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bouli1-Sep-05 10:07

1-Sep-05 10:07

how did you guessed that it was for MC68K???

I do the following:
bw.Write(darkValues32[i]); while the content of darkValues32 is anInt32.

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Re: Writing binary data to file

Guffa1-Sep-05 11:24

Guffa

1-Sep-05 11:24

That's wasn't a guess. Smile | :)

Extract the bytes from the value:

bw.Write((byte)((darkValues32[i] >> 24) & 255));<br />
bw.Write((byte)((darkValues32[i] >> 16) & 255));<br />
bw.Write((byte)((darkValues32[i] >> 8) & 255));<br />
bw.Write((byte)(darkValues32[i] & 255));

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b { font-weight: normal; }

Re: Writing binary data to file

bouli2-Sep-05 5:38

bouli

2-Sep-05 5:38

Ok, it works like a charm Smile | :)

Thanks a lot Smile | :)

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Re: Writing binary data to file

Stanciu Vlad1-Sep-05 10:09

Stanciu Vlad

1-Sep-05 10:09

This is a BigEndian LittleEndian problem Smile | :)

This means that your system writes a hexadecimal number in the right-left order or left-right...
I guarantee you that if your system writes the number in that order, when it will attempt to read the number, te result will be the correct one...

But, if you just want to format in that way your data into the file, the simplest way is to split the number into bytes, write them, spend some time, read the bytes back and build your numbers ... Smile | :)

I hope you understand...because is a rough world out there...

Re: Writing binary data to file

bouli1-Sep-05 10:12

bouli

1-Sep-05 10:12

And how to write an Int32 or Int16 in a Big Edian format?

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Re: Writing binary data to file

Stanciu Vlad1-Sep-05 10:46

Stanciu Vlad

1-Sep-05 10:46

Here is an example on how to split a Int32 into bytes :

UInt32 myNumber = (UInt32)0xfefdfcfb;
			
byte b4 = Convert.ToByte(myNumber/(65536*256));
myNumber -= ((UInt32)b4) * (65536*256);
byte b3 = Convert.ToByte(myNumber/65536);
myNumber -= ((UInt32)b3) * 65536;
byte b2 = Convert.ToByte(myNumber/256);
myNumber -= ((UInt32)b2) * 256;
byte b1 = Convert.ToByte(myNumber);

Here b1 is LSB and b2 is MSB, meaning that myNumber is 0xb4b3b2b1

I hope we understand...because is a rough world out there...

Re: Writing binary data to file

Dan Neely1-Sep-05 10:57

Dan Neely

1-Sep-05 10:57

Not sure if it's the most efficient but anding the int with masks to extract each byte, bitwise shifting them until the desired byte is in the lower 8 bits, and converting the result into an int8 should work.

This code will extract the 3rd byte of i and assign it to b;

uint i = 0xAABBCCDD;
uint j = i & 0x00FF0000;
j = j >> 16;
byte b = (byte)j;

Validating what's in TextBox: Basics

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1-Sep-05 9:21

What's the most direct way to validate the text in a textbox?
If the text entered is NOT a number an "Invalid Entry" MessageBox will pop up.
How to code (more or less)? thanks....

Re: Validating what's in TextBox: Basics

Stanciu Vlad1-Sep-05 9:57

Stanciu Vlad

1-Sep-05 9:57

The simplest way to check if a text is a number or not is to convert it :

try {
    Convert.ToInt32(myTextBox.Text);
} 
catch 
{
    // the text in the control is not a number
    MessageBox.Show("Invalid Entry", "Error!");
}

I hope you understand...because is a rough world out there...

How can we know if Scroll bars are active?

rudy.net1-Sep-05 9:14

rudy.net

1-Sep-05 9:14

I have a RichTextBox control with a vertical scroll; however, the vertical scroll is not always active depending on the height of my control.

Is there a way to figure out when the vertical scroll becomes visible on the control?

Reason I need is to calculate the number of characters per line and to do it I use method GetCharIndexFromPosition(pointAtRightCorner) and the pointAtRightCorner variable depends on whether vertical scroll is active or not.

Minimize button event

ngensys1-Sep-05 8:50

ngensys

1-Sep-05 8:50

Hi guys,

Does anyone know how I can capture the event when a user clicks the Minimize button on the control box in C#?

I want to issue a warning messagebox when they click on it. And why does the message box show nothing on it, even though I have set all the parameters in the messagebox function properly? There are nothing on it except an empty button with no caption.

Please help... Confused | :confused:

Re: Minimize button event

Stanciu Vlad1-Sep-05 9:43

Stanciu Vlad

1-Sep-05 9:43

In order to catch the minimize event of an window you moust intercet the WM_SYSCOMMAND message and check that the WParam is SC_MINIMIZE. How can you do this? Simple, override the WndProc of your form :

protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
	if(m.Msg == 0x112) // if WM_SYSCOMMAND 
	{
		if(m.WParam.ToInt32() == 0xf020) //if SC_MINIMIZE
		{
                        // process here what you want
			return; // if you want to not to minimize, or call base.WndProc (ref m) if you do not
		}
	}

	base.WndProc (ref m);
}

I hope you understand...because is a rough world out there...

Re: Minimize button event

Bojan Rajkovic1-Sep-05 16:30

Bojan Rajkovic

1-Sep-05 16:30

Hook the Resized event of the form and then check that the WindowState is equal to FormWindowState.Minimized. If it is, issue your messagebox and do anything else that you want to.

Web Custom Controls - ASP.NET 2.0

kalakrishna1-Sep-05 8:46

kalakrishna

1-Sep-05 8:46

(Could anyone please help me out with their expertise in writing web custom user controls. Basically i need to add around 5 custom properties to all the existing controls.

Web Content page will have a XMLDataSource set up on the page. When other controls(like textbox, dropdown, radio, label controls etc.) should have properties like DataSource, DataMember , DataTextField and DataValueField.

DataSource property should be a dropdown with the list of available datasources on the content pages(basically xmlDataSources).
DataMember property should display all the tables present in the selected XML of xmlDataSource on the web page.

Similarly DataTextField and DataValueField should display all the members under the table(selected in DataMember).

Could you please send a sample code to do this.

Thanks in advance.

Murali

Rangam

array

HFreitas1-Sep-05 8:04

HFreitas

1-Sep-05 8:04

thanks for the help about method i solved that one

another thing now:
console apllication
int[,] alfa={{1,2,3},{4,5,6}};

how can i implement a method that includes alfa array as an argument and show in the console all it´s elements?

P:S. i apreciate for the help, and yes guffa i am not being able to solve some exams that i have and it helps a lot +- 2000 programers help

Re: array

Stanciu Vlad1-Sep-05 9:01

Stanciu Vlad

1-Sep-05 9:01

A very simple solution to your answer is the following method :

static void Mehtod(int[,] alfaArgument) 
{
	Console.WriteLine("Argument values : " + 
		alfaArgument[0,0] + ", " +
		alfaArgument[0,1] + ", " +
		alfaArgument[0,2] + ", " +
		alfaArgument[1,0] + ", " +
		alfaArgument[1,1] + ", " +
		alfaArgument[1,2]);
}

A more laborious method that can wrote on the screen the contents of an array with more then two dimensions is the following :

static void Mehtod(int[,/*,,,,,,,...*/] alfaArgument) 
{
   long[] indexes = new long[alfaArgument.Rank];

   for(long i = 0 ; i < indexes.LongLength ; i++)
       indexes[i] = 0;

   while(true)
   {
       string argument = "";
				
       for(long i = 0 ; i < indexes.LongLength ; i++)
           argument += indexes[i] + ", ";
       argument = argument.Substring(0, argument.Length-2);

       Console.WriteLine("alfaArgument["+argument+"] = " +     alfaArgument.GetValue(indexes));

       indexes[alfaArgument.Rank-1] ++;
       for(long i = indexes.LongLength-1 ; i > -1  ; i--) // for correct listing
       {
           if(indexes[i] >= alfaArgument.GetLongLength((int)i)) 
	   {
		indexes[i] = 0;
		if (i > 0)
			indexes[i-1] ++;
		else
			return;
	   }
       }
}

I hope you understand...because is a rough world out there...

Reflection Ambiguous match error

PhrankBooth1-Sep-05 7:40

PhrankBooth

1-Sep-05 7:40

Hi,

New to refelection, I'm doing a GetMethod call on an overloaded method and I get an Ambiguous Match exception.

The method has the same name as another method (overloaded).

How can I cal getMethod so this exception is not generated on overloaded methods?

Thanks,

PhrankBooth

Re: Reflection Ambiguous match error

Judah Gabriel Himango1-Sep-05 7:55

Judah Gabriel Himango

1-Sep-05 7:55

Use any of the overloads for the GetMethod call. You'll notice that there are several GetMethod functions: GetMethod(string), GetMethod(string, Type[]), and so on. The ambiguouse match exception is being thrown because the method you're trying to retrieve has overloads as well. For instance, let's say you're trying to retrieve the SayHello function:

void SayHello(string message)
{
}

void SayHello(string message, bool waveHandAsFriendlyGesture)
{
}

So, you want to retrieve the SayHello method. Let's pretend you want to retrieve the overloaded method that takes both a string message and a bool waveHand. Currently, you're trying to access it like this:

theType.GetMethod("SayHello"); // ambiguous match exception: both SayHello methods take at least a string.

To prevent this error from occuring, use the GetMethod overload that takes a type array, allowing you to specify the types of the arguments:

theType.GetMethod("SayHello", new Type[] { typeof(string), typeof(bool) }); // yay, no exceptions!

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Re: Reflection Ambiguous match error

PhrankBooth1-Sep-05 9:05

PhrankBooth

1-Sep-05 9:05

OK, I get it. But it follows from this that I would then have to create special cases for each overloaded method, correct?

Thank you,

PhrankBooth

Re: Reflection Ambiguous match error

Judah Gabriel Himango1-Sep-05 10:07

Judah Gabriel Himango

1-Sep-05 10:07

If you've got overloads, then you have to let the CLR know which particular overload you're trying to get at, so yes, I believe you'll need a special case for each overload.

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combobox XML

PHDENG811-Sep-05 7:30

PHDENG81

1-Sep-05 7:30

I know how to search for text in a an XML file and display it within a combobox. However, how do I put TWO different sets of data within an XML file and have TWO combobox's populated by the separates sets of data? Thanks.

Dizzle

Re: combobox XML

Judah Gabriel Himango1-Sep-05 7:47

Judah Gabriel Himango

1-Sep-05 7:47

That's a very ambiguous question. Are you having difficulty reading the 2 sets of data in the single XML file? That question can only be answered if one is to understand the schema of the XML file. You'd basically have to read certain parts of the xml file and store them seperately.

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Re: combobox XML

PHDENG811-Sep-05 8:17

PHDENG81

1-Sep-05 8:17

I only have preliminary data within the XML file. How do I read only certain parts of the XML file? How do I indicate the different parts and how do I get C# to to recognize that? Thanks for your help.

Dizzle

Re: combobox XML

PHDENG811-Sep-05 8:36

PHDENG81

1-Sep-05 8:36

I have this:

System.Data.DataSet ds=new DataSet();
ds.ReadXml("Preconditions.xml");

for(int i = 0; i < ds.Tables.Count - 1; i++)
{
this.comboBox1.Items.Add(ds.Tables[i].TableName);

}

HOwever, it only populates the combobox with tag names. How can I differentiate between the data within the XML file?

DIZZLE

Re: combobox XML

Judah Gabriel Himango1-Sep-05 9:21

Judah Gabriel Himango

1-Sep-05 9:21

Rather than reading the XML into a DataSet, why not just read it yourself using System.Xml.XmlReader? You can iterate through whatever pieces of the document you'd like, thus giving you full control over the data.

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