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Find location of program. Check registry?

ChemmieBro2-Feb-05 3:03

2-Feb-05 3:03

I am developing a component that will be adding to an existing program. I need to add a certain file and/or folder to the program files if that file and/or folder does not already exists. But this is also dependent on which directory the program is installed on.
How can I:
1. Check the registry, or some other method, to find which drive the program is installed on.
2. Check to see if a certain folder, on that drive, exists.

#2 should be pretty simple, but I am unfamiliar with programming with the registry.

Thank you in advance!

Re: Find location of program. Check registry?

David Crow2-Feb-05 3:18

David Crow

2-Feb-05 3:18

ChemmieBro wrote:
1. Check the registry, or some other method, to find which drive the program is installed on.

Without knowing any more about the program or how many assumptions can be made, this would require a search of each potential disk in the system.

You can always search the registry in lieu of the disk(s) but there is no guarantee that it will be any faster. If you knew that the program was installed somewhere under the C:\Program Files folder, or in one particular hive of the registry, it would help.

ChemmieBro wrote:
2. Check to see if a certain folder, on that drive, exists.

I've always used _access(..., 0) for this.

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Re: Find location of program. Check registry?

ChemmieBro2-Feb-05 3:25

ChemmieBro

2-Feb-05 3:25

Well, I know it will be under either C:\Program Files or D:\Program Files or any other drive.

This check will be done during initialization of my singleton COM object. I was thinking a registry check would be faster than checking the disk.

Re: Find location of program. Check registry?

David Crow2-Feb-05 3:35

David Crow

2-Feb-05 3:35

ChemmieBro wrote:
Well, I know it will be under either C:\Program Files or D:\Program Files or any other drive.

Try this for starters.

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Want to capture Event from MS Web browser (shdocvw.dll)

Jetli Jerry2-Feb-05 2:54

Jetli Jerry

2-Feb-05 2:54

Hi all,

I am new to ole/com. I have dialog based application in which i have inserted shdocvw.dll activex component. I can load html,doc,and other documents. via

m_shBrowser.Navigate((LPCTSTR)m_sPathUrl , &vtEmpty, &vtEmpty, &vtEmpty, &vtEmpty);

It loads succesfully. ( if i open .doc file then winword.exe is loaded in task manager. ?)

Now I want to caputure LBUTTONDOWN,RBUTTONDOWN, MOUSEMOVE message....

I have tried with message map macros .... IT Works when there is no document loaded. But when i load/open any document then I am not able to get any of above message. i have tried with DefWindowProc() handler also but with no luck.

I have searched on net but havent found reason WHY?

and also not found how to do above.

Can anyone guide me how to capture above and such messages?

i dont want to display mouse when it is on the browser control.... and also not want to generate default menu.. instead display my menu....
can anyone point how can i implement?

do i have to create ole eventsink? if so then how?

Thank in advance.

Jetli
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"Open Directory" window

TheCult2-Feb-05 2:31

TheCult

2-Feb-05 2:31

Hi, im quite new to Visual C++ (so please go easy on the mombo jumbo thanks).

What i am looking to do is make a "open" dialog. I can easly do it with

<br />
CFileDialog ldFile(TRUE);<br />
  if (ldFile.DoModal() == IDOK)<br />
      {<br />
      }<br />

This brings up a normal open window. However im trying to get it to be a open directory window (like this on http://img121.exs.cx/img121/446/open8js.jpg[^])

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks

Cult

Re: "Open Directory" window

David Crow2-Feb-05 2:37

David Crow

2-Feb-05 2:37

While it can be done with CFileDialog, I think you might want to look at SHBrowseForFolder() first.

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Re: "Open Directory" window

TheCult2-Feb-05 2:44

TheCult

2-Feb-05 2:44

Cheers worked a treat

Toolbar Peformance Problem

Jnewg52-Feb-05 2:04

Jnewg5

2-Feb-05 2:04

My application has several toolbars. The toolbars can be configured thru a command profile. One of them has 4 editboxes that recieve updates to display geographic coordinates. In some cases, I've noticed the updates in the editboxes of the toolbar start to 'bog down'. Can someone tell me specifically what I should be looking with respect to this problem (resource contention), such as WM_PAINT, WM..etc messages? Any help is greatly appreciated -

Toolbar... help needed

Feroz R2-Feb-05 1:19

Feroz R

2-Feb-05 1:19

how to make a toolbar support 32 bit colour in VC++ 6.0?

Unicode Support

Feroz R2-Feb-05 1:17

Feroz R

2-Feb-05 1:17

how do i use unicode support in MFC to create menu in other international spoken language that has support only as uniocode characters.i am not an expert in VC++ so please have a beginners approach.i use VC++ 6.0 and winxp operating system

Re: Unicode Support

David Crow2-Feb-05 2:29

David Crow

2-Feb-05 2:29

First you'll need to define UNICODE and _UNICODE. After that you'll need to use Unicode-aware functions, methods, and types (e.g., LPTSTR) . CString is already Unicode-aware so nothing special needs to be done with it. For string literals, prepend them with an L.

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Re: Unicode Support

PJ Arends2-Feb-05 4:52

PJ Arends

2-Feb-05 4:52

In addition you also have to set the entry point symbol to wWinMainCRTStartup. This can be done in the Project->Settings menu->Link tab->Output Category->Entry-point symbol.

Also IMO, one is better off using the TCHAR macros rather then hard coding the unicode functions and string literals.

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bitmap

stew9ln1-Feb-05 23:34

stew9ln

1-Feb-05 23:34

hi there, i am trying to obtain the 8-bit code for an image. I have found the edge map of an object so i now have black pixels showing the outline of the object on a white background.
I am wondering how I can extrct the bitmap code that contains the coordinates of the pixels that are black in the image.
I am using paintshop pro.
I am using a mathematical method known as the Hausdorff distance method to compare two images and recognise objects, in particular human faces.
If anyone is interested in my work I would be happy to post it on this site.
Hope someone can help me!

ADO IN VC++

ivax1-Feb-05 23:33

ivax

1-Feb-05 23:33

need to use the method Update() in order to modify fileds values.

In VB are not problem, but in VC++ how can I use it?

Can help me with any example?

Thanks a lot
Xavier

Help! About the scrollbar of WebBrowser

shoulderlll1-Feb-05 21:40

shoulderlll

1-Feb-05 21:40

I use the WebBrowser ActiveX to play my PowerPoint, and every thing is ok except the scrollbar, exactly, I want to make the scrollbar invisible. But it seems that the scrollbar is not the general windows scrollbar.

Can anyone help me, Thanks very much!

CString::GetBuffer(-1)

xcavin1-Feb-05 21:37

xcavin

1-Feb-05 21:37

CString str(_T("abc"));
TCHAR* buff=str.GetBuffer(-1);
//is this okey to pass -1 to getbuffer if im not goin
//to modifiy the size the received buffer ?

Re: CString::GetBuffer(-1)

2249171-Feb-05 21:53

224917

1-Feb-05 21:53

I feel it should be
TCHAR* buff=str.GetBuffer(0);

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Re: CString::GetBuffer(-1)

David Crow2-Feb-05 2:33

David Crow

2-Feb-05 2:33

According to MSDN, -1 is not a valid parameter. What exactly is it that you are trying to do?

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DLL Memory Usage

KoderProject1-Feb-05 20:49

KoderProject

1-Feb-05 20:49

How to find a DLL's Memory Usage on run-time ?

thanks in advance

Re: DLL Memory Usage

David Crow2-Feb-05 2:36

David Crow

2-Feb-05 2:36

I believe the information you are after must be tracked through the owning application since the application's stack and heap are shared by the DLL. Unless there were internal counters in place within the EXE, I know of no way to distinguish between memory allocated by the EXE vs. memory allocated by the DLL.

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UNICODE Problem

lisoft1-Feb-05 20:09

lisoft

1-Feb-05 20:09

Why my program runs more slower when it is built in Unicode mode which is supposed to be more faster?

Lisoft

Re: UNICODE Problem

Maximilien2-Feb-05 0:38

Maximilien

2-Feb-05 0:38

lisoft wrote:
Why my program runs more slower when it is built in Unicode mode which is supposed to be more faster?

using unicode should not make your software faster, and should not make your software go slower either.

maybe you are spending (too much) time converting unicode strings to non-unicode strings, or vice-versa.

Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

Re: UNICODE Problem

Blake Miller3-Feb-05 6:43

Blake Miller

3-Feb-05 6:43

This is not necessarily True.

MOST of the Win32 API calls involving strings that are used by an ANSI program have to first pass through interal code to CONVERT those strings to Unicode before calling the native UNICODE functions in the WIN32 API and then back into ANSI upon returning any strings. Microsoft has consistently stated that a UNICODE application with a lot of string processing towards WIN32 API function calls would be faster if it were built to use UNICODE.

So the question makes sense, why is it slower in UNICODE?
I don't really know why.

Bring the application to system tray

surend2k1-Feb-05 19:29

surend2k

1-Feb-05 19:29

hi,
I just want to bring the application to system tray when it was minimized,

thanks,

suri

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