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Dear Joe,
this was a very valuable tip! Thanks! I downloaded the thing and it seems to work well. It seems to have a lot of features not included in the old VC++ 6.0.
Thanks again,
Best Regards,
Jon
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i want to have a MSFlexgrid (or any grid, for that matter) on a tab control. The standard controls supplied by the developer studio do appear on the tab control when i test the dialog (using Ctrl-T) .. but the grid control does not .. do suggest a way to do this ..
thanks in advance
sanjay
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Howto produce a
Vcc (c++, VS 6.0)
Window Application with Knowledge,
Input,Output and control over
the Place where it was started
from i.e. a Console?
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To my knowledge, an application has no knowledge about how (command prompt, Windows Explorer, Run box) it was started.
Five birds are sitting on a fence.
Three of them decide to fly off.
How many are left?
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Not really clear on question but Carlos wrote a great class on getting startup info and env factors.
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/caacommandlineclass.asp#GetAppPath
Best Wishes and Happy Holiday's,
ez_way
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Thanks very much.
A very interesting thing would also be
to use the STDOUT of the Console the App was started from.
Also the ability to 'block' this console
(probably a cmd.exe window) from the windows application.
The answers where fast responses 
Thanks so far.
Andreas
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The best thing I found currently on
the net releating to my problem but not really
finishing it was found on:
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/console/Console.html
The Question is:
Could I produce not too wicked code
to make the GUI.exe behave
exactly the same as the Console.exe
if it is started from a console-Window?
My Problem from a WinMain or CWinApp object is
the imediate return inside the console Window.
'Similar' Effect for a CWinApp could possibly produced somehow with
HWND hwnd = FindWindow("ConsoleWindowClass", zInstanceName);
if (hwnd)
{
releating to:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q124103
But how can I be certain that it was my Console that
I possibly find.
And what am I allowed to do on this Console.
Thanks
AB
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I want to replace a .exe's icon from ICO fiel use code.change see in Explorer view for the .exe file.
Best Regards,
Steven.
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If you are wanting to change the icon that Windows Explorer uses for a given file type, select Folder Options from the Tools menu, click the File Types tab, select the file type, click the Advanced button, click the Change Icon button.
If you are wanting to change an icon resource in the EXE itself, you'll need to use UpdateResource() twice, once to delete the old icon resource and again to add the new icon resource.
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Three of them decide to fly off.
How many are left?
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Thanks,David.
I'll to try and tell the result for u.
Just now, I want to replace it via PE stuct,hehe, It's too difficult.
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Xiaodi_Liu wrote:
I want to replace it via PE stuct,hehe, It's too difficult.
While that is a good learning exercise, it's a tad too much, especially when a much simpler solution is available.
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Three of them decide to fly off.
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Now I found a quesstion. The UpdateResource function can not use for win95/98.
How do I UpdateResource for win95/98?
Thanks.
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That function is unavailable on Windows 9x.
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Three of them decide to fly off.
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I want to write a proxy so I need to detect all outgoing connections from my computer. Any sugestions how to do that.
Please help
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Hi
I think I remeber a article called Five Loaves on this site. Check it out. He write a good starting point wrapper for proxy.
Best Wishes and Happy Holiday's,
ez_way
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Hi
Just a quick, stupid question.. I'm using ShellExecute to open a file via double-click on a list box. What if the file has no association? I can't seem to get the little dialog box that allows you to choose an application to pop up. Any file with an association in the registry will open fine, but I can't open any that don't.
Thanks
Kelly Ryan
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Hi
Yes you may.
SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei;
ZeroMemory(&sei, sizeof(SHELLEXECUTEINFO));
sei.cbSize = sizeof (SHELLEXECUTEINFO);
sei.lpVerb = str1;
sei.lpFile = str2;
sei.nShow = SW_SHOW;
sei.hInstApp = NULL;
sei.lpDirectory = NULL;
sei.fMask = SEE_MASK_DOENVSUBST|SEE_MASK_NOCLOSEPROCESS;
sei.lpParameters = NULL;
if (ShellExecuteEx (&sei) )
return sei;
else
return FALSE;
So when you call your function like MyCoolProject::PenutShell(CString str1,CString str2,UINT unvar...load up the params with your mask and other goodies then monitor the sei instance.
LPCTSTR lpOperation,
LPCTSTR lpFile,
LPCTSTR lpParameters,
LPCTSTR lpDirectory,
INT nShowCmd
Best Wishes and Happy Holiday's,
ez_way
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I'll try that, thank you 
Kelly Ryan
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OK
Remember to start a worker thread before the call and monitor it.
Best Wishes and Happy Holiday's,
ez_way
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There seems to be a lot of articles written which promote the use of storing DHTML data from a C++ application in memory, rather than reading/writing temporary files to disk. However, there doesn't appear to be a lot of support backing this "best-practices" theory, other than disk caching seems slower or more sloppy (for lack of a better word) than memory caching, and that the temporary files will need to be deleted afterwards. I'm going to have to raise a brow on this one and get some others thinking about it before we all start writing a bunch of applications based on this memory usage theory.
The idea is that by initially navigating to "about:blank" and insuring that the document is loaded, we can then write directly to the HTML document as it sets in memory. The alternative approach obviously, is to write to a temporary file that is stored on the hard disk, "C:\\temp\\temp.htm" for example. I've looked deeply into both of these methods and I have to say that I'm leaning a little towards the disk caching but maybe someone can raise a point that I haven't considered.
Firstly, most of the articles claim that there'd be a need to write temporary "files" (plural), which is a little misleading. If you can write your entire DHTML document to one "about:blank", then you should be able to write the same content to one "temp.htm".
In terms of clean-up, deleting a temporary file is no different than releasing values stored in memory and Microsoft has confirmed that there are issues with releasing BSTR's from memory, even in Internet Explorer, which is causing memory leaks in most of these memory-based solutions. Simply put, a rebel file will cause far less damage than an orphaned memory block. After all and in most cases, we have Gig's worth of free and available disk space to work with and only a few hundred Meg's worth of memory, not to mention the fact that that few hundred MB's is being shared with the operating system and all of the other applications that are running on the desktop and using memory.
Additionally, the nature of a Microsoft OS is to buffer memory in an out of a paging file, so the data is eventually going to be written to the disk anyway, and into a space that is restricted by the amount of memory that is available to the system. True, the OS will "take care of it for you" but when you let something else take care of something for you, you give up the control you have over how it's handled.
And does your file need to be temporary? Do you even need to delete the file? In some cases, it may be advantatious to have a file still cached on the disk, to allow the users to work "off-line" for example, or if there's an Internet gliche and some of the data that you're attempting to download is unavailable, you can resort back to the cached file and let the end-user know that it's old data. If everything is stored in memory however, it's lost (hopefully) when they close the application. If the data they need is unavailable the next time they fire it up, they get nothing.
As far as speed goes, the disk reader and the ribbon cable slow the data down a little but the data, whether traveling from the RAM or the hard disk, will most likely bottleneck on the system bus, especially if there are a lot of other applications/services running and it's rush hour and everybody wants to go to CPU Town.
Disk access speed has increased right along with all of the other processing speeds over the years and frankly, I'd rather my customers complain about my application being a little slower in response time (if it's even noticable) than spreading around words and phrases about my application like "resource hog" and "memory leaks", which can be a deal breaker.
Besides that, the less memory that the system has available, the longer the computer will take to process data and the slower the machine will be overall, so instead of just having a slightly slower application, you're stepping on the turf of other applications and slowing down the whole system by storing large amounts of data in memory.
And finally, Microsoft itself uses temporary Internet files for caching information and they've developed both the Operating System and a pretty popular little web browser too, so maybe they know something we don't know?
Whether stored in memory or on disk, it's the same number of 1's and 0's either way you slice it. The only disadvantage that I can see with storing this type of data on disk is a slightly slower response time but I'm not even sure that it would be enough of a difference that would be noticable by the human eye, which is obviously the most important aspect, what is presented to the end-user. And storing this same data in memory can ramify into more problems which could have a negative impact on the entire sytem.
All things considered and in conclusion, wouldn't it be best to store DHTML data on disk rather than in memory?
Thoughts, ideas, retorts?
Cheers,
Wolf
"Anything's possible if you don't know what you're talking about."
- Green's Law of Debate
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WolfSupernova wrote:
Disk access speed has increased right along with all of the other processing speeds over the years and frankly, I'd rather my customers complain about my application being a little slower in response time (if it's even noticable) than spreading around words and phrases about my application like "resource hog" and "memory leaks", which can be a deal breaker.
You know why they complain about having less memory on their machines? It's because, when you don't have enough memory available, the OS will use the disk.
The current fastest disks are still at least 1,000 times slower than the current slowest memory chips.
I don't really know what are the issues about storing DHTML files in memory, but, basically, what you are asking is: is it worthy have a slightly faster software, but leaky?
OTOH, a browser builds an in-memory copy of everything that you ask it to read from the disk. Build a large test file and ask for IE to open it and you'll understand what I mean. So, storing a DHTML on disk for viewing won't save you memory, unless you have bugs.
Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
-- Bruce Schneier
By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
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WolfSupernova wrote:
After all and in most cases, we have Gig's worth of free and available disk space to work with and only a few hundred Meg's worth of memory
You may, I don't. Just like a gas, my file storage fills to all available space. I keep having to delete stuff so I can put new stuff on.
WolfSupernova wrote:
And does your file need to be temporary?
I sure hope so! I don't need tons of small files filling my temp directory! I hourly clean out my temp directory. The more files you have in a directory, the slower it is to locate them. Microsoft has a scheme whereby they break up the Temporary Internet Files in multiple directories and then have a file that it searches to find the actual file.
WolfSupernova wrote:
And finally, Microsoft itself uses temporary Internet files for caching information and they've developed both the Operating System and a pretty popular little web browser too, so maybe they know something we don't know?
Sure, like how to cache web files between computer reboots. If you're just going to show a file thats generated on the fly, why cache it? In fact, IE won't cache certain files that a website flags as being generated on the fly.
WolfSupernova wrote:
Firstly, most of the articles claim that there'd be a need to write temporary "files" (plural), which is a little misleading. If you can write your entire DHTML document to one "about:blank", then you should be able to write the same content to one "temp.htm".
So, you can write out all the images into the DHTML as well? That'd be a neat trick. And it'd bloat your html page too.
So, my opinion is, the amount of memory needed for small files to be placed into an IE window is small and insignificant and is best suited for storing in memory. IE probably won't cache it anyways if it's on the file system.
But don't get me wrong, it depends on what you're doing. Not all apps should keep everything in memory. I just feel that most of the apps write out a small amount of html anyways. I've found other solutions for displaying html, like QHTM, HtmlLayout, or PBears THtmlViewer.
YMMV, but mine is sticking to memory. A hard drive is for persistent data.
--
Joel Lucsy
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Unable to open resources!![^]
Can someone please help me figure this one out?
"We have done so much in the last 2 years, and it doesn't happen by standing around with your finger in your ear, hoping everyone thinks that that's nice." - Donald Rumsfeld
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Nevermind. Found the answer here[^].
"We have done so much in the last 2 years, and it doesn't happen by standing around with your finger in your ear, hoping everyone thinks that that's nice." - Donald Rumsfeld
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