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Post build .dll registration fails in VC 7.0

Chad Busche20-Jan-03 5:43

20-Jan-03 5:43

When building some ATL projects that we're upgraded to version 7.0 of the Visual C++ compiler; the post build regsvr32 step always fails. I have tracked this down to the binary not being created before regsvr32 is called.

In the post build step we have
regsvr32 /s /c "$(TargetPath)"

Has anybody seen this? If so how did you fix it. Thanks in advance.

-chad

Re: Post build .dll registration fails in VC 7.0

Jörgen Sigvardsson21-Jan-03 10:18

Jörgen Sigvardsson

21-Jan-03 10:18

It's most likely something in the registration code within the DLL that is the error. Chances are that it's segfaulting.

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Bitblit with WTL

Tommy2k19-Jan-03 4:41

Tommy2k

19-Jan-03 4:41

Hi,

I can't get bitblit to work with WTL. It keeps printing a black square. But the size of the square is equal to the size of the image it should print so i think i'm forgetting something. I'm converting my Win32/SDK app to WTL and in Win32/SDK it works. This is the code i'm using:

<br />
//to load:<br />
CBitmap Image;<br />
Image.LoadBitmap(238);<br />
<br />
//to paint:<br />
CPaintDC dc(m_hWnd);<br />
CDC hdc;<br />
hdc.CreateCompatibleDC(dc.m_hDC);<br />
<br />
BITMAP Temp;<br />
Image.GetBitmap(&Temp);<br />
SelectObject(hdc.m_hDC,&Temp);<br />
dc.BitBlt(50,50,Temp.bmWidth,Temp.bmHeight,hdc,0,0,0);<br />

I tried making a filledrect with the same DC object and it worked. Thanks for all help.

Re: Bitblit with WTL

saierdia19-Jan-03 6:40

saierdia

19-Jan-03 6:40

modify the line to :
SelectObject(hdc.m_hDC,Image);

Re: Bitblit with WTL

Tommy2k28-Jan-03 6:07

Tommy2k

28-Jan-03 6:07

Doesn't seem to help. It keeps blitting an empty (black) surface to my screen...the size is correct though so the loading prolly is ok....

Anyone?

Re: Bitblit with WTL

Ben Burnett28-Jan-03 13:53

Ben Burnett

28-Jan-03 13:53

Try replacing:

Tommy2k wrote:
BITMAP Temp;
Image.GetBitmap(&Temp);
SelectObject(hdc.m_hDC,&Temp);
dc.BitBlt(50,50,Temp.bmWidth,Temp.bmHeight,hdc,0,0,0);

with something like:

HBITMAP hOldBitmap = hdc.SelectBitmap ( (HBITMAP) Image );
SIZE dim;
Image.GetBitmapDimension ( &dim );
dc.BitBlt ( 50, 50, dim.cx, dim.cy, (HDC) hdc, 0, 0, SRCCOPY );
dcBW.SelectBitmap ( hOldBitmap );

cheers,
-B

Re: Bitblit with WTL

Tommy2k29-Jan-03 10:51

Tommy2k

29-Jan-03 10:51

Thanks, i works now Smile | :)

Exclusive file access to STL streams

Neville Franks17-Jan-03 12:30

Neville Franks

17-Jan-03 12:30

Ok I hope this is a stupid question. How do you lock STL stream files such as ostream, so other processes can't access them. ie. I want the functionality that CreateFile( ..., FILE_SHARE_READ etc. ) offer. When I open a file to write to it, I want to ensure no other apps/processes can open it untill I'm finished with it. I can't see any options to let me do this with STL streams. Surely I'm missing something here.

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Re: Exclusive file access to STL streams

Soni19-Feb-03 2:51

Soni

19-Feb-03 2:51

Could you find any solution?

Thank You

Re: Exclusive file access to STL streams

Neville Franks19-Feb-03 8:46

Neville Franks

19-Feb-03 8:46

Soni wrote:
Could you find any solution?

No, do you have one?

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OleDB exception durring CoUninitialize()

Paul Silvernail14-Jan-03 12:21

Paul Silvernail

14-Jan-03 12:21

Hi All,

I am new to COM and ATL and have written a short console app in an attempt to learn ATL's Database access techniques. My app creates an Accessor class, CDataSource object, CSession object and CCommand object. I am sucessfully able to get and display info from the database. The ATLDB objects are closed and CoUninitialized is called. Everything seems fine until COM is uninitialized. That is when I get the following error ... Unhandled exception in oleDB.exe: 0xC0000005 Access Violation. I am not sure what exception to catch or why it is happening. Like I said I am new to COM and ATL, maybe someone has a simple answer. If necessary I can post the code.

Thanks

Paul

Re: OleDB exception durring CoUninitialize()

Paul Silvernail14-Jan-03 16:35

Paul Silvernail

14-Jan-03 16:35

Got it!!!

It's amazing what a couple of braces will do. By putting the COM objects in a block, the destructors are guaranteed to be called befor CoUninitilize().

String vector speed issue

-Dy13-Jan-03 5:34

-Dy

13-Jan-03 5:34

I have a string array defined as std::vector<std::string> m_aData; in my class, which works fine and performs brilliantly, but when I have a fairly large number of elements (100,000) it takes an absolute age to remove the elements using m_aData.clear();. It can literally take up to a minute to complete. I'm fairly new to STL, is there anything that can be done to improve the performance on this one line, or is there a different approach I can take to emptying the array?

Dylan

Re: String vector speed issue

AlexO13-Jan-03 5:39

AlexO

13-Jan-03 5:39

calling 100,000 ~std::string could take some time.
You can overwrite allocator for both string and vector to implement garbage collection of some kind, but it is very difficult.

Re: String vector speed issue

Tim Smith13-Jan-03 6:06

Tim Smith

13-Jan-03 6:06

How long are your strings? If your strings are long (i.e. 512 bytes), that would be 51 MB of data being deallocated. This can cause the paging system fits.

Tim Smith

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Re: String vector speed issue

-Dy13-Jan-03 6:16

-Dy

13-Jan-03 6:16

I thought of this, and the strings are all 50 char's long, so that should be less the 5MB of memory.

I did a release build and checked the speed on that, and there was no real performance over head - is the speed problem just on the debug build? I ask cause each time I stop the running process in debug I find I end up in _free_dbg, which according to the comment in that file is the 'free a block in the debug heap'.

Can I safely assume that the performance overhead is only in debug mode? Like I said, pretty new to STL...

Dylan

Re: String vector speed issue

Tim Smith13-Jan-03 6:43

Tim Smith

13-Jan-03 6:43

Yes, this is a debug problem. The debug version of the allocation system will do checks of the allocation pools to make sure you haven't trash memory by overrunning allocated memory.

If it runs just fine in release mode, then don't worry about it.

Tim Smith

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

Re: String vector speed issue

gosh14-Feb-03 11:21

gosh

14-Feb-03 11:21

The std::string isn’t optimized. If you are developing under ATL or MFC use their string classes or create your own. When the string is deleted this may not affect speed but working other operations will improve alot.

error MIDL2020 : error generating type library : SaveAllChanges Failed

DeepakSharma12-Jan-03 23:54

DeepakSharma

12-Jan-03 23:54

wehn i am building an ATL DLL i am getting this error message "error MIDL2020 : error generating type library : SaveAllChanges Failed". What is the possible solutions;)

Re: error MIDL2020 : error generating type library : SaveAllChanges Failed

AlexO13-Jan-03 2:35

AlexO

13-Jan-03 2:35

1. midl compiler has an option "/error all" I recommend trying it.
2. Check if your source control/target drive functioning properly

Persist STL vector to Registry

Neville Franks12-Jan-03 14:22

Neville Franks

12-Jan-03 14:22

Hi, is there any code around to persist a vector etc. to/from the registry. I know I can write a simple iterator to do this, but I'm wondering if someone has written some generic code. The ability to persist to XML would also be most welcome.

I have looked around CP and did find "A set of template classes for working with the registry" http://www.codeproject.com/system/registry_value.asp[^] but that isn't quite what I need. Maybe I can just entend it!!

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How can I prohibit STL alter its items' addreses

IMiracle12-Jan-03 1:13

IMiracle

12-Jan-03 1:13

I program an app that uses a treeCtrl, and I use the tv_item::lParam save an address of an item in std::list. Code like this:
std::list<MyStruct> items;
....
std::list<MyStruct>::iterator pCur = items.begin();
TVM_INSERTITEM tvi;
tvi.item.mask = TVIF_TEXT | TVIF_PARAM...
tvi.item.lParam = &(*pCur);
....
TreeView_InsertItem(hTree, &tvi);
....

when I retrive an item of the tree and its MyStruct:
MyStruct* pMyStruct;
TV_ITEM item;
item.mask = TVIF_TEXT|TVIF_PARAM...
TreeView_GetItem(hTree, &item);
pMyStruct = (MyStruct*)item.lParam;
Now, the pMyStruct is not equal the &(*pCur) above.
How can I prohibit STL alter its items' addresses?

Re: How can I prohibit STL alter its items' addreses

Joaquín M López Muñoz12-Jan-03 11:30

Joaquín M López Muñoz

12-Jan-03 11:30

Well, std::list guarantees that addresses of their elements won't change (unless you delete them, of course). Do you mean that pMyStruct is not equal to the value tvi.item.lParam as it stood before calling TreeView_InsertItem? If so, your problem lies elsewhere, and in fact does not have to do with std::list: basically, you're not getting the value you previously set in tvi.item.lParam.

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templates as paremeters in std::vector<>

Biochemist10-Jan-03 10:54

Biochemist

10-Jan-03 10:54

My problem is following.
I have a template MyTemplate

template <typename t="">
class MyTemplate
{
/////////////some members;
};

and I want to declare a vector whose elements would be of type MyTemplate.
It should be code like this (as I expect)

vector< MyTemplate<t> > MyVector;

But this of course does not compiled.
Where is my mistake?
Could anyone of gurus help me? Confused | :confused:

Re: templates as paremeters in std::vector<>

Nemanja Trifunovic10-Jan-03 11:43

Nemanja Trifunovic

10-Jan-03 11:43

Visual C++ does not support templates as template parameters. Remember, template is not a type. You create a type from a template by providing template parameters.

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