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. A general purpose manager for saving and restoring values and objects Quite often when writing code, one needs to save a value or object, perform some operation on it, and then restore the original value. This mean creating a variable to hold the saved state, and initialising it, at the beginning of a block, […]

Here is a sample using system resources available to get a MicroSecond delay function. As we know the system has WM_TIMER which gives about 50mS resolution, and Mutlimedia Timers which can do about 1mS, and if one require a simple delay of say 100microseconds with about 5% accuracy there is nothing available to do that. […]

This is a dll that exports a function called Wait(). Wait() is similiar with WinExec(). The difference is that Wait() run an application and return until the application ends. This project consists of 3 functions: Wait() Create a thread and wait for an event. Use pThreadEvent to identify if the called application ends. WaitForSingleObject() pauses […]

The stl algorithms for_each and find_if are inadequate when you need more data for the predicate. Here are two new algorithms TDfind_if and TDfor_each which solve that problem. To use: std::list<OBJECT> theList; class DATA { public: bool IsValid(const OBJECT& rObject) const; void OperateOn(OBJECT& rObject) const; }; bool IsValid(OBJECT theObject, DATA theData) { return theData.IsValid(theObject); } […]

Many RT applications need to display a simple plot with gauge versus time and update it on-line. All 3rd party charts and plots contains a large amount of fancy presentation options slowing down the plot and making them useless for RT purposes. I have even testet out some of the specialized RT plots in the […]

This article was contributed by Jignesh Patel. Overview of the Add-In: The feature to set bookmarks (using Ctrl-F2) in a text file available in the Dev Studio editor is very useful when going through a HUGE source file. The drawback is that, once the text file is closed you lose all the bookmarks set in […]

Abby is an add-in to Microsoft Developer Studio 97. It expands abbreviations like “abb” in good old vi. For example, “w” can be expanded to: while () { } Please send bug reports and suggestions to yonat@usa.net. Latest version available at http://www.kinetica.com/home/yon/4dev/. Disclaimer: This software is provided as-is. Don’t blame me if it trashes your […]

Spelly is an add-in to Microsoft Developer Studio 97. It adds the ability to spellcheck source code and comments, including identifiers with under_scores and MixedCase. Please send bug reports and suggestions to yonat@usa.net. Latest version available at http://www.kinetica.com/home/yon/4dev/ Disclaimer This software is provided as-is. Don’t blame me if it trashes your source files, your system, […]

There is some information about this utility and a download link below, but for detailed information please refer to the InfoViewer Assistant’s homepage. For information about Microsoft’s InfoViewer, see the unofficial InfoViewer Information page. Some of the issues it addresses. This utility is intended to address some of the concerns about the InfoViewer help system. […]

Planet Paul presents CleanEx, a handy shell extension for cleaning junk files from folder hierarchies – particularly useful for programmers wanting to clear out compiler intermediates. Great for any situation where you often need to clear out a folder, but don’t want to be hunting around for a cleanup app. If you can see the […]

This tool was contributed by Hans Wedemeyer. MapMode.exe is an interactive tool that can help a programmer better understand various graphics functions and their interactions. It demonstrates the interactions of SetMapMode() // all eight modes SetWindowExt () SetViewportExt () SetViewportOrg () CreateCompatibleBitmap() BitBlt( ) Have you ever wondered what a printed page will look like […]

This tool was contributed by Jimmy Venema ClassBuilder is an Object Oriented C++ front end to your compiler. It lets you create, manipulate and navigate classes, class relations, class members and class methods at a high level of abstraction trough a graphical user interface. Its rich feature list includes: Full code generation for the defined […]