I want to have a few strings in my c++ app and I want to be able to edit them later in the deployed applications (the compiled exe), Is there a way to make the exe edit itself or it resources so I can update the strings value? The app checks for updates on start, so I'm thinking about using that to algo send the command when I need to ...
Hello: My job mostly consists of engineering analysis, but I find myself distributing code more and more frequently among my colleagues. A big pain is that not every user is proficient in the intricacies of compiling source code, and I cannot distribute executables. I've been working with C++ using Boost, and the problem is that I cann...
I have inherited the following line of code: TCHAR temp[300]; GetModuleFileName(NULL, temp, 300); However, this fails as the first 3 bytes are filled with garbage values (always the same ones though, -128, -13, 23, in that order). I said, well fine and changed it to: TCHAR temp[300]; ZeroMemory(temp, 300); GetModuleFileName(NULL, tem...
I am confused with unique_ptr and rvalue move philosophy. Let's say we have two collections: std::vector<std::auto_ptr<int>> autoCollection; std::vector<std::unique_ptr<int>> uniqueCollection; Now I would expect the following to fail, as there is no telling what the algorithm is doing internally and maybe making internal pivot copies...
Hey Everyone, I'm looking for a free C++ library that can load .xls files in both Windows and Linux. If I had to make a choice, Linux would be the bare minimum. I've tried LibXL, but got this amazing error: "can't read more cells in trial version" So now I'm on the hunt for a free version :), unfortunately xlsLib isn't are enough al...
The following code causes a stack overflow but I don't see why... int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { cout << "start"; char bmp[1024][768][3]; for (int p = 0; p < 9000; ++p) { for(int i = 0; i < 1024; ++i) { for(int j = 0; j < 768; ++j) { bmp[i][j][0] = 20; } } } cout << "Stop...
Hello, I'm trying to implement method chaining in C++, which turns out to be quite easy if the constructor call of a class is a separate statement, e.g: Foo foo; foo.bar().baz(); But as soon as the constructor call becomes part of the method chain, the compiler complains about expecting ";" in place of "." immediately after the cons...
I have a C++/CLI application in Visual Studio 2008 whose namespace follows the .NET guideline of CompanyName.TechnologyName[.Feature][.Design]. The problem is that there seems to be no way to set a multi-level namespace in the project's Root Namespace property. I have tried both CompanyName.TechnologyName and CompanyName::TechnologyNam...
I wanted to check that typeid is evaluated at compile time when used with a type name (ie typeid(int), typeid(std::string)...). To do so, I repeated in a loop the comparison of two typeid calls, and compiled it with optimizations enabled, in order to see if the compiler simplified the loop (by looking at the execution time which is 1us ...
Hi, How I can imitate transactions on objects. For example, I want to delete the item from one collection and then add the same item to other collection as an atomic action. It is possible to do a lot of checks when something failed and to roll back everything but this is annoying. Is there any technique (no difference what language (Ja...
How to get the OS version for all windows, at least the name for win95,98,me,xp,vista,7? Im using visual c++ 2010 and I want to include this feature in a pure win32 app. ...
I have a c++ application that interfaces with lua files. I have a lua file that extracts zip files, which works when I run it using SciTe or the Lua command line. But when I try to run it from a c++ application it doesn't seem to work. require "zip" function ExtractZipFiles(zipFilename, destinationPath) zipFile, err = zip.open(zip...
I'd like to see all the asm produced by Visual Studio C++ to learn a bit about ASM, compilers, etc. I know with GCC, you can do it with the -S argument, but not in VS. How do I go about doing this? ...
I'm currently profiling an implementation of binary search. Using some special instructions to measure this I noticed that the code has about a 20% misprediction rate. I'm curious if there is any way to check how many cycles I'm potentially losing due to this. It's a MIPS based architecture. ...
UPDATE: After some additional reading, what I really wanted was guaranteed early binding (which should translated to an immediate call for non-virtual functions and non-PIC code), which can be done by passing a (member) function as a template parameter. The problem I had was that gcc < 4.5 and icc 11.1 can generate some funky instruction...
I am currently writing some glsl like vector math classes in c++, and I just implemented an abs() function like this: template<class T> static inline T abs(T _a) { return _a < 0 ? -_a : _a; } I compared its speed to the default c++ abs from math.h like this: clock_t begin = clock(); for(int i=0; i<10000000...
Hello, I'm having issues with multiple inheritance from different instantiations of the same template class. Specifically, I'm trying to do this: template <class T> class Base { public: Base() : obj(NULL) { } virtual ~Base() { if( obj != NULL ) delete obj; } template <class T> T* createBase()...
basically I have a texture. I also have a lets say octagon (or any polygon). I find that octagon's bounding box. Let's say my texture is the size of the octagon's bounding box. How could I figure out the texture coordinates so that the texture maps to it. To clarify, lets say you had a square of tin foil and cut the octagon out you'd be ...
Hi, I'm trying to use libsox into another program of mine, but I can't seem to compile libsox with MinGW in C++ or find any places with working binaries. I downloaded the source from the official site http://sox.sourceforge.net/ but I don't know which files to include in the project to compile it. I can't compile it with all the files in...
Below is a simple program which computes sqrt of a number using Bisection. While executing this with a call like sqrtr(4,1,4) in goes into an endless recursion . I am unable to figure out why this is happening. Below is the function : double sqrtr(double N , double Low ,double High ) { double value = 0.00; double mid = (Low...