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Re: How to add the number to the shortcut in the desktop of the application.

2-Dec-13 5:14

What do you mean by "show a number in the shutcut in the desktop"?

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jeron12-Dec-13 5:40

jeron1

2-Dec-13 5:40

Do you mean something like "Microsoft Word (2)"?

Re: How to add the number to the shortcut in the desktop of the application.

yu-jian2-Dec-13 5:55

yu-jian

2-Dec-13 5:55

No, this is changed the shortcut name. I means that display a number in the icon of the shortcut.

Re: How to add the number to the shortcut in the desktop of the application.

jeron12-Dec-13 6:06

jeron1

2-Dec-13 6:06

So overlay an image of a number on top of an existing icon?

Re: How to add the number to the shortcut in the desktop of the application.

yu-jian2-Dec-13 6:19

yu-jian

2-Dec-13 6:19

Yes, I donot know which windows api can do it.

Re: How to add the number to the shortcut in the desktop of the application.

jeron12-Dec-13 6:46

jeron1

2-Dec-13 6:46

I'm far from certain but maybe IShellIconOverlay[^] may help. Also, perhaps even more so this article[^] might help shed some light.

how to get ip address of a host

Member 104386231-Dec-13 21:26

Member 10438623

1-Dec-13 21:26

The problem is that a host could have lots of network interfaces, and an interface could be bound to more than one IP address. And to top that, not all IP addresses will be reachable from off the machine. Some could be virtual devices, and others could be private network IP addresses.
How do i know my local ip address which is currently reachable from outside network?

Richard MacCutchan1-Dec-13 23:42

1-Dec-13 23:42

Is this something to do with C++?

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Member 104386232-Dec-13 0:04

Member 10438623

2-Dec-13 0:04

Yes, i am looking for a C Program for this...

Richard MacCutchan2-Dec-13 0:30

2-Dec-13 0:30

Then you should be searching Google for samples. Please read http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/2922875/HOW-TO-ASK-A-QUESTION.aspx[^].

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ahmad_ali2-Dec-13 22:54

ahmad_ali

2-Dec-13 22:54

Hi!

One of the few solutions that work relibaly are based on establishing a connection to some external website (e.g. google.com) and then checking the ip address of the local endpoint.

Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2674314/get-local-ip-address-using-boost-asio[^]

Member 104386234-Dec-13 16:39

Member 10438623

4-Dec-13 16:39

Thanks Ahmad.

But I have one doubt in the above solution.

Suppose there are two ips configured in the system(one is through LAN and other one through USB) and we can connect external ip through one of the local ips(say through USB).

Then does this solution always returns the local ip which can connect outside(USB in this case) or it will return any one ip.

Visual C++ 2008 mis-compiling

arishri3-Dec-13 3:48

arishri

3-Dec-13 3:48

char cNamearr[255];
    gethostname(cNamearr, 255);
    hostent* hp = gethostbyname(cNamearr);

    _sockaddr.sin_addr.s_addr   = _nAdapterIp;//inet_addr((const char*)_ucIpCharArr);
    _sockaddr.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b1 = hp->h_addr_list[0][0];
    _sockaddr.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b2 = hp->h_addr_list[0][1];
    _sockaddr.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b3 = hp->h_addr_list[0][2];
    _sockaddr.sin_addr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b4 = hp->h_addr_list[0][3];

Anthony Appleyard30-Nov-13 8:13

30-Nov-13 8:13

Recently my old Visual C++ (2005 or earlier) decided to upgrade itself to Visual C++ 2008, or whatever happened, and that has different features. I am having to re-make all my projects for Visual C++ 2008. I am currently doing this with my project ppp_vc, which is a simple image reader and outputter and editer, and it is very useful to me. (The -'_vc' means "Visual C", to distinguish it from stuff made with my old faithful Borland C++ 4.52, which I had to stop using when modern Windowses became incompatible with it.) So far, the Release version of ppp.exe runs OK, but the Debug version of ppp.exe fails with a MessageBox saying "The application has failed to start because its side-to-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more details."

What is sxstrace.exe, and how to call it? What is a side-to-side configuration? This needs to be sorted out, before I have to repeat this ordeal with my application makeobj, which is a very useful CGI 3D mesh-editor which I wrote. And ditto with several other applications which I wrote.

I was brought up on MS-DOS, where things were much simpler.

This difficulty became much worse today when my PC's Windows decided to upgrade itself from the web.

One thing that I did in my Borland C++ days was to make the .JPG graphics software into a DLL, which was useful, until a way arose of calling JPG directly from the Windows software.

modified 30-Nov-13 15:00pm.

Richard Andrew x6430-Nov-13 10:57

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/error-the-application-has-failed-to-start-because/df019c0d-746e-42d0-ad68-465e18e3f3ef[^]

30-Nov-13 10:57

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Anthony Appleyard30-Nov-13 11:38

30-Nov-13 11:38

Which of the updates listed on that page linked to, should I install? My PC has Windows 8, 64-bit.

Which #insert file declares the name WS_SYSMENU ?

Richard Andrew x6430-Nov-13 11:41

30-Nov-13 11:41

I would suggest installing the 64-bit 2008 version.

You can find the definition of a symbol by right-clicking it, and selecting "Go to definition."

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Anthony Appleyard30-Nov-13 11:53

30-Nov-13 11:53

Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
I would suggest installing the 64-bit 2008 version.

Please where can I download it? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio//[^] does not list it.

Would Visual Studio 2013 work on my PC?

I tried running an old compiled .exe file that ran OK before my computer was reformatted and reinstalled (with a newer version of Windows 8), and it gave the fault as described above. What IS happening? How do people make .exe files that are not so dependent on exact details of which system it is run on?

modified 30-Nov-13 18:07pm.

Richard Andrew x6430-Nov-13 12:47

30-Nov-13 12:47

Does this application use MFC? If so, then that may be the problem.

The VC Express editions don't come with MFC, so you might be missing the debug libraries. The only solution for that is to install VS 2008 ~~Professional~~ Standard or higher.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Richard Andrew x6430-Nov-13 11:44

30-Nov-13 11:44

Anthony Appleyard wrote:
Which of the updates listed on that page linked to, should I install?

It depends upon which one is missing and/or corrupted.

Try installing both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions and see if that fixes it.

The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.

Anthony Appleyard30-Nov-13 12:15

Re: Visual C++ 2008 mis-compiling :: re-listing of query.

30-Nov-13 12:15

The version that I have running now is
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Version 9.0.21022.8 RTM
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 3.5 SP1

Installed Edition: VC Express

Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 91909-152-0000052-60767
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008

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I am running Windows 8, but how can I find exactly which update of Windows 8 I have?

Anthony Appleyard30-Nov-13 19:37

Re: Visual C++ 2008 mis-compiling :: re-listing of query.

30-Nov-13 19:37

Thank you for your help with my continuing query.

The link http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/downloads/[^] lists many applications. Please, which do you recommend me to use, and what update/cure-for-bug packages to install on top of it, do you recommend?, given that:-

I have a PC a few months old with Windows 8, apparently 64-bit.

Considerations of expense, if I must buy the software.

The link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2890846/en-us[^] lists several current bugs in Visual Studio 2013.

I am seriously affected by the "The application has failed to start because its side-to-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more details." bug, and many of the .exe files that by current Visual C++ creates cannot run due to that bug. One of you gave me this link[^] for possible cures for it; I installed one of those recommended updates, but the bug has continued. The bug seems to also affect old compilations which compiled on Visual C++ and ran OK before my PC was recently reformatted and reloaded in a big computer repair shop, thus likely giving me a later version of Windows 8 than I was running before; they used the reload disks that came with my PC, but they set it to auto-update itself from the internet.
* How should I call sxstrace.exe ?
* Is there any chance that this bug could be caused by malware?

I only need to compile C++.

The version that I have running now, and has the bug described here, is
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Version 9.0.21022.8 RTM
Microsoft .NET Framework
Version 3.5 SP1
Installed Edition: VC Express
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 91909-152-0000052-60767
* It is Visual C++ alone, not the whole Studio.

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I am running Windows 8, but how can I find exactly which update of Windows 8 I have?

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Which #insert file declares the #define name WS_SYSMENU ? I have been having nuisance with the compiler saying that I have not declared it.

modified 1-Dec-13 2:18am.

Richard MacCutchan30-Nov-13 21:29

Re: Visual C++ 2008 mis-compiling :: re-listing of query.

30-Nov-13 21:29

WS_SYSMENU is defined in the WinUser.h and Winuser.rh files. You should include windows.h in your source code, and winresrc.h in your resource files. Make sure that you also have the correct SDK installed; this comes automatically with VC++ Express 2010 and above as far as I recall, but I'm not sure about 2008. I am also a bit confused as to how your 2005 version automatically updated itself to 2008, since these products need to be downloaded manually.

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Anthony Appleyard30-Nov-13 23:58