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ns12-Sep-02 5:19

12-Sep-02 5:19

Thanks. I'll remember that. I just tried the msdn and it didnt say much. One thing: do you think its big enough to hold an random path to a file on some users machine, in general? I'm using filecopy and will know the destination and source interactively, so cant predict pathlength. Would you error trap this just in case, Or is it safe to assume that paths will fit into 260? I'm not sure what the smart thing to do is, in this case...
thanks,
ns

Re: MAX_PATH defined as?

C^hris L^osinger12-Sep-02 5:20

C^hris L^osinger

12-Sep-02 5:20

yes, i'd make sure things fit. (measure strings first).

and when at all possible, i try to use dynamic strings like CString, std::string, etc. and i only measure when i run up against a non-dynamic string (char buf[MAX_PATH]).

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Re: MAX_PATH defined as?

Ravi Bhavnani12-Sep-02 5:56

Ravi Bhavnani

12-Sep-02 5:56

Actually, it's _MAX_PATH, which is the OS specific max length of a fully qualified filespec. If my memory serves me right, it's defined in stdlib.h.

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Re: MAX_PATH defined as?

ns12-Sep-02 8:26

12-Sep-02 8:26

Thanks! I'm trying to do CopyFile and apparently need the unicode version which allows >MAX_PATH for file path (from MSDN). But I cant find any info on this unicode version in MSDN, or an example of its usage. My current workaround is not to copy if filepath doesnt fit in max_path but thats not very friendly....

Popup menu

12-Sep-02 4:32

Hi,

In a MFC app I have a menu like :

MENU->
Show
Hide
(...)
Names->
One
Two
Exit

Names is added dynamically with the following code :

CMenu namesmenu;
namesmenu.CreatePopupMenu();
submenu -> InsertMenu(1, MF_POPUP, (UINT_PTR)namesmenu.m_hMenu, "Names");

and filled with :

namesmenu.AppendMenu(MF_STRING, ID_NAMES + i, strNames[i]);

ok, now in my CDialog derived class, to know when an added option (One, Two, etc) is selected, I have :

BOOL CReminditDlg::OnCmdMsg(UINT nID, int nCode, void* pExtra, AFX_CMDHANDLERINFO* pHandlerInfo)
{
if (pHandlerInfo == NULL && nCode == CN_COMMAND)
{
/*
here I need to know how many menu items had been added, and I
don't know how to do this !
*/
}

return CDocument::OnCmdMsg(nID, nCode, pExtra, pHandlerInfo);
}

Thanks if anyone can help me !

Re: Popup menu

Anonymous12-Sep-02 4:35

Anonymous

12-Sep-02 4:35

In other words, how to access a submenu of a submenu ?

Re: Popup menu

Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 4:47

Tomasz Sowinski

12-Sep-02 4:47

I'm not quite sure why are you using OnCmdMsg. If you want to handle the range of command IDs, just use ON_COMMAND_RANGE in your message map.

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Re: Popup menu

Anonymous12-Sep-02 5:07

Anonymous

12-Sep-02 5:07

Thanks, but the MSDN sample DYNAMENU use OnCmdMsg to handle dynamically created menus.

Anyway, how to access to the "Name" submenu ?

Re: Popup menu

Anonymous12-Sep-02 5:10

Anonymous

12-Sep-02 5:10

Ok I don't use ON_COMMAND_RANGE because I don't know in advance how many items I will add...

Re: Popup menu

Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 5:19

Tomasz Sowinski

12-Sep-02 5:19

But there's upper limit. You won't be adding 10000 items for sure.

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Re: Popup menu

Anonymous12-Sep-02 5:31

Anonymous

12-Sep-02 5:31

Ok you're right ;o)

But this isn't the problem : I try to access to the dynamically created menu :

CMenu menu;
menu.LoadMenu(ID_MENU); // load the menu

CMenu* submenu = menu.GetSubMenu(1);
CMenu* namesmenu = submenu.GetSubMenu(...);

int nItem = namesmenu.GetMenuItemCount();

but it doesn't work...

Re: Popup menu

Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 5:39

Tomasz Sowinski

12-Sep-02 5:39

Have no idea how your menu looks like. Check if 'submenu' points is non-NULL. If it points to some CMenu object, then check if it's actually the submenu you're looking for - use GetMenuItemCount/GetMenuString. If you get this right, proceed to namesmenu.

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pointer/handle

brianwelsch12-Sep-02 3:55

brianwelsch

12-Sep-02 3:55

Is there actually a difference between a pointer and a handle, or is it just the context of what you happen to be talking about?

BW
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Re: pointer/handle

Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 4:04

Tomasz Sowinski

12-Sep-02 4:04

Pointer is an address of object. Handle is an opaque value. The implementor may use a pointer as handle, but it's also free to use index in array or any other value identifying the object. You can't dereference the handle as you do with pointer - you just obtain the handle from CreateFoo-style function and pass it to other functions. These functions know how to interpret the value of handle, while you don't.

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Re: pointer/handle

brianwelsch12-Sep-02 4:15

brianwelsch

12-Sep-02 4:15

Would it be fair to say that handles are references to objects defined by the Win32API? Kind of a pointer to a pointer. Whereas pointers are references to objects created and defined within the application itself.

BW
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Re: pointer/handle

Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 4:26

Tomasz Sowinski

12-Sep-02 4:26

Not exactly. While Win32 API uses handles, it's by no means the only place where handles are used. And surely you can't call them pointer to pointer, because they can be indices in array as well.

You can think of handles as magic cookies passed from/to library code. You don't need to know what do they mean. This knowledge is encapsulated in library itself.

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Re: pointer/handle

brianwelsch12-Sep-02 4:32

brianwelsch

12-Sep-02 4:32

I think I get the difference, thanks!

we need an lightbulb icon, or something else denoting understanding

BW
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Re: pointer/handle

jhwurmbach12-Sep-02 4:13

jhwurmbach

12-Sep-02 4:13

Handle is the more general concept, an arbitrary identifier for something.
A pointer is a memory address at which may (or may not) be an object.
All pointers are handles to their object(s memory), but most handles are not pointers.

Windows HWNDs are not pointers but (I think) indices into an array of windows.
STL iterators are handle-objects, with operators overloaded to mimic pointers.

I hope I have added my share to the confusion Big Grin | :-D

afxDump

Jawache12-Sep-02 3:26

Jawache

12-Sep-02 3:26

I'm having problems with installing my app on other machines. I keep on gettting
"Failed to create empty document", after going through the source code It looks to me like this message is ouput when creation of the MainFrame fails.

I NEED the trace statements to figure our what is going on!

Is there any way i can redirect the TRACE statements to a file, i've thought redirecting the afxDump variable to a file but the assignment = operator is protected Cry | :((

BOOL CExplorerApp::InitInstance()
{
	CFile dumpfile;
	dumpfile.Open(_T("C:\\Jexlog.txt"),CFile::modeCreate|CFile::modeWrite);
	CDumpContext dc(&dumpfile);
    afxDump = dc;

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Re: afxDump

Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 3:50

Tomasz Sowinski

12-Sep-02 3:50

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaultframe.asp?page=/msj/0497/c++/c++0497.htm[^]

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Re: afxDump

Jawache12-Sep-02 4:11

Jawache

12-Sep-02 4:11

WOW...

I have to admit in the time its taken me to respond i've fixed the problem using another method.

But still i'll definately bookmarking that site.

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w: www.jawache.net

Local machine ip address

Anonymous12-Sep-02 2:24

Anonymous

12-Sep-02 2:24

How can i retrieve the local machine ip address and hostname. I searched here at CP but didn't find proper article.

Re: Local machine ip address

JohnnyG12-Sep-02 2:30

JohnnyG

12-Sep-02 2:30

Close....but search this forum. Wink | ;)

Re: Local machine ip address

lucy12-Sep-02 5:43

lucy

12-Sep-02 5:43

// print out local host IP address
char name[256] = "";
int nRet = gethostname(name, sizeof(name));
if ( nRet == SOCKET_ERROR )
    MessageBox("gethostname() failed");
else
{
    struct hostent * host = gethostbyname(name);
    if ( host == NULL )
        MessageBox("gethostbyname() failed");
    else
    {
        struct in_addr addr;
        memcpy(&addr, host->h_addr_list[0], sizeof(addr));
        CString m_strHost;
        m_strHost.Format( "%s", inet_ntoa(addr));
        // do whatever you want to do with the obtained IP address
    }
}

Scripting for Applications

Ciufudean Sorin12-Sep-02 2:16

Ciufudean Sorin

12-Sep-02 2:16

thanks for the ideas, it works, but now i have another question. I's like to load two different script files and rund the scripts almoust the same time. What do i have to do when i'm using the ActiveX Scripting engine from Microsoft (IActiveScript)?

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