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5-Oct-10 0:06

To read asynchronously there is an way-> overlapped I/O.
Open file with FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED flag, pass OVERLAPPED structure to ReadFile, and wait for overlapped event for some limited time.

I did not find any sample for this. There are many samples to read from COM device.
But i need a sample to read data from disk/drive/file

CPallini5-Oct-10 1:42

CPallini

5-Oct-10 1:42

This MSDN article: "Asynchronous Disk I/O Appears as Synchronous on Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP" might interest you.
Is has sample code, as well caveats about asynchronous file I/O.
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MKC0025-Oct-10 21:36

5-Oct-10 21:36

Thanks for your reply. It's good article and helped me. To define time i need to create an event and calcel read operation there if it takes long time. But the problem is i am calling ReadFile in a thread (GUI thread). Will it be good to create an event in thread and call another thread from this thread. Please suggest.

CPallini5-Oct-10 22:23

CPallini

5-Oct-10 22:23

Usually (slow) I/O operation are done on a separate thread (to make the GUI responsive). Why do you need an event when you have timeouts on ReadFile (maybe I didn't got you)?
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MKC0025-Oct-10 22:50

5-Oct-10 22:50

Without using overlapped, Sometime ReadFile takes very long time(say 5 minutes) to read some data. And this create a big issue for me because after that ReadFile does not read any data from any offset. So i decided to use IO overlapped. Passed FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED in CreateFile and OVERLAPPED structure in ReadFile.
But here also when i call GetOverlappedResult after ReadFile program hangs because GetOverlappedResult takes 5 minutes. So i decided to create event for OVERLAPPED STRUCTURE. After creating event i call a thread where i check the elapse time. And if time pass more than 1 minutes then i call CancelIO operation to cancel the GetOverlappedResult but still it did not help me. Please check my below code and suggest

in header file, define 2 variables
OVERLAPPED osReadOperation;
HANDLE hFile;

in cpp file

void myfunc()
{
TCHAR szFileName[255];
memset(szFileName,0,sizeof(szFileName));
sprintf(szFileName,"\\\\.\\PHYSICALDRIVE0");
hFile = CreateFile(szFileName,
GENERIC_READ,
0,
NULL,
OPEN_EXISTING,
FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL | FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,
NULL);

if (hFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
return;

BOOL fOverlapped = FALSE;
char* pDataBuf = new char[83886081];
memset(pDataBuf,0,sizeof(pDataBuf));
DWORD NumberOfBytesRead = 0;

DWORD NumberOfBytesTransferred = 0;
memset(&osReadOperation,0,sizeof(osReadOperation));
osReadOperation.hEvent = CreateEvent(NULL,TRUE,FALSE,NULL);
SetEvent(osReadOperation.hEvent);
AfxBeginThread(myThread, this);
int result = 0;
if (!ReadFile(hFile,pDataBuf,83886080,&NumberOfBytesRead,&osReadOperation ))
{
if (GetLastError() != ERROR_IO_PENDING)
return;
else
fOverlapped = TRUE;
}
else
fOverlapped = FALSE;

if (fOverlapped)
{
if (GetOverlappedResult( hFile,&osReadOperation,&NumberOfBytesTransferred,TRUE))
result = 1;
else
return;
}
else
result = 1;
CloseHandle(osReadOperation.hEvent);
osReadOperation.hEvent = NULL;
}

void CAlldrivesDlg::canceltheoperation()
{
CancelIo(hFile);
}
UINT myThread(LPVOID me)
{
CAlldrivesDlg *th = (CAlldrivesDlg*)me;
OVERLAPPED * self = &th->osReadOperation;
DWORD ww = WaitForSingleObject(self->hEvent, 1000);
int bm=2;
switch(ww)
{ /* waitfor */
case 0:
th->canceltheoperation();
break;
default:

break;
} /* waitfor */
ResetEvent(self->hEvent);

return 0;
}

CPallini5-Oct-10 23:19

CPallini

5-Oct-10 23:19

Probably, in your case, setting TRUE the bWait parameter of the GetOverlappedResult function is not a good idea, see the "Testing for the End of a File" MSDN sample.
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MKC0026-Oct-10 0:09

Customize CMFCPropertyGrid

6-Oct-10 0:09

Thanks for the link. I noticed that it does not use time. So with this code am i able to handle the case when diskio takes long time to read any data (say 4-5 minutes).
For my case my program reads any data in few seconds but at one offset it takes some minutes to read some data (sometimes hour). Will this code solve that problem? If not then what is the solution? Should i attach the sample source code here which use overllaped io.

silversamand4-Oct-10 23:57

silversamand

4-Oct-10 23:57

Hi,
I need to customize a CMFCPropertyGrid such that be able to display a simple button inside.
when user selects given grid, user can press button inside and then a dialog box will be displayed!
exactly like Folder dialog box.

how can i do this?

best regards

Can we create a multi layer tiff image as it is in Photoshop with the help of Libtiff library?

002comp4-Oct-10 18:13

002comp

4-Oct-10 18:13

Hello Friends
I am using libtiff library and m writing a simple tiff file.I setted the basic tags like imagewidth,height,compression,bitsperpixel,tiff tag orientation and finally image data by using tiffWritescanline. And image is saving as tiff too but now i want to save another layer data in same tiff so for that Do I need to save only image dat or do I need to set basic tag again for that layer too?

Any Help will be appreciated.
Thanks & Regards
Yogesh

Re: Can we create a multi layer tiff image as it is in Photoshop with the help of Libtiff library?

002comp4-Oct-10 20:57

002comp

4-Oct-10 20:57

Hello Guys
I found one tag TIFFWriteDirectory in Libtiff but it is creating multiple pages and I want layers in tiff that can I open photoshop and edit it.

Any Other Tag which can make images as Layers?
Thanks & Regards
Yogesh

Re: Can we create a multi layer tiff image as it is in Photoshop with the help of Libtiff library?

C^hris L^osinger5-Oct-10 3:54

C^hris L^osinger

5-Oct-10 3:54

TIFF files can contain multiple images (also called "pages"), which are stored in "directories". but again, there is no explicit support in the TIFF format for "layers".

to write N images to a TIFF file, you:

0. open the TIFF file
1. set all the image tags for image X
2. write the image data for image X
3. call TIFFWriteDirectory
4. X++
5. while X < N, goto 1

TIFFWriteDirectory creates and initializes a new tag directory in the TIFF file.

you can also add new pages to an existing TIFF file by opening the file in append mode.

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Re: Can we create a multi layer tiff image as it is in Photoshop with the help of Libtiff library?

kakan6-Oct-10 21:04

kakan

6-Oct-10 21:04

Chris Losinger wrote:
there is no explicit support in the TIFF format for "layers".

According to this[^] (and other sources), there is.

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Re: Can we create a multi layer tiff image as it is in Photoshop with the help of Libtiff library?

C^hris L^osinger7-Oct-10 1:13

C^hris L^osinger

7-Oct-10 1:13

not really a lot of detail there.

a file search of the latest LibTiffs (3.9.4 and 4.0.0 b6) turns up three instances of the word "layer", none of which refer to Photoshop-style image layers - they refer to API layers, etc..

if there is layer support in TIFF, it must be very new, and so is unlikely to be what Photoshop has been using for years.

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Change the content of a tooltip

Schehaider_Aymen4-Oct-10 10:45

Schehaider_Aymen

4-Oct-10 10:45

Hi all,

i was looking for a way to change the tooltip of the toolbar's buttons !! i tried to look for it on google but there is nothing versatile.
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and an MFC project !!

Thank you

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Re: Change the content of a tooltip

LunaticFringe4-Oct-10 12:01

LunaticFringe

4-Oct-10 12:01

I believe you would want to send TTM_DELTOOL message to your existing tooltip control to delete the current text, followed by a TTM_ADDTOOL message with the new text. Alternatively, I think you can use TTM_SETTOOLINFO to modify the text of an existing tooltip - that may be simpler.

The following snippet shows the syntax for TTM_ADDTOOL and may point you in the right direction, although the code is WTL instead of MFC:

TOOLINFO info;
ZeroMemory(&info, sizeof(TOOLINFO));

info.cbSize = sizeof(TOOLINFO);
info.hinst = _Module.get_m_hInst();
info.uFlags = ( TTF_CENTERTIP | TTF_ABSOLUTE);
info.lpszText = _T("Your new text here.");

m_Toolbar.GetItemRect(m_Toolbar.CommandToIndex(ID_TOOLBAR_BUTTON_TO_CHANGE ), &info.rect);
info.hwnd = m_Toolbar.m_hWnd;
info.uId = ID_TOOLBAR_BUTTON_TO_CHANGE;

::SendMessage(tt, TTM_ADDTOOL, 0, (LPARAM)&info);// tt is the HWND of the tooltip control

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OnInitialUpdate

john56324-Oct-10 6:33

john5632

4-Oct-10 6:33

I drived a class from CFormView. But If I override OnInitUpdate it is not executed in my drived class.
Could you help me why this is happening?

Re: OnInitialUpdate

josda10004-Oct-10 6:38

josda1000

4-Oct-10 6:38

Can you give us a sample of the OnInitUpdate function? We can't really make any educated guesses without any clues.

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Re: OnInitialUpdate

David Crow4-Oct-10 7:31

David Crow

4-Oct-10 7:31

john5632 wrote:
But If I override OnInitUpdate it is not executed in my drived class.

How are you verifying this?

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Re: OnInitialUpdate

Schehaider_Aymen4-Oct-10 10:47

Schehaider_Aymen

4-Oct-10 10:47

may be u forgot to attach the ID of the form in the .H classe file !!
is the form loaded or no ? and what kinf of errors do u ve got ?

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Redirect Message Box Messages,

Joschwenk6664-Oct-10 5:00

Joschwenk666

4-Oct-10 5:00

Hallo,

I have a Windows Service written in Visual C++. It`s a loop that does certain things, and starts from the beginning after waiting a few seconds.

My problem is, that when there occurs an error in the code, a messagebox pops up. And the code is not executed anymore, because you have to click on "ok" first. The messagebox is showed from some external library functions, so I can`t go to the source code.

Is there any possibility to redirect all message boxes to a logfile or something like that, and continue executing the program without a click by the user?

Thank you!

Code-o-mat4-Oct-10 9:23

Code-o-mat

4-Oct-10 9:23

Well, first of all, if there are errors popping up, shouldn't you rather try to figure out what causes them and try to fix it, besides, maybe the user has to/wants to know about these problems, so "supressing" message boxes might not be a good idea. Depending on how the message boxes are displayed, i can think of a possible way to do what you want if you insist.

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Sameerkumar Namdeo4-Oct-10 22:27

Sameerkumar Namdeo

4-Oct-10 22:27

Code-o-mat wrote:
i can think of a possible way to do what you want

Please show how can the ::MessageBox() can be suppressed and corresponding message be directed to some file.

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Code-o-mat5-Oct-10 23:23

Code-o-mat

5-Oct-10 23:23

Sorry for the late answer, wasn!t near net access for a day. So, you could try hooking the MessageBoxA and/or MessageBoxW API functions and provide your own implementations to write to a log file. I don't know what you are actually doing so i can't really judge but i still don't think supressing message boxes intended for the user is a BAD IDEA. Anyways, for api hooking, see API hooking revealed[^] here on Code Project.