Re: Casting a char array to a double - C / C++ / MFC Discussion Boards

Nish Nishant2-May-02 14:03

2-May-02 14:03

This is because your dialog is a child of the frame window. Make it a child of the desktop.

This might also help:
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/gettingmodeless.asp

Nish

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Re: Modeless - mosted asked question

Stan the man2-May-02 17:30

Stan the man

2-May-02 17:30

Or if you want to still make it a child of the Mainframe for some reason, you can in OnActivate check if it is being deactivated and just hide it at that point. This means that if you press the mouse outside the dialog box, it will hide.

Re: Modeless - mosted asked question

Nish Nishant2-May-02 17:34

Nish Nishant

2-May-02 17:34

Stan the man wrote:
This means that if you press the mouse outside the dialog box, it will hide.

This will mean that to bring it up again [make it visible], the user might have to be offered some button or menu item.

Nish

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Re: Modeless - mosted asked question

Stan the man2-May-02 19:11

Stan the man

2-May-02 19:11

Very True. I guess I have always had a button to do this.

Re: Modeless - mosted asked question

john john mackey3-May-02 6:07

john john mackey

3-May-02 6:07

Thanks to all answers - see below.

Using the following did exactly what I desired:
m_pSetupDlg->Create(IDD_SETUP, NULL); // NULL associates to desktop.

Thanks again. Keep up the good work.
Johnny

Casting a char array to a double

kyledunn2-May-02 11:15

kyledunn

2-May-02 11:15

I have a char array defined as

char cBuffer[200]

and I want to convert this to a double.

Can anyone help with the syntax to do this?

Thanks,

Kyle

Re: Casting a char array to a double

2-May-02 11:27

use:
double dblVal;
sscanf(cBuffer, "%lf", &dblVal);

Re: Casting a char array to a double

mstephens2-May-02 11:46

mstephens

2-May-02 11:46

If you mean you have a double in the first 8 bytes of the array then you can get at it like this:

double dbl = *((double*)cBuffer);

or alternatively if the bytes that contain the double start say 6 bytes into the array then the syntax is nearly the same but you need the address of the first byte of the double:

double dbl = *((double*)&cBuffer[5]);

Just one thing to be careful of is that x86 cpu's allow this casting from anywhere in memory but some cpu's have strict rules about things being aligned on even byte boundaries so if portability is important then you may need to copy the bytes using memcpy() or something first to ensure the proper alignment.

Matt

Re: Casting a char array to a double

Nish Nishant2-May-02 14:06

Nish Nishant

2-May-02 14:06

Casting it to double?
Or converting the contents to double?

Nish

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Re: Casting a char array to a double

kyledunn2-May-02 15:20

kyledunn

2-May-02 15:20

Converting the contents to double describes it well.

Kyle

Re: Casting a char array to a double

Nish Nishant2-May-02 15:25

Nish Nishant

2-May-02 15:25

kyledunn wrote:
Converting the contents to double describes it well.

Then the solution is elementary.
Use atof(...)

double num = atof(buffer);

Hope that helped,
Nish

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Re: Casting a char array to a double

kyledunn2-May-02 15:30

kyledunn

2-May-02 15:30

Yes, that did help. Thanks.

Kyle

Serialization

Steve L.2-May-02 11:10

Steve L.

2-May-02 11:10

How do you serialize an MFC POSITION data type and an HTREEITEM?

This questions from my dad. He told me to post it here so I can't get anymore detailed until he gets home.

-Raffi's dad

Re: Serialization

C^hris L^osinger2-May-02 11:11

C^hris L^osinger

2-May-02 11:11

you don't. you find some other way to represent them. a POSITION is, well, probably just a number, an ordinal. an HTREEITEM is much more complex. if you want to serialize a tree, use something like XML, or come up with your own tree-like data structure.

-c

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VirtualProtect.

Mike Doner2-May-02 11:07

Mike Doner

2-May-02 11:07

Hey folks,

I've got a problem that I need help with, I've tried numerous approaches an have yet to find a "WHY" answer.

Some background..

In our product, which is just a big database, we've got our MAIN process which owns a big chunk of memory which holds all the TABLES, and various child processes which have READ ONLY access to those tables. All updates are done using a DATA-MANAGER thread in the MAIN PROCESS, where a child process will send a message to the MAIN process thread, telling him to update TABLEx, RECORDx, FIELDx with value Y, No problems...

We have 5-6 tables in the MAIN process which need to be READ_WRITE for all the child processes. This works fine in Windows 95/98/NT/2K, but in Windows XP, we're finding that child processes do not have READ_ONLY access to this memory.

Is anyone aware of any changes done to VirtualProtect in Windows XP?

Basically, when the memory is created/mapped in the MAIN process, we mark the memory area as PAGE_READWRITE... When we start a child process, we Map the same memory as PAGE_READONLY initially(OpenFileMapping, MapViewofFile) for the child process. Like I mentioned earlier, we have some tables that are LOCAL tables that do not go through the DATA-MANAGER-THREAD (which makes the update, then broadcasts it to the server app, etc, etc), that need to be READ-WRITE for the child processes.

When we populate the tables from the child process, if we encounter a table that's LOCAL, we change his permissions to PAGE_READWRITE:

if ( pcos->objc[*pclass].sync == LOCAL_TABLE )
VirtualProtect ( addressstart, size, PAGE_READWRITE, &prot );

In Win 95->2k, this works fine, VirtualProtect returns 1 (SUCCESS)... in XP, we get a 0, and a GetLastError(), as 47 (I think... INVALID_PARAMETER)...

For fun, we did a switch-eroo... We made the tables INITIALLY READ-WRITE for the child process, then made all tables that were !LOCAL_TABLES READ-ONLY... Fired up XP, BINGO, everything worked fine...

Is there a new rule in XP where you cannot UPGRADE the permissions when using a shared memory area, but only downgrade?

READONLY -> READWRITE failed, but, when we did the switcheroo
READWRITE-> READONLY, it worked...

Thoughts? Anyone have any direction here? Much Appreciated..

Mike
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Drag-and-Drop doesn't work

Anton A. Loukine2-May-02 10:55

Anton A. Loukine

2-May-02 10:55

Hi:

I registered a CListCtrl control in the Document class and catching (succesfully) LVN_BEGINDRAG notifications.

ON_NOTIFY(LVN_BEGINDRAG, IDC_VIEW_UNIVERSE_LISTBOX, OnBeginDragUniverseListBox)

All the hocus-popus is gone in this routine:
******************************

void CViewUniverse::OnBeginDragUniverseListBox(NMHDR* pNMHDR, LRESULT* pResult)
{
NM_LISTVIEW* pNMListView = (NM_LISTVIEW*)pNMHDR;
*pResult = 0;

// Create the drag & drop source and data objects
COleDropSource *pDropSource = new COleDropSource;
COleDataSource *pDataSource = new COleDataSource;

CDocUniverse* pDoc = (CDocUniverse*) GetDocument();
int nItems = pDoc->m_ViewUniverseListBox.GetItemCount();
if (nItems > 0) {
// Get the number of columns
CHeaderCtrl* pHeader = (CHeaderCtrl *)pDoc->m_ViewUniverseListBox.GetDlgItem(0);
int nColumns = pHeader?pHeader->GetItemCount() Blush | :O

;

CString sDataString;
TRY {
CSharedFile mFile(GMEM_ZEROINIT|GMEM_DDESHARE|GMEM_MOVEABLE);
TRY {
CArchive mArchive(&mFile, CArchive::store);
TRY {
CString sItems;
sItems.Format("%i\n", nItems);
//mFile.Write(sItems, sItems.GetLength());
mArchive.WriteString(sItems);

for (int i = 0; i < nItems; i++) {
sDataString.Empty();
for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
sDataString += pDoc->m_ViewUniverseListBox.GetItemText(i, j) + "\t";
}
mArchive.WriteString(sDataString + "\n");
}
mArchive.Close();
} CATCH_ALL(eInner) {
AfxMessageBox("eInner");
return;
} END_CATCH_ALL;
} CATCH_ALL(eMiddle) {
AfxMessageBox("eMiddle");
return;
} END_CATCH_ALL;

pDataSource->CacheGlobalData(CF_TEXT, mFile.Detach());
pDataSource->DoDragDrop(DROPEFFECT_MOVE|DROPEFFECT_COPY, NULL, NULL);
} CATCH_ALL(eOuter) {
AfxMessageBox("eOuter");
return;
} END_CATCH_ALL;
}

delete pDropSource;
delete pDataSource;

}
******************************

I ran it in debugging mode and the inputs are written to the file. But for some reason, the drag to Excel (or other application) doesn't work. Any clue?

Thank you.

VoIP

2-May-02 10:37

Any Information need.
Also .. : how can i implement Phone calls thru Internet - to local telephone station in the world ?

thanks !

Re: VoIP

Michael P Butler2-May-02 10:52

Michael P Butler

2-May-02 10:52

A lot depends on what kind of hardware you've got. A decent pabx/switch would take a lot of the hardwork away.

I've done a bit of work recently with the Intertel Phone Switch and the Flexion X300.

http://www.iptelephony.org/

Michael Smile | :)

Communication is the first step towards enlightenment.

Re: VoIP

2-May-02 12:08

Well , what about Voice communications thru Internet ?
Something like PallTalk, etc - did anybody have some info (links, sities, books)?

Re: VoIP

2-May-02 12:11

I've heard about possibility to connect from local Desctop software thru Internet to telephone stations , and make local calls .

Does it possible without any additional hardware ? I suppose they are not used any centralised I-net servers ?

Re: VoIP

Michael P Butler2-May-02 22:10

Michael P Butler

2-May-02 22:10

You'll need something at the end of the line to convert the VoIP data into "voice data" for the PST to recognise. Of course if you have an IP keyset phone at the remote end, it will do the conversion for you.

I've never seen a software only solution as most of my work has been for specific pabx and switches.

Michael Smile | :)

Communication is the first step towards enlightenment.

Mobile Phones software

2-May-02 10:24