Posts by Ancient Dragon

None of them are beginner friendly, if you mean easy. VB and C# are easier than C or C++. At one time (several years ago) Borland C++ Builder seemed to be pretty good. I have not used it for several years and Borland has probably improved it a lot since then.

Look up those functions in MSDN and it will tell you what libraries you have to link to. Then add them to the project link settings. Just enter the function name in the search box from here.

France is a thread to world peace through their support for every terrorist and dictator out there.
That support is not because they actually like those people (I think) but as payoffs so they'll be left alone by them.
Just another way in which France always immediately surrenders when threatened.

That may have been true under Chirac, but he's out of the picture now and a new more pro-American president has taken over. So we might see some reversal of those policies.

looks like you are compiling your program for UNICODE. Turn it off. Prject --> Properties (last menu item in the list), then expand the Configuration Properties and select General. Then on the right side of the screen change Character Set to Not Set

Some of those other warnings say that your program is downgrading a double to a long. You will have to decide which data type you want and either change or typecast it. In some cases typecasging will be ok, but in other cases it isn't. So you will have to make a decision on a case-for-case bases.

you might read some of these google links

But then, not all dictators are evil!

Name one. They wouldn't be dictators is they aren't evil.

>>So hopefully it wont happen
But it does happen all too often. You wouldn't believe the mean-foul-mouthed children I have heard in some stores. Where do they get that behavior? From home imitating their parents, that's where. So, what is that commercial trying to do ? Tell people what they already know ??? What it needs to do is tell people how to correct the problem and it says nothing about that.

>>and his statement of them being able to beat mexico again could just as well have been that they could beat anybody in the world. lets face it. they can
If you think that, then see Iraq and Viet Nam :) USA may have the big stick, but they don't use it very well.

>> have no doubt that a portion of migrants become criminals. but to say that all of them are criminals is stereotyping
Not migrants but illegal migrants -- there is a huge difference. ALL illegal immegrants are criminals by definition. That doesn't mean they all go out and rob/murder/rape someone, just the fact that they entered the country illegally makes them a criminal.

>>they are entrepeneurs mostly. they open up small business and try very hard. others accept the worst kinds of jobs with an unbelievable gratitude.
That does not excuse their criminal act of entering the country illegally. If my next-door neighbor decides he doesn't like his house any more and moves in on me, does my laundry, cooking and cleaning, should I be expected to just welcome him, his family and all his cousins into my house even if I don't want them there ? No -- in USA I could shoot them all as then walk through the front door.

>> have no doubt that a portion of migrants become criminals. but to say that all of them are criminals is stereotyping
Yes I think you …

wfstream maybe ?

>>i have to make these programes in next 1
:D Why did you wait until now to get started ??? (Don't answer that, its a rhetorical question). No one here really cares that you wasted so much of your time. If you don't care enough to study then we don't care enough to help you.

>>can anyone plzz make these programes for me
No -- this is not a code whorehouse, it does you no good for us to do your homework for you.

Do i need to pass arguments in the cin.fail() function to check my input ?

No -- you need to start reading the documentation

I don't get the point of it, unless its that children imitate adults. And I suspect most adults know that anyway.

You have to learn GUI programming first, and that depends on the operating system and sometimes the compiler.

This is not my work -- don't know the author. This is where I got it from though. Also found it here

Sipping Vodka...

A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak.
After mass he asked the Monsignor how he had done..
The Monsignor replied, "When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass.. If I start to get
nervous, I take a sip."
So next Sunday he took the Monsignor's advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink. He proceeded to talk up a storm.

Upon his return to his office after mass, he found the following note on the door:
1. Sip the Vodka, don't gulp.
2. There are 10 commandments, not 12.
3. There are 12 disciples, not 10.
4. Jesus was consecrated, not constipated.
5. Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet his ---.
6. We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J. C.
7. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior and the Spook.
8. David slew Goliath, he did not kick the --- out of him.
9. When David was hit by a rock and was knocked off his donkey, don't say he was stoned off his ---.
10. We do not …

You have to download the Widows SDK and follow the setup instructions that are posted in the download page. Then take a year or so to learn how to write windows programs. Here is a very simple tutorial to get you started. But it would be a lot simpler to learn CLI, C# or even VB. I just don't consider C and C++ to be a very good languages for writing new MS-Windows programs. With Visual Studio 2005 (and future versions too) you can mix and match the different languages to create one program -- such as CLI or C# for the forground windows stuff and c++ for the more difficult background tasks.

>>So senitor Ted Kennedy is in the Senage
Oops! typing error that I failed to catch :icon_redface:

... and who the heck thinks that France is one thread to world peace? Maybe we have bad wine year or so? Frenchmen are lovers not warriors! Come foreward and I tickle you to pieces!

Yea I agree. I like this site. Don't know how accurate it is, but doesn't show France in a good light except to say that its impossible for France to whip anyone ass.

Barbary Wars, middle ages-1830.
Pirates in North Africa continually harass European shipping in Meditteranean. France's solution: pay them to leave us alone. America's solution: kick their asses ("the Shores of Tripoli"). [America's] first overseas victories, won 1801-1815.

Well, Pakistan would be worse. My prediction is, if the Taliban does take the country, which is very well possible, that you will see the US use tactical nukes against the nuclear missile sites.

No we would not use nuclear weapons to do that. We didn't use them when China, USSR and others went nuclear, and we won't this time either.

That's where we have the advantage -- our President doesn't have a lifetime appointment and succession is not based on birth. But I can't say the same for many of our senitors (such as Ted Kennedy) who have been in the Senate for many many years.

The perception that the USA is the greatest thread to peace might be due to the fact that the USA has at least 1000 times the means to destroy the earth, more than any other country. It is also one very war like country!

Yes, <urinate> us off and we'll bomb the shit out of you! Got to admit the last 50 years have not gone very well. But if we (USA) don't take any action then we're criticized for doing nothing.

Sturm: what parts of my post do you disagree with? The "blow you to bits" part? Well that was sort of toung-in-cheek, not meant to be literal.

>>The results here starts off with course 1 therefore the loop starts at 1, not 0
Not relavent -- all arrays still start at 0. If you want to display 1 instead of 0 then just add 1 to the loop counter when displaying it, line 15 for exmple: cout <<"Enter the credit hours for course "<< (i+1) <<": " ; As for the rest -- just chalk it up to dumb requirements. Nobody is going to enter that they took 3.5 courses.

I'll bet you have something similar. Each course is worth X number of credit hours -- one credit hour for each hour of classtime per week (or something like that). You must accumulate a certain number of credit hours to be awarded a Bachelors degree. The requirements for each college/university is different so you have to check with the school you want to attend. Here are some useful google links to read for more information

Happy Birthday Dani. I'm having an extra shot of Irish Mist for you. :)

As the poll shows, the USA is the greatest threat to Al-Quede's and Iran's idea of world peace. Nobody in the western world should want them to succeed at it, unless of course you want to treat women as dirt, stone them to death for disobedience. and ban them from all forms of politics and educational systems. And that is probably only the tip of the iceburg -- see the thousands of bodies in mass graves we found in Iraq. If that's your idea of word peace them I think we might need to talk so that we can blow you to bits.

Assuming you have VC++ 2005 Express: First you have to create a project -- File --> New --> Project. After creating a console project the IDE will create a few files for you, including <project name>.cpp and .h. you can edit the <project name> cpp file to include whatever you want, and you can add new files to the project if you wish. Then to compile just select menu items Build --> Build Solution.

1. why is a a float? The number of courses can not have fractions -- you can't take 1 1/2 courses can you? And you should use a more descriptive name for that variable and make it an integer.

2. arrays are always numbered from 0 to <number of elements>. The loop at line 13 should be for(i = 0; i < a; i++) 3. lines 18 and 19. array c is a float array. Since you only want to enter whole numbers (1, 2, 3 or 4) then you should make it an array of integers, not floats.

4. average_GPA on line 21 I think is wrong. Isn't the GPA the (sum of all semester hours) divided by (sum of all grades). I think you want to wait until after you get the sums before doing the division.

4. line 21. Put a carrage return after each semicolon. Yes it will compile, but is not good style to have all those statements on the same line, and is more difficult to debug.

isdigit only works with a single character, not a double or int. doubles are always guarenteed to be all digits plus the decimal point so there's no point using isdigit with it. If you want to check that someone did not type a digit then use cin's error method if( cin.fail() )

The two problems may be related. Don't know the cause or solution. I'd first do full scan for virus with an antivirus scanner then anti-spyware program. If no problems there use one of the many programs that check registry and file system. I think Norton Works will do it but will cost you some $$$.

line 11: that works only at the time the line is executed. If you add new items to the front then you have to call begin() again in order to get pointer to the new front.

Protected mode does not have access to real mode addresses. You have to switch back to real mode to access it. Yes its a pain in the butt. How to do it? I don't know, all I know is what I've read from documentation of dos extenders such as Phar Lap. Unfortunately when MS-DOS died so did many other companies such as Phar Lap.

>>I was told that the oapiGetFocusShipAirspeedVector(speedvec) initialized the speedvec
Depends on how that function is prototyped, is the pointer being passed by value or by reference ? oapiGetFocusShipAirspeedVector(VECTOR3*) or like this oapiGetFocusShipAirspeedVector(VECTOR3*&) The compiler error leads me to believe it is passed by value. But I've also stumbled across times when the compiler was wrong, so its best to just initialize the pointer to 0 anyway.

Please learn to use google. and you will sometimes get the answer to your question very quickly.

I think the problem is that after cin >> Cnvrt_Temp_Option ; you need to strip the '\n' (Enter key) from the keyboard buffer. One way to do that is cin.ignore()

It means to wrap your code in [code] and [/code] tags so they are easily readable. For example:

Thanks for posting that -- I've been wondering how you posted that without using spaces between the brackets. Didn't know about the noparse tags.:)

The only problem you had was you didn't code the code tags [ /code ] (but remove the spaces)

That could take a very very long time -- see FindFirstFile() and FindNextFile(). What will you do if there are more than one file with the filename but in different folders ? I posted an example program over in the Code Snippets c++ board awhile back.

>>how to get the full path of a file
Promt the user for it.

>>how to open in new windows
Learn win32 api functions, like this tutorialhttp://www.winprog.org/tutorial/. You could also use a language with built-in support for Windows such as CLI and C#

You can return a pointer to the allocated array

int* foo()
{
    int* array = malloc( number_elements * sizeof(int) );
    // do something with the array


    return array;
}

When you click browse what folder is it looking in? Its probably not looking in the same folder where you saved the pictures. I save my pictures in <user account> --> Pictures folder, which is d:\Users\<User Account>\Pictures on my computer.

Try turning off some new Vista account security controls. Select Start --> Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Turn User Account Control on or off

For the first problem try turning off some new Vista account security controls. Select Start --> Control Panel --> User Accounts --> Turn User Account Control on or off

The second problem, yes Vista takes control of that on/off button so that if you try to turn it off Vista will shut down normally. This allows Vista to save and close all files normally and do other cleanup tasks.

>>i had to move electricity and the battery 2 restart it
OMG! I can see that you might have to unplug the computer, but I don't think you have to also remove the battery which is not normally removable.

Did you run the Windows Compatability Check program ? If not then you should to see if you have incompatible hardware.

sounds like bad memory chips. I'd take out the memory chips and let someone else test them on another computer. If its bad then you'll have to buy a new one.

>>All of the sudden my computer stopped playing music files
That happened to me too awhile back. Foolish me! I had turned off the power to the speakers

Or Start --> All Programs --> Accessories --> Command Prompt

To change the volume label: Windows Explorer, expand the Computer folder, right-click on c:\, select Properties then enter the name in the edit box.

Its not all that hard to do, you should be able to do it yourself. msflexgrid has functions to get the text of any cell including labels. All you have to do is call that function just as the code you already have does for the rest of the grid.

In addition to the Windows SDK you need a resource editor and a resource compiler. You really don't need the resource editor if you want to create the resources manually, but the editor makes it a lot easier. You should be able to find some free ones on the net, just do a little googling for "resource editor"

OMG It actually caught on fire! :-O

Today it is celebrated by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs across the globe as the "Festival of Light," where the lights or lamps signify victory of good over the evil within every human being

The description sounds like its a very nice celebration, but I'm a little werry about the above statement. There's a lot of people in this world that are just plain evil to the bone.

There is no such thing as pretty 39 year old woman! At that age beauty has become worn, wrinkly and baggy! Poor boy may be scared and scarred for life!

Demi More is about 45 and still hot. If you don't believe it just look at her picture I posted here. But I agree about the scared and scard remark. To a 13 year old its probably like sleeping with your grandma -- yuuk!