My Brain Hurts

[billroper]

It turns out that my program isn't working because the ATL COM DLL that the other guys created isn't correctly inserting itself into the DLL chain with the result that none of the MFC resources (like say, our strings DLL) are available to the DLL or any of the DLLs that it's calling into. It seems that I need to invoke a bit of MFC magic to get the thread that contains the CWinApp object to initialize its module state correctly.

Unfortunately, I haven't quite figured out the correct incantation.

I recognize that this is complete mumbo jumbo to most of you; sadly, it appears to have been the same to the rest of our development team or this would already be working.

For the moment, I'm deferring this problem to tomorrow and heading home.

Comments

[scarfman]

the same to the rest of our development team

Och, then I don't feel so bad.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

There was a time a few years ago when I understood that shit well enough that I could have advised you usefully. But these days, Windows arcana have a half life in my memory measured in minutes; I can remember just enough to understand your post.

I'm half convinced that Microsoft intentionally makes it hard to write non-trivial applications for Windows because they don't actually want people to do anything with computers other than run standard Microsoft apps.

[mdlbear]

I do believe you're right. Part of being a monopoly, I suppose.

Glad I don't have to deal with Microsoft DLL hell -- Java classpath hassles and crypto providers in signed .jar files were bad enough. I've been writing a lot of Perl these days.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

. . . and the green grass grows all around
All around
And the green grass grows all around!

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

Well, Linux is lots of fun too. Briana had to send a paper from one of her classes to Sarah Lawrence. Has to be a PDF file. OK, my scanner software will handle that a page at a time, but this gives me seven PDF files. Easy to combine in Acrobat, but not in Linux (no Acrobat). Hunt around and find PDFedit. After installing it LOOKS like it would combine pages but after an hour or so of trying to make it work (and reading a manual page by someone whose first language isn't English) we both give up. Three more packages don't work and eventually I find a page on the web that tells me how to combine them with a simple command line using GhostScript, which I have. Elapsed time 2 1/2 hours. Linux is like that, yes it is. Anything you want to do, there's a dozen really cool apps to do it, absolutely free -- once you figure out how to use it, which one you want, and how to make it work with your other apps.

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

PDFTKBuilder
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
I use it in Windows, there are Linux versions too.