Hello again Jonathan, I understand your busy so dont worry to much about it. I just figured Id throw it out there to see if you remembered enough about the inner workings that you might be able to whip out an answer (or tell me Im freaking stupid for not seeing the abvious lol). Not to mention oe of the other people on the list has been talking to me a little about it.
As far as why I chose C++ as my second language, it was because of a particular project that Ive been working on in VB for a few years, my own bignumber class, and I figured c++ would be the best choice for it in order to get the speed I wanted out of it, well turned out to be quite a lot harder learning then I thought it would be, Ive literally spent hundreds of hours reading and wading through other folks code to figure out how to do things, now that I finally have a good enough grasp of it so that I can sit down and actually tackle most anything I want with it, and I am afraid Id loose it if I tackled another language full bore. Until I started this, I had allways thought tht C# was pretty close to C++, now I see that they are completely different. I have managed to get about 2/3 of the main classes in C++ in the last 3 days (thats about 100 classes it turns out) without hardly changing any of the functionality. I had t make a couple of subtle changes in order to get it to work. The good news is, I am finally getting a grasp on th layout of the framework so that I might actually be able to implement the changes I want to make. Like I said, given enough time, I can figure anything out. SIP? you working on that for voip or something? ________________________________ From: Jonathan Mitchem <[email protected]> To: Richard Foreman <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Mon, March 28, 2011 12:36:43 PM Subject: Re: [Alchemi-users] A few more questions Gimme a day or three to respond. I got this and started reading, but it deserves more than just a cursory read. Of course, my first question was "why C++". I assumed it was because you'd been using C++ for a long time, but it seems that's not really the case. I strongly suggest you become competent in C#. C++ is good to know too, but if you're going to be in a managed environment, stick with C#. Beyond that, I need to actually read/digest the real content of the email. I'm in the middle of work stuff and writing a SIP client at home, so I don't have the time to give it justice yet. On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Richard Foreman <[email protected]> wrote: I told you I was going to bug you again. Ive started porting the whole framework over to managed C++, I was having too many problems with it in C#. I actually got the Core ported over easily, and have started on the Executor classes when I ran into a snag which I havent figured out how to get around yet. Evereything in the Core and the first set of Executor classes (I allready ported over the Executor classes, and am currently working on the ExecutorExec classes, leaving just the Executor service class to do) Allright, so everyting in the executorexec classes ported over just fine with the exception of a few of the events. > > Specifically, there are a few events defined in >GExecutor(publiceventGotDisconnectedEventHandlerGotDisconnected; and >publiceventNonDedicatedExecutingStatusChangedEventHandlerNonDedicatedExecutingStatusChanged;) > both of which are fired from within GExecutor through delegates. The >ExecutorContainer class subscribes to these events through the delegates, >however, ExecutorContainer also defines these events within itself through the >same delegates as GExecutor. The handler for the GotDisconnected event is >defined within ExecutorContainer to handle th event fired from within >GExecutor, >but, all the handler does (I beleive) is refire the event which is declared >within itself. Whoever wrote the class wrote a comment about "bubble the >event >to whoever handles this.". The problem I am having is that the compiler will >not let me subscribe to these events no matter how I try to set them up(these >are the only two events I am having trouble with the rest of that set of >classes >crossed over just fine). So, heres where I have a question or two. Why would >they set up the container class to refire an event fired from within a class >that is instantiated within the container class? The instances of GExecutor >are >in an array marked public in the container class, so if someone wanted to >subscribe to the events they could easily do it directly (I would think), and >as >I said, the event handler in the container class does not do anything with the >event. Or am I completely missing something here? > > > If it is something basic, dont get too mad. I am a self taught programmer >and >have only been working in C++ for about 6 months now. I work full time and am >a >single dad that just does this for fun, but given the chance, I can prove I am >not completely stupid (most of the time lol). > > Now the other question I have is about the dependency manifests. One of the >applications I put out on my network relies heavily on an implementation of a >BigNumber class I wrote myself. Now my implementation uses the java >BigInteger >class just as a container for the number and uses the java implementation for >just basic math(add, subtract, and multiply) all the other functions I had to >implement myself because java gets lost when the numbers get over about 100 >digits for some reason. Anyways, I started out just doing the basic >dependency >on my thread (derived from GThread), but the BigNumber class did not carry out >to the executors even though it was referenced in the class, so then I >actually >copied the code for bignumber straight into the same file as the thread class, >but it still didnt get pushed out to the executors (that statement may be >incorrect though), so then I actually added Bignumber as an >additional dependency and finally got an error saying that java did not cross >over with the bignumber class, then I tried adding vjslib (java) as another >dependency but the executors just continually failed thread after thread until >I >actually installed the java redistributable on ALL of my computers. I believe >it was still failing because java had a dependency of its own that I am not >aware of. I believe I was coding the threads correctly, I havent had any >problems with any of the other applications Ive wrote on this framework. I >figured Id ask you since you are the only one that knows anything about this >framework (not to mention you are the only one answering haha). > > I know it is kind of hard to picture without seeing the code, and Id be >willing to send it to you if youd like. Ill also send the C++ version to you >once Ive finished it and debugged it. It was going smoothly till last night, >so >if this is the only hiccup in it, I should have the core,executor, and manager >classes done by the end of this week, though the changes I am working on >making >to it will not be that quick. Ive also started documenting the class >heirarchy >so if anyone else comes along and wants to plug away at it that may help >some. >The documentation within the framework is actually superb, but, for those of >us >with limited ability, wading through all of it to figure out how to do >something >is a chore in itself. > > Anyhow, this email went on longer then I thought, Im just trying to explain >things as thorough as possible. The more I get into this framework, the more >I >cant believe that it is as dead as it is. I do appreciate any help you can >give. > >Richard > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the >growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses >are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software >be a part of the solution? 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