I am a fairly junior programmer and have the task of interviewing an experienced mainframe COBOL programmer for a position doing C++ development for Windows Mobile. By experienced I mean that the candidate's entire programming career has been COBOL. I am not biased against any particular language, just slightly concerned about my abil...
I have an opportunity to attend Sony licensed training classes to learn about programming with the PS3's cell architecture. However I only have a rudimentary knowledge of C++ and was wondering if the PS3 is a bit of an overkill for a starter aspiring game dev like me. And also what is the best resources to get me to a decent level in...
I've spent 4 years developing C++ using Visual Studio 2008 for a commercial company; it's now time for me to upgrade my development process. Here's the problem: I dont have a 1 button build automation. I also dont have a CI server that automatically builds when a commit happens, and emails me whether a build is broken or not. Worse we d...
I develop commercial unmanaged C++ app on Visual Studio 2008, and I want to add a static-code analysis tool. Any recommendations? I think it would be real nice if the tool can be integrated into MSVC. I'm thinking about PC-Lint + Visual Lint However, I have been taking a hard look at Coverity, Understand, and Klockwork as well. Pri...
I'm looking for interesting exercises to code that would be suitable for an intermediate level c++ programmer. I know that the 'term' intermediate covers a lot of ground and varies from person to person but just post what you think would fall into the category. Thank you. ...
I find myself annoyed that Visual Studio comes with a fancy GUI interface designer and that it is only accessible to .NET applications and not even managed C++. Is there any easy way to at least open up a C DLL type interface with unmanaged/foreign code? ...
Hello! I want to implement support of the XMLRPC protocol for my server that is written in C and C++ and now looking for the most widely adopted xmlrpc library. License is not an issue, GPL would be fine. What would you suggest ? Is there any defacto standard xmlrpc C library for such a purpose ? ...
I was wondering if there is a way to extract an Image object from a Cursor object in Java. A use for this would be for instance : Image img = extractCursorImage(Cursor.getDefaultCursor()); Which you then can draw on a toolbar button (that's the purpose I want it for). ...
Folks, I just created my first C++/CLI project (Visual Studio 2008), it's a Library to allow my C# app access an point of sale tally printer. My library builds well and trivial functions work when called from a C# exe. However as soon as I include a WinGDI call (DeleteObject in this case), the linker complains with “unresolved token” ...
I'm deserializing a fair amount of data through Boost.Serialization (one for each frame). However, when I output how long the deserialization takes, it varies wildly. It is not unusably slow at the moment, but it would be nice to make it faster. The data represents the same classes, arrays, maps and vectors but merely with different valu...
Hi, I am dealing with a lot of strings in my program. These string data don't change through out the whole life time after they being read into my program. But since the C++ string reserves capacity, they waste a lot of space that won't be used for sure. I tried to release those spaces, but it didn't work. The following is the simple c...
I've got a number of reference counted classes in some of my applications, and also in dlls those applications use, all inheriting from and implementing a IRefCounted interface. In order to help with finding the source of these memory leaks I want each application to maintain a list of all these refrence counted classes in existance. T...
Hi guys, Is it possible to do a 'dump' on complex structures or even arrays in C++, in order to visually be able to check out what they've got inside them? I'm thinking of something similar to print_r() or var_dump() in PHP. Cheers, -Fin ...
Hi there I just starting using VS2005 and I wish to have code highlighting in C/C++. The VS menu Tools->Options->TextEditor->C/C++ is very poor. I come from PHP and there the IDE's are very friendly when is about highlighting. I didn't expect that Visual Studio to be so poor at this kind of options. Can you recommend me a free tool/plu...
I am thinking i might want to port a lib to read a DVD filesystem. I am not talking about movies but datadisc. Theres existing code for me to do raw reads from the disc. I need code that request this data and allow me to browse files on the disc. What lib can i use for this? -edit- NOTE: I am using an OSless hardware. Ppl seem to miss t...
I want to define my own datatype that can hold a single one of six possible values in order to learn more about memory management in c++. In numbers, I want to be able to hold 0 through 5. Binary, It would suffice with three bits (101=5), although some (6 and 7) wont be used. The datatype should also consume as little memory as possible....
I'd like to create a dll library from C++ code and use it in C program. I'd like to export only one function: GLboolean load_obj (const char *filename, GLuint &object_list); Header file from library: #ifndef __OBJ__H__ #define __OBJ__H__ #include <windows.h> #include <GL/gl.h> #include <GL/glext.h> #include <GL/glu.h> #include <GL...
hi, Is there a class that handles file paths in Qt? Particularly I'm looking for something like .NET's Path.Combine. I know there's one in boost::filesystem but I was wondering if there's one in Qt. ...
Forgive me my C++ is incredibly rusty. But I am trying to take some old code and recompile it under Visual C++ 2008. It was originally written for Visual C++ 6.0 The error I am getting is this: error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int Ok seems simple enough. But then I look at th...
I am looking for a simple C++ library for extracting atom coordinates from a pdb file. Most I've come across do too much for my simple needs, making them unnecessarily complex. ...