Re: reduce exe size - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

moobob29-Apr-02 5:25

29-Apr-02 5:25

I have a group box with a caption on a dialog. In the dialog editor it looks fine, the text is on top of the border so there is no line through the text caption. At runtime it appears the border is on top of the text, as the text has the line from the border drawn through it. I created this group box using the dialog editor. I have other group boxes on other dialogs which display correctly at runtime. However, I cannot see any properties that I have set differently between the two dialogs.

Does anyone know how to display this dialog so the text does not have the line from the border through it?

Thanks in advance,
Bob

Re: Group Box caption problem

l a u r e n29-Apr-02 6:24

l a u r e n

29-Apr-02 6:24

the only time i have seen this is when the caption is a separate static control that you have placed in the tab order after the group box (i think its after)

either change the tab order to the other way round or use the built in caption of the group box

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Re: Group Box caption problem

moobob29-Apr-02 6:41

moobob

29-Apr-02 6:41

That's the problem, I am using the built in caption of the group box. I'm seeing it display two different ways in two different dialogs.

reduce exe size

Hesham Amin29-Apr-02 4:11

Hesham Amin

29-Apr-02 4:11

Hi..
I write a static linked MFC application and i need some advice about reducing the .exe size
I used the compiler optimization option (minimum size) but the release build is still big.

is there any other options?

also is it posible to tell if there are some coding practices to reduce the size ?

can i delete some unnecessary wizard code?

Re: reduce exe size

Mike Zinni29-Apr-02 5:23

Mike Zinni

29-Apr-02 5:23

If it's not completely necessary, link in the MFC libraries dynamically. That should reduce your executable size considerably.

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Re: reduce exe size

Albert Pascual29-Apr-02 6:01

Albert Pascual

29-Apr-02 6:01

Do you need MFC?

Re: reduce exe size

Tim Deveaux29-Apr-02 9:09

Tim Deveaux

29-Apr-02 9:09

Search this forum for the word 'liposuction' and you will find a couple of interesting leads.

Re: reduce exe size

Michael Dunn29-Apr-02 14:52

Michael Dunn

29-Apr-02 14:52

The one thing I do to everything I release is add the linker switch /opt:nowin98
That's reduced my binaries by 30K in some cases (which does make a difference for me).

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Re: reduce exe size

Nish Nishant29-Apr-02 15:17

Nish Nishant

29-Apr-02 15:17

Michael Dunn wrote:
/opt:nowin98

What's that do? It removes any code required for backward 98 compatibility???

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Re: reduce exe size

Michael Dunn29-Apr-02 17:44

Michael Dunn

29-Apr-02 17:44

RTFM

But seriously - the default behavior of the VC6 linker is to make the PE sections aligned on 4K boundaries, which makes the EXE load faster after being defragged by the Win 98 defragger (which has that gimmick of placing clusters where they'll be read in faster from disk). Adding that switch goes back to the pre-v6 behavior of 512-byte boundaries, which makes for a smaller EXE (less padding within the file to get to 4K boundaries), in exchange for alleged slower loading times which no one will notice with today's hardware.

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Re: reduce exe size

Hesham Amin29-Apr-02 23:01

Hesham Amin

29-Apr-02 23:01

thank u
i wish to know if it is possible to reduce the size if i make my own classes enstead of MFC
for example writing my own CFIle?

ALT + F4

bishbosh0229-Apr-02 4:01

bishbosh02

29-Apr-02 4:01

I need to Trap the above, so that the user has to enter a pasword to exit the program, I allready trap PreTranslateMessage but "ALT + F4" must be decoded befoer this is called

It should be easy......... Eek! | :eek:

Rich

Re: ALT + F4

Stan the man29-Apr-02 5:15

Stan the man

29-Apr-02 5:15

What about just using an accelerator?

Re: ALT + F4

Shog⁹29-Apr-02 5:59

Shog⁹

29-Apr-02 5:59

Just intercept WM_CLOSE. I think that should work for ALT+F4, close button, close context menu, etc.

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Re: ALT + F4

bishbosh0229-Apr-02 22:24

bishbosh02

29-Apr-02 22:24

Thanks for that, the easiest is always the best.

Rich
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Re: ALT + F4

Mike Nordell29-Apr-02 14:09

Mike Nordell

29-Apr-02 14:09

Richard Dalling wrote:
I need to Trap the above, so that the user has to enter a pasword to exit the program

Be glad I'm not a user of that program: I'd vote for more torture than the MS Explorer team should have (because they didn't do their stuff conciously malicious that you apparently do).

Now Virus writers are going to force users to write a password to get OUT of their programs?!

Why can't you just SEGV like every nice MS program?!

Re: ALT + F4

bishbosh0229-Apr-02 22:16

bishbosh02

29-Apr-02 22:16

It's not me just my customer that request this function, the end software is used for process control, and they do not want the employee quitting the program to play card game ect.......

Re: ALT + F4

Mike Nordell1-May-02 9:20

Mike Nordell

1-May-02 9:20

OK. A serious answer here would then be: replace Explorer.exe with your program. Seriously!

If you _only_ want your program to run on that machine, replace the shell with whatever you like.

But wouldn't that be wasting money for your customers, using full Windows installations as just the back-end for your program?

Re: ALT + F4

bishbosh021-May-02 21:42

bishbosh02

1-May-02 21:42

I have it sorted now, I just trap the WM_CLOSE message, and direct the user to my exit screen, its manly intended to stop the user accidentally closing the program, as they are generally not PC aware, and it would mean a call to the site engineer at 4:00am to go to site to get the system working again because we all know its always the early morning shift (that are bored) that cause these sort of problems and as the system is very expensive 1/4 mill Its a Big Machine the cost of NT4.00 is small, we usually use the policy editor to restrict access.

Thanks for the help

Rich
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enumPrinters anyone?

Roger Allen29-Apr-02 3:49

Roger Allen

29-Apr-02 3:49

Anyone here used the enumPrinters API? Got some code or know where I can find some?

Any and all reference welcome.

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Re: enumPrinters anyone?

Michael P Butler29-Apr-02 3:59

Michael P Butler

29-Apr-02 3:59

What kind of thing do you want to know?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vcsample98/html/vcsmpprinter.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaulttop.asp?page=/msj/archive/s126a.htm

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Re: enumPrinters anyone?

Ravi Bhavnani29-Apr-02 4:05

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29-Apr-02 4:05

This CodeGuru thread may provide a clue.

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Re: enumPrinters anyone?

Carlos Antollini29-Apr-02 4:10

Carlos Antollini

29-Apr-02 4:10

The following code is for get the default printer

<br />
PRINTER_INFO_2 *ppi2 = NULL;<br />
DWORD dwNeeded = 0;<br />
DWORD dwReturned = 0;<br />
<br />
EnumPrinters(PRINTER_ENUM_DEFAULT, NULL, 2, NULL, 0, &dwNeeded, &dwReturned);<br />
    if (dwNeeded == 0) <br />
      return FALSE;<br />
    <br />
    // Allocate enough space for PRINTER_INFO_2...<br />
    ppi2 = (PRINTER_INFO_2 *)GlobalAlloc(GPTR, dwNeeded);<br />
    if (!ppi2)<br />
      return FALSE;<br />
    <br />
    bFlag = EnumPrinters(PRINTER_ENUM_DEFAULT, NULL, 2, (LPBYTE)ppi2, dwNeeded, &dwNeeded, &dwReturned);<br />
    if (!bFlag)<br />
    {<br />
      GlobalFree(ppi2);<br />
      return FALSE;<br />
    }<br />
    <br />
    // If given buffer too small, set required size and fail...<br />
    if ((DWORD)lstrlen(ppi2->pPrinterName) >= *pdwBufferSize)<br />
    {<br />
      *pdwBufferSize = (DWORD)lstrlen(ppi2->pPrinterName) + 1;<br />
      GlobalFree(ppi2);<br />
      return FALSE;<br />
    }<br />
    <br />
    // Copy printer name into passed-in buffer...<br />
    lstrcpy(pPrinterName, ppi2->pPrinterName);<br />

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Thanks, am looking into the references

Roger Allen29-Apr-02 5:19

Roger Allen

29-Apr-02 5:19

Thanks for all those who replied.

Roger Allen
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how to chang the tooltip of the buttons on the toolbar?

benben29-Apr-02 3:03

benben

29-Apr-02 3:03

hi:
how to chang the tooltip of the buttons on the toolbar?I use CToolTipCtrl::updateTipText() to do so,but only some buttons chang the tooltip texts,others don't,why?
Thanks
benben

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