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Re: How to set value of a variable during dubugging in visual studio 2005

Richard MacCutchan19-Oct-10 4:42

19-Oct-10 4:42

1. You can do this from one of the debug windows (Autos, Locals, Watch etc). Just click on the variable's value and change it to whatever you want it to be.

2. All backslashes in a string need to be escaped thus:

CString path = "c:\\Temp\\bin_Images\\abc.txt";

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash

Text getting truncated

vikram attiganal19-Oct-10 0:21

vikram attiganal

19-Oct-10 0:21

Hello,

I am finding an issue where in I have a Text which is longer than a single line with no spaces. This text is not displayed completely in the tool tip. It gets truncated.

I make use of CDC for the tooltip display rectangle,

CDC* pDC = GetDC();
CRect rect(0, 0, 0, 0);
CString sComment = "this is a comment bigggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg comment 2 2 2";
pDC->DrawText(sComment, &rect, DT_CALCRECT | DT_LEFT | DT_WORDBREAK | DT_NOPREFIX | DT_TOP);
int iheight = rect.Height(); // It wont return the correct rectangle height

//Output is
this is a comment biggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

Can anyone tell me what the issue is.

Thank you,
~ Vikram

Re: Text getting truncated

CPallini19-Oct-10 0:34

CPallini

19-Oct-10 0:34

If you don't like the clipped text, then why didn't you specify the DT_NOCLIP formt?
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Re: Text getting truncated

vikram attiganal19-Oct-10 0:46

vikram attiganal

19-Oct-10 0:46

I need the text to be displayed on multiple lines, but i need to avoid text truncation.

Re: Text getting truncated

CPallini19-Oct-10 2:12

CPallini

19-Oct-10 2:12

I suppose you got the wrong height because you've passed an empty rectangle to the function.
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Re: Text getting truncated

Richard MacCutchan19-Oct-10 0:38

Richard MacCutchan

19-Oct-10 0:38

Interestingly this is an exact duplicate of this question[^], even though the ids are different. I cannot believe that two different CP members randomly created exactly the same issue in the last few days. Are you (or the other person) perhaps a sock puppet?

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Re: Text getting truncated

Maximilien19-Oct-10 3:41

Maximilien

19-Oct-10 3:41

or the user simply changed his name ?

Watched code never compiles.

Re: Text getting truncated

Richard MacCutchan19-Oct-10 4:31

Richard MacCutchan

19-Oct-10 4:31

Well, a simple view of both user entries shows this not to be the case.

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Re: Text getting truncated

Sauro Viti19-Oct-10 5:05

Sauro Viti

19-Oct-10 5:05

then, a very strange case of telepathy WTF | :WTF:

Re: Text getting truncated

Code-o-mat19-Oct-10 5:58

Code-o-mat

19-Oct-10 5:58

...or collective conciousness...hell the borg are coming!

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Re: Text getting truncated

bleedingfingers20-Oct-10 1:18

bleedingfingers

20-Oct-10 1:18

Or team members in a race to please the boss (chetana is usually a girl's name and vikram a boy's)

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Re: Text getting truncated

Richard MacCutchan20-Oct-10 1:29

Richard MacCutchan

20-Oct-10 1:29

Maybe they should get together and make beautiful programs ...

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash

What characters are not valid and not supported in URL?

Le@rner19-Oct-10 0:15

Le@rner

19-Oct-10 0:15

hi all,

please tell me What characters are not valid and not supported in URL?

thanks in advance.

Re: What characters are not valid and not supported in URL?

Richard MacCutchan19-Oct-10 0:33

Richard MacCutchan

19-Oct-10 0:33

Try something like this[^], it's amazing what you can learn.

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash

Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

msr_codeproject18-Oct-10 23:31

msr_codeproject

18-Oct-10 23:31

I am facing a strange problem.

In my dialog application (Win32), I have a button control.
I am loading a "Greek" string ("Επιλογή Εκτυπωτή")from a string DLL and trying to

>Case-1
display on the button control.

>Case-2
And also I am trying to use the same string to set the dialog's title.

But here the problem is,on the button, text is displayed correctly, but dialog's title displayed as
"?p???? ??t?p?t?"

I am using (both for Case-1 and Case-2)

>LoadStringW to load the string
>SetWindowTextW to display

While debugging, I found that strings are loaded properly in both the cases.
I have also tried by changing code pages using setlocale API.

But I couldn't solve this issue.
Please provide me some tips so that I can move forward.

Thanks in advance
msr

Re: Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

Sauro Viti18-Oct-10 23:43

Sauro Viti

18-Oct-10 23:43

The difference is on the font used for the two items: are you sure that the font used for window titles supports greek characters?

Re: Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

msr_codeproject18-Oct-10 23:52

msr_codeproject

18-Oct-10 23:52

I have seen the dialog properties, the font is Microsoft Sans Serif.

I think this font supports Greek also. Check

Regards
msr

Re: Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

Richard MacCutchan19-Oct-10 4:48

Richard MacCutchan

19-Oct-10 4:48

I have just used your Greek phrase to set my dialog title and it appears correctly (font is MS Sans serif), so I cannot see what is different between your code and mine. Maybe you could show a bit more of your code as there may be a clue that you have missed.

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash

Re: Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

msr_codeproject19-Oct-10 19:01

msr_codeproject

19-Oct-10 19:01

Hi, thanks for the reply. Here is my code.

WCHAR* chr = L"Επιλογή Εκτυπωτή";
HWND hWnd = ::GetDlgItem(m_hWnd, IDC_BUTTON);

::SetWindowTextW(m_hWnd,  chr);
::SetWindowTextW(hWnd,  chr);

>> Where m_hWnd is handle to the Dialog and hWnd is handle to the Button.

>> Output

>> Button - "Επιλογή Εκτυπωτή"
>> Dialog's Title - "?p????? ??t?p?t?"

Regards
msr

Re: Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

Richard MacCutchan19-Oct-10 22:57

Richard MacCutchan

19-Oct-10 22:57

That is basically what I did and it worked fine. It would appear that the system is trying to translate the characters to a different font in the title of the dialog bar. I can only suggest rechecking your dialog settings, including verifying that the system is not sending a WM_SETFONT message which is changing it from your original font selection. Other than that I'm a bit lost I'm afraid.

I am often reminded of a sentence in "Programming Windows 3.1" by Charles Petzold where he says (if I remember correctly): "No-one said it has to be to be easy". Frown | :(

Just say 'NO' to evaluated arguments for diadic functions! Ash

Re: Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings

gothic_coder20-Oct-10 21:08

gothic_coder

20-Oct-10 21:08

Same happen to me when i tried to load "Chinese" string, But changing locale works for me..

Re: Problem while displaying "Greek" and "Russian" Strings [modified]

msr_codeproject20-Oct-10 21:12

msr_codeproject

20-Oct-10 21:12

Hi,

Even I have tried by changing local, but it didn't work for me.

Can you just brief me how did you change your locale. Give me some steps.

Thanks in advance...

Regards
msr

modified on Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:47 AM

FILETIME / WinAPI

Fareed Rizkalla18-Oct-10 22:36

Fareed Rizkalla

18-Oct-10 22:36

I understand the FILETIME structure and how data is stored.
However I called a Filename's attributes and retrieved the time/date attributed to it.
Then calling FileTimeToLocalFileTime function converts from UTC to LocalTime.

However I'm seeing a weird anomaly, it appeared to occur on the 24 hour conversion.
Time during the day (AM) was missing an hour, but on special folders by located for Windows.
Even files located in the root I created during the day were correctly timed? D'Oh! | :doh:

Re: FILETIME / WinAPI

vasu_sri18-Oct-10 23:32

vasu_sri

18-Oct-10 23:32

if you have FILETIME structure, then
use this function FileTimeToSystemTime();
in this function pass the SYSTEMTIME as sencond argument.

like this:
FileTimeToSystemTime(&fileTime,&systemTime);
szString.Format (_TEXT("%02d-%02d-%d"),systemTime.wMonth,systemTime.wDay,systemTime.wYear);

Regards,
Srinivas

Re: FILETIME / WinAPI

Fareed Rizkalla18-Oct-10 23:51

Fareed Rizkalla

18-Oct-10 23:51

You haven't read my problem, maybe took a good look than a glimpse at it!

FileDetails is Structure used in FindFile function.

FILETIME UTCTime = FileDetails.ftCreationTime;
FILETIME LocalTime;

FileTimeToLocalFileTime( &UTCTime, &LocalTime);

SYSTEMTIME HumanReadableForm;
FileTimeToSystemTime(&LocalTime, &HumanReadableForm);

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