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Can you guys recommend a good book that describes messaging in windows?
Tom Wright
tawright915@yahoo.com
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Programming Windows by Charles Petzold writen .I am studying now.
I am like programing!
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Hello all,
Could someone please direct me to where I can get information (or better yet, sample code) on how to apply different time zones to system time (without changing the actual system time, of course). 
I've looked at MSDN, but found nothing useful.
I also didn't find any way to obtain the list of time zones along with countries/cities that Windows itself uses for regional settings.
Any help greatly appreciated,
Thank you in advance,
MCP, MCSD
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I had to do something similar at one time with software on an aircraft that could traverse multiple time zones, although limited to those in the US. Since the computer itself had only one time zone within which it lived, we always knew the time within its own zone. This can be found with a CTime object and the member function GetCurrentTime(). This CTime object can be formatted with the member function Format(), and the time zone can be parsed out, if needed.
Based on that known time zone, I made a drop-down list of US time zones by name that converted into hour offsets from the computer's zone. If they wanted local time to be referenced in Eastern Time, which they selected from the drop-down list, then this converted to adding 2 hours to the computer time before displaying.
It was fairly cheap and easy, but it did the job.
Good luck,
Dave
"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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Yes, I understand that approach, but what I need is to go International 
That's the problem - if I choose to implement it this way, then where can I get a list of all major countries/cities with their times zones?
Or is there another approach?
Anyway, thank you for replying,
MCP, MCSD
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Sorry, without knowing any details, I couldn't give you EXACTLY what you wanted.
Is there any way you could let the users select an offset from GMT, rather than by selecting a city? If so, then you know your difference from GMT and could add their difference and come up with local time for them (?).
If not, I guess it would be nice to have a scrolling world map that they could select their area, similar to setting the clocks on the PC. I'm surprised there isn't one of those available as an ActiveX control.
Dave
"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
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David Chamberlain wrote:
Is there any way you could let the users select an offset from GMT, rather than by selecting a city?
 That would be too easy...
Unfortunately, for most of my users, this will be too hard of a task - it's not a major part of my program, just a small nice addition I want to bring in. Besides, most people won't really know what time zone they're in, and even if they do know about their own time zone, they probably won't know about another zone of the world (for example to watch time in New York, Sydney and Kuwait).
David Chamberlain wrote:
scrolling world map that they could select their area
I've searched around, but didn't find such a control... That would be really nice though.
Thank you for replying,
MCP, MCSD
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I am creating an application that will display flight simulator data that is
stored in memory.
(A reflective memory PCI card connected through a daisy chain to other
cards)
I have written the application that will read the data from memory, but now
I need to write a application that will only write specific values.
My boss wants me to create a header written to memory that is a blue print
of what values will be written.
This is what I am thinking:
typedef struct sim_address_data{
char *signal; //this is the name of the signal (ie pitch,yaw,roll)
????? *offset; //this is the offset from 0x0 to where the data will be written
//and I don't know what type this should be
double *value; //this will hold the value of the signal.
//all signals are doubles
double *min; //this will be the minimum that the value could be
double *max; //this will be the max that the value could
be
}rfm_sim_data;
rfm_sim_data sim_data[] = {//these are just examples
{"pitch", ??what ever offset??,functionCall_to_return_value_at(*offset), 0.0, 10.0};
{"yaw", ??what ever offset??, functionCall_to_return_value_at(*offset), -0.1, 5.0};
};
By writing the typedef to the first part of memory then any application can
access it to find out how the data is written.
and they will know how to parse the information in memory.
Do any of you experts think that this is the correct way to do this?
If not what would be a better way?
thanks,
Steven
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Must .rc files be encoded as ASCII? Is there any way to have Visual Studio work with .rc files that are UTF-8 or UNICODE encoded?
How about .mc files? Can those be UTF-8/UNICODE encoded?
Jon Sagara
In India, when someone says "mad cow", you know it's actually a bull charging at him.
-- Rohit Sinha
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Hi,
If I want to disable one of the menu options I have to write:
<br />
GetMenu()->EnableMenuItem(ID_FILE_OPEN,MF_BYCOMMAND|MF_ENABLED);<br />
But if I give a pointer of this menu to another window it does not work and even crash....
Why ?
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I assume you are talking about the pointer returned from GetMenu()
right from MSDN :
The returned pointer may be temporary and should not be stored for later use.
So, you can't use it.
Maximilien Lincourt
For success one must aquire one's self
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I am trying to write a C++ program to be used on Win2000 that talks through a RocketPort Serial Hub form Comport. The RocketPort connects to the computer via an ethernet connection and is addressed by virtual COM ports (currently COM3 - COM10). Basically, I will have a rack of devices with each device connected to one of the ports on the back of hub. Since the rack device use will be simple and controlled with function calls and development time is limited, I am using using non-overlapped I/O. From reading through the Platform SDK and Windows API documentation, non-overlapped I/O seems sufficient given how the devices will be used. The program is to write data to the devices in the rack and then receive and parse their response.
The basic structure of each of the program's functions is as follows:
1. Open the port using CreateFile(), and set control settings using
GetCommState() and SetCommState().
2. Write data to the rack device using WriteFile().
3. Receive data from the rack device using ReadFile() and parse the response.
4. Restore previous port settings and close the port.
The problem I am having is in using the Communication Time-outs. When I
don't use them, the program works fine. However, I need to use the
timeouts so that my program can report an error state if there is a
problem with communication (ex. one of the serial cables is unplugged). Without using the timeouts, the current program will
freeze on the ReadFile function if the computer is unable to communicate with the devices.
When I try to set the timeouts, using the COMMTIMEOUTS structure with
GetCommTimeouts() and SetCommTimeouts(), the WriteFile() function returns
as if the data was sent. However, the data isn't actually being sent.
Since the data is not actually being sent, the rack device doesn't respond and the program freezes waiting for the devices' response.
I determined the data is not being sent because (1) the port LED doesn't
flash, (2) the rack device doesn't respond, and (3) when I fill the
COMSTAT structure, using the ClearCommError() function after I called the
WriteFile() function, the cbOutQue member indicates that data is remaining to be transmitted even though the Microsoft Platform SDK explicitly states that this member is zero when non-overlapped operations are used.
Another interesting quirk, if I step through the program in debug mode,
the program actually works with the timeouts, but this is the only way it
will work when using the timeouts.
When I run this same program over the serial port on the back of the
computer (COM1), it works whether or not I use the timeouts. Its only when I try to use one of the ports on the RocketPort (COM3 - COM10), that I have this problem. Also, I've tried this by naming the ports both COM# and \\.\COM# (the naming convention that is suggested may be necessary in Comtrol's documentation) with both naming conventions producing the same results.
/**********************************************************************/
/* This function connects to and configures a COM port */
/**********************************************************************/
BOOL JM::OpenPort()
{
BOOL bSuccess;
dwLastError=ERROR_SUCCESS;
CString m_PortName = "COM3";
hFile = CreateFile(m_PortName,
GENERIC_READ | GENERIC_WRITE,
0, // comm devices must be opened w/exclusive-access
NULL, // no security attributes
OPEN_EXISTING, // comm devices must use OPEN_EXISTING
0, // not overlapped I/O
NULL // hTemplate must be NULL for comm devices
);
if(hFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
dwLastError = GetLastError();
return false;
}
bSuccess = GetCommTimeouts(hFile, &TimeOuts);
if (!bSuccess)
{
dwLastError = GetLastError();
return false;
}
old_TimeOuts = TimeOuts;
memset(&TimeOuts, 0, sizeof(COMMTIMEOUTS));
TimeOuts.ReadIntervalTimeout = 0;
TimeOuts.ReadTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0;
TimeOuts.ReadTotalTimeoutConstant = 0;
TimeOuts.WriteTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0;
TimeOuts.WriteTotalTimeoutConstant = 0;
bSuccess = SetCommTimeouts(hFile, &TimeOuts);
if (!bSuccess)
{
dwLastError = GetLastError();
return false;
}
bSuccess = GetCommState(hFile, &dcb);
if (!bSuccess)
{
dwLastError = GetLastError();
return false;
}
old_dcb = dcb;
dcb.BaudRate = CBR_9600; // set the baud rate
dcb.ByteSize = 8; // data size, xmit, and rcv
dcb.Parity = NOPARITY; // no parity bit
dcb.StopBits = ONESTOPBIT; // one stop bit
dcb.fBinary=true;
dcb.fDtrControl=DTR_CONTROL_ENABLE;
dcb.fRtsControl=RTS_CONTROL_ENABLE;
dcb.fParity=false;
dcb.fOutX=false;
dcb.fInX=false;
dcb.fNull=false;
dcb.fAbortOnError=false;
dcb.fOutxCtsFlow=false;
dcb.fOutxDsrFlow=false;
dcb.fTXContinueOnXoff=false;
dcb.fDsrSensitivity=false;
bSuccess = SetCommState(hFile, &dcb);
if (!bSuccess)
{
dwLastError = GetLastError();
return false;
}
return true;
}
/****************************************************************/
/* This is a boiler-plate query function that is called by each */
/* specific query function. *mstrRX is the CString where the */
/* ASCII response is stored. mstrCommand is the command string */
/* that determines what information is retrieved */
/****************************************************************/
BOOL JM::Query(CString *mstrRX, CString mstrCommand)
{
BOOL bWrite_chk, bRead_chk, bSuccess, bPort_chk;
CString TX_str, Rx_temp_str;
DWORD dwBytes_Written, dwBytes_Read;
char *pcRead_Buff = new char;
int i;
bPort_chk = OpenPort(); //Connect to port and configure
if(!bPort_chk)
return false;
TX_str += mstrCommand;
bWrite_chk = WriteFile(hFile,TX_str,TX_str.GetLength(),
&dwBytes_Written,NULL);
if(!bWrite_chk)
{
dwLastError = GetLastError();
return false;
}
bPort_chk = ClearCommError(hFile,&dwCommError,&PortStatus);
if(!bPort_chk)
return false;
i=0;
bRead_chk = ReadFile(hFile,pcRead_Buff,1,&dwBytes_Read,NULL);
if(bRead_chk)
{
while ((pcRead_Buff[i] != '\r'))
{
bRead_chk = ReadFile(hFile,pcRead_Buff,1,&dwBytes_Read,NULL);
Rx_temp_str += *pcRead_Buff;
}
*mstrRX = Rx_temp_str;
}
else
{
dwLastError = GetLastError();
return false;
}
bSuccess = ClosePort();
if(!bSuccess)
return false;
delete pcRead_Buff;
return true;
}
Thanks in advance for any help that can be offered.
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This is how I normally configure the timeouts for a COM port:
COMMTIMEOUTS timeouts;
timeouts.ReadIntervalTimeout = MAXDWORD;
timeouts.ReadTotalTimeoutConstant = 0;
timeouts.ReadTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0;
timeouts.WriteTotalTimeoutConstant = 0;
timeouts.WriteTotalTimeoutMultiplier = 0;
SetCommTimeouts(m_hSerialPortHandle, &timeouts);
This means that the WriteFile() call doe snot return until the characters have been sent, but for ReadFile() this becomes a polling operation. I normally loop around a thread that tries to read a character every x ms and sleeps in between. This has always worked well for me. You just need to check the value of dwNumBytesRead in the ReadFile() call.
Hope its of help.
Roger Allen
Sonork 100.10016
Were you different as a kid? Did you ever say "Ooohhh, shiny red" even once? - Paul Watson 11-February-2003
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I have a FormView based mfc program. I am trying to adjust my program so it can adapt to different screen resolution.
I have the following code in my OnDraw function, but it fails to adapt window size on different screen resolution.
CRect rc;
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA,0,rc,0);
I don't know what I'm missing, or if there is anything wrong with my code.
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I would do it like this:
RECT rc;
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA, 0, &rc, 0);
-Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do?? 
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I tried this, but it still will not adapt to different screen resolution. Is it okay to have GetSystemMetrics in MainFrame?
void CMainFrame::OnMove(int x, int y)
{
Rect rc;
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETWORKAREA,0,&rc,0);
}
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Does anyone know how to disable a checkbox without disabling its text? I want the box disabled but the text to be normal. Basically so it looks like a regular checkbox you have no control over.
-dork
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I would just introduce an internal flag which indicates if the checkbox is disabled or not. Then implement a callback function which gets called when the state of the checkbox changes. UpdateData(TRUE). If the checkbox flag indicates disabled, invert the current state, else not.
-Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
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Dominik Reichl wrote:
If the checkbox flag indicates disabled, invert the current state, else not.
this would enable the checkbox if it is disabled. this is not what he wants. he wants that check box is disabled but its text appears as enabled i.e checkbox is no longer able to respond to user but its text appears as enabled.
Muhammad Shoaib Khan
http://geocities.com/lansolution
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M.Shoaib Khan wrote:
this would enable the checkbox if it is disabled.
Nope. You make a call to the UpdateData(TRUE) function. Therefor the member variable for the checkbox contains the _new_ state of the checkbox. If you want to ignore the change, you therefor have to invert the state now.
-Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
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You can derive class from CButton. In your derived class, provide a function in which u create a static control and places it just over the text area of your check box. Use GetWindowText or any other function to get combo box text.
Provide your own function for enabling and disabling in which after calling base class implementation, redraw static control. i hope that works.
Muhammad Shoaib Khan
http://geocities.com/lansolution
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I need a HBITMAP to add a bitmap to a toolbar and menu. I can get an HICON from the .exe's that contain the images, but I'm not sure if there is a simple way to get an HBITMAP from the HICON without going through the whole bitblt process.
Any idea if there is a fairly simple way to do this?
Thank you,
Dave
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I am not sure, but perhaps you should have a look at the GetIconInfo Windows API function. This function gives you an ICONINFO struct which contains HBITMAP handles to the color and the mask bitmap.
If you use GetIconInfo you have to delete the handles to the two newly created bitmaps yourself. Read MSDN for more.
-Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
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Hi everybody
I'm developing an application for my final thesis. I need to use a Real Time transport protocol to carry some data from a PC to a PDA (Pocket PC). I thought maybe WinRTP could work in the PDA side, but I don't find the "CE version". Actually, i don't even know if it does exist. If it does, where can I find it? and maybe some examples...if it doesn't, any idea what other real time protocol could i use?
Thank you all in advance,
Javi
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Greetings
I am writing an app to import data from an Access DB. I am fetching the information about columns of a table by using the following method -
SQLCHAR colname[SIZE_128+1]={0};
SQLINTEGER colsize=0;
SQLSMALLINT decimaldigit=0;
// allocate.
VERIFY ( (retcode = SQLAllocHandle ( SQL_HANDLE_STMT, sqlhdbc, &hstmt )) == SQL_SUCCESS );
retcode = SQLColumns ( hstmt, NULL, 0, NULL, 0, (SQLCHAR*)szTable, SQL_NTS, NULL, 0 );
if (retcode == SQL_SUCCESS || retcode == SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO) {
/* Bind columns in result set to buffers */
SQLBindCol(hstmt, 4, SQL_C_CHAR, colname, SIZE_128, &size );
SQLBindCol(hstmt, 7, SQL_C_SLONG, &colsize, 0, &size );
SQLBindCol(hstmt, 9, SQL_C_SSHORT, &decimaldigit, 0, &decsize );
}
while( TRUE )
{
retcode = SQLFetch(hstmt);
if ( retcode == SQL_SUCCESS || retcode == SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO ) {
// do stuff
} else {
break;
}
}
Now the problem is that even if a column is defined as DOUBLE in Access and has data like 2.345, 3.001, 0.0001 etc.
The decimaldigit is always returned with value 0. Therefore I am not able to get the correct decimal point for the column.
So instead of getting colsize = 15 and decimaldigit = 2, I am always getting colsize = 15 and decimaldigit = 0?
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Karam
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