I've been having a lot of trouble making an array that is accessible to all the functions in my class in C++/CLI. Since it's C++/CLI, std::vector doesn't work. Boost::array throws an error about unmanaged types being used with managed types. I don't want to use a pointer array because I want to get the size of the array. System::List is too slow (every ms matters in my program, but if it helps, I don't care about write speeds to the array, only read speeds of one element at a time). cliext::vector was the closest I got to getting this to work.
I created a single dimensional cliext::vector with an int, and it worked. However, when I tried to use
cliext::vector<cliext::vector<int>> test;
it failed with a similar error as the one below. Here is how I used it in my class:
The header:
cliext::vector<Color> test;
I set values for it in the constructor:
test = gcnew cliext::vector<Color>(5);
test[0] = Color(255,255,255);
I then tried to make a class that would store 3 variable for color. Here is the header file. The constructor just sets the r,g,b values:
namespace FrameCalculator {
class Color {
public:
Color(int r, int g, int b);
int r;
int g;
int b;
};
However this didn't work, and it threw the error below:
1>E:\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\include\cliext\vector(1091):
note: see reference to class template instantiation
'cliext::impl::vector_base<_Value_t,false>' being compiled
1> with
1> [
1> _Value_t=FrameCalculator::Color
1> ]`
and
1>E:\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\include\cliext\vector(615):
error C3671: 'cliext::impl::vector_impl<_Value_t,false>::SyncRoot::get':
function does not override 'System::Collections::ICollection::SyncRoot::get'
1> with
1> [
1> _Value_t=FrameCalculator::Color
1> ]`
There were about 5 of each of these errors. What am I doing wrong? How do I get a 2d array that's not slow, is globally accessible. I don't need both arrays to be dynamic (I'd prefer them not to). I know the inner array will have 3 elements, but I won't know the outer array size at compile time. How do I achieve this?
You can not create a vector of .Net class object. You need a vector of handle types.
test = gcnew cliext::vector<Color^>(5);
Also your class objects must be of type ref class
ref class Color
Assignment is done with always creating a new object
test[0] = gcnew Color(255,255,255);
You can also use completely unmanaged types, but than you are forced to use pointers to this data in your C++/CLI code.
Managed types can never own unmanaged types. They may own a pointer to an unmanaged type.
So you may get all you anmanaged data into one unmanaged class and this data is accessed from the managed code.
Related
I have a static 2 dimensional array of objects in a Kotlin project:
class Tables {
companion object{
lateinit var finalTable: Array<Array<Any?>?>
}
}
It is a little clearer in Java:
public class Tables {
public static Object[][] finalTable;
}
The third element in one row of objects in the table, is a string boxed as an object. In other words: finalTable[*][2] is a string describing the item. When I add an item to the array in Kotlin, I want to sort the entire array in alphabetical order of the description.
In Java this is easy:
Arrays.sort(Tables.finalTable, Comparator.comparing(o -> (String) o[2]));
When I try to use Android Studio to translate the Java code into Kotlin, it produces the following:
Arrays.sort( Tables.finalTable, Comparator.comparing( Function { o: Array<Any?>? -> o[2] as String }) )
This does not work, you have change the String cast as follows:
Arrays.sort( Tables.finalTable, Comparator.comparing( Function { o: Array<Any?>? -> o[2].toString() }) )
This version will compile and run, but it totally messes up the sorting of the table, so it does not work. I have tried variations on this theme, without any success. To get my project to work, I had to create a Java class in the Kotlin project with the functional Java code listed above:
public class ArraySort {
public void sortArray(){
Arrays.sort(Tables.finalTable, Comparator.comparing(o -> (String) o[2]));
}
}
This sorts the table like a charm, but I would prefer to keep my project "pure Kotlin". Can anyone suggest a pure Kotlin method to sort such an array? Thanks!
Unless I'm missing something, you can just do this:
Tables.finalTable.sortBy { it[2] as String }
which sorts your array in place. sortedBy will produce a new copy of the original if that's what you want instead, and might be why the comment suggestions weren't working for you.
But this whole unstructured array situation isn't ideal, the solution is brittle because it would be easy to put the wrong type in that position for a row, or have a row without enough elements, etc. Creating a data structure (e.g. a data class) would allow you to have named parameters you can refer to (making the whole thing safer and more readable) and give you type checking too
I know the subject has already been treated, but I've failed to find anything that works for me, so I guess my problem is slightly different from the others.
What I do, basically, is that I use a C function wrapped into a python code using ctypes.
My goal is to compute some quantities in the C function, store them into a single structure, and return the structure in Python where I could read all the different data in the structure.
So :
To define my structure in python, I use :
class BITE(ctypes.Structure):
_fields_ = [
("lum", ctypes.c_int),
("suce", ctypes.c_int)
]
I compile like that :
sub.call(["gcc","-shared","-Wl,-install_name,ex.so","-o","ex.so","-fPIC","ex.c"])
lum = ctypes.CDLL('ex.so')
lum = lum.lum
I declare the arguments and result types like this :
lum.restype = ctypes.POINTER(BITE)
lum.argtypes = [ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.c_int,ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.c_int,ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.c_int,ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.c_int,ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_float),ctypes.c_float,ctypes.c_float,ctypes.c_float,ctypes.c_float,ctypes.c_float]
Then, I call the C function "lum" in the python code
out = lum(all the different variables needed)
The problem begins here. I have my structure, but impossible to read the data stored in each fields.
A partial solution I found is to do :
out = out[0]
But then, when doing
print(out.suce)
I have a segmentation fault 11. DOn't know why. I tried to understand how to used create_string_buffer, but I didn't really understand how it works and what it supposed to do. Moreover, I tried to using as a black box, and still, nothing works.
I also tried some other solutions mentionned in other threads such as using out.contents or something like that, but it has no .contents attributes. Nor out.suce.value, which is also something I saw somewhere during my desperate research.
Of course, I checked in the C code that the structure exists and that each field of the structure exists, and has the right data in it.
Thanks.
Suppose you have a C-structure like this :
typedef struct _servParams
{
unsigned short m_uServPort;
char m_pInetAddr[MAX_LENGTH_OF_IP_ADDRESS];
} ServerParams_t;
To use it within ctypes you should create a wrapper like this :
class ServerParams_t(Structure):
_fields_ = [ ("m_uServPort", c_ushort),
("m_pInetAddr", (c_char * 16)) ]
Later on inside your python you can use the following snippet :
servParams = ServerParams_t()
servParams.m_uServPort = c_ushort(int(port))
servParams.m_pInetAddr = ip.encode()
If you need to pass it by value, simply pass servParams variable to you api. If you need to pass a pointer use byref(servParams).
In my Kotlin Android project, I made a FileItem class which extends Serializable
class FileItem(<parameters>) : Serializable, Comparable<FileItem> {
So I needed to Serialize instances of this class into a Bundle
val arguments:Bundle = Bundle()
arguments.putSerializable("folders", folders as Serializable)
where folders has been declared as :
folders:Array<FileItem> (method parameter)
The serialization code above compile without any warning. Meanwhile, the problem comes when I need to unserialize folders items :
val arguments: Bundle? = getArguments()
if (arguments != null){
foldersItems = arguments.getSerializable("folders") as Array<FileItem>
where foldersItems is declared as
var foldersItems: Array<FileItem>?
I get the following warning, that I can't manage to solve without suppress_warning annotation :
w: <Path to my class>: (78, 28): Unchecked cast: java.io.Serializable! to kotlin.Array<com.loloof64.android.chess_positions_archiver.main_file_explorer.FileItem>
This kind of code compiles in Java/Groovy without warning (folderItems is then a FileItem[]), so how can I modify the kotlin code for the compiler to be "satisfied" ?
I noticed in official Kotlin documentation that Kotlin Array does not extend Serializable and is not open for inheritance. Is it possible meanwhite to "add" it via a kind of extension method ?
In fact, the cast is not unchecked, the compiler's warning is misleading.
This happens because in Kotlin arrays are represented by generic class Array<T>, and the compiler treats it as usual generic class with type parameters erased at runtime.
But on JVM arrays have reified types, and when you cast something as Array<SomeType>, the generated bytecode really checks the type parameter to be SomeType as well as something being an Array<*>, which would only happen for any other generic class.
This example shows that the array cast is checked:
val a: Any = Array<Int>(1) { 0 }
val i = a as Array<Int>
val d = a as Array<Double> // gets checked and throws ClassCastException
The easiest solution is indeed to #Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST"), because actually there should not be any warning.
I filed an issue describing the problem in Kotlin issue tracker.
The cast here is unchecked because the compiler here can't ensure the nullability of array's generic type parameter.
Consider the following example:
fun castAsArrayOfString(param: Any) = param as Array<String>
castAsArrayOfString(arrayOf("a")) // is Array<String>, all ok
castAsArrayOfString(arrayOf("a", null)) // is Array<String>, but contains null
So the compiler warns you about potential type safety problems this cast could introduce.
I have an object in Matlab created from a third party toolbox. Within the object is a 3x65 double array. If I type the name of the object in the Matlab console, it lists all the contents, and specifically says this 3x65 array is a double. All I want to do is to extract this array into a separate Matlab array. But when I do something like:
x = object.ArrayIWant
I get the error "Access to an object's fields is only permitted within its methods." If I try the following:
x = get(object,'ArrayIWant)
I get the error "Conversion to double from 'toolboxfunction' is not possible. How do get access to this array?!
Look for "Get" methods in the class:
methods(object)
or
methods className
Say it says there is a method called GetArrayIWant, then you'd do:
x = object.GetArrayIWant();
I'm learning Delphi Prism, and i don't find how to write the following code with it :
type
TRapportItem = record
Label : String;
Value : Int16;
AnomalieComment : String;
end;
type
TRapportCategorie = record
Label : String;
CategoriesItems : Array of TRapportItem;
end;
type
TRapportContent = record
Categories : array of TRapportCategorie;
end;
Then, somewhere, i try to put items in the array :
rapport.Categories[i].Label:=l.Item(i).InnerText;
But it doesn't work.. Can someone enlight me?
Thanks!
You didn't specify exactly what "didn't work". You should include the error in questions like this.
Arrays are reference types, and they start out with the value nil. They need to be initialized before elements can be accessed.
You can do this with the new operator:
rapport.Categories = new TRapportCategorie[10]; // 0..9
Arrays are quite a low-level type. Usually it's better to work with List<T> instead.
So you'd declare:
Categories: List<TRapportCategorie>;
But lists also need initializing, using the new operator. Also, modifying the return value of the indexer on a list containing a value type will be modifying a copy, not the original, which leads to the next point.
Records are usually not the best data type for representing data, as they are not reference types; it's very easy to end up modifying a copy of the data, rather than the original data. It's usually best to use classes instead, where you can put all the initialization code (such as allocating the array or list) in the constructor.