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Re: Alphabets only in CEdit

6-Mar-06 18:29

This[^] will help.

Nibu thomas
Software Developer

nripun6-Mar-06 23:40

nripun

6-Mar-06 23:40

You can try this..
http://www.codeproject.com/editctrl/validatingedit.asp

Please solve my problems

rajeevktripathi6-Mar-06 17:42

rajeevktripathi

6-Mar-06 17:42

In an interview I faced many question out of those, these are the questions that I could not reply properly, so please guide me to resolve these questions

queries are as follows:

1) how many ways are there to transfer values from one application to another application and and how will you do all

2)what the problem will arise when very large number of entries ( say 1000 million or more) are being inserted to the CListCtrl in MFC?

3)How would you read a file of size 5 GB when there is not enough RAM disk and virtual memory?

4)How to measure the performance of two functions working same activity?

Please help me.
Thanks.

Taka Muraoka6-Mar-06 18:05

Taka Muraoka

6-Mar-06 18:05

rajeevktripathi wrote:
what the problem will arise when very large number of entries ( say 1000 million or more) are being inserted to the CListCtrl in MFC?

Your users will hunt you down with a very large axe? Laugh | :laugh:

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Taka Muraoka6-Mar-06 18:49

Taka Muraoka

6-Mar-06 18:49

OK, to be a little more helpful... Smile | :)

rajeevktripathi wrote:
1) how many ways are there to transfer values from one application to another application and and how will you do all

Lots. If you're on Windows, you can uses pipes, DDE, Windows messages, shared memory. Mutexes/events/semaphores are also possible (although slightly contrived).

There's also TCP/IP, UDP, sending stuff down a serial line. At higher level, you could also gives answers like HTTP, SOAP, REST.

You could also say things like "print something out and tell the user to type it in to the other application". It's perfectly valid and demonstrates that you can think outside the square Smile | :)

rajeevktripathi wrote:
2)what the problem will arise when very large number of entries ( say 1000 million or more) are being inserted to the CListCtrl in MFC?

Memory is an obvious constraint. Even if they were all empty strings, that's a huge amount of memory, not considering the overhead Windows introduces. And since list controls were never designed to handle such a large number of items, it's going to be unusably slow. If it's even possibe at all - I'm sure there's some 16-bit-based limit somewhere Smile | :)

And your users will hunt you down with a very large axe.

rajeevktripathi wrote:
3)How would you read a file of size 5 GB when there is not enough RAM disk and virtual memory?

Read it in chunks. Or if you're on Windows, use CreateFileMapping().

rajeevktripathi wrote:
4)How to measure the performance of two functions working same activity?

Ask them to define performance. Speed? Memory? Disk space? Average or worst case?

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Ryan Binns6-Mar-06 19:33

Ryan Binns

6-Mar-06 19:33

Taka Muraoka wrote:
Memory is an obvious constraint. Even if they were all empty strings, that's a huge amount of memory, not considering the overhead Windows introduces. And since list controls were never designed to handle such a large number of items, it's going to be unusably slow. If it's even possibe at all - I'm sure there's some 16-bit-based limit somewhere And your users will hunt you down with a very large axe.

Not to mention the delay that Windows introduces when it redraws the entire list after inserting each one Smile | :)

. The axe is quite large indeed

Ryan

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missing storage-class or type specifiers

Gary R. Wheeler7-Mar-06 3:52

Gary R. Wheeler

7-Mar-06 3:52

2) is a trick question. The list control behaves relatively well up to about 5000 or so entries, in terms of update speed, scrolling, etc. After that, you have to switch to using 'virtual' mode in order for it to behave well.

The list control allocates memory for each item added. Trying to add 10⁹ entries will cause the system to consume all available physical memory, followed by enlarging the page file. I believe the process will fail long before all of the items are added, as Windows limits the maximum page file size. In any case, your system will essentially lock up due to resource consumption.

A second poor behavior is screen updating. If you leave screen updates turned on during the item addition, that will slow the process (and make the screen flash a lot).

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Kranti12519846-Mar-06 17:35

6-Mar-06 17:35

Hi,

I'm getting following errors while creating 3 classes as mentioned below ...

//---------------------------

class CConfig
{
//declarations
};

//---------------------------

#include "Config.h"
class CDlg
{
CConfig m_config; //no errors
};

//---------------------------

#include "Config.h"
class CDump
{
void MyFun(CConfig config); //errors
};

//---------------------------

in class CDump i'm getting some errors as ...

error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'config'
error C2501: 'CConfig' : missing storage-class or type specifiers
error C2501: 'config' : missing storage-class or type specifiers

as far as class CDlg is concerned i'm able to declare and use the object of CConfig but why doesn't it work in the other case?

Thanks,
Kranti

-- modified at 23:59 Monday 6th March, 2006

Nibu babu thomas6-Mar-06 17:39

6-Mar-06 17:39

Kranti1251984 wrote:
#include "CConfig.h"

Is it #include "CConfig.h" or #include "Config.h"

Nibu thomas
Software Developer

Kranti12519846-Mar-06 17:44

6-Mar-06 17:44

I'm sorry, it is
#include "Config.h"

Nibu babu thomas6-Mar-06 17:48

6-Mar-06 17:48

Kranti1251984 wrote:
I'm sorry, it is
#include "Config.h"

Now it should work!

Nibu thomas
Software Developer

Kranti12519846-Mar-06 17:50

6-Mar-06 17:50

No, that's the problem. Even though, correct header file is included, it works fine with CDlg but not with CDump.
What should I do?

Nibu babu thomas6-Mar-06 17:57

6-Mar-06 17:57

I don't think that the line you are showing is having the problem in CDump because the errors are talking about some other variable called m_config but here(in CDump) you have declared a variable called config.

Nibu thomas
Software Developer

Kranti12519846-Mar-06 18:02

6-Mar-06 18:02

The same line with prototype of the function, is creating problems for the variable config of type CConfig.

-- modified at 0:02 Tuesday 7th March, 2006

Ghasrfakhri6-Mar-06 17:50

Ghasrfakhri

6-Mar-06 17:50

I have this problem when I have 2 or more file Included eachothere (file 1 include file 2 & file 2 include file 1)

Iman Ghasrfakhri

Kranti12519846-Mar-06 17:54

Problem with Serial Port Transmission

6-Mar-06 17:54

I had tried this. But logically, it should not work and it doesn't work.
But the problem i've mentioned is not the same one.

BeakX6-Mar-06 17:23

BeakX

6-Mar-06 17:23

Hello,
I am using the bit of code below in a function to send instructions thru the serial port to some equipment and also to read off some feedback from
the equipment:
WriteFile(hCOM1, txbuff, 8, &bytesRead, NULL);

ReadFile(hCOM1, rxbuff, 8, &bytesRead, NULL);

Power= (((int)rxbuff[6])%4)*256 + (int)rxbuff[5];

When i am testing this function alone, it seem to work perfectly and obtain nice readings. However, when i integrate it with the rest of the program i find that the function gives wierd readings.I later found that this was due to the ReadFile portion reading the recieved portion at an offset, meaning there was some meaningless data before my actual portion of the feedback.
eg
I expect 255 255 43 .....
instead i get 05 04 255 255 43...
I managed to solve this problem by making use of the PURGE command.
However, i would like to know, why does the offset of data occurr ?
Is there any better way to solve this problem instead of PURGE ?
Thanks

Re: Problem with Serial Port Transmission

Ryan Binns6-Mar-06 17:30

Ryan Binns

6-Mar-06 17:30

The serial port has an input buffer of usually around 16 characters. Anything that is received by the serial port but not read by an application will be just sitting there waiting to be read. A good practice is to clear the input buffer (just read until you can't read any more) when you open the serial port, and then make sure you keep up with all the reads after that.

Ryan

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Triangle *

yaaqub6-Mar-06 17:03

yaaqub

6-Mar-06 17:03

* ***
******
********

I have some problems to make this triangle for my hobby.

John,K

Re: Triangle *

Nibu babu thomas6-Mar-06 17:16

6-Mar-06 17:16

<font color=blue>const int</font> nMaxLines = 4;

<font color=blue>for</font>(<font color=blue>int</font> lnCount=0;lnCount<nMaxLines;lnCount++)
{
 <font color=green>//run this loop till (lnCount*2)</font>
 <font color=blue>for</font>(<font color=blue>int</font> nStars=0;nStars<=(lnCount*2);nStars++)
 {
   cout<<"*";
 }
 cout<<endl;
}

Nibu thomas
Software Developer

to read a text file

beardy janggut6-Mar-06 16:40

beardy janggut

6-Mar-06 16:40

1.how can i find the location of whitespace character in the file like tab, space etc??

Re: to read a text file

Nibu babu thomas6-Mar-06 21:06