A Question about Menus - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Dale Bourne7-Jan-09 10:09

7-Jan-09 10:09

Thanks for your quick response. I'm truly at a loss here, not that it takes that much to lose me in VC. Confused | :confused:

The software that contains the library file installed itself under the 'Program Files' directory. Per their instructions, I added the path to the lib file to the location in your #1. While checking, I noticed that the Additional Dependencies 'text' apparently didn't like the spaces in the path. I copied the file to the root of 'C' and corrected the path here and the options-Project and Solutions-VC++ Directories 'INCLUDE' & 'LIBRARY' settings.
The results are the same.

Re: Migrating VC++6 to VC++9

Mark Salsbery7-Jan-09 10:17

Mark Salsbery

7-Jan-09 10:17

Dale Bourne wrote:
the Additional Dependencies 'text' apparently didn't like the spaces in the path

In the additional dependencies linker settings section:

Pathnames with spaces should be surrounded by double quotes.
You can use relative or absolute paths.
Multiple pathnames should be separated by whitespace.

You should only get a linker error if it's wrong.

Somewhere else in your project there's some reference to the library
which is causing it to try to compile it....that's not good.

Mark Salsbery
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Re: Migrating VC++6 to VC++9

Dale Bourne7-Jan-09 10:28

Dale Bourne

7-Jan-09 10:28

Mark Salsbery wrote:
Somewhere else in your project there's some reference to the library
which is causing it to try to compile it....that's not good.

Thanks, I'll start digging.

Re: Migrating VC++6 to VC++9

Dale Bourne8-Jan-09 7:14

Dale Bourne

8-Jan-09 7:14

Mark Salsbery wrote:
Somewhere else in your project there's some reference to the library
which is causing it to try to compile it....that's not good.

Maybe a little background might help.
This solution, called Control Progam, consists of three projects(in compile order)...
AdoManRs
DataStructures
SacmanCP

DataStructures is dependent on AdoManRs
SacmanCP is dependent on DataStructures

OK, I grep'ed the entire directory structure for any reference to 'fixtools'. Nothing was found in the code.
It was found in:
DataStructures/DataStructures.dsp:52: # ADD LIB32 ..\AdoManRs\Release\AdoManRs.Lib FixTools.Lib WinMM.Lib dmacsdba.lib /nologo

DataStructures/DataStructures.dsp:67: # ADD CPP /nologo /MDd /W3 /Gm /GX /ZI /Od /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_AFXDLL" /D "_MBCS" /FR /Yu"stdafx.h" /FD /GZ FixTools.lib /c

DataStructures/DataStructures.dsp:75: # ADD LIB32 ..\Bin\AdoManRs.lib FixTools.lib WinMM.lib dmacsdba.lib /nologo /DEBUGTYPE:COFF

DataStructures/DataStructures.vcproj:46: AdditionalOptions="FixTools.lib"
[from <configurations...><configuration>...<tool name="VCCLCompilerTool" ...=""> section]

SacmanCP/SacmanCP.vcproj:81: AdditionalDependencies="..\Bin\DataStructures.lib C:\FIXTOOLS50\LIB\dmacsdba.lib C:\FIXTOOLS50\LIB\FIXTOOLS.LIB"

SacmanCP/SacmanCP.vcproj:1592: RelativePath="..\Bin\fixtools.lib"

It is also listed under the SacmanCP resource files folder in the Solution Explorer.
I hope this means something to you. For the most part, it is greek to me.
My success with this program has been in tracing down a few bugs and making a few enhancements, all directly pertaining to the C++ language itself. As far as I am concerned, Visual Studio performs magic during the conversion process.

Re: Migrating VC++6 to VC++9

CPallini7-Jan-09 9:32

CPallini

7-Jan-09 9:32

And possibly they said you're a Senior Developer on Windows platform... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Re: Migrating VC++6 to VC++9

Dale Bourne7-Jan-09 10:10

Dale Bourne

7-Jan-09 10:10

I guess I 'fudged' my resume a little too much, huh! Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Migrating VC++6 to VC++9

CPallini7-Jan-09 11:02

CPallini

7-Jan-09 11:02

My note wasn't about you...I was talking about marketing people! One of my previous company sold me (as consultant) as a C++ and Visual Basic expert, even if (at time) I never coded a single line using VB. Even worse they didn't tell me.
Big Grin | :-D

A Question about Menus

BobInNJ7-Jan-09 6:19

BobInNJ

7-Jan-09 6:19

I am currently writing an application using C++ and MFC. Please consider the following lines from a Window's RC file:

<br />
    BEGIN<br />
      POPUP "&File" {<br />
       MENUITEM "&New",                CALC_FILE_NEW<br />
       MENUITEM "Add Account",         ADD_ACCOUNT<br />
       MENUITEM "Calculate",           CALCULATE<br />
       MENUITEM "Abort Calculation",   ABORT_CALCULATION,GRAYED<br />
       MENUITEM "&Exit",               CALC_FILE_EXIT<br />
    }<br />
    .<br />
    .<br />
    .<br />

When the menu is displayed, I would expect the E in Exit to be underlined. However, it is not. I thought the & character was suppose to do this. What is the proper way for me to have the E underlined when the menu is displayed?

Thanks

Bob

Re: A Question about Menus

David Crow7-Jan-09 6:32

David Crow

7-Jan-09 6:32

Are File and New underlined?

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Re: A Question about Menus

BobInNJ7-Jan-09 7:01

BobInNJ

7-Jan-09 7:01

David,

Thanks for the response. The words File and New are not underlined when my menu is shown.

Bob

Re: A Question about Menus

David Crow7-Jan-09 7:02

David Crow

7-Jan-09 7:02

What if you press the Alt key?

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Re: A Question about Menus

BobInNJ7-Jan-09 7:10

BobInNJ

7-Jan-09 7:10

David,

If I press the alt key, then the first letter of each word in the top level menu becomes underlined. However, it does not affect the sub-menus. Is this to be expected?

Bob

Re: A Question about Menus

David Crow7-Jan-09 7:31

David Crow

7-Jan-09 7:31

BobInNJ wrote:
However, it does not affect the sub-menus. Is this to be expected?

Windows itself seems to behave in the same fashion regardless of the setting on the Effects dialog box.

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Re: A Question about Menus

Maximilien7-Jan-09 6:54

Maximilien

7-Jan-09 6:54

There's a setting somewhere in Windows that manage how/when the menu mnemonic will be displayed.

(See display properties -> Appearance -> Effect)

See if that's working.

Re: A Question about Menus

BobInNJ7-Jan-09 7:05

BobInNJ

7-Jan-09 7:05

Thanks for the response. I could not find the Window's setting you described. Since other
menus are working properly (they come up underlined) I do not think the problem is with how I have
my Windows Operating System configured.

Any other ideas?

Bob

Re: A Question about Menus

Mark Salsbery7-Jan-09 7:34

Mark Salsbery

7-Jan-09 7:34

Press the ALT key...

Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
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Re: A Question about Menus

BobInNJ7-Jan-09 9:12

BobInNJ

7-Jan-09 9:12

Mark,

I am not sure what is going on, but all of a sudden the under line character is showing up.

Bob

Re: A Question about Menus

Mark Salsbery7-Jan-09 9:51

Mark Salsbery

7-Jan-09 9:51

Unusual sun spot activity? Smile | :)

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Re: A Question about Menus [modified]

CPallini7-Jan-09 8:09

CPallini

7-Jan-09 8:09

What happens if you press the ALT key?
i.e. see (for instance) this page [^].

Also wonderful things would happen if I press the browser refresh button... Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Re: A Question about Menus

BobInNJ7-Jan-09 9:14

BobInNJ

7-Jan-09 9:14

I would like to thank the group for their responses in this matter. Some how, it is now working. I do not understand why?

Bob

GPIB to serial stream pass through

Michael Lutkenhouse7-Jan-09 5:54

Michael Lutkenhouse

7-Jan-09 5:54

so I have a data stream I'm getting through on a GPIB that was supposed to be passed through using labview, we've since determined that this isn't possible so we need to do it via C since that is what the hardware likes. the problem is that I don't know how to take the data stream I'm getting in and simply just have it output to the serial port and most of my searches haven't yielded answers.

thank you

Re: GPIB to serial stream pass through

Luc Pattyn7-Jan-09 6:41

Luc Pattyn

7-Jan-09 6:41

Michael Lutkenhouse wrote:
GPIB

is it IEC-488 you are talking about?
I used to use it a lot some 30 years ago, that is before PC's got invented...

out of curiosity what are the make and model of the interface card? does the vendor provide a driver? do you have the documentation?

what is your data rate? how will you handle data flow when outputting to RS232C?
IEC488 could deliver up to a few megabits/second, something RS232C could not sink...
How big is your stream?

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Re: GPIB to serial stream pass through

Michael Lutkenhouse7-Jan-09 7:15

Michael Lutkenhouse

7-Jan-09 7:15

IEEE-488 is the standard, I'm using the National Instruments GPIB to USB adapter, found here...

http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/201586[^]

data rate is 9600 baud, not quite sure with the outputting question, the data stream is just angular data , so it should just be ~12 digits.

Re: GPIB to serial stream pass through

Luc Pattyn7-Jan-09 7:35

Luc Pattyn

7-Jan-09 7:35

OK, that looks like a modern device (not cheap though) and it comes with a driver, so it should be rather easy to create an app that interacts with your 488 device.

I suggest you first get it to work without any serial port, just make sure you send the right commands and start getting measurement data (which you could show in a listbox or something similar). Receiving the data correct all the time is the only tricky part, since you are probably not in control as to when and how fast data arrives.

Only when that works to perfection, start adding code to send these data through the serial port; transmitting is easy as long as you can assume the target device can cope.

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Re: GPIB to serial stream pass through

Michael Lutkenhouse7-Jan-09 7:46

Michael Lutkenhouse

7-Jan-09 7:46

I have a sample program already compiled from the company that makes the device I'm trying to talk to which works fine, and using NI spy along with the manual I know the commands to get the data stream coming, I just don't know how to then pass it through to the serial, is there a way to just do a simple re-direct, do I need to write to a temp file, I'm just not familiar with the concept of passing a stream through since ideally it'd never be written to a file other then in memory possibly.

thank you for the help too

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