C / C++ / MFC

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.

Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

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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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Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 4:04

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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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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Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 4:26

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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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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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

Re: Local machine ip address

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.

Asim Hussain
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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.

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)?

How to check if field value is NULL?

anju12-Sep-02 1:53

12-Sep-02 1:53

Hi all,
How to check if field value is NULL?

In my application i am using the code as follows to get the Recordset field value
while (VARIANT_FALSE == pRecordset->EndOfFile)
{ strTemp.Format("Test Column:%s",
(LPSTR)(_bstr_t)pRecordset->Fields->GetItem("Test")->Value);
AfxMessageBox(strTemp);
pRecordset->MoveNext();
}
while running the application if the Field value is NULL. I am getting Runtime Error
as "abnormal Programme termination".
please help me

anju

Imran Farooqui12-Sep-02 2:12

Imran Farooqui

12-Sep-02 2:12

Consider query:

select nick from from mytable.

Suppose the value represented by nick can be NULL. So change the query as:

select isnull(nick, 'something') as nick from mytable

Here 'something' can be anything you desire. This can be a single space character also. Now when you collect value of nick from Recordset object, it'll not be null but the value supplied by you as a parmeter above. You can check it and treat as NULL

Imran Farooqui

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anju12-Sep-02 18:39

12-Sep-02 18:39

Hi Imran Farooqui,
Thanks for Your Reply.
Please need more help to me..............
Suppose i have to select entire table then how can i make all null fields in the table to 'Something'.

in my application i am opening the recordset as follows

pRecordset->Open("mytable",
_variant_t((IDispatch*)pConnection,true),
adOpenDynamic, adLockPessimistic,adCmdTable);
and i am getting all the fields
pRecordset->MoveFirst();
while (!pRecordset->EndOfFile)
{
strTemp.Format("Field1:%s",(LPSTR)(_bstr_t)pRecordset->Fields->GetItem("Field1")->Value);
AfxMessageBox(strTemp);
pRecordset->MoveNext();
}
Rose | [Rose]

anju

Imran Farooqui12-Sep-02 19:06

Imran Farooqui

12-Sep-02 19:06

In your code, you'r opening a complete table using RecordSet object. I do not prefer this technique because you have no control over the selected records. Instead i prefer to explicitly open the table using SQL queries.

m_pRecordSet = m_pConnection->Execute("select * from mytable", &vRecsAffected, adOptionUnspecified);

Only if you are accessing the table in this way, you can use, isnull option.

Imran Farooqui

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Rama Krishna Vavilala12-Sep-02 2:09

Rama Krishna Vavilala

12-Sep-02 2:09

You need to do something like this.

_variant_t vt = pRecordset->Fields->GetItem("Test")->Value;

if (vt.vt == VT_NULL)
{
  AfxMessageBox("Field is NULL");
}
else
{
strTemp.Format("Test Column:%s",(LPSTR)(_bstr_t)vt); 
AfxMessageBox(strTemp);
}

C# is fundamentally broken. - Christian Graus

[James Pullicino]12-Sep-02 2:36

[James Pullicino]

12-Sep-02 2:36

This line:

<br />
(LPSTR)(_bstr_t)pRecordset->Fields->GetItem("Test")->Value); <br />

is very dangerous because of the following reasons:

If Fields fails, an exception will be thrown.
If GetItem fails, an exception will be thrown.
If Value cannot be converted to a _bstr_t, an exception will be thrown.

Segment your code a little better. Add exception handling, or use the raw_ methods of your smart pointers. Here is an example on how to improve your code (this is from memory):

<br />
IFieldPtr field;<br />
try<br />
{<br />
  field = pRecordset->Fields->GetItem("Test");<br />
} <br />
catch(com_error e) <br />
{ <br />
  field = NULL;<br />
}<br />
<br />
if(field != NULL)<br />
{<br />
  _variant_t vtVal;<br />
  try<br />
  {<br />
    vtVal = field->Value;<br />
  } catch (_com_error e) {vtVal.vt = VT_ERROR; }<br />
  <br />
  _bstr_t bstrVal;<br />
  if(vtVal.vt != VT_ERROR)<br />
  {<br />
     try{ bstrVal = (_bstr_t)vtVal; }<br />
     catch(com_error e) {bstrVal = L"";}<br />
  }<br />
  <br />
  AfxMessageBox((LPCTSTR)bstrVal);<br />
}<br />
<br />

--James

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anju12-Sep-02 18:44

12-Sep-02 18:44

Hi Rama Krishna,
ThankQ this technique is work to me well
Rose | [Rose]

anju

anju12-Sep-02 18:51

Re: MFC and old functions

12-Sep-02 18:51

Hi James Pullicino,
Thanks a lot..
I never thing about what u pointed.
now my code is changed as per your instructions.
once again thank to you
Rose | [Rose]

anju

MFC and old functions

Tolias12-Sep-02 1:38

Tolias

12-Sep-02 1:38

I need to ask a question that's been bothering me for some time now. I created an SDI application from the Visual C++ wizard. Everything was fine then. When I added a function (that someone else) created in old C, all of a sudden the menu and status bar dissapeared and I haven't seen them since then. I get no errors after building the project but I can't make the bars appear, neither through menu->view nor with right clicking. Could it be that some old function (like atoi) has a side-effect on the program? All functions in the old C file are global to the project.

Tomasz Sowinski12-Sep-02 1:42