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Re: Problems launching a program with CreateProcess

4-Nov-03 0:17

Hello everybody out there,

I have a dialog window application which sets current user environment variables with RegSetValueEx. The values are parsed when the user pressed the OK Button.

After the parsing a new program is launched with CreateProcess.

Everything works fine as the variables are set and the new launched program starts, but as soon as I want to check if it can read the env variables by clicking a funktion of the program, which would mainly read out the variables and create a path out of them, I have an critical error message from windows.

I guess that I have a pointer or process still adressing something that new program needs, but as I am new to this I don't have clue where to look.

Here is more or less the code I am using:

void CSetEnvDialogDlg::OnOK()
{

CString evJOBValue, evSHOTValue;// contain the values from the dialog the user has set
int index;
DWORD res;
DWORD dwRet;

// Open registry key where current user environmental variables are stored!

if (res ==
SetVariable("JOB",
(char*) evJOBValue.GetBuffer(3),
strlen(evJOBValue),
REG_EXPAND_SZ))

evJOBValue.ReleaseBuffer(-1);

if (res ==
SetVariable("SHOT",
(char*) evSHOTValue.GetBuffer(3),
strlen(evSHOTValue),
REG_EXPAND_SZ))

evSHOTValue.ReleaseBuffer(-1);

// propagate changes so that environment variables takes immediate effect!

if( SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST,
WM_SETTINGCHANGE,
0,
(LPARAM) "Environment",
SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG,
10000,
&dwRet) ){
AfxMessageBox("Registry has been updated sucessfully!", MB_OK);}
else AfxMessageBox("Registry didn't update sucessfully!", MB_OK);

PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcessInfo;
STARTUPINFO StartupInfo;
ZeroMemory(&StartupInfo, sizeof(StartupInfo));
StartupInfo.cb = sizeof StartupInfo;

if(CreateProcess("Path to the exe file",
NULL,
NULL,
NULL,
FALSE,
0,
NULL,
NULL,
&StartupInfo,
&ProcessInfo))
{
CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hThread);
CloseHandle(ProcessInfo.hProcess);
}
else
{
AfxMessageBox("The process could not be started...", MB_OK);
}

CDialog::OnOK();

}

DWORD CSetEnvDialogDlg::SetVariable(char *name, char *value, DWORD valuelen, DWORD type)
{
HKEY h;
DWORD rc;

rc = RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Environment", 0, KEY_WRITE, &h);

if (rc == ERROR_SUCCESS)
rc = RegSetValueEx(h, name, 0, type, (unsigned char*) value, valuelen);

RegCloseKey(HKEY_CURRENT_USER);

return rc;
}

Xzaran Confused | :confused:

David Crow4-Nov-03 4:07

David Crow

4-Nov-03 4:07

Have you single-stepped through each of the statements to see which one is causing the error? While I doubt it is related to the problem, you might want to consider changing strlen(evJOBValue) to evJOBValue.GetLength(). Also, if you changed the second parameter of SetVariable() to a LPCSTR, you could eliminate the (char *) cast, and the call to CString::GetBuffer() and CString::ReleaseBuffer(). When checking the return value from SetVariable(), are you intentionally using the comparison operator instead of the assignment operator?

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Re: Problems launching a program with CreateProcess

Xzaran4-Nov-03 4:25

Re: Problems launching a program with CreateProcess

4-Nov-03 4:25

Hello David,

the problem is, that the error message occures with the child process, which is bought product I can't debug. Actually, now that I looked at the code project page again it is the same error message ymmace explained in his thread: Look for help!! About NTDLL.DLL problem~~. That's why I thought I might have missed something in my code. Maybe I have to free some memory I allocated with the pointers?

Unfortunately my knowledge about pointers is not so good.

But thanks for the advice about simplifying my code...I will try that.

Any more suggestions about the NTDLL.DLL problem?

Cheers, Xzaran

David Crow4-Nov-03 4:32

David Crow

4-Nov-03 4:32

Xzaran wrote:
Maybe I have to free some memory I allocated with the pointers?

Since you showed no heap allocations, it would be hard to tell at this point.

If you run this other application all by itself, does the problem still occur?

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Re: Problems launching a program with CreateProcess

Xzaran4-Nov-03 4:49

Re: Problems launching a program with CreateProcess

4-Nov-03 4:49

No, it runs perfect if its not called from my dialog application.

Where do I have to look to find the possible problem?

Xzaran

David Crow4-Nov-03 5:02

David Crow

4-Nov-03 5:02

if (CreateProcess("Path to the exe file",
    NULL,
    NULL,
    NULL,
    FALSE,
    0,
    NULL,
    NULL,
    &StartupInfo,
    &ProcessInfo))

Have you tried different values for dwCreationFlags besides 0?

StartupInfo.cb = sizeof StartupInfo;

Shouldn't you have parenthesis with this?

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Re: Problems launching a program with CreateProcess

Xzaran4-Nov-03 5:46

4-Nov-03 5:46

I tried out

CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE
CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE
CREATE_NEW_PROCESS_GROUP
CREATE_SUSPENDED
DEBUG_ONLY_THIS_PROCESS
DETACHED_PROCESS

and

HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS

but unfortunately none of them changed anything.

I set the parenthesis, thanks.

The error message tells me something like:

"The allocation 0x778cc641 shows to memory 0x00000180. "Read" couldn't run on memory."

Or similar( my Windows2000 is in a different language than english!).

Does that help getting closer?

Xzaran

CFileDialog

KKR3-Nov-03 23:30

KKR

3-Nov-03 23:30

MyApplication is disappearing when I try to use CFileDialog to get a file name to save contents.
This is not happening in case of Dubug version. And OS is win2000.
Any suggesstions.

Warm Regards,
KKR

BadJerry3-Nov-03 23:46

3-Nov-03 23:46

Never seen this... how do you actually call CFileDialog? maybe your filter is not defined correctly... and that would explain why you have a different behaviour in debug and release...

KKR4-Nov-03 0:03

KKR

4-Nov-03 0:03

Thanks for the Respose,
Following is the code

static char BASED_CODE szFilter[] = "INI Files (*.INI)|*.INI|All Files (*.*)|*.*||";
CString m_szCurrentFilePath;
CFileDialog obFDlg( FALSE, ".INI", m_szCurrentFilePath, OFN_HIDEREADONLY | OFN_OVERWRITEPROMPT,szFilter, pApp );
obFDlg.DoModal();

Warm Regards,
KKR

BadJerry4-Nov-03 0:09

4-Nov-03 0:09

OK a few things...
pApp is not a window... you should have AfxGetMainWnd()

and as for the extension I think your are meant to have "INI" not ".INI"

and I take your app does not use Unicode.

Let me know if does the trick!

KKR4-Nov-03 0:38

KKR

4-Nov-03 0:38

Yeah,
In trial and error , I've kept pApp, but it holds only Parent window,
Reg Extn what ever it is ".ini" or "ini", its disappearing.
My application is not UNICODE one.

Warm Regards,
KKR

BadJerry4-Nov-03 0:47

4-Nov-03 0:47

Well this is spooky and it is something I use all the time. Is your office built on an ancient indian cemetry or something?
One more stab in the dark, have you tried to initialise your m_szCurrentFilePath (to _T("")) or pass NULL instead?
Let me know if you do find out!

FearlessBurner4-Nov-03 1:57

FearlessBurner

4-Nov-03 1:57

I have experience similar (but not identical) problems with CFileDialog based code when the file path string is incorrect. In such cases, the usual result is that the dialog fails to appear. My advice is therefore to verify that the lpszFileName parameter (3rd one) is correct. You could also try using an empty string instead, and see whether that produces different results.

Hope this helps.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/commondialogboxlibrary/commondialogboxreference/commondialogboxstructures/openfilename.asp

Bo Hunter4-Nov-03 12:48

Bo Hunter

4-Nov-03 12:48

Reading a jpeg file

BlackRider3-Nov-03 23:28

BlackRider

3-Nov-03 23:28

Hello, I'm trying to read a jpeg file using this code:
imageFile.Open(fileTitle,CFile::modeRead,&e);
imageFile.ReadHuge(buffer,1000000);
imageFile.Close();

ReadHuge reports reading the whole jpeg file; the problem is that all I've got in the buffer is 4 bytes. I guess it's something with the character set; I don't know ...
Can someone help me with an example ? How should I be reading the file ?

BadJerry3-Nov-03 23:39

3-Nov-03 23:39

Hi,

If I remember correctly, you have posted this question not so long ago... So I am going to reply assuming you did the same thing!
You were storing your buffer in a CString. If you do this, the copy will stop when you hit the first byte with a value of 0. I guess the fourth character in your file is 0.
If you want to know how many characters you have read do this:
DWORD dwNumberOfBytesRead = imageFile.ReadHuge(buffer,1000000);
By the way, ReadHuge and Read do the same thing!

Good luck!

BlackRider4-Nov-03 0:43

BlackRider

4-Nov-03 0:43

The problem is not the copying to the CString. The problem is that the buffer is already at 4 bytes before I copy it to the CString. That's the problem and thats what I don't understand ...

when I do the

DWORD dwNumberOfBytesRead = imageFile.ReadHuge(buffer,1000000);

dwNumberOfBytesRead reports 127235 and thats exactly the number of bytes it's supposed to read; but the contents of buffer is only 4 bytes.

So , I guess it's because of the character set I use.
What can I do ?

You try reading a jpeg and you'll see

BadJerry4-Nov-03 0:51

4-Nov-03 0:51

OK I am not sure if we are on the same wave length here but try this:

<br />
char buffer[1000000];<br />
// This initialises your whole buffer to 0<br />
memset(buffer,0,100000);<br />

then call your read and you will see that the content of your buffer will change.

feed Web Browser Control from string

BlackRider4-Nov-03 1:35

BlackRider

4-Nov-03 1:35

It still doesn't work. You know whats funny ... when I do a copy paste of the contents of the jpeg it pastes nothing. So I guess it doesn't recognize the characters ...
Someone ?

peterchen3-Nov-03 23:04

peterchen

3-Nov-03 23:04

I guess it has been asked to death, and I'm sure I've alredy discussed this somwhere back in time, but searching didn't turn up anything useful:

is there a (reasonably simple) way to feed a web browser control from a String directly, without temp file or loading a "base" html template?

TIA
Peter

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Re: feed Web Browser Control from string

BadJerry4-Nov-03 0:14