How to add hashmap into ArrayList in c++? - visual-c++

I want to add my hashmap into ArrayList in vc++ 08. My code is below.
typedef std::tr1::unordered_map< std::wstring, std::wstring > hashmap;
hashmap numbers;
ArrayList^ myAL = gcnew ArrayList;
myAL->Add(numbers); // gives error...
But it gives error that
error C2664: 'System::Collections::ArrayList::Add' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'hashmap' to 'System::Object ^'
1> No user-defined-conversion operator available, or
1> No user-defined-conversion operator available that can perform this conversion, or the operator cannot be called
I tried for cast with object, but not succeeded. Can anyone help me to add hashmap in arraylist?
Thanks in advance...

The operation you're trying above doesn't work because managed and native types don't interoperate directly in that way.
I suggest Kenny Kerr's classic C++/CLI article Best Practices for Writing Efficient and Reliable Code with C++/CLI to figure out your specific interop scenario in more detail, but offhand I think what you want to do is embed a pointer to your native object in a managed object which you'll be able to add to your list structure. If you use Mr. Kerr's AutoPtr class (described in the article above and updated here), you should be able to create a managed class containing the AutoPtr as a member, which you can add to your ArrayList.

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Where I can find Kotlin String plus method implementation?

Where I can find Kotlin String plus method implementation?
When I track who calls String#plus, why Intellij IDEA point to "+" ? If String#plus is equal to "+", how does this implement?
I finally find the answer.
Where I can find Kotlin String plus method implementation?
Here I quote answer of ilya.gorbunov who is the member of JetBrains Team member.
"Currently, navigation to builtin sources may not work as expected in maven/gradle projects.
You can find sources of builtins here kotlin/core/builtins at master·JetBrains/kotlin· GitHub 171.
Note that the ‘native’ part of them do not have implementation bodies, as they are implemented as compiler intrinsics.
If you’re more interested in what they are compiled to, you can inspect the generated bytecode with the “Show Kotlin bytecode” action."
Link is here Browsing source code of kotlin.kotlin_builtins like the .. operator
When I track who calls String#plus, why Intellij IDEA point to "+" ?
If String#plus is equal to "+", how does this implement?
The "+" operator is implemented by "Operator overloading" of Kotlin. When view String.kt source code, you can see the below code.
package kotlin
public class String : Comparable<String>, CharSequence {
companion object {}
/**
* Returns a string obtained by concatenating this string with the string representation of the given [other] object.
*/
#kotlin.internal.IntrinsicConstEvaluation
public operator fun plus(other: Any?): String
// omitting some source code
}
Parameter of String#plus method is Any?, meaning we can use "+" operator concatenate any object after string object. Details of "Operator overloading" you can refer to Operator overloading Kotlin's Doc

Is it OK to define an opaque type as an empty struct to get around linker warning in C++/CLI?

I have a C++ project that is configured to use CLR. The project contains a subclass of CTreeCtrl, i.e. a class provided by Microsoft that I have no control over. Since the public interface of CTreeCtrl heavily uses the type HTREEITEM, it is unavoidable that the subclass also makes use of the type - but since the type is "opaque", the subclass only passes around HTREEITEM references without actually doing anything with the referenced objects.
By "opaque", I mean that HTREEITEM is only visible as a forward-declared type. Here's the declaration that I see in CommCtrl.h:
struct _TREEITEM;
typedef struct _TREEITEM *HTREEITEM;
Unfortunately, in a release build this usage of HTREEITEM generates the following linker warning:
foo.obj : warning LNK4248: unresolved typeref token (01000017) for '_TREEITEM'; image may not run
Here is the MSDN link for the warning. I have searched the net for a solution to get rid of the warning, but have found nothing - only confirmation that over the years other people have encountered this warning in relation to HTREEITEM as well.
Now I have been thinking of a workaround myself. Given that
My class only gets HTREEITEM references from CtreeCtrl and passes them back to CtreeCtrl, without any kind of interpretation or function calls
HTREEITEM is merely a pointer to _TREEITEM
It follows that all that my class ever does is pass around pointers to _TREEITEM. My idea for a workaround therefore is this: Why not define _TREEITEM as an empty struct in my project, like this:
struct _TREEITEM
{
};
Obviously this makes the linker happy since it now sees the complete type. The fact that the struct definition is incorrect is not relevant since my class is only passing around pointers to _TREEITEM, i.e. all that the compiler needs to know is the size of a HTREEITEM.
I have tried this workaround and it seems to work, not only at compile time but at runtime as well. So what do you think of this workaround? Did I overlook something? I certainly won't be offended if you call it an ugly hack :-)
FWIW: I am currently on Visual Studio 2010.

How do I add int field into ListView?

So I'm trying to fill a table, which is made by using ListView. "a" is some int, and obviously I can not just add an item like this, cuz it asks for string^. How do I convert my int to this string^? And what's the difference between usual string and string^?
System::Windows::Forms::ListViewItem^ listView1Item;
private: System::Windows::Forms::ListView^ listView1;
...
listView1Item = gcnew Windows::Forms::ListViewItem(a);
listView1->Items->Add(listView1Item);
To convert int a to a string, call a.ToString(). ToString is defined on the .Net base class Object, so just about everything has a ToString you can call. (Since you're in C++/CLI, things that are purely unmanaged will not have a ToString method. But anything that's managed, or primitives that are also used in .Net (e.g., int), will.)
As for the difference between String and String^, I'm not sure exactly what you mean by the "usual string". I'm not sure whether you're referring to C++'s std::string, or to .Net's System::String, just without the ^. String^ refers to the .Net System::String class, as a manged reference. Managed references are roughly equivalent to unmanaged pointers, but the garbage collector is allowed to move things around as it does its work, and the managed reference continues to point at the proper object.
The answer was:
System::Convert::ToString()
Thx everybody for help =)

How do you load data into an attributed database class generated by the MFC application wizard?

Using the MFCApplication wizard in Visual C++ 2012, if "Generate attributed database class" is checked, a header with some special syntax (attributed C++ classes) are generated, which look like this:
// MFCApplication2Set.h: interface of the CMFCApplication2Set class
//
#pragma once
// code generated on March-05-13, 9:26 AM
[
db_source(L"Provider=SQLNCLI11.1;..."),
db_table(L"dbo.tblEmployee")
]
class CMFCApplication2Set
{
public:
... big list of stuff that corresponds to the fields in your db table omitted ...
}
The above header corresponds to a mostly empty implementation file:
// MFCApplication2Set.cpp : implementation of the CMFCApplication2Set class
//
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "MFCApplication2.h"
#include "MFCApplication2Set.h"
#ifdef _DEBUG
#define new DEBUG_NEW
#endif
// CMFCApplication2Set implementation
That was the WHOLE implementation class. Notice that:
A. No parent class name is specified anywhere.
B. There's some "Visual C++ magic" going on here, that is, as a novice to modern C++, I'm lost.
db_source is documented here but the documentation is pretty thin or at least opaque to me.
Questions:
I was mystified by this syntax when I first saw it, but I figured out it's probably a variant of this Attributes feature in Visual C++. It is that, right?
How am I meant to I use these generated "attributed database class" objects? I found this documentation but if you look carefully at that documentation, that code sample is showing people the Old Way and the New Way, and is not telling me what I want to know which is how to use this new object that the IDE can not give me any documentation or code completion features for. Also since the generated code for the CMFCApplication2Set class generated by the wizard does not reference any types or class names, I'm lost. If I could even use some IDE feature to know what methods and stuff have been Magically Injected into this Magical mystery Object, I'd be better off. The only think I can think to do is to learn the old way and learn all the things you can call from the old two-separate-ATL-types world, and then somehow learn to combine them.
In a nutshell, I'm looking for the minimum syntax I need to know to actually use one of these Attributed Database Class instances, variables, as they are generated in a new MFC app by the wizard. The instance shown below is a member of an MFC document class and CMFCApplication2Set m_MFCApplication2Set is declared as a field inside the MFC document class.
What I have tried is to use this "untyped object". This object appears to have lots of data fields (m_X) and has only one method that shows up in IDE code completion, called GetRowSetProperties. Thanks to whatever magic or injection is going on, this generated Attributed Database Class (which does not visibly inherit anything) is a complete mystery to me at edit time and compile time.
Here's me just trying to inspect this thing to see if it even initialized itself when its constructor ran:
BOOL CMFCApplication2Doc::OnNewDocument() { if (!CDocument::OnNewDocument()) return FALSE;
TRACE( m_MFCApplication2Set.m_AStringFieldName); // outputs NOISE.
return TRUE; }
At compile time and edit time, the IDE gives me NO help about the types involved in this "anonymous" class that inherits from nothing, but which gets lots of secret powers due to some kind of Injection via those attributes I'm guessing. At debug time, I can see that there is more than just a bunch of data fields in this C++ class, but this still doesn't help me know how to use it. A minimal code sample of using one of these to go get a recordset from the database, would be great.
Update: Calling OpenDataSource is fun, because it compiles but the IDE doesn't think it should be valid. Nevertheless, it runs, and returns 0 as the result, but that doesn't actually initialize this CThingyThatVisualStudioGaveYouThatYouDontKnowWhatItIs:
This is a deprecated feature of attributed C++ code. Pre-processor expands code and replaces attributes with actual base classes. If you enable generation of these intermediate files, things are going to be more clear to you:
You will have XXX.mrg.cpp and XXX.mrg.h files generated, which you can review and see the real C++ code forwarded to compiler.
The attributes will be replaced with substituted bases classes, maps like BEGIN_COLUMN_MAP etc. The attributed source code is compact, but the feature is deprecated and looking into expanded code it should be easy (if necessary) to strip the attributes and copy expanded code right into source. It's easy with DB attributes, and more difficult with COM attributes since the internal dependencies are most sophisticated.

Starting a method in another thread C++

I'm having trouble finding out how to run a method in a seperate thread in C++ (using Visual C++ 2008), I've tried a number of ways to do this but none of them so far have been successful.
I'm very new to C++ but a fairly experienced programmer in Java, but have been given a task to fix some bugs in an old C++ application. The program uses an object called 'Mpeg' to control packetising and depackitising an Mpeg file. After setting up an Mpeg object properly, mpeg.Depacketise needs to be called, which then runs the method DepacketiseInputFile().
I've tried to make DepacketiseInputFile() run in a seperate thread by both using _beginthread and the System::Threading::Thread object using
Thread^ th = gcnew Thread(gcnew ThreadStart(DepacketiseInputFile));
however this returns the errors
using &Mpeg::Depacketise gives the error
when using _beginthread the code I tried was
However with this I constantly had trouble getting the arguments correct, with errors like
cropping up.
Is there any simple way to do this that anyone can reccomend? I've spent a few days playing around with this but seem to be getting nowhere :(
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
What kind of type is Mpeg? What kind of method is DepacketiseInputFile?
If it's a regular unmanaged, C++ class, then use _beginthread, but you have to make DepacketiseInputFile a static. It cannot take a member function.
Also, don't call DepacketiseInputFile with DepacketiseInputFile(), pass it in with
&Mpeg::DepacketiseInputFile
You should use the void* you get to pass it to pass in a pointer to the Mpeg object (and then cast it back).
If you want to use ThreadStart, then Mpeg needs to be a managed class.
EDIT: If you want to make DepacketiseInputFile, but it needs to access the object, then you use the void* argument to pass in a pointer.
So in the .h:
void DepacketiseInputFileMember();
static void DepacketiseInputFile(void *thisObj);
Your code goes in DepacketiseInputFileMember(), and write DepacketiseInputFile like this:
void Mpeg::DepacketiseInputFile(void *thisObj)
{
Mpeg* mpeg = reinterpret_cast<Mpeg*>(thisObj);
mpeg->DepacketiseInputFileMember();
}
When you call _beginthread, use this
_beginnthread(&Mpeg::DepacketiseInputFile, (unsigned)0, anMpegObjectPointer);
where anMpegObjectPointer is a pointer to an object of type Mpeg. You have to make sure the lifetime of the object is longer than it would be needed in the thread.
Forgive my syntax, I am writing this in a textarea, not Visual Studio
Change
_beginthread(DepacketiseInputFile(), (unsigned)0, (void *)NULL);
to
_beginthread(DepacketiseInputFile, (unsigned)0, (void *)NULL);
You wanna pass the address of the function to run (DepacketiseInputFile) and not its return value of that function (which is what you get from DepacketiseInputFile()).
I'm assuming DepacketiseInputFile is declared as void DepacketiseInputFile(void*), and is not a non-static member function of some class. Otherwise, the types won't match even when you do remove the brackets.

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