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1-Sep-04 8:08

hi
I wrote a service in which i want to pass some parameters from INI file but when i give the path as .\\TibcoTCPServer.ini it does not work but if i hard code the path it works fine. Can any body help me how can i pass the ini file path so that service will pick the parameters.

Thanks
Shailesh

David Crow1-Sep-04 8:31

1-Sep-04 8:31

.\\TibcoTCPServer.ini is a relative path, which means it's relative to whatever happens to be the current working directory at the moment. Use GetModuleFileName(NULL, ...) instead to get the application's fully-qualified path, then replace the filename with TibcoTCPServer.ini.

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aman20061-Sep-04 8:44

1-Sep-04 8:44

if i use GetModuleFinename(NULL..) I Get the Memory could not be read error. My Code is as

BOOL FillParams()
{

CFileFind fileFinder;
CIniReader m_IniFile;

TCHAR Buffer[BUFSIZE];
DWORD dwRet,nSize;
CString error;

dwRet = GetModuleFileName(NULL,Buffer,nSize);

if( dwRet == 0 )
{
error.Format("Failed GetCurrentDirectory %d",GetLastError());
WriteToLog((LPSTR)(LPCTSTR)error);
return 0;
}

WriteToLog(Buffer);
// Here i am changing the path..
}

But It is failing at GetModuleFineName function or crashing.

Any Suggestion..

Thanks
Shailesh

David Crow1-Sep-04 8:50

1-Sep-04 8:50

You've failed to inform the function of the size of the buffer.

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aman20061-Sep-04 8:58

1-Sep-04 8:58

I am using
#define BUFSIZE MAX_PATH

David Crow1-Sep-04 9:05

1-Sep-04 9:05

I did not indicate that the buffer itself was not large enough. Check your code again. Note the third parameter being passed to GetModuleFileName().

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aman20061-Sep-04 11:08

AnimateWindow - can't compile

1-Sep-04 11:08

Thanks David U are Rock.
Thanks
shailesh

BlackDice1-Sep-04 7:29

1-Sep-04 7:29

I'm trying to use AnimateWindow() in my dialog's InitDialog() handler as I've seen in a few other places, but I keep getting compiler errors if I try to call the global api (::AnimateWindow(hWnd,200,AW_SLIDE), or without the scope resolution operator, or even as a member of my CDialog-derived class. I also tried an example I found on the MSDN where I use FARPROC and load the function from user32.dll and it tells me that I'm supplying too many parameters for a pointer to function (even though I just cut and paste the code right out of the MSDN). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Poke tongue | ;-P

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David Crow1-Sep-04 7:40

1-Sep-04 7:40

bdiamond wrote:
...but I keep getting compiler errors...

And those errors would be?

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BlackDice1-Sep-04 8:00

1-Sep-04 8:00

When I try to use it globally, I get these:

g:\My Projects\CPlusPlus\VC.NET\Bug Reporter\Bug Reporter\ChatDlg.cpp(60): error C2039: 'AnimateWindow' : is not a member of 'operator``global namespace'''
g:\My Projects\CPlusPlus\VC.NET\Bug Reporter\Bug Reporter\ChatDlg.cpp(60): error C2065: 'AW_SLIDE' : undeclared identifier
g:\My Projects\CPlusPlus\VC.NET\Bug Reporter\Bug Reporter\ChatDlg.cpp(60): error C3861: 'AnimateWindow': identifier not found, even with argument-dependent lookup

And when I try to use it as a member function of CDialog-derived class, I get these:

g:\My Projects\CPlusPlus\VC.NET\Bug Reporter\Bug Reporter\ChatDlg.cpp(60): error C2039: 'AnimateWindow' : is not a member of 'CChatDlg'
g:\My Projects\CPlusPlus\VC.NET\Bug Reporter\Bug Reporter\ChatDlg.cpp(60): error C2065: 'AW_SLIDE' : undeclared identifier

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<b>RESOLVED</b>

BlackDice1-Sep-04 8:30

1-Sep-04 8:30

I found another example here on CP in which the author says that you need to do this:

#undef WINVER
#define WINVER 1000000

I did that and now it works!! thanks

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Re: <b>RESOLVED</b>

David Crow1-Sep-04 8:32

1-Sep-04 8:32

I've never heard of that version of Windows!

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Me either

BlackDice1-Sep-04 8:36

1-Sep-04 8:36

Me either, but I guess it's just to say that you have access to everything, since I think I've seen in some places it'll check WINVER in certain places (#if WINVER > 0x400)

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Re: Me either

David Crow1-Sep-04 8:43

1-Sep-04 8:43

So you don't get slammed later on, I would go into the header file that contains the prototype for AnimateWindow() and see what value of WINVER it is looking for. Most likely it's 0x0500.

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Re: Me either

BlackDice1-Sep-04 10:32

1-Sep-04 10:32

good idea

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Michael Dunn1-Sep-04 18:04

Michael Dunn

1-Sep-04 18:04

I know you have the code working, but FYI the forum FAQ covers this kind of error and how to correct it:

2.2 I'm trying to call a Windows API, but the compiler gives an undeclared identifier error (C2065). Why?[^]

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BlackDice2-Sep-04 2:48

How to get the coordinates of a CMenu item

2-Sep-04 2:48

thanks!!!

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Thomas Tremblay1-Sep-04 7:01

Thomas Tremblay

1-Sep-04 7:01

Hi everyone

Is there a way to get the x and y coordinates of a CMenu item? For example, let's say 3 first items from my menu are :

File Edit View

how can I retrieve the x coordinate of the item "View"?

thanks

alex.barylski1-Sep-04 8:58

alex.barylski

1-Sep-04 8:58

See GetMenuItemRect()

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Thomas Tremblay1-Sep-04 9:10

Thomas Tremblay

1-Sep-04 9:10

Hockey,

??GetMenuItemRect()??
I can't find any function that goes by that name! I got GetMenuItemCount, GetMenuItemID, and GetMenuItemInfo, but no GetMenuItemRect Frown | :(

Where can I find it?

thanks

Neville Franks1-Sep-04 12:14

Neville Franks

1-Sep-04 12:14

Thomas Tremblay wrote:
??GetMenuItemRect()??
I can't find any function that goes by that name! I got GetMenuItemCount, GetMenuItemID, and GetMenuItemInfo, but no GetMenuItemRect

Where can I find it?

Where did you look?

I quickly found it here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/resources/menus/menureference/menufunctions/getmenuitemrect.asp[^]

and in the MSDEV VC6 Help.

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