learn to count

[Jan de Kort]

Goodmeurning!

Does anybody know if MSVC++ 6.0 counts the number of times that you have built your project? I'd like to mention this number in the about-dialog. (Yes, I got the idea from Napster... I know!)

TIA,

Jan

I ask this because I would like to know when I should replace my F7-key ;-)
According to the manual of my keyboard it can take 50000 presses...

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

I have a macro associated w/ a toolbar button in MSDEV. The macro looks like:

Sub VersionedBuild()
Dim s
Documents.Open "version.h", "Text"
ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine
ActiveDocument.Selection.WordRight dsMove, 3
ActiveDocument.Selection.WordRight dsExtend
s = cint(ActiveDocument.Selection)
s = s + 1
ActiveDocument.Selection = cstr(s)
ActiveDocument.Save
ActiveDocument.Close
Application.Build
End Sub




And version.h looks like:

#define XVERSION 2097



and is included in stdafx.h. I use XVERSION to display the build No.

Gabriel.
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Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters - Metallica
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[Jan de Kort]

Ok, thanks for your macro!

As I've never used them before I don't know how to create one... Could you please explain?

regards,

jan

[Gabriel Fleseriu]

Macro files are placed in ...\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Macros, and have the extension .dsm. Create a new text file, call it mymacros.dsm and copy the macro there.

Then menu Tools->Customize->Add-ind and MacroFiles, check Mymacros.

Then menu Tools->Customize->Commands, category "Macros", drag the macro to the toolbar where you want it. A dialog pops up and you can assigh a button face to the macro.

Voila.

Gabriel.
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Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters - Metallica
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[Jan de Kort]

Unbelievable...
Really amazing!


You should write an article on this topic here on CodeGuru!

many thanks


Jan

[SoftLock]

How can we read build no. while building a.net application, is the procedure same as described above?