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Re: Control ID's

vikramlinux11-Jun-02 19:55

vikramlinux

11-Jun-02 19:55

Actually I have some MFC code. I don't want to write it down again in c#. That why I need this stuff.
Big Grin | :-D

VIKS

Re: Control ID's

Rama Krishna Vavilala12-Jun-02 0:12

Rama Krishna Vavilala

12-Jun-02 0:12

vikrams wrote:
I don't want to write it down again in c#.

If you don't want to write in C#, then why do you bother Confused | :confused:

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Re: Control ID's

Nish Nishant11-Jun-02 19:38

Nish Nishant

11-Jun-02 19:38

As James said, it's hard to suggest something without knowing what you are trying to achieve, but perhaps you are looking for the Control.Name Property

Nish

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Re: Control ID's

vikramlinux12-Jun-02 0:28

vikramlinux

12-Jun-02 0:28

Actually I have some MFC routines (inside dll) that I want to use in c# UI .

VIKs

Re: Control ID's

Nish Nishant12-Jun-02 0:44

Nish Nishant

12-Jun-02 0:44

Better use P/Invoke then

Nish

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Re: Control ID's

vikramlinux12-Jun-02 0:43

vikramlinux

12-Jun-02 0:43

I am sorry. But I dont have any idea about P/Invoke . can you give little example?

VIKs

Re: Control ID's

Nish Nishant12-Jun-02 0:55

Nish Nishant

12-Jun-02 0:55

vikrams wrote:
But I dont have any idea about P/Invoke . can you give little example?

In my opinion P/Invoke is ugly and I recommend that you use MC++ and IJW.

Nish

p.s. Chk the Managed C++ sections for some related articles

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Re: Control ID's

vikramlinux12-Jun-02 1:14

vikramlinux

12-Jun-02 1:14

Sorry again but what is IJW?
VIKs

Re: Control ID's

Nish Nishant12-Jun-02 1:43

Nish Nishant

12-Jun-02 1:43

vikrams wrote:
Sorry again but what is IJW?

Read this article :-
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/nishijw01.asp

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Re: Control ID's

Rickard Andersson²⁰12-Jun-02 1:44

Rickard Andersson²⁰

12-Jun-02 1:44

Nish - Native CPian wrote:
I recommend that you use MC++

So... I can use MC++ in C#??

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Re: Control ID's

Nish Nishant12-Jun-02 1:46

Nish Nishant

12-Jun-02 1:46

Rickard Andersson wrote:
So... I can use MC++ in C#??

I actually meant that you can use MC++ instead of C#.
Basically if you don't have GUI-intensive work you can use MC++.
Right now they don't have a form designer for MC++. When that comes out you can use MC++ for all your .NET coding. That way you can use your old MFC/ATL code as well as new managed code

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Re: Control ID's

Rickard Andersson²⁰12-Jun-02 2:05

Rickard Andersson²⁰

12-Jun-02 2:05

So for now there is plain C# you can code in Visual C#?
hmm.. agh!

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Interprocess communication

paulb11-Jun-02 17:31

paulb

11-Jun-02 17:31

I need a simple method for one instance of a winforms program to communicate with another. In Win32 I did this with a named event object but it doesn't look like there is an equivalent in the framework?

I just need a flag which can be set/reset and read by multiple processes.

Re: Interprocess communication

Nish Nishant11-Jun-02 18:12

Nish Nishant

11-Jun-02 18:12

I think you can use events.

Nish

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Re: Interprocess communication

Nish Nishant11-Jun-02 18:17

Nish Nishant

11-Jun-02 18:17

Nish - Native CPian wrote:
I think you can use events.

Oops! I think I was wrong there Frown | :-(

But you can use a named Mutex object if all you want to do is signal some state.

Nish

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Keyboard key pressed

BLaZiNiX11-Jun-02 13:27

BLaZiNiX

11-Jun-02 13:27

I have a special keyboard with some special button at the top of the F.. button like (Banking,My Site,Shopping,Volume Up,Volume Down) and things like that. And this keyboard came with the computer (E-Machine) and those special button works only with the Windows 98 version that came with the computer, now i'm on XP (and you can figure that those buttons don't works) and I want to know how can I create a program that I will put in the tray or maybe a service that can detect when I'm pressing the selected button on the keyboard and add an action to it like Process.Start("http://www.google.com"); on the My Site Button.

Any suggestion ??

Thanks

Re: Keyboard key pressed

Nick Parker11-Jun-02 17:59

Nick Parker

11-Jun-02 17:59

You could begin by overriding the WndProc method and watch to see the message you send when pressing those special buttons, if at all. You could also try to override the onKeyPress method as well to see if you get a reaction from Windows. No guarantees here though as I am not exactly sure this would work, just a thought. Smile | :)

Nick Parker

Re: Keyboard key pressed

BLaZiNiX12-Jun-02 15:20

BLaZiNiX

12-Jun-02 15:20

k and how can i override the WndProc, do u have an example please ??

Re: Keyboard key pressed

James T. Johnson12-Jun-02 15:58

James T. Johnson

12-Jun-02 15:58

protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
  // Handle messages, if you don't want to use the base
  // implementation return before finishing
  switch(m.Message)
  {
    .....
  }

  base.WndProc(ref m);
}

[Edit: The value to use for the case statment can be found in the Windows SDK; best thing you can do is use the "Find in Files" feature and point it at the PlatformSDK/include directory]

HTH,

James

Re: Keyboard key pressed

BLaZiNiX12-Jun-02 18:02

BLaZiNiX

12-Jun-02 18:02

hi,

i tried to override it using the WM_KEYDOWN like in VC++ but no result, i test my sample app with a listbox so when i'm clicking a key i'm suppose to get his value but no result and something strange it's that i tried to make the same thing but using the OnKeyPressed an no result too , that's strange ...

Can you show me the way to do it please ?

Thanks a lot James Smile | :)

Re: Keyboard key pressed

Nick Parker13-Jun-02 2:33

Nick Parker

13-Jun-02 2:33

Thanks James, I just got into work and got the response from BLaZiNiX, you just beat me to it. Big Grin | :-D

Nick Parker

client connection class

11-Jun-02 11:51

Is there a way to create a class named after the value of a variable?

Let me explain what i'm trying to do.

A thread is started that monitors a port for connections. When a connection is made I want to make a new instance of a 'connectedClient' class (to handle sending/recieving from that client). How can i 'randomly' name a class instance (I can't have all my connectedClient class instances share the same name) and how can i keep track of their names (maybe an array?).

Thanks, from someone with only php experience (don't do much threading in scripting languages)

Re: client connection class

James T. Johnson11-Jun-02 12:24

James T. Johnson

11-Jun-02 12:24

You don't.... The variable name is just a name for the programmer to reference.

I would create a Hashtable and use the name as the key; storing the relevant connectedClient instance in the table.

Hashtable clients = new Hashtable();
  
CreateNewClient(string name)
{
  connectedClient c = new connectedClient();
  // do stuff to setup client
 
  clients[name] = c;
}
 
connectedClient GetClient(string name)
{
  return (clients[name] as connectedClient);
}

HTH,

James

Regular DLLs

Hugo Hallman11-Jun-02 11:38

Hugo Hallman

11-Jun-02 11:38

Short question, from a C++er to you C#ers
Is it at all possible to use old standard dlls in c#
If yes I might consider learning C#.

Greatful for any answer.

Hugo

Re: Regular DLLs

James T. Johnson11-Jun-02 12:21

James T. Johnson

11-Jun-02 12:21

huggeh wrote:
Is it at all possible to use old standard dlls in c#

Yes, via P/Invoke... Look at DllImportAttribute, StructLayoutAttribute, and Marshal classes.

James

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