Inventive advertising: highly amusing. The true price of freedom is war.

See this article and accompanying code, Examples written in both C# and VB.net http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/NET/Code/Libraries/Windows\_Messages/Simple\_Interprocess\_Communication/article.asp ERobishaw

In my experience (embedded systems on big-endian PowerPC, Windows on little-endian Pentiums), floating point numbers are treated the same as integer quantities (i.e. PowerPC byte-ordering for floats is the opposite of Pentium). Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'

Thanks to everybody for mostly constructive input. FYI, I settled on using critical sections, as there is no forseeable need for inter-process locking. I also plan to reduce the number of locks, down from a lock per object to a medium granularity, probably using one lock per class. Again, thanks for input. Bernd

berndg wrote: This guy broke the world TV viewing record[^] with 47 hours 8 minutes. Bah. Light-weight. As long as it includes bathroom breaks, then I could break that easier during Euro 2004, England Test Series and the rest of the summer tv. :-D Michael CP Blog [^]

berndg wrote: When you said the TV was crap, did you relate that to the TV on Demand offerings, or to the fact that all channels repeat stuff over and over again? Any rating on image quality, and overal robustness, speed and availability? I can't comment too much I'm afraid - have only seen it a couple of times. The subscriber seemed rather unhappy about the frequency of repeats on each channel (I think he was subscribed to the nature and history channels). The actual service seems pretty quick, so if you aren't interested in email it may be a good solution - I'm probably not qualified to say :) Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams Meg's World - Blog Photography

:laugh: "there is no spoon" biz stuff   about me

I have written a spec for a real time backup app that does exactly this. The tricky part is a good versioning algorithm. I've also written some proof of concept code. But unfortunately it is on the back burner for a while as other product development (surfulater) has taken priority. The Backup software market is incredibly crowded so I'm not even sure if I want to there. Mind you most of it is crapware IMO.:rose: Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows www.getsoft.com and coming soon: Surfulater www.surfulater.com

The source of the problem can be in any piece that's referenced in the linking process: object files in your project, import libraries, or 'function' libraries. You've rebuilt your entire project under VS.NET, so the object files in your project should not be the problem. Import libraries are object libraries that contain stub functions that correspond to the actual functions in a DLL. These stub functions take care of loading the library and then calling the actual DLL function for you. An import library is associated with a specific DLL. If you link to an import library that was compiled under VC6, you will need the MFC42* DLL's. By 'function' libraries, I assume you mean object libraries. If any of these object libraries were compiled under VC6, you will probably also need the MFC42* DLL's. berndg wrote: I guess I can not link the application to both MFC42 and MFC71 at the same time, right? I don't believe so. You would have two different copies of MFC loaded, with the corresponding mix of state information. I doubt this would work well, if at all. Software Zen: delete this;

No, in that case, I would write: LD(A, _T("")) == _tcslen(A) LD(B, _T("")) == _tcslen(B) :-D Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski

:laugh: One of the most reliable ways to lie is to tell the absolute truth in such a way as not to be believed. I think the worm did the trick.;) Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl - you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...

Thanks for the clarification on the resource management issue. I wonder, though: why is it that I shouldn't use this for inter-thread communication (not GUI threads, but regular workers) within a process? TIA, Bernd

John M. Drescher wrote: Yes, I have seen this. Anyone ever try to end an AOL service contract? X| X| X| X| X| No single raindrop believes that it is responsible for the flood.

Reminds me of the Monty Python extortion skit with the army Major. Goon: "Nice tank there. Be a shame if something were to happen to it" Major: "Protection!! We're the bloody British Army!!" I try to think but nothing happens.

It's all a matter of personal preference. It certainly doesn't hurt anything (like I said, whether or not you use this, it compiles to the same IL instructions). I use it merely for code-readability...well, that I can type "this." faster than hitting Ctrl+J! :) While I think too many "developers" (see my personal message board for comments!) rely merely on IntelliSense for their stumbling around...er, coding...it the auto-complete does come in handy for coding faster and avoiding fewer spelling errors. Again, though, it's all a matter of personal preference. I know that this ( and Me, although I hate languages that "use me" :laugh: ) is implicit (heck, I've been doing this a very long time) but I just personally find it easier to see what's what as I'm flying through code. And, yes, explicit interfaces are definitely cool - sometimes even necessary (ex: interface member collisions). They can also help hide a lot of the implementation details and force developers using your library to treat your object as a specific interface rather than just your Type (hopefully forcing good OO development). -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.21 GCS/G/MU d- s: a- C++++ UL@ P++(+++) L+(--) E--- W+++ N++ o+ K? w++++ O- M(+) V? PS-- PE Y++ PGP++ t++@ 5 X+++ R+@ tv+ b(-)>b++ DI++++ D+ G e++>+++ h---* r+++ y+++ -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

there goes getting any work done..... this week :) "C++ : Where friends have access to your private members." — Gavin Russell Baker.

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