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(more of a curiousity question than anything)
I've seen both this:
SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei = {0};
and this:
SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei;
memset(&sei, 0, sizeof(sei));
and even: (but this is Win32 specific I think)
SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei;
::ZeroMemory(&sei, sizeof(sei));
Which is "better"? Is there *really* any difference?
Personally, I've always used the first one, but I've seen many people using the second one, and was wondering if I should switch over. 
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I would have thought the first two would be the same and they nearly are. Under VS.NET 2003, however, with the first, the compiler first stores a 0 at the first DWORD then does a stosd for the remaining while memset does a stosd for the entire structure. The result is a very slight, but measurable, performance penalty for the first. Don't know why it's being so dumb but there you are.
ZeroMemory just uses memset. (I believe it's a macro.) It was for use when NT actually ran on non-Intel processors.
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Thanks!
I figured ZeroMemory and memset were basically the same.
Weird that = {0} works different on VS.NET. I'm still using VC6, so that doesn't affect me now.
Joe Woodbury wrote:
stosd
wtf? 
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Well (as I found out the hard way) the
MY_STRUCT foo = {0};
is only usable (in terms of zeroing out the whole structure) on MS compilers. So if you want to write correct, portable code you should use memset (AFAIK).
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What sort of error does this produce on non-Microsoft compilers?
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MY_STRUCT foo = {0};
Jim Crafton wrote:
is only usable (in terms of zeroing out the whole structure) on MS compilers
Was the compiler(s) compliant with the C or C++ standard?
I have not read the standard for C in years but if I remember it right then the above initialization should work on all compliant compilers. If you are sure I am wrong about this then send a reply and I'll go look it up to verify what the standard has to say on the subject of initializing Aggregate Types.
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Thanks!
So far, I've only done dev work in Windows, using DevStudio, so I haven't run into anything like that.
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[Roger Wright on VB]
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[Rich Cook]
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Jim Crafton wrote:
s only usable (in terms of zeroing out the whole structure) on MS compi
No, that syntax for initializing a struct is inherited from C. It sets the first member to 0, then by definition sets all remaining members to 0. So if you write = {1} that sets the first member to 1, and all remaining members to 0.
--Mike--
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Crap!! I swear to god I ran into this, using GCC (I think it was the 2.9x series) but I just tried it (using GCC 3.2) and it works perfectly!
My apologies to all! Sorry 
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Ok, i have an annoying problem. I'm writing an MFC program that has a ton of edit controls and droplist combos. all data enteres/selected in these controls needs to be saved in a text file. I've taken care of all the edit controls and radio buttons, but i'm baffled as to how to do it with a droplist combo.
So far, (in my 2 weeks of MFC experience), the only way i've found to enter data in a droplist combo or a list combo is to enter it in the property window of the individual combo. i need to be able to enter the data somewhere in the code.
Basically, what i want to do is:
- input strings from a text file (which i can handle no problem)
- store those strings into the contents of the droplist combo (this is where i have troubyle)
- and eventually display all the necessary strings in the droplist box.
If anyone can give some insight, i'd greatly appreciate it. If its not possible to do, ie the only way to enter data is to manually enter it when creating the listbox, well, i'm just screwed. 
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(droplistbox == combobox )
CCombobox::AddString ( ... ) should do the work to add a string into the combobox
Maximilien Lincourt
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Thanks for the speedy response.
I looked on the msdn library and i didnt find much about AddString, so i'm unclear as to how to use it. do i need to create a new class derived from CCombobox? or can i just do something like
my_combobox.AddString("yabbadabbadoo");
In my dodataexchange, i put
DDX_CBIndex(pDX, IDC_LANG, combo_box);
combo_box.AddString("hi");
where combo_box is defined as an int in my dialog class. it returned the error:
error C2228: left of '.AddString' must have class/struct/union type
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keegan wrote:
or can i just do something like
my_combobox.AddString("yabbadabbadoo");
Correct, assuming that my_combobox is of type CComboBox.
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ok, I've created a CComboBox Class called MyCombo. In the veiw.h file, i defined
MyCombo my_combobox;
now i've tried putting the my_combobox.AddString("yabbadabbadoo"); everywhere that i can think of. i tried putting it right before the DoMOdal(), i put it in the constructor of the Vew Class. darnit, where does ti go?
thanks for yer help...
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The dialog window, nor any of its controls, exist prior to calling DoModal(). The only thing that exists at that point is the dialog object itself. The most common place to initialize controls is in the OnInitDialog() method.
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yay! it works. i ended up adding the AddString function in my dodataexchange. but it works now.
Thanks for all your help!
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I have a list of 50 variables all of type double.
They all have a min and max value that they have to be within.
I am trying to generate a numbers within this range for each of the variables, one that changes 3 times a second.
I thought about using the rand() function.
Any ideas on geting a random number between a specified range?
Do you think this is the way to go?
Thanks for the help,
sj;P
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How about something like:
::srand(::time(NULL));
int min = 10;
int max = 20;
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
int n = min + (::rand() % (max - min + 1));
TRACE(_T("n = %d\n"), n);
}
Or something similar? 
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Robert,
Makes sense but, I am not familiar with the TRACE
could you explain this a bit more?
TRACE(_T("n = %d\n"), n);}
Thanks,
sj
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It's part of MFC. It outputs to the debug window when in Debug mode, and does nothing in Release mode.
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It works great thanks,
sj
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Not to pick nits or anything, but I believe that the randomness of rand() is not guaranteed if you do a mod. You are essentially only using a subset of the random bits. If you want to be proper, you should divide the result by RAND_MAX to get a float in [0.0,1.0) which you can then scale apropriately.
J
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When I divide by RAND_MAX, I get a 0 as the value.
When I divided by the mod I get a number between my min and max value, but it was a int.
How can I get the rand() to return a value between 2 doubles.
Here is my code, it might give you a better idea.
thanks,
sj
<br />
double createRandNum(TSimSignal &s, double min, double max){<br />
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double n; <br />
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for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++){ <br />
n = min + ((double)rand()) % (max - min + 1.0));<br />
or<br />
n = min + ((double)rand()/RAND-MAX) % ((double)(max - min + 1))); <br />
}<br />
cout << endl << "The random number is : " << rand()<< " N is : " << n << "\n";<br />
return n;<br />
}<br />
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int randInRange(int minVal, int maxVal)
{
double scale = rand() / static_cast<double>(RAND_MAX);
return static_cast<int>(minVal + scale * (maxVal - minVal));
}
This returns a value in the range [minVal, maxVal). If you need [minVal, maxVal] you'll have to add 1 to the (maxVal - minVal) in the last line.
J
"You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant."
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