Recent content by jimjake

1…I know Visual C++ deals with ascii text, but I have a file Created in Excel I want to manipulate, can it be done. 2…Is there a way to make a Dialog Box bigger then what ClassWizard gives you …… Thank you Jim

The below code is what I have put in to check the length Of m_EditBox. Below that is the error I am getting. Does anyone know where The A is coming from, I did not type it. CString strEdit; m_EditBox.GetWindowText (strEdit); int nLen=strEdit.GetLength (); error C2039...

I have an EditBox I want to check the length of. The var is m_EditBox. Could someone give my a sample of code to check the length of m_EditBox. The book I am learning from has no mention of this. Thank you Jim

CFile fileEditText; if(fileEditText.Open("c:\\My Documents\\jiminsurance.txt", CFile::modeRead)); { char cBuf[512]; UINT uBytesRead; while(uBytesRead = fileEditText.Read(cBuf,sizeof(cBuf)-1)) { cBuf[uBytesRead] = NULL; m_EditBox += CString(cBuf); } fileEditText.Close()...

I have created a Dialog based project, it has four buttons. When I press button1 I want it to execute a piece of code. The Code is already written and compiles with out error or warnings. When I wrote the program I did it as a console based application. The source code had the declares up front...

Is there somewhere out there a simple sample of a SDI project that has a simple dialog box that initializes when the program starts. I am missing it, I don’t understand how to create an instance to make The Dialog pop. One of your best programmers suggested that I skip the exercise in the book...

I want to thank you....

cdraycott / timmay3141, First I would like to thank you for your quick answers. Now I have lost all the hair I had left (HA HA). In my HelloSDI project I have these files. HelloDlg.cpp HelloSDI.cpp HelloSDI.rc HelloSDIDoc.cpp HelloSDIView.cpp MainFrm.cpp stdafx.cpp I still do not understand...

I recently bought a book “ Visual C++ 6 Teach yourself in 24 hours. I have a basic understanding of C++, but I wanted to learn Windows applications. I am having problems with the SDI Applications. I have done the project listed in the book at least 50 times and it always ends the same way. 1. I...

Thank you I understand now

The book I am using refers to CHAR, and I understand this pretty well. But there is code in the book the states CHAR* and no where do I find An explanation for this, can you help…… jim

thank you(ha ha) it's as clear as mud, but covers the ground I will read about createProcess...... jim, agai thank you.....

Trying to get this process in my mind. I have a single source Program I developed with std::cout and std::cin. I then found an Example of a window program that displays a window with one Button in it. Now the button destroys the window. I want to execute my Program when I hit the button. I used...

Your a god send yhank you ..... jim

I wrote a program, and it works fine. It’s a console program. When I run it under my compiler it stops and says press enter to return. When I run it outside the program executes and the console window with the information disappears in a split second, there is no chance to read it. Is there away...