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Re: screensaver problem

Ryan Binns6-Jul-03 22:31

Ryan Binns

6-Jul-03 22:31

Rage wrote:
Hey, we are on CP here, the most *precise* web site about code stuff

Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

OK, so how about mentioning that a screensaver doesn't actually have to have a .scr extension. Any executable file can be used as a screensaver (heck, even .bat files work Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

). You can even setup VC++ as your screensaver if you want to Smile | :)

beat that!! Poke tongue | ;-P

Ryan

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Re: screensaver problem

Rage6-Jul-03 23:24

Rage

6-Jul-03 23:24

Ryan Binns wrote:
beat that!!

[ouch!] MMhhh ... well well well ... how is the weather in Australia today Wink | ;)

?

~RaGE();

Re: screensaver problem

Ryan Binns6-Jul-03 23:33

Ryan Binns

6-Jul-03 23:33

Rage wrote:
[ouch!]

I hope you saw the ";P". If not... Poke tongue | ;-P

;P;P

Rage wrote:
how is the weather in Australia today

The temperature is about 10 degrees, it's raining, and I'm hungry. I have no idea what colour the sky is because I can't see it - all I see is more clouds than there are people in New York, and I'm hungry.

PS. Did I mention I was hungry? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Ryan

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Re: screensaver problem

JT Anderson8-Jul-03 12:22

JT Anderson

8-Jul-03 12:22

If you want to start the currently configured screensaver, try this:

PostMessage(GetForegroundWindow(), WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_SCREENSAVE, 0);

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Check is file is locked

pranavamhari6-Jul-03 18:06

pranavamhari

6-Jul-03 18:06

hi all,

i need to check if a file is in use/locked.

(then i have to delete the file if i want.)

how can i do it using win32 api?

regards

Hari Krishnan

Re: Check is file is locked

Ravi Bhavnani6-Jul-03 18:43

Ravi Bhavnani

6-Jul-03 18:43

If the file exists but you can't open it for exclusive read access, you can safely assume it's locked by another process. Assuming you're using MFC, see CFile for more information.

/ravi

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Re: Check is file is locked

pranavamhari7-Jul-03 1:28

pranavamhari

7-Jul-03 1:28

Hi,
thanks, but i don't want to use CFile.

After checking i want to delete the file.

Is there any win32 way ? I've read now that CreateFile can check this. But is not sure about the arguments.

Hari Krishnan

Re: Check is file is locked

David Crow7-Jul-03 2:50

David Crow

7-Jul-03 2:50

HFILE hFile = OpenFile(..., OF_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE);
if (HFILE_ERROR != hFile)
{
    DeleteFile(...);
}

Calling a VB dll from C++

rajdawg6-Jul-03 12:48

rajdawg

6-Jul-03 12:48

I have followed the instructions for C. Lung's VERY helpful article from 1999 on calling a VB ActiveX Dll from c++. I have built my VB dll that I have (which has 24 classes and 1 .bas file), and I used the midl compiler to compile the .idl file that I made by copying the code crom OLE View, as the article instructs. Now that I have the .idl files and the .c files which correspond to my VB DLL loaded into my C++ project, I get the following error when I try to build (F7) my c++ project.
"fatal error C1010: unexpected end of file while looking for precompiled header directive". I cannot figure out the cause of this error.
The only thing I have done that was not mentioned in Lung's article is change some data type specifications in the idl file which were causing error messages from the midl compiler. I changed "Single" to "float" and, I replaced the name of a VB enum I had created with a "Long" data type.
Please advise, or ask more questions, if I have not provided enough info.
Thank you VERY much, in advance, for any help you can provide!
rajdawg - a.k.a. Roger

Re: Calling a VB dll from C++

Anders Molin6-Jul-03 13:50

Anders Molin

6-Jul-03 13:50

You can find the answar for that error in the FAQ
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/cppforumfaq.asp[^]

- Anders

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Running in debugger runtime detect?

Brian Tietz6-Jul-03 11:55

Brian Tietz

6-Jul-03 11:55

The product I'm working on is still in the stage where I'm releasing debug builds. I have asserts in place for things that I want to see, but aren't actual application failures. What I'd like to do is augment assert so that places where I want to see an assert, I'll get an assert, but not when a debug build leaves my desk. I could just add a define and have not only a debug build configuration, but also a private debug build configuration. But ideally, I'd like to detect at runtime whether the app is running in the debugger or not, and key this behavior (and a few others I won't go into) off of that information. Does anyone know a way to do this?

Re: Running in debugger runtime detect?

Dave Bryant6-Jul-03 12:09

Dave Bryant

6-Jul-03 12:09

Use IsDebuggerPresent()

Dave
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Re: Running in debugger runtime detect?

peterchen6-Jul-03 22:35

peterchen

6-Jul-03 22:35

Brian Tietz wrote:
The product I'm working on is still in the stage where I'm releasing debug builds.

You should never do that Wink | ;)

(and btw. I think it's not allowed to redistribute the debug runtime dll's...)

Here on CP you'll find some tools how to convert your _ASSERT's into release-build log file entries. It's better, really.

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Outlook Express Plug-ins

Emilio Guijarro6-Jul-03 3:44

Emilio Guijarro

6-Jul-03 3:44

Hi guys and girls,

Where can I find resources about OE plug-in (or add-in) development? I this feature only avaitable in Outlook 2000 or better?.

Thanks in advance.

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CString problem

andyg.1016-Jul-03 3:01

andyg.101

6-Jul-03 3:01

Hi there, now I have a problem with my buffer.

I have a buffer reading in data from the serial port data is passed into the buffer like this

m_serialbuffer += ch; //where m_etc is a CString and ch is a string read from the serial buffer

Now this works perfectly for the first string that is sent to the port and stores it. For subsequent strings though, no characters are added. Any ideas??
andy

Re: CString problem

John M. Drescher6-Jul-03 3:05

John M. Drescher

6-Jul-03 3:05

Is there a chance for the NULL character '\0'? CStrings are NULL terminated.

John

Re: CString problem

andyg.1016-Jul-03 4:01

andyg.101

6-Jul-03 4:01

what do you mean?

Re: CString problem

John M. Drescher6-Jul-03 4:15

John M. Drescher

6-Jul-03 4:15

If there is a zero (ASCII 0 not the number 0) in the input the CString will not add any more characters.

John

Re: CString problem

andyg.1016-Jul-03 4:20

andyg.101

6-Jul-03 4:20

hmm yes I think there is a zero on the end of the first string. How can I get around this?

Re: CString problem

John M. Drescher6-Jul-03 4:24

John M. Drescher

6-Jul-03 4:24

Either strip the 0 with an if statement or use an array like CArray or vector.

John

Re: CString problem

andyg.1016-Jul-03 4:36

andyg.101

6-Jul-03 4:36

Nice one many thanks

Andy

Re: CString problem

David Crow7-Jul-03 3:01

David Crow

7-Jul-03 3:01

Appending 0-terminated strings to a CString object is expected.

char *name = "David"; // there is an implied \0 at the end of this string<br />
CString str = "My name is ";<br />
str += name;

Re: CString problem

David Crow7-Jul-03 3:04

David Crow

7-Jul-03 3:04

The comment in this code snippet appears to be outdated.

Have you stepped into the code to verify that 'ch' has valid data at the time of appending? When you state that "ch is a string", does that mean it is a string object, or are you using string in the generic sense (e.g., char ch[32])?

error Incorrect Function

andyg.1016-Jul-03 1:36

andyg.101

6-Jul-03 1:36

Hi there, I'm trying to do overlapped IO on the serial port, but since I changed from non-overlapped the readfile and writefile calls fail with error
incorrect function
I changed the following

m_ComPortHndl = CreateFile (sComPort,GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE,0,
								NULL,OPEN_EXISTING,
								FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED,NULL);

i.e. added the file flag overlapped
and also added overlapped structures to the read/write calls

ReadFile( m_ComPortHndl, &nData, 1, &dwBytesRead, &ovRead)

any ideas why I might be getting this??
Andy

Re: error Incorrect Function

andyg.1016-Jul-03 1:44

andyg.101

6-Jul-03 1:44

Scratch that it was because I wasn't initialising the overlapped structures to zero

OVERLAPPED ov = {0};

Andy

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