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if you file get deleted.when you download the file!
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Hello 2 everyone interested!
I am developing an application using a GPS receiver for PPC. I am using threads in my code, one of them deals with the GPS's functionality. I have 2 buttons on the dialog (using MFC, by the way) - GPS>on and GPS>off. If I start the gps, at some point stop it and in a matter of up to 5 seconds (or so) I start it again, I get an error and the application crashes.
If I wait more than those 5 seconds, everything works fine. I have started logging my application's steps after hitting GPS>off and discovered that it reaches to ending the thread after .. right... those aprox.5 seconds.
So, for now, I only start the thread if a flag is set (I set it just before ending the thread).
Because I don`t want it to just ignore the push of the button, I did
do {}while(flagThreadStopped!=true)
so now, everything stops if the user starts the gps in those critical 5 seconds. It resumes, after the flag gets set, but I think if there could be another solution.
It's not a critical problem now, as I'm developing the concept, but... later on, it could be. Ideas ?
Thanks
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shpid3r wrote: Because I don`t want it to just ignore the push of the button, I did
do {}while(flagThreadStopped!=true)
so now, everything stops if the user starts the gps in those critical 5 seconds. It resumes, after the flag gets set, but I think if there could be another solution.
It's not a critical problem now, as I'm developing the concept, but... later on, it could be. Ideas ?
I would add a status message to indicate whether the GPS is off, on, or turning off. I would also set it up to disable the "on" button when turning the GPS on isn't workable. I would set up a timer to update the UI a few times a second, as well as updating it whenever a button is pressed. Also, there's no need to set a flag if the background thread is really exiting. You can call a wait function (WaitSingleObject etc.) on the thread handle, which is considered signaled when the thread exits. When updating your UI, you can do the wait with a time out of 0, and check the return value for status info.
Nathan
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Well, let me discuss your ideas one by one:
-you cannot determine when the gps is turning off. That Is, the function that closes the GPS Device doesn`t return a Handle (to use WaitForSingleObject) but a DWORD. Therefore, once you have commanded it to close, it's going to close in a certain time. Your flags all set accordingly to GPS Off, though 5 seconds it's on Turning_OFF mode, so to say.
- I do refresh my screen once every 100 ms (I've set a timer which I use for audio buffering, as well). I didn`t quite understand what you`re suggesting me to do here... Please expand
Thanks for suggestions!
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shpid3r wrote: -you cannot determine when the gps is turning off. That Is, the function that closes the GPS Device doesn`t return a Handle (to use WaitForSingleObject) but a DWORD. Therefore, once you have commanded it to close, it's going to close in a certain time. Your flags all set accordingly to GPS Off, though 5 seconds it's on Turning_OFF mode, so to say.
You mentioned a background thread, which is a good idea for this sort of problem. You gave me the impression that the background thread terminates when the GPS is closed, which would allow you to just wait for the thread to terminate. Your approach of setting a flag should work regardless.
shpid3r wrote: - I do refresh my screen once every 100 ms (I've set a timer which I use for audio buffering, as well). I didn`t quite understand what you`re suggesting me to do here... Please expand
The idea is that instead of pressing "Off" and having the program hang for 5 seconds, the "Off" button could begin the operation in the background, and while it is happenning, there will be a message on the dialog indicating that the GPS is turning off, and both the "On" and the "Off" buttons will be disabled for the time. Then, when your refresh detects that the GPS is fully off, it can change the message and enable the "On" button. Throughout the whole process, the user could continue to use any features that don't depend on the GPS.
Nathan
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hm... veeery interesting. Great!
Yes, I do use a background thread and I do have a flag that detects when user has pressed off and another one for when the gps has got into OFF state, for good. So some sort of control I do have.
I should mention that I start / end the thread when pushing on / off.
I find it interesing to create a new thread to deal with the operations for the OFF button. Sounds ... it should have been the first thing to think about, but what`s awkward for me is that when pressing the On button, a thread starts. So when Off-ing, I should start a new thread to watch the first thread finishing off-ing 
I somehow understand what you mean... sounds like it will work, I`ll try it and come back with an answer (i`ll leave home for the weekend)
Thanks for your suggestions!
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Shpid3r
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shpid3r wrote: I find it interesing to create a new thread to deal with the operations for the OFF button. Sounds ... it should have been the first thing to think about, but what`s awkward for me is that when pressing the On button, a thread starts. So when Off-ing, I should start a new thread to watch the first thread finishing off-ing
If you're already running a background thread, your background operation could probably instruct the thread to turn the GPS off, and you could keep updating the status without starting a third thread. On the other hand, if the background thread is entirely controled by third party code, a third thread which you control makes sense.
Nathan
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I am writing a little diagnostic code to run on a Citrix server, accessed through a thin client. I have put loggin messages in that print to an ofstream. There are some points that I would like the memory address of, so in my file, I say:
out << "Memory address: " << &somePointer << endl;
This produces:
Memory address: 0x0013F16C
We also have a message logging function that takes CString types and writes them to a log file. I'd like to have the same type of info in that log file. However, I can't figure out how to get the hex memory address appended to the CString.
Any ideas?
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USAFHokie80 wrote: I'd like to have the same type of info in that log file.
So what's the problem?
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"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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As it says in the bottom: I can't figure out how to get the hex address appended to the string.
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But I just figured it out so nevermind.
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USAFHokie80 wrote: ...how to get the hex address appended to the string.
out << somePointer << &somePointer << endl;
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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USAFHokie80 wrote: We also have a message logging function that takes CString types and writes them to a log file. I'd like to have the same type of info in that log file. However, I can't figure out how to get the hex memory address appended to the CString.
You can get the char * pointer with LPCTSTR(string). From there, you can output the value like any other pointer.
Nathan
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How about
void *pSomePointer;
...
CString str;
str.Format(_T("The value of the pointer is 0x%p"), pSomePointer);
Mark
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CString::Format!
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I write to a file by setting CFile::shareDenyWrite, and then try to read it. How can I check if this file is still being written before I open it to read?
Thanks
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CFile::Write() does not return until it has finished. You can call Read() anytime after that.
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"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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Thanks a lot for the reply.
I want to call read after the write is done because I need to read some info that locates at the end of the file. In this case, can I check if the write is done before read?
Thanks again!
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panrunling wrote: In this case, can I check if the write is done before read?
What's to check? Write() is a synchronous operation.
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"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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:(When I am trying to launch help file (.chm file) from within x64 release build using winapi htmlhelpa, it gives error "filename.chm not a windows help file, or the file is corrupted". The same code works for win32 release build. Please advise.
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Hi,
I need very fast serialization to disk of a large object (64 MB/128 MB etc). Serializing members one by one is not an option (Boost serialization for example is very slow), and the object does need to be shared across systems so I don't need to worry about endianness. Here's what I came up with:
void saveVoxels(Voxels * voxelData, const char * fileName) throw(...)
{
using namespace std;
ofstream file (fileName, ios::out | ios::binary);
if (file.is_open())
{
file.write((char *)voxelData, sizeof(Voxels));
unsigned int size = voxelData->m_sliceWidth * voxelData->m_sliceHeight * voxelData->m_numSlices * sizeof(unsigned short);
file.write((char *)voxelData->m_pTexture, size);
file.close();
}
}
Voxels* loadVoxels(const char * fileName) throw(...)
{
using namespace std;
ifstream file(fileName, ios::in | ios::binary | ios::ate);
if (file.is_open())
{
unsigned long size = file.tellg();
char * memblock = new char [size];
file.seekg (0, ios::beg);
file.read (memblock, size);
file.close();
Voxels * voxelData = (Voxels *) memblock;
voxelData->m_pTexture = (unsigned short *) (memblock + sizeof(Voxels));
return voxelData;
}
}
Which as far as I can tell works. However when deleting the object I get _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse) assertion error. I guess I didn't really allocate the m_pTexture pointer which is what gets deleted...Any solutions?
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have you tried something like: KLV?[^]. It is just a form of binary serialization, but we shoot videos to file or across the net using it.
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Budric B. wrote: However when deleting the object I get _BLOCK_TYPE_IS_VALID(pHead->nBlockUse) assertion error.
Does the pointer ever get moved? In other words, if you did something like:
char *p = new char[5];
p++;
delete [] p; the result would not be what you'd expect because a different address is being freed.
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"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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No, the pointers does not get moved. Voxels is a class and it gets returned from the loadVoxels() function. The problem is when I call "delete Voxels;" the destructor is deleting the member array and that's when the assertion fails.
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Budric B. wrote: The problem is when I call "delete Voxels;"...
Which should be:
delete [] Voxels;
"A good athlete is the result of a good and worthy opponent." - David Crow
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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I see...even though it's an object? I know I'm casting an array to an object, but I would have thought things would behave as they would for any object created with new.
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