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Desktop Programming
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| MFC |
21 Oct 2010
Updated: 21 Oct 2010
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printf is so 1980s. If you don't want to dig out your shoulder pads and big hair why not go for a more modern C++ approach?Instead of a function try a stream buffer:class message_box_stream_buf : public std::basic_streambuf{ public: message_box_stream_buf( const...
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| Win32 |
27 Sep 2010
Updated: 27 Sep 2010
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I tend to use boost::interprocess::named_mutex for the same thing. The equivalent code is something like:using boost::interprocess;const char *application_name = "Application Name";int main()try{ struct named_mutex_killer { ~named_mutex_killer() {...
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General Programming
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| String |
8 Jun 2010
Updated: 10 Jun 2010
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Alain's (original, now much hacked) narrow character version, could leak if std::basic_string::asign threw. To make the function exception safe either use a local buffer (if the size is fixed) or a vector (if the size isn't known).In both cases it's usually more efficient (and readable) to...
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Programming Languages
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| C# |
8 Sep 2010
Updated: 19 Sep 2010
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In C++ you can use the size of a pointer to work out what sort of process you're running in:bool is_64_bit(){ return sizeof(void *) == 8;}This has got the advantage of being portable and you don't have to call any OS functions.You can do something similar in C - just return...
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| C++ |
14 Jun 2010
Updated: 15 Jun 2010
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Instead of doing what the original author does (which is read a string and convert it manually into a number) why not use streams properly?When a program wants a number, read a number and then check the stream state is still good. If it's not you know the user has entered something that's...
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1 Aug 2010
Updated: 1 Aug 2010
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Combining a smart pointer with a collection we can get all the functionality that the original author wrote a custom class for, and a bit more:typedef std::vector> garbage_collector;Er, that's it. So how would you use this? Say you wanted to use character arrays as...
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19 Sep 2010
Updated: 20 Sep 2010
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If you can, the quickest way to calculate the Fibonacci numbers is to do it at compile time. This is a case of "My recursive method is quicker than yours...":templateclass fibonacci_number{ public: static const T value = fibonacci_number<T, n -...
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I've been programming since 1985 - starting with Fortran 77, then moving onto assembler, C and C++ in about 1991. I also know enough Java and Python to read code but you probably wouldn't want me writing it.
I've worked in a wide variety of application areas - defense, banking, games and security with the longest stints being in security. I also seem to end up programming devices far too often. This time I'm programming terahertz band body scanners.
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