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Context Menus
Posted by JezB at 1/16/2004 5:19:03 PM
Given a reference to a Form object, I want to do some processing on each of
the ContextMenus used in that form. How can I do this easily ?
The only way I can think of is to parse the entire Controls collection and
evaluate each one to determine if it has a ContextMenu attached, and then to
kee... more >>
reusing treenodes in multiple treeviews...
Posted by Tim Mackey at 1/16/2004 4:27:00 PM
this is an unusual problem and there doesn't seem to be anything about it
online.
i have several winforms that create different treeviews based on the same
data, they may be opened by the user at the same time, and i want to achieve
consistency between all views, without resorting to regeneratin... more >>
layout ui best practices
Posted by Lance Johnson at 1/16/2004 3:22:21 PM
I've been looking around and wanted to know if anybody knew of any good
books for laying out dialogs/forms. We have quite a few dialogs with
buttons besides just OK/Cancel and other various situations and we were
trying to figure out what's a standard practice for this so we had some
guidelines... more >>
User Inactivity Timer
Posted by Stanley Glass at 1/16/2004 2:26:53 PM
I am looking for a way to build in a timer that if the user does not do
something in a certain time the program forces them to close it down and
open it up or enter a password to continue. I know how to use the timer
object but how do I know if the user has done something within my app? Would
i ... more >>
Print Text on paper form
Posted by paul .G at 1/16/2004 2:06:22 PM
hi all.
This is my problem: I have developed a software for my client. There is a
form in the software that the client can enter text and numbers and then
application prints it out on a blank paper. Now my client wanted me to print
out the text and numbers on a paper form at corresponding posit... more >>
Properties from another Form
Posted by Ben dotNet at 1/16/2004 2:03:15 PM
I would like to get the width property of an active mdiform from a child
form.
How can I access this property? (vb.Net)
Thanks
--Ben
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How to limit to only one copy running?
Posted by casp at 1/16/2004 2:02:16 PM
I'm trying to let the user can only run one copy of the application. If the
user try to execute another copy of the application, a message box will be
popped up say "another copy is running...". How to achieve that?
Thanks,
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Print pdf file in C#, need help, thanks!
Posted by ywchan at 1/16/2004 1:02:27 PM
I have tried to print pdf by using gswin32 and call it through the process
class
but I can't change the paper orientation....no matter I have set dORIENT1 =
true / false...it is printed as portrait....
Does anyone know how to change the paper orientation in my case?
or having some other ide... more >>
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sending event data between UI and worker threads?
Posted by Tim Mackey at 1/16/2004 12:37:07 PM
hi,
i have a worker thread that raises an event. i'm sending an object as the
sender of the event.
my UI thread is listening for the event, and i'm wondering if it will screw
up the UI thread if it responds to an event raised from a worker thread, and
accesses the object sent with the event?
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Secondary Sort using IComparer
Posted by Jason Daley at 1/16/2004 11:38:14 AM
In the following example, does anyone know if and/or how you would do a
secondary sort?
' ******************************
' Usage
' ******************************
Dim alPeople as New Arraylist
alPeople.Add(New objPerson("John","Doe"))
alPeople.Add(New objPerson("Jane","Doe"))
alPeople.Add... more >>
floating toolbar
Posted by ar at 1/16/2004 11:07:31 AM
hI,
Im having some trouble with creating a floating toolbar in vb.net, I do not
want to use the toolbar control because I want to include other controls on
my toolbar, not just toolbar buttons.
I'm creating a Form based toolbar, a Form that is owned by a MDI control,
but I have some problems.... more >>
Copy and Paste Files to and from the Clipboard
Posted by DraguVaso at 1/16/2004 10:28:55 AM
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to Copy and Paste Files to the clipboard.
I found a lot of articles to copy pieces of text and bitmaps etc, but nog
whole files.
Whay I need is like you have in windows explorer: when you do a right-click
on a file and choose Copy, and than paste it somewhere in my... more >>
raising events with derived classes...
Posted by Tim Mackey at 1/16/2004 10:09:00 AM
hi,
i have a class 'WebManTreeNode' that inherits from Windows forms TreeNode. i
have added a 'TextChanged' event to it, because i need to listen out for it,
but i am unable to intercept the TreeNode.Text property to raise my event
whenever the property changes.
i have tried overriding the Text... more >>
how can I highlight a whole row in datagrid programmatically??
Posted by Jason at 1/16/2004 9:56:53 AM
thx all
for example,
I want to highlight the end of the whole row every time when the form load
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drawing a caption close button
Posted by thatisvaliant at 1/16/2004 9:36:06 AM
i need to draw a close button within my tabbed MDI application. (i'm using c# with windows forms app)
i tried using ControlPaint.DrawCaptionButton(), this lead to 2 problems. 1) i couldnt get the button to paint using windows xp styles so it would be red etc. 2) ButtonState.* doesnt seem to suppo... more >>
Implementing IComparable in a custom class (sorting more than one way)
Posted by jdaley NO[at]SPAM data-tronics.com at 1/16/2004 6:32:39 AM
I have a custom class that provides information about training course
history (in-house IT training).
There are numerous course history entries for a student or group of
students, and they're each new'ed up as an objCourseHistory object and
stored in an arraylist.
(Hardcoding examples for i... more >>
Creating a Graph like Performance Monitor in .NET
Posted by achalk at 1/16/2004 12:11:05 AM
All of us are familiar with task manager and the "Performance" tab. I want to create that kind of graph in .NET and WinForms. I.e. a line graph that is updatable in real time. It is unclear to me whether this is a GDI+ or DirectX application. Also i can't find examples of anything similar. If anybod... more >>
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