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thanx for the suggestion But I went thr those links before ..looking for more help 
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Hi, everyone!
I am reading the source codes of another buddie and
I often see strange operation with "this" pointer.
It really makes puzzled. Here are two cases,
Sample 1:
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class A {
public:
memberFunction(const A& a)
{
*this = a;
}
};
int main()
{
A a;
A b;
a.memberFunction(b);
return 1;
}
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I think in the first case, the statement "*this = a" calls the
class default assignment operator,
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void A::opeartor = (const A&).
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Am I correct?
Sample 2:
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class A {
public:
void memberFunction(A* a)
{
this = a;
}
};
int main()
{
A a;
A b;
a.memberFunction(&b);
return 1;
}
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I think in the latter case, the statement "this = a" is not correct since
the value of this pointer can not be modified. But I am not sure about
it. Am I also correct?
Thanks in advance,
George
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Assigning a value to this is illegal, so your example 2 will not compile.
By the way, the word is spelled "buddy" 
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Thanks, Michael buddie!
Is my options correct in example one?
regards,
George
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Yes, the compiler will try to generate an assignment operator if you do not write one yourself. If the class contains members which are themselves classes, this may not end up doing what you want, so when in doubt it's best to write the assignment operator and copy constructor.
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Thanks, Michael buddy! 
George
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Hi, everyone!
In the following sample,
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class A {
};
int main()
{
A a;
}
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I think variable "a" is allocated on function stack and
not on app heap. So there does not exist memory leak.
It is different from the following case, when memory
is allocated on app heap, which needs to be deleted.
Am I correct?
Next example,
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class A {
};
int main()
{
A* a = new A();
delete a;
}
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Thanks in advance,
George
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Thanks, Dave buddie!
George
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Heyas all...
I am comming from a Linuc programming background and I'm trying to port a small program to Win32. It's going to be a console app and I have 2 questions on it. Before I go any further I am going to post my program:
#include "iostream.h"
int main(void){
int i;
cout<<"\n\t\t CoxEdgeLauncher Version .98\n";
cout<<"\t\t(c)2003 Digitally Khaotic Solutions, Inc.\n";
cout<<"\nInitializing CoxEdge";
for(i=0;i<5;i++){
cout<<"."<<flush;
sleep(1)
}
cout<<"\nCalibrating delay loop";
for(i=0;i<6;i++){
cout<<"."<<flush;
sleep(1);
}
cout<<"\nLaunching CoxEdge..."<<flush;
sleep(3);
cout<<"\n\n***App Started. This line and DOS box will disappear***\n\n";
return(1);
}
Now, I know I'm missing some headers in there and that's my first question. What header would include a sleep or sleep like function in Win32? On my Linux box I'd use unistd.h but it doesn't seem to exist on Windows. The second question is, how do I call an external program from within my code? i.e. I want notepad to startup right after "Launching CoxEdge..." is displayed.
I'd appreciate any info anyone can provide for me.
Thanks in advance.
Digital Khaos
"Diplomacy is dead. Feel my wrath!"
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You want Sleep() with a capital S. It lives in windows.h
system() should be enough to launch Notepad. Otherwise look at ShellExecute().
Software is everything. It also sucks. Charles Fishman [^]
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Taka I appreciate the quick response. The Sleep() function is working prefectly thank you. I am having a bit of a time trying to figure out ShellExecute() though. I have the following:
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "c:\windows\notepad", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
Now, if I make it:
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "notepad", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
It works. I guess my question is how do I specify a path? For the final outcome the path to the program is "s:\CoxEdge\coxedge.exe". When I put in full paths, I get warnings aluding to unrecognized escape characters.
Any thoughts?
Again I appreciate it.
Digital Khaos
"Diplomacy is dead. Feel my wrath!"
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the slashes in your string are being interpreted as escape characters \w and \n respectively.
use \\ to escape slash characters i.e. "c:\\windows\\notepad"
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Welcome to Windows, John. 
Two points - the argument to Sleep() is milliseconds. I assume you mean to sleep for 1 second, so use Sleep(1000).
Second, check out the VC forum FAQ[^] which includes a FAQ on launching other programs.
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Since you are building a console application you should use the function:
#include <process.h>
or
#include <stdlib.h>
int system( const char *command );
And if you really insist on using something else, and you don't understand ShellExecute, then go with
WinExec( "Application.exe", SW_SHOW );
// Afterall I realized that even my comment lines have bugs
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I have a class ...
<br />
<br />
class blah {<br />
...<br />
public:<br />
...<br />
double buffer[100][100];<br />
...<br />
};<br />
Now in another class I do this ...
<br />
<br />
anotherClass::anotherClass () {<br />
...<br />
for( int i=0; i<100; i++ ) {<br />
for( int j=0; j<100; j++ ) {<br />
p2_blah->buffer[i][j] = (double)5.1234;<br />
}}<br />
... <br />
}<br />
<br />
void anotherClass::doSomethingWithBuff( doube **b, int x, int y ) {<br />
...<br />
if ( z <= b[x][y] ) {
b[x][y] = z;
}<br />
}<br />
... the b[x][y] is causing my program to crash 
What should I be doing instead?
I can't figure out how to prototype doSomethingWithBuff with double[][] instead of
double** or even if I should?
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DOH!
Nope I didn't try that! Thanks that did the trick.
Here's what I did try 
<br />
void anotherClass::doSomething( double [100][100] b ...<br />
I was thinking that "double [100][100]" was a type!
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Are you sure that:
1) b is valid - i.e. you aren't passing in null, or some garbage.
2) x and y are valid (i.e. in this case both are >= 0 and < 100)?
There is no problem passing in the array as a double** as long as you don't try and access past the end of it.
Dave
http://www.cloudsofheaven.org
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That breaks because an array and a pointer are equivalent only for one-dimensional arrays. It's hard to explain in words, but the syntax b[x][y] breaks because b is declared as a double**, that is, pointer to double*, when that is not how the underlying data is stored.
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Using VC7/MFC I have a dialog app that has a seperate thread to handle animation. How can I do a lock so that I can update a back buffer(double-buffering) between the main thread and the graphics thread. When I try to lock in the main dialog it freezes which I think is being caused by
the message pump being stopped by the lock in the thread. Any ideas as to the proper (and hopefully easy) way to handle multi-thread screen updating? Thanks
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One more thing...is MsgWaitForMultipleObjects the proper way to do this?
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Off the top of my head, put a critical section in both the back buffer drawing routines and the main drawing routine.
Another common method is to create two back buffers and ping pong between them using a BYTE index (which is always atomic) to indicate which buffer is active for painting in the foreground and drawing in the background.
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Tried the critical section but when it tries to lock in the main thread, everything hangs for some reason. I think the message pump may be getting blocked. Used critical sections a lot in my server code and they work great. For some reason it doesn't seem to want to cooperate with graphics routines.
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