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Hi
Yes, the standard CWnd-derived behaviour (such as ShowWindow) will work - you'll have to ensure the focus isn't set to the invisible view if you want the keyboard active, and make sure the window isn't displayed by accident elsewhere, such as a custom OnSize handler, etc.
And yes, I believe you can still process OnPaint, OnDraw messages even if the window is not visible - as you can with most messages. I would just not expect the OS to initiate these (WM_PAINT messages) as the window would not require painting in this state. That said, calling UpdateWindow forces a visit of the paint routine (SendMessage(WM_PAINT, ...) I believe).
Anyway, let me leave you to your devices.... 
HTH
Martin
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Hi again,
I just started programming with threads and I´m not sure how everything works yet...
Problem: So far I have a 2-threaded Windows Forms Application. When I abort the program by clicking the x-button I cannot recompile the program without restarting my computer. I get an error message saying:
fatal error LNK1104:Cannot open file C:.....program.exe
I guess I have some process running that I didn´t terminate properly.
Though, in the automatically generated "void Dispose" method I placed some code: myThread.suspend();
Isn´t this enough for terminating the thread, or is the problem perhaps somewhere else?
doneirik
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Hi all,
I wonder if there is a way to implement custom StrechBlt to be used by DirectShow?
I need to zoom in a video using pGraphBuilder()->RenderFile() by setting the source and dest. rectangle.
As far as I know the zooming is done using standard GDI StretchBlt function, which gives you the ugly so called "checkerboard"-effect.
best regards...
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Hello,
Can GDI and GDIplus co-exist in the VC project.
I am thinking of mixing use of these libraries. My existing library is using GDI but it seems that GDIplus has some cool functions which I think it would great to incorporate into it also. Possible? Would it crash or lib conflict?
thank you.
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Hi
I haven't used GDI+ but inspecting the GDI+ Graphics class, I see a constructor that takes a HDC, so you should be able to mix the 2.
Martin
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Yes they can coexist. But the trick is getting the HDC for GDI drawing. You have to first create the Gdiplus::Graphics object that you will do all your drawing on, then call Graphics::GetHDC to get the HDC you need for your GDI calls.
If you draw on a HDC with GDI and then try to attach a Graphics object to the same HDC the Graphics constructor will erase all the drawing you have done.
Lookup Graphics::GetHDC and Graphics::ReleaseHDC in MSDN for more info.
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Hello, does anyone know of any resource efficient image preview file generator class?
I am using CxImage to generate the image files. (for preview and draw to windows DC with the attache HBitmap in CxImage) but it seems that it is slow and resource unfriendly. (take huge amount of memory) Sometimes it will even cause some images to be disappear.
Anyone has related knowledge care to enlighten me?
thanks in advance.
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Hi!
I am looking the solution or direction in order to resolve this problem I am having during logoff using Windows XP. We have got few applications written in VC++ 6.0 (using MFC and OLE Servers). When we logon few applications started as they are specified in startup, which also invokes OLE servers.
When we come to logoff, first of all logoff process is very slow, though I found that by just killing few MFC Applications, will really logoff quickly. Though I could not figure it out why? So I need some suggestion, where to look at?
And sometimes it errors by just coming up the standard XP dialogue showing program is not responding and End button has to be invoked to end the program.
While investigating we found that few dispatch pointers did not release properly when we were calling OLE Servers, which I fixed and it slightly improves the logoff process and now Standard XP dialog for not responding program not happening every so often as it used to be, but still happening quite a few times and logoff process is still very slow. I am trying to figure it out but don’t know where else it could be a problem.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Hi
It sounds like you've got more dangling references elsewhere that haven't been fixed.
In this case, you can try to isolate the functionality in your code, by trying to exercising only certain parts of your application between a startup-shutdown cycle - this way you might discover which part(s) of your app is causing the problem(s). If you can, even try to disable parts of your application by commenting it out and re-building for test.
Trace all threads in your app too, making sure they all close properly.
Good luck
Martin
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Hi!
thanks for your suggestion.seems to me very practical approach.but the problem is where to isolate that.there are so many applications lieing around.if i give you very brief example by just explaining the scenario:
1. mainapp1
2. mainapp2
both kics off following OLE Servers
1. OLEServer1, which Kicks off OLEServer2 ( this is the server which most of the time come up with XP dialog showing nonresponsive program click End ).
though we proved that disabling the OLEServer2 completely solve the problem and error never happend. but my sneaking suspicion is its not the OLEServer2 who is causing its MainAPP1/MainApp2 or OLEServer1, which instantiating OLEServer2 causing the dangling pointer.
Where do you think problem lies?and how to isolate this.
thanks in advance.
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Going on your hunch, I'd say you should look at OLEServer1's use of OLEServer2 - might be that it's not releasing a reference.
If you suspect that it's a COM reference, you can change reference access to use smart pointers, if you're not already - also provided it's worth the change (I don't know how many such cases there are).
If you're using ATL, you can turn on _ATL_DEBUG_REFCOUNT, _ATL_DEBUG_INTERFACES, but these trace to the debug output window, so if you're turning the machine off, output is lost (unless you find a way to stop powering down).
Also play around with stopping the 2 apps by hand (and checking with the Task Manager to see if they're still running). Play around with the order in which the 2 apps are stopped.
Martin
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Hello,
Who can help me ?
What are differences beetween database and recordbinding ?
Thank you
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Looking for a way to generate unique keys on clients in a network. Currently its done via a request to a server which assigns the keys, but want to move to a system where the client assigns them, to take a load of the server, and to allow for a redesign.
Its a controled network. Looked at GUID's but I'm not satified with the size of the key, and the potential time in creating something so bulky.
Anyone had a similar problem. Thought about a hybrid where a client can request a group of keys in advance as well.
Any ideas welcome.
The reason is that the request latency can be reduced in half by using a client generated key, which is useful, as instead of doing 2 things in sequence, they can then be done in paralel. The first server request does need the key (but does assign the key), and the second needs the key, but lives on a number of different servers. Server aggregation is not an option.
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Hi
The 'pattern' here is choosing whether to have;
a) unique ids generated by a central authority (and relative to itself) -
eg. having an autoincrement id in a database table, or similar -
or...
b) generate unique ids that are absolute
(using UuidCreate/UuidCreatSequential) - can be created anywhere
and doesn't require contacting an authority
Option a) in a distributed environment not only introduces a bottle-neck (consider many clients asking for ids, or even ranges thereof, at the same time), but also in terms of performance cannot compete with client local GUID generation (network time typically cannot compete with local CPU/HW time).
Unless the GUID generation causes a technical barrier, or you require ids with predictable values, I suggest you use it.
Also, you might want to design it such that you can afford to start using GUIDs now, and capitalise on this known, proven feature in your implementation, and at a later stage, if you still find the performance or size of the ids too large, change it to something bespoke without compromising the design. In other words, ids are opaque and of variable size.
HTH
Martin
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Do you know of any platform indepedent versions of UuidCreate & UuidCreatSequential?
Would need to work in a consitent manner across, Windows, Linux & Solaris.
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Hello,
i want to increase the height of the header of a listcontrol without affecting other rows.
please help me.........
thanks
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Hi
I've had a look at this, and can see no way - the CHeaderCtrl retrieved from the CListCtrl has facility for only adjusting the width of a column.
You'll have to look at owner-draw.
Martin
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Hi
I´m doing some basic serial communication vith Visual C++ .NET.
Reading from the serial port with the ReadFile command:
BYTE Byte;<br />
ReadFile (hPort, &Byte, 1, &dwBytesTransferred, 0);
I have some problems displaying what I read....With the "cout" command this worked fine:
cout<<Byte;
However, with a Windows Forms Appl. I need to output the readout with
this->Textbox1->Text = Byte;
With this I get an error message, saying "cannot convert from BYTE to String"
How can I convert this BYTE variable in order to make it compatible?`
regards,
doneirik
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Try this:
char buff[3] = "";
sprintf(buff, "%X", Byte); // Display in hex (or choose whatever format you prefer)
this->Textbox1->Text = buff;
Hope it works!
Regards
Mahendra
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Hi.
First problem solved and soon I encountered the second.
So at this point my SDI program is able to open a BMP and show it on the screen. In an modal dialogue it is possible to give some borders to only show a part of the actual BMP File...
What I want to do is to save this part in a new file...
One of my books suggest just to change the two used device contexts MemDC and pDC to print from the screen in the memory...
I tried to do it this way but because of my c++ abusing I don't get it to work properly.
This is the line which prints the bmp on the screen. Width, Height, TLCx and TLCy are the variables i can manipulate to show only the important part of the picture...
pDC->BitBlt(0,0,g_Width,g_Height,pMemDC,g_TLCx,g_TLCy,SRCCOPY);
The code i plan to use is something like... make a new bitmap object and fill it with the shown bmp... to do this i use
MemDC.BitBlt(...)
Is this a possible approach for the problem or am I totally wrong ?
Best regards,
Helge.
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Noone ever tried something similar? I am really not sure whow to solve this problem...
Would really appreciate any help...
Helge.
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i am trying to design a client-server application
the code for sending & receiving is as follows
void CSocketDlg::OnBsend()
{
int iLen,iSent;
UpdateData(TRUE);
if (m_strMessage=="")
AfxMessageBox("Please type the name of the file");
else if (m_strMessage!=" ")
{
iLen=m_strMessage.GetLength ();
iSent=m_sConnectSocket.Send (LPCTSTR(m_strMessage),iLen);
if(iSent==SOCKET_ERROR)
{
}
else
{
CFile file(m_strMessage,CFile::modeRead|CFile::typeBinary);
char s[1025];
int totalBytesRead,bytesRead,len,flag=0;
//strcpy(s,"c:\\program files\\microsoft visual studio\\my projects\\Alka.txt");
//len=strlen(s);
totalBytesRead=0;
int length=file.GetLength();
//iSent=m_sConnectSocket.Send (LPCTSTR(s),len);
flag=1;
while(totalBytesRead<=length && iSent != SOCKET_ERROR && flag==1)
{
bytesRead=file.Read(s,1024);
s[bytesRead]='\0';
totalBytesRead+=bytesRead;
//m_ctlSent.AddString (s);
iSent=m_sConnectSocket.Send (LPCTSTR(s),bytesRead);
UpdateData(FALSE);
}
}
}
}
but iam unable to design for multiple requests. application is a MFC Dialog based application
Alka Kashyap
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Hi all:
How can I get debug information through TRACE() or other similar macro in Win32 applications?
I added TRACE() in the source code and also include the "AFX.h".In the project setting I choose the "use MFC in a static library"? But it cannot pass the compilation!
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