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Re: How can I use C# Managed DLL into VC++ Application

29-Apr-09 20:50

PankajB wrote:
Please provide details or Do I need to convert C# DLL into Native DLL?

No, you need to re-post this in the correct forum[^] and then provide some detail, like what linker error you got...

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PankajB29-Apr-09 20:53

PankajB

29-Apr-09 20:53

Ohh Thanks. Yes thats a correct group to talk in... Smile | :)

best font for hindi

Purish Dwivedi29-Apr-09 20:15

Purish Dwivedi

29-Apr-09 20:15

I want to use Hindi in my multilingual application. So can anyone tell me that "Which one is the best font for Hindi language"?
thank you.

CPallini29-Apr-09 21:09

CPallini

29-Apr-09 21:09

Please let me google that for you [^].
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Purish Dwivedi29-Apr-09 22:00

Purish Dwivedi

29-Apr-09 22:00

I have done that already.

Michael Schubert29-Apr-09 22:05

Michael Schubert

29-Apr-09 22:05

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VisualC++ LineTo() call causes high usage of resouce, causing more RAM usage - Memory Not Releasing

Rajesh R Subramanian29-Apr-09 22:15

Rajesh R Subramanian

29-Apr-09 22:15

There is no one 'best font' for any language. If you are writing an Unicode application, the Devnagari script would be displayed automatically (by default) with Mangal. You need not worry about fonts, if you are working on an Unicode aware application.

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adepumadhu129-Apr-09 20:15

adepumadhu1

29-Apr-09 20:15

When VC++ "LineTo" statement is called very often (say every 100 ms), it is using more resource and it is not getting released. If my application is running for longer period (say 2 hours), high usage of resource problem causing more RAM usage and memory is not getting released and growing continuously.

Sample code is given below (Please send your personal email id, so that I can email complete code)

//------------------------------------------------------------------

//Callback method creation (100 ms)
m_nEventID = timeSetEvent(100,0,GeneratePeriodicCall,DWORD(this),TIME_PERIODIC);

//callback method
void CALLBACK GeneratePeriodicCall(UINT uID, UINT UMsg, DWORD dwUser, DWORD dw1, DWORD dw2)
{
CTestAppView* pView = (CTestAppView*) dwUser;

//kill thread if active
if(g_hDrawChartThread != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
DWORD dwExitCode =NULL;

DWORD dw = NULL;

GetExitCodeThread(g_hDrawChartThread, &dwExitCode);

if(dwExitCode == STILL_ACTIVE)
{
::CloseHandle(g_hDrawChartThread);

g_hDrawChartThread = NULL;
}
else
{
g_hDrawChartThread = NULL;
}
}

//create thread
g_hDrawChartThread = CreateThread(NULL,0,DrawChart,pView,0,0);
}

//Thread call
DWORD __stdcall DrawChart(LPVOID lParam)
{
CTestAppView* pView = (CTestAppView*)lParam;

CClientDC dc(pView);

int nSaveDC = dc.SaveDC();

long x = 0;

long y = 0;

for(long i = 0 ; i < 100000 ;i++)
{
dc.MoveTo(x,y);

//THIS LINE IS CAUSING SERIOUS RESOURCE LEAK
dc.LineTo(x + 1, y + 1);

x = x + 1;

y = y + 1;
}

dc.RestoreDC(nSaveDC);

return 0;
}
//------------------------------------------------------------------

Anyone can clarify me why "LineTo()" is not releasing resources & utilising more RAM. This RAM memory is not getting released until unless I close my VC++ application.

Any solution/hint, welcome.

Thanks in advance,
Madhu

Re: VisualC++ LineTo() call causes high usage of resouce, causing more RAM usage - Memory Not Releasing

Cedric Moonen29-Apr-09 20:26

Cedric Moonen

29-Apr-09 20:26

I don't know exactly why you encounter a memory leak, but one think that is sure is that you are doing it the wrong way: you should never access your user interface from a separate thread (which is what you are doing here). This is not the way to do it. Instead, in a separate thread, you can add data in a std::vector (for instance) which is protected against multi-threading access and then you send a message to the UI to refresh itself. The UI will then (in the main thread) extract information from the vector and draw the additional points.

I don't know if this will fix your problem but this is something you'll have to fix or you'll encounter problems in the future.

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Software developer

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Re: VisualC++ LineTo() call causes high usage of resouce, causing more RAM usage - Memory Not Releasing

Perry Holman29-Apr-09 22:12

Perry Holman

29-Apr-09 22:12

I don't think LineTo() causes high usage of resource&RAM. You are exactly doing it in wrong way.
Firstly, you need to understand the callback function of a timer in VC can be re-called while previous call is not completed yet. Basically, each callback will create a thread.
Secondly, I don't understand why you create a thread in the callback function, which will lead to run many threads at the same time.
So i think running many threads at the same time causes your problem.

If you want to update you UI, you can set a timer or a thread in your UI class which gets data and draw them on UI periodically. Meanwhile, there is another thead to prepare those drawing data.

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Re: VisualC++ LineTo() call causes high usage of resouce, causing more RAM usage - Memory Not Releasing

David Crow30-Apr-09 4:12

David Crow

30-Apr-09 4:12

adepumadhu1 wrote:
g_hDrawChartThread = CreateThread(NULL,0,DrawChart,pView,0,0);

Are you calling this function 10 times per second?

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Need help on finishing this basic C program [modified]

biggiant2200029-Apr-09 19:35

biggiant22000

29-Apr-09 19:35

The program is to keep records and perform statistical for a class of students.
the class may have up to 40 students. They have 5 quizzes, and all the students are identified by a 4 digit student number
and the program will print the students scores and calculate and print the statistics for each quiz

Student Quiz 1 Quiz 2 Quiz 3 Quiz 4 Quiz 5
1234 78 83 87 91 86
2134 67 77 84 82 79
3124 77 89 93 87 71
High Score 78 89 93 91 86
Low Score 67 77 84 82 71
Average 73.4 83.0 88.2 86.6 78.6

but this is what i have so far

#include<stdio.h>
#define ROW 4
#define COLS 5
int main(void)
{
// Local Declarations
int table [ROW] [COLS] =
{
{1234,52,7,100,78,34}'
{2134,90,36,90,77,30},
{3124,100,45,20,90,70},
{4532,11,17,81,32,77}
};
int line [ROW * COLS];
// Statments
for (int row = 0; row <ROWS;row++)
for (int column =0; column < cols, column++)
line[row * cols + column] = table [row] [column];
for (int row = 0; row <ROWS * cols; row++)
printf("%02d", line [row]);
return 0;
} // main

please help

modified on Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:56 AM

_AnsHUMAN_ 29-Apr-09 19:57

_AnsHUMAN_

29-Apr-09 19:57

I don't want to reveal my age, but the last time I did a homework was 10 years ago.

You need to google first, if you have "It's urgent please" mentioned in your question.
Wink | ;-)

_AnShUmAn_

biggiant220001-May-09 6:29

biggiant22000

1-May-09 6:29

Okay
and thanks for nothing

Michael Schubert29-Apr-09 22:12

Michael Schubert

29-Apr-09 22:12

biggiant22000 wrote:
please help

With what?

David Crow30-Apr-09 4:26

David Crow

30-Apr-09 4:26

biggiant22000 wrote:
#define COLS 5

There are 6 "columns" in the table array.

biggiant22000 wrote:
int line [ROW * COLS];

This variable is not necessary.

biggiant22000 wrote:
{1234,52,7,100,78,34}'
...
for (int row = 0; row < ROWS;row++)
for (int column =0; column < cols, column++)
line[row * cols + column] = table [row] [column];

How do these even compile?

With a little bit of coercion Wink | ;)

, your code could produce something like:

Student    Quiz 1  Quiz 2  Quiz 3  Quiz 4  Quiz 5
-------    ------  ------  ------  ------  ------
1234           52       7     100      78      34
2134           90      36      90      77      30
3124          100      45      20      90      70
4532           11      17      81      32      77
 
High Score    100      45     100      90      77

biggiant220001-May-09 6:07

biggiant22000

1-May-09 6:07

Im still not understand im getting 42 errors

Multithreading help in C++

David Crow1-May-09 6:10

David Crow

1-May-09 6:10

biggiant22000 wrote:
Im still not understand

Which part?

biggiant22000 wrote:
im getting 42 errors

Start with the first one.

Kiran Satish29-Apr-09 16:59

Kiran Satish

29-Apr-09 16:59

Hi all,

I am having a c++ file which is used to create mexfunction DLL that can be used to call a function from Matlab through dll. This is used to compute some mathematical calculations on a big matirx and for this I do it in two parallel threads each doing half matrix. At the end I combine both to generate full resultant matrix. For this, I create two different threads as follows-

HANDLE thd_handle[2];
DWORD WINAPI GenerateThread0(LPVOID param);
DWORD WINAPI GenerateThread1(LPVOID param);
void CreateResult0();
void CreateResult1();

void mexFunction(...mex function params....)
{
// do necessary variable declarations
// create two threads
thd_handle[0] = CreateThread(NULL,GenerateThread0, NULL, 0, NULL);
thd_handle[1] = CreateThread(NULL,GenerateThread1, NULL, 0, NULL);
WaitForMultipleObjects(2,thd_handle,true,INFINITE);
// prepare result
// return result to matlab
}
DWORD WINAPI GenerateThread0(LPVOID param)
{
CreateResult0();
return 0;
}
DWORD WINAPI GenerateThread1(LPVOID param)
{
CreateResult1();
return 0;
}
void CreateResult0()
{
//do some computations
}
void CreateResult1()
{
//do some computations
}

Everything is fine and good while doing as above and I used this for a long time without any problems. Now I am planning to make this more efficient by making it multithreading adaptable to the processor on which it runs. I have couple of systems which are like 4core/8core and would like to create threads dynamically. I came up with the following idea and implemented it and guess what it gives fatal errors while running and I highly suspect the way I am creating multiple threads.

HANDLE *thd_handle;
DWORD WINAPI GenerateThread(LPVOID param);
void CreateResult(unsigned int idx);

void mexFunction(...mexfunctionparams...)
{
//read in input params
//find (#processors*#logicalprocs*#coresperproc)=m_nThreads;
thd_handle = new HANDLE[m_nThreads-1];
//CreateThreads
for (unsigned int i=0; i < m_nThreads-1; i++ )
thd_handle[i] = CreateThread(NULL, GenerateThread, &i, 0, NULL);
WaitForMultipleObjects(m_nThreads-1,thd_handle, true,infinite);
//prepare result
//return result to matlab
}
DWORD WINAPI GenerateThread(LPVOID param)
{
DWORD iter = *(DWORD*)param;
CreateResult(iter);
retrun 0;
}
void CreateResult(unsigned int idx)
{
//compute result for this matrix size depending on idx
}

if I use the dll generated from this code, the program crashes... am I doing something fundamentally wrong here?? is there any other better way to achieve this??

thanks for any help,

PKNT

Stuart Dootson29-Apr-09 20:48

29-Apr-09 20:48

Have you run it in a debugger (that's easy enough to do - just specify Matlab as the target executable) so you can see where the exception occurs?

Some things that do jump out at me:

As it says in the CreateThread[^] documentation,

A thread in an executable that calls the C run-time library (CRT) should use the _beginthreadex and _endthreadex functions for thread management rather than CreateThread and ExitThread; this requires the use of the multi-threaded version of the CRT. If a thread created using CreateThread calls the CRT, the CRT may terminate the process in low-memory conditions.
You pass a pointer to a stack variable in the CreateThread call. That's not a great idea - you can't guarantee that the newly created thread will assign to iter before i changes. Why not just pass the value of i rather than the address. Even though the param is an LPVOID, integer is convertible to LPVOID and vice versa.

One other thing - why use m_nThreads-1 all over the place - once your main thread enters WaitForMultipleObjects, there will be m_nThreads cores available for processing, as the WaitForMultipleObjects call will yield the core it's on.

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Kiran Satish30-Apr-09 5:15

Kiran Satish

30-Apr-09 5:15

Thanks for the reply... will try VC++ specific thread functions and see how it does and also the parameters thing.

Stuart Dootson wrote:
One other thing - why use m_nThreads-1 all over the place - once your main thread enters WaitForMultipleObjects, there will be m_nThreads cores available for processing, as the WaitForMultipleObjects call will yield the core it's on.

this is for the system to be responsive for other applications/tasks that are running at the same time. I am leaving a core for this purpose.

thanks

PKNT

Stuart Dootson30-Apr-09 6:16

30-Apr-09 6:16

Kiran Satish wrote:
this is for the system to be responsive for other applications/tasks that are running at the same time. I am leaving a core for this purpose.

That shows remarkable restraint Smile | :)

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Kiran Satish30-Apr-09 6:50

Kiran Satish

30-Apr-09 6:50

I figured out the problem... nothing from the way I am assigning threads (but now I am using _beginthread/_endthread functions though), but an overseen logic mistake and improper reading of 2D matrices from a 3D matrix generated using OptiVec library. Now everything works fine. Thanks for your time.

PKNT

Stuart Dootson30-Apr-09 6:55