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    - unexpected exception handler Hello everyone, This question is about when it is allowed to call throw to re-throw exception -- make the exception re-throw. I can only think of two situations, 1. in catch block of an exception; 2. in unexpected handler. For (2), in unexpected handler, since the input parameter is null, so in order to get the exception information, we need to re-throw it and catch it to get exception informaiton. Is my understanding correct? Here is some pseudo code from Bjarne's book. [Code] // suppose throwY is unexpcted handler void throwY() throw (Yunexpected) { try{ throw; // have to re-throw and catch in order to get exception information since current input parameter is null and has no exception information, my understanding correct? } catch (Network_exception& p) { throw (Yunexpected (&p)); } catch (...) { throw (Yunexpected (0)); } } [/Code] thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285598
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    - using swap to make assignment operator exception safe Hello everyone, The following swap technique is used to make assignment operator exception safe (means even if there is exception, the current object instance's state is invariant). It used a temporary object "temp" in this sample, and assignment is made on a to temp ar first. Even if there is exception, the current this object's state is not corrupted. My question is, the pattern works only if there is no exception thrown by swap function. If there are exception in swap function, the state of current object instance may still be corrupted (swap may invoke the assignment operator of member variables). Is my understanding correct? [Code] class A; A& A::operator= (const A& a) { A temp; temp = a; // exception may be thrown swap (*this, temp); return *this; } [/Code] thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285596
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    - exporting data from a dll - unresolved externals I have a DLL project that I need to export a data variable from. I have defined the variable in a .cpp file in the project like this //C++ file (DLL Project) class MYPROJ_API data_type { //Impl here ... }; MYPROJ_API data_type exported_data; //header file (project that consumes DLL) extern MYPROJ_API data_type exported_data ; where MYPROJ_API is amacro that handles declspec import/export I checked the DLL project to ensure that the symbols are exported correctly in the generated library - and they all are there - including the exported data - yet when I try to build the other dependent project, I am getting linkage errors (unresolved externals). BTW, I have checked my library paths etc, and all is in order - anyone come accross this before? - what am I missing? Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285581
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    - VS online helo Hi there, This isn't meant to start a war as I'm honestly looking for opinions. Does anyone find the VS help as substandard as I do (for .NET in particular). I don't understand MSFT. Today's documentation is worse than what VC6 offered. Whenever I run a search (Ctrl+Alt+F3) for instance, I almost never find what I'm looking for. In fact, most of the time the topics that come up are irrelevant. You can't search previous search results (why on earth was this removed), wildcards are no longer supported, etc. What they do give us (the ability to confine a search to "Language", "Technology" and "Content "Type") is almost useless given how broad the topics listed here are (the latter two in particular). It almost never improves the search results. Even the "Index Results" can be incredibly annoying. If I type "Control class" in the "Look for" edit box for instance and then press <Enter>, the "Index Results" window that shows up at the bottom currently displays three (3) different versions of this class in VS2008 (for "presentation framework", "system.web" and "system.windows.forms" - the situation is basically the same in VS2005). You then have to pick one even though the first in the list shows up in the top (main) window automatically (which is incredibly irritating since I didn't explicitly pick it and it's almost always the wrong one). This occurs for many different classes but in reality most people are only working with one of these technologies at a time. Would it have been so difficult to provide an option to always pick the one we're working with and bring it up (say, "system.windows.forms"). And what about case-sensitve searches and regular searching in general. These are technical documents after all and they frequently require a high-degree of search precision. Lastly, and by far the worst problem, the amount of information provided for many .NET classes is woefully inadequate to get the job done. I almost always have to augment the information by conducting painful web searches when MSDN should have been the definitive source. It's also dangerous to trust anyone outside of MSFT and nobody should have to. In fact, I calculate (without exaggeration) that the program I've been working on for the past 20 months (now winding down at last) has literally taken 50% longer than the (WinAPI-based) C++ programs I used to work on (on a proportional basis). It's caused no end of grief and frustration and it's mostly been due to a serious lack of documentation. If MSFT doesn't realize how serious the problem is then they should take some advice from someone who's been working on their platforms since the XT. I don't normally denigrate MSFT (just the opposite in fact), but the docs are in serious need of a major overhaul. Tell me I'm not the only one who's suffering with these problems? End rant. Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285576
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    - I have a pointer, need to call method that takes a const I am writing a method that gets called with a pointer to a CDWordArray, I want to call the member function Copy (), which takes a const. I know I can copy each element by looping through, but there must be a better way. I feel like this should be simple and I'm just missing it. The following compiles, but fails at runtime in a call to memcpy. void CMyClass::MethodA (CDWordArray *pArray) { CDWordArray OrigArray; OrigArray.Copy (*pArray); //the memcpy is done within Copy () ... } TIA Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285572
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    - CTreeView update plus sign Hi In my VC++ 6 app I create a CTreeView with just the root element and display the GUI to the user. When I later add some child elements to the CTreeView (in response to an action in another part of the application) I find that the elements are hidden (which is fine), but no "+" sign appears by the root element to notify the user. If the user clicks where the "+" sign would be, the "+" sign appears (along with the child elements). What do I need to run when adding elements to the view to ensure that any new "+" signs appear ? Many thanks, Neil. Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285566
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    - Heap or Stack Corruptions? void CSimplusView::ProcessMovement() { CSimplusDoc *pDoc = GetDocument(); int lastcount = 0; D3DXVECTOR3 a(10.0f, 0.0f, 14.0f); D3DXVECTOR3 b(20.0f, 0.0f, 24.0f); m_iTotalCharToProcess = 1; FINFO *m_finfo = new FINFO; <<<<< Kazboom char strg[50]; I am tracking an error of my application. I've got a heap or stack corruption near m_finfo... Without knowledge of which one it actually is, I wonder if the above statements pose immediate danger or not? Thanks Jack Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285548
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    - SEO World News!!! Info for 2008 Well, the new year is finally here. If it wasn't clear enough in 2007 that phone books and print advertising is a thing of the past like the obsolete telegram. In 2008 it is part of the average businesses everyday budget to waste big money on Pay Per Click, the cold hard facts are 70% of payper click is FRAUD. Just ask any advertiser that got billed 120.00 dollars or more, and didn't get one single lead. The only answer to the dilema is organic search engine development. The main benefits of getting the best seo company http://www.atomicseo.net is that when you finally do decide to terminate services with an seo company all the link popularity and Page Rank is still there and won't just dissapear over night, it might take a few months, therefore giving you a window of advertising that you do not get when you stop paying Google. http://www.atomicseo.net Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285539
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    - slick dialogs I noticed that many CD and DVD playing programs have slick looking dialogs. Is there an easy way to create these? Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285538
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    - C Question! How to declare 8 bit types? Hello, I am trying a peice of code in VC++ which always worked in my embeded compiler. The code works fine when you pass it an address as we are suppossed to since it takes a pointer. The code however did fail when its parameters come directly from a structure. Now I would like to try this in VC++ and see if it still fails to calculate. However for me carry out the exact same test in VC++ 2003, I need to declare 8 bit type variables! I tried to use byte and small. I found the 8 bit type coded this way: __int8 or __int8 nsmall However the calculation does not get carried out right! Here is the code: ========================================== #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <conio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <malloc.h> struct xxx { __int8 a; __int8 b; __int8 c; }d[]={0,0,1}; void INC_ADDR( __int8 INCBY, __int8 *A2, __int8 *A1, __int8 *A0) { short carry; carry = (*A0 > 255 - INCBY); //If the calculation is true then carry = true (*A0) += INCBY; if (carry) { ++(*A1); if ((*A1) == 0) { (*A2)++; }} } int main(void) { INC_ADDR( 176, &(d[0].c), &(d[0].b), &(d[0].a)); INC_ADDR( 176, &(d[0].c), &(d[0].b), &(d[0].a)); return 0; } ================================================= All help appreciated! -- Best regards Robert Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285536
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    - memory leak in the code? Hello everyone, Should I delete memory pointed by pointer a if there is bad_alloc when allocating memory in memory pointed by pointer b? I am not sure whether there will be memory leak if I do not delete a. [Code] try { a = new int [N]; b = new int [M]; } catch (bad_alloc) { // if a success, but b fail, should we try to delete[] a here to avoid memory leak? } [/Code] thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285530
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    - bad_alloc Hello everyone, I am wondering except when there is no memory on heap, are there any other situations when we will get bad_alloc exceptions? For example, invalid input of the size (e.g. very huge number or zero or negative number) will cause exception? thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285522
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    - CVS interface Does anyone know if there's any plan to add a CVS interface into the next version of Visual Studio? Does anyone know of any other CVS-VSS add-on other then the following? TamTam CVS SCC http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/tamtam/index.shtml CVS SCC plug-in http://www.pushok.com/soft_download.php?idprogram=2 CVS Suite http://march-hare.com/cvsnt/ I'm looking into getting a plugin for CVS SCC, and I want to see what's available, and take into account if this interface may be included in the next version of Visual Studio. Thanks -- ----------------------------------------------- Top Ten Expert in Experts-Exchange C++ and MFC topic area. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Cplusplus ------------------------------------------------ Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285513
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    - Invalid pointer I am doing the following: InsertDependencies oInsertDependencies = pLink->GetInsertDependencies(); // ID and MustBeforeLink is _bstr_t with correct data InsertDependency* pInsertDependency = new InsertDependency((LPCTSTR) ID, (LPCTSTR) MustBeforeLink); fDebug << "Test" << endl; oInsertDependencies.push_back(pInsertDependency); // Invalid pointer On the last line, it generates the "Invalid pointer" error. The word "Test" writes out fine. InsertDependencies had the following definition. typedef std::list<InsertDependency*> InsertDependencies; Appreciate your help. -- Be Cool! Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285510
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    - SetWindowsHookEx - code example \error C2664: 'SetWindowsHookExA' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'HOOKPROC (int,WPARAM,LPARAM)' to 'HOOKPROC' I'm trying to play with this function, and I can't get the VC++ 7.0 compiler to accept the callback func in the 2nd arg. Here's the def: HOOKPROC wireKeyboardProc( int code, // hook code WPARAM wParam, // virtual-key code LPARAM lParam // keystroke-message information ); And here's the code: SetWindowsHookEx (WH_KEYBOARD,wireKeyboardProc,NULL,0); I've tried typecasts and typdefs, to no avail. I tried passing a func with no args, but then it said HOOKPROC(void) doesn't match HOOKPROC. ??? Thanks for any help. Ihor Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285509
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    - Writing binary data to sql server Hi everybody, I need to write strings and some binary data into a (previously created) table that resides on a MS SQL server 2005. What is the best way to do this, given the facts that the write access shall be as fast as possible, that there will never be any read access and that I would like to avoid ODBC MFC classes :)....any suggestions? Best wishes, Peter Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285504
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    - unhandled exception at 0x7832530f (mfc80ud.dll) when close Hi, When i close my application i have the following error message. Unhandled exception at 0x7832530f (mfc80ud.dll) in AvatarClip.exe: 0xC0000005:Access violation reading location 0xfeeeff56. Just after that i find my cursor in winfrm.cpp file on : // detect the case that this is the last frame on the document and // shut down with OnCloseDocument instead. if (pDocument != NULL && pDocument->m_bAutoDelete) { BOOL bOtherFrame = FALSE; ------------>POSITION pos = pDocument->GetFirstViewPosition(); while (pos != NULL) { CView* pView = pDocument->GetNextView(pos); ENSURE_VALID(pView); if (pView->GetParentFrame() != this) { bOtherFrame = TRUE; break; } } if (!bOtherFrame) { pDocument->OnCloseDocument(); return; } plesae reply me as soon as possible I have tried a lot to solve this problem Athar khan Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285501
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    - STL sort throw exception? Hello everyone, In Bjarne's book, it is mentioned that sort of STL may throw exception, like sorting elements in a vector. In what situation will sort throw exception? I can not find a case. thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285497
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    - Current Directory? We're using Visual Studio 2005 (2.0 of the framework) and while I have considerable experience with VB and C#, I have not so much with VC++. I've run into something that's puzzling me, and can't find anything addressing it online (not using the proper search terms, I expect).. I'm working on an existing application which I've retrtieved from a repository. One of the pre-existing unit tests is failing, it's trying to locate a particular file using a relative path (up four levels and then down another directory branch). I added some code to see what exactly the current directory is, and it's one level higher than I expected. I was thinking it would be in the "Debug" folder (running in debug mode) inside the application's folder, which is where it normally is for C# and VB. But the current directory is one level above the Debug folder. If the current directory was the Debug folder, then the relative path would lead to the file it's looking for. These unit tests work for other developers, so it's obvious their current directories are one level lower than mine, in the "Debug" or "Release" folders. I've tried looking for some setting but don't see one out of the ordinary. Project Properties shows the output directory to be $(SolutionDir)$(ConfigurationName). What am I missing? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285493
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    - casting Hi I've just started using Visual C++ 2008. I'd previously being using a non-MS compiler. I get an error:- error C2664: 'MessageBoxW' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'const char [22]' to 'LPCWSTR' for this line MessageBox(NULL, "Goodbye, cruel world!", "Note", MB_OK); it then went on to suggest I needed a cast. I'd rather not do that if I can avoid it I note that I specified MessageBox() but the error specifies MessageBoxW(). Have I somehow got some sort of wchar option turned on? I'd always assumed MessageBox would take normal C strings. -- nick keighley Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285492
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    - C++ style typecast ambiguity How screwed up am I? C++ offers two typecast styles. For example, to typecast x to an int I can do (int)x or int(x). So take a look at the following do-nothing example: void fcn() { int x, y; // Okay x; // Okay y = int(x); // Okay int(x); // NOT Okay!!!!! (int)x; // Okay } The compiler obviously treates int(x) as a declaration, as it should. However, what if I want (for whatever bizarre reason) to have a non-side effect statement consisting only of a C++ typecast? I can have such a statement for C typecasts and every other form of expression I know of, so why should this be an exception? It reminds me of the early days of C where the compound operators were =+ =- =* etc. instead of the current += -+ *= etc. Since the problem with these was seen quickly, they were changed. Oh well, I'm probably just missing something, but any thoughts are welcome. Thanks, Ray Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285465
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    - Can't compile! Hello, Most probably many of you have read my previous post entitled "Malloc code". You all have given very good feedback in that post. I am using in an embeded compiler, and one of the feedbacks this news groups suggested was a hint (I believe!) that said, since my embede compiler might slightly compile C code diffrently, I should take this code and replicate it in MS VC++ .NET to see if it compiles right before posting for help in this newsgroup thread. I am using VC++ 2003 vresion. I agree with this because if it compiles in the VC++ compiler, it will be easier for this thread to debug. Anyhow I used to code in VC++ (as a beginer!) but had to stop two years ago, and today I tried to get some code from the embeded compiler and replicated it in MSVC++ and I get an error. It has something to do with the fact that it doesn't see the other files! Here is the error: c:\_DTS_PROGRAMMING\C_PROGRAMMING\c\CCS_TESTS\Test1\Test\Main.c(6): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'LCD.h': No such file or directory Here is the code: (Please notice this is just test code to see if I can compile in VC++) ==============================================Main.c #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #include <conio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <malloc.h> #include <LCD.h> #include <TCP.h> #include <LCD.c> #include <TCP.c> void TCP_CONFIG_GMM(struct MCB *MCBptrs[3]) { struct MCB *y; MCBptrs[0] = malloc(11*(sizeof(struct MCB))); y = MCBptrs[1]; } int main(void) { int a=1; struct MCB *MCBptrs[3]; TCP_CONFIG_GMM(MCBptrs); return 0; } ============================================== ===========================================LCD.h //No code for now =============================================== ===========================================LCD.c //No code for now =============================================== ===========================================TCP.h struct MCB{ int A0; int A1; int A2; }; =============================================== ===========================================TCP.c //No code for now ==================================================== I have looked in properties of VC++ but I don't know what setting I should set to rectify this error. Can someone please help. Thanking all in advace! -- Best regards Robert Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285462
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    - Dynamic linking a dll Dynamic linking a dll I want from my application choose a dll file from a directory, and see witch functions the dll have, run one of them and get the result of the function. The objective is could have more than one dll available with different functions available, to customize some operations, operations that could be specific to a costumer. This way, my application could dependently of the costumer, choose a customized function/dll that what run to do a particular operation. How can I do this? Thanks, Rui Oliveira Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285450
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    - How to import an existing folder into Visual Studio Hi, I am new to Visual Studio. We have some C++ source code along with some Lex/yacc files. Till now, we used to build on Linux. The source code is arranged in several folders and there is a makefile for each folder. The toplevel makefile calls make on each folder and then builds the final executable. I need to transfer this C++ source code onto Visual Studio to build it for windows and to use the Visual Studio's debugger. (I tried building on CL compiler using the makefile but could not make a debug build after trying all the debug options like /Zi /Z7 etc.) Can somebody tell me how I can import this whole directory structure into the Visual Studio ? I do not want to manually create the several folders and then add files to it. Ideally, It would be so good if Visual Studio could take in the Makefile and then create the directory structure itself. Can this be done ? Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285443
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    - Visual C++ 2005 redistribution not working on XP SP2 Hi, I developed simple "Hello world "application using Visual C++ 2005 then I tried to run on fresh installed XP SP2 machine. I got error message "Configuration Incorrect" . I went on Internet and made search for it. I got answer that install redistribution package for it. I installed and still my application is not running. Please let me know possible solution for it. -- With regards thanks Anand Choubey Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285434
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    - File Compressed or not? Hi All, How to find a particular file is compressed or not? I tried with FindFirstFile API. It always returns 32 as dwFileAttributes only. And IsCompressed() of CFileFind. I couldn't success here also.The input of this module is complete file path. Is there any way to find whether it is compressed or not? -- Thanks & Regards, Alex. Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285430
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    - Single Sourcing GUI - native and HTML I am wondering what tools are there to create a single source application that can be compiled for native Windows GUI and also HTML? Specifically, we have a large 10+ year old MFC application where for some parts (utilities) we want to make it Web enabled. So ideally, a DIALOG resource file converted to HTML would be something I think to start with. But I not all sure of the current state of current technology and the direction. One of the reasons we got Visual Studio 2005 a few years back was based on the recommending from a colleague who felt it would be something to do what we wanted. But I haven't gone all the way with VS2005 to port our software yet to it not knowing all that needs to be done, especially with the constant flux in the Dynamic HTML area. So essentially I would like to get the skinny on to best use these tools today to basically "single source" our applications. Any comments or insights would be appreciated. Thanks -- Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285422
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    - File map performance Hello everyone, I have several physical file and I want to use file map (MapViewOfFileEx) to map the file into memory to improve performance. Each file is about several hundred M bytes. All the memory mapped files are kept open during my application. The mapping is successful, but the strange thing is, 1. the performance to access the files which are opened at first is very fast; 2. the performance to access the files which are opened later is slower and slower (the performance to access the 10th file is very bad). Any ideas to improve performance? thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285395
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    - unmanaged resource Hello everyone, I think unmanaged resource means the resources (e.g. memory and file handler) which is used directly (new, FILE*) other than using a wrapper class (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization) or auto_ptr to wrap it. Is my understanding correct? Here is a sample about what is unmanaged resource. -------------------- http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/066.htm Moral #3: Always perform unmanaged resource acquisition in the constructor body, never in initializer lists. In other words, either use "resource acquisition is initialization" (thereby avoiding unmanaged resources entirely) or else perform the resource acquisition in the constructor body. -------------------- thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285387
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    - COM interface function calling problem using different thread Hi, I wrote an application using Google COM api. I wrote a class (name CGoogleEarthCtrl) for initialize COM interfaces and calling all COM functions. CGoogleEarthCtrl class implemented on Single-ton design. I used successfully this rapper class in my application. I faced problem when I created a thread, take instance of the CGoogleEarthCtrl class and call COM function using CGoogleEarthCtrl instance. Initially application gave me exception, "CoInitialize function not called", but why? I called CoInitialize function in rapper class. After call CoInitialize(NULL) function in thread, application gave exception on COM function calling, Unhandled exception at 0x7c812a5b in GeotelWithGE.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: _com_error at memory location 0x0123f8ec.. and statement of exception, The application called an interface that was marshalled for a different thread. Please guide where I am doing mistake? why marshaling problem is coming? what I do to fix this problem? I placed try-catch block around COM function but application is not catching exception in catch block but vs2k5 open "googleearth.tli" file. why my application is not catching exception? "googleearth.tli" file code inline HRESULT IApplicationGE::SetCameraParams ( double lat, double lon, double alt, AltitudeModeGE altMode, double Range, double Tilt, double Azimuth, double speed ) { HRESULT _hr = raw_SetCameraParams(lat, lon, alt, altMode, Range, Tilt, Azimuth, speed); if (FAILED(_hr)) _com_issue_errorex(_hr, this, __uuidof(this)); return _hr; } my application is not catching exception cause of no throw statement on library. right? Regards, -aimslife . Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285385
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    - Synchronization and volatile Hello everyone, Through myself study and previous discussion here, I share the conclusion here that, if some object is synchronized (mutex, critical section, etc.), there is no need to add volatile keyword. Here is the reference, (refer to section volatile, Critical Sections, and Race Conditions) http://www.ddj.com/cpp/184403766 if my understanding is wrong or you have any other options, please feel free to add here. thanks in advance, George Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285384
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    - reference to local variable I was reviewing some visual c++ code which appears to suffer from a reference-to-local bug. However, I didn't see any compiler warning to that effect. (I don't think that the warning level was the issue.) In this code, the offending line is of the form return (*something).somethingelse; Could it be that the lack of transparency of the variable type is preventing the warning? Is it the case that warnings can show up with return x; but not with return (*something).somethingelse; Thank you for your help, Paul Epstein Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285379
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    - decimal or hex debug display In the VC++ 6.0 IDE I can toggle the debug display between hex and decimal by checking a box under Tools/Options/Debug. Where did they hide that setting in the Visual Studio 2005 IDE? The Options/Debugging dialog has about 20 items in it and I don't see anything about hex or decimal display. Thanks. Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285373
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    - M`I,5.Persec ution . ab use in set-u p situations an d in pu blic -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= abuse in set-up situations and in. public -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Strangers in the street have recognized me on sight many times, and. shown awareness of the current thread of abuse. To give you one example, in. 1992 I was seriously ill, and a. manager at work somewhat humorously said that "it wasn't fair" that people were bullying me. A. few days later, I attended for the first time a clinic in. London as an outpatient, and on my way out was accosted by someone who asked if "they had paid my fare", with. emphasis on the. word "fare". He repeated the word several times in this different context; that they should have. paid my "fare", each time emphasizing the word. For two and a half years from the time their harassment started. until November. 1992 I refused to see a psychiatrist, because I reasoned that I was not ill of my own action or fault, but through the stress caused. by harassment, and that a lessening of the illness would have to. be consequent to a removal of its immediate cause, in other words a cessation. of harassment.. I also reasoned that since they were taunting me with jokes about mental illness, if I were to seek treatment then. the abusers would think. that they had "won" and been proved "right". Remember, the constant theme of any persecution is,. "we must destroy you because you're X", whether X is a racial or other. attribute. In this case the X was "we persecute you because you have brain. disease". The similarity of this logic to Nazi attitudes. to the mentally ill is striking. The same manager who'd. said "it wasn't fair" asked me in winter 1992 why I didn't. seek help from a psychiatrist; was it, he asked, because "they would think they had won" if I sought treatment? That was. something I'd never said. at work... again, taken separately it proves nothing, but many such things over a period. of months proves conclusively that people in the company knew what was going. on, and in quite a lot of detail. Usually harassment in public lacks the. level of finesse of "paying your fare". Most people's imagination does not go. beyond moronic parroting of the current. term of denigration. That is not surprising given the average level. of the abusers; if they do not have the intelligence to distinguish wrong from. right then neither will they have the capacity for anything other. than mindless repetition of a monosyllabic term calculated to fit into their. minds. The first incidents of verbal. assault in public were in again in the summer of 1990, although they increased in. frequency and venom with time. In July 1990 the first public incident occurred on. a tube train on the Northern line. Two men and their girlfriends recognised me; the women sprang to. my defence, saying "He looks perfectly normal, he. doesn't look ill". Their boyfriends of course knew better, and followed the party line;. one of them made. reference to an "operation", apparently to work at the tube station but implicitly to a visit that I had made to hospital a. couple of weeks previously. In August 1990 going home from college, soon after getting on a tube. train at Gloucester. Road I was followed by a group of four youths, who started a chant of abuse. That they were targeting. me was confirmed by other people in the carriage, one of whom asked. the other "who are they going on at, is it the bloke who just got on?". to which the second replied "yes, I think so". I was tempted to reply, but as in every. other instance the abusers are enabled. in their cowardice by physically outnumbering the abused; any confrontation would result in my. being beaten up, followed by a complaint to the police that "he. attacked us", and of course he's ill, so he must have been imagining that we were getting. at him. Shitty, aren't they? But the shittiness of the four youths on. the tube train is as nothing compared to the episode on the National Express. coach to Dover in the summer of 1992. While going on holiday to the. Continent I was verbally set upon by a. couple travelling sitting a few rows behind. The boy did the talking,. his female companion contributing only a continuous empty giggling noise. He spoke loudly. to ensure other people on the coach heard, always about "they" and "this bloke" but never naming either. the abusers or the person he. was talking about. He said "they" had "found somebody from his school, and he. was always really stressed at school". They must have dug deep. to find enemies there; perhaps someone who dropped out of school, someone who didn't. do too well later, who was jealous and keen to get their own back? The boy also said "he. was in a bed and breakfast for only one night. and they got him". By a not unexpected coincidence I had been in a B&B in Oxford a. week previously, which had been booked from work; other things. lead me to the conclusion that the company's offices were bugged for most of the 2 1/2 years that I was there, so "they" would have. known a room in the B&B had been booked. (But. I'll bet "they" didn't tell the company's managers their. offices were bugged, did they?). After a few minutes of this I went back. to where they were sitting and asked where. they were travelling. The boy named a village in France, and the girl's giggling suddenly ceased; presumably it permeated to. her brain cell what the purpose of the boy's abuse. was. This and other set-up situations are obviously. calculated to provoke a direct confrontation. which would bring in the police, with the abusers claiming that they were the ones attacked. Again in. 1992, outside the house where I was living in Oxford I was physically attacked. by someone - not punched, just grabbed by the coat, with some verbals thrown in. for good measure. That was something the people at work. shouldn't have known about... but soon after a couple of people were talking right in. front of me about, "I heard he was attacked". The. UK police have a responsibility for preventing assault occurring, but they do not seem. to take any interest in meeting that responsibility. I suppose their attitude is that. harassment does not come within their remit unless it involves physical assault,. and they will only become involved once that happens.. That is of course quite the wrong attitude for them to take, but as. I now understand, the police investigate only the crime they wish to investigate; if they. do not take your complaints seriously then there is nothing. you can do to make them take. action. 3263 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285368
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    - M.I 5.Persecutio n - why wo n't the Bri tish poli ce do th eir j ob a nd pu t a sto p to i t? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= why won't. the British police do their job and put a stop to it? -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The British police. obviously do know what is taking place. Besides my interpretations of what individual officers have. said which forces that conclusion, it would be inconceivable for them. to be unaware of something on. this scale. If they know, then they will know that the abusers have broken laws in. the UK and abroad. Recently the. UK introduced laws against electronic spying which carry a. penalty of several years jail if caught. If the police know illegal harassment is taking place,. and do nothing about it, then they are failing. in their responsibilities. Last Easter (1995). I went into the local police station in London and spoke to an officer about the harassment against me. But. I couldn't provide tangible evidence; what people said,. in many cases years ago, is beyond proof, and without something to support my statements I cannot expect. a police. officer to take the complaint seriously. The current situation with regard to the police is not one which allows. a breakthrough in dealing with the. problem. On the one hand, most individual officers at a local police station may not know about. the ongoing assaults, so. a complaint at that level will not yield results. Yet the police as an organisation do know of the harassment, and they must be aware that. a complaint has been made at a police station. So. it is clearly their duty to take preventative action against the continuing. molestation, but because the criminals are operating on behalf of a state agency, the police are. not carrying out. their duty. 833 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285366
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    - M,I.5,Pers ecution wh y won 't th e Briti sh pol ice do their jo b a nd put a st op to i t? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= why won't the British police do their job and put a stop. to it? -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The. British police obviously do know what is taking place. Besides my interpretations of what individual officers have. said which forces that conclusion, it would be inconceivable for them to. be unaware of something on this. scale. If they know, then they will know that the abusers have broken laws. in the UK and abroad. Recently the UK. introduced laws against electronic spying which carry a penalty of several years jail if caught. If the police. know illegal harassment is taking. place, and do nothing about it, then they are failing in their. responsibilities. Last Easter (1995) I went into the local. police station in London and spoke to an officer about the harassment against me. But I. couldn't provide tangible evidence; what people said, in many cases. years ago, is beyond proof, and without something to support my statements. I cannot expect a police officer. to take the complaint seriously. The current situation with regard. to the police is not one which allows a breakthrough. in dealing with the problem. On the one hand, most individual officers at a local police. station may not know about the ongoing assaults, so a complaint at that level will not. yield results. Yet the police as an organisation do know. of the harassment, and they must be aware that a complaint has been made at a police station. So it is clearly. their duty to take. preventative action against the continuing molestation, but because the criminals are operating on behalf of. a state agency, the police are not carrying out their. duty. 833 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285365
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    - M,I-5,Perse cution , Berna rd Levi n ex presses hi s view s The article of which part is reproduced below. was penned by Bernard Levin for the Features section of. the Times on 21 September 1991. To my mind, it described the situation at the time and in particular a. recent meeting with a friend, during which I for the first. time admitted to someone other than my GP that I had been subjected to. a conspiracy of harassment over the previous. year and a half. >There is a madman running loose. about London, called David Campbell; I have >no reason to. believe that he is violent, but he should certainly be >approached with caution. You may know him by the curious glitter in. his >eyes and. a persistent trembling of his hands; if that does not suffice, you >will find him attempting to thrust no fewer than 48. books into your arms, >all hardbacks, with a promise that, if you should return to. the same >meeting-place next year,. he will heave another 80 at you. > >If, by now, the police. have arrived and are keeping a close watch on him, >you may feel sufficiently. emboldened to examine the books. The jackets are >a model of uncluttered typography, elegantly and simply. laid out; there is >an unobtrusive colophon of. a rising sun, probably not picked at random. >Gaining confidence - the lunatic is smiling by now,. and the policemen, who >know about such things, have significantly removed their helmets -. you >could do worse than take the jacket. off the first book in the pile. The >only word possible to describe the binding is sumptuous; real cloth in. a >glorious shade of dark green, with the title and author. in black and gold >on the. spine. > >Look at it more closely; your eyes do not deceive you - it truly. does have >real top-bands and tail-bands, in yellow, and, for good measure,. a silk >marker ribbon in a lighter green.. The paper is cream-wove and acid-free, >and the. book is sewn, not glued. > >Throughout. the encounter, I should have mentioned, our loony has been >chattering away, although what he is trying to. say is almost impossible to >understand; after a time, however,. he becomes sufficiently coherent to make >clear that he is trying to sell the books to you. Well,. now, such quality >in bookmaking today can only. be for collectors' limited editions at a >fearsome price -. #30, #40, #50? > >No, no, he says, the glitter more powerful. than ever and the trembling of >his hands. rapidly spreading throughout his entire body; no, no - the books >are priced variously at #7, #8 or. #9, with the top price #12. > >At this, the policemen understandably put. their helmets back on; one of >them draws his. truncheon and the other can be heard summoning >reinforcements on his. walkie-talkie. The madman bursts into tears, and >swears it is. all true. > >And it. is. > >David Campbell has acquired the entire rights to. the whole of the >Everyman's Library,. which died a lingering and shameful death a decade or >so ago, and he proposes. to start it all over again - 48 volumes this >September and 80 more. next year, in editions I have described, at the >prices. specified. He proposes to launch his amazing venture simultaneously >in Britain and the United States,. with the massive firepower of Random >Century at his back in this country, and the dashing cavalry. of Knopf >across the water, and. no one who loves literature and courage will forbear >to. cheer. At the time this article was written I had believed for some time. that columnists in. the Times and other journalists had been making references to my. situation. Nothing unusual about this you may think, plenty of people have the same sort of. ideas and obviously the papers aren't writing about them, so why. should my beliefs not be as false as those of others? What makes this. article so extraordinary is that three or four days immediately preceding its publication, I had a meeting with a. friend, during the course of which we. discussed the media persecution, and in particular that by Times. columnists. It seemed to me, reading the article by Levin in Saturday?s paper, that he was describing in some. detail his "artist?s impression" of that meeting. Most telling. are the final sentences, when he writes, "The. madman bursts into tears, and swears it is all true. And it is." Although I did not "burst into tears" (he seems to. be using. a bit of poetic licence and exaggerating) I did try hard to convince my friend that it was all. true; and I am able to concur with Mr Levin, because,. of course, it is. At the beginning of the piece Levin reveals a fear. of being attacked by the "irrational" subject of his story, saying "I have no reason to. believe that he is violent, but he should certainly be approached with caution".. This goes. back to the xenophobic propaganda of "defence" against a "threat" which was seen at the very beginning. of the harassment. The impression of a "madman running loose" who needs. to be controlled through an agency which assigns to itself the mantle of. the "police" is also one which had been expressed. elsewhere. In the final paragraph of. this extract, his reference to Everyman?s Library as having "died a lingering. and shameful death a decade or so ago" shows clearly what sort of conclusion they wish to their campaign. They want. a permanent solution, and as they are prevented. from achieving that solution directly, they waste significant resources on. methods which have been repeatedly shown to. be ineffective for such a purpose. 833 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285364
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    - M'I.5 Persecuti on , Berna rd L evin express es h is vi ews The article of which part is reproduced below was penned by Bernard. Levin for the Features section of the Times. on 21 September 1991. To my mind, it described the. situation at the time and in particular a recent meeting with a friend, during which. I for the first time admitted to someone other than my GP. that I had been subjected to a conspiracy of harassment over the previous. year and a half. >There is a madman running loose. about London, called David Campbell; I have >no reason to believe that he is. violent, but he should certainly be >approached with caution. You. may know him by the curious glitter in his >eyes and a persistent. trembling of his hands; if that does not suffice, you >will find him attempting to thrust no. fewer than 48 books into your arms, >all hardbacks, with. a promise that, if you should return to the same >meeting-place next year, he will heave another 80. at you. > >If,. by now, the police have arrived and are keeping a close watch on him, >you may feel sufficiently emboldened to examine. the books. The jackets are >a. model of uncluttered typography, elegantly and simply laid out; there is >an unobtrusive. colophon of a rising sun, probably not picked at random. >Gaining. confidence - the lunatic is smiling by now, and the policemen, who >know about such things, have significantly removed their helmets -. you >could do worse than take the jacket. off the first book in the pile. The >only word possible to describe the binding is. sumptuous; real cloth in a >glorious shade of dark green, with the title and author in black and. gold >on the. spine. > >Look at it more closely; your eyes do not deceive you -. it truly does have >real top-bands and tail-bands, in yellow, and, for. good measure, a silk >marker ribbon in a lighter green. The paper is cream-wove and. acid-free, >and the book is sewn, not. glued. > >Throughout. the encounter, I should have mentioned, our loony has been >chattering away, although what he is trying to. say is almost impossible to >understand; after a time, however, he becomes sufficiently coherent. to make >clear that. he is trying to sell the books to you. Well, now, such quality >in bookmaking today can only be for collectors' limited editions at. a >fearsome. price - #30, #40, #50? > >No, no, he says, the glitter more powerful than ever and. the trembling of >his hands. rapidly spreading throughout his entire body; no, no - the books >are priced variously. at #7, #8 or #9, with the top price #12. > >At this, the policemen understandably put their helmets. back on; one of >them draws his. truncheon and the other can be heard summoning >reinforcements on his walkie-talkie. The madman bursts into. tears, and >swears it is. all true. > >And it. is. > >David Campbell. has acquired the entire rights to the whole of the >Everyman's Library, which died a lingering and shameful death a decade. or >so ago, and he proposes to start. it all over again - 48 volumes this >September and 80 more next year, in editions. I have described, at the >prices specified. He proposes. to launch his amazing venture simultaneously >in Britain and the United. States, with the massive firepower of Random >Century at his. back in this country, and the dashing cavalry of Knopf >across the water, and no one who loves. literature and courage will forbear >to. cheer. At. the time this article was written I had believed for some time that columnists. in the Times and other journalists had been making references to my situation. Nothing unusual. about this you may think, plenty of people have. the same sort of ideas and obviously the papers aren't writing about them, so why should my beliefs not be as. false as those of others? What makes this article. so extraordinary is that three or four days immediately preceding its publication, I had a meeting. with a friend, during the course of. which we discussed the media persecution, and in particular that by Times columnists. It seemed to. me, reading the article by Levin in Saturday?s paper, that he was describing in some. detail his "artist?s. impression" of that meeting. Most telling are the final sentences, when he writes, "The madman bursts into tears,. and swears it is all true. And. it is." Although I did not "burst into tears" (he seems to be using a bit of poetic licence and exaggerating) I did try hard. to convince my friend that it was all. true; and I am able to concur with Mr Levin, because,. of course, it is. At the beginning of the piece. Levin reveals a fear of being attacked by the "irrational" subject of his story, saying "I. have no reason to believe that he is violent, but he should certainly be approached with. caution". This goes back to the xenophobic propaganda of "defence" against. a "threat" which was seen at the very beginning of. the harassment. The impression of a "madman running loose" who needs to be controlled through an. agency which assigns to itself the. mantle of the "police" is also one which had been expressed. elsewhere. In the. final paragraph of this extract, his reference to Everyman?s Library as having "died a lingering and shameful. death a decade or so ago" shows clearly what sort of conclusion they wish to. their campaign. They want a permanent solution, and. as they are prevented from achieving that solution directly, they waste significant resources on methods which. have been repeatedly shown to. be ineffective for such a purpose. 5693 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285363
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    - M`I,5`Pe rsecution . w ho kn ows abou t i t? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= who knows. about it? =- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Many people know, both in the. establishment and media, and among the general. public. Despite an absence of its target from the UK for more than two years, the echoes of paranoia can still be. heard loud and clear from across. the water. When it started in 1990, the only people who knew were those in BBC television who. were spying on my home, and a few radio broadcasters. There were a few cases of public harassment, but. very little compared to the situation that developed a couple of. years later. The list today includes BBC. TV staff (newsreaders such as Martyn Lewis, Michael. Buerk, Nicholas Witchell), people from radio stations such as Chris Tarrant of Capital and Radio 1 DJs, people in. the print media, but also. many people in the general public. All united in a conspiracy which breaks the laws which. the UK does have regarding harassment, and all completely uncaring for any. semblance of decency or elementary respect for individual. rights. The British police (obviously) do. know the nature of the harassment and in all probability the identity of those behind it. Some. time ago I made a complaint to my local police station in London, without. positive result. The UK police are failing in their duty to see. the law enforced in not checking. the abuse. 3263 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285362
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    - M,I.5,Persecut ion ' h ow and w hy d id it start ? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= how. and why did it start? -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The harassment didn't. start by itself, so someone must have been there at the outset to give it. a firm push and set the "animals" after me. It looks as if I was set up in June 1990, and the. timing indicates someone from university was. responsible. >One thing which has been missing from this discussion. is this simple >prognosis: that maybe he is right and that,. despite his admitted >mental condition, there. really is a campaign against him organised by >now-influential ex-students. of his university. In May or June 1990, Alan Freeman on Radio 1 read out a. letter from someone who had known me for a few years, who wrote of the one who "wore out. his welcome. with random precision" (from the Pink Floyd song). Freeman went on to say to the writer "that's a hell of a. letter you wrote there". The indication is strongly. that people I had parted from soon before nursed a grudge against me and were trying to cause. trouble for me. The suggestion is that Freeman might have shown the. letter to other people, and things could have snowballed from. there. Right from the start the real source (security services presumed) didn't announce themselves. as the origin, but let the. "talkers", the radio DJs, believe that they were the originators. Think about it; if. you announce, "we're MI5 and we have a campaign against this bloke" then people might not go. along with it; but if you say, "everyone else is getting at this bloke because he. 'deserves' it" then people will join in with. fewer qualms. >Why would "they" wish. to assassinate your character? It's the classic case of hitting. a cripple to prove you're stronger. Why would the security services expend hundreds of thousands of pounds. and more than six years of manpower to try to. kill a British citizen? Because they are motivated by. people who knew me at university and feel personal animosity; because they knew me to be emotionally weak, and it. is in the nature of bullies to prey on those known to be weak; and because. they can rely on the complicity of the establishment, which. the security services manipulate and derive. funding from. This is England's biggest humiliation today, and the British security services. are intent on preventing their humiliation becoming reality by continuing their campaign. of attempted murder to suppress the truth from. becoming public. 833 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285360
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    - M-I'5`Persecutio n . h ow an d wh y d id it star t? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=. how and why did it start? -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The harassment didn't start by itself, so someone. must have been there at the outset to give it a firm push and set the "animals". after me. It looks as if I was set up in June 1990, and. the timing indicates someone from university. was responsible. >One thing which has been missing from this discussion is. this simple >prognosis: that maybe he is. right and that, despite his admitted >mental condition, there really is a campaign against. him organised by >now-influential ex-students of. his university. In. May or June 1990, Alan Freeman on Radio 1 read out a letter from someone who had known me for a few years, who. wrote of the one who "wore out his welcome. with random precision" (from the Pink Floyd song). Freeman went on to say to the writer "that's a. hell of a letter you wrote there". The indication is strongly that people I had parted from soon before nursed. a grudge against me and were trying to cause trouble. for me. The suggestion is that Freeman might. have shown the letter to other people, and things could have snowballed from there.. Right from the start the real source (security services presumed). didn't announce themselves as the origin,. but let the "talkers", the radio DJs, believe that they were the originators. Think about it; if you announce, "we're MI5 and. we have a campaign against. this bloke" then people might not go along with it; but if you say, "everyone else is getting at this. bloke because he 'deserves' it" then people will join in with. fewer qualms. >Why would "they" wish to assassinate. your character? It's the classic. case of hitting a cripple to prove you're stronger. Why would the security services expend hundreds of thousands of. pounds and more than six years of manpower to try to kill a British. citizen? Because they are motivated by people who knew me at. university and feel personal animosity; because they knew me to be. emotionally weak, and it is in the nature of bullies to prey on those known to be weak; and. because they can rely on the. complicity of the establishment, which the security services manipulate and. derive funding from. This is England's biggest humiliation today, and the British security services are. intent on preventing their humiliation becoming reality by. continuing their campaign of attempted murder to suppress the. truth from becoming public. 10553 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285359
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    - Problem with porting from 2003 I have a very strange problem with an application that I have been porting from VS 2003 to VS 2005. I started this with Visual C++ 6.0, so it's all nmake based, so it's not the IDE I am having problems with - it's the compiler. I have a system with a fairly large number of libraries. I build each of these libraries as a DLL for development purposes. When I ship the application, I do a static link. I change a directive call PUBLIC from dllimport to dllexport appropriately as a either use a library, or build a library. When I do a static link, PUBLIC is defined to be blank. The approach works well as it reduces the cycle time for the compile link. It also forces cleaner partitioning of the system. The configuration can build libraries with circular dependency, but I usually avoid this. Anyway, all this worked sweetly with VS 2003. Now, with VS 2005, for some of the libraries, I receive the following cryptic error: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE \afxcoll.h(689) : error C2248: 'CObject::CObject' : cannot access private member declared in class 'CObject' C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE \afx.h(551) : see declaration of 'CObject::CObject' C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE \afx.h(522) : see declaration of 'CObject' This diagnostic occurred in the compiler generated function 'CPtrList::CPtrList(const CPtrList &)' This occurs near the end of the compile and does not tell me the line in my code that has initiated the problem. I did some reverse engineering of this and found the class that seemed to be causing this. It was a derivative of a Rogue Wave Stingray class (call it class DERIVED). I was compiling a file in one directory, including the header for DERIVED located in another directory. The class DERIVED was prefixed with dllimport and all the classes in the library being built are prefixed with dllexport. The reason I am mentioning this is that I think its the import/export mechanism that is failing. When I move the file that failed compilation to the same directory as DERIVED, the file compiles! It seems to me that this must be a bug. Another point to note is that I am make very extensive usage of templates in my own code. Has anyone seen something like this? Thanks, Stan ps I tried the same code with VS 2008 and receievd the same failure. Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285358
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    - M`I,5.Persecuti on . co st of th e operation -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -= MI5: cost. of the operation -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Here's what a couple of other people on Usenet (uk.misc). had to say regarding. the cost of running such an operation... PO: >Have some sense, grow up and smell. reality. What you are talking about PO: >would take loads of planning, tens of thousands of pounds. and lots of PO: >people involved in the planning, execution and maintenance. of it. You PO: >must have. a very high opinion of yourself to think you are worth it. PM: >But why? And why you?. Do you realize how much it would cost to keep PM: >one person under continuous surveillance for five years?. Think about PM: >all the man/hours. Say. they _just_ allocated a two man team and a PM:. >supervisor. OK., Supervisor's salary, say, #30,000 a year. Two men, PM: >#20,000 a year each. But they'd need to work in shifts --. so it would PM:. >be six men at #20,000 (which with on-costs would work out at more like PM: >#30,000. to the employer.) PM:. > PM:. >So, we're talking #30,000 x 6. #180,000. plus say, #40,000 for the PM: >supervisor. #220,000.. Then you've got the hardware involved. And PM: >any transcription that needs doing. You don't think. the 'Big Boss' PM: >would listen to hours and hours. of tapes, do you. PM:. > PM: >So, all in all,. you couldn't actually do the job for much less than PM: >a quarter million a year. Over five years. What are you doing that. makes PM: >it worth the while of the. state to spend over one and a quarter million PM: >on. you? Those are pretty much the sort of calculations that. went through my head once. I stopped to consider what it must be costing them to run this operation. The partial answer is, there have. been periods when the intensity has been greater,. and times when little has happened. In fact, for much of 1993 and the first half of 1994, very little happened.. Although I don't. think that was for reasons of money - if they can tap into the taxpayer they're not going to. be short of resources, are they? The more complete answer. is in the enormity of what they're doing. Relative to the cost to British. pride of seeing their country humiliated for the persecution of their own citizens,. isn't is worth the cost of four or five people to try to bring things to a close in the manner they. would wish? To the government a million or two is quite honestly nothing - if. they can convince themselves of the necessity of what. they're doing, resources will not be. the limiting factor. 8123 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285357
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    - M-I,5.P ersecution - Ca pital Radio - C hris T arrant -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-= -= Capital. Radio - Chris Tarrant -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-= Capital Radio DJs have been "in on it" from the start.. One of the first things I heard in the summer of 1990 was from a Capital DJ who said,. "If he. listens to Capital then he can't be all bad" (supportive, you see. We're not bastards). Much of what came over the radio. in 1990 is now so far away the precise details have been obliterated by time. No diary. was kept of the details, and although archives. if they exist may give pointers, the ambiguity of what broadcasters. said would leave that open to re-interpretation. In spring 1994, Chris Tarrant on his Capital morning show made an. aside to someone. else in the studio, about a person he didn't identify. He said, "You know. this bloke? He says we're trying to kill him. We should be done for. attempted manslaughter". That mirrored. something I had said a day or two before. What Tarrant said was understood by the staff member in the studio. he was saying it to; they said,. "Oh no, don't say that" to Tarrant. If any archives exist of the morning show (probably. unlikely) then it could be found there; what he said was so out of context that he would be very hard. put to find an explanation. A couple of days later, someone at. the site where I was working repeated the remark although in a different. way; they said there had been people in a computer room when automatic fire. extinguishers went off and those people were "thinking. of suing for attempted manslaughter". Finally,. this isn't confined to the established radio stations. In 1990 after I had listened to a pirate radio. station in South London for about half an hour, there was an audible phone call in the. background, followed by total silence for a few moments, then shrieks. of laughter. "So what are we supposed to say now? Deadly torture? He's going. to talk to us now, isn't he?", which meant that they could hear what. I would say in my room. 5693 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285356
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    - M I.5'Perse cution ' b ugging an d c ounter-surveillance -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -= MI5: bugging. and counter-surveillance -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- PO: >Did you ever look for the bugs. in your house ? If not, why not ? I mean if PO: >I thought that was happening to. me, I'd search the place from top to bottom, PO:. >I mean I live there I would know if anything was out of place. If I was PO: >really. suspicious, I would call in one of those bug detection teams which PO: >have those machines that. pick up the transmitted radio waves. This PO: >reminds me of. BUGS, that new programme on BBC1 on That's exactly what we did.. We went to a competent, professional detective agency in London, paid them over 400 quid. to debug our house. They used scanner devices which go to over 1 GHz and would. pick up any nearby transmitter in that range,. they also checked the phones and found nothing... but if the tap was at the exchange,. then they wouldn't find anything, would. they? CS: >Doesn't this suggest to you that there are, in fact, no bugs. to be found? You can assume that they've done this sort of thing to other people in. more "serious". cases, where they would know the targets would suspect the presence. of electronic surveillance. So they will have developed techniques and devices which are not readily detectable either by. visual inspection or by electronic means. What those techniques. might be, I couldn't guess. In this case, the existence of bugging. devices was clear from the beginning, and they "rubbed it in". with what was said by the boy on the coach. It was almost. as if they wanted counter-surveillance people to be called in, who they knew would fail to. detect the bugging devices, causing loss of credibility to the other things I would have to say relating. to the harassment. I did all the. things someone in my situation would do to try to find the bugs. In addition to calling in. professional help using electronic counter-surveillance, I made a. close visual inspection of electrical equipment, plus any points where audio or. video surveillance devices might have been. concealed. Of course, I found nothing. Normal surveillance "mini-cameras" are quite. noticeable and require visible supporting circuitry. It seems to me the. best place to put a small video surveillance device would be additional to a. piece of electronic equipment such as a TV or video. It would. be necessary to physically break in to a property to fit such. a device. 3263 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285355
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    - M I`5 Persecutio n ' t he BBC, t elevision a nd radi o -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-= -= the BBC, television and radio. -= -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-= The first incident in June 1990. was when a BBC newsreader made what seemed to be a reaction. to something which had happened in my home, and out of context. of what they were reading. My first reaction was disbelief; nothing of the sort had ever happened before,. the idea that such a thing could occur had not crossed my mind, yet there was no doubt. of what had just taken place. My disbelief eroded as this recurred time after. time. Besides the. news, offenders included shows such as Crimewatch (!), Newsnight, and "entertainment" shows. There seems to be very little. moral understanding among the people who make these programmes; they just assume. they will never be caught,. so they carry on without a thought for the illegality or amorality. of what they do. The only time I ever heard a word raised in doubt was by Paxman being interviewed by someone else (I think by. Clive Anderson) back in 1990; referring to the. "watching" he said it troubled him, and when asked by the host what. you could do about it, replied "Well, you. could just switch it off" (meaning the surveillance monitor in the studio). He clearly didn't. let his doubts stand in the way of continued surreptitious spying from his own or other people's shows,. though. Now you're convinced this is a troll,. aren't you? This story has been the subject of much debate on. the uk.* Usenet newsgroups for over a year, and some readers believe it to be an invention (it has even been suggested. that a group of psychology students are responsible!), others think. it symptomatic of. a derangement of the author, and a few give it credence. Quite a few people do know. part or all of the story already, so this text will fill in the gaps in their knowledge.. For the rest, what may persuade you. of the third possibility is that some of the incidents detailed are checkable against any archives of radio and TV programmes. that exist; that the incidents involve named people (even. if those hiding in the shadows have not made their identity or affiliations evident),. and those people may be persuaded to come out with. the truth; and that the campaign of harassment is. continuing today both in the UK and on the American continent,. in a none-too-secret fashion; by its nature the significant risk of exposure increases with. time. On several occasions people said to my face. that harassment from the TV was happening. On the first day I worked in. Oxford, I spent the evening in the local pub with. the company's technical director Ian, and Phil, another employee. Ian made a few references to me and said to. Phil, as if in an aside,. "Is he the bloke who's been on TV?" to which Phil replied, "Yes, I think. so". I made a number of efforts to find the bugs, without. success; last year we employed professional counter-surveillance people to scan for bugs. (see later) again without result. In autumn 1990 I disposed of. my TV and watched virtually. no television for the next three years. But harassment from TV stations has gone. on for over six years and continues to this day. This is something that many people obviously know is happening; yet. the TV staff have the. morality of paedophiles, that because they're getting away with it they. feel no wrong. Other people who were involved in the abuse in 1990 were DJs on. BBC radio stations, notably disc. jockeys from Radio 1 and other stations (see the following section). Again, since they don't have sense in. the first place they can't be expect to have the moral. sense not to be part of criminal harassment. 833 Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285354
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    - toolbars Does anyone know how the toolbars are done in Internet Explorer? I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to add similar functionality to my application. Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285353
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    - fan-shaped purple icons appearing next to files I have just installed Visual Studio service pack 1. Suppose I work on a vc++ solution, and then open files outside a solution. I then use a pull-down menu on the right-hand side of the screen to view the names of the open files. I have noticed that _some_ of the non-solution files are labelled with a prominent fan-shaped purple icon and some aren't. Two questions. The purple icon seems potentially a useful diagnostic feature if I could only understand it. 1) What is the rule which says when this icon appears? 2) I only noticed this icon after installing Visual Studio service pack 1. Is the feature from SP1 or is it just that I never noticed it before? Thanks a lot for your help, Paul Epstein Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285352
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    - ATOM Why does the RegisterClass function return an ATOM? What do window classes have to do with atoms? Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285349
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    - Using TLSAlloc to read data into a DLL I am very new to Windows programming, and wanted to learn more about the use of the function TlsAlloc. My specific application is that I would like to read data into a file when the DLL is first loaded, and store that data in a memory block that is untouched until the DLL is unloaded. For my particular problem, use of the STATIC keyword is insufficient. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Tag: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) Tag: 285323

Hi, I recently came accross an interesting article on DDP's website:
http://www.ddj.com/database/184401205?pgno=1. Unfortunately, the link to
the code that was discussed in the article is no longer available. I
tried contacting the author (Ben M. Faul), but received a delivery
failure notification when I contacted him athe address he provided in
the article.

I was wondering, by chance, does anyone in here have a copy copy of the
original code lying about somewhere?. If so, I'd be very grateful if you
could mail it to me at the following address:

takashi_[MAGIC_NUMBER]@[opposite_of_cold]mail.com

Where the magic number is 950 - 1

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Re: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) by Michael

Michael
Tue Jan 08 07:57:05 CST 2008

2b|!2b==? a écrit :
> Hi, I recently came accross an interesting article on DDP's website:
> http://www.ddj.com/database/184401205?pgno=1. Unfortunately, the link to
> the code that was discussed in the article is no longer available. I
> tried contacting the author (Ben M. Faul), but received a delivery
> failure notification when I contacted him athe address he provided in
> the article.
>
> I was wondering, by chance, does anyone in here have a copy copy of the
> original code lying about somewhere?. If so, I'd be very grateful if you
> could mail it to me at the following address:
>
> takashi_[MAGIC_NUMBER]@[opposite_of_cold]mail.com
>
> Where the magic number is 950 - 1
CUJ ftp site is still up.

You can download the source code at:
ftp://ftp.cuj.com/sourcecode/cuj/2000/cujmar2000.zip

Michael

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Re: [OT] - Dr Dobbs Portal Article (March 01, 2000) by user

user
Tue Jan 08 08:14:46 CST 2008

Michael DOUBEZ wrote:

> 2b|!2b==? a écrit :
>
>> Hi, I recently came accross an interesting article on DDP's website:
>> http://www.ddj.com/database/184401205?pgno=1. Unfortunately, the link
>> to the code that was discussed in the article is no longer available.
>> I tried contacting the author (Ben M. Faul), but received a delivery
>> failure notification when I contacted him athe address he provided in
>> the article.
>>
>> I was wondering, by chance, does anyone in here have a copy copy of
>> the original code lying about somewhere?. If so, I'd be very grateful
>> if you could mail it to me at the following address:
>>
>> takashi_[MAGIC_NUMBER]@[opposite_of_cold]mail.com
>>
>> Where the magic number is 950 - 1
>
> CUJ ftp site is still up.
>
> You can download the source code at:
> ftp://ftp.cuj.com/sourcecode/cuj/2000/cujmar2000.zip
>
>
> Michael

Thanks Michael

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