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Chris Copeland12-Mar-09 11:19

12-Mar-09 11:19

Hm, running it through the pre-processor didn't really do much, since i'm pretty new to C++.

All the headers are linked though. The header file which requires class 'A' has the inclusion for class A in the header.
To be honest, I don't understand how it wouldn't be linking them together, they're all connected and 'class A' is definately being declared in (eg) 'A.h'. 'B.h' then includes 'A.h', and then requires 'A Foo' further down in the code.

There are appropriate .cpp files that are also used with the initializers etc. and i've included both 'A.h' *and* 'B.h' in both of those files.

It's just refusing to recognise 'class A' as any type of identifier, yet if I hover over the keyword 'A', it tells me that it's a class etc.

Re: A class within a class

Stuart Dootson12-Mar-09 11:31

Stuart Dootson

12-Mar-09 11:31

Can you post the content of a.h, b.h?

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Re: A class within a class

Chris Copeland12-Mar-09 11:32

Chris Copeland

12-Mar-09 11:32

Well, i've found a sort-of solution now. I'm currently declaring "class A;" after the "B.h" inclusion, but i'm going to run through my headers and make sure they're not getting mixed up. It might be that they're linked incorrectly (even if they're linked in the files that need them).

Re: A class within a class

Stuart Dootson12-Mar-09 11:58

Stuart Dootson

12-Mar-09 11:58

Having a forward declaration for A (that's the 'class A;') shouldn't help in the definition of B - B would need to see the full definition of A to have a member of type A.

Oh well. If you've got it to work...

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Re: A class within a class

Chris Copeland12-Mar-09 12:01

Chris Copeland

12-Mar-09 12:01

My thoughts exactly. However, I placed #ifndef _SOCKETS_OBJ_DECLARED_ around the 'class A;', and in the 'B.h' at the end, I added #define _SOCKETS_OBJ_DECLARED_

Then, when I placed an #error "Undeclared" in the #ifndef, it threw the error.. so for some reason, the header is being included but it's not globally declaring the 'class B'. It's really strange, and another programmer said he couldn't explain it.

The best I can do is go through it with a fine toothcomb and hopefully find where it's not declaring properly.

Re: A class within a class

Stuart Dootson12-Mar-09 12:08

Stuart Dootson

12-Mar-09 12:08

I wonder if you've just got a missing semi-colon or something somewhere - that can cause really bizarre error messages and can be really hard to spot.

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Re: A class within a class

Chris Copeland12-Mar-09 12:18

Chris Copeland

12-Mar-09 12:18

I have no idea. I've been rooting through these header files, and as far as I can tell there are no missing semi-colons.

In Visual C++, the actual region inside #ifndef _PACKETS_OBJ_DECLARED_ is completely grayed out, suggesting it should never be called, however it *is* being called, which might be something to do at compilation time.

This has absolutely lost me, lol.

Memory Checker Tools

BobInNJ12-Mar-09 9:49

BobInNJ

12-Mar-09 9:49

I am currently writing an application using MFC and C++. I am also using Visual Studio 2008. I have concerns that it is leaking memory and/or has array out of bounds issues. I am thinking about buying Purify to verify this and find these bugs. However, its cost is over 800 dollars which is not in my budget.

I am hoping that somebody out there can recommend another tool which is just as good but has a lower price. One such tool is MPatrol but I have never used it and I am wondering who has and what they think of it.

Thanks

Bob

Re: Memory Checker Tools

David Crow12-Mar-09 10:06

David Crow

12-Mar-09 10:06

BobInNJ wrote:
I am currently writing an application using MFC and C++. I am also using Visual Studio 2008. I have concerns that it is leaking memory...

Are you using new and delete?

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Re: Memory Checker Tools

BobInNJ12-Mar-09 10:09

BobInNJ

12-Mar-09 10:09

David,

I am using new and delete.

Bob

Re: Memory Checker Tools

David Crow12-Mar-09 10:12

David Crow

12-Mar-09 10:12

Then you should be able to detect most, if not all, memory leaks. Run the application using F5, and when it shuts down, MFC will report what wasn't freed in one of the output windows.

Re: Memory Checker Tools

BobInNJ12-Mar-09 10:15

BobInNJ

12-Mar-09 10:15

David,

Thanks for the response. When I do that there are no memory leaks reported MFC or Visual Studio. I am thinking that it might be the case that I am freeing memory not allocated or allocating x bytes and using more than x bytes. Not sure.

Bob

Re: Memory Checker Tools

Yusuf12-Mar-09 12:46

Yusuf

12-Mar-09 12:46

Bob,

Have you tried DEBUG_NEW[^]?

Yusuf

Oh didn't you notice, analogous to square roots, they recently introduced rectangular, circular, and diamond roots to determine the size of the corresponding shapes when given the area. Luc Pattyn[^]

How to trigger a hotkey event using MFC?

DavidA200512-Mar-09 7:12

DavidA2005

12-Mar-09 7:12

Hi
I have a third party process that modifies the selected text in the currently focussed application window when a hotkey is pressed (e.g. you select text in your text editor, the process wakes up and shows the modified text in a pop-up window and pastes it to the clipboard). I want to trigger this process from an MFC application. I would have a text window in a dialog box to which I would write text programmatically, then I would send the hotkey event and then finally I would get the modified text from the clipboard.

How can I trigger the hotkey event programmatically? (I know how to send key events to programs but I guess hotkeys are registered in Windows and need different handling).

David

MFC beginner

p_196012-Mar-09 5:55

p_1960

12-Mar-09 5:55

hi,

May i know what is the better book to start with vc++ and MFC...as i have less time to start working on MFC in my company...

Re: MFC beginner

Joe Woodbury12-Mar-09 7:01

Joe Woodbury

12-Mar-09 7:01

In my experience, just about any introductory book, save those written by Petzold, are good for learning MFC. Once you get the basics, though, I find most books beyond useless.

Having said that, my favorite book is out of print and I don't remember the name, but it started with explaining HOW MFC worked to people who already understood Windows. I then spent time writing small apps and stepping through the MFC code to fully understand what it was doing. Again, though, I'd been programming windows since 3.0 was released and had become quite an expert at it.

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Re: MFC beginner

CPallini12-Mar-09 10:33

CPallini

12-Mar-09 10:33

Have a look at the MFC section of this article [^].
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Re: MFC beginner

Yusuf12-Mar-09 12:48

Yusuf

12-Mar-09 12:48

In the days when we used MFC, we'd books by Jeff Prosise and Mike Blaszczak. They are great authors

Re: MFC beginner

Hamid_RT12-Mar-09 20:02

Hamid_RT

12-Mar-09 20:02

www.functionx.com[^] is good.

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thus has Creation put the base
One Limb impacted is sufficient
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Multithreading C++

PankajB12-Mar-09 3:39

PankajB

12-Mar-09 3:39

Hi there.

I want to learn Multithreading programming in C++, Can some one please suggest good articles for the same.
Just FYI, I am well versed with VC++ but want to use only C++ for a specific purpose.

Thanks
PanB

Re: Multithreading C++

Akt_4_U12-Mar-09 3:47

Akt_4_U

12-Mar-09 3:47

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Cplusplus/Multithreading-in-C/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/975t8ks0(VS.80).aspx

akt

Re: Multithreading C++

A_xin12-Mar-09 6:12

A_xin

12-Mar-09 6:12

you can learn linux. it is a good way. Wink | ;)

Re: Multithreading C++

David Crow12-Mar-09 6:28

David Crow

12-Mar-09 6:28

PankajB wrote:
Can some one please suggest good articles for the same.

See here and here.

Re: Multithreading C++

Hamid_RT12-Mar-09 20:04

Hamid_RT

12-Mar-09 20:04

See Multithreading in C, POSIX style[^]
and
Multithreading with C and Win32 [^].

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thus has Creation put the base
One Limb impacted is sufficient
For all Others to feel the Mace
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Need an explaination. Thanks in advance

FISH78612-Mar-09 3:34

FISH786

12-Mar-09 3:34

There is a List of 25 primes declared in order and the above colors.

RED = 0X1000;
GREEN = 0x2000;
BLUE = 0x4000;
BLACK = 0x8000;
for ( i = 0; i < 4; i++, Color >>= 1 )
     for ( j = 0; j < 25; j++, n++ )
	Test[n] = primes[j] | (j << 8) | Color | (1 << (16+j));
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primes[j] this is using one of the 25 whats in primes in order based on J.

Please what is this doing " | (j << 8) | Color | (1 << (16+j))" Can anyone help.

I know the logic works. But I can't understand what this is doing in the above loop.

Can someone please explain.

Thanks A million

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