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Remove Filter  | Hello, I am having a bit of an issue with my networking addition to my game engine. The engine uses SDL to provide an event-driven programming environment. I tried adding networking functionality, but it doesn't seem to work. Here is the relevant code: //includes #if defined(_WIN32) #include <winsock2.h> typedef int … |
| | Hello, I am working on a moderately large web development system and have been charged with developing the server-side application for the web site. As a primarily local developer I have by far the most experience in C/C++. My favourite language is Ada, just to give you a sense of … |
| | Hi. I am familiar with the following C graphics libraries: Cairo, SDL, SDL2, and OpenGL. The problem I have found with these is that they either require shared libraries (Cairo/SDL/SDL2) or are difficult to make cross-platform (OpenGL). I am wondering if there are any graphics libraries for C that do …  |
| | Hello, I recently wrote a program that I wish to be portable (IE: no installer, just raw files). I have made an icon for the program and can attach it to a shortcut, but not to the executable itself (it stays as the default). On top of that I have …  |
| | Hello, I posted on this forum two times before about a particular pair of non-printing characters being inserted into my code. You can find the threads [here](https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/threads/441611/stray-non-printing-characters-in-my-programs) and [here](https://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/450296/arbitrarily-appearing-non-printing-character). Two great posters tried their best to solve this problem (mike_2000_17 and deceptikon) to no avail. Finally, using the hints that … |
| | Hello, I used to use Code::blocks and eclipse for code editing, but started to find them slow. I started searching for lightweight IDE's and found that the prevailing opinion is that if you are looking for lightweight code creation you should use vim/emacs, gcc and the other gnu utilities. I …  |
| | Hello, I have an issue with a plain TeX document I am writing. I need to compile drawings as well as images into pdfs. I know how to get images into a pdf using \pdfximage which works if I compile with pdfTeX. I also know how to get drawings into … |
| | Hello, I have a USB key on which I do all of my programming. It is formatted as an NTFS drive with 32 gigabytes of space. On this drive I have large C::B projects which contain both windows and linux executables. When I try to run the linux executables it …  |
| | Hello, I have a bug in my program somewhere and I cannot understand why. The program merely prints data from a binary file. Here is the code: #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <vector> #include <cstdint> using namespace std; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (argc!=2) { cout<<"Invalid argument count, … |
| | Hello, I have learnt a few assembly languages (MIPS/x86/ARM/MIX) and I have a question about the call stack. Each of those languages uses a different method for subroutine linkage, and the way I learnt them was not conducive to recursion. Granted, if I continue reading my copy of The Art … |
| | Hello, I recently took a course on assembler/compiler construction. In it we covered parsing algorithms such as LL(n), LR(n), LALR(n), and SLR(n). I understand how these parsing algorithms can be used to determine **if** an input string follows a context free grammar (CFG). At some point I also understood how … |
| | Hello, I was recently looking through some of my code and found what I believe to be a memory leak. It is in a function that appends two strings and I am not sure how to resolve it. Here is the function: const char *strapp(const char *str,const char *s) { … |
| | Hello, I feel like this is probably something silly, but for some reason if I declare a variable at a certain point in my code, then never use it... it crashes. This is literally what happens: //... code here int isBuf=0;//one of my variables int zeroAddr=0;//<-- another variable I want, … |
| | Hello, Looking at the standard streams provided by the stl libraries, it seems as though it is impossible to have 1 stream to use for both standard console IO and file/string IO. However, before I give up I would like to ask, is this possible: generic_stream stream; stream=cin; //now I … |
| | Hello, I have a `HWND` for a window. I have double checked that it is a 100% valid window by using `SetActiveWindow()`, `SetFocus()`, and `SetForegroundWindow()` on it, successfully bringing it to the frontmost window. However whenever I try to use `GetPixel` on it it returns -1 (0xFFFFFFFF). What am I … |
| | Hello, I have a file which I need to read which contains some unusual characters (EG: 'â• ') and I need to be able to read it and convert those characters to numbers. As an example of what I am looking for would be code that reads a file and prints … |
| | Hello, I wrote a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic recently and spent a long time implementing efficient multiplication algorithms. Now I am looking to see if it is possible for me to optimize anywhere else. One place that I thought should be more optimizeable is my division algorithm. Right now … |
| | Hello, I have a particular set up of cast operators and constructors which is leading to a compile-time ambiguity error. I am wondering if somebody can explain why this is happening and what can be done to fix it. For example, here we have 2 classes: class A { int … |
| | Hello, I have a quick question about c/c++ syntax. Basically I am wondering when it is allowable to have numbers in identifiers. My compiler happens to allow numbers in: * Function names * Class names * Variable names * Pre-processor names As long as they do not begin with numbers. … |
| | I need to know which of these three copies of code is considered best. I also need to which one is more efficient memory wise and which is more efficient time wise. Thanks: enums [CODE]enum MyEnum{EnumTypeOne=1,EnumTypeTwo=2,EnumTypeThree=4,EnumTypeFour=8};[/CODE] macros [CODE]#define EnumTypeOne 1 #define EnumTypeTwo 2 #define EnumTypeThree 4 #define EnumTypeFour 8 typedef …  |
| | Hello, I have used taylor polynomials to approximate floating-point values before. I am wondering whether there is a way to still apply them to functions with complex arguments, and if there is a way what its constraints would be. For example, to calculate the sine of a floating-point number to …  |
| | Hello, I can get OpenGL to render 3D scenes to the screen, but I want to render them to a pixel array. Basically I want some magical code to fill in the blanks for this code segment: int width=500; int height=500; uint32_t *colours=new uint32_t[width*height]; //Magic code! glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES); //other drawing stuff, … |
| | Hello, Unfortunately I learnt OpenGL from NeHe tutorials, which means that all of my current methods for OpenGL-ing are extremely deprecated. I tried to find a more up-to-date tutorial, but all they seem to do is teach how to get really complicated stuff out of OpenGL. I just want to … |
| | Hello, I am working on an event driven library and am having one minor problem. Basically I have two ways to get what I want done. Method 1: Smart pointers and factory functions #include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <memory> using namespace std; class Object { public: virtual int getInt(){return 0;} … |
| | Hello, I am having a particularly nasty case of "What is the syntax?" while working on an event driven library. Basically this is what I want: class Object {// private: public: virtual bool onEvent(Event e)=0;//all objects have to react to events Object operator|(const Object &o) { // I want to … |
| | Hello, I am wondering how libraries create graphics contexts in a cross-platform manner. Somehow libraries like SDL create graphical windows seemingly without using the system headers. I know how to set up a window for graphics using Win32API, and how to get input from it using the same. How do … |
| | Hello, I noticed that in c++ everything that can be done using a static function in a class could be done by using a public function in the same namespace. Assuming that you bind your classes in a namespace these functions do not take up names in the global namespace. … |
| | This is more of a tale of "I think I broke it". Basically as an assignment for CS I have to write an assembler for a subset of the MIPS assembly language. Currently it is not working, getting a sigseg, so I decided to debug the code and step through …  |
| | Hello, I have recently decided to learn TeX for note taking purposes (both my parents are doctors, I inherited my handwriting from them, my class notes up until now look somewhat like the voynich manuscript) since MS Word takes far too long to type equations into. Overall it is going … |
| | Hello, I have a chain of inherited classes like this: class A { protected: int a; public: int getA(){return a;} }; class B:public A { protected: int b; public: int getB(){return b;} }; Based on that you can see that the public can only read the values in those classes, … |
| | Hello, I was just noticing that the 'const'ness of references often causes me to rewrite a large chunk of my code with pointers. For example if I have a class that needs access to a large amount of data from another class I would love to use a reference. However … |
| | Hello, I am about to move to a new home (with better internet) and I was thinking of buying a liquid cooling system so I can overclock my CPU and GPU(AMD FX-6100 Hex-Core and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti respectiveley). I just do not really understand how liquid cooling works. …  |
| | Hello, First of all some background. My friend and I are having a bit of a competition over theoretically infinite number storage. We have agreed that the first person with a working arbitrary precision integer library with the theoretical ability to store an infinitely large number (IE: if the hard … |
| | Hello, As may be apparent from my previous posts, I am in a "If its worth doing, its worth overdoing" sort of competition with a friend of mine. Our goal is arbitrary precision integer arithmetic. I think I am close to getting the data storage working, but now I want … |
| | I have a program using old data for a game I play to indicate which pixels correspond to the health bar in my game. (my program just loops until a button is clicked and presses a key if the health bar drops too low). Unfortunately the health bar has moved … |
| | Hello, I made an arbitrary precision integer library a few weeks ago. It works well, but is bounded by `256^(8*sizeof(size_t))` because it uses a simple dynamically allocated array to do its work. I want some way to have theoretically unbounded storage. I think that file io is probably best, but … |
| | I quickly threw together a drawing program in SDL and I am having a couple of issues with lag. The program lags really hard when the size is larger than about 700x700 pixels, and I cannot find anything other than a couple of SDL_BlitSurface calls to the 'image' surface in … |
| | Hello. I am wondering how EOFs are indicated to either the cstdio functions or the fstream functions. Mainly I am wondering how it differentiates it from data. For example, if EOF is a 2-byte code wouldn't this break the system by inserting a 'false' eof flag: for (int i=0; i<256; … |
| | I notice that daniweb does not have a forum for logical circuitry :(. Does anybody know a good site that does? Is it possible for logical circuitry to be added to daniweb? I often like to design custom circuits from transistor or gate level and up, and I have never …  |
| | Hello, I am working on making myself a digital clock (as a fun little project) and I want to have two buttons, one to increase a value (like the hour) and one to decrease, mainly because I am tired of the clocks where you have to button mash the 'increase' … |
| | Hello, I am very familiar with most of the sorting algorithms that are taught in first year university (as I just finished my first year in software engineering at the University of Waterloo). As such my current go-to sorting algorithms are insertion (on mostly pre-sorted data, or data where I … |
| | Hello. I read about the daniweb api competition thing and I have an idea of what I want to create. I have never done anything webby before (aside from using dreamweaver to make websites) and I think its about time that I did! I am hoping that it is possible … |
| | Hello, I only have a basic knowledge of ASM because every tutorial I have found (including Narue's) is based on using some kind of high level library or another. However when I look through disassemblies of pretty much any program I notice that all such library calls are gone. My … |
| | Hello, I am making a number of libraries to help me with my projects and I am torn between two approaches. I will show you what each looks like. I have no idea which would be considered 'better' in general. Locals: #ifndef SOME_GUARD #define SOME_GUARD VERSION_NUMBER #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" … |
| | Hello. I have been looking long and hard for an image library that meets these criteria that I have for pretty much any library I will use (with some obvious exceptions): A) Cross-Platform (If at all possible) B) Weightless (or nearly weightless) C) Stand-alone (I hate having to include DLLs … |
| | Hello. As a Software Engineer I admit a slight lack of knowledge with hardware. I am usually quite good with any hardware that is contained within the case, my issues lie in networking. Usually I fix my own computer problems, but now I have a couple networking problems that I … |
| | Hello. I was reading http://xkcd.com/287/ while bored and thus decided to write a program that would solve such np complete problems. Here is what I got: #include <iostream> #include <vector> using namespace std; template <typename T> T NPMenuProblem(T desired, vector<T> options, vector<T> &ret) { vector<T> save=ret; T remainder; T min=desired; … |
| | Hello, I am making a program that deals with bitmap files and I want to try to load bitmap data manually. The issue is that I cannot find a good resource for exactly what bitmap files can contain. [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format) has a decent article, but it is missing some important information. … |
| | Ok, so occassionally as I write my code, a non-printing character is insterted... according to code::blocks this character is actually two characters (\302 and \206). I have done much searching to solve the problem, but a solution has eluded me. I tried using the windows console type command on a … |
| | Hello, I am working on an arbitrary precision arithmetic library. I already created a version that just stored numbers as "before decimal point [unsigned array]" and "after decimal point [unsigned array]". The issue is that it is both inefficient and incomplete. I would like to incorporate complex numbers into the …  |
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