I'm working with a team that's building an engine for a variety of 2D and eventually 3D mini-games. The problem we're facing is a solid, cross-platform, sound API. Obviously, DirectX is out of the question due to our needs for cross-platform capabilities. SDL is nice, and works great, but let's face it SDL_Mixer is a bit limited in what ...
I am having a bit of a problem. I get a RAW char* buffer from a camera and I need to add this tags before I can save it to disk. Writing the file to disk and reading it back again is not an option, as this will happen thousands of times. The buffer data I receive from the camera does not contain any EXIF information, apart from the Wid...
I'm working on a large c++ system that is has been in development for a few years now. As part of an effort to improve the quality of the existing code we engaged on a large long-term refactoring project. Do you know a good tool that can help me write unit tests in C++? Maybe something similar to Junit or Nunit? Can anyone give some go...
Hello all, I have a static library written in C++ and I have a structure describing data format, i.e. struct Format{ long fmtId; long dataChunkSize; long headerSize; Format(long, long, long); bool operator==(Format const & other) const; }; Some of data formats are widely used, like {fmtId=0, dataChunkSize=128, headerSize=0...
I have a memory buffer corresponding to my screen resolution (1280x800 at 24-bits-per-pixel) that contains my screen contents at 24bpp. I want to convert this to 8-bpp (ie. Halftone color palette in Windows). I currently do this: 1. Use CreateDIBSection to allocate a new 1280x800 24-bpp buffer and access it as a DC, as well as a plain me...
What is the easiest cross platform widget toolkit? that minimally covers Windows, osx, and Linux with a c or c++ interface? ...
I believe strongly in using unit-tests as an approach to building large multi-platform applications. We currently are planning on having our unit-tests within a separate project. This has the benefit of keeping are code base clean. I think, however, that this would separate the test code from the implementation of the unit. What do you t...
I've not used C++ very much in the past, and have recently been doing a lot of C#, and I'm really struggling to get back into the basics of C++ again. This is particularly tricky as work mandates that none of the most handy C++ constructs can be used, so all strings must be char *'s, and there is no provision for STL lists. What I'm cur...
I have a large inherited C/C++ project. Are there any good tools or techniques to produce a report on the "sizeof" of all the datatypes, and a breakdown of the stack footprints of each function in such a project. ...
I'm interested in using API spying/hijacking to implement some core features of a project I'm working on. It's been mentioned in this question as well, but that wasn't really on topic so I figured it'd be better with a question of its own for this., I'd like to gather as much information as possible on this, different techniques/librari...
I installed Visual Studio 2005 ( with SP1 ) and made the default settings as what is required for C++ . Now i open a solution and run the exe . Under " Tools " menu item i go and Select " Attach the process " and i attach it to the exe i just ran . I put breakpoints several places in the code ( this breakpoints looks enabled ) and the...
I've always wondered this - why can't you declare variables after a case label in a switch statement? In C++ you can declare variables pretty much anywhere (and declaring them close to first use is obviously a good thing) but the following still won't work: switch (val) { case VAL: // This won't work int newVal = 42; brea...
I'm programming an application in MFC (don't ask) and I have a CEdit box that holds a number. When that number is edited, I would like to act on the change, and then replace the caret where it was before I acted on the change - if the user was just before the "." in "35.40", I would like it to still be placed before the dot if they chan...
This question was already asked in the context of C#/.Net. Now I'd like to learn the differences between a struct and a class in (unmanaged) C++. Please discuss the technical differences as well as reasons for choosing one or the other in OO design. I'll start with an obvious difference: If you don't specify public: or private:, memb...
In what segment (.BSS, .DATA, other) of an executable file are static variables stored so that they don't have name collision? For example: foo.c: bar.c: static int foo = 1; static int foo = 10; void fooTest() { void barTest() { static int bar = 2; static int bar = 20; foo...
How do you implement an efficient and thread safe reference counting system on X86 CPUs in the C++ programming language? I always run into the problem that the critical operations not atomic, and the available X86 Interlock operations are not sufficient for implementing the ref counting system. The following article covers this topic,...
It looks quite easy to find such a tool for Java (Checkstyle, JCSC), but I can't seem to find one for C/C++. I am not looking for a lint-like static code analyzer, I only would like to check against coding standards like variable naming, capitalization, spacing, identation, bracket placement, and so on. ...
Title says it all :) No, seriously, I'm porting a C++ 32 bit application to 64 bit on windows. The application is a client of IBM WebSphere MQ. It uses the MQ client API. Now, as the port progresses, I'm trying to find a 64 bit client. So far, no luck. Does anyone here happen to know if where I can find one, or, god forbid, confirm th...
DevC++, Visual Studio, Ch, Vim, gedit, what else? ...
I have an installation program (just a regular C++ MFC program, not Windows Installer based) that needs to set some registry values based on the type of Internet connection: broadband, dialup, and/or wireless. Right now this information is being determined by asking a series of yes or no questions. The problem is that the person doing ...