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Hi there everybody. I hope you are all well. I have a question about planning and designing computer programs. Can someone tell me how someone going about a large program would go about this. There would be allot of classes, functions, modules etc. I want to learn how to do …

Hi everyone.. Me again. I am confused about something so please correct me if I am not making sense. I have a program which outputs binary output which has been read from a file of encrypted data. When de-encrypted the output is supposed to represent numbers. Because it comes out …

Hello there everybody.. I am just trying to understand something in relation to bitshift operations. With reference to the small program below. I have tried to keep this as simple as possible. I understand that by doing this (integer << x), a temporary variable is formed to contain the result …

Hi everybody. I hope nobody is working too hard. I am trying to figure out a way to use the peek() method of the stringstream class but looking more than one place forward. For example, if I use stringstream.peek() it will let me know the value one value ahead of …

Hi everybody. Hope you are all well in the new year. I'm having trouble with joining two chars and displaying the output. For example Any clues as to how to do this? Thanks so much. #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; int main(); { char a = 'x'; char …

Trying to compile an Fast Light Tool Kit project for the first time. This is one I've generated in FLUID and dragged into Code::Blocks IDE (MinGW compiler). Not sure what this error means or how to fix it but it seems that it's very common? Any clues as to what …

Hi everybody.. Hope you're all well. I'm having a problem. How can I test for white space characters in c++ ? If I do the below it doesn't seem to work. char char1; // iterating through a file if (char1 = ' ') { cout << "WHITE SPACE" << endl; …

Hi everyone. Well, I'm overwhelmed with the amount of C++ books out there and own a few now. I'm specifically looking for a C++ Reference book which lists C++ STL libraries and functions like the orielly C++ pocket references on C++ or STL. Orielly's C++ in a Nutlshell looks pretty …

Hello everyone.. Would anyone know why I can't do the below. I'm not the best programmer in the world so I'm wondering why the below won't work. I get an error 'A template declaration cannot appear in block scope' No doubt it's due to my lack of understanding of the …

Hi everyone.. :), me again. I've never used Linked Lists.. They don't make sense to me. I kind of understand them though. There's plently of online explanations explaining what they are but they all go down the same path. I'm trying to undertstand how one Note (via the next pointer) …

Hi everyone.. Would anyone know where I could find a good explanation on 'Pipes' in programming. I'm trying to understand how I might go about using input into a GUI application to display output in a dos console. As I understand it, the concept of pipes comes into this somehow. …

Would anyone know where I could get a really extensive coverage of pre-processor directives? There are plenty of websites but the information is limited. Was hoping there was a complete source like a book out there. Thanks everyone.

Hi everyone.. I have to ask this question even though it will look a little silly to some of you. If I have a plugin for some open source software then how to do Install it. I'm using FLTK and have found a pluging for it. Just the sourcecode and …

Hi again everybody. Has anyone used tnFox Gui Toolkit? I've just looked at FLTK which seems to be perfect if you want to creat a small file size and easy to use. I'm exploring other options like this too. Is tnFox small in filesize. wxWidgets generates a rather big file. …

Just wondering if anyone has used FLTK gui toolkit before? If so what did you think? I'm unsure whether to use that or wxWidgets. Thanks

Hello again everybody. I have a question which may be very basic for allot of you, so here it goes. I want to understand the process of creating makefiles. I've I realise there's some books out there like 'Mastering Cmake' and 'GNU Make' which describe the insides of these things, …

Hi everyone.. I'm stumped on something. Does anyone know what WINDRES is? I know it is a Windows Resource Compiler but I'm not sure what this means in the big picure in different situations. I must have water in my keyboard because when I search on this I can't find …

Hi everyone.. Hope you all had a nice Christmas break. I'm currently looking for any good book which covers CMAKE. I understand that 'Mastering Cmake' is probably the most comprehensive but it's stupidly expensive. Even if I could get a PDF of a decent book it would be enough. Any …

Hi again everyone.. Happy New Year. Hope yours was as good as mine. Would anyone know if Javascript can be used to create complex search queries. I see that you can bring up a Java Console in web browsers such as Chrome and Firefix and I was thinking that with …

Hi again everyone.. Hope you're all having a nice Christmas. I have a question which I think could sound dumb. Can anyone tell me if Automake and Autoconf can be used on Windows. I seem to be able to find reference to it being used with Unix everywhere but nothing …

Hi again everyone. A really newby question coming up because I just don't know how to put this. If I want some software which can be compiled as part of my application / project etc, something which has little or no reliance on external programs (all packed in as part …

Hey... If I just built a library for any open source software for C++, what file type should the library files come in? .a OR .o files? Thank you.

Hi again everyone. This is going to sound really dumb but I have to ask it because I'm not very advanced at C++. If I have a function such as **Funct(int *arg1, int *arg2)** , how do I use this function in a program. Can I just enter the values …

Hi everyone.. This is going to sound like a dumb question but I have to ask it because I really don't understand something here. I understand that HTML is used to arrange and display data, but HTML has to be written on something and thats where I get stuck. Lets …

Hi all Can anyone tell me how I add a linker directory for a specific library to my project in Codeblocks. It would be better if it was there all the time but I think I have to go to Project>Build Options> then I have to select the 'Search Directories' …

Is it possible to set Environmental variables other than the ones set by default. I am trying to build an application though it keeps on telling me that it needs a file from another directory which doesn't seem to be in the include path. I am using a Mingw compiler …