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Re: Visual C++ 2003 and Profiler

Mike Dimmick17-Jan-05 6:39

17-Jan-05 6:39

There's no profiler at all in VS.NET 2003, whatever edition (I have Enterprise Architect here). Microsoft usually links to DevPartner Profiler Community Edition[^].

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How to get file-size of a file?

Monisankar17-Jan-05 4:01

Monisankar

17-Jan-05 4:01

How can i implement one function to get the file size of a file which takes pointer to the file path?Please help..

Re: How to get file-size of a file?

Martin Koorts17-Jan-05 4:56

Martin Koorts

17-Jan-05 4:56

Hi
Using Win32, you can use FindFirstFile and inspect the WIN32_FIND_DATA structure returned from that (and call FindClose when you leave).

In .NET, that information is available from the FileInfo class.

HTH
Martin

Re: How to get file-size of a file?

David Crow17-Jan-05 6:37

David Crow

17-Jan-05 6:37

Why not use GetFileSize()?

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Re: How to get file-size of a file?

Monisankar17-Jan-05 18:55

Monisankar

17-Jan-05 18:55

The function should take only the constant pointer to the path of the file..

Re: How to get file-size of a file?

David Crow18-Jan-05 3:15

David Crow

18-Jan-05 3:15

Ok, what's wrong with:

DWORD SizeOfFile( LPCTSTR lpszFile )
{
    DWORD dwSize = 0;
    HANDLE hFile;
 
    hFile = CreateFile(lpszFile, 0, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, ...);
    if (hFile != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
    {
        dwSize = GetFileSize(hFile, NULL); // you may want to use GetFileSizeEx() instead
        CloseHandle(hFile);
    }
 
    return (dwSize);
}

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Re: How to get file-size of a file?

HurricaneFlossie18-Jan-05 8:50

HurricaneFlossie

18-Jan-05 8:50

Try

CFile myFile(lpszFileName, CFile::modeRead);
int len = myFile.GetLength();

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Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

One Stone17-Jan-05 3:37

One Stone

17-Jan-05 3:37

Hello!

I've got a property page, containing a tab view. The tab pages are a bit brighter than the normal dialogs, which seems to be correct. But unfortunately all the static controls in this tab page have the standard gray color, i.e. the one of the dialogs and not the one of the tab page.

How can I make the statics look correct?

Best regards

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Martin Koorts17-Jan-05 3:44

Martin Koorts

17-Jan-05 3:44

Hi
Try setting the static controls' Transparent property to True in the Resource Editor.

HTH
Martin

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

One Stone17-Jan-05 3:57

One Stone

17-Jan-05 3:57

I've tried this, but the static looks exactly the same as before, with the darker gray...

Any other ideas?

Thanks and best regards

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

One Stone17-Jan-05 4:00

One Stone

17-Jan-05 4:00

Oh, btw, it's not only the statics. Also the buttons (edges), checkboxes and radios all look incorrect, all have that darker gray... The only things that look correct are the edit controls and the progress controls...

Best regards

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Martin Koorts17-Jan-05 4:45

Martin Koorts

17-Jan-05 4:45

OK
What are you using? VC6, VC7?
Is this Tab control MFC, eg. with CPropertySheet/CPropertyPage.
Is is dynamically created, or just the standard controls dragged from the toolbox onto the dialog in the resource editor?

Does this happen with all tab/property pages on your machine, or just the one in your app?

Martin

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

One Stone17-Jan-05 5:02

One Stone

17-Jan-05 5:02

Martin Koorts wrote:
What are you using? VC6, VC7?

VC6, it's a MFC project.

Martin Koorts wrote:
Is this Tab control MFC, eg. with CPropertySheet/CPropertyPage.

I'm not using the CPropertySheet/CPropertyPage classes.

Martin Koorts wrote:
Is is dynamically created, or just the standard controls dragged from the toolbox onto the dialog in the resource editor?

It's just dragged from the toolbox into the dialog, using the resource editor.

I'm handling the click messages on the tabs myself, to display the correct dialogs / dialog elements. I'm not using any third-party classes to do this.

Martin Koorts wrote:
Does this happen with all tab/property pages on your machine, or just the one in your app?

It just happens in my application. In the desktop display properties for example it looks correctly.

Any ideas??

Thanks for your reply and best regards

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Martin Koorts17-Jan-05 5:26

Martin Koorts

17-Jan-05 5:26

What happens if you create a Dialog-based MFC app using the wizard, with the same controls?

Sorry if this messes you about, but that's just what I would try.
Martin

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Dominik Reichl17-Jan-05 7:33

Dominik Reichl

17-Jan-05 7:33

Exactly the same...
- Create new MFC dialog project
- Drag-n-drop a tab view into the dialog
- Drag-n-drop a static onto the tab view
- Add a XP manifest (resource 24/1) to the project and manually add InitCommonControls()
- Build and run

The statics have the wrong background.

Best regards,
Dominik

_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
(doesn't work on NT)

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Antony M Kancidrowski17-Jan-05 6:49

Antony M Kancidrowski

17-Jan-05 6:49

The problem that you have is that the static controls are taking the background colour of your dialog rather than the tab control. I have gotten around this problem in the past by writing an owner drawn static control.

Here[^] is a good example of an owner drawn static. It may be a bit too much for what you are doing, however you could use it for ideas.

Ant.

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Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Dominik Reichl17-Jan-05 7:34

Dominik Reichl

17-Jan-05 7:34

Ok, fine... But for the rest? What do I do with all the other controls that are drawn incorrectly, too? Like buttons, checkboxes and radios?

Thanks and best regards,
Dominik

_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
(doesn't work on NT)

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Antony M Kancidrowski17-Jan-05 9:33

Antony M Kancidrowski

17-Jan-05 9:33

Um, sorry about that, I should have read you post a second time to see that you do indeed mension the other controls.

Since posting Shog9 has posted a reference to an article that will solve your problem.

Ant.

I'm hard, yet soft.
I'm coloured, yet clear.
I'm fruity and sweet.
I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Walliams (Little Britain)

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Antony M Kancidrowski17-Jan-05 6:55

Antony M Kancidrowski

17-Jan-05 6:55

Have you tried altering the z-order of the controls (i.e. tab order) ?

Ant.

I'm hard, yet soft.
I'm coloured, yet clear.
I'm fruity and sweet.
I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Walliams (Little Britain)

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Shog⁹17-Jan-05 7:34

Shog⁹

17-Jan-05 7:34

See this article for a rather complex (but effective) method of correcting this. Then see the comments following the article for several easier methods.

Shog⁹

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Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Antony M Kancidrowski17-Jan-05 9:34

Antony M Kancidrowski

17-Jan-05 9:34

I like it, nice simple solution within the comments. Thanks Smile | :)

Ant.

I'm hard, yet soft.
I'm coloured, yet clear.
I'm fruity and sweet.
I'm jelly, what am I? Muse on it further, I shall return! - David Walliams (Little Britain)

Re: Statics in tab pages on WinXP?

Dominik Reichl17-Jan-05 10:09

Dominik Reichl

17-Jan-05 10:09

Many thanks!!!

Best regards,
Dominik

_outp(0x64, 0xAD);
and
__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, al
do the same... but what do they do??
(doesn't work on NT)

Re: problem with threads

Martin Koorts17-Jan-05 3:02

Martin Koorts

17-Jan-05 3:02

Hi
suspend just pauses the thread.
You'll have to stop it by using an event, with your worker thread looking out for it and elegantly stopping as soon as it becomes signalled. Alternatively you can call Abort on the thread, but make sure the thread handles the exception thrown from this.

HTH
Martin

Re: problem with threads

David Crow17-Jan-05 3:52

David Crow

17-Jan-05 3:52

doneirik wrote:
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

That's because the main thread is still running, even though there is no UI.

Read this article and this article for more on threads and how to terminate them.

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What SW_HIDE is ShowWindow does?

Dimitris Vikeloudas17-Jan-05 2:52

Dimitris Vikeloudas

17-Jan-05 2:52

I want to create and drawn to CScrollView that is invisible from the user. Sould I show it using a ShowWindow(SW_HIDE)? Will this permit me to draw on it?

Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.