I try to get current monitor status and found GetMonitorInfo function at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd144901(v=vs.85).aspx but I do not know c++ and how to use it in autohotkey. DllCall line is just a guess so this is what I wrote for now.
MonitorStatus := 1 > 2 ; Creates a boolean variable so size of it is determined.
Sleep 1000
DllCall("GetMonitorInfo","HMONITOR",1,"LPMONITORINFO",MonitorStatus,"int")
Sleep 1000
MsgBox Monitor status is %MonitorStatus%. ; Status should be turned to 1.
Return
Shortly how to detect if monitor is on or off with assuming it has power?
The DllCall returns a pointer to the structure. I think it's somehow possible to use pointers in Autohotkey but i don't think is going to be easy. If you don't know what any of that means don't even bother.
Hmm.. looks like autohotkeys does have everything; Try this:
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SysGet.htm
And don't forget to check the examples at the bottom of the page!
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im doing a program that allow my beacon and DK board to start scanning and stop scanning using BLE. I am able to start scanning, but i didn't know how to stop scanning. Can anyone advise me with this? The code provided is my scan_start. Thank you!
static void scan_start(void)
{
uint32_t err_code;
err_code = sd_ble_gap_scan_start(&m_scan_params);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
err_code = bsp_indication_set(BSP_INDICATE_SCANNING);
APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
}
Stopping scan_start depends on where you use this function. For example if you use scan_start in main function(before for loop), after a while, if there is no connection, it will enter sleep mode and stop scanning.
Otherwise if you want to control start_scanning time, you can define app_timer function. For example, you can define a timer or button handler that starts scanning when the button is pressed.
If you still can not find the answer you're looking for, there is another suggestion. You can use the stop_scanning function in the file "ble_gap.h" to stop scanning. Function like this;
SVCALL(SD_BLE_GAP_SCAN_STOP, uint32_t, sd_ble_gap_scan_stop(void));
You can use like this;
(void) sd_ble_gap_scan_stop();
If there is any mistake please correct it. I hope that will be useful...
I'm stuck on problem were I would like to ask for some help:
I have the task to print some files of different types using ShellExecuteEx with the "print" verb and need to guarantee print order of all files. Therefore I use FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification and FindNextPrinterChangeNotification to monitor the events PRINTER_CHANGE_ADD_JOB and PRINTER_CHANGE_DELETE_JOB using two different threads in the background which I start before calling ShellExecuteEx as I don't know anything about the application which will print the files etc. The only thing I know is that I'm the only one printing and which file I print. My solution seems to work well, my program successfully recognizes the event PRINTER_CHANGE_ADD_JOB for my file, I even verify that this event is issued for my file by checking what is give to me as additional info by specifying JOB_NOTIFY_FIELD_DOCUMENT.
The problem now is with the event PRINTER_CHANGE_DELETE_JOB, where I don't get any addition info about the print job, though my logic is exactly the same for both events: I've written one generic thread function which simply gets executed with the event it is used for. My thread is recognizing the PRINTER_CHANGE_DELETE_JOB event, but on each call to FindNextPrinterChangeNotification whenever this event occured I don't get any addition data in ppPrinterNotifyInfo. This works for the start event, though, I verified using my logs and the debugger. But with PRINTER_CHANGE_DELETE_JOB the only thing I get is NULL.
I already searched the web and there are some similar questions, but most of the time related to VB or simply unanswered. I'm using a C++ project and as my code works for the ADD_JOB-event I don't think I'm doing something completely wrong. But even MSDN doesn't mention this behavior and I would really like to make sure that the DELETE_JOB event is the one for my document, which I can't without any information about the print job. After I get the DELETE_JOB event my code doesn't even recognize other events, which is OK because the print job is done afterwards.
The following is what I think is the relevant notification code:
WORD jobNotifyFields[1] = {JOB_NOTIFY_FIELD_DOCUMENT};
PRINTER_NOTIFY_OPTIONS_TYPE pnot[1] = {JOB_NOTIFY_TYPE, 0, 0, 0, 1, jobNotifyFields};
PRINTER_NOTIFY_OPTIONS pno = {2, 0, 1, pnot};
HANDLE defaultPrinter = PrintWaiter::openDefaultPrinter();
HANDLE changeNotification = FindFirstPrinterChangeNotification( defaultPrinter,
threadArgs->event,
0, &pno);
[...]
DWORD waitResult = WAIT_FAILED;
while ((waitResult = WaitForSingleObject(changeNotification, threadArgs->wfsoTimeout)) == WAIT_OBJECT_0)
{
LOG4CXX_DEBUG(logger, L"Irgendein Druckereignis im Thread zum Warten auf Ereignis " << LogStringConv(threadArgs->event) << L" erkannt.");
[...]
PPRINTER_NOTIFY_INFO notifyInfo = NULL;
DWORD events = 0;
FindNextPrinterChangeNotification(changeNotification, &events, NULL, (LPVOID*) ¬ifyInfo);
if (!(events & threadArgs->event) || !notifyInfo || !notifyInfo->Count)
{
LOG4CXX_DEBUG(logger, L"unpassendes Ereignis " << LogStringConv(events) << L" ignoriert");
FreePrinterNotifyInfo(notifyInfo);
continue;
}
[...]
I would really appreciate if anyone could give some hints on why I don't get any data regarding the print job. Thanks!
https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=86657&stqc=true
Here's what I think is going on:
I observe two events in two different threads for the start and end of each print job. With some debugging and logging I recognized that FindNextPrinterChangeNotification doesn't always return only the two distinct events I've notified for, but some 0-events in general. In those cases FindNextPrinterChangeNotification returns 0 as the events in pdwChange. If I print a simple text file using notepad.exe I only get one event for creation of the print job with value 256 for pdwChange and the data I need in notifyInfo to compare my printed file name against and comparing both succeeds. If I print a pdf file using current Acrobat Reader 11 I get two events, one has pdwChange as 256, but gives something like "local printdatafile" as the name of the print job started, which is obviously not the file I printed. The second event has a pdwChange of 0, but the name of the print job provided in notifyInfo is the file name I used to print. As I use FreePDF for testing pruproses, I think the first printer event is something internal to my special setup.
The notifications for the deletion of a print job create 0 events, too. This time those are sent before FindNextPrinterChangeNotification returns 1024 in pdwChange, and timely very close after the start of the print job. In this case the exactly one generated 0 event contains notifyInfo with a document name which equals the file name I started printing. After the 0 event there's exactly one additional event with pdwChange of 1024, but without any data for notifyInfo.
I think Windows is using some mechanism which provides additional notifications for the same event as 0 events after the initial event has been fired with it's real value the user notified with, e.g. 256 for PRINTER_CHANGE_ADD_JOB. On the other hand it seems that some 0 events are simply fired to provide data for an upcoming event which then gets the real value of e.g. 1024 for PRINTER_CHANGE_DELETE_JOB, but without anymore data because that has already been delivered to the event consumer with a very early 0 event. Something like "Look, there's more for the last events." and "Look, something is going to happen with the data I already provide now." Implementing such an approach my prints now seem to work as expected.
Of course what I wrote doesn't fit to what is documented for FindNextPrinterChangeNotification, but it makes a bit of sense to me. ;-)
You're not checking for overflows or errors.
The documentation for FindNextPrinterChangeNotification says this:
If the PRINTER_NOTIFY_INFO_DISCARDED bit is set in the Flags member of
the PRINTER_NOTIFY_INFO structure, an overflow or error occurred, and
notifications may have been lost. In this case, no additional
notifications will be sent until you make a second
FindNextPrinterChangeNotification call that specifies
PRINTER_NOTIFY_OPTIONS_REFRESH.
You need to check for that flag and do as described above, and you should also be checking the return code from FindNextPrinterChangeNotification.
I am fitting curves to the peaks in roughly 25000 detector events. My code just loops through all of the events, fitting to all peaks it finds and grabbing parameter info. It takes FOREVER!
I stopped my code from actually drawing the curves, but I'm wondering if I can do anything else to speed up this processing. I thought that if I stopped ROOT from printing the parameters from each fit to the screen that maybe it would run faster.
Is this true? If so, how can I do it? Any other ideas?
TGraphErrors * gr1 = view_waveform_ebars(run,evtNum,21);
mygaus -> SetParameters(671.55e3,-1000,S2loc,500);
gr1 -> Fit(mygaus,"","",tspulse_sum[j],tepulse_sum[j]);
fitResult = gr1 -> GetFunction("mygaus");
pchi2[j] = fitResult -> GetChisquare();
I was hoping not to need to copy the functions I'm using into my post. But mygaus has 4 parameters, and every time I call it using gr1-> Fit(mygaus,...) I see the parameters on the screen. So the question is whether or not that screen output is slowing me down, and, if so, how do I turn it off?
Thanks
You can also start root with the option -b
root -b
Maybe, just maybe, you want to run ROOT in batch mode, like this:
{
gROOT->SetBatch(1);
...
}
Did you try to limit the general ROOT output using
gROOT->ProcessLine( "gErrorIgnoreLevel = 1001;")
?
The higher the ignore level the less printout you will get.
To ignore INFO messages, 1001 is enough. To ignore WARNING it has to be above 2001. To ignore ERROR it has to be above 3001. Check what level the printouts are and set it as appropriate.
This is more like a comment:
There is also the "N" option which forces ROOT to not store the graphics function and not draw anything.
So I would use both, i.e.:
gr1 -> Fit(mygaus,"QN","",tspulse_sum[j],tepulse_sum[j]);
I have an application and I want to be able to check if (for instance) two instances of it used the same arguments on execution. To make it clearer:
myapp 1 2
myapp 1 3
This isn't a Singleton design pattern problem as I can have more than one instance running. I though about checking the running processes, but it seems that I can only get the process name and that doesn't help me.
Writing a file on startup and then having other instances check if that file exists isn't viable due to abnormal program termination which would leave me hanging.
In Linux I solved this by checking /proc/pid/cmdline and parsing the information there.
Does anyone have any idea if I can do something similar on windows?
Cheers
You can do this via WMI's Win32_Process class.
You want wmic.exe. Try something like:
wmic.exe process list | findstr myapp.exe
Then sort it / parse it / whatever you need to do.
wmic is really a great tool to have.
I ended up using this script instead of filling up my code with WMI calls:
wmic process where "name='cmd.exe'" get CommandLine > list.txt
works great!
cheers and thanks you Seth and Reed
After some thinking I decided to do things a bit simpler...
Implementing a mutex and checking it's existence is. As I needed to check if the instances started with the same parameters and not if the same application was started, I just needed to decide on the mutex name in runtime!
so...
sprintf(cmdstr,"myapp_%i_%i",arg1,arg2);
DWORD m_dwLastError;
m_hMutex = CreateMutex(NULL, FALSE, cmdstr);
m_dwLastError = GetLastError();
if(ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS == m_dwLastError)
{
found_other = true;
}
and that's it! no parsing, no wmi, no windows development sdk...
Cheers to you all!
Does anyone know, how to capture ping's return value in c++? According to this link:
ping should return 0 on success, 1 on failure such as unknown host, illegal packet size, etc. and 2 On a unreachable host or network.
In C++ I called ping with the system (), e.g. int ret = system("ping 192.168.1.5");.
My problem is, that ret's value is 0 or 1. It will never 2! If I think correctly, this is because, this return value I get, is the system functions return value, not ping's. So how could i get ping's return vlaue?
Thanks in advance!
kampi
Edit:
Right now i use this system("ping 192.169.1.5 > ping_res.txt"); but i don't want to work with files (open, and read them), that's why i want to capture, th return value , if possible :)
If you are on Windows, it might be better to use IcmpSendEcho2 directly to implement the ping functionality in your application.
A simple solution would be pipe the output of ping to to a file and read it.
E.g.
system("ping 192.169.1.5 > ping_res.txt");
And read ping_res.txt to get the info you need.
From man 3 system on Linux:
RETURN VALUE
The value returned is -1 on error (e.g. fork(2) failed), and the return status of the command otherwise. This latter return status is in the format specified in wait(2).
Then from man 2 wait on Linux:
If status is not NULL, wait() and waitpid() store status information in the int to which it points. This integer can be inspected with the following macros (which take the integer itself as an argument, not a pointer to it, as is done in wait() and wait- pid()!):
WIFEXITED(status)
returns true if the child terminated normally, that is, by calling exit(3) or _exit(2), or by returning from main().
WEXITSTATUS(status)
returns the exit status of the child. This consists of the least significant 8 bits of the status argument that the child specified in a call to exit(3) or _exit(2) or as the argument for a return statement in main(). This macro should only be employed if WIFEXITED returned true.
From sys/wait.h on Linux:
# define WEXITSTATUS(status) __WEXITSTATUS(__WAIT_INT(status))
From bits/waitstatus.h on Linux:
/* If WIFEXITED(STATUS), the low-order 8 bits of the status. */
#define __WEXITSTATUS(status) (((status) & 0xff00) >> 8)
In other words, you will wan to use these macros if you are using Linux. Are you using HP-UX? I notice you link to information for HP-UX. If so, what does your man 3 system page say?
Also, keep in mind that system invokes "sh -c command" and you will receive the return value of sh:
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 The script to be executed consisted solely of zero or more blank lines or comments, or both.
1-125 A non-interactive shell detected a syntax, redirection, or variable assignment error.
127 A specified command_file could not be found by a non-interactive shell.
Otherwise, the shell shall return the exit status of the last command it invoked or attempted to invoke (see also the exit utility in Special Built-In Utilities).
What return value do you find if you attempt, e.g., system("exit 203");?
So you just want to know the return value: i.e. "0 on success, 1 on failure such as unknown host, illegal packet size, etc. and 2 On a unreachable host or network." I think using ping is an overkill in this case. Writing to file and reading from it is apparently a little bit ugly.
I think you should just try **open()**ing a connection to the host on port 7 (Echo). Then you would get the information that ping return value would tell you. If you further want to get response durations, you can measure it yourself by sending arbitrary data to the host on echo port. It would take some time to write the code but i think it's worth for flexibility and accuracy.