinExec. WhiteSky Nibbles, Bits, bytes and somehow a number! Steven Wybraniec19-Jul-07 6:15 Steven Wybraniec 19-Jul-07 6:15  Can someone please help me solve a problem I have extracting and integer from a serial message? Some background: - I am receiving a message from a custom made serial device, this message contains a total of 10 bytes. - Split accross four of these bytes are two numbers I need to extract. - The fours bytes in question look like this: Bit->: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Byte | v: 1 0 V6 V5 V4 V3 V2 V1 V0 2 0 0 0 V11 V10 V9 V8 V7 3 0 Z6 Z5 Z4 Z3 Z2 Z1 Z0 4 0 0 0 Z11 Z10 Z9 Z8 Z7 - The bits V0 to V11 contain one number. The bits Z0 to Z11 contain the other. - I know the following: - Each number can have a max value of 2047 and a min of -2047 - Bits Z11 and V11 are sign bits. - The binary numbers are in 2s compliment form. - Both numbers are split into 3 nibbles; V0 to V3, V4 to V7 and V8 to V11 (the same applies to the Z numbers). Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated, TIA. P.S. I am using Visual C++ .Net so any code you could provide for this language/IDE would be appreciated. Re: Nibbles, Bits, bytes and somehow a number! led mike19-Jul-07 6:24 led mike 19-Jul-07 6:24  Steven Wybraniec wrote: Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated, ummm what problem? You never stated what the problem was or are you just asking for someone to do your work for you? Re: Nibbles, Bits, bytes and somehow a number! mid=574119-Jul-07 6:35 mid=5741 19-Jul-07 6:35  For your first number (combining Bytes 1 & 2), it would be something like: int V = ( Byte1 & 0x7f ) | ( ( Byte2 & 0x0f ) << 7 ) | ( ( Byte2 & 0x10 ) << 27 ); For the second number (combining Bytes 3 & 4): int Z = ( Byte3 & 0x7f ) | ( ( Byte4 & 0x0f ) << 7 ) | ( ( Byte4 & 0x10 ) << 27 ); I'm using the '&' operator to choose specific bits, the '<<' operator to position the bits within an 'int', and the '|' operator to combine the parts. Desktop Window Manager (DWM) problem.. Perspx19-Jul-07 5:38 Perspx 19-Jul-07 5:38  I am using the Microsoft DWM (Desktop Window Manager), and I am using the DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow() function with the WS_EX_LAYERED style.. however, the window renders fine initially, but then when i move the window, it goes all weird and doesnt display the window properly and just displays the window icon and a garbled up title bar about 50pixels wide and 10pixels high.. heres the code: --- HRESULT EnableBlurBehindWindow(HWND window, bool enable = true, HRGN region = 0, bool transitionOnMaximized = false) { DWM_BLURBEHIND blurBehind = { 0 }; blurBehind.dwFlags = DWM_BB_ENABLE | DWM_BB_TRANSITIONONMAXIMIZED; blurBehind.fEnable = enable; blurBehind.fTransitionOnMaximized = transitionOnMaximized; if (enable && 0 != region) { blurBehind.dwFlags |= DWM_BB_BLURREGION; blurBehind.hRgnBlur = region; } return DwmEnableBlurBehindWindow(window, &blurBehind); } LRESULT CALLBACK WndProc(HWND hwnd, UINT msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam) { switch(msg) { case WM_INITDIALOG: { SetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, GetWindowLong(hwnd, GWL_EXSTYLE) | WS_EX_LAYERED); EnableBlurBehindWindow(hwnd); } break; case WM_ERASEBKGND: { RECT clientRect; GetClientRect(hwnd, &clientRect); SelectObject((HDC)wParam, GetStockObject(BLACK_BRUSH)); Rectangle((HDC)wParam, 0, 0, clientRect.right, clientRect.bottom); } break; case WM_CLOSE: EndDialog(hwnd, 0); break; } return 0; } int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) { DialogBox(hInstance, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_MAIN), NULL, (DLGPROC)WndProc); return 0; } --- Is there any further message processing I need to do or anything..? Thanks for your help! --PerspX "Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." - Bill Gates Regular DLL with Doc/View architecture Andy H19-Jul-07 5:22 Andy H 19-Jul-07 5:22  Is it possible (and if so has anyone got example code of how to go about implementing) to have a document/view architecture SDI within a Regular DLL. I have created a Regular DLL that displays a CDialog but I would prefer if this had a CDocument in it etc... Re: Regular DLL with Doc/View architecture led mike19-Jul-07 6:31 led mike 19-Jul-07 6:31  If I remember correctly I did something like that years ago. Vague memory of using or even deriving CSingleDocTemplate and managing it. Perhaps also there is a problem with message routing where you need to step in and give it some help. Re: Regular DLL with Doc/View architecture Mark Salsbery19-Jul-07 7:09 Mark Salsbery 19-Jul-07 7:09  See Kinds of DLLs[^] Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ "Thanks,I overlooked the docs." Re: Regular DLL with Doc/View architecture led mike19-Jul-07 8:25 led mike 19-Jul-07 8:25  Oh that's what he was asking about. Re: Regular DLL with Doc/View architecture Mark Salsbery19-Jul-07 10:34 Mark Salsbery 19-Jul-07 10:34  How do you know? I don't. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ "Thanks,I overlooked the docs."

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