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If you want to get the path of the .exe at runtime, take a look here:
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/cppforumfaq.asp#win_exepath[^]
You can strip off the exe name, and then you have the directory the program is running from.
Chris Richardson
Programmers find all sorts of ingenious ways to screw ourselves over. - Tim Smith
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thankx but no thankx
cause one i already said i didnt need more apis like GetCurrentDirectory()
hells there s countless methods where i can get the app path and then go on for concatenating
and secondly and more importantly my primary question as to why the relative path isnt recoognised at startup remains unanswered.
i was thinking more in lines of as how the application framework finds its the current directory.....
if there must be some variable on m_pMainWnd or soemthing setting that would men lesser work and a more efficient solution than changing of code for the concatenation...
for example app has m_pszHelpFilePath to set the help file path
there must be something where the path is stored so that the exe can refer to it when a relative path is called
if im wrong pls correct me?
and pls tell me whythe relative path isnt recoognised at startup remains unanswered.
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Well, no matter which route you go, you will almost undoubtably end up using GetModuleFileName (directly or indirectly). CWinApp is even using it to format the m_pszHelpFilePath (take a look in MFC sources).
Why isn't the relative path recognized at startup? Well, it is being recognized. It's just that it's being recognized as being relative to the "C:\" path, instead of the path your app resides in. Putting relative paths in your program and depending on Windows to set your directory for you is never a good idea, and the best way to not do it, is probably to use GetModuleFileName. It will be all of 6 lines of code, and you will remove the risk of not finding your database (unless the database gets deleted).
fordge wrote:
there must be something where the path is stored so that the exe can refer to it when a relative path is called
Refer to the documentation on CreateFile or the Open method of the database connection object for a list of paths that are searched when you use a relative path name.
Chris Richardson
Programmers find all sorts of ingenious ways to screw ourselves over. - Tim Smith
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$(ProjDir) -> I use this to set things up in my project, don't know if it is valid while running...worth a try.
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Why does the following code show the Same Dialog Box twice? The code for the Dialog boxes in inside a dll and the call to the CreateCharacter() is called from the main application. The problem is that the application only shows the first dialog box, even though the "Testing" message box does appear. This tells me that the application is call the correct class, but not showing the correct dialog box.
Thanks for any help you can give.
#include "StdAfx.h"<br />
#include "ExportedFunctionsCVNChar.h"<br />
#include "NewChar1.h"<br />
#include "NewChar2.h"<br />
<br />
DLLEXPORT BOOL CreateNewCharacter()<br />
{<br />
CNewChar1 dlg;<br />
CNewChar2 dlg2;<br />
int nResult;<br />
<br />
nResult = dlg.DoModal();<br />
<br />
if(nResult == IDOK)<br />
{<br />
nResult = dlg2.DoModal();<br />
}<br />
<br />
return TRUE;<br />
}<br />
class CNewChar1 : public CDialog<br />
{<br />
public:<br />
CNewChar1(CWnd* pParent = NULL);
BOOL OnInitDialog();<br />
<br />
enum { IDD = IDD_NEWCHAR1 };<br />
CComboBox m_cClass;<br />
CComboBox m_cRace;<br />
CString m_strAL;<br />
int m_nCha;<br />
CString m_strClass;<br />
int m_nCon;<br />
int m_nDex;<br />
int m_nHitPts;<br />
int m_nInt;<br />
CString m_strName;<br />
CString m_strRace;<br />
int m_nStr;<br />
int m_nWis;<br />
<br />
<br />
protected:<br />
virtual void DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX);
<br />
protected:<br />
<br />
DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()<br />
};<br />
<br />
class CNewChar2 : public CDialog<br />
{<br />
public:<br />
CNewChar2(CWnd* pParent = NULL);
BOOL OnInitDialog();<br />
enum { IDD = IDD_NEWCHAR2 };<br />
CString m_strGender;<br />
CString m_strHand;<br />
CString m_strDeity;<br />
CString m_strEyeColor;<br />
CString m_strHairColor;<br />
CString m_strHeight;<br />
int m_nWeight;<br />
<br />
<br />
protected:<br />
virtual void DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX);
<br />
protected:<br />
<br />
DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()<br />
};<br />
<br />
CNewChar1::CNewChar1(CWnd* pParent )<br />
: CDialog(CNewChar1::IDD, pParent)<br />
{<br />
m_strAL = _T("");<br />
m_nCha = 0;<br />
m_strClass = _T("");<br />
m_nCon = 0;<br />
m_nDex = 0;<br />
m_nHitPts = 0;<br />
m_nInt = 0;<br />
m_strName = _T("");<br />
m_strRace = _T("");<br />
m_nStr = 0;<br />
m_nWis = 0;<br />
}<br />
<br />
<br />
void CNewChar1::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)<br />
{<br />
CDialog::DoDataExchange(pDX);<br />
DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_CLASS, m_cClass);<br />
DDX_Control(pDX, IDC_RACE, m_cRace);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_AL, m_strAL);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_CHA, m_nCha);<br />
DDV_MinMaxInt(pDX, m_nCha, 1, 99);<br />
DDX_CBString(pDX, IDC_CLASS, m_strClass);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_CON, m_nCon);<br />
DDV_MinMaxInt(pDX, m_nCon, 1, 99);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_DEX, m_nDex);<br />
DDV_MinMaxInt(pDX, m_nDex, 1, 99);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_HITPTS, m_nHitPts);<br />
DDV_MinMaxInt(pDX, m_nHitPts, 1, 999);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_INT, m_nInt);<br />
DDV_MinMaxInt(pDX, m_nInt, 1, 99);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_NAME, m_strName);<br />
DDX_CBString(pDX, IDC_RACE, m_strRace);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_STR, m_nStr);<br />
DDV_MinMaxInt(pDX, m_nStr, 1, 99);<br />
DDX_Text(pDX, IDC_WIS, m_nWis);<br />
DDV_MinMaxInt(pDX, m_nWis, 1, 99);<br />
}<br />
<br />
BOOL CNewChar1::OnInitDialog()<br />
{<br />
<br />
CDialog::OnInitDialog();
<br />
HINSTANCE hHandle;<br />
LPTSTR lpStringResource = NULL;<br />
CString strString;<br />
UINT uResourceId;<br />
int nResult;<br />
BOOL bDone = FALSE;<br />
<br />
hHandle = LoadLibrary(_T("CVPlayersHndBk.cvl"));<br />
if(hHandle == NULL)<br />
MessageBox(_T("Error loading CVPlayerHndBk.cvl!"), _T("Initialize Error"), MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);<br />
else<br />
{<br />
uResourceId = 1000;<br />
<br />
while(!bDone)<br />
{<br />
nResult = strString.LoadString(uResourceId);
<br />
if(nResult)<br />
{<br />
nResult = m_cRace.AddString(strString);<br />
if(nResult == CB_ERR)<br />
{<br />
MessageBox(_T("Error loading Races."), _T("CVNewCharacter Error"), MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);<br />
bDone = TRUE;<br />
}<br />
else<br />
{<br />
lpStringResource = NULL;<br />
uResourceId++;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
else<br />
{<br />
bDone = TRUE;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
uResourceId = 2000;<br />
bDone = FALSE;<br />
strString.Empty();<br />
<br />
while(!bDone)<br />
{<br />
nResult = strString.LoadString(uResourceId);
<br />
if(nResult)<br />
{<br />
nResult = m_cClass.AddString(strString);<br />
if(nResult == CB_ERR)<br />
{<br />
MessageBox(_T("Error loading Races."), _T("CVNewCharacter Error"), MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);<br />
bDone = TRUE;<br />
}<br />
else<br />
{<br />
lpStringResource = NULL;<br />
uResourceId++;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
else<br />
{<br />
bDone = TRUE;<br />
}<br />
}<br />
<br />
}<br />
<br />
FreeLibrary(hHandle);
<br />
return TRUE;<br />
}<br />
<br />
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CNewChar1, CDialog)<br />
END_MESSAGE_MAP()<br />
<br />
<br />
CNewChar2::CNewChar2(CWnd* pParent )<br />
: CDialog(CNewChar2::IDD, pParent)<br />
{<br />
m_strGender = _T("");<br />
m_strHand = _T("");<br />
m_strDeity = _T("");<br />
m_strEyeColor = _T("");<br />
m_strHairColor = _T("");<br />
m_strHeight = _T("");<br />
m_nWeight = 0;<br />
}<br />
<br />
<br />
void CNewChar2::DoDataExchange(CDataExchange* pDX)<br />
{<br />
CDialog::DoDataExchange(pDX);<br />
<br />
}<br />
<br />
BOOL CNewChar2::OnInitDialog()<br />
{<br />
CDialog::OnInitDialog();
<br />
MessageBox(_T("Testing"));<br />
<br />
return TRUE;<br />
}<br />
<br />
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CNewChar2, CDialog)<br />
END_MESSAGE_MAP()<br />
<br />
<br />
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It's hard to read so much code, but at a guess, are the two ID's for the resources the same ?
Christian
No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer.
- Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael
P Butler 05-12-2002
Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not
as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002
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is there any chance IDD_NEWCHAR1 has the same value as IDD_NEWCHAR2 ?
-c
Zzzzz...
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Sorry for so much code, but I couldn't figure out how to attach the files to my message.  The two ids IDD_NEWCHAR1 and IDD_NEWCHAR2 are defined in resource.h as 129 and 130 respectively. If someone can point out how to attach the files I would be more than happy to attach the code to make it easier to read.
Thanks again for the help,
-Eric
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Firstly, its not possible to attach a file to a message on the CP boards.
As a possible solution, how is the DLL that has these dialog loaded? Is it dynamic? If it is, you may have to use the AFX_MANAGE_STATE() macro or the AfxSetResourceHandle() command to make sure that the correct resources are used when the DoModal() call is performed. Check you application that uses the DLL and see whether it has matching dialog resources using the same resource ID values (i.e. 129/130 as mentioned in the other reply).
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
This is a multiple choice question, choose wisely
Why did the hedgehog cross the road?
A: To show he had guts?
B: To see his flat mate?
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Roger,
Thanks for the help. The problem was that in the dll I had the resource ID defined as 129 & 130 as I already indicated. In the main application I also had some resource IDs with the same values. I did not realize that the two applications had to have seperate resource IDs.
The dll is statically linked to the main application, is this what caused this problem? If I were to dynamically load the dll would I still run into the same issue?
Anyways, thanks for the help! I was able to move on in the project again which I was stuck on for over a week.
Thanks,
-Eric
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When you link to an MFC extension DLL, its resources are listed in a resource chain that is searched when looking for one. If its not found in the apps resources, each MFC extension DLL is checked in the order added to the chain until a matching resource is found (if available). This is why you were getting the problem as an existing resource already existed in your app with the same ID.
Its just a matter of being cautious.
Anyway, glad it solved your problem.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
This is a multiple choice question, choose wisely
Why did the hedgehog cross the road?
A: To show he had guts?
B: To see his flat mate?
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I would like to be able to select some text (Specifically the URL in the Opera web browser), press CTRL+SomeKey or right click and select a command which copies the selected text into my program, which then changes the text and pastes the new text into the same place.
Is this possible using a shell extension? Or is there another way to accomplish this?
Thanks for any suggestions that could point me in the right direction.
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Hello,
My suggestion is to use a global keyboard hook via the Win32 SetWindowsHookEx() API. Create your own keystroke combination and when that combination is detected by your hook, use other APIs to detect the current running process.
If the current process matches the required one (i.e. Opera), you can get hold of the current active text box and get the text from it and perform your processing (modify its text, etc) and then copy the resultant text into the clipboard.
You can then paste the clipboard text in the usual way.
Best of luck,
Bio.
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Thanks for your help. Now I have a place to get started.
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I have discovered an interesting behavior in Windows Messenger. When the app. is inactive (minimized to the system tray) it uses only about 4MB of physical memory, when it becomes activated (open main window), consumption of physical memory jumps to 7MB, and finally when the Windows Messenger is closed again (minimized to the tray), the physical memory consumption drops again (to about 2MB).
I was wondering how to duplicate such behavior for MFC/WTL/ATL or any other Windows apps? Is there a optimization option/switch in VS.NET? Or a Windows API to manage memory in such fashion?
Similar memory behavior occurs for VS.NET and Office XP applications. When minimized they use very little physical memory (at the expense of virtual memory).
Mike M
WinInsider.com
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Take a look at SetProcessWorkingSetSize in the help.
John
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Many thanks John!
I spend 30 min. talking to MS dev. tech supp. rep. telling me that it could not be done. Only tip that he would give is to make sure I delete all references to unused pointers (well ya!) 
I should know better and to post question to CP  , right away.
Thank you again
Mike M
WinInsider.com
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I'm trying to resize a CProperty sheet, but keep getting a white block appearing over the default buttons and the right and bottom edges of the tab control. I have done the standard, sub-classing the CPropertySheet class, overriding OnDialogInit, OnApplyNow and OnNotify and used these to resize the Window, Tab Control and Current page. I haven't manged to find any articles relating to this problem, if it makes any difference I'm using the XP extensions.
Any help would be great!
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Does an application ever need to bother about security? I see many applications being developed which require a login from the user and the application maintains its own user/pwd database. Wouldnt simply creating a user group and giving that group executable permissions on the executable files for the application suffice?
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hi. i am working on a project with a graphical interface. when i run my project after 1 or 2 minutes my projects became very Very Slow. is there any resources that i should had released them ?? i am using GDI+. i did my best but i didn't find any resources that can be released. 
thanx AnyWay
void CCheckersView::OnPaint()<br />
{<br />
CPaintDC dc(this);
<br />
Graphics graphics(dc.m_hDC);<br />
<br />
ColorMatrix colorMatrix = {0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,<br />
0.5f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,<br />
0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f,<br />
0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.2f, 0.0f,<br />
0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f};<br />
ImageAttributes imageAtt;<br />
imageAtt.SetColorMatrix(&colorMatrix, ColorMatrixFlagsDefault,ColorAdjustTypeBitmap); <br />
for (int n=1;n<=18;n++) {<br />
for (int i=1;i<=del.n;i++)<br />
graphics.DrawImage(Bitmap::FromResource( AfxGetInstanceHandle(), (LPCWSTR) AKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BMP)),Rect(0,0,67,67),0,0,67,67,UnitPixel,&imageAtt); <br />
<br />
SolidBrush s(Color(255, 114, 70, 57));<br />
for (int j=0;j<=7;j++)<br />
for (int i=0;i<=3;i++)<br />
graphics.FillRectangle(&s,i*(l*2)+x+(((j+1)%2))*l,y+j*l,l,l);<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
}
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I guess the Bitmap * returned by Bitmap::FromResource should be deleted after use.
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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Does anybody know how to make a controlbar that resizes when the framewindow resizes?
I've tried a couple of different approaches: catch the WM_RESIZE msg, used the RecalcLayout and looked around for information ... but I can't get it to work!!! Can somebody please tell me how this is done.
What I want to do can't be that difficult. I want to build a Search_bar that acts like the Address controlbar in windows explorer where the combo-box rezises to fit the main-frame.
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Okay> I finally figured out thanks to CP gurus, how to create a submenu appended to a top level menu dynamically. I know the titles of the submenu items. THey have no IDs (maybe I need them after all?)
I want to give each submenu item its own little flyout dropdown menu (doesnt need to do anything when clicked).
So how do you give a dynamic submenu item a flyout? Should this be done in the same breath as creating the dynamic submenuitem, while one still have all the handles etc? Or later afte rall the submenu items have been dynamically created?
SO far I find the toplevel menu items pos, and then do:
CMenu* submenu = mmenu->GetSubMenu(pos);
Then do an Appendmenu on the "submenu" pointer. For each submenu I want a subsubmenu.....
To use the appendmenu I had to create a physical dummy resource submenu, or else GetSUbMEnu retiurns a null pointer. But definitely at the point when I want the subsubmenu I cant create a dummy resource for each submenu item (since its not been created in the resource editor...)
Appreciate your help,
ns
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While awaiting perhaps more sensible responses, I am going to implement the WM_MENUCOMMAND when the non-ID bearing submenu item is clicked.....
Except the snag is that my flyouts are contained as the values in the container:
std::map<cstring, std::set<cstring="">> myMAp, and the key of this map is the submenuitem and the values of each key are in the flyouts. It would be better if I went along iterating through the CString keys recognizing them on the submenu titles and triggering the WM_MENUCOMMAND instead of my index..
Appreciate your help,
ns
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I wrote a function to do this a while back that worked with Brent Corcums BCMenu class. I have a modified version of it here to work with CMenu. Its basically a hacked version of that to use CMenu. Its not been checked/tested, so some of the calls on CMenu may be wrong, but you should be able to find the correct version of the function in MSDN
bool AddMenuItem(CMenu *menu, CString& menu_name, CString& menu_option, int menu_index, bool first, int suggested_position)
{
int sub_menu = 0 ;
int num_items = 0 ;
CString pop_up_menu_name = "" ;
CString name ;
int pos = 0 ;
pos = menu_name.Find('\\') ;
if (pos < 0)
{
num_items = menu->GetMenuItemCount() ;
for (sub_menu = 0 ; sub_menu < num_items ; sub_menu++)
{
menu->GetMenuString(sub_menu, pop_up_menu_name, MF_BYPOSITION) ;
if (pop_up_menu_name == menu_name)
break ;
}
if (sub_menu == num_items)
{
CMenu *menuPopup ;
menuPopup = new CMenu ;
menuPopup->CreatePopupMenu() ;
menuPopup->AppendMenu(MF_STRING, menu_index, _T(menu_option)) ;
if (first)
menu->InsertMenu(num_items - 2, menu_name, MF_POPUP | MF_BYPOSITION, (UINT)menuPopup->m_hMenu, NULL, 0) ;
else
{
if (suggested_position < 0)
menu->InsertMenu(num_items, menu_name, MF_POPUP | MF_BYPOSITION, (UINT)menuPopup->m_hMenu, NULL, 0) ;
else
menu->InsertMenu(suggested_position, menu_name, MF_POPUP | MF_BYPOSITION, (UINT)menuPopup->m_hMenu, NULL, 0) ;
}
}
else
{
menu->GetSubMenu(sub_menu)->AppendMenu(menu_option, MF_OWNERDRAW, menu_index);
}
}
else
{
name = menu_name.Left(menu_name.Find('\\')) ;
menu_name = menu_name.Right(menu_name.GetLength() - name.GetLength() - 1) ;
num_items = menu->GetMenuItemCount() ;
for (sub_menu = 0 ; sub_menu < num_items ; sub_menu++)
{
menu->GetMenuString(sub_menu, pop_up_menu_name, MF_BYPOSITION) ;
if (pop_up_menu_name == name)
break ;
}
if (sub_menu == num_items)
{
CMenu *menuPopup ;
menuPopup = new CMenu ;
menuPopup->CreatePopupMenu() ;
AddMenuItem(menuPopup, menu_name, menu_option, menu_index, bitmap, false, suggested_position) ;
}
else
{
CMenu *menuPopup ;
menuPopup = menu->GetSubMenu(sub_menu) ;
AddMenuItem(menuPopup, menu_name, menu_option, menu_index, bitmap, false, suggested_position) ;
}
}
return true ;
}
If there is anything about MF_OWNERDRAWN, just remove it.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
This is a multiple choice question, choose wisely
Why did the hedgehog cross the road?
A: To show he had guts?
B: To see his flat mate?
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