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No-e13-Jul-09 5:08

13-Jul-09 5:08

I must be missing something.

I tested this in a small stand alone application and it works fine (sample project I downloaded)

Protected Sub PrintFile_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PrintFile.Click
    printDialog1.Document = ThePrintDocument 'ThePrintDocument is dfined as System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument
    If printDialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
        Me.ThePrintDocument.Print()
    End If
End Sub 'PrintFile_Click

I have a sub routine that does the printing as follows:

Protected Sub ThePrintDocument_PrintPage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal ev As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles ThePrintDocument.PrintPage
...
... 
...
End Sub 'ThePrintDocument_PrintPage

In my small test app this works perfectly, print dialog shows up, select destination and it calls the print page routine. I then incorporated this into the application I am upgrading and I get the print dialog but when I click OK on the dialog it does not return to call the print event. Any idea what I may have missed?

I did notice that if I search the sample project for ThePrintDocument in the sample project I see definitions in a resx file, but I do not understand the resx file or how to use it.

I defined by simply entering the definition, should I have dragged something from the toolbox perhaps?

Friend WithEvents ThePrintDocument As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument

Thanks in advance

No-e

Re: Print Dialog

Henry Minute13-Jul-09 5:18

Henry Minute

13-Jul-09 5:18

No-e wrote:
should I have dragged something from the toolbox perhaps

In your stand alone application, if you open the Form in the designer and can see a PrintDocument component in the Component Tray (at the bottom of the screen), then that was how it was done by the writer of that application.

Adding it manually, as you have done, should still work though. If it were me I would delete the manual declaration and use the component from the Printing tab of the toolbox, assuming that that's how the stand alone application did it. Also ensure that the properties are all set the same too.

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Re: Print Dialog

No-e13-Jul-09 5:33

No-e

13-Jul-09 5:33

Thanks, I deleted and added them from the toolbox, still a no go. It just does not seem to want to come back from the dialog box. Is there a way to chase down what may be happening after I close the box?

No-e

Re: Print Dialog

Henry Minute13-Jul-09 5:54

Henry Minute

13-Jul-09 5:54

Firstly ensure that all of the properties and events of the PrintDocument are the same as in the stand alone application. Do the Same for the PrintDialog. It is distinctly possible that in the stand alone application the PrintDocument.PrintPage event was being handled, but not in your new application. Without handling PrintPage, you won't get any output.

Re: Print Dialog

Luc Pattyn13-Jul-09 6:14

Luc Pattyn

13-Jul-09 6:14

Hi,

if anything, we should see the code related to ThePrintDocument.
Are you sure the variable isn't Nothing?

You need to debug, i.e. for one make sure ThePrintDocument_PrintPage gets called at all.
Are you using any other PrintDocument events? Not that you should, but you could test for PrintDocument.BeginPrint being fired.

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Re: Print Dialog

No-e13-Jul-09 11:57

No-e

13-Jul-09 11:57

I checked the ThePrintDocument_PrintPage is called. Thanks for your help, it turns out that a timer in the background fires perfectly every time in the studio and holds me up. Once I run the compiled version it behaves differently. I have got a nice work around. Interesting, being used to VB6 (from which I am converting) I did not see this type of behavior.

The app I am converting used the MScomm32 control quite a bit (serial comms) and I would like to better know how VB6 changes relative to .net as I see these differences in the debugger. (does .net have a better control?) If anyone can point me in a good direction, I am glad to learn it. I am not sure what to google. I see this difference in behavior (the timer I reference) in the debugger, I am not sure how timing and such works in .net., and or what my best bets are for debugging. A good reference or something to search on would be helpful

(converting code written years ago by someone else, but I am getting close Smile | :)

Thanks to CP for your help to date

no-e

Re: Print Dialog

Luc Pattyn13-Jul-09 12:31

Luc Pattyn

13-Jul-09 12:31

Hi,

three comments:

1.
for serial communications .NET offers the SerialPort class (starting .NET 2.0). It works fine for me. Warning: its DataReceived event fires on a ThreadPool thread (see #3 below).

2.
There are several timer classes in .NET; which one you use best depends on what it needs to do.
Example: for Control manipulations (say displaying real time, updating every second) you best use System.Windows.Forms.Timer which ticks on the GUI thread.

3.
only the main aka GUI thread is allowed to touch Controls; if you violate this rule strange things are bound to happen.

Since you only now told about serial ports and timers, I now suspect it is #3 that is biting you.

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A narrow width combo box on the toolstrip control

jinxster12-Jul-09 22:04

jinxster

12-Jul-09 22:04

Dear all,

I would like to make a narrow width combo box on the toolstrip control.

It seems to limit me to 75px and greater.

I would like to make a FontSize drop down which includes numbers from 1 to 7.

Or should I use drop down images? but then it doesn't look "windowsy"

Thank you
Andrew

Re: A narrow width combo box on the toolstrip control

dan!sh 12-Jul-09 22:12

dan!sh

12-Jul-09 22:12

Set the Autosize property of ToolStripDropDownButton to false and then set width as you want.

Re: A narrow width combo box on the toolstrip control

jinxster13-Jul-09 2:11

jinxster

13-Jul-09 2:11

Ok it is official that I have asked the dumbest question of the day.

Thanks for you help!!

Re: A narrow width combo box on the toolstrip control

dan!sh 13-Jul-09 3:14

dan!sh

13-Jul-09 3:14

Not actually. Believe me.

change the size of playing video in window media player

bhumika_singh12-Jul-09 21:56

bhumika_singh

12-Jul-09 21:56

hello friends,
I want zooming functionality in media player.

Re: change the size of playing video in window media player

Dave Kreskowiak13-Jul-09 1:49

Dave Kreskowiak

13-Jul-09 1:49

Then go find a component that offers such functionality.
Google would probably be a good place to start.

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Re: change the size of playing video in window media player

bhumika_singh13-Jul-09 2:22

bhumika_singh

13-Jul-09 2:22

I search a lot on google but did not find anything.

Re: change the size of playing video in window media player

Dave Kreskowiak13-Jul-09 3:59

Dave Kreskowiak

13-Jul-09 3:59

Then you use Google to build yourself a list of possible components, then go to each manufacturer of that component and see if thye offer the zoom support you require.

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what is pDllname in this "craxddrt.database.logonserver(pdllname,pservername,pdatabasename,puserid,ppassword)" ? [modified]

xingselex12-Jul-09 15:36

xingselex

12-Jul-09 15:36

i import a crystal report dll "CRAXDDRT.dll" . and i want to connect report database to sqlserver using code vb.net . in that dll has a method is logonserver(pDllname,pServer,pDatabase,pUserID,pPassword). and i want to know what is "pDllname" ?

modified on Sunday, July 12, 2009 11:24 PM

Re: what is pDllname in this "craxddrt.database.logonserver(pdllname,pservername,pdatabasename,puserid,ppassword)" ?

riced12-Jul-09 21:19

riced

12-Jul-09 21:19

At a guess it's pointer to a string holding the name of a dll. Smile | :)

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Re: what is pDllname in this "craxddrt.database.logonserver(pdllname,pservername,pdatabasename,puserid,ppassword)" ?

Jack Vanderhorst13-Jul-09 14:25

Jack Vanderhorst

13-Jul-09 14:25

A quick search of this document will get you a detailed description of LogOnServer, and the rest of the ocx too.

http://resources.businessobjects.com/support/communitycs/TechnicalPapers/logon_ocx.pdf[^]

Icons to Applicaton

nei200912-Jul-09 9:26

nei2009

12-Jul-09 9:26

Staff

Good afternoon, where with new icons to put in my application, especially the buttons? Confused | :confused:

Re: Icons to Applicaton

EliottA12-Jul-09 9:40

EliottA

12-Jul-09 9:40

Hi, welcome to the forums.

You will find here on CodeProject a bunch of articles that will introduce you into creating your own controls. The reason I say this is because I have absolutely no idea what the hell your question was about, and all I saw was the word 'button', which made me think you want a new type of button.

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Re: Icons to Applicaton

nei200912-Jul-09 9:55

nei2009

12-Jul-09 9:55

Group

I am not very good in English, then I apologize for not being clear.
I just want a link or download site to get icons to put on and my Application, example icon to add the button to add, to look better on screen. Confused | :confused:

Re: Icons to Applicaton [modified]

Steven J Jowett12-Jul-09 10:16

Steven J Jowett

12-Jul-09 10:16

I use Google image search[^, but be aware that most icons are copyrighted.

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modified on Monday, July 13, 2009 7:55 AM

Re: Icons to Applicaton

0x3c013-Jul-09 8:49

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13-Jul-09 8:49

A google search for public domain icons will give you the results. These icons are in the public domain, so anybody can use them. They might put restrictions on them though - you may not be able to use them in commercial applications; however these restrictions are fairly few and far between

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Re: Icons to Applicaton

chilinhhacker13-Jul-09 18:09

chilinhhacker

13-Jul-09 18:09

If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, you can find a compressed archive in this folder:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary

Extract the archive by using WinRAR or WinZip, then you can use everything, include icons in the extracted folder.

Do similar things with other versions of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Good luck!

chilinhhacker

Re: Icons to Applicaton

Sebastian Br.13-Jul-09 22:08

Sebastian Br.

13-Jul-09 22:08

Axialis has several sets of icons which should fit for most tasks:

http://www.axialis.com/free/icons/[^]

The icons are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

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