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Re: [Dev-C++] What does _WIN32_IE define ?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

You are not defining system constants in the application. What you are
doing is specifying which minimum version of Win32 OS and IE that are
required for running your application.

By increasing the requirements, the include files will allow you to access
more advanced features, but of course your application will not run on
older operating systems (such as Win95, Win98, NT 3.51 or similar) or the
application will require DLL files installed with recent IE versions to be
able to display new child controls or similar.

This is similar to building on a Linux machine. There it is possible
to specify if extra GNU extensions should be allowed - features not
available in a POSIX system.

/Per W

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Peter Sommerfeld wrote:

> Alfred P. Reaud wrote:
> > Apparently it defines what version of Internet
> > Explorer is in the system.
>
> Alfred, thanks for info ! I didn't imagine that
> system constants may be defined with
> respect to an application. Well, - it is MS ! :-))
>
> Peter
>
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[Dev-C++] CPU window

[Raw M. D. C. <pe...@ra...>]

Hi All,

The CPU window is pretty ropey compared to the version in Delphi, which
lists the line of code and then the asm for it.

Is there actually a way to do this, but it isnt implemented yet? If so
maybe I could look at it myself as I have been coding in Delphi since
version 1. Also had quite a bit of experience in BASM.

Peter

[Dev-C++] Different Build Configurations?

[Christian J. <cj...@to...>]

Hi Folks,

I wondered whether it is possible to simply add different build
configurations to a project.

In VS, I used this feature to add a release build and a debug build for
instance. Also, it was great that I could set options that would be used
for every build configuration.=20

If there were custom build steps such as versioning or whatever, I
simply added them into the global build configuration section and within
the configurations for debug and release build I added whatever
distinguished both (e.g. debug library or release library linked to the
project, etc.)

How do I achieve this best with DevC++?

Regards,
Tronex.=20

Re: [Dev-C++] What does _WIN32_IE define ?

[Peter S. <p.s...@ut...>]

Alfred P. Reaud wrote:
> Apparently it defines what version of Internet 
> Explorer is in the system. 

Alfred, thanks for info ! I didn't imagine that
system constants may be defined with
respect to an application. Well, - it is MS ! :-)) 

Peter

Re: [Dev-C++] What does _WIN32_IE define ?

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

Hi Peter,
 
Apparently it defines what version of Internet Explorer is in the system.  Read Using the Windows Headers from the MSDN site.  It's about 2/3 down the page.

Peter Sommerfeld <p.s...@ut...> wrote:
Hi,

in some system headers, for instance commctrl.h and 
prsht.h are a lot of Constants commented out with
_WIN32_IE . What does the value of _WIN32_IE
mean and are there any drawbacks if I define it ?

Is there an official way to define such constants 
globally in the IDE ?

tia, Peter








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[Dev-C++] What does _WIN32_IE define ?

[Peter S. <p.s...@ut...>]

Hi,

in some system headers, for instance commctrl.h and 
prsht.h are a lot of Constants commented out with
_WIN32_IE . What does the value of  _WIN32_IE
mean and are there any drawbacks if I define it ?

Is there an official  way to define such constants 
globally in the IDE ?

tia, Peter

[Dev-C++] Display Japanese Kana

[Peter D. <don...@ne...>]

Hi,

I was just wondering if it was possible to display hiragana or katakana 
in a terminal.

I am currently running linux and have some notes that I have made using 
im-ja - which is a japanese input module for GTK2 and XIM. If i use more 
or vi on these notes I can see the japanese characters.

Is there any way to write a simple program like:

include <iostream>
include <cool_japanese_lib>

int main() {
cout << "Please enter a japanese syllable: ";
cin << syllable; // User enters 'ne' using english alphabet.
cout << "You entered: ?" << endl; // Output of program is hiragana for 'ne'
}

I know this is probably a pipe dream but if someone can point me towards 
something then that would be great.

Many thanks,

Peter.

Re: [Dev-C++] question

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

I have never tried to locate information about the xls file format.
However, there are Excel ODBC drivers out there that might be an idea to
look into - shouldn't be too much different from using a MySQL backend.

/Per W

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 wa...@wa... wrote:

> On 4 Dec 2004 at 21:39, giampietro.gardenghi wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm a beginner C++ user, and I'm tring to output an array in excel
> > format: the only result I have accomplished is to obtain an array
> > which excel reads as separate rows but not sepate columns. Probably
> I
> > should use a TAB sepation between values, which I am not able to
> > insert. Thank you Giampietro Gardenghi
>
> You have several options.  You can write out your text file in a
> delimited format and then when you read the file, tell it you want to
> read in a delimited file and tell it the delimiter.  You can delimit
> columns on white space (like spaces or tabs) or you can use a
> predefined character (like '^' or '|' or ',').  Someone's already
> posted how to print out with tabs.
>
> OR, you can actually find out what the file format is for .xls files
> and write out your file in that format.  But that's going to be a bit
> more complicated and I don't know the .xls format.  You can probably
> dig it up with a little research and/or experimentation.
>
> Watson (the pencil neck) Davis
>
>
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Re: [Dev-C++] question

[<wa...@wa...>]

On 4 Dec 2004 at 21:39, giampietro.gardenghi wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a beginner C++ user, and I'm tring to output an array in excel
> format: the only result I have accomplished is to obtain an array
> which excel reads as separate rows but not sepate columns. Probably 
I
> should use a TAB sepation between values, which I am not able to
> insert. Thank you Giampietro Gardenghi

You have several options.  You can write out your text file in a 
delimited format and then when you read the file, tell it you want to 
read in a delimited file and tell it the delimiter.  You can delimit 
columns on white space (like spaces or tabs) or you can use a 
predefined character (like '^' or '|' or ',').  Someone's already 
posted how to print out with tabs.

OR, you can actually find out what the file format is for .xls files 
and write out your file in that format.  But that's going to be a bit 
more complicated and I don't know the .xls format.  You can probably 
dig it up with a little research and/or experimentation.

Watson (the pencil neck) Davis

Re: [Dev-C++] help with getting secondary console to appear

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

Hi Guillermo,
 
system ("cmd");  include <stdlib.h>
 
Of course provided that the command interpreter is named cmd.  There's also other calls such as spawn, etc.  Depends on whether you want a stand alone child process or not.

Guillermo Gutierrez <ggu...@ma...> wrote:

I would like to know how to get a command console to appear along with my windows app using dev-cpp 4991 w/mingw3.4.2 on a windows 2000 Pro SP4 system?
<snip>




Alfred P. Reaud
 

[Dev-C++] help with getting secondary console to appear

[Guillermo G. <ggu...@ma...>]

I would like to know how to get a command console to appear along with =
my windows app using dev-cpp 4991 w/mingw3.4.2 on a windows 2000 Pro SP4 =
system?

I have seen code from other people where along with the window app they =
can get a command Prompt to appear.
I have even seen it in the FLTK example programs, but I can not get it =
to happen.

sorry if this belongs in another mailing list, thanks in advance.

Guillermo Gutierrez
Market Scan Information Systems
Software Q.A. Supervisor
(818) 575-2000 x2427
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Re: [Dev-C++] How to apply tolower for just one letter of a word?

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Depends on how you store the name.

If it is a C string.

    str[0] = toupper(str[0]);

If it is a std::string you might do:

    std::string str = "hello world";
    str[0] = toupper(str[0]);

or you might try something fancy and use transformations:

    struct ToUpper {
        char operator() (char c) const { return std::toupper(c); }
    };

    ...

    std::string str = "hello world";

    std::transform(str.begin(),str.end(),str.begin(),ToUpper());

to convert the full string to upper case.

/Per W

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Alexsandro Meireles wrote:

> Hi, dev-c++ users,
>
> I have a very basic question I can't solve. I want to upper the first letter
> of a sentence. For example I have: "john is tall". I want to turn this into
> "John is tall". How do I do that?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Alexsandro.
>
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Re: [Dev-C++] Re: GCC specification

[David M. <dml...@co...>]

Mingw32.

Pascal wrote:

> David McKen wrote:
> To answer your second question. Yes you can, just download the source 
> code and build the compiler yourself.
>
> yes,but what is the best?
> Compile/build Gcc for win32 native or compile/build the mingw32 gcc 
> version?
>
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[Dev-C++] How to apply tolower for just one letter of a word?

[Alexsandro M. <ale...@ho...>]

Hi, dev-c++ users,

I have a very basic question I can't solve. I want to upper the first letter 
of a sentence. For example I have: "john is tall". I want to turn this into 
"John is tall". How do I do that?

Thanks in advance!

Alexsandro.

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Re: [Dev-C++] How do you color the console's text?

[Michal M. <mi...@mo...>]

david phillips wrote:
> Hello.
>  
>     I have seen a few text adventures written in  C and/or C++. And they 
> had colored text (in the Win32 console).
>  
>     So I was wondering how you can color the text in the console? I 
> don't care which language the answer is in (as long as it is C or C++ 
> Smiley emoticon). Thanks in advance.

take a look at CONIO library:
http://conio.sourceforge.net/
http://st.vse.cz/~xmolm04/packages.html#h6s0

-- 
Regards,
     Michal

[Dev-C++] Open question: (static|dynamic)_casting and templates in C++

[GOUAICH A. <go...@li...>]

Hi there,

I was trying to port the code of a library to use it in my own project and I
found something interesting.

The problem is that if you have a class B, that extends another class A.
Then when using the template MyTemplateClass<B> does not have any
relationship with the class MyTemplateClass<A>.

You can see some experiments in the code presented below.

If someone has a more detailed documentation (specification) explaning why
this cannot be done I would appreciate.

Kind regards,





8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<-----8<----
-
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

template <class T>
class Ref{
      T* ptr;
      public:
             Ref(T* p)
             {
               this->ptr = p;
             };
             Ref( const Ref<T>& clone)
             {
               this->ptr = clone.ptr;
             };
             T* get()
             {
                return ptr;
             }
             // [added after] to make this type
             // plymorphic
             virtual void trick(void )
             {
             };

};

class A
{
  public:
         A()
         {
         };
         virtual void ping()
         {
         cout << "A" <<endl;
         };
};

class B: public A
{
  public:
         B():A()
         {
         };
         virtual void ping()
         {
         cout << "B" <<endl;
         };
};

void test_call(Ref<A>& x )
{
     x.get()->ping();
  //just a test
};

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  A* a= new A();
  B* b= new B();
  Ref<A>* ref_a = new Ref<A>(a);
  Ref<B>* ref_b = new Ref<B>(b);


  //-------------------
  //test_call(*ref_a);
  //->this is ok !
  // output:
  // $ A
  // $ press any key to continue...


  //-------------------
  //test_call(*ref_b);
  // compilation problem.
  //->log:
  // could not convert *reb_b to
  // Ref<A>& .... mmmmm

  //so try to cast....

  //static_cast
  //test_call(static_cast< Ref<A> >(*ref_b));
  // mmmm does not work ! :(
  //log:
  //main.cpp:53: no matching function for call to `Ref<A>::Ref(Ref<B>&)'
  //main.cpp:15: candidates are: Ref<T>::Ref(const Ref<T>&) [with T = A]
  //main.cpp:11:                 Ref<T>::Ref(T*) [with T = A]

  //ok dynamic cast now !!
  //Ref<A>* tmp = dynamic_cast< Ref<A>* >(ref_b);
  //if(tmp)
  //{
  //       test_call(* tmp );
  //}
 //else
 //{
  //cout << "error with the cast...." <<endl;
 //}
  //main.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
  //main.cpp:86: cannot dynamic_cast `ref_b' (of type `class Ref<B>*') to
type `
  //class Ref<A>*' (source type is not polymorphic)

  //I suspect that the compiler consider Ref<A> as not
  //being plymorphic ... so add a virtual method
  //to this class and see what will happen...
  //see [added after] in class Ref

  Ref<A>* tmp = dynamic_cast< Ref<A>* >(ref_b);
  if(tmp)
  {
         test_call(* tmp );
  }
  else
  {
    cout << "error with the cast...." <<endl;
  }
  // Now the program compiles but the
  // during the runtime the dynamic_cast
  // does not work ! ,(

  //conclusion...
  // even if B extends A; Ref<B> has no relationship with Ref<A>
  //!!!!!!!!!! a bit strange...

  //the correct method is to do as follows:
  //rebuild the class manually.

  A* tmp_ptr = static_cast<A* >(ref_b->get());  //or dynamic_cast
  Ref<A> tmp_ref_a (tmp_ptr);
  test_call(tmp_ref_a);

  //And now the output is :
  // $ B
  // $ press any key to continue...
  // ok!

  system("PAUSE");
  return 0;
}

Re: [Dev-C++] How do you color the console's text?

[Daniel K. O. <dan...@ya...>]

david phillips wrote:

>     So I was wondering how you can color the text in the console?


SetConsoleTextAttribute(), from Win32 API.




Daniel K. O.

[Dev-C++] How to ?

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Re: [Dev-C++] question

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

Hi Giampietro,
 
Remember to insert a newline character at the end of the line that you want Excel to see as a row.  Any separator should work for columns including blank space, tabs, commas.  Anything but a newline, which indicates a row.

"giampietro.gardenghi" <gia...@li...> wrote:
Hi,
I'm a beginner C++ user, and I'm tring to output an array in excel format: the
only result I have accomplished is to obtain an array which excel reads as
separate rows but not sepate columns.
Probably I should use a TAB sepation between values, which I am not able to insert.
Thank you
Giampietro Gardenghi




Alfred P. Reaud
 

Re: [Dev-C++] What have I done this time? Thanks

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

Hi Roger,
 
You're very welcome, Roger!
 
MinGW is Minimal GNU (Linux) for Windows, a minimal implementation of the software development part of Linux.  It contains useful command line utilities such as gcc, gdb, etc.  Parts of it are redundant when you use Dev-Cpp, but I sometimes check my Dev-Cpp compile on it to insure that the make files work without the GUI of Dev-Cpp.  It's not really necessary, and I believe Msys will run without it, though that just my opinion from the Msys install batch file that asks you if it's installed.  I've never said no!
 
It's not recommended to install Linux on top of Windows, rather install Windows on top of Linux.  I'm a fan of Red Hat, personally, but I would recommend browsing the Internet for user reviews of the different Linux distributions.

Roger Furer <ra...@ha...> wrote:

Aloha from Honolulu,
First, a big thank you (Mahalo) to Alfred, Reid, and Malcolm for your 
help.
<snip>
Third, to Alfred and Reid, can you explain what MinGW is? I thought 
it _was_ part of DevC++ since it shows up in the "About" screen under 
the main "Help" menu. Also, I have never used the command line to 
compile or run anything, since the IDE is so convenient and has all the 
messages etc. 
<snip>
BTW, yes, I'm using WinXP Pro. I have made a second bootable partition 
ready for Linux, but haven't decided what distribution to use--does 
anyone have a preference/suggestion? I have a SUSE 9.1 desktop live 
eval that came with an issue of Linux User magazine. But this may be a 
subject for a different user group.
<snip>




Alfred P. Reaud
 

Re: [Dev-C++] RE: Dev-C++ and FLTK

[Alfred P. R. <al...@ya...>]

Hi Robert,
 
Open the Project Options window and then the Parameters tab.  In the Linker sub-window place the text in the quotes (without the quotes) "c:/devc++/lib/libfltk.a".  I had the same problem, however I work out of the D: drive with the project in it's own folder outside of Dev-Cpp.  Therefore my implementation is "../Dev-Cpp/lib/libfltk.a".  I busted my head on this for about 2 days myself earlier this fall.

 
Pardon everybody for any double posting.  I've still got to get the hang of not replying to a posting, as it goes to an individual and not the list.

robert gasson <rg...@ho...> wrote:
I am having trouble getting my first program with FLTK to compile. Dev-Cpp 
says it cannot find the library libfltk.a. This file is in c:\devc++\lib 
along with all the other libraries. I have checked the spelling, the project 
options, and compiler options. The FLTK was introduced by a devpak, the FLTK 
gui appears on the dev-c++ tools menu as it should. Does anyone know how to 
overcome this problem




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Re: [Dev-C++] What have I done this time? Thanks

[Roger F. <ra...@ha...>]

Aloha from Honolulu,
   First, a big thank you (Mahalo) to Alfred, Reid, and Malcolm for your 
help.
   Second, to Malcolm in particular: I started with wxDevC++ that had 
wxWidgets beta 6.3.  You responded to an earlier question of mine and 
suggested getting beta 6.4, which I did and mentioned in a thank You email:

    Re: [Dev-C++] wxWidgets, wxDevC++, Thanks

      I just want to say thank you to Malcolm for your patient
    explanation.  I downloaded the latest version of wxDevC++ with
    wxWidgets Beta 6.4. 

It was this version of wxDevC++ that asked if I wanted to precompile the 
header files.  It did this at the end of the installation process and 
warned that it would take some time (it took about 7 minutes).

The erroneous "*/"" was placed in the email during email composition.  I 
didn't use any of the original comments in the source files that I hand 
typed.  The original tutorial was in two columns.  The left had the code 
and the right the text.  When I first copy/paste'd I inserted the text 
in using the "/*...*/"" for comments.  The compiler shows comments in 
blue on my IDE, so it's hard to make a mistake.

As for the project file; I used the "wxWidgets Frame" and also the 
"Empty Project" at different times.  The problems occured no matter which.

   Third, to Alfred and Reid, can you explain what MinGW is?  I thought 
it _was_ part of DevC++ since it shows up in the "About" screen under 
the main "Help" menu.  Also, I have never used the command line to 
compile or run anything, since the IDE is so convenient and has all the 
messages etc. 

   Finally, once again, I thank you for the time you have taken to help 
me out and keep me going.   I have yet to follow up on all the advice 
you've given, but will soon.

BTW, yes, I'm using WinXP Pro.  I have made a second bootable partition 
ready for Linux, but haven't decided what distribution to use--does 
anyone have a preference/suggestion?  I have a SUSE 9.1 desktop live 
eval that came with an issue of Linux User magazine.  But this may be a 
subject for a different user group.

Mahalo, My Thanks to all,
Aloha,
Roger Furer

[Dev-C++] Re: GCC specification

[Pascal <p.t...@ti...>]

David McKen wrote:
To answer your second question. Yes you can, just download the source 
code and build the compiler yourself.

yes,but what is the best?
Compile/build Gcc for win32 native or compile/build the mingw32 gcc version? 

Re: [Dev-C++] question

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

To emit tab characters, just print:

printf("1\t2\t3\t4\n");

our similarly:

std::cout << 1 << "\t" << 2 << "\t" << 3 << "\t" << 4 << std::endl;

/Per W

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, giampietro.gardenghi wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a beginner C++ user, and I'm tring to output an array in excel format: the
> only result I have accomplished is to obtain an array which excel reads as
> separate rows but not sepate columns.
> Probably I should use a TAB sepation between values, which I am not able to insert.
> Thank you
> Giampietro Gardenghi
>
>
>
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[Dev-C++] question

[giampietro\.gardenghi <gia...@li...>]

Hi,
I'm a beginner C++ user, and I'm tring to output an array in excel f=
ormat: the
only result I have accomplished is to obtain an array which e=
xcel reads as
separate rows but not sepate columns.
Probably I should u=
se a TAB sepation between values, which I am not able to insert.
Thank y=
ou
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_______________________=0ALibero ADSL: 3 mesi gratis e navighi a 1.2 Mega=
, senza costi di attivazione.=0AAbbonati subito su http://www.libero.it=0A=