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Jon Sagara31-Jan-02 13:37

31-Jan-02 13:37

Has anyone used Visual Assist 5 for VS.NET? I know it's still in beta right now. Is it stable and worth using?

Jon Sagara

What about ?

S van Leent31-Jan-02 12:28

S van Leent

31-Jan-02 12:28

The following class, is a class to make register changes easy. But there is a memory leak, somewhere, and I can't locate it, help me.

CRegisterEx.h

#pragma once

#include "stdafx.h"

class CRegisterEx
{
public:
CRegisterEx(LPCSTR path);
~CRegisterEx(void);

public:
void WriteString(LPCSTR str, LPCSTR subKey = NULL);
LPCSTR ReadString(LPCSTR subKey = NULL);
void WriteInteger(int i, LPCSTR subKey = NULL);
int ReadInteger(LPCSTR subKey);
};

CRegisterEx.cpp

#include "StdAfx.h"
#include "registerex.h"
#include <stdlib.h>

LPCSTR pt;

CRegisterEx::CRegisterEx(LPCSTR path)
{
pt = path;
path = NULL;
}

CRegisterEx::~CRegisterEx(void)
{
pt = NULL;
}

// Main course, are made for public use, but are also used inside

void CRegisterEx::WriteString(LPCSTR str, LPCSTR subKey)
{
CString insidePath = pt;
if (subKey)
{
insidePath = insidePath + "\\" + subKey;
}
LPCSTR realPath = (LPCSTR)insidePath;
RegSetValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _T(realPath), REG_SZ, _T(str), sizeof(realPath));
realPath = NULL;
}

LPCSTR CRegisterEx::ReadString(LPCSTR subKey)
{
CString insidePath = pt;
if (subKey)
{
insidePath = insidePath + "\\" + subKey;
}
LPCSTR realPath = (LPCSTR)insidePath;
TCHAR str[2048];
LONG strValue = sizeof(str);
RegQueryValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _T(realPath), str, &strValue);
#pragma warning (disable : 4172)
return (LPCSTR)str;
}

// now we go real public

void CRegisterEx::WriteInteger(int i, LPCSTR subKey)
{
char buffer[2048];
_itoa(i, buffer, 10);
LPCSTR str = (LPCSTR)buffer;
WriteString(str, subKey);
}

int CRegisterEx::ReadInteger(LPCSTR subKey)
{
LPCSTR str = ReadString(subKey);
int i = atoi(str);
return i;
}

N.B. I use CString, so you should load the MFC/ATL/WTL version of it, else, you must change this yourself (if you did so, please notify me, so it's fully win32)

LPCSTR Dutch = "Double Dutch Smile | :)

Re: Register class, but I can't find memory leak of 1 byte, please help!

Joaquín M López Muñoz1-Feb-02 9:19

Joaquín M López Muñoz

1-Feb-02 9:19

Your code has several bugs: (maybe one of them is causing the leak)

RegSetValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _T(realPath), REG_SZ, _T(str), sizeof(realPath));

Here, sizeof(realPath) equals 4 (the size of a pointer) which is not what you want; use srtlen(realPath)instead.

TCHAR str[2048];
LONG strValue = sizeof(str);
RegQueryValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _T(realPath), str, &strValue);
#pragma warning (disable : 4172)
return (LPCSTR)str;

Here you're returning a pointer to a char buffer constructed on the stack; this pointer becomes invalid as soon as the function exits (the buffer goes out of scope). I suggest you change the prototype of ReadString to return a CString and rewrite that portion of code like this:

TCHAR str[2048];
LONG strValue = sizeof(str);
RegQueryValue(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _T(realPath), str, &strValue);
#pragma warning (disable : 4172)
return CString(str); // this takes care of allocating dynamic memory (which does not go out of scope)

Hope this helps.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Re: Register class, but I can't find memory leak of 1 byte, please help!

S van Leent1-Feb-02 10:43

S van Leent

1-Feb-02 10:43

Well, the problems are solved. I will upload the finished CRegisterEx when there are enough methods to be used.

LPCSTR Dutch = "Double Dutch Smile | :)

Learning STL

31-Jan-02 11:37

Can anyone recommend a good book for a c++ programmer wanting to learn STL?

Thanks

OMG | :OMG:

Re: Learning STL

Jon Sagara31-Jan-02 12:20

Jon Sagara

31-Jan-02 12:20

Christian Graus recommended the following:

"And you'll never regret it. Do you have any books ? I recommend STL tutorial
and Reference or Generic Programming and the STL ( probably the latter as it's a
better reference and moves faster ), and you will *need* Effective STL by Scott
Meyers, probably the best book I bought this year."

HTH

Jon Sagara

What about ?

Lost Macro/Add-in tab

David Chamberlain31-Jan-02 11:31

David Chamberlain

31-Jan-02 11:31

I'm getting back to development mode, and I find that the Tools/Customize window in VS6 no longer has a Macro/Add-in tab. Anyone have an idea what happened? The only tools that I know I was using were the Resource Organizer and the code-reformatter, both available on CP.

I loaded SP5 again, which was already installed, and re-booted, and still nothing.

Any words of wisdom (applicable to this problem) would be appreciated.

Dave

"You can say that again." -- Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

MSDN Jan 2002 with Visual Studio 6?

Ron Olson31-Jan-02 10:05

Ron Olson

31-Jan-02 10:05

Hey all-

For several years now, the standard M.O. for me has been that when a new version of MSDN was released, I would uninstall the previous version, then install the new version, and all would be ok from VS' standpoint.

I just installed MSDN for Jan2002 and have been greeted by a "MSDN not installed. Please install MSDN" error from within VisualStudio 6. I chose the same directory and such as I always have, but all of a sudden VS isn't finding it. Presumably it *should* work with 6, as I have found nothing in the documentation to say that it doesn't work, but perhaps I have to fiddle with the registry to have VS find it?

Thanks for any info,

Ron

Re: MSDN Jan 2002 with Visual Studio 6?

Michael P Butler31-Jan-02 10:36

Michael P Butler

31-Jan-02 10:36

It is my understanding that from Jan 2002, MSDN will only intergrate with Visual Studio 7 and not version 6. If you want Version 6 integration you''ll need to keep October 2001 installed.

Michael Smile | :)

Re: MSDN Jan 2002 with Visual Studio 6?

Michael Dunn31-Jan-02 11:34

Michael Dunn

31-Jan-02 11:34

Welcome to the f***ing world of .NET. You have to stick with the Oct 2001 MSDN in order to use it with VC 6.

"We're telling you where you will go today." -- Microsoft

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Re: MSDN Jan 2002 with Visual Studio 6?

Not Active31-Jan-02 13:06

Not Active

31-Jan-02 13:06

I always run a seperate instance of MSDN rather than use it from VS.

Re: MSDN Jan 2002 with Visual Studio 6?

Mazdak31-Jan-02 18:15

Mazdak

31-Jan-02 18:15

I installed new version of .Net last night,and MSDN was part of it,and many article is updated and changed.I think for VC++6 it is better to use old version of MSDN

Mazy

Re: MSDN Jan 2002 with Visual Studio 6?

14-Feb-02 1:35

This is a post I put round work today re this:

"Dear All,

Be aware that the new MSDN Jan 2002 collection does not work with visual studio 6 (F1 for example produces an error).
A quick investigation reveals that MS have changed their help system (again) - it now uses the:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\dexplore.exe

'Document Explorer' to launch the collection. Since this is significantly different from .chm files and suchlike it ain't
gonna work for VS6. Their may be a way to hack around this - the collection is nominally launched through VS
via an intermediary DLL (vshelpui.dll - i think) and checks the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTML Help Collections

Of interest is this -

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTML Help Collections\Developer Collections\0x0409\0x039a1a660

which points at the chm collection for old MSDN installs and tells VC6 where to find it.. Basically MSDN *used* to tell
VS6 where to find it and how to launch it. MS couldn't make MSDN compatible with VS6 and/or couldn't be
bothered to produce a patch for VS6 to launch things correctly.

You can add a tool to the tools menu (really) that launches the new MSDN via the following path

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help\dexplore.exe" "

And yes, it sucks
Dead | X|

Re: MSDN Jan 2002 with Visual Studio 6?

14-Feb-02 5:22

Ok, me again. Worked out the following. You can install BOTH MSDN Oct
and MSDN Jan 2k2 on the same machine - and they work with both VS .NET and VS 6. Yay! We're using a network install here so the total cost of having
VS .NET plus two MSDN 'lite' installs is about 1 GIG.

Works for me..

Timbo
OMG | :OMG:

addObject()

31-Jan-02 10:04

i want to define my own add method that adds one object to some array every time it is called
does any one know how to do this please?
thanx

Re: addObject()

Not Active31-Jan-02 10:59

Not Active

31-Jan-02 10:59

Just do it.

<br />
bool CMyClass::AddObject()<br />
{<br />
  // Add object to whatever<br />
  MyArray[x] = new Object();<br />
<br />
  return I_read_book ? false : false;<br />
}<br />

Simple question about DLL loading

RK_200031-Jan-02 9:58

RK_2000

31-Jan-02 9:58

Hi there,

I have a dialog wizard which I would like to perform its data integrity checks and its eventual task of inserting tonnes of data into various tables.

However, I need all the validations and eventual data insertions to be wrapped in a dll so other applications could use it as well.

How do I load this DLL into my exe wizard in Visual C++ and start using its member functions? what are the options and what is the best way of doing it?

thanks

Re: Simple question about DLL loading

Not Active31-Jan-02 11:04

Not Active

31-Jan-02 11:04

From a simple DLL standpoint you would use LoadLibrary("DllName") and GetProcAddress(...) to get access to the functions and use them.

I would however consider writing your data access component as COM. More portable and easier to use.

Help! About structure alignment

lucy31-Jan-02 9:23

lucy

31-Jan-02 9:23

I have a 4-byte data, it's content is:
bits 31-24 : pixel_data
bits 21-23 : unused
bit 20 : direction
bits 19-10: y_address
bits 9-0: x_address

So I construct a structure for it as follows:
#pragma pack(1)
typedef struct
{
unsigned int pixel_data : 8;
unsigned int unused : 3; /* must always be zero */
unsigned int direction : 1;
unsigned int pixel_x_address : 10; /* column */
unsigned int pixel_y_address : 10; /* row */
} FIFO_DATA_R_T;

it turns out the the pixel_data is at address bits 31-24, but unused is at bits 16-18.

How should I construct the struct? Confused | :confused:

many many thanx!

Re: Help! About structure alignment

Joaquín M López Muñoz31-Jan-02 9:58

Joaquín M López Muñoz

31-Jan-02 9:58

Hi Lucy. MS compiler has the following specific feature: bit fields are laid out from the least significant bit to the most significant bit. So your struct should be like:

#pragma pack(1)
typedef struct
{
unsigned int pixel_y_address : 10; /* bits  0- 9 */
unsigned int pixel_x_address : 10; /* bits 10-19 */
unsigned int direction : 1;        /* bit  20    */
unsigned int unused : 3;           /* bits 21-23 */
unsigned int pixel_data : 8;       /* bits 24-31 */
}FIFO_DATA_R_T;

This ordering is a compiler specific thing (Kernighan&Ritchie leaves it undefined, if my memory doesn't fail me).

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Re: Help! About structure alignment

lucy31-Jan-02 10:24

lucy

31-Jan-02 10:24

got it! Thank you so much! Rose | [Rose]

I'm lost!

31-Jan-02 8:28

c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iostream.h(50) : error C2144: syntax error : missing ';' before type 'long'
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iostream.h(50) : error C2501: 'initialValue' : missing storage-class or type specifiers
c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\include\iostream.h(50) : fatal error C1004: unexpected end of file found
Error executing cl.exe.

i don't know y it tells me that there is some error with iostream.h class\
can any one tell me how to fix this please!
Confused | :confused:

Re: I'm lost!

Joaquín M López Muñoz31-Jan-02 8:37

Joaquín M López Muñoz

31-Jan-02 8:37

Most probably the problem has not to do with iostream.h file, but with the file #included before it! Try swapping #includes to see what happens.

PS: IMHO it's advisable to have #include<iostream> instead of #include<iostream.h>: iostream (without the .h) is the latest version of the iostream library according to the C++ standard.

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

Re: I'm lost!

31-Jan-02 8:50

i tried but it is still not working
every time i click the error it takes me to the iostream class file
any ideas?
thanks
Cry | :((

Re: I'm lost!

Joaquín M López Muñoz31-Jan-02 8:55

Joaquín M López Muñoz

31-Jan-02 8:55

any ideas?

Yes, post the code Smile | :)

Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo

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