Re: How to raise Mouse click event - C# Discussion Boards

Drew McGhie13-Dec-05 10:38

13-Dec-05 10:38

I've tried googling and searching this site on stuff on VSTO in VS2005 and Office2003, but I've come up with very little and was hoping to find either a point in the right direction, or some help. I have an array of strings that is the name of a set of columns, and a table of data that is generated through a call to a SQL server. A listobject limits the functionality of what I want to do, so (at the moment) I'm just manually assigning all the data cell by cell.

Anywho, what I want to do is have the header of each column be a hyperlink, and (its not decided yet) either spawn a new sheet with some information(based on another query), or spawn a new window with the same query. What I need to do is find examples of Hyperlink.Add that lets me either attach the hyperlink to a method, or how to cause the hyperlink to open another sheet/window. At the moment, I'm just simply manually setting the column header text, which are not hyperlinks.

I looked at the MSDN pages as well, and there aren't any concrete examples of what I'm looking for, and in my tinkering I haven't found anything that works yet.

Anyways, a point in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

-- modified at 16:38 Tuesday 13th December, 2005

differences please !!!

faviochilo13-Dec-05 9:50

faviochilo

13-Dec-05 9:50

Hi guys :

which are the differences between ServicedComponent(com+) and ClassLibrary(component)?
are they incompatible??????

thanks

-- modified at 15:50 Tuesday 13th December, 2005

How to raise Mouse click event

bloo2k13-Dec-05 9:49

bloo2k

13-Dec-05 9:49

Hi All! I want to write a program that can raise mouse click event( in other window or desktop), but i don't know how to raise that event. Cry | :((

Any Idea??

Re: How to raise Mouse click event

Polis Pilavas13-Dec-05 10:43

Polis Pilavas

13-Dec-05 10:43

Can you rephrase the question please?

Regards,
Polis

Can you practice what you teach?

Re: How to raise Mouse click event

enjoycrack13-Dec-05 10:45

enjoycrack

13-Dec-05 10:45

Hi there,

You can use SendMessage API...
it should be something like SendMessage(iHandle, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 0, lparm);

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Re: How to raise Mouse click event

Curtis Schlak.13-Dec-05 10:51

Curtis Schlak.

13-Dec-05 10:51

You need to investigate SendMessage and PostMessage. Then, you need to understand the constants WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_LBUTTONUP. Then, read Test Run: Low-Level UI Test Automation and you will know everything that you need to accomplish what you want to do.

"we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems."
-deKorvin on uncertainty

Re: How to raise Mouse click event

MarcelErz13-Dec-05 22:55

MarcelErz

13-Dec-05 22:55

Hi!

To send windows a mouse event, you can use the "mouse_event" API of the user32.dll. Decalre as following:

<br />
[DllImport("user32.dll")]<br />
private static extern void mouse_event(uint dwFlags, uint dx, uint dy, uint dwData, int dwExtraInfo);<br />

Here are some constants needed, saved in an enumeration:

<br />
private enum MouseEventTFlags<br />
{<br />
 LEFTDOWN   = 0x00000002,<br />
 LEFTUP     = 0x00000004,<br />
 MIDDLEDOWN = 0x00000020,<br />
 MIDDLEUP   = 0x00000040,<br />
 MOVE       = 0x00000001,<br />
 ABSOLUTE   = 0x00008000,<br />
 RIGHTDOWN  = 0x00000008,<br />
 RIGHTUP    = 0x00000010<br />
}<br />

Now, you can call it like this:

<br />
mouse_event((uint)MouseEventTFlags.LEFTDOWN, 0, 0, 0, 0);<br />
mouse_event((uint)MouseEventTFlags.LEFTUP  , 0, 0, 0, 0);<br />

When you send the press-button-down-event, you need to send the press-button-up-event too!

Marcel Erz

Re: How to raise Mouse click event

bloo2k13-Dec-05 22:56

bloo2k

13-Dec-05 22:56

Thanks for your great help, i can raise some event, i'll have to find out how to use it effectively.

when text is longer than its textbox

melanieab13-Dec-05 9:24

melanieab

13-Dec-05 9:24

Hi,
Is there any easy way to say that, on textboxHover, if the text inside the box isn't completely visible, to have a popup tool come up showing the complete contents of the box? I'm guessing I need to know if there's a way to determine the number of pixels that some generic text takes up. As an added bonus, is there a way to extract the pixel length from textbox.Size (to save some time looking values up)?
Thanks so much!!!
Mel Smile | :)

Re: when text is longer than its textbox

Curtis Schlak.13-Dec-05 10:55

Curtis Schlak.

13-Dec-05 10:55

You can use the TextBox.CreateGraphics() method to get a Graphics object. Then, use Graphics.MeasureString() to get the size of the text in the textbox. Then, compare that to the width of the TextBox.

Also, you can use TextBox.Width to determine the number of pixels in the width TextBox.

"we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems."
-deKorvin on uncertainty

Re: when text is longer than its textbox

melanieab14-Dec-05 3:27

melanieab

14-Dec-05 3:27

Thanks!!!

Re: when text is longer than its textbox

Curtis Schlak.14-Dec-05 4:35

Curtis Schlak.

14-Dec-05 4:35

No problem! Glad I could help. Happy coding!

"we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems."
-deKorvin on uncertainty

How do I free memory allocated inside unmanaged DLL?

Koushik Biswas13-Dec-05 9:14

Koushik Biswas

13-Dec-05 9:14

OK - I want to keep the question short & quick. Please help me.

Step 1: I write an unmanaged DLL in C++. Here is the exported function:

SAMPLEDLL_API void StringAsOUT_AllocatedInDll( char ** szParam )
{
*szParam = new char [ 128 ];
strcpy( *szParam, "Please free my memory after using me!" );
}

Step 2: I write a C# managed EXE to use this DLL

class Imports
{
[DllImport("SampleDLL.dll")]
public static extern void StringAsOUT_AllocatedInDll( ref int szParam );
...
}

...
Imports impObj = new Imports();
int iAddressOfANSIString = 0;
impObj.StringAsOUT_AllocatedInDll( ref iAddressOfANSIString );
string strOUTPUTFromUnmanagedDll = Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi( ( IntPtr ) iAddressOfANSIString );
Console.WriteLine( "Value of strOUTPUTFromUnmanagedDll = {0}", strOUTPUTFromUnmanagedDll );
...

Question: The code works. It does give console output "Value of strOUTPUTFromUnmanagedDll = Please free my memory after using me!"

But isn't there a memory leak? How do I free the memory allocated by new[] inside the unmanaged DLL? All the Marshal class helps artciles always refer to how to free an unmanaged memory block when it is allocated from .NET code. But here it is allocated by unamanaged code. If anybody can please help me with this, I will be grateful.

Thank you!

Koushik Biswas

Can not add rows into Datset using Merge()

Roman Muntyanu13-Dec-05 8:52

Roman Muntyanu

13-Dec-05 8:52

Hi all,

I have problem when merging existing DataTable into new dataset.
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
while ( done )
{
// fill myCustomDataSet.MyTable with data
ds.Merge( myCustomDataSet.MyTable, bPreserveChanges,
MissingSchemaAction.Add );
ds.AcceptChanges(); // tried with and without this line
}

In the loop I am filling my datatable and then I need to add all
content to new dataset.
I tried all combinations for bPreserveChanges, MissingSchemaAction but
can not accumulate rows in new dataset. If bPreserveChanges = true I
have only rows which were added during first call to Merger. If
bPreserveChanges = false I have rows from the last call to Merge.
Tried also to have myCustomDataSet.MyTable with or without primary
key. No difference.

I would really appreciate any suggestions

Thank you , Roman

Re: Can not add rows into Datset using Merge()

Drew McGhie13-Dec-05 9:19

Drew McGhie

13-Dec-05 9:19

Have you tried ds.Tables.Add(myCustomDataSet.MyTable.Clone())?

Re: Can not add rows into Datset using Merge()

Roman Muntyanu13-Dec-05 9:58

Roman Muntyanu

13-Dec-05 9:58

Thank you for response, but this definetly won't work, it will throw exception during second call to Add()

X in the top right corner of the form

zaboboa13-Dec-05 8:17

zaboboa

13-Dec-05 8:17

Hello,

Is there a way of calling ButtonCancel_ClickEvent, when the user clicks the X?
Or the only way is to place a call within the dispose method?

Thank you.

Re: X in the top right corner of the form

Dan Neely13-Dec-05 9:21

Dan Neely

13-Dec-05 9:21

You can do this by responding to the forms OnClosing event.

A question about Reflection

torrentmoon13-Dec-05 8:11

torrentmoon

13-Dec-05 8:11

I have a function "Execute(object a, object b)". If I call it directly, like Execute(Type.Missing, Type.Missing), everything works fine.

However, if I try to use MethodInfo.Invoke() to call it with the same two Type.Missing in the parameter list, I will get an exception saying that
This function doesn’t have any default parameters.

Do I forget to do sth?

PS: I read about the ParamterModifier class on MSDN, it mentions an attribute called pdHasDefault. Is that the solution to my problem? How should I use it?

Thank you very much

Brandon

Re: A question about Reflection

Curtis Schlak.13-Dec-05 10:59

Curtis Schlak.

13-Dec-05 10:59

Instead of using Type.Missing, I think that you need to use null.

n-tier (Typed dataset)

fmardani13-Dec-05 6:38

fmardani

13-Dec-05 6:38

I have created an n-tier application.
The client side (win forms) calls the business layer. Business layer calls the webservice and the webservice calls the data layer.
The datalayer gets the data using typed datasets.
In the datalayer I have created a .xsd file
In this layer I can use this typed dataset to work with the dataset. For example refer to the column of the table using the typed dataset.
The problem is that How can i be able to refer to the table columns on the client side using the typed dataset?

Thanks

Software protection

mirano13-Dec-05 6:34

mirano

13-Dec-05 6:34

Does anybody have a real experience with some commercial protection suite, as I need to implement it for the organization I work for? Dotfuscator I am not interested in, as we already use it and we will sure apply it before running any other protection scheme.
We are specifically interested in protection of the assemblies themselves and a copy protection, so that the code could only run on a specific machines.

Thanks.

Re: Software protection

Robert Rohde13-Dec-05 8:07

Robert Rohde

13-Dec-05 8:07

mirano wrote:
protection of the assemblies themselves

What exactly do you mean by this?

mirano wrote:
copy protection, so that the code could only run on a specific machines

Have a look at http://www.xheo.com[^].

Re: Software protection

mcljava15-Dec-05 5:51

mcljava

15-Dec-05 5:51

Depending on how much control you wish to have versus how much code you wish to write, you can take a client server approach where each station effectively checks out a license in order to get access to the resources. This is how the commercial product FlexLM works. From a software only point of view you can write the client stub and server code pretty easy but all of your apps would have to bind to the client stub in in order to request a license. If you wish to buy a solution then you can get information about FlexLM from Macrovision's website.

The chief selling point of FlexLM is a very good encryption scheme so that makes it hard for the average crook to steal unliscened usage.

As I said, you can definitely write your own implementation of such a scheme but you will need to ensure your own encryption scheme is up to the task. This might be a viable path if there are extenuating requirements you must factor in.

Good Luck

Mike Luster

Smooth edge panel and button

VPMahank13-Dec-05 6:16

VPMahank

13-Dec-05 6:16

I need to create a panel and button with smooth edges.
I would really appreciate if any one have any ideas or sample code.

Thanks,
Mahank

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