C / C++ / MFC

27-Mar-08 4:22

ask him, my dear?
(just kidding)
Laugh | :laugh:

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CPallini27-Mar-08 3:49

27-Mar-08 3:49

Read a good book and learn C++. Then you may read a good book on Windows programming but, at first, don't bother about MFC.
When you eventually reach a good knowledge of both C++ and Windows programming, then find out that you don't really need MFC.
Smile | :)

scene_8427-Mar-08 4:10

scene_84

27-Mar-08 4:10

Why is that so, if i learnt C++ and Windows Programming then i will not be using MFC, but i thought MFC are related to both C++ and Windows Programming, plus it also help you to create the necessary Class Files for you to program. Is there any books or website that offers this kind of teachings?

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CPallini27-Mar-08 4:20

27-Mar-08 4:20

Oh don't worry about. Simply I don't like very much MFC. Indeed, if you want to be stuck with MFC, the book Rajesh R Subramanian suggested (Prosise's) is a good one.
Anyway if you need to do some C/C++ Windows programming, good C/C++ knowledge is a must, good Windows programming is a must too. On the other hand MFC isn't such a must. It is just a framework built on the top of the Win32 API. You can enjoy other frameworks or you may just roll your own classes.
Smile | :)

scene_8427-Mar-08 4:37

scene_84

27-Mar-08 4:37

I see what you mean Pallini, thanks for the advice, because i am learning from the beginning as i am not very good in programming. I will be going to do a look up. By the way is there any website that can provide tutorials or projects that i can do, so that i can learn and also know how i have improve in building Windows Programs (E.g. Creating a simple e-learning tool)>?

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David Crow27-Mar-08 5:28

David Crow

27-Mar-08 5:28

scene_84 wrote:
By the way is there any website that can provide tutorials or projects that i can do...

Why does everything have to come from the Internet? What happened to the days when folks thought up their own problems, even small ones?

Convert fahrenheit to celsius

Add up numbers from stdin stream

Write to and read from a file

Determine if a date is valid

And if algorithms are your thing:

Bubble sort an array of numbers

Add to and delete items from a linked list

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CPallini27-Mar-08 5:42

27-Mar-08 5:42

David we're since a long time in the CUT & PASTE era. How old are you?
Laugh | :laugh:

BTW Probably we'll end up into the CUT ONLY era.

jhwurmbach27-Mar-08 7:27

jhwurmbach

27-Mar-08 7:27

CPallini wrote:
Read a good book and learn C++. Then you may read a good book on Windows programming but, at first, don't bother about MFC.

That is stupid.
Noone in his right mind would want to program Windows in C alone. And that is what the Win32-Interface is.
MFC is stupid enough, without having to program "C with classes".

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CPallini29-Mar-08 23:31

29-Mar-08 23:31

jhwurmbach wrote:
That is stupid.

Off course that is going on your Poke tongue | ;-P

arrogant assumptions.

2.

jhwurmbach wrote:
Noone in his right mind would want to program Windows in C alone. And that is what the Win32-Interface is.

See point (1). I'm not talking about plain C, however, programming Windows using plain C is an option: if you don't like that kind of programming then you think nobody will do?

3.

jhwurmbach wrote:
MFC is stupid enough

I don't agree. Some aspects of MFC are good. But I don't like the whole MFC.

4.

jhwurmbach wrote:
without having to program "C with classes".

Programming Windows with C++ using Win32 is not programming C with classes. It's programming C++ exploiting a very-very-good C API (while I can't say very-very good about MFC Framework).

Smile | :)

Report Generating

shakumar_2227-Mar-08 2:32

shakumar_22

27-Mar-08 2:32

Hi
I want to generate a Data Report in VC++ 6.0 .
I done data report in VB, but not in vc++. Is it possible to generate a data report in vc++ .
Give me the suggestion about this. Report generating in Data Reporting , crystal or any other way I want just an report viewing and the print out of that.

Regards
shakumar

shakumar

Re: Report Generating

led mike27-Mar-08 4:37

led mike

27-Mar-08 4:37

shakumar_22 wrote:
Is it possible to generate a data report in vc++

The following is a report I generated using C++

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led mike

On Combo Box [modified]

Chandrasekharan P27-Mar-08 0:39

Chandrasekharan P

27-Mar-08 0:39

have a query on Combo box..

i have a file which contains one set of values. and the there is heading also which is seperated by semicolons[;], now i want to read the first line which i have done and then use some function to seperate the headings and load it into the combo box. how can i do this? i hope what ever i have told u is clear.

the first line can be something like this
Name;age;sex;address;

this is in a file and take for example there are 500 values.

modified on Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:55 AM

Rajkumar R27-Mar-08 1:10

Rajkumar R

27-Mar-08 1:10

Chandrasekharanp wrote:
the first line can be something like this
Name;age;sex;address;

this is in a file and take for example there are 500 values.

it looks like detail view in explorer right, why you choosed combo box i can't understand, list view with report view style will be suitable. some thing like List Control[^]

To seperate the items delimitted by semicolons you may use strtok, for MFC CString::Tokenise. Look for CString::Tokenise[^] for sample code.

Chandrasekharan P27-Mar-08 6:17

Chandrasekharan P

27-Mar-08 6:17

no its not a detailed view. its just the names in the first line..
goes like this

name
age
sex
address

i want it to display like this in the combo box.. i am very sorry to say that the list box does not fit into my requiremtents..

Rajkumar R27-Mar-08 6:41

Rajkumar R

27-Mar-08 6:41

anyway Tokenize API is useful, I think.

Stephen Hewitt27-Mar-08 15:21

Stephen Hewitt

27-Mar-08 15:21

Perhaps this will help (non Unicode console application):

// VanillaConsole.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//
 
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
	// Open the file.
	ifstream ifs("C:\\data.txt");
	if (!ifs)
	{
		cerr << "Failed to open input file!" << endl;
		return -1;
	}
 
	// Read in first line.
	string first;
	if (!getline(ifs, first))
	{
		cerr << "Failed to read first line of line!" << endl;
		return -2;
	}
 
	// Now break the line up and spit each word out.
	string word;
	istringstream iss(first);
	while (getline(iss, word, ';'))
	{
		cout << word << endl;
	}
 
	return 0;
}

Steve