serial communication in a thread - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

namaskaaram9-Feb-05 21:27

9-Feb-05 21:27

I am sorry abt the last link.....itz been quite a while since have i have visited the site....i guess they just reorganized their site.....anyway here is the new link.....
http://www.gametutorials.com/[^]

i have done a little animation in win32.....so this is where it is in their site.....
http://www.gametutorials.com/gtstore/c-4-win32.aspx[^]

u will find lotz with the source code inem.....u can asjk questionz as well.....
herez one of my favorite project animation that they have put up in.....

http://www.gametutorials.com/gtstore/pc-140-4-animation.aspx[^]

they are very helpful also....u can get ur doubts cleared all abt gametheory there
have fun.....

Happy programmin.....

cheerz.....
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Re: Half Heart- an MMORPG

namaskaaram9-Feb-05 21:33

namaskaaram

9-Feb-05 21:33

welll....i guess they have charged their tutorialz.....thay werent so two monthz back.....

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Combobox Control at runtime

Rahim Rattani9-Feb-05 18:57

Rahim Rattani

9-Feb-05 18:57

I am creating a combobox control on a dialog at runtime.
Works Fine. the only problem is i am unable to set the drop down height of the combo box.

Thanx

Rahim Rattani
Software Engineer,
Matrix Systems (Pvt) Ltd.,
Karachi - Pakistan

Re: Combobox Control at runtime

2249179-Feb-05 21:42

224917

9-Feb-05 21:42

Check the following link :
http://flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm[^]

suhredayan
There is no spoon.

List control with own scroll bar and images

leelamaheshb9-Feb-05 18:42

leelamaheshb

9-Feb-05 18:42

hi ,
I have dailog based application in that i have one ListControl
I want my own scroll bar and list control should disply the iteams
image and string

If anyone can help, I'd be very appreciative

thanks
leela mahesh

Showing a list of files ina ListControl

Ashman9-Feb-05 18:25

Ashman

9-Feb-05 18:25

Hey,
I have forgotten alot of MFC programming Unsure | :~

I have a dialog based app with a browse for folder button which outputs the folder path as szFolder. All is good there Smile | :)

but I want to then be able to view what is in that folder in a list control. Problem is I have forgotten how. Its a report style ListControl in which I also would like to get the file size of. That isn't really a priority right now but listing all the files of the directory in the ListControl m_mp3list is my main question.

If anyone can help, I'd be very appreciative.

Thanks
Ashley

Re: Showing a list of files ina ListControl

Ravi Bhavnani9-Feb-05 18:49

Ravi Bhavnani

9-Feb-05 18:49

See CFileFind[^] and CFile::GetStatus()[^].

/ravi

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serial communication in a thread

Anonymous9-Feb-05 18:25

Anonymous

9-Feb-05 18:25

Hi, I'm trying to communicate with a device via COM1, I've done it before(a few years ago) but now that I have very little time to do that I encounter many problems. first I'm using createfile and readfile in overlapped mode in an exclusive thread, because received data needs to be processed in the main thread. communication speed is about 100-200 bytes/sec, I've used getcomm and setcomm to setup com1 in 9600bps.
first problem(minor): because an interpreter reads data
and looks for a sync frame. when i first run my prog it can't find the frame but when I check the received data first with a binary termial to make sure that received data is ok(I set binary terminal to 9600bps) and after that I run the prog the prog works ok, so I think there is a problem with my DCB structure so that COM1 is not in the appropriate mode when I first run the prog. I think I can solve this soon but the major problem that really makes life difficult for me is this:
second problem(major): there is a problem with the thread so when I want to debug the prog and set break points SOMETIMES the whole system(win XP)hangs and I have to restart computer( that's why I couldn't solve first problem yet).
this sometimes deponds on where i've set the break point, when I terminate the thread before breakpoint everything is ok. I start thread with AfxBeginThread and I don't set priority so it is supposed to have the same priority level as the calling process( that shouldn't be a problem). I close handles and terminate the thread before exiting but the problem shouldn't be that handle leakage or something like that because when I restart and run the prog first time problem persists. any suggestion or recommandation is highly appreciated. thanks

Re: serial communication in a thread

Giannakakis Kostas9-Feb-05 19:13

Giannakakis Kostas

9-Feb-05 19:13

You can find many articles in Code Project with serial communication libraries, you could simply use one of them.

Regarding the second problem, do not enable breakpoints in the thread before it is started. In that case the system doesn't hang, it just takes the debugger an awful long time to start.

Disable print screen/sysRq key on keyboard

Member 57475129-Feb-05 16:58

Member 5747512

9-Feb-05 16:58

hi all,
I m working on in VC++ 6.0 on windows XP platform.
I want to disable the print screen on the keyboard wherever my application starts and enable it whenever application exit.can anyone help me out.

regards,
kapil kant

Re: Disable print screen/sysRq key on keyboard

RicoH11-Feb-05 0:38

RicoH

11-Feb-05 0:38

you should check out the SetWindowsHookEx[^] function which is supported on WinNT, 2000 and XP.
This will let you set a low-level keyboard hook.
There is an article[^] on MSDN which describes the use of a low-level hook.

Enjoy!

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ShellExecute, Here is my code

Aqueel9-Feb-05 16:25

Aqueel

9-Feb-05 16:25

void CPrintDlg::OnBPrint()
{
ShellExecute(NULL, "print", "c:\\Print\\myfile.doc", NULL, NULL, 0);
}

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Re: ShellExecute, Here is my code

Ryan Binns9-Feb-05 17:26

Ryan Binns

9-Feb-05 17:26

Uhh yeah... and your question is...?

Ryan

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Access to its caller from a Dialog

jazzkiller9-Feb-05 14:48

jazzkiller

9-Feb-05 14:48

Hi all,
Inside a View class (CChildView), I call CDialog. The Dialog pops up. Now, how can I talk to the CChildView while the Dialog still shows?

Say CChildView display a bitmap; in my dialog, I change the zoom parameter to 2x, I want the image to reflex the change immediately in the CChildView.

Thank you in advance,

Re: Access to its caller from a Dialog

KaЯl10-Feb-05 5:40

KaЯl

10-Feb-05 5:40

What about defining an user message (WM_APP + something) and post it/ send it from the dialog to the view?

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Re: Access to its caller from a Dialog

jazzkiller17-Feb-05 5:35

jazzkiller

17-Feb-05 5:35

Do I define WM_APP message in View and from Dialog I do: this->SendMessage(WM_DO_STUFF,0,0)?

I did that, but it didn't work out.

Thanks

Re: Access to its caller from a Dialog

KaЯl17-Feb-05 22:54

KaЯl

17-Feb-05 22:54

* Is your dialog modal or modeless?
* Try to use PostMessage instead of SendMessage

you should have in <myapplication.h>:
#define WM_DO_STUFF WM_APP+1

In <myview.h>

<br />
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyView, CView)<br />
[...].br />
afx_msg LRESULT OnDoStuff(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam);<br />
END_MESSAGE_MAP()<br />

In <myview.cpp>

<br />
BEGIN_MESSAGE_MAP(CMyView, CView)<br />
[...].br />
ON_MESSAGE(WM_DO_STUFF, OnDoStuff)<br />
END_MESSAGE_MAP()<br />
<br />
LRESULT CMyView::OnDoStuff(WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)<br />
{<br />
// do stuff<br />
return 0L;<br />
}<br />

in <mydialog.cpp> (CMyDialog must know about the view)

<br />
void CMyDialog::OnActionButton()<br />
{<br />
   ASSERT(m_pMyView);<br />
   m_pMyView->PostMessage(WM_DO_STUFF);<br />
}<br />

HTH,

Fold With Us!
What a sad world it would be if everyone said and did only what was easy - Shog⁹

Re: Access to its caller from a Dialog

jazzkiller18-Feb-05 4:46

jazzkiller

18-Feb-05 4:46

Thank you K,
I finally passed a pointer of MyView to Dialog and access functions in MyView such as Invalidate and other member functions through this pointer.

Thanks,

Re: Access to its caller from a Dialog

jazzkiller18-Feb-05 4:52

jazzkiller

18-Feb-05 4:52

Hi K,
I finally passed a MyView pointer to CDialog through constructor. Thus, I can access MyView member functions from CDialog. However, when I clicked OK on the Dialog, the program crashed. My guess is that I don't know how to delete the *pView that I passed to Dialog. I delete it in the contructor Dialog destructor). Any thought?

By the way, it is a Modal dialog.

Thanks,

Accessing remote registry in different domain

Member 17212159-Feb-05 13:38

Member 1721215

9-Feb-05 13:38

Hi,

I have 2 win2003 servers which are in different domain say domain1 and domain2. The domains are under a forest with proper trust relationships established. I need to access registry of server in domain2 from an application on machine in domain1. I have set appropriate access permissions and allowed paths as mentioned below.

1. domain2 server - HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurePipeServers\winreg\AllowedPaths - contains registry key to be allowed access
2. domain2 server - Granted full permissions to everyone to actual registry key

With this I am not able to connect to remote registry using "RegConnectRegistry" API. Is cross domain registry access allowed in windows? If so what additional settings needs to be done?

Thanks
JA

Re: Accessing remote registry in different domain

2249179-Feb-05 23:26

224917

9-Feb-05 23:26

Are you able to logon to IPC$ of the server of which you want to access the registry ?

suhredayan
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Re: Accessing remote registry in different domain

Member 172121510-Feb-05 14:05

Member 1721215

10-Feb-05 14:05

i am able to log to ipc. I am also able to connect to remote registry but it remains in read-only mode.

if tried to connect using regconnectregistry api, it fails. do i need to specify any trust relationships or forest levels for this to be working?

Polygon replacement.

Anthony98879-Feb-05 13:37

Anthony9887

9-Feb-05 13:37

Hi,
I'm trying to recreate the Polygon API with filling. I'm using Polyline. Is there a filling algorithm I can use to do the exact same thing that Polygon does?

Thanks

Re: Polygon replacement.

John R. Shaw10-Feb-05 10:15

John R. Shaw

10-Feb-05 10:15

Books:
Michael Abrash Graphics Programming. (best choice)
Foiley and Van Dam. (lots of info.)
Graphics Gems. (may be)

You should be able to find an implimentaion at a graphics or gaming sight.

http://sourceforge.net (a good place to look for libraries and applications.)

If you search for "Michael Abrash" or "Foiley and Van Dam" you should find some hits.

Well I hope that helps narrows the search.

Good luck!

INTP
"The more help VB provides VB programmers, the more miserable your life as a C++ programmer becomes."
Andrew W. Troelsen

Shell Extensions and ShellExecuteEx

MasamuneXGP9-Feb-05 12:57

MasamuneXGP

9-Feb-05 12:57

I'm currently developing a context menu shell extension. I'm trying to create something similar to the Windows Picture and Fax viewer in that it is the default action for the specified filetype. Google assisted me in finding the MayChangeDefaultMenu registry tweak, so doubleclicking a hooked file fires my extension, however, when a file is executed with ShellExecute/Ex, it isn't. Is there a way to set my extension as the *official* default action so that ShellExecute/Ex will fire my extension?

One method I can think of doing would be to register a normal file command via and set that as the default, then somehow make that command's menu entry invisible so that it exists only for the purpose of being the default action. Possible?

Any other suggestions are welcome of course...

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