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Re: How to change day with button click.

Ashish Chauhan11-Mar-08 23:33

11-Mar-08 23:33

I set the "Center" Property for pages also. As there is property page dialog box for tabs(Pages)...

There is no dialog for Propertysheet..Creating programmatically..

Ash..

Re: How to change day with button click.

Rajesh R Subramanian11-Mar-08 23:41

Rajesh R Subramanian

11-Mar-08 23:41

Ashish Chauhan wrote:
Should i start new thread??

I said, in the "future". The reason why I asked you to create a new thread is, your query will get more visibility and more people may give you valuable inputs. This thread is kind of buried now and I'll try helping you out, but I may or may not be able to solve it. If I fail to solve your query, then start a new thread.

Now, please show me what you tried with SetWindwoPos().

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Re: How to change day with button click.

Rajesh R Subramanian12-Mar-08 0:05

Rajesh R Subramanian

12-Mar-08 0:05

Please try this code and tell me if it worked:

HWND hPWnd = CreatePropSheet(); //CreatePropSheet returns a handle to the created prop sheet!
RECT rc;

GetWindowRect(hPWnd, &rc);

SetWindowPos(hPWnd, NULL,
   ((GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN) - (rc.right - rc.left)) / 2),
   ((GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN) - (rc.bottom - rc.top)) / 2),
   0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOACTIVATE);

[ADD] BTW, Thanks for painting my messages red by voting. I appreciate it. Smile | :)

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Re: How to change day with button click.

Ashish Chauhan12-Mar-08 0:58

Ashish Chauhan

12-Mar-08 0:58

Yeah..Thanks Rajesh
This code works...
Initially i was doing something like that

g_hwndPropSheet = CreatePropSheet();
RECT rect;

GetWindowRect(g_hwndPropSheet, &rect);

int xL = LOWORD(dwSize) / 2 - (rect.right - rect.left) / 2;
int yT = HIWORD(dwSize) / 2 - (rect.bottom - rect.top) / 2;

SetWindowPos(g_hwndPropSheet, NULL, xL, yT, -1, -1,
			 SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOZORDER | SWP_NOACTIVATE);

g_hwndPropSheet is type of HWND.

Thanks again.. Smile | :)

Ash..

Re: How to change day with button click.

Rajesh R Subramanian11-Mar-08 4:31

Rajesh R Subramanian

11-Mar-08 4:31

Ashish Chauhan wrote:
DateTimePicker??

Why do you repeatedly say DateTimePicker? It belongs to the .NET framework class library. I believe that we're talking about CDateTimeCtrl.

Ashish Chauhan wrote:
GetSystemTime(&st);

What are you doing using GetSystemTime()? This would get the computer's time and not the time that's being shown in your DateTimeControl()! Please use the DateTime_SetSystemtime Macro to set the value into your control. Also, check the return value of this macro. It should return a non zero value if it didn't fail. Try that and let me know the result.

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Question about how to kill thread that i create with _beginthreadex ?

Yanshof10-Mar-08 20:35

Yanshof

10-Mar-08 20:35

Hi All,

I Create some thread by using the function _beginthreadex.
I hold some handle to this thread

(ThreadHandle = (HANDLE) _beginthreadex(...))

And now i want to kill the running thread and i don't know how to do it.

thanks for any help...

Re: Question about how to kill thread that i create with _beginthreadex ?

Maxwell Chen10-Mar-08 20:40

Maxwell Chen

10-Mar-08 20:40

Let the thread procedure function exit by itself.

Maxwell Chen

Re: Question about how to kill thread that i create with _beginthreadex ?

Peter Weyzen10-Mar-08 20:41

Peter Weyzen

10-Mar-08 20:41

There's a few ways to do it.

The nice way:

Before starting the thread, create an event object (CreateEvent). Share this event handle with your thread, check it periodically -- and when it becomes signalled, have the thread exit itself. It's always best for the thread to exit gracefully.

HANDLE hEvent = CreateEvent();
_beginThreadEx( NULL, 0, YourThreadFunc, hEvent, 0, &ThreadID );

unsigned int __stdcall YourThreadFunc( LPVOID pData )
{
   HANDLE hEvent = (HANDLE)pData;
   while ( WaitForSingleObject(hEvent,0) != WAIT_OBJECT_0 )
   { 
       DoSomething();
   }
   return 0;
}

SetEvent(hEvent);

The nasty way:
TerminateThread( threadHandle );

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Re: Question about how to kill thread that i create with _beginthreadex ? [modified]

Yanshof10-Mar-08 21:15

Yanshof

10-Mar-08 21:15

I cant in my code check for event ... but using TerminateThread look better option for now.
but I dont understand why dont use the TerminateThread ?
I rad about TerminateThread in MSDN - and they wrote "TerminateThread is a dangerous function that should only be used in the most extreme cases" - but i dont see any problem.

Can you explain ?

Thanks.

modified on Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:31 AM

Re: Question about how to kill thread that i create with _beginthreadex ?

Cedric Moonen10-Mar-08 21:33

Cedric Moonen

10-Mar-08 21:33

Because it is not a natural way to exit your thread. First, if you allocated some resources in your thread, there's no way you will be able to clean them if you are using TerminateThread.
Second, you have no control about what you are doing: you will terminate the thread whatever it was processing. It means you can terminate it in the middle of something important that will be left not terminated (e.g. if you communicate with an external device, you started to send some data to it and then brutally stop it, leaving the device in an unknown state).

It is far better to handle that yourself, using a flag for example: you check regularly if this flag is false, if that's the case, you exit nicely the thread function (the general idea is having a loop that checks for this flag).

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

Charting control [v1.3 - Updated]

Re: Question about how to kill thread that i create with _beginthreadex ?

Yanshof10-Mar-08 21:39

Yanshof

10-Mar-08 21:39

Ok, now i see the problem

Thanks.

Re: Question about how to kill thread that i create with _beginthreadex ?

Peter Weyzen10-Mar-08 21:54

Peter Weyzen

10-Mar-08 21:54

If this is your first jaunt into threading, you'll run into some problems. There's a whole bunch of things that you need to learn about in order to make threading work right.

But once you figure them out -- you'll LOVE threading!

The most important lesson is "Don't take shortcuts" -- a certain level of discipline is important when constructing a program that employs threads.

I think I've forgotten how to write an unthreaded program. What did we do before threading?

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How virtual destructor works under the hood?

abhijitr10-Mar-08 19:41

abhijitr

10-Mar-08 19:41

Hi,

Can anybody please explain, How virtual destructor works under the hood?
What happens exactly with virtual table?

Thanks in advance.

Re: How virtual destructor works under the hood?

Peter Weyzen10-Mar-08 19:47

Peter Weyzen

10-Mar-08 19:47

I think:

The destructor goes into the vtable.

When the destructor is called -- the top-most constructor is called first, executed, then in turn, the each of the parent destructors are called. The order is the opposite of the order that the constructors are executed.

If you didn't do a virtual destructor, the parent destructors are hidden. I, personally, always use virtual destructors.

Just off the top of my head.

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Re: How virtual destructor works under the hood?

Rajkumar R10-Mar-08 23:53

Rajkumar R

10-Mar-08 23:53

Peter Weyzen wrote:
When the destructor is called -- the top-most constructor is called first

typo ?

Re: How virtual destructor works under the hood?

Peter Weyzen11-Mar-08 7:46

Peter Weyzen

11-Mar-08 7:46

sure seems like one!

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Re: How virtual destructor works under the hood?

Rajkumar R11-Mar-08 8:27

Rajkumar R

11-Mar-08 8:27

I assume you mean "When the (virtual)destructor is called -- the top-most ~~constructor~~ destructor is called first". If so, why don't you edit.

Re: How virtual destructor works under the hood?

Peter Weyzen11-Mar-08 8:49

Peter Weyzen

11-Mar-08 8:49

then your reply wouldn't make any sense.... and we don't want that!

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Re: How virtual destructor works under the hood?

Maxwell Chen10-Mar-08 20:36

Maxwell Chen

10-Mar-08 20:36

This article[^] for your reference.

Maxwell Chen

Missing Start Point

Member 461894910-Mar-08 18:29

Member 4618949

10-Mar-08 18:29

I have the following error

Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _WinMain@16 referenced in function ___tmainCRTStartup MSVCRTD.lib

I also have the WinMain defined and the subsystem set to Windows

and even the callign convention is __stdcall

Please help me urgently.. I am in need

Thanx in advance

Re: Missing Start Point

Maxwell Chen10-Mar-08 19:08

Maxwell Chen

10-Mar-08 19:08

How does your WinMain prototype look like?

Maxwell Chen

Re: Missing Start Point

Sameerkumar Namdeo10-Mar-08 22:27

Sameerkumar Namdeo

10-Mar-08 22:27

Project properties ->
Linker ->
Advanced ->
Entry Point->
wWinMainCRTStartup

wWinMainCRTStartup ...if App is UNICODE
WinMainCRTStartup ... if App is not UNICODE

Worker thread->crash

lavate malllik10-Mar-08 17:39

lavate malllik

10-Mar-08 17:39

Iam having a MFC application, in which we have a worker theread.
Some operation is happens in worker thread.And we call this application for 10 times it works well.But when we call this application for 25th time it crashes at 25th time.

Let me know what will be the reasons behind this.
According to me one of the reasons is data type matching.But intially we resolved this problem for 10th time then it works well till. 24th time and at 25th time it crashes.

According to me there will be some other reaons behind this crashing.

Let me reasons how to rsolve this type of crashing.

lavatema

Re: Worker thread->crash

Stephen Hewitt10-Mar-08 18:00

Stephen Hewitt

10-Mar-08 18:00

We're not psychics. You haven’t provided enough information. What is the type of crash? Can you provide the call stack of the crash? Can you post the relevant code?

Steve

Re: Worker thread->crash

Peter Weyzen10-Mar-08 19:49

Peter Weyzen

10-Mar-08 19:49

What does the debugger say?

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