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Monty²29-Jul-06 21:36

Monty²

29-Jul-06 21:36

USES_CONVERSION;
CComBSTR *pBString;
...
...
char *pString = OLE2T(pBString);

This should work. Unsure | :~

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Jörgen Sigvardsson30-Jul-06 9:21

Jörgen Sigvardsson

30-Jul-06 9:21

You're far better off with CW2A() et al (ATL7 and later). USES_CONVERSION is a biiiiiiig cludge. (Take a peek under the hood, and you'll see...)

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Michael Dunn29-Jul-06 23:24

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29-Jul-06 23:24

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Zac Howland31-Jul-06 8:37

31-Jul-06 8:37

Do you have to use CComBSTR? If not, why are you using it? _bstr_t is a much more complete wrapper for BSTRs.

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CoCreateInstance() return E_OUTOFMEMORY

Jörgen Sigvardsson1-Aug-06 12:27

Jörgen Sigvardsson

1-Aug-06 12:27

If you want to eliminate CRT dependencies, CComBSTR is the way to go.

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Scrolling Woes.

HakunaMatada28-Jul-06 23:21

HakunaMatada

28-Jul-06 23:21

I have created a Child Window with its style set to WS_VSCROLL. This child window houses some CEdit and CStatic Windows. Now I have set up the Vertical Scroll bar, but when I scroll the child Window, the controls on it do not get repainted properly. Can anyone explain why?

I am using WTL 7.1. Thanks.

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Re: Scrolling Woes.

Monty²29-Jul-06 21:38

Monty²

29-Jul-06 21:38

Did you try to set clipchildrens style bit (forgot the actual name), if that doesn't work try calling UpdateWindow for all the controls after scrolling.

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Re: Scrolling Woes.

HakunaMatada30-Jul-06 18:40

HakunaMatada

30-Jul-06 18:40

Thank You for taking the time to reply to my woe. Well, I have set the WS_CLIPCHILDREN and WS_CLIPSIBLINGS styles to my control and UpdateWindow() also doesn't work. In the End, I tried Invalidate on all the child controls and it worked. although the scrolling is not smooth as expected, but it scrolls. Any other way that I can make the scrolling experience better?

Thank You once again.

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About IE 7 Tabs

JaydeepB26-Jul-06 21:46

JaydeepB

26-Jul-06 21:46

how to trap tab change event in IE7 or how to get active tab ?

Re: About IE 7 Tabs

JaydeepB27-Jul-06 21:25

JaydeepB

27-Jul-06 21:25

i found the way to get tab change event and get the active tab.

Re: About IE 7 Tabs

HunterNet19-Aug-06 5:16

HunterNet

19-Aug-06 5:16

Would you mind sharing it with us?

chenxiujie26-Jul-06 19:43

chenxiujie

26-Jul-06 19:43

Hello,
I create a COM componet with ATL, but when I test it , by CoCreateInstance(),
the result value is always E_OUTOFMEMORY, who can tell me why? Thanks a lot!

Re: CoCreateInstance() return E_OUTOFMEMORY

Anonymuos28-Jul-06 12:06

Anonymuos

28-Jul-06 12:06

chenxiujie wrote:
I create a COM componet with ATL, but when I test it , by CoCreateInstance(),
the result value is always E_OUTOFMEMORY

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How to convert *string to _bstr_t and *BSTR

agarunk26-Jul-06 4:38

agarunk

26-Jul-06 4:38

Hi,
I'm creating dll using VS2005 ATL project. I'm using third party SDK API's which extracts data into a *string variable. Now I'm facing problem with converting the *string to _bstr_t and *BSTR.

Please guide me whether is it possible to convert *string to _bstr_t and *BSTR, if so how to do it. If possible with a sample piece of code.

thanking you,
Arun

Lim Bio Liong27-Jul-06 8:00

Lim Bio Liong

27-Jul-06 8:00

Hello agarunk,

By "*string", do you mean a pointer to a STL string ?

By "*BSTR", do you mean a pointer to a BSTR ?

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agarunk27-Jul-06 19:43

agarunk

27-Jul-06 19:43

Hi Bio,

Its "std::string*", i.e., pointer to std string.
and yes "BSTR*" is pointer to a BSTR.

-Arun

Steve S27-Jul-06 21:55

Steve S

27-Jul-06 21:55

Both the _bstr_t wrapper class and BSTR expect the text to be UNICODE, rather than ANSI or MBCS. While _bstr_t can convert from LPCSTR, BSTR on it's own can't.

You will need to use the c_str() member function of the std::string to get your LPCSTR in the first place (unlike MFC/ATL/WTL CString class, there's no LPCTSTR operator). Like I say, you can then use this pointer with something like A2W or MultiByteToWideChar.

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agarunk27-Jul-06 22:07

agarunk

27-Jul-06 22:07

Hi Steve,
Below is the implementation which I'm using now....

BSTR* TargetBSTR ;<br />
string *SourceStr=new string;<br />
string StrBuff;<br />
const char *CharBuff;<br />
<br />
StrBuff=*SourceStr;<br />
CharBuff=StrBuff.c_str();<br />
*TargetBSTR = _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR(CharBuff);

Is this what you are asking me to do???
It is working fine for me for time being... I would like to know if I'm doing any mistake.
Is there any issues with it???

-Arun

Zac Howland28-Jul-06 10:01

28-Jul-06 10:01

agarunk wrote:
BSTR* TargetBSTR ;
string *SourceStr=new string;
string StrBuff;
const char *CharBuff;

StrBuff=*SourceStr;
CharBuff=StrBuff.c_str();
*TargetBSTR = _com_util::ConvertStringToBSTR(CharBuff);

That is far more code than you need to do for this. See my response below.

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Zac Howland28-Jul-06 9:59

28-Jul-06 9:59

Steve S wrote:
Both the _bstr_t wrapper class and BSTR expect the text to be UNICODE, rather than ANSI or MBCS. While _bstr_t can convert from LPCSTR, BSTR on it's own can't.

This isn't completely accurate. _bstr_t has a constructor that takes a const char*. It will do the conversion for you.

Basically, if you need to convert std::string* to a _bstr_t* (or even to a BSTR*), here is a simple way to do it:

std::string* pStlString = new string("my stuff");
_bstr_t* pBstrWrapper = new _bstr_t(pStlString->c_str());
BSTR* pBstr = pBstrWrapper->GetAddress();

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Steve S2-Aug-06 3:57

Steve S

2-Aug-06 3:57

I sit corrected Smile | :)

I confess that these days I very rarely use ANSI/MBCS, since I no longer do stuff for Win9x/ME platforms. Lucky me, my end-customers all use W2K or later...

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Zac Howland2-Aug-06 4:22

2-Aug-06 4:22

Since I'm in the Linux world at my new job, I'm a bit rusty myself. I do find that using the T-functions (along with classes that can use both char* and wchar_t*) alleviates much of those headaches.

If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week

Zac