C / C++ / MFC

24-Sep-07 10:51

I have to do what, seems to me, is a binary search.

I have different hardware modules "out on the buss" each with its own unique 17 character ascii serial number. Initially, I don't know each's serial number and until I do, I can't communicate with them. I am going to scale down my example to 3 modules each with a 4 character wide alphanumeric (in real life each character can be any of the printable ascii characters)serial number.
Here would be the 3 units and their serial numbers..

Module # Serial #
1 ABG5
2 ABN4
3 BFT9

The way the hardware and software interface works is like this.

If I ask for any serial number starting with 'A', I will get a reply.. But I don't know how many yet.
If I ask for any serial number starting with 'B', the same holds true.
If I ask for any serial number starting with any other character other than 'A' or 'B', I don't get "a hit". Now, I can eliminate any serial numbers that don't start with the letters 'A' or 'B'

Now, I ask for serial numbers starting with 'AA' through 'AZ...A9' and get "hits" for 'AB' only.
I also run through any serial numbers starting with 'BA' through 'BZ...B9' and get one "hit" for 'BF'
This time, I eliminate anything that doesn't start with 'AB' or 'BF'

Each time I get "a hit" I don't know how many. Until I "drill" my way down through all four characters. At some point I will have only "one hit" for each of the serial numbers.

Nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... How can I do this in Visual C++?????

As I mentioned above, I think this would be a binary search. But I am having a hard time figuring out how to "keep score" of the "non-hits" so that I don't waste time trying those on future iterations. Keeping in mind that each serial number is 17 characters wide and can be made up of any of the 95 printable ascii characters

Are there any code snippets that I can "stitch" together to do this....

Thank you in advance
Pierre

Waldermort24-Sep-07 19:16

Waldermort

24-Sep-07 19:16

Sounds to me like a binary tree would do what you want. Once you have found the first node, starting with the letter "A", use that node then to find the next highest, either "B" or "AD".

Waldermort

pblais25-Sep-07 4:17

25-Sep-07 4:17

WalderMort wrote:
Sounds to me like a binary tree would do what you want. Once you have found the first node, starting with the letter "A", use that node then to find the next highest, either "B" or "AD".

The more I look at this the more I am no so sure that this is a binary-tree search. A binary-tree search implies that the tree exists and you are searching through it. In my application, I don't think the tree exists. I am creating it right????

Waldermort25-Sep-07 4:40

Waldermort

25-Sep-07 4:40

I re-read you origional post and realized that my reply may have been a little wrong.

From what I understand you are applying a brute force attack on the driver to gather the serial numbers?

I would suggest you create a function which given a string will append the characters A-9 and call your driver. If you get a hit, call your function again with the new string ( complete with appended character ). This is a similar way to how files are found on a drive.

Something like this:

void RecurseSearch( LPTSTR szID )<br />
{<br />
    TCHAR szSearch[ 128 ];<br />
    <br />
    // append the characters one at a time ( do this in a loop )<br />
    _tcscpy( szSearch, szID );<br />
    _tcscat( szID, "A" );<br />
    <br />
    // check if its a hit<br />
    if ( SomeUnknowFunction( szIdSearch ) )<br />
    {<br />
        // Call again until max length is achieved and it's a hit<br />
        RecurseSearch( szSearch );<br />
    }<br />
}

Waldermort

pblais25-Sep-07 7:26

25-Sep-07 7:26

Exactly what I am looking for...
Something that "finds" filenames
YESSSSSSSSSS

pblais3-Oct-07 8:50

Sorry if wrong location. Trying to open unknown video type for processing.

3-Oct-07 8:50

Welllllllllll
I got side-tracked and now I am finally getting back to this. I was able to use a kind-of brute force recursive search. Using my example, it goes through and finds ABG5. I have also figured out a way to keep track of that. My question now is, how can I have it remember to go back and continue searching from ABxx to find ABN4 and eventually BFT9?

Thanks in advance
Pierre

Code Monkey Mike24-Sep-07 10:41

Code Monkey Mike

24-Sep-07 10:41

I am trying to create an application which requires me to open videos taken from an assortment of cameras, both digital still cameras taking motion pictures and standard video camera. As you are probably well aware, each camera has its own type of file storage format. From my research I have found the four most common types that cameras will save video as being mpeg-1, mpeg-2, QuickTime .mov and .avi. From that list you can already see a problem with QT .mov being proprietary.

The functionality I need in any sort of interface with the videos is very simple.
1. Open the file
2. Grab each frame of the video one at a time
2.a. Allow me to do whatever I want to the data because I will not be altering the file in any way
3. Close the file

I will be doing processing on the actual video data (image matrix). I have tried using both the QuickTime API for this application, as well as the Video for Windows API. I began using OpenCV for video access, but it does not have the capabilities I require. According to VFW, if the codec is registered, the API will interface with the video, but that does not seem to be the case with the .mpg file I am testing the interface out on. Windows Media Player and QuickTime both play the video, and I downloaded GSpot, a codec detection algorithm, and know the correct codec is available, but alas...

What I am getting at is that I need a suggestion as to how to accomplish this task.
Do any of you have any suggestions? I would really appreciate it.

The code for processing the video, developed using a .mov converted to a .avi format, is about 80% complete, I just need this interfacing to be able to complete it.

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Ctrl Shift F9 will clear all breakpoints in VC 6.0 , however

Vaclav_24-Sep-07 6:00

Vaclav_

24-Sep-07 6:00

Ctrl Shift F9 will clear all breakpoints in VC 6.0 , however.... being lazy and keyboard challenged I am asking the forum these questions and hoping for some answers.

1. You can add "remove all bookmarks" in Tools->Customize->Commands->Edit
But I cannot find similar icon "Remove all breakpoints"

Side note - why does one need to click on icon to find out what it does?
How about plain vanilla list instead of this “bearware” icon happy approach?

2. You can right click in edit pane gray left border area to manipulate breakpoints.
How can one add, “Remove all breakpoints” to this popup?
Actually – where can you edit this popup anyway?

3. The “Remove all” button is in Breakpoint dialog – why not anywhere else?

4. Years ago there was a macro or Add-in to accomplish this (remove all breakpoints) but of course I forgot where I found it.

Cheers
Vaclav

Re: Ctrl Shift F9 will clear all breakpoints in VC 6.0 , however

Maximilien24-Sep-07 7:21

Maximilien

24-Sep-07 7:21

in VC6, you can use ctrl-B to open the breakpoint dialog; there you can remove all break points.

Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

CRectTracker static linking

bob1697224-Sep-07 5:58

bob16972

24-Sep-07 5:58

I am using CRectTracker in an MFC 7.1 app and noticed that it works correctly when linking with "shared" MFC but if I "statically" link to MFC, the Cursor disappears when I move the mouse over any of the handles.

I checked an old app that was written in MFC 4.2 and linked "statically" to that MFC and CRectTracker misbehaves as well. It works correctly when linking to "shared" MFC.

Is anyone familiar with this problem and do you know of any workarounds?

Re: CRectTracker static linking

Mark Salsbery24-Sep-07 6:36

Mark Salsbery

24-Sep-07 6:36

Try adding this to your resource (.rc) file

#include "afxres.rc"

If it's already there, make sure you don't have _AFX_NO_TRACKER_RESOURCES
defined somewhere.

Mark

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Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Re: CRectTracker static linking

bob1697224-Sep-07 7:31

bob16972

24-Sep-07 7:31

Damn your good!

It's working now.

Thanks for taking the time out to help.

graphics in c++ console program

Sai Yasodharan24-Sep-07 5:58

Sai Yasodharan

24-Sep-07 5:58

hi,

i tried to execute the following program(which was given in turbo c++ documentation) in vc++. but it gives an error, that graphics.h can't be found.

so i copied that graphics.h from turbo c to the vc++'s include folder. now it is showing many errors, which i can't resolve(i even don't understand these errors). i am studying c++ in my college. our syllabus include everything from file handling to all oops concepts. but graphics is not covered in out syllabus. so i decided to learn it on my own. but don't know how to start

someone help me please

the following code works perfectly in turbo c, but not in vc++

<br />
#include <graphics.h><br />
#include <stdlib.h><br />
#include <stdio.h><br />
#include <conio.h><br />
<br />
int main(void)<br />
{<br />
   /* request auto detection */<br />
   int gdriver = DETECT, gmode, errorcode;<br />
   int xmax, ymax;<br />
<br />
   /* initialize graphics and local variables */<br />
   initgraph(&gdriver, &gmode, "");<br />
<br />
   /* read result of initialization */<br />
   errorcode = graphresult();<br />
   /* an error occurred */<br />
   if (errorcode != grOk)<br />
   {<br />
      printf("Graphics error: %s\n", grapherrormsg(errorcode));<br />
      printf("Press any key to halt:");<br />
      getch();<br />
      exit(1);<br />
   }<br />
<br />
   setcolor(getmaxcolor());<br />
   xmax = getmaxx();<br />
   ymax = getmaxy();<br />
<br />
   /* draw a diagonal line */<br />
   line(0, 0, xmax, ymax);<br />
<br />
   /* clean up */<br />
   getch();<br />
   closegraph();<br />
   return 0;<br />
}<br />

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Re: graphics in c++ console program

bob1697224-Sep-07 6:06

bob16972

24-Sep-07 6:06

C++ does not have any "native" "Graphics" support. Most graphics libraries are either vendor specific or API's exposed by the OS.

The Turbo C++ graphics library will be borland specific. You will need to refer to Borlands documentation on how to use it correctly.

A majority of the programmers here probably (just a guess) have more experience and better command of GDI and GDI+ either directly or through avenues such as MFC classes, GDI+ wrapper classes, or .NET.

Re: graphics in c++ console program

Matthew Faithfull24-Sep-07 6:14

Matthew Faithfull

24-Sep-07 6:14

Good old Turbo C++ came with its own DOS/Console graphics library. You would need to port/include probably the whole thing for there to be any chance of this working. If all the source was provided, I seem to remember it was, then there's no reason in principle why this wouldn't compile under MSVC. Things have moved on though in the C++ language and you may hit really tricky problems down the line if you persue this.
Functions you're calling in the above code like initgraph, setcolor and graphresult are from the Borland graphics library.
I still have a copy of Turbo C++ on a Win 3.11 virtual PC with many of my old university projects which were developed in Borland Turbo C++ 0.99 and ported to Unix, Solaris and NextStep platforms with no problems although they didn't make use of the graphics library.
Enjoy.

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Re: graphics in c++ console program

El Corazon24-Sep-07 8:19

El Corazon

24-Sep-07 8:19

as mentioned you cannot copy a vendor graphics library for use elsewhere. TurboC's was for itself only. It didn't even work with the borland C compiler after a few versions later.

You can use OpenGL, or DirectX, or a variety of other graphics libraries with VC++.

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read array of file names with CString array ?

mrby12324-Sep-07 5:54

mrby123

24-Sep-07 5:54

Thanks for the help.

I am trying to use the following code to read an array of file names. However,
I found all the ftitle[i] used the same memery as ftitle[0]. So after the code read all the array, all array of ftitle[0],ftitle[1],ftitle[2] have all the same value of ftitle[2]: "dogfile3"

CString ftitle[10];

for (i=0;i {
fscanf( f_ptr3,"%s\n", ftitle[i]);
}
//

input data file:
dogfile1
dogfile2
dogfile3

Please help me how to read array of filenames correctly with array of CString?

Thanks a lots

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C^hris L^osinger24-Sep-07 6:02

C^hris L^osinger

24-Sep-07 6:02

a CString is not a buffer of char's, and you can't treat it like one.

if you want to use CString, you should use the MFC file classes (ex. CStdioFile).

Re: read array of file names with CString array ? [modified]

mrby12324-Sep-07 6:06

mrby123

24-Sep-07 6:06

Thanks a lots for your lighting me up. I have a MFC program
interface. That is why I have to use CString. Also I am not
too familar with MFC. So could you teach me more on the code
with CStdioFile. I am using:

f_ptr6 = fopen(dogfile1,"r");

to use the array of file names.

Thanks again!

-- modified at 12:15 Monday 24th September, 2007

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C^hris L^osinger24-Sep-07 6:15

C^hris L^osinger

24-Sep-07 6:15

here is a sample that reads all lines in a file: http://simplesamples.info/Beginners/CStdioFile.php

Vaclav_24-Sep-07 6:09

Vaclav_

24-Sep-07 6:09

"CString is not a buffer of char's, and you can't treat it like one."

I am sure this is not a good correct statement.

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C^hris L^osinger24-Sep-07 6:14

C^hris L^osinger

24-Sep-07 6:14

on the contrary, it is both correct and good.

David Crow24-Sep-07 6:17

David Crow

24-Sep-07 6:17

Aside from a misplaced apostrophe, how is it any worse than, "...a good correct statement?"

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