Re: string problem solved - books

[Peter Van Osta <pvosta unionbio-eu com>]

Hi Michael,

As I said before, I still get confused between CORBA and C. It is not
easy to think "CORBA" when using C for both the client and the server
:-) I am starting to find my way around with CORBA, but sometimes I
still mix C and CORBA which gives nasty bugs in the software (sorry
Michael). 

I would like to find some good books(s) on CORBA, ORBit and C, not
complete beginner level but intermediate, any books to recommend ? The
documentation I can find online is all entry level as far as I can see.

B.T.W. the support form the ORBit community is great and has already
helped me a lot, thank you all very much guys! ORBit performs realy well
for our automation and image analysis project. The remote controlled
high-capacity microscopy based reader sytem is now operational in its
basic form, more feature to be added in the following weeks. It is
exciting to see the massive cell-crunching system come alive.

Best regards,

Peter Van Osta

Union Biometrica N.V./S.A.
European Scientific Operations (ESO)
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Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:36, Peter Van Osta wrote:
> > It seems that I have a lot of trouble to get rid of "C" habbits.
> > Declaring strings for CORBA isn't done wiht "char aaa[123]", but with
> > "string aaa". Afterwards allocating and "string"duping" the strings does
> > the trick.
> 
>         Right; so what CORBA will do for such a fixed length, fixed size array
> is:
> 
>         typedef char[128] foo;
> 
>         Then it will use pass by value semantics everywhere for foo - which is
> unlikely to be what you want (at all ;-). Using a string is far better.
> 
>         HTH,
> 
>                 Michael.
> 
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