Re: Retrieve text on MessageBoxButton-button - C# Discussion Boards

28-Sep-06 3:15

I'm using a MessageBox to give the user a choice. The text is something like "Press 'Yes' if you want to continue or press 'No' if you want to quit". However, I know my users will have Windows OS installed in various languages, other than English.

I want to keep the message text in English, but I do want to let the 'Yes' and 'No' parts correspond to the actual texts on the messagebox button.

Is there a way to find out the text that is displayed on the Yes-button given the language of Windows? Is there a function that can give me this button text.

Thanks.

-- modified at 9:25 Thursday 28th September, 2006

Not Active28-Sep-06 4:07

Not Active

28-Sep-06 4:07

You should use DialogResult

if( MessaseBox.Show() == DialogResult.Yes )

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jjansen28-Sep-06 20:21

28-Sep-06 20:21

Mark Nischalke wrote:
You should use DialogResult

if( MessaseBox.Show() == DialogResult.Yes )

I know and I am, but in this case I'm interested in what text is visible to the user so I can incorperate the same text in my message text.

AB777128-Sep-06 4:09

AB7771

28-Sep-06 4:09

Wht actually do u want to do???

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Nader Elshehabi28-Sep-06 4:13

28-Sep-06 4:13

Hello

You can using API function calls, but why the effort?!! You can inherit your own custom MessageBox from that class, or make your own form to simulate the MessageBox you want to display.

Regards

jjansen28-Sep-06 20:24

28-Sep-06 20:24

Nader Elshehabi wrote:
You can inherit your own custom MessageBox from that class, or make your own form to simulate the MessageBox you want to display

Yes, but then I have to make one for every language version of Windows the user might be using.

Nader Elshehabi28-Sep-06 23:18

28-Sep-06 23:18

No! All you have to do is to make a public text property that will take the text depending on the user's language, then you wupply it with the text according to the current culture. You can store your texts in a string table, or even an array for whatever it's worth!!

Another approach is to make an API call to MessageBoxEx() function. I think it does exactly what you want.

Regards

jjansen29-Sep-06 0:05

29-Sep-06 0:05

Nader Elshehabi wrote:
You can store your texts in a string table, or even an array for whatever it's worth!!

The point is that I do not know WHICH languages I will encounter. Therefore, I can never make a 'complete' list of button texts (if I had that many dictionaries anyway). In order to make it work for ANY language I will need to ask Windows for the button texts.

Anyway, Guffa has pointed me into another direction. Thanks though.

Guffa28-Sep-06 6:36

Guffa

28-Sep-06 6:36

Perhaps that is possible, but why do you want to present a translation table to the user?

You should use a custom dialog so that you can put a meaningful text on the buttons, instead of telling the user that "Yes" means "Continue" and "No" means "Quit".

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jjansen28-Sep-06 20:43

28-Sep-06 20:43

Guffa wrote:
but why do you want to present a translation table to the user?

Perhaps my example wasn't really appropriate. Try this message:
"The item aleady exists in the list. Do you want to overwrite it? If you press 'No' the item will be lost."

Now, if the user has, say, a French version of Windows I would like to replace the string 'No' with 'Non', because that is the text the French OS will display on the MessageBoxButton.No . Or if he has a German version I want to replace it with 'Nein'.

Guffa wrote:
You should use a custom dialog so that you can put a meaningful text on the buttons

Perhaps that is the better solution. Still, if anyone knows a method to query Windows for its standard texts, I am very interested.

Thanks for your responses, all of you.

Guffa28-Sep-06 21:25

Guffa

28-Sep-06 21:25

jjansen wrote:
Perhaps my example wasn't really appropriate. Try this message:
"The item aleady exists in the list. Do you want to overwrite it? If you press 'No' the item will be lost."

Why not use a sentence that does not reference the text of the button at all? You can also make it clearer which of the items that will actually be lost:

"An item with that name already exists in the list. Do you want to replace it? If you choose not to, the new item will be lost."

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jjansen28-Sep-06 21:57

Infinite loop in Asyn Call

28-Sep-06 21:57

You're right, that would work too. If the question gets too complicated (or potentially confusing) to answer with a simple Yes or No you should go for the custum dialog anyway. Thanks.

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milleusi28-Sep-06 3:08

milleusi

28-Sep-06 3:08

i'm using CrystalReportViewer control from standart C# and his export option. After i export my report and i return to my application i get a error message because he cannot find my acces_file.mdb

what to do??

subrata.jana28-Sep-06 2:56

28-Sep-06 2:56

In Asyn Callback if some error happens and it enters into a infinite loop then all other calls will be hanged or these request will get result.

User 665828-Sep-06 3:09

User 6658

28-Sep-06 3:09

Question?

modified 12-Sep-18 21:01pm.

subrata.jana2-Oct-06 5:21

2-Oct-06 5:21

hi i m writing code for a Client/Server mechanism, here many users can connected and get some data. Now in some connection there might be some errors and that particular asyn call may enter in a infinite loop. So in this case the other users connected are able to make request and get data or server will stop responding to them also.

Thanks in advance.

User 66582-Oct-06 14:15

User 6658

2-Oct-06 14:15

If you don't create a seperate thread for all your incoming connections then an infinite loop will hang your entire program.
But even if there's some errors in the data your application should never, under any circumstances, fall into an infinite loop. Also not, when it uses multiple threads. Try to handle this error so your app won't create and infinite loop, check the incoming data for errors etc.

regards

modified 12-Sep-18 21:01pm.

Rob Graham28-Sep-06 4:30

Rob Graham

28-Sep-06 4:30

I think you are asking:
"In Asyn Callback if some error happens and it enters into a infinite loop then will all other calls will be hanged or will these requests be processed?".
I beleve the answer is that they will hang.

subrata.jana2-Oct-06 5:28

2-Oct-06 5:28

Hi As per ur believe it will hang and it is really so. So now how can i achieve this. Say in ATM a user comes and checks his balance now if there is some error in server them it is particular for that request all other users are not affected.

My requirement is same the if a asyn call enters into infinite loop it should be for that call only not for all the subsequent request.

thanks in advance

User 66582-Oct-06 14:17

User 6658

2-Oct-06 14:17

Create a Thread for each incoming connection, you may want to use a ThreadPool for this. But see my answer above, don't let your app fall into a infinite loop at all!

regards

modified 12-Sep-18 21:01pm.

Password Protected Pdf

subrata.jana28-Sep-06 2:52

Re: Password Protected Pdf

28-Sep-06 2:52

How can i add password to a pdf file in C#.

Nader Elshehabi28-Sep-06 2:57

Re: Password Protected Pdf

28-Sep-06 2:57

Hello

This depends on the library -if any- you are using. No classes in C# deals directly with pdf files.

Regards

subrata.jana2-Oct-06 5:30

Re: Password Protected Pdf

2-Oct-06 5:30

hi Do CodeProject has some example of writing pdf with passsword protection.

pls guide me with some examples to how to get this done.

thanks in advance.

Nader Elshehabi2-Oct-06 12:15