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Cyberizen23-Jul-03 4:47

23-Jul-03 4:47

hello ppl
what i am trying to do here is find out what functions are available for a particular DLL for example most of the API function are contained in USER32.DLL file we can write code for accessing functions like SendInput and SetLayeredWindowAttributes that is we can explicitly link the DLL file and get those functions to work now what i want to do it there is a third party DLL that i would like to explicitly link now the problem is with USER32.dll i am aware of the functions their return types and their parameters but such is not the case with a third party DLL how do i know what functions this DLL contains the parameters the return type and everything any help would be appreciated
Regards
Ahmed Ajmal

Re: Getting information from a DLL

Ryan Binns23-Jul-03 4:56

Ryan Binns

23-Jul-03 4:56

You can't get parameter and return value information from a DLL. You'll need third-party-supplied information to know that. You can get a list of the functions it exports by examining the export table, but you can't get any information about them, other than their name.

Ryan

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Re: Getting information from a DLL

Cyberizen23-Jul-03 5:03

Cyberizen

23-Jul-03 5:03

yeah ryan actually i tried the DEPENDS tool that installs with the Visual Studio and yes i did find out the functions their names but not any other imformation and what do u mean by EXPORT TABLE how do i use that

Ahmed Ajmal

Re: Getting information from a DLL

David Crow23-Jul-03 5:06

David Crow

23-Jul-03 5:06

Cyberizen wrote:
what do u mean by EXPORT TABLE how do i use that

A DLL's export table is the list of functions that it exports. Read about it in more detail on MSDN.

Re: Getting information from a DLL

Ryan Binns23-Jul-03 5:09

Ryan Binns

23-Jul-03 5:09

The export table in the DLL lists all the functions that the DLL exports. This is what the DEPENDS tool examines, so you can't get more than what DEPENDS gives you. It doesn't give parameters or return type.

Ryan

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Please help me !! VK_RETURN

heju23-Jul-03 4:44

heju

23-Jul-03 4:44

Hi,

I want to start the same routine which runs if I press the searchbutton when I press enter on my keyboard. I think that I can realize that with the function OnChar(UINT nChar, UNINT nRepCnt, UINT nFlags) but it doesn't work.

OnChar(UINT nChar, UNINT nRepCnt, UINT nFlags)
{
if(nChar ==VK_RETURN)
{
OnSearch();
}
}

Please give me a tip if you know something. I am a beginner.

Julia Confused | :confused:

Re: Please help me !! VK_RETURN

Valeria Bogdevich23-Jul-03 4:53

Valeria Bogdevich

23-Jul-03 4:53

You should override PretranslateMessage of view/dialog
If you button is focused and < Enter > is pressed, call your routine.

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Thread Pool

peace maker23-Jul-03 4:40

peace maker

23-Jul-03 4:40

Hello all

I wonder, does anyone knows the limit for of threads that the Os is allowing for one application to open ?

10x'

Re: Thread Pool

Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳23-Jul-03 4:52

Xiangyang Liu 刘向阳

23-Jul-03 4:52

I believe you can have as many threads as the memory and CPU can tolerate. I once had more than 100 threads in a single test application running on Windows NT 4.0. But if you have too many threads, some of them will starve (not gettting any share of CPU to do anything) and the memory usage goes up quickly.

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Re: Thread Pool

Joe Woodbury23-Jul-03 7:29

Joe Woodbury

23-Jul-03 7:29

The practical limit is far below the physical limit. (Except in rare cases, I question using more than a few dozen threads and for the exceptions, more than a few hundred [and for those few cases, the code could, and should, have been rewritten to use I/O Completion ports].)

detecting alpha characters in a string

si_6923-Jul-03 4:26

si_69

23-Jul-03 4:26

hi all

does ne1 know the best function to use to detect
if a string contains Alpha characters

so if i had CString mystring = "55545kjfk"

would return true

or if i had CString mystring = "55545"

would return false

thanks all

si

Re: detecting alpha characters in a string

Alexander ^M.,23-Jul-03 4:31

Alexander ^M.,

23-Jul-03 4:31

write an own algorithm, it's the easiest way i think

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Re: detecting alpha characters in a string

AlexO23-Jul-03 4:38

AlexO

23-Jul-03 4:38

in <ctype.h> (CRT) look for the functions :

::isalpha
::isalnum
::isdigit
::isxdigit

Re: detecting alpha characters in a string

Ryan Binns23-Jul-03 4:48

Ryan Binns

23-Jul-03 4:48

bool containsAlphaCharacters(CString str)
{
   str.MakeLower();
   return(str.FindOneOf(_T("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")) >= 0);
}

#include <ctype.h>
bool containsAlphaCharacters(CString str)
{
   for(int i=0; i<str.GetLength(); i++)
   {
      if(_istalpha(str[i]))   // Unicode-aware...
         return true;
   }
   return false;
}

Hope this helps,

Ryan

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Re: detecting alpha characters in a string

si_6923-Jul-03 5:37

si_69

23-Jul-03 5:37

cheers ryan,

nice one

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Re: detecting alpha characters in a string

Ryan Binns23-Jul-03 5:41

Ryan Binns

23-Jul-03 5:41

You're welcome Smile | :)

If you feel up to it, do a bit of a speed comparison and let me know which one is quicker Smile | :)

. They're probably about the same, but the first one will probably be slightly slower.

Ryan

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problem getting data from a list box

Deepak Samuel23-Jul-03 4:16

Deepak Samuel

23-Jul-03 4:16

halo,
I have a application which has two list box and my plan is that i must retrieve the data in the list box and somehow save it (perhaps in a integer variable) and if the data in both the liat boxes are same then there must be a error message displayed.. I tried out the following:

void Cdlg3Dlg::OnCamdone()
{
int i=0;
CListBox* m_ptele;
CListBox* m_pls1;
if (m_ptele->GetItemData(i)==m_pls1->GetItemData(i))
{ AfxMessageBox("Both boxes have same data");

}
}
but when i run the program i get the microsoft error box problem:
The xxxxxx application has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle......and so on.

i want to know whether it is the problem with my program..and if it is so can someone help me out.
Thanks,

Deepak Samuel

Re: problem getting data from a list box

Alexander ^M.,23-Jul-03 4:20

Alexander ^M.,

23-Jul-03 4:20

read LB_GETITEMDATA in msdn... it's the wrong function u chose!
use GetText member function!

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Re: problem getting data from a list box

valikac23-Jul-03 5:03

valikac

23-Jul-03 5:03

One solution is GetItemText() as the other member has mentioned.

Kuphryn

Re: problem getting data from a list box

David Crow23-Jul-03 5:08

David Crow

23-Jul-03 5:08

Deepak Samuel wrote:
CListBox* m_ptele;
CListBox* m_pls1;

These are uninitialized pointers.

can I add my own methods to CList

mr200323-Jul-03 4:04

mr2003

23-Jul-03 4:04

Hi,
I would like to know if I can add few methods to class Clist.

Ehsan Behboudi

Re: can I add my own methods to CList

Alexander ^M.,23-Jul-03 4:06

Alexander ^M.,

23-Jul-03 4:06

create a class derived from CList and put your methods there...

Don't try it, just do it! Wink | ;-)

how to use friend function?

IT_student23-Jul-03 4:04

IT_student

23-Jul-03 4:04

i want to share the member variables and function between the various classes.what all methods can i use to achieve it?also, how do i use a friend function ?

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Re: how to use friend function?

Alexander ^M.,23-Jul-03 4:09

Alexander ^M.,

23-Jul-03 4:09

lol, i think this is a lama question for an it student, if your really one...

describe your situation a bit better... i dont really understand what your problem is

p.s. description for friend function-> see msdn

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Re: how to use friend function?

IT_student23-Jul-03 4:23

IT_student

23-Jul-03 4:23

Actually i am making a program for a cnc machine. I have made various classes and i wished that what all info i entered in the dialog box, should be depicted in view.
Unfortunately, the view is executed even before i enter values in the dialog box.
is there any method by which i cud add a kind of delay to prevent the execution of view until i press ok.
when i wrote the code for OnOk it didn't call the ondraw function from there so i thought i shud use a friend function . i know how to use a friend function but as i am new to VC++ i wanted to know if some special method is used.
I don't have MSDN library so thats where the problem is coming and YES i am an IT student.

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