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Question about Direct3D View Area

26-Feb-16 0:01

Member 112032772-Feb-16 5:24

Member 11203277

2-Feb-16 5:24

I am following the example about setting up Direct3D rendering area on this link:
Tutorial 1: Direct3D 11 Basics[^]

All I did is just wrapped it in my own class and instantiated within MFC project.

However, my question is, why no matter what values I put as width/height in the DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_DESC structure, I still get all window filled with blue?

shouldnt width/height in that structure or in the D3D11_VIEWPORT structure make difference at all?

FormatMessage for unicode

bkelly1330-Jan-16 15:03

Re: FormatMessage for unicode

30-Jan-16 15:03

Windows 10, Visual Studio 2012,C++

I need a version of FormatMessage() for Unicode, WCHAR. Google and MSDN deny all my searches for same. I want to call a function of my own that accepts a pointer to WCHAR and the error number, and puts the resultant string in the passed array.

Lacking that, I need a version of swprintf() that has an argument for a max number of characters to move into the string and accepts the LPSTR that is returned by FormatMessage().

Thank you for your time
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Richard MacCutchan30-Jan-16 21:15

WCHAR argument pointer Resolved

30-Jan-16 21:15

I presume you mean something like:

C++

void ShowError(DWORD    dwError,
               PWSTR    pszMessage,
               int      maxMessageSize
               )
{
    if (dwError == 0)
    {
        dwError = GetLastError();
    }
    if (FormatMessage(
        FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
        FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS |
        FORMAT_MESSAGE_MAX_WIDTH_MASK,                // don't include line breaks
        NULL,                                         // no source message
        dwError,                                      // message identifier
        MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),    // default language
        pszMessage,                                   // address of message buffer
        maxMessageSize,                               // size of user supplied buffer
        NULL                                          // optional parameter list
        ) == 0)
    {
        // unknown error code
        swprintf_s(pszMessage, maxMessageSize, L"Error code: %d (0x%X)", dwError, dwError);
    }
}

Which you call by:

C++

WCHAR        szMessage[512];
ShowError(nErrorCode, szMessage, _countof(szMessage));
wcout << "Exception: " << szMessage << endl;

modified 31-Jan-16 8:59am.

Message Removed

20-Jan-16 21:38

crzoaknn

20-Jan-16 21:38

Message Removed

modified 21-Jan-16 4:17am.

Message Removed

20-Jan-16 21:51

Gerry Schmitz

20-Jan-16 21:51

Message Removed

modified 21-Jan-16 3:54am.

bkelly1314-Jan-16 16:07

Re: WCHAR argument pointer

14-Jan-16 16:07

The dot H file contains:

C++

const WCHAR DEFAULT_DlRECTORY[ ] = L"C:\\LOG_FILES\\";
const WCHAR  DEFAULT_FILENAME_PREFIX[]      = L"Log_File_";

The dot CPP file contains

C_Log_Writer::C_Log_Writer( 
const WCHAR *new_directory_name = &DEFAULT_DlRECTORY, 
const WCHAR *new_name_prefix    = &DEFAULT_FILENAME_PREFIX[0] )
{ ... }

The new_directory_name lines does not compile and produces the error:

C++

Error	1	error C2440: 'default argument' : cannot convert from 'const WCHAR (*)[14]' to 'const WCHAR *'	e:\code_tests\common_code_dll\c_log_writer\c_log_writer.cpp	73	1	C_Log_Writer

I thought new_directory_name would be a pointer that would by default point to the first character of the array. Why is that thinking wrong?

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modified 15-Jan-16 17:58pm.

Richard Andrew x6414-Jan-16 16:38

Richard Andrew x64

14-Jan-16 16:38

Because you're trying to assign a pointer-to-a-pointer to a pointer:

const WCHAR *new_directory_name = &DEFAULT_DlRECTORY

should be

const WCHAR *new_directory_name = DEFAULT_DlRECTORY

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

Re: WCHAR argument pointer

bkelly1315-Jan-16 11:58

Scrolling ATL Dialog with mouse wheel problem.

15-Jan-16 11:58

And that is because DEFAULT_DlRECTORY is an array and passing it as an argument means the address of the first character is passed. Ok, I must confess to being ate up with the dumb ass there.
Thank you for taking the time for a gentle kick in the butt.

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Member 1213702619-Dec-15 18:11

Member 12137026

19-Dec-15 18:11

I had created an ATL Dialog based application in visual studio 2012,On Scrolling the mouse wheel I want my dialog to be scrolled.

What should i write inside:

C++

LRESULT CUIWindowPage::OnMouseWheel(UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam, BOOL& bHandled)
{
     ??
}

Re: Scrolling ATL Dialog with mouse wheel problem.

Richard MacCutchan19-Dec-15 21:07

CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SpVoice); fails with Class not registered

19-Dec-15 21:07

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/eff58fe7.aspx[^].

ptr_Electron14-Dec-15 0:56

ptr_Electron

14-Dec-15 0:56

I am using Microsoft speech sdk v 11 (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127898.aspx[^]). the below call fails, when I check GetLastError, observed that it fails to message "Class not registered". visual studio 2008, windows 7

C++

hr = cpVoice.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SpVoice);

Please advise

modified 14-Dec-15 7:05am.

Re: CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SpVoice); fails with Class not registered

Jochen Arndt14-Dec-15 1:39

Jochen Arndt

14-Dec-15 1:39

When using Windows 7 64-bit, check if you have installed the version of the Microsoft Speech Platform - Runtime that matches your project settings (32 or 64 bit), or just change your project to match the installed version.

Re: CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SpVoice); fails with Class not registered

ptr_Electron14-Dec-15 1:52

ptr_Electron

14-Dec-15 1:52

Thanks for response. project is 32 bit and I installed x86. I think that should be ok. what could be other reasons please advise. thanks in advance.

Re: CoCreateInstance(CLSID_SpVoice); fails with Class not registered

Jochen Arndt14-Dec-15 2:13

Jochen Arndt

14-Dec-15 2:13

Did you have called CoInitialize[Ex] before?

To check if it is registered you can look into the registry at HKCR\CLSID\value_of_CLSID_SpVoice. If it is not present, it may help to re-install the runtime.

find crash location in the code

bkelly1313-Dec-15 15:58

Re: find crash location in the code

13-Dec-15 15:58

Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, C++

An application I wrote that has been running for over a year has just started getting an unhandled exception. It is _com_error and the exact return value if E_FAIL, an unspecified error. That is unhelpful. The crash window specifies an address where the crash occurred.

Question:
How does one take that address and find the place in the code where the program was executing when the exception was first thrown?

Thank you for your time
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Richard Andrew x6413-Dec-15 16:14

Richard Andrew x64

13-Dec-15 16:14

This is an old article, but I believe it still applies:

Post-Mortem Debugging Your Application with Minidumps and Visual Studio .NET[^]

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

Re: find crash location in the code

Richard Andrew x6414-Dec-15 9:37

Richard Andrew x64

14-Dec-15 9:37

Here's another much more recent article about what you can do to find the error:

Investigate crashes: c stack trace and dumps[^]

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

how to determine max TCP/IP send size

bkelly1313-Dec-15 15:51

13-Dec-15 15:51

Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, C++

How can an application determine the maximum size for a single chunk of data to be sent from a server application to a client application on another computer?

This is on a private network, not not accessible outside of the control room. There is a switch between the two computers but that is about it.

I presume this can be done a run time. My application sends large amounts of telemetry data to a client for display. The goal is to reduce buffering as much as possible. The app uses overlapped I/O with completion events.

Thank you for your time
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Richard MacCutchan13-Dec-15 21:11

13-Dec-15 21:11

See https://www.google.com/search?q=tcp%2Fip%20buffer%20size[^].

bkelly1318-Dec-15 15:39

18-Dec-15 15:39

I am getting back to my application that ingests telemetry data and sends it to a display device. There will be a lot of data and a lot of packets. The data to the display device will be about 4.5 megabytes per second per stream. I think I need the program to have the ability determine the MSS and MTU so it can build the buffers and get them out in the most efficient manner possible. I would prefer for the app to get this data on the fly rather than hard code numbers into the app.
I have seen all those links via my search but nothing tells me how to get these values via code, c++ code specifically.

Thank you for your time
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Richard MacCutchan18-Dec-15 21:47

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms738544(v=vs.85).aspx[^].

18-Dec-15 21:47