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Re: Displaying Message Box while program(code) continues [modified]

Ștefan-Mihai MOGA30-May-06 22:39

30-May-06 22:39

KongHL wrote:
Is it possible for me to display the message box and let the nxt function to process while the message box remains displayed and the user cannot close it.

Please have a look on Mauro Leggieri's Background Task Dialog[^] Good luck and keep the good coding!

Re: Displaying Message Box while program(code) continues [modified]

toxcct31-May-06 0:06

toxcct

31-May-06 0:06

you could also call it from another thread...

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Re: Displaying Message Box while program(code) continues

ThatsAlok31-May-06 0:15

ThatsAlok

31-May-06 0:15

toxcct wrote:
you could also call it from another thread...

UI Thread or worker Thread Smile | :)

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Re: Displaying Message Box while program(code) continues

toxcct31-May-06 0:17

toxcct

31-May-06 0:17

i'm not good at using thread (i nenver used them yet), so i cannot say exactly where is the difference b/w them.

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Re: Displaying Message Box while program(code) continues

ThatsAlok31-May-06 0:42

ThatsAlok

31-May-06 0:42

toxcct wrote:

i'm not good at using thread (i nenver used them yet), so i cannot say exactly where is the difference b/w them.

Kiddin, it work well from both Option!

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Re: Displaying Message Box while program(code) continues

toxcct31-May-06 0:58

toxcct

31-May-06 0:58

any hint btw about the diff between ui thread and worker thread ?

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Re: Displaying Message Box while program(code) continues

ThatsAlok31-May-06 1:54

ThatsAlok

31-May-06 1:54

toxcct wrote:
any hint btw about the diff between ui thread and worker thread ?

http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm#Using%20User-Interface%20Threads[^]
http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm#Using%20Worker%20Threads[^]

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Bitmap Planes

Sarath C30-May-06 20:41

Sarath C

30-May-06 20:41

What is meant by bitmap planes?

Sa^Rath

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Re: Bitmap Planes

Steve Echols30-May-06 21:57

Steve Echols

30-May-06 21:57

I thought I knew the answer, then googled it, and was suprised!

Check this out (don't know if it will help or not):

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/12/01/273018.aspx[^]

Re: Bitmap Planes

NiceNaidu30-May-06 22:52

NiceNaidu

30-May-06 22:52

BitMap Plane is a Flag ,which indicates Whether the BitMap is MonoChrome(if falg is reset) or Color(if falg is set).

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.obj, .lib and .dll?

Polite Programmer30-May-06 20:40

Polite Programmer

30-May-06 20:40

Being a begginer, I have many problems...
Consider this situation

Suppose I am building a usefull library. One way is that I distribute it along with all the source and all the header files.... Right? Client programer will include the main header and will start using the functionality present in the library.

Other scenario, what if I only give him the header files along with lib files? How I can do that? Means what compiler options I will have to set? (Assuming I am using VC.NET 2003)

Lastly, I present here a realife example that somewhat confused me... Its the FreeType Library which is a true type rasterizer. http://www.freetype.org

There are two distributions, one is the source of the library, and the other is library in usable form.

I set my include paths as indicated by the documentation of FreeType. When I compile, I get "Uresovled symbols in function _tmain()". Ok, I figure out that either I have to provide the linker with the .lib file. Ok, I do so... All very well... Program complies and executes but terminates... It says "Cannot load library freetype6.dll".
At the next step I find the .dll library and place it in the current directory of the program. Now I compile, and execute... all very well... Program is running...
My question is that when I provided it with .lib file, FreeType library should be statically linked to my program why it requires the .dll to be accessible for the EXE?

Please explain me what are .obj and .lib and .dll files are and what is there relation to each other and how they fit togather?
Morevoer, if there is any article, book or tutorial on these issues, please let me know...

If anything seems to you stupid, please dont mind as I am a begginer...

Best regards,
Mohsin Hijazee

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Re: .obj, .lib and .dll?

Cedric Moonen30-May-06 21:03

Cedric Moonen

30-May-06 21:03

Polite Programmer wrote:
My question is that when I provided it with .lib file, FreeType library should be statically linked to my program why it requires the .dll to be accessible for the EXE?

No, this is not entirely true. The lib files doesn't not contain the code of the library but rather the 'prototypes' of the functions from the dll. So, you need to link with it in order to know wich are the functions from your dll. Then, of course you need to have your dll in your working folder in order to load the functions at run-time. You don't need the lib file only if you load explicitely the functions from the dll (using LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress).

Of course, you can also have lib files which contain code (so, that are not associated with a dll).

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

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Re: .obj, .lib and .dll?

NiceNaidu30-May-06 21:19

NiceNaidu

30-May-06 21:19

One more major difference is .lib file comes into picture at Compile time.
Where as .dll comes into picture at Run Time.

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Re: .obj, .lib and .dll?

Polite Programmer31-May-06 19:15

Polite Programmer

31-May-06 19:15

It implies that if I create a DLL, I will get a .LIB file for free? Any details or any article addressing these issues please?

Polite Programmer

More Object Oriented then C#

Optional arguments

SWDevil30-May-06 20:39

SWDevil

30-May-06 20:39

Hi,

I have a function that is declared as follows:
void func(int A, int B, int C, int D=-1, int E=-1);
arguments D and E are optional, and so if the function is called like this:
func(A,B,C); then D and E recieve the value -1.

What I want to do is add another optional argument, let's say int F that will also receive -1 as default, for example.
The problem is that sometimes I want to call the function only with the parameters A,B,C and F. If I declare the function like this:
void func(int A, int B, int C, int D=-1, int E=-1, F);
will I be able to call the function in this manner:
func(A,B,C,,,F); ?

Re: Optional arguments

Nibu babu thomas30-May-06 20:48

Nibu babu thomas

30-May-06 20:48

SWDevil wrote:
void func(int A, int B, int C, int D=-1, int E=-1, F);
will I be able to call the function in this manner:
func(A,B,C,,,F); ?

No.

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Re: Optional arguments

_anil_30-May-06 21:00

_anil_

30-May-06 21:00

SWDevil wrote:
void func(int A, int B, int C, int D=-1, int E=-1, F);

forget about calling the funtion, C++ won't allow to declare the funtion like this.
If you declare an argumnet with default value then all the arguments after that should have default value .

Regards
Anil

Re: Optional arguments

SWDevil30-May-06 21:16

SWDevil

30-May-06 21:16

oops - my mistake...
I meant to declare the function:
void func(int A, int B, int C, int D=-1, int E=-1, F=-1);

but if I declare it this way, will I be able to call the func without specifying the parameters D and E?

Re: Optional arguments

Cedric Moonen30-May-06 21:18

Cedric Moonen

30-May-06 21:18

Nope. You have to provide the arguments in the same order. Whenever you supply a value for an optional parameter, it will be used for the first optional parameter.

Cédric Moonen
Software developer

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Re: Optional arguments

Owner drawn30-May-06 21:25

Owner drawn

30-May-06 21:25

SWDevil wrote:
but if I declare it this way, will I be able to call the func without specifying the parameters D and E?

Well if you are desperate to get it working take a look at va_arg, va_list, va_start, va_end. It's an option.

Owner drawn
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Re: Optional arguments

ThatsAlok30-May-06 23:59

ThatsAlok

30-May-06 23:59

Owner drawn wrote:

Well if you are desperate to get it working take a look at va_arg, va_list, va_start, va_end. It's an option.

Well Back after long time Smile | :)

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Re: Optional arguments

Rajesh R Subramanian9-Oct-06 21:54

Rajesh R Subramanian

9-Oct-06 21:54

Where are you buddy? These days you are not posting messages to the board.

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Re: Optional arguments

Owner drawn16-Oct-06 19:25

Owner drawn

16-Oct-06 19:25

brahmma wrote:
Where are you buddy? These days you are not posting messages to the board.

Hmm.. I was away for quite a while but now alive and kicking. Wink | ;)

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Re: Optional arguments

_anil_30-May-06 21:29

_anil_

30-May-06 21:29

No you can't Frown | :-(

What you want is calling the function

void func(int A, int B, int C, int D=-1, int E=-1, F=-1);

in func(A,B,C,,,F);
Suppose( which will never happen)if you succeed, you will get D and E as -1.
So you can call
func(A, B, C, -1, -1, F); :-)

Regards
Anil

Re: Optional arguments

toxcct30-May-06 21:46

toxcct

30-May-06 21:46

why not putting the F parameter between C and D ?

void foo(int A, int B, int C, int F = -1, int D = -1, int E = -1) {
    //...
}

so that you can use it like this :

int A, B, C, D, E, F;
 
foo(A, B, C);            // A  B  C -1 -1 -1
foo(A, B, C, F);         // A  B  C -1 -1  F
foo(A, B, C, F, D);      // A  B  C  D -1  F
foo(A, B, C, F, D, E);   // A  B  C  D  E  F

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