C / C++ / MFC

Re: Howto convert CString to float?

3-Jan-03 2:36

The problem is you are working with UNICODE strings and trying to use the ANSI conversion routine. That is just silly. As people have already said, use the UNICODE conversion routine "wtof".

float fResult = wtof (str);

That will work just fine.

Tim Smith

I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

VanHlebar3-Jan-03 2:39

VanHlebar

3-Jan-03 2:39

Tim Smith wrote:
The problem is you are working with UNICODE strings and trying to use the ANSI conversion routine. That is just silly. As people have already said, use the UNICODE conversion routine "wtof".

float fResult = wtof (str);

That will work just fine.

Tim Smith

Tim,

Thanks for the suggestion. The wtof function works fine, but it truncates the value to a whole number. I lose the precision after the decimal if I use this function. I need a value going out only to the tenths, but I do need to keep the one decimal place.

-Eric

RE: getting pixel values

n27414152-Jan-03 15:16

n2741415

2-Jan-03 15:16

If I open up an image in an MFC application, how can I get the pixel value of the picture that the mouse is pointing at?

Re: RE: getting pixel values

ashxly2-Jan-03 15:44

ashxly

2-Jan-03 15:44

get current mouse pointer position, and then call
COLORREF color = GetPixel(hdc,x,y);
the value of color is what you want.
it's easy , is it?
good luck Smile | :)

How can I pick the object in a 3D scene via the mouse?

stanley guan2-Jan-03 14:01

stanley guan

2-Jan-03 14:01

I am developing a 3D program with DirectX 7.0 SDK. When I have rendered some objects in a 3D scene, I need pick the oject accurately in the scene via my mouse position on the screen. I need your help, and in the fact, I need some source codes. Help!

stanley

Re: How can I pick the object in a 3D scene via the mouse?

Tim Smith2-Jan-03 14:08

Change the "friendly" name of a network drive

2-Jan-03 14:08

Basically, you can compute the equation for a line between the eye and the near plane at the X,Y location that the user clicked. Then shoot the ray from the eye through the near plane and see what object it intersects.

There are many other methods around. Places like http://www.gamedev.com/ and http://www.flipcode.com should have information on how to do this. Common problem in games.

Tim Smith

I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

Jan R Hansen2-Jan-03 13:00

Jan R Hansen

2-Jan-03 13:00

I've searched google groups but all I find is "that cant be done". Well, of course it can - and one of you know how to do it.

When you map a network share as a drive, it will be called

[sharename] on [servername] ( n: )

- by default. (n being the drive letter)

If you select properties on a mapped drive, you can change that label to anything, e.g. to "documents" in the "Label:" edit field. (only on w2k, winXP), but since I map my drives from a batch-file being run at each startup, I wan't to change that name programatically. All vb-script offers (don't laugh, please...;P) is ShareName and VolumeName, which are both read-only and respectively e.g. \\server\share and "datadrive2" (that is, the name of the harddisk-partition on the server... why the heck is that visible ???) - so I probably have to write a small exe that can do the job.

Has anybody tried this ? Or do anybody have a good idea how to find out how it's done ? Maybe I'm just searching the wrong places...

Well, any help will be much appreciated - thanks a lot in advance.

/Jan

Digital Signal Processing

progman2-Jan-03 11:53

2-Jan-03 11:53

I have two signals (for example two voice signals) . And i need to put them one by one, and smooth (or interpolate) possible differences between the end of first signal, and start of another one ..

How can i handle with it ?

Thanks in advance .

Brian Tietz2-Jan-03 12:30

Brian Tietz

2-Jan-03 12:30

That depends on the relationship between the two signals. Are they partially overlapped, sequential with a fixed or variable delay between them, or sequential with no delay (first sample of a given stream is one sample after the last sample of the prior stream)?

progman2-Jan-03 14:31

2-Jan-03 14:31

It's most close to the "partially overlapped" signals ..

so what can you propose to me ?
thanks

Brian Tietz2-Jan-03 15:09

Brian Tietz

2-Jan-03 15:09

The answer is simple, but I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. More information is needed to determine the correct solution. When you say it's "most close" to partially overlapped, what do you mean? You said this is DSP, so I assume that you're receiving chunks of buffer from an input source. If that is the case, you shouldn't need to worry about overlap or delay between the buffers, and a blunt join of the buffers would be appropriate and wouldn't cause a pop in the audio stream since the two buffers are chunks of a uniform stream. If you have two audio files from independent sources which you wish to connect, or wish to transition from one live audio source to another while receiving data streams from both, then do a linear crossfade as Tim Smith indicated. At the beginning of the fade, the audio source to be faded out is at full volume, the one to be faded in is at zero volume. At the midpoint of the fade, each audio source is at half-volume. At the end of the fade, the one fading out is at zero volume and the one fading in is at full volume. The multipliers go from 1.0 to 0.0 and from 0.0 to 1.0 linearally. Just multiple each sample across the fade by the multiplier for that buffer, and add it to the sample from the other buffer times its multiplier. At each sample, the sum of the two multipliers is 1.0 (full volume).

Tim Smith2-Jan-03 12:55

2-Jan-03 12:55

I wouldn't worry about it. A 44khz sample rate is trying to handle signals up to 20khz. At 20khz there aren't going to be many samples per complete wave. If you wanted to, you could do a linear interpolation between the two signals for maybe 2-4 samples. That would be plenty of sample and should eliminate any "click".

But then again, I am talking out of my arse. Smile | :)

Tim Smith

I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

progman2-Jan-03 14:36

2-Jan-03 14:36

Well , but what about interpolation ?

How can i implement it ?

And how can i eliminate "clicks" ?

regards

Tim Smith2-Jan-03 15:27

gethostbyaddress AND 11004

2-Jan-03 15:27

A click is the sudden change in value for the signal. For example, going from 0 to 65535 for a 16 bit signal.

A linear interpolation example would be:

Last sample for signal a = 20.
First sample for signal b = 220.

To interpolate between the two samples using 4 new samples, you would insert the new samples between the two waves.

60,100,140,180

Tim Smith

I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.

(Steven Hicks)ⁿ⁺¹2-Jan-03 11:08

(Steven Hicks)ⁿ⁺¹

2-Jan-03 11:08

How can I get the IP address of a url? I been using gethostbyaddress but it keeps returning WS_NODATA (even on cp, msdn.microsoft.com ...)
BTW (m_locSite=GetLocationURL()):

if (m_locSite.Find("file://",0)==-1)<br />
	{<br />
		//Fix Address<br />
		//Date: 1 2 02<br />
		m_locSite=m_locSite.Mid(0,m_locSite.Find("/",8));<br />
		if (m_locSite.Find("://",0)==-1) m_locSite="http://"+m_locSite;<br />
		//<br />
<br />
		WSADATA wsa;<br />
		WSAStartup( 0x0101, &wsa );<br />
		unsigned long addr = inet_addr(ConvertCStringToChar(m_locSite));<br />
		<br />
		if (addr == INADDR_NONE)<br />
		{<br />
			//Not a dotted address, then do a lookup of the name<br />
				<br />
			HOSTENT * lpHostEnt = gethostbyname(ConvertCStringToChar(m_locSite));<br />
			CString tmpEr;<br />
			tmpEr.Format("%d",WSAGetLastError());<br />
			MessageBox(m_locSite+" | "+tmpEr);<br />
<br />
			if (lpHostEnt)MessageBox(inet_ntoa( *(LPIN_ADDR)*(lpHostEnt->h_addr_list) ));<br />
			<br />
			<br />
			//else MessageBox("Could not resolve the host name: "+GetLocationURL());<br />
		}<br />
		WSACleanup();<br />
	}

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Re: gethostbyaddress AND 11004

Brian Tietz2-Jan-03 11:37

Brian Tietz

2-Jan-03 11:37

Rather than adding the http:// if not present, I believe you should strip it off if it is, and content after any subsequent slash (including the slash should be stripped. For example, given a url http://www.codeproject.com/script, the actual host name is www.codeproject.com.

Re: gethostbyaddress AND 11004

(Steven Hicks)ⁿ⁺¹2-Jan-03 11:57

(Steven Hicks)ⁿ⁺¹

2-Jan-03 11:57

THANKS ALOT!!!!
It was really bugging me.

-Steven

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Re: gethostbyaddress AND 11004

(Steven Hicks)ⁿ⁺¹2-Jan-03 11:57

(Steven Hicks)ⁿ⁺¹

2-Jan-03 11:57

THANKS ALOT!!!!
It was really bugging me.

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Off the top of your head...

Martin Marvinski2-Jan-03 10:15

Martin Marvinski

2-Jan-03 10:15

..Do you know what function retrieves all the text of a MS Word document via automation in VC++? Thanks in advance for saving me an hour and half of searching on MSDN! Smile | :)

Re: Off the top of your head...

Joaquín M López Muñoz2-Jan-03 11:47

Joaquín M López Muñoz

2-Jan-03 11:47

There's a Delphi sample in SoftMosis Delphi/MSWord Automation FAQ[^]. It's done via the IDataObject interface.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Mouse Position

progman2-Jan-03 9:58