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Hi i was wondering if someone could help me with converting a string to a boolean so i can do an if statement.
what i'm wanting to do is like:
if (textbox4.text = "true")
{
}
but it gives me an error 
thanks for you help in advance!
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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You need to have two = signs if you are comparing:
if(textBox4.Text == "true")
{
}
You can use bool.Parse() if you need to convert a string to a boolean:
<code>bool myBool = bool.Parse("true");</code>
Sean 
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Thanks alot guys to the both of you.
[way off topic]
Sean i tried to find a way to send you a PM or Email to thank you personally for helping me yesterday. The way you showed me with the listview worked. I just had a problem with the button! But when you was talking about the "Item properties" i was thinking as i was reading that "how in the heck does he remember all theese properties and such". Then it just dawned on me! listview1.items is the exact same thing as going to the properties manager for that control and changing it their. Your just doing the exact same thing but w/o the point n click!. It opened my eyes up to what was actually going on in the code! I was so happy after finding that out i drove home as fast as i could to try to send you a pm telling you thanks but there wasn't a way to do so.
but anyways man thanks alot for the help i really appreciate it!
Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good
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Good to see you got it working!
Glad to help
Sean
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Single = is assignment
Double == is equality
if (textbox4.text == "true")
Boolean.Parse() to convert string to bool if needed
Sean just beat me to it by seconds!
-- modified at 21:26 Thursday 27th April, 2006
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Sean
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A good coding practice is to set your constant on the left side of your operator, so the compiler catches mistakes. For example:
if ( "true" == textbox4.text )<br />
{<br />
}
will assure that you never are doing an assignment if you forget an = when you are intending to do a comparison. It's a good habit to get into.
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My list is not being written to the outFile and I can't seem to figure out why. I will post the code but I am not sure how to paste it correctly. Any Help would be appreciated.
using System;
using System.IO;
namespace Seating_Chart
/*Write a C# program that will read a list of student
* names from a text fileand assemble a seating chart
* onscreen.When the program is first run it should
* display an empty seating grid.Then you should be
* able to change the seating of any student. Such
* as Row 1, Seat 4 and change it's name to "John Doe".
* Any changes made should be immediatley written to
* the file.You must use more than one class. */
{
class Students
{
static void Main ()
{
string [,] Students = new string [5,10];
char answer = ' ';
int row = 0;
int seat = 0;
SeatChange NewSeatChange = new SeatChange();
StreamReader inStream = null;
StreamWriter outStream = null;
FileInfo inFile = new FileInfo (@"Student Seating Chart.txt");
FileInfo outFile = new FileInfo (@"Student Seating Chart.txt");
inStream = inFile.OpenText();
for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
{
for (int y = 0; y < 10; y++)
{
Students [x, y]=inStream.ReadLine();
}
}
inStream.Close();
for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
{
Students [x, 0]=Convert.ToString(x);
}
for (int y = 0; y < 10; y++)
{
Students [0, y]=Convert.ToString(y);
}
Console.WriteLine ("Seat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10");
Console.WriteLine (" ----------------------------------------");
for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
{
Console.Write ("ROW " + (x + 1) + " ");
for (int y = 0; y < 10; y++)
{
Console.Write (" ", Students[x,y]);
}
Console.WriteLine ();
Console.WriteLine();
}
do
{
outStream = outFile.CreateText();
Console.WriteLine("Please enter the Row Number of the student you wish to move: ");
row = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
Console.WriteLine("Please enter the Seat number of the student you want to move;");
seat = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine());
Students = NewSeatChange.Change(Students,seat,row);
for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
{
for (int y = 0; y < 10; y++)
{
outStream.WriteLine(Students [x, y]);
}
}
outStream.Close();
Console.WriteLine ("seat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10");
Console.WriteLine (" ----------------------------------------");
for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
{
Console.Write ("ROW " + (x + 1) + " ");
for (int y = 0; y < 10; y++)
{
Console.Write (" ", Students[x,y]);
}
Console.WriteLine ();
Console.WriteLine();
}
Console.WriteLine("Would you like to move another student?");
answer = Convert.ToChar(Console.ReadLine());
}while(answer == 'y');
}
}
class SeatChange
{
public string [ , ] Change(string[ , ] Students, int a, int b)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please enter the students name:");
Students[a,b] = Console.ReadLine();
return Students;
}
}
}
Sorry this is so messy.
Shadow Sprite
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Shadow Sprite wrote: My list is not being written to the outFile
Is there any exception being thrown? Did you try stepping through the debugger and seeing if the WriteLine method call actually executes?
Regards
Senthil
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No exceptions are being thrown when I run it. This is all new to me. When I try to step thru the program, I get stuck in the for loops. I am using Microsoft Visual C#. NET 2003/Visual C# Projects/Console Applications.
Thanks
Shadow Sprite
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What is sequance to stop Backgroundworker?, what function to use to stop it?
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Hi,
Should this be enough to draw a dotted rectangle on my form?
private void Form1_click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)<br />
{<br />
Rectangle r = new Rectangle(5,5,15,15);<br />
ControlPaint.DrawReversibleFrame(r, Color.Red, FrameStyle.Dashed);<br />
}
If not, what am I missing?
Thanks!
Mel
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Only if your form happens to be where you draw the rectangle on the screen.
Perhaps you should ask about what you are trying to accomplish, instead.
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b { font-weight: normal; }
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Thank you, that makes sense. (I wasn't thinking and expected to see it at 5,5,15,15 on the form rather than the screen.)
Another question though. I'd actually like to use DrawFocusRectangle on a button, and did get it working yesterday, but after I changed a couple properties of my button (like tabstop #, size, and location), it stopped working. I added a MessageBox just before the DrawFocusRectangle call and after I hit the ok button, the focus rectangle did draw (code below). I also added a Click event (on some label) and moved the code below (without the MessageBox) to the event, and then it worked too.
button2.Focus();<br />
int x = button2.ClientRectangle.Location.X + 3;<br />
int y = button2.ClientRectangle.Location.Y + 3;<br />
int w = button2.ClientRectangle.Width - 6;<br />
int h = button2.ClientRectangle.Height - 6;<br />
Rectangle r = new Rectangle(x,y,w,h); <br />
MessageBox.Show(""); ControlPaint.DrawFocusRectangle(Graphics.FromHwnd(button2.Handle), r, Color.Black, Color.Black);
Anyone know why it won't work without some external help?
Thanks again!!!
Mel 
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You are calling the Focus event, I assume that this will redraw the control to reflect the changed status. That redraw will however not take place until you returned control to the system. Without the message box that will not happen until after you have drawn the rectangle, so it would just be drawn over.
When you show a message box that gives the control to the system. Calling DoEvents will have the same result.
However, just drawing on top of a control is not the well behaved way to change the apperance of the control. You should subscribe to the OnPaint event to do it properly. Then you don't have the problem that the rectangle disappears whenever the control is redrawn.
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b { font-weight: normal; }
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Thank you very much for that explanation! That clears up one of the mysteries.
What my problem has been from the start is that when I load a tabpage, if the first control is one of my buttons, it doesn't highlight and you can't tell that it has focus. What I've been doing to get around this is to focus on the control that's one tabstop before my button and SendKeys.Send("{Tab}"); which does highlight the button. As soon as a button on the tabpage has been highlighted, all buttons will highlight when focused on until I leave the tabpage and return again.
So I've deleted the focus call since the button has tabstop 0. I want the rectangle to disappear when focus is lost, so if it would just draw this first time, I'd be happy (is there a way to tell the system that it has control without having to call anything?). But nothing at all draws after deleting the button2.Focus(), regardless of whether there's a MessageBox before, after, or not at all.
So I tried adding the PaintEventArg for the button and moved the code into it. I also added a bool called focus since I only want the button to have the rectangle when it's in focus.
private void focusPaint(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e)<br />
{<br />
if (focus == true)<br />
{<br />
int x = toggleLength.ClientRectangle.Location.X + 3;<br />
int y = toggleLength.ClientRectangle.Location.Y + 3;<br />
int w = toggleLength.ClientRectangle.Width - 6;<br />
int h = toggleLength.ClientRectangle.Height - 6;<br />
Rectangle r = new Rectangle(x,y,w,h); <br />
ControlPaint.DrawFocusRectangle(e.Graphics, r, Color.Red, Color.Red);<br />
focus = false;<br />
} <br />
}
This results in me never being able to move to another control (using the up/down arrow keys - only with the mouse). When I returned control to the system (by adding a Messagebox above the if (focus == true)), I could move without problem.
I also noticed that if I replace the e.Graphics with my original Graphics.FromHwnd(toggleLength.Handle), it wouldn't draw with or without system control, which I don't understand. (Maybe if I get that working I wouldn't need to add a Paint event?)
I'm not sure what else to try.
Thanks so much for any thoughts!!!!!!
Mel
-- modified at 15:59 Friday 28th April, 2006
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Does anyone have tips or hard-earned wisdom with regards to writing a .NET Web Service which is intended to be used by a Java application? Are there any things that I should keep in mind about things such as:
1) SOAP formats
2) ref or out parameters
3) SOAP deserialization quirks found in the Java platform
4) Things I have not thought to list...
I've given this topic some due diligence (a.k.a. Google) but am hoping someone has nuggets of wisdom that I didn't find yet.
Thanks for any help,
Josh
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Hi,
if I have a function that uses an object, for example: an SqlDataAdapter; what would be the correct way to clean up memory resources once finished with it?
myAdapter = null;
Is the above acceptable?
Or this?
myAdapter.Dispose();
Andy
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An SqlDataAdapter has a Dispose method, you should therefore use it.
An easy way to ensure that the object is cleaned up is to use:
using (SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter())
{
}
This will ensure that the SqlDataAdapter (or any disposable object supplied in the using() part) is cleaned up, even if an exception is thrown.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
My: Website | Blog
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I am inputting RTF data from a database into a RichTextBox in my C# program. The problem is, if there is a table in the original data that contains more data than will fit on a single line in the table, the RichTextBox wraps the line under the table instead of expanding the number of lines in the table so the text will fit. Has anyone else experienced this and, if so, is there a solution?
I have been living with this problem for quite a while and would like to solve it. I have not been able to find anything on the Web dispite many searches.
Thanks much for any help you might provide.
Ed Coburn
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I am looking for information on writing Web Control Libraries, and using that control inside a windows application (using .NET 1.1 not 2.0). I am trying to determine the do's and don't's for the HTML controls, data passing, JavaScript. Are there any white papers or good examples. Information like the HTML/windows/frames are accessed by C# by using the ID attribute field. Changing the ID in the HTML will effect the C# back-end. I know this is trivial, but my knowledge on this subject is limited.
Thank you in advance for any assistance
-- modified at 14:53 Thursday 27th April, 2006
I am not running IIS on this computer
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thompson_38 wrote: I am looking for information on writing Web Control Libraries, and using that control inside a windows application
If I understand your objective correctly, then what you want to do is impossible. A Windows app cannot use Web controls. Web controls generate HTML and JavaScript, which a web browser then renders into a graphical representation. WinForms controls do not use HTML or JavaScript at all, rather, they draw the controls directly to the screen. It's two separate worlds.
Josh
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Is there an expander control for C# windows app?
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