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Hi,
I am trying to invoke HtmlHelp from a MFC SDI Application by using the 'HtmlHelp' API call. I have obtained a compiled html file (*.chm) from a third party. The problem is that when I invoke HtmlHelp, it comes up fine but when the application terminates (Normal shut down - pressing the close button of the FrameWnd) an exception is raised (in debug version of the application, a debug assertion is raised).
I have tried creating a sample MFC (SDI) exe and call the *.chm file from it. In this case it works fine. So I guess there must not be any problem with the *.chm file
Regarding my application, some points are
1. I am using Sting Ray Objective Grid to implement Grid facility in some dialogs
2. When my application was initially generated using MFC AppWizard, I had selected Context-Sensitive Help. But I am not using that anymore as I am going for HtmlHelp. Is there any way to turn Context-sensitive Help off. Could that be causing the problem?
3. Is there anything specific to be taken care when 'HtmlHelp' API is used? I have tried using NuMega BoundsChecker to locate the problem. BoundsChecker says that 'possible wrong usage of CreateThread function, _beginthreadex has to be used' Does HtmlHelp API create a new thread by itself?
I would be grateful if any one can help me out...
Thanks,
Unni
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What's the ASSERTion?
Possibly involved with trying to free up the help path string, which is now kafuffed (sp) because you are bypassing the regular help init? BoundsChecker would probably flag that one as well though. Press 'retry' on the assert dialog...
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I wonder if anybody can help.
I want to do an HTMLEncode in VC++ with minimal runtime dependencies. A lot of ASP/Site Server/Index Server objects have this - but surely this is a utility function and shouldn't be associated with a server instance ?
Does anybody have any code to do this, or know of any library routines - that will probably be installed on the client machine ?
TIA
JoeW
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Does anyone know how to display the "Open with.." dialog? The solution doesn't have to be MFC - a hint towards the solution would be great.
With best regards,
Daniel
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You can open the dialog the following way:
At the dos prompt: start <filename>
If filetype (extension) does not have a registered application, the openwith dialog will open automatically.
Mark.
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OOps, part of the command did not show, it is:
start filename.ext
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usually the files are asociated with some EXE in the registry. So if you want a file with any certain extension to be not associated with any EXE or in case you want to change the associated entry; then must you go to the registry using the regedit by going to Start->Run and typing it in the open box.
You have to find the extension of the file you want to change, then delete the old registry and come back and right click on the desired file
and there you go! The Open With... option is in the menu! 
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First, I'm pretty sure he wanted to know how to get the open with dialog from code (i.e. double click on a file name and if there's no associated .exe, then open the dialog for them to choose an app).
Second, you don't need to go to all that trouble to get open with... on the right-click menu. Just hold down shift when you right click the file.
As for the answer to the first question, I really hope someone will figure that out and post it...
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Hello,
I want to add my own OLE object into a RichEditCtrl directly ( not via
insert dialog).
How can I do ???
Thanks
Pascal
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Hi,
Does anyone know how to send a message or set a style for a control (such as a RichEdit box) to turn on/off antialiasing?
Thanks
Neil
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as far as i understand font anti-aliasing is a system-wide property available if you are running in hi-color mode or better ... i would have no idea how to switch it on / off for an individual control or if thats even possible
mostly watching the human race is like watching dogs watch tv ... they see the pictures move but the meaning escapes them
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For a project i need to make a persistent file open dialog. I mean i want to remember the latest view mode (icon,detail,thumbnail) and if in detail then also the latest sort order. I thought of 2 possible ways to handle this.
1. I found out that the list control is created throught COM. MSDN states that a IShellBrowser interfaces is exposed by the common dialog. through IShellBrowser you can get a IShellView and call it's SaveViewState() member. But how do you get the IShellBrowser object ??
2. Using a message hook and try to intercept the column click messages, and the menu commands sent when the user changes the view-mode through the toolbar button and the then popped up menu. But i can't see/find thoose messages ...
Any help would be appreciated.
Gr. Mark
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I am using a keyboard hook and everything is getting called correctly except I can't seem to change the keycode for instance when you press 'a' i want the output to be 'z' ... here is my code for the KeyboardProc()
LRESULT LOCKSCR_API CALLBACK KeyProc(int nCode, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
return CallNextHookEx(hKeyHook, nCode, wParam, lParam);
}
I've tried returning CallNextHookEx(hKeyHook, nCode, (WPARAM) 'z', lParam);
but it seems to ignore the 'z' and get the wParam from somewhere else anyways.
any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Vince
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How can I create an invisible thread? I mean I want my thread not to be visible when you press CTRL+ALT+DEL. For example kernel32.dll is such a thread. If I create a thread within an application, my app name is shown when I press ctrl+alt+del. If I terminate the application, the thread is automaticaly terminated too. I heard that in UNIX you can leave a thread running forever (zombie thread). What is the equivalent of this for Visual C++ (MFC) ???
Sorin
PS: pls answer to subso@yahoo.com Thankss
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ah it seems that im at the same road block
but i cant get my dll(thread) to evan start
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I recently needed a spell checker for one of my applications, and after trying to find one that existed already, DLL, ActiveX etc, and using OLE and Word to do things, I decided to make one myself.
I started, but after experimenting, decided I needed a dictionary first to test results accurately, so for the last four months I've been compiling one (almost 75,000 words - UK English).
I'm using a CObArray to store the words, and this was fine to begin with until I got to around 15,000 words, and then things slowed down drastically.
What I'm basically doing is finding each word in a text box, then going through the dictionary list (the CObArray) and see if it exists, otherwise try and find words that start with the same characters from the left.
It's so slow though, it's completely unusable, and the intelligence is ridiculous (I also need to do things like vowel swapping, etc.)
I'd just like to know what the best way speed wise is of using an array or list - I've never had any problems before, but that was will arrays < 20,000.
I'm using MFC (CStrings and all that), so that's probably half the problem, but even trying chars and strncmp etc. didn't really make that much of a difference.
I was going to post the project to CodeProject when I'd finished, but since it's slow, doesn't work, and the code probably needs a complete re-write and I haven't got the expertise in that area, is it worth just submitting the code and project anyway, and everyone has a look and tries to improve it?
Regards,
Peter Peason
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Peter,
My vote is go ahead and post it, I think it will be a project that quite a few people would like to spend some brain-time on. I'd be clear in the opening paragraph of your article that you're posting it to encourage people to help improve and refine it, I've noticed that people can be pretty harsh here sometimes (which certainly has the effect of keeping the quality high, but can be daunting to those considering making a submission).
I for one would love to add a spell checker to CodeProject's forums and lounge, so if you post your code maybe that would make for a good starting point 
David
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G'day Peter,
I know next to nothing about spell checker implementation and you may already know about this stuff, but here goes...
I suspect that some spell checkers may use a Soundex[1] algorithm (or variation thereof) to encode their master word list. When checking the spelling on an individiual word, you'd generate a soundex code for the check word, and look for words with matching soundex codes in your master word list. This soundex comparison search may turn up lots of 'hits', but you could then refine matters bu searching the soundex hit list with a more exact word comparison.
[1] Soundex encodes the 'sound' of words by sripping out the vowels and representing similar sounding consonants with numerics (i.e 'd' and 't' are represented by the numeral 3) . A search on Google for 'soundex algotithm' will turn up plenty of pages detailing the original Soundex algorithm and several refined versions.
Hope this helps,
Steve
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Steve Driessens
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Hi,
Thanks for the information - I notice that Matt Gullett also posted an article on using this type of algorithm in spell checkers, so I'll have a look around.
Regards,
Peter
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Programming Pearls 2nd (ISBN 0201657880) has a section that will probably be useful for this (column 13), you should probably take a look if you can.
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Is your array of words sorted? If not, then nothing you do will help the speed, because every time you search the list, you'll have to do a brute-force search.
If you do have the words ordered, put them in a binary tree instead of a flat array. That greatly speeds up searches, and it's easy to add new words, whereas it's _very_ expensive to add something in the middle of an ordered array.
I wrote a spell checker for myself back in college to teach myself some C++, but it just did lookups, not suggestions or letter-matching like yours. I used a simple hash table, but a hash table isn't ordered, so that wouldn't be a good solution for you.
As an aside, if you have access to a Unix system, grab its /usr/dict/words file - it's a word list. I'm sure there are also word lists out on the net, if you look (or search Google).
--Mike--
http://home.inreach.com/mdunn/
"That probably would've sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas."
--Buffy
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You beat me by seconds to the "use a tree!" comment. Ah well...
Posting the spell checker to CodeProject would be way cool. If you make it clear it's a work in progress you will be surprised at the number of readers who will grab the code and run with it to get it up to spec.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Yes, it is sorted, but the suggestion code I'm using is crap, and it needs completely re-writing.
I've submitted an article to CodeProject, there's a fair amount of documentation there, and I've also included the dictionary file. I got most of the dictionary from Unix versions of open source spell checker libraries actually, but I've checked through most of it and added quite a few words.
Cheers,
Peter
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>>I got most of the dictionary from Unix versions of open source spell checker libraries actually
Are you sure you're not violating the license for the opensource project?
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