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In C# Express, what's best way to get IP Address from user?

14-Apr-09 19:51

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Naruki14-Apr-09 19:06

Re: In C# Express, what's best way to get IP Address from user?

14-Apr-09 19:06

C# newb here. I've gone down the rabbit hole trying to find the answer myself, so I am asking here.

In my windows form, I want to prompt the user to enter an IP address. I made a popup dialog with a MaskedTextBox (mask was 990.990.990.990). This worked, but it required the user to fill in every character (even if he just had to press the arrow key or spacebar, that is kind of annoying).

I tried other masks (like 099.099.099.099), but nothing makes that annoyance go away.

So I decided to make 4 separate text boxes. This adds the ability to easily tab to the next octet, but it takes away the nice Copy/Paste ability to dump in an IP from the clipboard.

So I started looking for some kind of OnPaste event that I could handle and have it disburse pasted addresses automagically. There doesn't appear to be such an event.

I found several explanations of how to intercept Ctrl-V or Shift-Ins key combinations, but that is an incomplete solution; I want to catch all possible paste methods.

I was thinking about overriding the IsInputKey method somehow, but I don't know how to do that without creating a custom control (which just seems like massive overkill to me).

In Java, I could override the method at instantiation like so:

this.maskedTextBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.MaskedTextBox() {
   protected override bool IsInputKey(Keys AKeyData) {...}
};

But that doesn't seem to work in C#.

So what's the best way to accomplish what I want to do?

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benjymous14-Apr-09 22:14

benjymous

14-Apr-09 22:14

You can still override functionality, you just need to do it as its own inherited class, rather than inline at instantiation.

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Re: In C# Express, what's best way to get IP Address from user?

Luc 64801114-Apr-09 22:26

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14-Apr-09 22:26

Some of these[^] may interest you.

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Re: In C# Express, what's best way to get IP Address from user?

Naruki14-Apr-09 23:01

Re: In C# Express, what's best way to get IP Address from user?

14-Apr-09 23:01

I appreciate the thought.

I already saw a couple of those, but I was hoping to avoid adding custom controls into my code.

Especially since it should be such a small change, dangit! Why does MS torment me so?

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Skymir15-Apr-09 7:54

Skymir

15-Apr-09 7:54

Use keydown etc. events to filter out any bad characters, then in lost focus use IpAddress.TryParse(string). If that works IpAddress.Parse(string).

I don't know about your app, but you might also want to handle host names in the same box, which makes things a bit more complicated as well.

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Re: In C# Express, what's best way to get IP Address from user?

Naruki14-Apr-09 22:32

14-Apr-09 22:32

As I said, I don't know how to do that without creating a custom control (i.e., inheriting the class). Doing that seems like over-working what should be a simple event handler.

As a one-off, that may be a necessary compromise. But it seems a bit like hard coding the text value for a button. Do it enough, and you lock yourself down.

If I do go the custom control route, should I override Paste functionality for four small textboxes, or should I override masking functionality for one big textbox?

Either way I really don't know the best functionality to override, so I'll have to pull my hair out all over again on that.

All I want is a super slick-input UI for IP addresses. Is that so much to ask for, Microsoft? Wink | ;-)

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File transfer

yesu prakash14-Apr-09 18:07

14-Apr-09 18:07

Hi,

What is the fastest way to transfer a file from one system to another?
eg:
i have a server in listening mode, i send the image through socket to the server and from there to the destination system
or
upload to the ftp and download from there

Which is more effective and is there any other fast and better way?

Thankyou
YPKI

Re: File transfer

Christian Graus14-Apr-09 18:42

14-Apr-09 18:42

This is a dumb question. Obviously, the limitation is the network speed between machines. That, and, you're asking if it's faster to send a file directly, or send it twice.

Re: File transfer

yesu prakash15-Apr-09 2:59

15-Apr-09 2:59

y dumb?

Re: File transfer

buachaill cliste15-Apr-09 3:58

buachaill cliste

15-Apr-09 3:58

Did he not just say?? Confused | :confused:

That was a dumb answer.

Naruki15-Apr-09 15:16

Re: That was a dumb answer.

15-Apr-09 15:16

But that's okay, because you misunderstood his poorly worded question.

He appears to have 3 machines involved. The server is the midpoint, without which he cannot communicate to the end user PC.

He wants to know if using sockets is somehow faster/slower than FTP.

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yesu prakash16-Apr-09 17:55

16-Apr-09 17:55

Exactly

byte[] size limit

yesu prakash14-Apr-09 17:57

14-Apr-09 17:57

Hi,
What is the size limit of a byte[]?

Thankyou
YPKI

Christian Graus14-Apr-09 18:43

14-Apr-09 18:43

Any more stupid questions ? Google broken where you live ? You can't write code to work this out ?

yesu prakash14-Apr-09 20:44

14-Apr-09 20:44

i need to send a file more than 1 gb using byte[]...can i?????

Guffa14-Apr-09 20:46

Guffa

14-Apr-09 20:46

You can't store a file in a byte array. Do you mean the contents of a file?

How and where do you need to send it as you think that you should have all the data in a single array?

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Christian Graus14-Apr-09 22:03

14-Apr-09 22:03

Why would you need to ? Do you have a gig of RAM you're willing to devote to this process, on top of the RAM in your computer ? Have you considered a more efficient design ?

get the color of the pixel of a bitmap at the mouse cursor's position

Mirko198014-Apr-09 21:47

Mirko1980

14-Apr-09 21:47

The maximum size that a byte array accepts without givin an overflow error is the maximum int32 value, so 2147483647 bytes, exactly 1 byte less than 2GB.
Keep in mind, though, that storing 1GB or more data in memory could not be very efficient, I suggest you to use streams for copying files.

sebogawa14-Apr-09 17:42

sebogawa

14-Apr-09 17:42

I am working on a color tracking app. How do I get the color of the pixel at the mouse's position in a bitmap image. I am using C# with the AForge.NET image processing library. If someone can write an example or even a small program that does what was just said so that i may learn from the code, I would be greatly appretiative. I am very new at codeing and I learn best by example. Thanks again.

Re: get the color of the pixel of a bitmap at the mouse cursor's position

Christian Graus14-Apr-09 18:44