C / C++ / MFC

Re: Creating shortcuts in Start menu

15-Feb-04 22:54

Hi, I'd like to be able to create a shortcut in the start menu like office does. Instead of putting it in the Programs > section, it puts it in the main Start Menu window?

How can I do this? Thank you,

Ashman

Arcrest16-Feb-04 1:14

Arcrest

16-Feb-04 1:14

put your short cut here:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu

but i don't know how to put one in the start menu for windowsxp-style start menu

Programmatically copying a folder in MFC

Ashman15-Feb-04 22:53

15-Feb-04 22:53

Hi, I need to know how to copy a folder and all the contents within to another location set by the user. Because the folders content is read only, I want to be able to make ReadOnly(FALSE);

Is this possible, please help!

Thanks in advance
Ashman

Prakash Nadar15-Feb-04 23:23

Prakash Nadar

15-Feb-04 23:23

SHFileOperation will help out, its very good api to work around with files and folder.

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Ashman16-Feb-04 2:25

16-Feb-04 2:25

Thanks
I searched for SHFileOperation() API calls and I don't understand how to implement it in my program.

Do you have/know of an example that I can use. What I want to do is very basic; transfer 2 folders with all their files intact from location:

D:\Programming\NeriedPOS\nbsSetup\nPOS & D:\Programming\NeriedPOS\nbsSetup\nManager

to C:\Program Files\nPOS with ReadOnly(FALSE)

Would you kindly be able to show me how to do that using SHFileOperation() or any other API?

Please help...its kinda urgent considering I have almost run out of hair to pull Smile | :)

Thanks
Ashman

David Crow16-Feb-04 2:36

16-Feb-04 2:36

This

SHFILEOPSTRUCT shfo = {0};
shfo.wFunc = FO_COPY;
shfo.pFrom = "D:\\Programming\\NeriedPOS\\nbsSetup\\nPOS\\*.*\0";
shfo.pTo   = "C:\\Program Files\\nPOS\0";
SHFileOperation(&shfo);

should get you started.

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Ashman16-Feb-04 2:42

16-Feb-04 2:42

Have I ever told you I love you? Smile | :)

Thanks heaps

David Crow16-Feb-04 2:55

Re: AutoUpgrade Feature ?

16-Feb-04 2:55

Ashman wrote:
Thanks heaps

You're welcome stacks!

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AutoUpgrade Feature ?

RaajaOfSelf15-Feb-04 21:57

RaajaOfSelf

15-Feb-04 21:57

Hello ,

Is there any SDK to implement the AUto-Upgrade feature .I am writing a application in vc++ .Is there anything ,that i can use some SDKs that can be used to check for upgrades for my application from a URL /server ?

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Effect is God's effort

Ashman16-Feb-04 2:36

How do you get the functions exported by the dll and

16-Feb-04 2:36

What I did, which was kind of slow maybe to create an autoupdater was to get my program to connect to the server, navigate to updates folder and open a file which was similar to an ini file. Get the current version of the program the user is running, set a variable for each new version like; Version 1.10a = 1 and Version 1.10b = 2 etc.

On the server say the new version is Version 1.10c which = 3, try like: Note this is using CIniEx as an example...

<br />
CString strVersion;<br />
ini.Open("Version.ini");<br />
strVersion=ini.GetValue("Program","Version");<br />
<br />
if(strVersion == "3") //Just an example, or just get the string value from a file on the webserver<br />
{<br />
//You have the current version<br />
}<br />
else {<br />
//Open another file to get the location of the new updated program and then download it and execute it<br />
}<br />
<br />

Just a suggestion....bit hard to explain considering Im a complete knob. For some reason things just work themselves out for me programmatically Confused | :confused:

. Hope that helped. Unsure | :~

Ashman

SamirSood15-Feb-04 21:17

SamirSood

15-Feb-04 21:17

How do you get the functions exported by the dll and the detailed description of their arguments

Thank you in advance

Samir Sood;)

Samir Sood

Re: How do you get the functions exported by the dll and

RaajaOfSelf15-Feb-04 22:01

RaajaOfSelf

15-Feb-04 22:01

http://www.mindcracker.com/mindcracker/c_cafe/dll/dll_tut1l.asp

Please refer this .....Basically u need to inform the compiler using some macros that these functions need to be exported

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Re: How do you get the functions exported by the dll and

David Crow16-Feb-04 2:38

Re: How do you get the functions exported by the dll and

16-Feb-04 2:38

SamirSood wrote:
How do you get the functions exported by the dll...

The Depends utility that ships with Visual Studio is good for this.

SamirSood wrote:
...the detailed description of their arguments

See this article.

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Steve S16-Feb-04 4:58

Steve S

16-Feb-04 4:58

However, unless the functions are decorated C++ ones, Depends will not be able to provide much by way of parameter information;
Sometimes you can get a very small hint, if the exported name has @nn after it, since that tells you the size of all the parameters, but of course, you still need to be able to read the disassembly to work out a bit more by way of context Wink | ;)

Steve S

simple database system

LamLie`15-Feb-04 20:58

15-Feb-04 20:58

Hi there...
i'm new here with vc++ n i need a little help please...

1. i need a drop down box n query the value from a database.
2. from the drop down, when the user made the selection, the system will do another query and output the result in a data grid table.

it sounds so simple but how do u actually do it with Visual C++
could somebody please help
thanks

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David Crow16-Feb-04 2:41

16-Feb-04 2:41

To handle a change in the combobox, provide a handler for the CBN_SELCHANGE message. To get the value in the edit portion of the combobox, use GetWindowText().

How are you communicating with the database (e.g., directly, ODBC, DAO)?

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LamLie`16-Feb-04 13:41

16-Feb-04 13:41

thanks for the reply....

i'm using odbc for the connection with an access database, and still is confuse on how to connect by the way.... could you help to explane which is the easiest way...

thanks

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Toni7816-Feb-04 15:29

Toni78

16-Feb-04 15:29

For the grid go to http://www.codeproject.com/database/msdatagrid.asp[^]. While if you want to read something about databases check this link here in codeproject http://www.codeproject.com/database/#ODBC[^].

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LamLie`16-Feb-04 15:36

16-Feb-04 15:36

i think i got it on how to query and all.. but few silly question...
1. where actually do i put it in my app?
2. how do i take the result from the query and put it an a listbox.??

thanks

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Toni7816-Feb-04 15:41

Toni78

16-Feb-04 15:41

Sorry, LamLie but these are not questions that can be answered with short and simple sentences. Not to instult you or anything but if you are new to database programming then you must read a few articles on how to move from one record to another and how to store them. Personally, I prefer ADO because that's the one that I learned how to use. Codeproject has a section and databases and you will find a lot of helpful articles in there.

// Afterall, I realized that even my comment lines have bugs

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LamLie`16-Feb-04 15:44

16-Feb-04 15:44

yup.. i am quite new with database in C++, actually in vc++ it self.. Frown | :(

but i think i got it for now... and will post back later if i come to a halt.
thanks for the help.

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File sharing problem

spingkoy15-Feb-04 20:41

spingkoy

15-Feb-04 20:41

Good day,

I'm creating a program that compiles visual C++ program so that i dont
have to switch and make the project active, since i have a lot of projects
on my workspace.I perform the compilation by creating a process so that the
main process could not be affected by its slow compiling..

UINT CompileReleaseMode(LPVOID pParam)
{
::WaitForSingleObject(g_eventStartRelease, INFINITE);
....
....
if(!CreateProcess(NULL,"msdev e:\\app.dsw /MAKE \"app - Win32 Debug" /REBUILD /OUT
c:\\Status.log", NULL, FALSE......);
WaitForSingleObject( pirelease1.hProcess, INFINITE );
}

In my dialog i have a listbox where i could put the filtered compilation message based from the log file(status.log). So i created another thread to read the file(running parallel with the first process) or have it back-up so that i could read the current change of file and reflect to the listbox the filtered message.

My problem now is that when the thread the reads the log file(it generates an error).
How can i access the content of the file or get the last line that have been updated.
(we can see that file has been updated as compilation process.. by executing
type status.log on command prompt.

Thanks a lot and have nice day Smile | :)

sphynxs

Re: File sharing problem

David Crow16-Feb-04 2:54