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If I was doing that I would do it in the datasource and not the data grid. You are not changing the formatting but the content of the cell (I know you don't like the event but it is the one most of us use).
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Pls is it possible to use ip cams in windows apps.
if yes how do i do it.
thanks
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Oh come on!!! How could that get downvoted!! It's "We Built this City on Rock and Roll" complete with the Builder pattern lol
Thank you. I'm here all week hehehe
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Because it's retarded.
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It won't compile. You have syntax errors in CityBuilder (and no, I didn't downvote you - I got the joke).
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...something must have happened when I posted that lost the CityBuilder implementation
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I also didn't univote you - but this belongs in the Lounge, not the programming questions forums.
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lol good call.
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Let me explain a little of what I'm trying to do....
I have a image of our first and second floor of the build that has each office / cubical shown. Due to this being an inventory application I want to know what is in each one of those. What I am trying to do is when you hover a room with your mouse it highlights it and displays a panel to the right of your cursor showing a list of assets located in that room.
I got a feeling I should be doing this with WPF, but I know nothing about WPF.
My first version I created a panel for each room/cubical and it just displayed the room number.
Is there a way to draw sort of hot spots on a windows form picture box instead of doing panels? I'm wondering if there is a better way of doing this with a Windows Form application
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One way to achieve the desired result does not involve 'drawing' at all.
Make use of Control.MouseHover[^]. Of course this means that you would need to have some form of collection containing the coordinates of the various rooms/asset owners to check against the mouse coords.
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Here is a technique that often works well:
- have your image, shown to the user;
- have a second image (or a 2D array) of the same size, containing nothing but an item code for each pixel; so it could hold a value of 1 or RGB(1,0,0) for all pixels belonging to room 1, etc.; this "shadow" image is not shown to the user at all.
- have an array or list of items holding the description of each room.
While the mouse hovers the real image, use its (relative) position to do a GetPixel in the shadow image at the same location, that yields the room index (or a special value for none), then fetch the room description from the array/list. You can then:
- paint a highlighted outline of the room on top of the Control that shows the floor plan;
- stuff relevant information in the tooltip.
Remarks:
1. if your image is large, you might create a shadow image at a smaller scale, say 1/4.
2. filling the shadow image can be handled by code, based on the room description; it would then need coordinates of course.
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Thanks for the reply!
Ok that sounds like a great idea but I'm having a little difficult time following you. I have not worked much with graphics in that way. Would it be possible to point me to a article I could read that would help in this area?
As to your remarks, my image is large I would say. It's size is 800 x 600.
Edit:
I found an article I think: Image Processing for Dummies with C# and GDI+ Part 1 - Per Pixel Filters[^]
I'm reading it right now.. will let you know if this helps me towards your soltuion
modified on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:46 AM
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I don't have a link to such thing.
As for size, it basically depends on how accurate you want your hovering response to be; if the walls are 5 pixels thick, then a scale of 1/4 would be adequate. If walls are only 2 pixels, maybe you want actual size.
BTW: the shadow image helps in mapping the mouse position to the room number; you can of course do without, simply by scanning your room list and checking for "room contains point"; the shadow image comes in handy when you have lots of different rooms (performance), or oddly shaped ones (such as corridors) that make the containment test rather tedious.
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I posted above on the article I'm reading that will hopefully help with GDI..
As for performance we have rooms of different shape and sizes and there are MANY rooms lol.
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Since he would have to create the shadow image anyway, and this is in human time rather than real time (being a response to a mouse action), I would maintain each room as a Region, and do the hit test on that - it is probably easier to read IMO! 
foreach (Region r in myRooms)
{
if (r.IsVisible(pt))
{
...
}
}
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yes, regions sound fine, it all depends on where the data is coming from; it might be hard to initialize the regions, one or a couple of rectangles per room (even overlapping ones) could be easier; see my other reply below.
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Luc Pattyn wrote: ne or a couple of rectangles per room (even overlapping ones)
Is pretty much what I was thinking - then just use Region.Union so you are only working with one object to represent a room outline. But if you do have curved walls, you can handle that as well...
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the main issue is you have to enter the data in the system; which may require some digitization, or manually measuring and entering the coordinates for a lot of points. Regions are fine for computers, less so for humans.
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I have actually never messed with a "Region". I'm going to have to research what it is and what it does in a few
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Ok I think I understand how I am supposed to scan each pixel. From that article I see how I can change the color as well. Now what I am wondering is how do I actually tell the location of the pixel to what I am looking at? Basically how do I find the bounderies for each room so I can keep an array saying that "These pixels belong to room 1", "these pixels belong to room 2"?
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Lets assume you have lots of rooms, and/or strangely shaped ones. So a shadow image is the recommended way.
There are two ways to get one:
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by hand, which means someone uses paper and pencil, or Photoshop, or whatever he feels comfortable with; what is required is the outline of the separate rooms, then each outline filled by a distinct solid color
(you could use red, green, blue, yellow, etc rather than RGB(1,0,0), RGB(2,0,0), ... as these cannot be told apart by the human eye.
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from digital data, which you obtain by looking at the real image, measuring relevant points, etc (maybe using a digitizer); and then you store them in a data structure describing your rooms; then a piece of code creating the shadow image. Of course, if you have the digital data you can always argue you don't need the shadow image any more, as drawing it and hit-identifying it aren't very much different.
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Sorry if I'm sounding dumb but let me see if I have this right....
So you are suggesting take the image have of the floor plan.. outline each room in a different color? When I do this I can then scan each pixel, determine if it matches a certain color and map the room. So if I outline room 5 (or fill in) as red and scan for red, each RED pixel I find store that point as Room 5.
Then when I get to theu ser point.. I use the mousehover event to get the x,y location of the cursor and somehow find the pixel which can give me the room nubmer to display data about?
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there are many ways to get this done, the best way depends on your starting position. Si please first clarify the situation you are in.
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the floor plan, is it an image, a picture, or a drawing? and do you have it in print, or is it strictly digital so printing/scanning is unnecessary?
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and then the virtual floor plan, the one that will become the shadow image. How would you like to make it? by graphic art operations on the actual floor plan? by writing some code?
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and what quantities are involved? is it one or two floors of your house? or all the floors of all the buildings your corporation is using all around the world?
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