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Yuriy2003 wrote: No, I am just working.
Well, I see you post a lot of messages on this forum, so you must have some time for this. My company is hiring people right now, lots of interviews etc. I could recomment/refer you if you are interested, but we're in NJ.
Cool. I appreciate it. I don't necessarily have the time but I take the time.
I'm at my computer so many hours a day finishing a project I started 5 years ago so I always
have the same solution open on my monitors along with a little test application project
to test code I post in the forums. It's good for me to refresh on things I haven't used in a
long time plus I learn new stuff often so that makes it worth hanging out in the forum. 
Otherwise I'm just grinding away at the same GDI/DirectX/Database/Socket code all day long!
Mark
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Five years? What is this project doing?
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Also, you could try BitBlt of the printer DC right to a screen/window DC - that'll show you what's
in the printer DC's bitmap
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Well, I can see it in a debugger too.
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What happens if you create a 32bpp bimap and blt the printer's bitmap to it.
Then you don't have to worry about the printer's bitmap format.
// hDC is printer's DC in this case
HDC hCaptureDC = CreateCompatibleDC(hDC);
// img structure contains width, height, etc. for the image
HBITMAP hCaptureBitmap = CreateBitmap(img->width, img->height, 1, 32, NULL);
HGDIOBJ h = SelectObject(hCaptureDC, hCaptureBitmap);
ret = BitBlt(hCaptureDC, 0, 0, img->width, img->height, hDC, x, y, SRCCOPY);
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CreateCompatibleBitmap() is supposedly safer. This is why I am using it.
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I don't know about safer - I know it's more efficient in certain situations.
For a single Blt it doesn't make much difference as far as I know.
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Yuriy2003 wrote: Five years? What is this project doing?
Client/Server/Imaging/Database/Teleconferencing/Video/Audio/Hardware-interfacing
Oh, and UI 
Still shouldn't have taken so long but specs changed, technology changed, and misc. other
excuses
Mark
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Well, if this is what you do for living, I guess it sells quite well. Web-based? Are you doing it just yourself or with somebody?
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Not web based. I've done all the coding and I have a partner who handles the business.
Mark
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That's cool. At least you work for yourself, which is a fantastic thing. Good luck. If you happen to be in Princeton area, let me know, we'll have a drink.
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Thanks! I may just be out to that end of the country in the upcoming months.
Take care,
Mark
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I made a few futile attempts to get CMap working ... Basically, I need:
Key CString
Value CString
What I did... after readingthis articlewas:
1. Declaration:
CMap<cstring, lpctstr,="" cstring,="" lpctstr=""> m_Result;
2. Adding elements/association:
CString sKey;
CString sVal;
m_Result.SetAt((LPCTSTR) &sKey, (LPCTSTR) &sVal);
3. *trying to* access elements
CString csVal;
I tried:
csVal = m_Result[(LPCTSTR) &csKey];
I also tried:
bSuccess = m_Result.Lookup(csKey, csVal);
The problem is, csVal always returns "nothing" (i.e. an empty/blank string)...
4. I've already implemented HashKey
<br />
inline UINT AFXAPI HashKey(const CString& str)<br />
{<br />
...<br />
<br />
return nHash;
}<br />
<br />
<br />
inline UINT AFXAPI HashKey(CString& str)<br />
{<br />
...<br />
<br />
return nHash;
}<br />
MSDN
REF 1 CMap Lookup[^] REF 2 CMap[^]
REF 3 Sample download MFC Collection classes[^]
Code Project
humm... [^]
-- modified at 20:52 Friday 29th December, 2006
Norman Fung
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I would declare a data stucture to hold the two CStrings if you can.
struct MyStrMapStruct {
CString String1;
CString String2;
};
Use the CMapStringToPtr to map the 'key' STRING to a pointer to this data structure.
Then use returned pointer to get the secondary 'value' string.
If you want to hash the first string, watch out for collisions on any add, but then you could use
CMapWordToPtr and then just double check that your source string matches String1 and if so, then use contents of String2.
If not, then have the data structure store pointers to the two CString objects.
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Does anyone have specific code examples of how to detect and retrieve a Users CD Rom drive?
I am writting an "Install" program using VS 6.0 and MFC and I need to be able to locate which drive pathway the User has the "Install" CD in - automatically; without User response.
Code examples please!
A C++ programming language novice, but striving to learn
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You can figure out which drive(s) are CDROM drives using the GetDriveType function:
for (char d='C';d<'Z';d++)
{
CString drive = CString(d)+":\\";
UINT driveType = GetDriveType(drive.GetBuffer(0));
if (driveType == DRIVE_CDROM)
{
//If we make it to here, then drive is a CD-ROM drive.
//Just in case the user has more than one CD-ROM drive,
//You may want to test to see if a specific file (unique to your CD) exists
//on this drive.
}
}
Just curious, why bother writing a home brew installation program when there are a lot of good freeware installation building tools such as InnoSetup or Advanced Installer? You can google to find either of these tools.
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The simplest way to find out 'where' an application is running from is to use the GetModuleFileName[^] function as follows:
char EXE[_MAX_PATH];
GetModuleFileName(NULL,EXE,_MAX_PATH);
char drive[_MAX_DRIVE];
char dir[_MAX_DIR];
char fname[_MAX_FNAME];
char ext[_MAX_EXT];
char path[_MAX_PATH];
_splitpath(EXE,drive,dir,fname,ext);
_makepath(path,drive,dir,"",""); The path string now contains the directory path from which the current program was started.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Is there a way to tell which process last wrote to a file? I can't see anything in the .NET File class or the FileAttributes enum which you get back from the File.GetAttributes call or the Win32 API either.
My program is reading a log file which gets written to by multiple processes. Each process opens the log file, writes to it and closes it. I would like to know which process last wrote to it.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Darryl
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I would have thought it was easier for each process to tag the entry/entries in the log file with a moniker unique to that process - I guess it depends on the lifetime of the process as to what you're doing with the information
I dont think there's an 'easy' way of looking at a file and saying 'who last wrote to it' from an o/s point of view
- I think you can :-
enumerate active processes
for each process, see what file(s) its using
or maybe use a hook and detect when a particular file (the log file) is opened, then raise an event
or use a filesystem watcher to raise an event when the log file is modified, but Im not sure if that gives you the process details
but thats a lot of overhead isnt it ?
if anyone else knows how to solve this I'd love to see the answer myself
'g'
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: I would have thought it was easier for each process to tag the entry/entries in the log file with a moniker unique to that process - I guess it depends on the lifetime of the process as to what you're doing with the information
Unfortunatley I don't think this can be done in my case.
Garth J Lancaster wrote:
or use a filesystem watcher to raise an event when the log file is modified, but Im not sure if that gives you the process details
FileSystemWatcher is what I am using now. In the Changed event handler I don't seem to have access to any process information. I get only the change type (Changed, Created, Deleted, or Renamed) and the file name and directory name.
Since the file is opened only a very brief time while 1 line is written to it I'm not sure if I will be able to hook off of processes opening files but that may be a possibility.
Thanks for your advice and maybe someone else has other insights as well?
Darryl
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Identify the writer process in log file with an additional field.
The file attributes alone do not keep track of the last process, only timestamps. Neither ReadDirectoryChangesW and FILE_NOTIFY_INFORMATION can offer a PID, at least (even if PIDs are reusable so you can't "make a guess" based on a PID value alone).
The closest thing could be the USN_RECORD structure, but that implies you are on a filesystem with journaling of some sort, although I can't see process-related data either in journaling structures.
So, AFAIK, the process should write additional info themselves in the log file.
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Thanks for your help Cristian. This is pretty much what I expected but I hoped I was missing something. Unfortunatly the code writing to the file is out of my control but maybe I can get them to make changes for the next version.
Darryl
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Filemonitor does not offer process identification, just file events (but not source).
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