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Member 81460313-Jan-04 3:53

13-Jan-04 3:53

I use a CSocket class object for very simple communications. This frees me from attending to synchronization

on the sockets. A CSocketFile object is created and attached and CArchive object for reading and wtiting are

created and attached to the file.

// clear the file/archive pointers
m_pFile = NULL;
m_pArchiveIn = NULL;
m_pArchiveOut = NULL;
// if the socket is created and connected
if (m_Socket.Create() && m_Socket.Connect(m_csServer, (UINT)m_nPort))
{
// build the file
m_pFile = new CSocketFile(&m_Socket);
// and archives for communication
m_pArchiveIn = new CArchive(m_pFile,CArchive::load);
m_pArchiveOut = new CArchive(m_pFile,CArchive::store);
// set the obejct status to ok
m_Status = PCCO_NO_ERROR;
}

There is usually no problem here.

An HTTP POST message is formatted and sent over the socket.

// write the passed message to the socket
// as an http post message
CString csString;
csString.Format("POST /cgi-bin/%s.cgi HTTP/1.1\r\n", csApp);
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString(csString);
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString("Accept: text/html\r\n");
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString("User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0\r\n");
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
csString.Format("Host %s:%d\r\n", m_csServer, m_nPort);
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString(csString);
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString("Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n");
csString.Format("Content-Length: %d\r\n\r\n", csMessage.GetLength());
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString(csString);
m_pArchiveOut->WriteString(csMessage);
m_pArchiveOut->Flush();

The response is received in the form of an HTML page, and parsed.

// if we're here we have data
CString csApproval,
csTransID,
csCvv2Resp,
csAccountNo,
csInput; // POST message header inputs
char *pszPage = NULL; // the HTML page response
bool bError = false;
// read the POST header
m_pArchiveIn->ReadString(csInput);
// if there is no problem (code 200)
if (csInput.Find("200") > -1)
{
// read the content length
m_pArchiveIn->ReadString(csInput);
// read the length value from the string
csInput = csInput.Right(csInput.GetLength() - csInput.Find(':') - 1);
// and store as an integer
int nPageLen = atoi(csInput);
// and read the type
m_pArchiveIn->ReadString(csInput);
// read the blank line before the data
m_pArchiveIn->ReadString(csInput);
// get room for the HTML page
// if there is memory for the page
if (pszPage = new char[nPageLen + 1])
// read the HTML page response
m_pArchiveIn->ReadString(pszPage, nPageLen);

.The string pointer 'pszPage' is deleted if allocated. The snippet includes only the socket communications.

Thanks!!!

Re: Sockets and Memory leak

Antti Keskinen13-Jan-04 6:35

Antti Keskinen

13-Jan-04 6:35

There doesn't seem to be any coding issues here, as long as you remembered to clear the archive and CSocketFile objects and call Close on the socket object.

You said that your CDocument-derived object reports a memory leak at this point ? Could it be that you've forgotten something back there ?

Your last chance would be to invest to some memory validator tool and run your code through step-by-step, especially in the point where the memory leak is considered. If nothing else fits the pattern, then this may be also a bug in the VC++ debugger. I've encoutered such a problem once before in my coding, when I created a view without a document object. It reported that the document object was leaking memory even though it was never created.

-Antti Keskinen

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Simulating copy to clipboard

Anonymous13-Jan-04 1:03

Anonymous

13-Jan-04 1:03

Does any body know the control type that pops up when highlight text and right click. I want to include clipboard functionality into my program and want it to look like standard MS programs.

developing a small scripting langauge in VC++ ??

cyberiafreak13-Jan-04 0:54

cyberiafreak

13-Jan-04 0:54

hello pals, i'm new guy to this forum. im doing project in VC++ and also new to VC++. interestingly i have to develop a small scripting language using vC++ for performing graphical functions.
that is creating a small graphical package using VC++. consider the user doen't know anything about the syntax for performing graphics using VC++. we are defining a new set of our control with syntax and one looping statements to perform grp.o/p

1. suppose user writes a code for displaying a multicircle on the screen.but he doesn'nt know anything about the VC++ circle ...etc.
but using our script he can perform his job.
ex:

# start
drawcirle 123,233
.
.
.
# end

but our VC++ program should acts as an interpreter to convert our defined scrts to appr..vc++ graphical routines.that is developing a compiler using a VC++ compiler.
pleassse help me to work out my module given by my guide.Atleast suggest me where i have to start and in which part of VC++ i have to concentrate.
First he told me spec it out the project, but i do know what to spec it out.
my module include,
#1. defining a few datatypes,graphical scripts and anyone looping stmt.
2. using (module #1) the programmer writes his code.
3. We have to execute the code by interpreting to VC++ grahical function.
i posted in many forums, but one of my friend gave this site..
with regards,
Mahesh Sleepy | :zzz:

Re: developing a small scripting langauge in VC++ ??

Antti Keskinen13-Jan-04 7:04

Antti Keskinen

13-Jan-04 7:04

If you are trying to build a complete scripting engine, you're in too deep.

I'd suggest that you first attempt to create a simple program that reads text files and draws graphic according to those. When you succeed in this, just implement text-editing and row-manipulation routines to your program and you have precisely what you need.

For a start, first create the specification. Decide what graphic routines you are planning to use: Win32, DirectX, OpenGL or what. Then decide what drawing routines your scripting language supports: can you draw a circle, a rectangle, a triangle or all of these ?
If you resort to Win32, then your task becomes even simpler: just create a parsing function that is able to intepret the scripting language's commands. Then the intepreter calls the appropriate Win32 routine to draw the requested graphic. As the program itself will worry about creating the target window, pencils, brushes etc, then the parser should be quite simple.

For more complex object support, just add a more logic to the parser and make it call several drawing routines if required.

If you are new to Windows-programming, then I suggest purchasing a book by Charles Petzold called Programming Windows. This book is "The Bible" of Windows-programming: it explains every little detail deeply enough for anyone familiar with C/C++ to understand.

If you're out of luck and can't get this book, there are several articles available here at CodeProject. Here is a good place to start looking http://www.codeproject.com/gdi/[^]

-Antti Keskinen

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EMF to SWF Convertor

WzR13-Jan-04 0:53

WzR

13-Jan-04 0:53

Dear Developers!

Recently I've been looking for a tool that will do the subj, I've found some links, the software was a bit diffenrent, but it's price was about $699!
Yeah Smile | :)

I smiled too Smile | :)

That's why I decided to create my own tool.
The main problem is I don't know how to save in SWF(it's Macromedia Flash) format. That's why I'm asking for assist in creating of new and of course *free* tool. Please join.

Thanks a lot. ths@smtp.ru

P.S.: The tool will be a virtual printer driver(it's ready) that will convert
the data you send to print to an swf file. That how you can publish it on your web site without using any soft that costs.

P.S.S: Please don't give me links to a ready to use software. As I've mentioned it will be public, source free stuff!
Thanks again. Bye.

Re: EMF to SWF Convertor

Antti Keskinen13-Jan-04 7:17

Antti Keskinen

13-Jan-04 7:17

You can find the designation of the SWF format from this link: http://www.half-serious.com/swf/format/[^]
Additionally, here is a link to a working download of Flash Format SDK, released by MacroMedia. It is an SDK used to read and write SWF files: http://www.softlookup.com/preview/dis6903.html[^]

Hope these will get you started.

-Antti Keskinen

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Help in MDI (reply needed as soon as possible) Please..

Ruchit Sharma13-Jan-04 0:37

Ruchit Sharma

13-Jan-04 0:37

Hi...
There are some problems which I am not able to solve. They are

consider an MDI application....with three child windows open in it....with three buttons on each child window in the toolbar....actually this is a static MDI application...with three child windows initially....

1. The three child windows in the file should be toggable. Suppose if I click on the 1 in the toolbar then the child window should be shown and if I click it once again then it should be hidden not destroyed.

2. The three child windows should be made dockable like in VC++ the windows are dockable.

3. There are three views in this file. One for Bitmap, second for Color table and the last one for Text. For bitmap and data I don't seem to face any problem but for the color table, I will have to display the colors that are present in the bitmap image in tabular form. The tabular columns consists of three columns one for Index, second for colors in the bitmap and the third for the RGB values of each individual color. But I don't know how to do that.

Please help me regarding the above.
Regards,
Ruchit Sharma. R

Re: Help in MDI (reply needed as soon as possible) Please..

Roger Allen13-Jan-04 0:54

Roger Allen

13-Jan-04 0:54

Ok, I may be guessing on some of this.

1. Create your flotaing windows with a base class of CControlBar, and make them members of CMainFrame with the frame as their parents. You need to call EnableDocking etc on them like you do for toolbars

2. To show and hide, map the toolbar button in the mainframe and have code such as:

ShowControlBar(&m_myBar, (m_myBarGetStyle() & WS_VISIBLE) == 0, FALSE);

to toggle it on / off

Not sure about the colour stuff.

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Re: Help in MDI (reply needed as soon as possible) Please..

Ruchit Sharma13-Jan-04 1:21

Ruchit Sharma

13-Jan-04 1:21

Thanks for the reply....

But if i make my base class as CControlBar will i be able to handle text and bitmap...Please do u have any other idea for this problem other than using the CControlBar....plz suggest some ideas....

Thanking you,
Ruchit Sharma. R

How to write ftp server and client for windows in c

shan1213-Jan-04 0:22

shan12

13-Jan-04 0:22

Hi I have to m/c with windows. Both are connected through internet. I want to transfer automatically some file from 1 m/c to the other.
I have VC++ 6 with me. Can anybody help me in this regard.

I have done networking programming in unix with c. but I do not have programming exp with windows.

So it will b of real help for me if any of u can guide me in writing a ftp server and client in C for windows.

Thanks
Confused | :confused:

Re: How to write ftp server and client for windows in c

Selvam R13-Jan-04 1:05

Selvam R

13-Jan-04 1:05

Hello,

see Codeproject articles,

FTP server,

http://www.codeproject.com/internet/ftpserver.asp

FTP Client,

http://www.codeproject.com/internet/ftpwanderer.asp

With Regrads,
R.Selvam

How to fix this?

Anthony_Yio13-Jan-04 0:08

Anthony_Yio

13-Jan-04 0:08

ClassLibImImageBj error LNK2005: "private: __thiscall type_info::type_info(class type_info const &)" (??0type_info@@AAE@ABV0@@Z) already defined in libcmt.lib(typinfo.obj)<br />
ClassLibImImageBj error LNK2005: "private: class type_info & __thiscall type_info::operator=(class type_info const &)" (??4type_info@@AAEAAV0@ABV0@@Z) already defined in libcmt.lib(typinfo.obj)<br />
ClassLibImImageBj error LNK2005: _strncmp already defined in libcmt.lib(strncmp.obj)

My executable which runs the static library is
C++ - code generation - Multithreaded Debug

My static library project setting is
C++ - code generation - Multithreaded Debug DLL

Any hints?
I have try to ignore some libraries but it turns up that I am missing some linkage to some symbols etc.

thank you

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Re: How to fix this?

Prakash Nadar13-Jan-04 0:13

Prakash Nadar

13-Jan-04 0:13

are you sure the RTTI is turned off?

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Re: How to fix this?

Anthony_Yio13-Jan-04 0:24

Anthony_Yio

13-Jan-04 0:24

It is turned off.
Any other clues?

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Re: How to fix this?

jhwurmbach13-Jan-04 0:23

jhwurmbach

13-Jan-04 0:23

You need to use either static or DLL linking of the runtime library, not both at the same time.

Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?

Difference between nested conditional statements vs non-nested dito

Anonymous12-Jan-04 23:52

Anonymous

12-Jan-04 23:52

Hi!

What is the computational difference between nested conditional statements and non-nested dito?

When I have lots of sequential conditions, for the sake of readability I tend to write

void SomeFunction()
{
    // The first condition must be true to continue.
    if(!conditionA) return;
 
    ... // Some processing is done here.
 
    // The second condition must be true to continue.
    if(!conditionB) return;
 
    ... // Some processing is done here.
 
    // The third condition must be true to continue.
    if(!conditionC) return;
 
    ... // Some processing is done here.
}

instead of

void SomeFunction()
{
    // The first condition must be true to continue.
    if(conditionA)
    {
        ... // Some processing is done here.
 
        // The second condition must be true to continue.
        if(conditionB)
        {
            ... // Some processing is done here.
 
            // The third condition must be true to continue.
            if(conditionC)
            { 
                ... // Some processing is done here.
            }
            else 
            { 
                return; 
            }
        }
        else 
        { 
            return; 
        }
    } 
    else 
    { 
        return; 
    }
}

Are there any performance issues, stack mumbo jumbo or something else that could be interesting to know about that make these two ways of writing different?

I asked the question, not Anonymous...

Johann Gerell12-Jan-04 23:55

Johann Gerell

12-Jan-04 23:55

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Re: Difference between nested conditional statements vs non-nested dito

Prakash Nadar13-Jan-04 0:07

Prakash Nadar

13-Jan-04 0:07

I belive that both are equally efficient.

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Re: Difference between nested conditional statements vs non-nested dito

Anthony_Yio13-Jan-04 0:14

Anthony_Yio

13-Jan-04 0:14

The second one has a more clearer control over all the possibilities of the execution path whereas first one is easier to comprehend and faster as well cause it will straight away exit the function when certain condition(s) are met.

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Re: Difference between nested conditional statements vs non-nested dito

berndg13-Jan-04 2:16

berndg

13-Jan-04 2:16

Totally agree. A function shall have a single (!) point of exit. This pays enormously when debugging.

If you structure your code well enough and stay away from 500-line functions, then there is no problem with that.

Bernd

Re: Difference between nested conditional statements vs non-nested dito

Johann Gerell13-Jan-04 22:28

Johann Gerell

13-Jan-04 22:28

Hi!

berndg wrote:
Totally agree

With which version do you agree? None of them has a single point of exit. Both of them perform exactly the same conditional tests in exactly the same order.

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*thoughtful pause* It must have lost its "oink".
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Re: Difference between nested conditional statements vs non-nested dito

berndg15-Jan-04 3:51

berndg

15-Jan-04 3:51

Oops! I overlooked that one, haven'd scrolled down far enough. In that case both are evil, because the paradigm holds: each function shall have one exit point.

I find the most natural way of writing this is like so:

if (a) {
...
} else if (b) {
...
} else {
...
}

Bernd

Re: Difference between nested conditional statements vs non-nested dito

jhwurmbach13-Jan-04 0:26

jhwurmbach

13-Jan-04 0:26

The easiest way would be to compare the generated assembly code, if they are different after the optimizer (disabled in debug) has done its work.

Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?

I hate First-chance exceptions !!!

Danoo12-Jan-04 23:31

Danoo

12-Jan-04 23:31

Hello y'all

In my application, I have tons of messages in the debug window that say
First-chance exception in BurCalc.exe (KERNEL32.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation.

Can anybody give me a hind how I have to check out this issue. Confused | :confused:

I'm regularely using CString and CMaps... is this a source of troubles? But I'm using it also in other applications without any problems...

Any help? WTF | :WTF:

Regards,
Daniel

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