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Re: How to replace a message in to the top of application message que

2-Jun-04 2:07

Hi,

Is there a method to replace a message to the top of the application message que.

Thanks and best regards.

Erkan Ermis

Bob Stanneveld2-Jun-04 2:15

Bob Stanneveld

2-Jun-04 2:15

Hello,

I don't think that there is a function to replace a message to the top of the message qeue. But you can use SendMessage for immediate processing (the message won't be placed in the message qeue)

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system monitor

RRfun2-Jun-04 1:58

RRfun

2-Jun-04 1:58

I use client/server application,that's wrote in c++.I would like to show all connected clients to server in windows system monitor.Can someone help me?Thankx
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Re: system monitor

David Crow2-Jun-04 3:03

David Crow

2-Jun-04 3:03

Check out NetUserEnum(), NetSessionEnum(), and NetWkstaUserEnum().

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Re: system monitor

Robert Ruisl2-Jun-04 23:31

Robert Ruisl

2-Jun-04 23:31

but it's thread application and the server was with COM technologie developed.
I use one variable iClientsCount it means how much connected clients and i would
like the show this variable in system monitor.

RRfun

Re: system monitor

David Crow3-Jun-04 2:27

David Crow

3-Jun-04 2:27

So iterate through each connection and increment iClientsCount. Or, you could look at the fifth parameter which receives the count of items actually iterated. What's wrong with that?

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vcspawn.exe is not found

2-Jun-04 1:43

Hello all,

While building my vc++ project i am getting error:
Cannot start tool.
Error spawning 'vcspawn.exe'. The build could not be performed.

I have set the environment variable.
could you please suggest some solution.

Regards,
JP

jmkhael2-Jun-04 2:37

jmkhael

2-Jun-04 2:37

Can you see the requested binary in your bin folder?

(VS6.0 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Bin)

Papa

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Papa.WillLove ( Bebe ) ;

Member 656282-Jun-04 2:44

Member 65628

2-Jun-04 2:44

Yes vcspawn.exe is there in the bin folder.

Regards,
JP

jmkhael2-Jun-04 3:19

jmkhael

2-Jun-04 3:19

Do you have that path in the PATH enviroment variable?

Papa

while (TRUE)
Papa.WillLove ( Bebe ) ;

Member 656282-Jun-04 4:07

Member 65628

2-Jun-04 4:07

Hello,
Thanks for suggestions.
I have set the environment variable in like:
name = VSCOMNTOOLS
path = C:\program files\Microsoft Visual Studio\common\MSDev98\bin

Regards,
Jokhan

CEvent?

MrEyes2-Jun-04 1:23

MrEyes

2-Jun-04 1:23

Please bear with me on this post, I have never coded anything in any form of C++ but my boss has given me the task of putting something together that for various reasons requires a C++ application.

The Setup
I have a C# application that launches a background process, this process has to be coded in C++. Fom time to time the C# application will need to close the background process, for various reasons I cannot do a dirty shutdown (i.e. just kill the process). So I am looking for a way of getting the C# app to make the C++ application shutdown cleanly (i.e. process some code before existing).

After doing a far bit of reading I have come across something called CEvent which I understand as being an event that can be fired by external process and caught with the C++ application.

The problem is that although I can easily hold my own in C# I havent got a clue when it comes to C++ so can anybody firstly tell me if I am on the right track, and if so can you point me in the direction of some basic tutorials.

Thanks in advance

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erkanina2-Jun-04 1:35

2-Jun-04 1:35

The CMutex sync object works among process. I can be helpfull.

MrEyes2-Jun-04 1:37

MrEyes

2-Jun-04 1:37

The sun rises with the speed of a cunning fox Suspicious | :suss:

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Blake Miller2-Jun-04 4:05

Blake Miller

2-Jun-04 4:05

Here are some, but not all, options:
You first need to determine how the other program will be able to respond to the request to shutdown.
1. Event: If you want to watch for an event, then you must have a WaitForSingleObject, WaitForMultipleObjects, etc. call in your C++ program. You can code in a periodic check where you can try to wait for the object for a very brief time, like 50 milliseconds or less. If it is already signaled, then you can exit the C++ program, if you get TIMEOUT, then the event was not already signaled by the C# program.
2. You might also be able to use PostThreadMessage if you had some way to determine what the main thread identifier of the C++ progrma was, then you could watch for a registered window message in the C++ progrma and terminate, or else some other message of your choosing, use the MsgWaitForMultipleObjects to get the message.
3. If the C++ program has a window and you can determine the window handle, you can then just post a WM_CLOSE to the C++ program's main window.
4. If the C++ program has a window and you can NOT determine the window handle, you can always try a SendMessage with a registered window message that the C++ program is watching for.

MrEyes2-Jun-04 4:21

MrEyes

2-Jun-04 4:21

Thanks for the reply.

After much reading, I have opted to create an event and then sit on WaitForSingleObject(...) this works something like this :

//initialisation code
...

//create the shutdown event listener
HANDLE hEvent = CreateEvent(NULL, true, false, "EventEngine 10062004-MICRG-4546-9DD2-F0868C319D02");

//Reset the event just incase
ResetEvent(hEvent);

//sit here until the event fires (this will be initiated by the external c# app)
WaitForSingleObject(hEvent, INFINITE);

//code to cleanup and close
...

I think this will work so all I need to work out now is how to get C# to set the event, fortunately this is more comfortable ground for me Big Grin | :-D

Why o why cant I start my C++ jaunt with a nice and simple Hello World application Sigh | :sigh:

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Blake Miller2-Jun-04 4:34

Blake Miller

2-Jun-04 4:34

One thing I see here, is that I would not use the '-' or the spaces in your event name, just to be safe. It is good to use the GUID like you did, but I would collapse the name down to just the primary characters, like this:
"EventEngine10062004MICRG45469DD2F0868C319D02"

Also, your reset even is safe, as long as your C# app has not actually intentionally set it, in which case your C++ program will NEVER exit.

I generally use two events myself.
I use one like you did here, to signal the 'worker app' to exit, but I also use a second one that the 'master app' will wait for after it has started the worker app, to KNOW that the worker app has started. This blocks the starter app from inadvertently setting the 'kill' event before the worker app has started.
The master app does not wait infinite, it waits a certain amount of 'reasonable time' like 3 minutes, for the worker app to signal the started event, and if not seen in that time, you can assume the worker app did not start correctly.

Just something to keep in mind when you start wondering why your main app never shuts down...

David Chamberlain2-Jun-04 6:05

David Chamberlain

2-Jun-04 6:05

MrEyes wrote:
Why o why cant I start my C++ jaunt with a nice and simple Hello World app

You can. Just have the program say "Hello world" in response to a CEvent fired by a C# program and you are there!! Laugh | :laugh:

Good luck.

Dave

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Socket messages

erkanina2-Jun-04 1:22

2-Jun-04 1:22

Hi,

I have a dialog based application. It uses connection oriented Windows Sockets. My application is not responding or responding very latter to the user interface messages like mouse and keybard input; When the network data traffic producing high amount of Socket messages like FD_READ.

How can I solve this. Is there a short method to filter and process mouse and keyboard messages before processing socket's FD_READ message.

Thanks and best regards.

Trollslayer2-Jun-04 1:33

Trollslayer

2-Jun-04 1:33

It sounds like you might have the application waiting in socket read.
Maybe putting the read in a worker thread would sort your problem ? I've done this before and it worked fine.

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Antony M Kancidrowski2-Jun-04 1:33

Antony M Kancidrowski

2-Jun-04 1:33

Put your socket read code etal into a worker thread. This will free up the main thread to do all the standard message handling for keyboard, mouse etc.

Ant.

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erkanina2-Jun-04 1:54

2-Jun-04 1:54

Thank a lot for your response Mr Trollslayer and Mr Antony M Kancidrowski,

My socket routines are non blocking and fully event driven. I am using WinSock APIs. The socket reader routine is event driven and do not blocks application when data is not received. When FD_READ message receives it reads available data's and then returns.

The worker thread is good solution but I have to handle up to 1024 server connections. More than one server connection and data receiving process may require high amount of system resources with this solution.

The problem is that; I want to capture mouse and keyboard messages before FD_READ message handling.

Thanks anmd best regards

Erkan Ermis

erkanina2-Jun-04 2:03