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Application.Restart();

stops the current process and starts a new identical one.

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Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.

This one wont work in console application...

this will open a new instance of the application but cant close the current instance...

How was Luc supposed to know it was a Console application? You didn't volunteer this info up front.

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ok... my bad...

Hello Everybody,

I am continue my question and it's answer with a new problem.

My New Problem is : I have two Notepad First One is in Hindi Keyboard Language and Second is Abrahic. Now I am
Trying to Hook Keycode. But I am not able to check the Active Windows Keyboard Layout.

My Previous Questions is:
http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/3753244/Keyboard-Language-and-Settings.aspx[^]
It's Answer is : Unicode Capturing

If you can think then I Can.

Please pay attention to the following code:
Note: Thread t;

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
	{<br />
		t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(main));<br />
		t.Start();<br />
<br />
		Thread.Sleep(1000);<br />
<br />
		t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(main));<br />
		t.Start();<br />
	}<br />
		<br />
public void main()<br />
	{<br />
		int x, y, a, b;<br />
		double selectY;<br />
		Random rnd = new Random();<br />
		<br />
		x = rnd.Next(0, lblEnvironment.Width - 20);<br />
<br />
		Thread.Sleep(100);<br />
		y = rnd.Next(0, lblEnvironment.Height - 20);<br />
<br />
		if ((x > -20) && (x < lblEnvironment.Width))<br />
		{<br />
			Thread.Sleep(100);<br />
			selectY = rnd.NextDouble();<br />
<br />
			if (selectY < 0.5)<br />
				y = -20;<br />
			else<br />
				y = lblEnvironment.Height;<br />
		}<br />
		<br />
		a = rnd.Next(-5, 5);<br />
		Thread.Sleep(100);<br />
		b = rnd.Next(-5, 5);<br />
<br />
		while (a == 0) a = rnd.Next(-5, 5);<br />
		while (b == 0) b = rnd.Next(-5, 5);<br />
		<br />
		Pen pen = new Pen(Color.Red, 10);<br />
		Graphics g = lblEnvironment.CreateGraphics();<br />
		<br />
		while (true)<br />
		{<br />
			if (cancelThread)<br />
			{<br />
				cancelThread = false;<br />
				t.Abort();<br />
			}<br />
<br />
			g.DrawEllipse(pen, x, y, 20, 20);<br />
			<br />
			Thread.Sleep(100);<br />
			g.Clear(Color.White);<br />
<br />
			if (((x < 0) && (a < 0)) || ((x == lblEnvironment.Width) && (a > 0)))<br />
				a *= -1;<br />
			x += a;<br />
<br />
			if (((y < 0) && (b < 0)) || ((y == lblEnvironment.Height) && (b > 0)))<br />
				b *= -1;<br />
			y += b;<br />
<br />
			if ((x > lblEnvironment.Width - 25) || (x < 5))<br />
			{<br />
				t = new Thread(new ThreadStart(main));<br />
				t.Start();<br />
				<br />
				Thread.CurrentThread.Abort();<br />
			}<br />
<br />
			if ((y > lblEnvironment.Height - 25 && b > 0) || (y < 5 && b < 0))<br />
			{<br />
				b *= -1;<br />
			}<br />
		}<br />
	}

The scenario is as bellow:

At the beginning of the program two balls are appeared as 'Thread' and they start to move in various directions. If each one of them hit to the left or right wall then that ball must disappear and a new ball as 'Thread' must enter and this routine should be continued to the end. Currently everything is correct but the problem is that it seems both of balls use one resource (variables) and because of this are displayed blinking. What should I do to solve the problem?

Thank you

Hi,

for starters, please use PRE tags rather than CODE tags; they preserve formatting and indentation, making it all much more readable (you could still edit the existing message!).

You have two threads executing the same code, no problem. Each of them has a main method with local variables on the stack, they will be distinct as each thread has its own stack.

You may have a problem due to the way instances of Random are seeded: if you don't provide an explicit seed, they derive one from the current time, however your non-commented Sleep(1000) probably takes care of that.

You do have a problem with the way you do your painting. I'm not going to explain all the things you did wrong, I suggest you read this little article[^].

One more comment: your objects could also hit each other, something your code is never going to detect as the bouncing balls have their state completely private.

Suggestion 0: modify all painting stuff, in accordance with the guide lines set out in my article.

Suggestion 1: create a Ball class, have it hold the state and all the code a ball requires; then instantiate two (or more) of them, and keep them in a generic list. If you use threads, hide them inside the Ball class.

Suggestion 2: you don't really need a new ball and thread when the current ball leaves the valid x-range; you could recycle the ball, give it a new location, direction, speed, what have you, and save on the system resources (threads are expensive, and aborting them isn't very nice).

Suggestion 3: you don't really need a thread for each ball, a single timer could be used to update each of the balls.

Suggestion 4: create some global way to detect collisions, it will need information about all walls and balls.

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Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

Please use <PRE> tags for code snippets, they preserve indentation, improve readability, and make me actually look at the code.

As Luc says, it's not so much the treading at fault as how you do the graphics.

Moth balls clear the label to white after painting themselves - so depending on the exact timing, you might be left with a white screen for longer than you anticipate - hence the flickering.

e.g.

Ball 1 draws itself and waits 100ms before blanking the background. Meanwhile Ball 2 is drawing itself - if it has just finished drawing ball 2 when ball 1 clears the screen, then it's only visible for a short time.

I haven't read the article to which Luc referred - but I think you should rethink how you're doing this entirely (of course, if you're just playing with threads, then the graphics doesn't matter).

The way I tend to do it is to keep track of the time, and the velocity of my object(s). Then the object calculates where it needs to be drawn depending on what time it is now.

Loop
   ForEach(Ball ball in Balls)
   {
      //calculate the new position given current position, velocity and elapsed time
   }

   DrawTheBackground();

   ForEach(Ball ball in Balls)
   {
      //Draw the ball at its current position
   }
End Loop

Now you could also think about double or triple buffering (which may improve matters, but the above will get you what I think you want better than using individual threads for each object.

You can also do it with threads, of course - but I would suggest updating the object's position in a thread - and keep a separate process to draw everything.

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I have designed a C# program in VS2008 (.NET 3.5). the purpose of the program is to use my brokerage's COM dll components to connect to them and pull quote history automatically every so often for analysis in my other program which emails me updates and possible trade decisions.

my program works just fine but the issue is knowing when to register the DLL's or not. What I mean is that if the user has the brokerage's software already installed on the machine then there is no need to register them. in fact, doing so will work temporarily but if my program is uninstalled them the brokerage software doesn't work. i had to uninstall, reinstall, and reboot before the brokerage software would work after registering "my" DLL's.

i am using a batch file script to execute regsvr32 commands on the DLL's in my program's installation directory and what i believe what is happening is that there is only one entry in the registry for a given CLSID and therefor, when my program is installed and runs for the first time it registers the ones in my directory. then if i uninstall mine, the entries are gone or invalid and the brokerage software cannot load the objects because the CLSID entry in the registry is either missing or points to a file that no longer exists.

how would i go about ensuring that my program does not screw up the brokerage software while still working on machines that don't have it installed? is there a way to use the COM DLL's in my directory WITHOUT having them registered with the system? that would solve the problem. if not, how would i go about this? would i have to write code to check the registry for valid entries for each CLSID and if it does not exist, then register that DLL?

Thanks in advance,

-Ryan

You're looking to use COM .dll files without using RegSvr32?

I didn't think it could be done but I found this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973913.aspx[^]

you are correct. i did a little digging around as well as some trial and error and i came to the same conclusion - COM components must be registered with the system (with the exception you found).

the 4 main COM DLL's need to be registered but the dependencies that they use only need to be in the same directory as the calling COM DLL. i don't need to register those other ones.

now that i know this, i can figure out how to proceed. what it looks like i need to do is write some code to check the registry to see if there is an entry for the CLSID and ProgID for each of the 4 main components and if they exist and link to a valid, existing file then i would not register the DLL. otherwise, i would register that DLL.

that should ensure that if the brokerage software is already installed that my software doesn't screw it up like it did before. plus, it's just extra work and toying with the registry unnecessarily.

however, that link you sent seems very interesting. someone said to me, "In most cases we don't need to register DLLs, if it correctly referenced to your project." this link must be the technique that he was referring to.

i'm going to see if i can use that method instead.

thanks,

-Ryan

I need to send some io stream ( the io information can be text or video stream ) to some of the existing USB connectors.

I don't know how can i send this stream directly to this port - and if this actually possible.

Someone can help me ?

Thanks

USB is not a port in the sense that a Parallel or a Serial port is. USB is a BUS, not unlike the slots inside your machine that you plug cards into.

You don't send a stream of data to a USB port. You send it to the device attached. How you do that depends on the device.

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Thanks,

And if i want to send the data like sending to Serial port ? I mean sending data like USB Virtual Com port - is it possible to send it directly to specific port ? if 'yes' so how can i to it ?

You don't send a stream of data to a USB port. You send it to the device attached. How you do that depends on the device.

What device are you trying to send data to? Is it a flash drive?

Again, you do NOT send data to a USB port. If you've got a USB Serial Port device attached to it, then you send data to it using normal serial port I/O functions addressing the COMx port that the device is "attached" to. This is no different than if the device was physically attached to a real serial port.

A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]

Dave Kreskowiak

Hi all,

I have created a ServiceReference (to a JAVA Web-Service) using WSDL.exe. It created a .cs file. I have added this file into my project and using it. No problem up till this point. But I want to know all the APIs exposed from that JAVA Web-Service. How can I do it programmatically and at run time (Using c#)? Please help.

Thanks and Regards

It seems to me that once you hit that service using the tool it should be providing you with a list of all the available web enabled services that you can access.

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Hi,

I have a DataGridView control on a form. It as one DataGridViewComboBoxColumn column. DataGridView control is not bound to any datatable or collection. I am populating it manually. Suppose DataGridViewComboBoxColumn has items 'CCW' and 'CW'. User can select either of these. While closing the form I am just reading the column values. So for its fine till MultiSelect is set to False.

I want to change DataGrid's behavior to multi select row. User can select multiple rows and change the property to 'CW' or 'CCW' and it should get applicable to all the selected rows in the grid.

How I can achieve it?

Hello,

I want to run a Command from command promt and want its output and maipulate its output. If required, want to close the process and display error or appropriate message.

How is that possible. Any help is highly appreciated. I am stuck with this and would be glad if any body helps me solve my problem.

Thanks

Thanks & Regards,

Send the output to a file and retrieve and process it from there. However, your exact requirements in the above question are a little unclear.

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I am tying to connect to server via cmd. Server keeps on giving output. Suppose the server gave output as : Trying to start ..... Cananot load file ..... Exiting OR
Trying to start ..... Authenticating... Some thing ..... More.... Else,.......... keeps on going

While retrieving the output, I want to check for lines like "Cannot find file", "Connected Successfully, etc and set properties ccordingly (like connected = true, errorMsg = "Cannot find file". Where I am calling the class, I can take care of those proeprties and stop if found connected == true or errorMsg.length > 0. With this inform the user that "Connection is achieved or error msg stating regarding "Cannot load file" and disconnect the server if errorMsg found.

try
{
process = Process.Start(processInfo);

process.BeginOutputReadLine();

I start the process, now got to <b>check the output while the process is already running</b>. That checking part am stuck up with. Process mostly wont Exit normally, I got to exit it. I mean just dir and got results ans process is exited - nothing like that. command keeps on giving output lines. To stop the server, I got to press "F4" on command prompt. How do I stop from here.

Thanks & Regards,

As Richard said, you can direct the output of any command to output file.
e.g.
dir >> C:\\list.txt

this will output all the directories in the current drive to C:\\list.txt file.

Hope this helps.
All the best.

If you are starting the process from a C# app, then you could use the Process.StandardOutput[^] property to capture the command output and do what you like with it. There is an example in the link.

The other option is to start the command in a command prompt and pipe it's output to your app. That would work with a console app, but I've never needed to try it with a WinForms.

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Thanks OriginalGriff,

I coded the foloowing :
<code>
processInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe", "/C " + command);
sb = new StringBuilder();
processInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
processInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
processInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
process = Process.Start(processInfo);

process.BeginOutputReadLine();
process.OutputDataReceived += new DataReceivedEventHandler(Process_OutputDataReceived);

public string ErrorMessage
{
get { return errorMsg; }
set { errorMsg = value; }
}

private void Process_OutputDataReceived(object sender, DataReceivedEventArgs e)
{
errorMsg = "";
connected = false;
string d = e.Data;

if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(d))
{
if (sb != null)
sb.Append(d + "\n");
Console.WriteLine("LINE = " + d); // I see each line
if (d.IndexOf("Initialization Completed") > 0)
{
connected = true;
Console.WriteLine("********* Connected = " + connected);
}
else if (isInValidLine(d))
{
//throw new Exception(d);
connected = false;
errorMsg = d;
return;
}
}
}
private bool isInValidLine(string line)
{
if (line.IndexOf("Cannot load file") > 0)
{
errorMsg = line;
return true;
}
return false;
}
</code>

The output that I see is :
LINE = Thu Feb 03 17:22:28 2011 Cannot load file path (null) (SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations): error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory: error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such file: error:0B084002:

Based on the above code and output, isInValidLine() should find the text "Cannot load file" and errorMsg should be set to the line and it should return true.

My Implementation :
<pre>
while (!oc.Connected)
{
timepassed = (int)(DateTime.Now - start).TotalMilliseconds;
if (timepassed > timeout)
{
oc.DisconnectServer();
connectedToVpn = false;
throw new Exception("NotConnectedException");
} else if (oc.ErrorMessage.Length > 0)
{
oc.DisconnectServer();
connectedToVpn = false;
throw new Exception(oc.ErrorMessage);
}
Thread.Sleep(100);
}
</pre>

checks for if (oc.ErrorMessage.Length &gt; 0), but the value of errorMsg is always "". Why so ?

Where am I going wrong or doing something invalid that the code seems to never check for isInvalid() method only ? I tried adding the same lines of isinvalid() in the place it is called, but yet no differnce.

Where am I going wrong that the Process_OutputDataReceived never sets and errorMsg via isInvalid() ? Please help me get my mistake and rectify it. Badly stuck up at this location.

Thanks & Regards,