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Re: Winsock problem solved

jeron17-Jul-10 10:18

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7-Jul-10 10:18

If you don't mind me asking, which network analyser did you use that didn't display an incorrect checksum?

Re: Winsock problem solved

masnu7-Jul-10 10:22

masnu

7-Jul-10 10:22

I was using Wireshark, but it DID display an incorrect checksum. I just got busy doing other things and completely overlooked it. It wasn't until I focused on the problem that I paid attention to what the analyzer was telling me.

Re: Winsock problem solved

jeron17-Jul-10 10:41

jeron1

7-Jul-10 10:41

Cool, the reason I asked is we have a similar project coming up, and a long time ago I ran into a goofy problem with a fairly early version of Ethereal where it didn't flag some field as having an invalid value, I lost a lot of hair over that one! Smile | :)

Re: Winsock problem solved

masnu7-Jul-10 10:46

masnu

7-Jul-10 10:46

I can see how that would happen. Thankfully this one didn't take me that much time. Try WireShark http://www.wireshark.org/[^] it's a useful tool.

Re: Winsock problem solved

Moak7-Jul-10 11:15

Moak

7-Jul-10 11:15

What wonders me now... that you actually have seen the corrupt IP packages in Wireshark. I was assuming you ran Wireshark on Windows PC and your hosts are connected via a switch, shouldn't the switch throw away the IP packages from the embedded board with wrong header checksum instead of forwarding them?

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Re: Winsock problem solved

Moak7-Jul-10 11:56

Moak

7-Jul-10 11:56

Oops I was thinking wrong. IP packages are OSI Layer 3 and network switches operate on Layer 2... so they couldn't care less about IP header checksums. Sorry for the confusion.

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Re: Winsock problem solved

masnu8-Jul-10 2:59

masnu

8-Jul-10 2:59

No.. I had my embedded board connected to the PC with a cross-over cable.. no switch.

Detect Windows Search feature

Ivo Beltchev6-Jul-10 6:44

Ivo Beltchev

6-Jul-10 6:44

Hi
In my application I run Windows Search (Find files and fodlers) using IShellDispatch::FindFiles. However when the Search feature is disabled I get a message "There is no program associated to perform the requested action...". This is not nice.

I'd like to disable my search functionality when Windows Search is uninstalled. Does anybody know how to detect if Windows Search is available?

Thanks
Ivo

Re: Detect Windows Search feature

«_Superman_»6-Jul-10 19:56

«_Superman_»

6-Jul-10 19:56

Try IShellDispatch2::IsServiceRunning with service name as WSearch.

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Re: Detect Windows Search feature

Ivo Beltchev6-Jul-10 20:19

Ivo Beltchev

6-Jul-10 20:19

Thanks, that did the trick.

CListBox

AbhiHcl6-Jul-10 3:04

AbhiHcl

6-Jul-10 3:04

Hi I have created a list box using CListBox class. I want to give the hover effect on the list box item. like combo box.

Please anyone can help me how to do that.

Thanks

Re: CListBox

Niklas L6-Jul-10 3:21

Niklas L

6-Jul-10 3:21

You will need to handle the WM_MOUSEMOVE message and do the handling yourself.

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Re: CListBox

AbhiHcl6-Jul-10 19:50

AbhiHcl

6-Jul-10 19:50

Can u post some sample code please ???

Re: CListBox

Niklas L6-Jul-10 21:52

Niklas L

6-Jul-10 21:52

No, but here is the rough idea.

1. Create a new class derived from CListBox -> CHoverListBox.
2. Make it owner drawn (a window style).
3. Override DrawItem() and possibly OnMeasureItem(). You will need DrawItem since you will be changing the visual appearance of the control while hovering.
4. Add a message handler for WM_MOUSEMOVE, and in this handler figure out which item the cursor is over. Cooridnates of the mouse is supplied in screen coords, so you should convert them to client coords using CListBox::ScreenToClient(). Then use CListBox::GetItemRect() to find the hovered item. Set a flag for this item, and then call Invalidate(FALSE) to force a repaint.
5. Implement DrawItem() to look at the flag set, and paint the items accordingly.
6. Now you have a reusable class.
7. Write an article about what you did and post it on this site.

Tip: Do not use CListBox::SetItemData() to set the flag, because the space is likely to be needed by the users of your control. Use a separate integer in your class instead.

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Passing a String as function Argument

T.RATHA KRISHNAN6-Jul-10 3:03

T.RATHA KRISHNAN

6-Jul-10 3:03

Hi!
I'm passing a string variable to a function. Only the first letter of the string value is assigned to the formal parameter. Here is my function:

void setTextToButtons(stringw country, int tabSelected); //proto type declaratio


irr::core::stringw country = irr::core::stringw(list->getItem(countryCode));
setTextToButtons(country, tabSelected);                        //calling the function



void CGameMenuPlayerProfileState::setTextToButtons(stringw country, int tabSelected)  //function definition
{
	stringw query;
	query = L"Select Name from ";
	if(tabSelected = 17) {query += L"Test";}
	else if(tabSelected == 18){query += L"ODI";}
	else if(tabSelected == 19){query += L"T20I";}
	else {query += L"Test";}
	query += L" WHERE Team = '";
	query += country;
	query += "' ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 11";
	printf("%s\n",query.c_str());
		//"Select Name from T20I WHERE Team = country ORDER BY RANDOM() LIMIT 11"
  playerLst = SQLdb.Query(query);
  //printf("Player List Size:%d",playerLst.size());
  printf("Selected Country%s\n", country);
 for(int i = 0; i < 11; i++)
 {
  m_pPlayerBtn[i]->setText(irr::core::stringw(playerLst[i]).c_str());
  //printf("%s\n",irr::core::stringw(playerLst[i]).c_str());
  cout<<query.c_str()<<endl;
 }
}

How to pass the full string value in to the function?

Re: Passing a String as function Argument

Niklas L6-Jul-10 3:31

Niklas L

6-Jul-10 3:31

You are not using this correctly

printf("Selected Country%s\n", country);

First off, unless stringw is a typedefed _wchar_t* you need a cast function. Then, you need capital %S to print a unicode string using printf.

The parameter passing looks ok otherwise. (even though I alway use const& for those types)

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Re: Passing a String as function Argument

T.RATHA KRISHNAN6-Jul-10 3:39

T.RATHA KRISHNAN

6-Jul-10 3:39

Hi!
It's typedefed. It's defined as follows:

typedef string<wchar_t> stringw;

My probelm is how to get the full string in to my formal parameter. Now only the first letter is present when I print the string inside the function. How to pass the full string value?

Re: Passing a String as function Argument

Cedric Moonen6-Jul-10 3:47

Cedric Moonen

6-Jul-10 3:47

T.RATHA KRISHNAN wrote:
My probelm is how to get the full string in to my formal parameter. Now only the first letter is present when I print the string inside the function.

You're wrong here. You send the full string to the function BUT you are printing it incorrectly. As the previous poster said, you have to use %S instead of %s in your printf (your string is side characters, check the documentation of printf).

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Re: Passing a String as function Argument

T.RATHA KRISHNAN6-Jul-10 3:54

T.RATHA KRISHNAN

6-Jul-10 3:54

Ok. I got it right. But the text is not assigned to the buttons correctly.

Can you please refer this line in my code:

for(int i = 0; i < 11; i++)
 {
  m_pPlayerBtn[i]->setText(irr::core::stringw(playerLst[i]).c_str());
  printf("%S\n",irr::core::stringw(playerLst[i]).c_str());
 }

I am getting playerLst using Sqlite query. and setting the first(0th) player name
to the first button in my array of buttons. This is not working. Contents of playerLst
is also not printing. Program Crashes.

Re: Passing a String as function Argument

Cedric Moonen6-Jul-10 4:14

Cedric Moonen

6-Jul-10 4:14

What is the type of playerLst ?
What are you trying to do here:

irr::core::stringw(playerLst[i]).c_str()

Why not pass the string directly instead of constructing a temporary string ?

T.RATHA KRISHNAN wrote:
Program Crashes.

What is the exact error message ? Did you try debugging to inspect the problem more in details ? You should really start to learn how to use your debugger, this is much much more efficient than asking questions on a forum.

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Re: Passing a String as function Argument

T.RATHA KRISHNAN6-Jul-10 4:35

T.RATHA KRISHNAN

6-Jul-10 4:35

playerLst is of type irr::core::stringc. Sqlite Query returns only a stringc. So I've used a stringc variable. But setText method expects a const wchar_t*. As I already said,
I've to iterate this playerLst array and set the each element as text to corresponding button in an array of buttons. How to do?

Re: Passing a String as function Argument

Cedric Moonen6-Jul-10 4:49

Cedric Moonen

6-Jul-10 4:49

You ae mixing single-byte character strings and multi-byte character strings. You can't just mix them the way you are doing. I really suggest you take the time to understand the string encoding. See for instance this article[^].

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Re: Passing a String as function Argument

David Crow6-Jul-10 4:19

David Crow

6-Jul-10 4:19

T.RATHA KRISHNAN wrote:
Only the first letter of the string value is assigned to the formal parameter.

How are you verifying this?

T.RATHA KRISHNAN wrote:
cout<<query.c_str()<<endl;< blockquote="">

Should you be using wcout here?

T.RATHA KRISHNAN wrote:
printf("%s\n",query.c_str());

Have you tried using a capital 'S' in the format string?

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Re: Passing a String as function Argument

KarstenK6-Jul-10 4:23

KarstenK

6-Jul-10 4:23

you are mixing wchar with char size strings. You need conversion NOT cast.

c_str() should do the job

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Re: Passing a String as function Argument

Aescleal6-Jul-10 4:40

Aescleal

6-Jul-10 4:40

Don't use printf. The interface to printf isn't type checked so the compiler has no idea that you're passing complete rubbish to it. What's happening is...

- your code sticks a pointer to a lump of wide characters on the stack
- printf looks at it's format string and sees that you want the first argument on the stack interpreted as a lump of ordinary characters terminated by a zero
- it starts reading your wide character array, sees the first character is non-zero but, as it's reading the memory byte by byte it sees the high byte of the first character as the string terminator. It prints one character
- printf stops processing having done everything you told it to do

So what can you do about it?

The first thing is stop using printf. Printf is a C function - while it's bundled in the C++ library it's pretty useless. Use streams, they're the equivalent C++ mechanism. AND you don't have to convert your function arguments either. Instead of trying to use:

printf( "%s\n", str.c_str() );

you can use:

std::wcout << str << std::endl;

Look ma, no conversions! Same number of function calls and the compiler can probably optimise it a lot easier. You also get type safety - if you try and use a stream with an object type it doesn't understand the compiler will tell you.

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