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getting the visible pixel-colors

12-Sep-02 21:24

my friend and his professor put some slides in the web
http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/folien/Net-Days/AOP-with-NET_files/frame.htm
(although my mozilla doesn't display this correctyl - you better use ms internet explorer) - maybe something on these slide helps you Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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cast string to guid

Shaun Wilde12-Sep-02 5:47

Shaun Wilde

12-Sep-02 5:47

How

most types such as int have a Parse method but Guid does not.

currently I do this

<br />
		static public Guid Parse(string input)<br />
		{<br />
			Guid guid = new Guid();<br />
			guid = (Guid)TypeDescriptor.GetConverter(guid).ConvertFromString(input);<br />
			return guid;<br />
		}<br />

but it seems very long winded.

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The end of future offspring.
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Re: cast string to guid

Anonymous12-Sep-02 6:14

Anonymous

12-Sep-02 6:14

Won't this work for you?

<br />
Guid g = new Guid(input);<br />

Re: cast string to guid

Shaun Wilde12-Sep-02 9:48

Shaun Wilde

12-Sep-02 9:48

doh! - I never noticed that Guid took a string as a constuctor argument - I did think it was daft what I had to do and knew I was missing something

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The end of future offspring.
Evolution wins.
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new line in label

sharon12-Sep-02 3:38

sharon

12-Sep-02 3:38

how can I make new line in label?

I want that a label will be with number unknwon of lines and i want it ot be handled in run time.
i want that a string will be created in run time and than to do : label.text = string

how can i do it?? Confused | :confused:

thank u.
sharon

Re: new line in label

Rickard Andersson²⁰12-Sep-02 3:41

Rickard Andersson²⁰

12-Sep-02 3:41

I don't have the VS.NET on this computer right now but I think you have to set the label control to have multiply lines...

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Re: new line in label

Stephane Rodriguez.12-Sep-02 3:53

Stephane Rodriguez.

12-Sep-02 3:53

.Multiline = true;

MSDN doc.

MS quote (http://www.microsoft.com/ddk) : As of September 30, 2002, the Microsoft® Windows® 2000 DDK, the Microsoft Windows 98 DDK, and the Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 DDK will no longer be available for purchase or download on this site. Support for development will ship at the same time as the Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) release.

Re: new line in label

bfarley15-Sep-02 1:18

bfarley

15-Sep-02 1:18

No multiline property for a label. I think your ref is for a text box. Did you try putting a newline in the string to see what happens?

label.Text = "Text" + Environment.NewLine + "More Text";

Not sure if that will work.

Bill F

Dynamic array

D Shen12-Sep-02 3:15

D Shen

12-Sep-02 3:15

Hi,

Can someone please tell me how to make a dynamic array in C# or similar data storage type, like VB List? Thanks! Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Dynamic array

sharon12-Sep-02 3:48

sharon

12-Sep-02 3:48

with the object- ArrayList - you have to add :
using Sustem.Collection;

Rüpel12-Sep-02 2:27

12-Sep-02 2:27

hi,

i'm developing a program with a transparent area. i want to draw a text on that area. how do i get to know the colors of the pixels underneath? i want to adjust the textcolor, so that the text is almost always easy to read (you know, white on black, black on white, etc...)

would be the same, if i would like to develop a screenshot-program.

any idea?

thx. Blush | :O

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Eric Gunnerson (msft)12-Sep-02 10:21

Eric Gunnerson (msft)

12-Sep-02 10:21

I think you'll have to use P/Invoke to call directly into the Win32 API to do this.

Here's a class I wrote that should get you started; it does screenshots now.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/userarea/keywordsrch.aspx?keyword=win32window

One more thought - GDI+ supports alpha channel blending, which lets you do transparency. I don't know if it works for windows over the desktop, but it's worth exploring. You'll find it in the System.Drawing namespace.

Rüpel12-Sep-02 20:15

12-Sep-02 20:15

i will look at your class in a minute. thx. Smile | :)

i know about the alpha-blending and i'm using it. that's why i need the background-pixels. i want to know which color to use for text in the transparent area. when the background is dark, i use a light color, when it is red i use ... you see?

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Rüpel12-Sep-02 21:15

12-Sep-02 21:15

yep. it works. great man! Smile | :)

so GetDesktopWindow is the magic function. hmm. i always thought it takes a picture of the background-image of the desktop...but luckily i was wrong and it really takes a screenshot Smile | :)

btw: what das msft mean? Eek! | :eek:

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Using the WindowsXP FaxService from C#

James T. Johnson12-Sep-02 22:44

James T. Johnson

12-Sep-02 22:44

Rüpel wrote:
what does msft mean?

Microsoft, if I remember correctly Eric is one of the higher ups of the C# team.

James
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Alexandru Serban11-Sep-02 21:21

Alexandru Serban

11-Sep-02 21:21

Hello everybody !

I want to use the WindowsXP FaxService COM API in my solution. I`m using Visual Studio .NET
I added a reference to the FaxService TypeLibrary in the project and the generated NameSpace is FAXCOMEXLib.

Then I wrote the following code:

try<br />
{<br />
   FAXCOMEXLib.FaxServerClass FaxServer=new FAXCOMEXLib.FaxServerClass(); // OK<br />
   FaxServer.Connect(""); // OK<br />
		<br />
   FAXCOMEXLib.FaxFolders FaxFolders=FaxServer.Folders; // NOT OK<br />
<br />
}<br />
catch(Exception ex)<br />
{<br />
   MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);<br />
}<br />

After creating the FaxServer object and connecting it to the local FaxService, the Properties that return an object (like Folders,InboundRouting,LoggingOptions) are not valid.
There is a {System.InvalidCastException} in the Value of the Autos section in the debugger. Why?

Thank you !

Anyone know of a good C# magazine?

Rocky Moore11-Sep-02 21:16

Rocky Moore

11-Sep-02 21:16

Hmmm? Something completely dedicated to C#/.NET/ASP.NET? Tired of hearing people battle languages or all the things Microsoft did wrong, just a good regularly updated source of information C#.

Rocky Moore

Christian Graus11-Sep-02 21:33

Christian Graus

11-Sep-02 21:33

MSDN is a pretty good mag - I just resubscribed myself.

Christian

Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002

Cats, and most other animals apart from mad cows can write fully functional vb code. - Simon Walton - 6-Aug-2002

Rickard Andersson²⁰12-Sep-02 3:44

Rickard Andersson²⁰

12-Sep-02 3:44

If I I didn't lived in sweden and lived in US instead I would subscribe to that magazine!

It's too expensive to import to sweden! Frown | :(

Rickard Andersson@Suza Computing
C# and C++ programmer from SWEDEN!
UIN: 50302279
E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu
Speciality: I love C#, ASP.NET and C++!

Rocky Moore12-Sep-02 17:55

Rocky Moore

12-Sep-02 17:55

Christian Graus wrote:
MSDN is a pretty good mag - I just resubscribed myself.

Yeah, it is pretty good for articles and is one of the most worn Smile | :)

The only other one I read with any regularity is Visual Studio magazine but it is falling quickly. They keep pushing VB.NET. I guess most of their readers must be VB'ers but I don't care to ever read an article written in VB, I left the DIM statement over 20 years ago and don't care to go back Smile | :)

It surprises me that some company has not jumped on it yet. With .NET/C# the possibilities of coding have increased in such leaps that it put the fun back in programming. That is not to mention how you have to wrap you mind around a completely new programming model. Reminds me of when I jumped from C programming in DOS to C++ and Windows 3.0, totally different worlds.

I would love to find a magazine or eZine that similar to the old Compute! Magazine or even Byte for that matter just all consumed in .NET and C#. You know articles that help you code not argue compatibilities and capabilities. I am already sold on C#, no turning, I just want exciting articles on coding and best practices of coding in this new world.. There seems to be a large number of programmers involved in C#/.NET, well maybe the media will pick up more on it.

Just take a look here at CP. The C# forum runs usually 15%-40% of the volume of the C++ forum which CP has mostly been a C++ site. It’s catching on…

[stepping down from soapbox]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Rocky Moore

Christian Graus12-Sep-02 18:52

Christian Graus

12-Sep-02 18:52

Visual Studio mag WAS VB Developer mag, they merged with their failed C++ mag, which failed because it moved entirely to C# without changing the name. I gave up on it long ago.

Christian

Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002

During last 10 years, with invention of VB and similar programming environments, every ill-educated moron became able to develop software. - Alex E. - 12-Sept-2002