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Hi I am just starting out with the whole c++ thing and was wondering if any one had any suggestions for some resources, books, online documentation, articles, websites, etc.
Three books I am looking at are:
"Practical Visual C++ 6" By Jon Bates and Tim Tompkins
and
"Thinking In C++" Vol. 1&2 By Bruce Eckel
Oh and one Last thing. Does anybody else have blisters on their right pinky from all the 0)-_=+[{}];'"\ ect.
Thanks
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hello, I am a student I am using
"Learning C++ A Hand On Approach"
second edition
by Eric Nagler
this book is good for starter like me.
just suggestion.
from foxele
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"The C++ LANGUAGE" from Bjarne Stroustrup
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
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toxcct wrote:
"The C++ Programming Language" from Bjarne Stroustrup
It definitely is a very good book for people like you and me. But I don't think it quite easy to read for newbies. 
Maxwell Chen
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toxcct wrote:
guess what ?! i learnt C++ reading this book !!!
WOW!  
toxcct wrote:
the difficulty in this book it to pass the 2 or 3 first chapters, but if you really want to, you can discover many things about C++ with it !
I agree! There are great techniques and deep philosophy within the book. But the style: *jump here and jump there so often* ... kind of flaw of this book.
Sometimes in a paragraph, for example it says: "foobar (Section 16.3.5) ...". And I moved there onto section 16.3.5, and I found nothing related.
Sometimes in the index it says that some jargon lies on page N, and I moved to that page N. I searched over and over within that page but couldn't find that word. 
Maxwell Chen
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Maxwell Chen wrote:
Sometimes in a paragraph, for example it says: "foobar (Section 16.3.5) ...". And I moved there onto section 16.3.5, and I found nothing related.
i don't know, i read a french traduction, perhaps these foo weren't traduced, or they were traduced into sometithing else.
for the links, i agree, but when i read it first, i didn't take time of going further in the book to see what he was talking about ; i said to me, "well, i'll see later..."
anyway, we do agree it is a good book 
TOXCCT >>> GEII power
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I started studying C++ with the book "C++ From The Ground Up, 2nd Edition" by Herbert Schildt. I read that book thoroughly from the beginning to the end without any skim.
But later I read Bjarne's book in the way picking topics which I haven't learned. So index plays an important key to me.
I read the English version, although I am a native Chinese speaker. I hate computer books in Chinese so much, because the translation for some jargons is bitch, hard to understand.
toxcct wrote:
a french traduction
A French translation.
traduce[^], (English):
to strongly criticize someone, especially in a way that harms their reputation.
traduction[^] (French):
translation.
When I was in university, I studied the French language. But never have a chance to use in practice. Now I've forgot all about French... 
Je ne sais pas... 
toxcct wrote:
i said to me, "well, i'll see later..."
Sounds like an avenger. Ha ha!
toxcct wrote:
we do agree it is a good book
Indeed!! 
Maxwell Chen
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Hi chaps,
Just been getting into a bit of ADO database programming and have been able to connect to a database on the same computer that my program is running on. All the resources I have read seem not to mention how to access a SQL db on a network or on a server, say the other side of the world.
The connection part of the program (in the document class) goes along these lines:
m_pConnection->Open(_bstr_t(L"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.3.51;Data Source=C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\VCDb.mdb;"),
_bstr_t(L""),
_bstr_t(L""),
adModeUnknown);
In this example I am connecting to a Microsoft Access DB. But supposing I want to connect to a MySQL DB running on a Linux Machine, or just simply another SQL DB on a Microsoft server ?
Apologies for the stupidity, but I am kind of new to this are of programming and am getting frustrated with poor recourses I have found.
Any help will greatly appreciated
Graham
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May be this[^] will help
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg
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Is there a way to monitor if the USB port on system has had its connector removed?
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I'm trying to draw a bitmap with a highlighted effect with the following code:
HBRUSH hSelBrush = CreateSolidBrush(GetSysColor(COLOR_HIGHLIGHT));
DrawState(hDC, hSelBrush, NULL, MAKELPARAM(hBmp, 0), 0, x, y, ImgWidth, ImgHeight, DST_BITMAP | DSS_UNION);
DeleteObject(hSelBrush);
The problem is that it doesn't do it on the white pixels. Is there any way to fix it?
-thanks
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Hi!
I would like to change the cursor of the entire system temporarily, so I cannot use SetSystemCursor. My goal is to hide the cursor, so I can either hide it or change it to a blank one that I load. ShowCursor(FALSE) seems to only apply to the current window.
Any help would be appreciated.
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debacler wrote:
ShowCursor(FALSE) seems to only apply to the current window.
That's because the cursor is a shared resource. In Win32 one app isn't allowed to control such a resource since it would affect all apps running on the system.
--Mike--
Personal stuff:: Ericahist | Homepage
Shareware stuff:: 1ClickPicGrabber | RightClick-Encrypt
CP stuff:: CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ
----
Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
I think so Brain, but how will we fit the hamster inside the accordion?
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You can change system wide cursor using ::SetSystemCursor() API. Then what else the problem u have. Just create a blank cursor in ur resource editor( here IDC_CURSOR1) Load it... Create another one cursor which is having ur system cursor ( here IDC_CURSOR2).
void CTestDlg::OnHideCursor()
{
HCURSOR h1 = AfxGetApp( ) -> LoadCursor ( IDC_CURSOR1 ) ;// User your blank cursor here
HCURSOR h2 = CopyCursor ( h1 ) ;
::SetSystemCursor ( h2, OCR_NORMAL ) ;
}
void CTestDlg::OnShowCursor()
{
HCURSOR h1 = AfxGetApp( ) -> LoadCursor ( IDC_CURSOR2 ) ;// User your system cursor here
HCURSOR h2 = CopyCursor ( h1 ) ;
::SetSystemCursor ( h2, OCR_NORMAL ) ;
}
Thatzaal..;)
loveablevirus
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Thanks
The hide cursor code works great, but when I show the cursor again, I want it to be the user's cursor, not one stored in my resources. So instead of AfxGetApp()->LoadCursor(...) for the show function, I'm trying this:
HCURSOR h1=LoadCursor(0,IDC_ARROW);<br />
HCURSOR h2=CopyCursor(h1); <br />
::SetSystemCursor(h2,OCR_NORMAL);
Which doesn't work, and I have to restore the cursor otherwise. How can I restore the original cursor?
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Ya.. I dOno why its not working... but there is another one solution to restore the system cursor (without using ur resource). Declare a HCURSOR m_h; member variable to ur dlg class.
void CTestDlg::OnHideCursor()
{
m_h=CopyCursor(LoadCursor(NULL,IDC_ARROW)); // Store system cursor in m_h
HCURSOR h1 = AfxGetApp( ) -> LoadCursor ( IDC_CURSOR1 ) ; // Load ur cursor
::SetSystemCursor ( h1, OCR_NORMAL ) ; // Change system cursor with urs
}
void CTestDlg::OnShowCursor()
{
::SetSystemCursor ( m_h, OCR_NORMAL ) ; // Restore system cursor from m_h
}
It is working well for me. Try urself.
Hava nice day;)
with regards
loveablevirus
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That works wonderfully! Thank you very much! I tried doing something similar but mine involved copy cursor and it didn't work right, so simple and elegent.
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I am writing a web download installer and need to make it as small as possible. A lot of MFC is a black box to me so I am not sure which pieces I can hack out and still expect the program to behave as expected.
It is currently 210 KB and I only wrote a thousand or so lines of source code (including comments). There is only 1 window and it is a dialog-based app. It does use the file open common dialog box and afxinet.h
Thanks!
//placeholder for witty verbiage
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lets see... you could use an executable compressor like UPX for instance. Once you compile it run upx and compress your executable. get it here
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sorry about the link... get it at www.upx.sourceforge.net
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Shrinking the size of an MFC app in VC++ 7.x is difficult. In VC++ 6.0, you could get it down to about 160k but not much more than that.
Since it's dialog based, I'd consider just converting it to a standard windows app and taking the parts of afxinet.h that you need.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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If you want to keep it small then I think you should avoid using MFC.... write a simple application without them...
Did you compiled your app using the static MFC library version? You cannot hope that who will use your installed has already the MFC Dlls
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