C / C++ / MFC

Christian Graus28-Feb-02 12:34

Christian Graus

28-Feb-02 12:34

If I wasn't at work my caveat would have been longer - what I showed you is almost always a bad, bad idea. The question you need to ask is how do I get the bios information and the answer from me is I do not know.

Sorry I cannot help more.

Christian

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alex.barylski28-Feb-02 12:49

28-Feb-02 12:49

I'm thinking what you want to tinker with isn't process memory, so neither WriteProcessMemory or pointers will work. Your probably gonna have to get at system memory. These bios specs are possibly in the CMOS...but to access CMOS you need to use in/out cpu instructions which cause exceptions I think when running under ring 3(protected mode). Which windows applications run under. You gonna have to use a device driver i'd think.

It works under delphi..??? Is your delphi app compiled into win32 PE..??? Thats weird that it would work...i'm pretty sure your poking system memory, not process...so unless your delphi app is running as a dos/console/win16 type app it shouldn't be able to read system memory.

Cheers

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28-Feb-02 12:55

Yes in Delphi's Win32 apps works (under Win98). Try:

str = String(PChar(Ptr($FEC71))) under Win98

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alex.barylski28-Feb-02 12:42

28-Feb-02 12:42

You can use a pointer like Christian pointed out, no pun intended... Smile | :)

However I fail to see why you would need to directly write to memory in the current process. If you want to write to other processes (Change variables in a running game or something) then WriteProcessMemory would serve you well.

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28-Feb-02 13:01

I don't need write i want check moterboard type when my app is starting. And BIOS memory area - system process ?

---Ranger---

28-Feb-02 13:07

I need checking on which computer running my app. And i need get motherboard's type from BIOS data.

Some parts of project was written in Delphi other man and i must assemble all parts.

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alex.barylski28-Feb-02 13:42

Re: To get mbd type try...

28-Feb-02 13:42

If your gonna have to read/write ANYTHING from bios data area you'll need to use interupts, or pull out the byte yerself. In either case (i'm not 100% sure) but you can't do this with windows applications. You'll need to use device drivers i'm almost positive.

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Atul Dharne28-Feb-02 16:36

Atul Dharne

28-Feb-02 16:36

Win32_MotherboardDevice WMI class which is under the "Computer System Hardware Classes". For BIOS check Win32_BIOS class.

Atul

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creating a window from dll

Nish Nishant28-Feb-02 14:08

Nish Nishant

28-Feb-02 14:08

Each process is running in protected mode. IN real mode 0x000F5123 might have some meaning, but in protected mode 0x000F5123 will be a different physical address for each process.

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Tim Rymer28-Feb-02 11:26

Tim Rymer

28-Feb-02 11:26

is there anyway to call RegisterClass() and CreateWindow() "dynamically"? i need to make a message pump for a worker thread in an ATL control. Everyone says "make a message pump", so show me how. i dont want to know "what to do" i want to know "how to do it". Thanks, people. Let's see some CODE since this is called "CodeProject" haha Thanks if anyone can help me.

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Re: creating a window from dll

Joaquín M López Muñoz28-Feb-02 12:32

Joaquín M López Muñoz

28-Feb-02 12:32

Hey, behold the authentic message pump:

// The real message pump<sup>TM</sup>.
// Use it wisely.
 
MSG msg;

while(GetMessage(&msg,NULL,0,0)!=0){
  TranslateMessage(&msg);
  DispatchMessage(&msg);
}

Jokes aside, every window created within a particular thread can only work if that thread, after window creation, gracefully decays into this message loop. GetMessage returns 0 upon calling PostQuitMessage (usually issued from the WM_DESTROY handler of the thread main window), signalling the thread to exit from the message pump (because no further message processing is required).

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Re: creating a window from dll

alex.barylski28-Feb-02 12:56

Making simple COM object !

28-Feb-02 12:56

Joaquín M López Muñoz wrote:
The real message pump.

TradeMark...?

Poke tongue | ;-P

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Hadi Rezaee28-Feb-02 11:24

Hadi Rezaee

28-Feb-02 11:24

Hi all,
I would like to know about making COM objects ?
How can i make a simple COM objects ?
Can you write example for me ?

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Re: Making simple COM object !

Nemanja Trifunovic28-Feb-02 11:35

Nemanja Trifunovic

28-Feb-02 11:35

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OpenGL: Lighting

28-Feb-02 10:58

Hi!
I'm working on a CAD project and I can't seem to get the lighting right. My light source is coming from a fixed direction and so when a shaded part is rotated and is directly facing that light source, it is really shiny. I've tried reducing the light intensity and the shininess but this means that, at certain angles, some parts appear too dark.

Is there any way to reduce the shininess while at the same time avoiding these dark areas? Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks!

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is this possible?

jafrazee28-Feb-02 9:44

jafrazee

28-Feb-02 9:44

I have an mdi applicaiton that has some of the same features as an existing project. I really do not want to redesign everything. So can i import a dialog box from one project into another?
if so how?

Thank you.

alex.barylski28-Feb-02 9:52

28-Feb-02 9:52

It doesn't seem like you can get VC to save or export dialog resources alone, so you have 2 options:

1) Open the resource.rc file as text and copy the dialog resource info into clipboard. Open the new resource file as text and paste clipboard contents into new file.

2) Make a copy of the resource.rc open it as text and remove all un-nessecary contents.

Cheers!

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Tim Deveaux28-Feb-02 9:55

Tim Deveaux

28-Feb-02 9:55

Copy the .rc file from the source project to a safe dir (working copy) then, with the dest project open, open this .rc file - you should find you can drag and drop what you want into your new project, and it shouldn't be to hard to reuse any existing CDialog based class as well.

alex.barylski28-Feb-02 10:00

28-Feb-02 10:00

I didn't even think of doing it that way!

Sweet...theres a time saver!

Thanx!

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Tim Deveaux28-Feb-02 10:17

Tim Deveaux

28-Feb-02 10:17

Yep - but make a copy of the original .rc, because VC seems to treat it as a 'move' operation rather than a 'copy' - by default anyway.

Todd.Harvey1-Mar-02 3:40

Todd.Harvey

1-Mar-02 3:40

I've been inserting the reference project into the new project, then dragging and dropping the resources into the new project. (and then break the link)
One cool thing is that it seems to copy whatever bitmaps, etc that you need as well. I'm not even sure why it works, but it's slick. You have to join projects, though. You can break them apart later.
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I wish I had a way to have multiple *.rc files for a project - when we are using Visual Source Safe, one guy wants to change his dialog somewhere, but he has to check out the main rc file, and it locks us all out of it. (and he leaves it checked out and we are stuck for a while)

I started playing around with doing #include's into the resource file to let us split it up, but didn't get too far.

Shog⁹28-Feb-02 9:58

Shog⁹

28-Feb-02 9:58

In VS you can open up multiple *.rc files at once and copy/paste between them. This is easier than dealing with them as text files, as you don't have to worry about assigning resource IDs, copying bitmap or icon files, etc.

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alex.barylski28-Feb-02 9:33