I'm wanting to get the full value of a char[] variable in the VC6 watch window, but it only shows a truncated version. I can copy the value from a debug memory window, but that contains mixed lines of hex and string values. Surely there is a better way?? ...
How do you install Boost on MacOS? Right now I can't find bjam for the Mac. update: Thanks for the MacPorts answer, and special thanks to hasseg's comment for the link http://www.macports.org/ I'm still new to my Mac, but with ports it seems like we'll get going along much better. ...
I'm looking for a way to find the name of the Windows default printer using unmanaged C++ (found plenty of .NET examples, but no success unmanaged). Thanks. ...
I am using VS2005 VC++ for unmanaged C++. I have VSTS and am trying to use the code coverage tool to accomplish two things with regards to unit tests: See how much of my referenced code under test is getting executed See how many methods of my code under test (if any) are not unit tested at all Setting up the VSTS code coverage tool ...
If I have a std::vector or std::map variable, and I want to see the contents, it's a big pain to see the nth element while debugging. Is there a plugin, or some trick to making it easier to watch STL container variables while debugging (VS2003/2005/2008)? ...
A while ago I came across some code that marked a member variable of a class with the 'mutable' keyword. As far as I can see it simply allows you to modify a variable in a 'const' method: class Foo { private: mutable bool done_; public: void doSomething() const { ...; done_ = true; } }; Is this the only use of thi...
How do I convert between big-endian and little-endian values in C++? EDIT: For clarity, I have to translate binary data (double-precision floating point values and 32-bit and 64-bit integers) from one CPU architecture to another. This doesn't involve networking, so ntoh() and similar functions won't work here. EDIT #2: The answer I ac...
I am using gsoap to create a soap server in C++. Messages are routed through a bus written in java. Both the server and the bus are multithreaded. Everything works well sending one message at a time through the system. If i start 3 clients each sending messages as fast as possible everything is fine for about 3500 messages. Then i begin ...
Suppose I am writing an application in C++ and C#. I want to write the low level parts in C++ and write the high level logic in C#. How can I load a .NET assembly from my C++ program and start calling methods and accessing the properties of my C# classes? ...
Please bear with me, I'm just learning C++. I'm trying to write my header file (for class) and I'm running into an odd error. cards.h:21: error: expected unqualified-id before ')' token cards.h:22: error: expected `)' before "str" cards.h:23: error: expected `)' before "r" What does "expected unqualified-id before ')' token" mean? A...
I found this site, http://www.apitalk.com/document.php?id=1184207999_1 and I'm not sure if this site is using ATL, STL, MFC, or just calling API functions directly. I have done console programming with C++ and graphics programmign with C++ in Borland, but I've have never done Win32 C++ programming and I'm curious if anyone knows of a go...
Dear Lazyweb, The system I'm working on contains an address book. I am looking for sample code that will synchronize addresses with the current users address book through MAPI. I need two-way sync. If you know of any open-source library with easy to use functions for this, I'd be glad to hear about it. If you know of a library that is ...
What is the best way to secure the use/loading of a DLL with a license file? ...
We maintain a RPM based software distribution at work so that we have a common set of software across all the platforms that we support. As a result we have to build a lot of third party software, and frequently find situations where we need to run autoconf/automake/libtoolize/etc to get it to build on Solaris or another platform. I'...
In general, I occasionally have a chain of nested macros with a few preprocessor conditional elements in their definitions. These can be painful to debug since it's hard to directly see the actual code being executed. A while ago I vaguely remember finding a compiler (gcc) flag to expand them, but I had trouble getting this to work in ...
I would prefer that a console app would default to multithreaded debug. warning level 4. build browse information. no resource folder. Does anyone know of any technique that would allow me to create a console app, with my desired options, without manually setting it. ...
What is a smart pointer and when should I use one? ...
Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB) open source library looks really interesting. Even though there's even an O'Reilly Book about the subject I don't hear about a lot of people using it. I'm interested in using it for some multi-level parallel applications (MPI + threads) in Unix (Mac, Linux, etc.) environments. For what it's wort...
For a project I'm working on, I need to have a lot of source code files generated from an interface description. That description is currently IDL (really, a pidgin IDL-like language), but I'm not married to it and am willing to consider alternatives. What sorts of code generators are available that can take IDL (or something like it) ...
I understand the overall meaning of pointers and references(or at least I think i do), I also understand that when I use new I am dynamically allocating memory. My question is the following, if i were to use cout << &p it would display the "virtual memory location" of p. Is there a way in which I could manipulate the "virtual memory loca...