General C++ Programming - September 2023

Use concepts to test for member functions

Hey guys, I'd like to use concepts to verify that an interface is implented correctly. Usally I would use virtual functions for this. However in this particul...

[4 replies] Last: AH thx alot, now it's working fine :) (by JuliusCaesar)

by seeplus

Wait for stdout completed (C)

For C. Is there a way to wait for all output sent to stdout to be displayed before continuing? I have a situation where I use puts() to display some initialisat...

[9 replies] Last: We don't 'mix' our io with standard output. We only use standard outpu... (by seeplus)

by PeteDD

Use array as incrementer in for loop - no longer compiling

I am in the process of moving some code to a new toolchain and encountered the following code (which is running in many production systems just fine) that will ...

[8 replies] Last: I'm still left wondering why the developer put this variable in as an... (by coder777)

by ruzip

GLUT Keys with VK Keys

I'm looking for a way to make the GLUT key functions to work simultaneously with VK Keys (GetAsyncKeyState) so the other special keys that GLUT cannot detect ...

[2 replies] Last: Thanks kilgar, but actually not involving any external library. And a... (by ruzip)

by JamieAl

How to implement FFTW efficiently in C/C++?

From the FFTW documentation: You are probably recreating the plan before every transform, rather than creating it once and reusing it for all transforms of ...

[13 replies] Last: I'm surprised there's even a correlation between thread count and elap... (by helios)

by jNc

send text to clipboard

Having some text that I want to send to clipboard, something like string "random text", I want to call some function (C or 3rd party lib or can be Ubuntu tool)...

[4 replies] Last: It looks like the modern default Ubuntu does not come with a clipboard... (by newbieg)

by JUANDENT

time elapsed since local midnight?

I need to find the elapsed time (duration) from local midnight. I tried this: // if we have a time_point, must convert to a duration first auto tp = chr::s...

[6 replies] Last: You could also write this without zoned_time if you prefer: int ma... (by mbozzi)

by JUANDENT

How to get sys_days from local_time?

In attempting to create a today() function, then first idea that comes to mind is this: sys_days{ floor<days>(system_clock::now()) }; but this does ...

[6 replies] Last: Note that for Windows, C++ time zone data is only available from Windo... (by seeplus)

by JUANDENT

What is a strict weak ordering?

a total ordering means for all a,b in Container, one of the following is true: a < b a == b a > b so, all elements are comparable (this is the total par...

[9 replies] Last: Thanks Helios!! (by JUANDENT)

by Cplusc

Point In Triangle

I am trying to generate points with equal spacing inside complex geometry. I have the STL file representing the triangulation of the surface of the complex geom...

[5 replies] Last: A'ight. (by helios)

by JamieAl

How to implement MATLAB's colon operator in C++?

I have the following MATLAB code that uses zero padding to deal with aliasing errors that I would like to rewrite in my C/C++ code. The issue is with the zero p...

[2 replies] Last: If you want zero padded output look to either C's printf or C++20's ... (by deleted account xyzzy)

by JUANDENT

istream_iterator invokes reading from the keyboard by just defining it!!

Hi, The following code opens for reading from the keyboard instead of waiting for the vector: (this does not occur if the istream is an ifstream - associated...

[7 replies] Last: Pressing enter does not end the stream. Correct. This iterates the... (by seeplus)

by JUANDENT

How can ofstream not trunc existing file?

Hi, I have this code that erases the output file as it opens it... I want to not truncate the file. ofstream os{ to }; ostream_iterator<string> oo{ os...

[2 replies] Last: I think the "problem" with the above code is that is not atomic. Fo... (by kigar64551)

by JUANDENT

how to insert into an unordered_map for a given struct

Hi, I have this code which gives me an illegal indirection: unordered_map<Record, Record, RHash> rmap; rmap.insert(Record{ "juan"s, 55 }, Record{ "les...

[3 replies] Last: Thanks!! (by JUANDENT)

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