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Hi all,
I'm currently working on an internationalization project and one of the things that we have decided to do was to store all string literals that are used in the code in the project string resources (accessible via Properties.Resources.strName; I'm using VS2005).
Here's the problem: say I have a string(Properties.Resources.strName) defined as follows:
Name:\t\t{0}
And it is used as follows:
theString = String.Format(Properties.Resources.strName, "Rachel");
Unfortunately, theString turns out to be
Name:\t\tRachel
which is not quite what I'm looking for.
I could possibly change to string to something like
Name:{0}{0}{1}
and then use it like this:
theString = String.Format(Properties.Resources.strName, '\t', "Rachel")
But surely there is a way to include escape sequence characters like \t or \n in the project resources string table? Does anyone know what the equivalent for these are?
cheers!
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Have you tried just pushing tab instead of typing \t when you enter the string ? Or does that move the focus ? What if you do it to the code, instead of in the editor ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Yes I have tried pushing tab in the editor but it just moves the focus to the next field. I did try editing the resx file manually (I thought I had found the solution to this problem!) but - rather inexplicably - the space created by a manual tab keypress is not the same as what is generated by a \t.
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I had a similar problem when using strings from a text box. See my issue here witha sample program that shows the issue and how I solved it. There was also a good suggestion by another user there.
Hogan
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Thanks for your reply!
For my purposes your solution does seem a little OTT as all I really want to do is to insert escape sequence codes into my centrally located string literals (it seems a little inefficient for me to be checking for and replacing escape sequences everytime I retrieve a string literal from the string bank). I was thinking more along the lines of some Resource setting which I have to tweak to be able to achieve this. Surprisingly (to me anyways), the "{0}" has been successfully identified as being a placeholder for the String.Format parameter but the standard escape sequence codes are not recognised.
I find the @ notation quite interesting as I've never encountered it (but then again, I've only be working with C# for a couple of months). I don't suppose there's a 'reverse-@' notation? Or better yet, something to stop the Properties.Resources from defaulting all '\' to '@\' (as seems to be the case).
cheers!
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Sorry that you didn't find my post that helpful. I came across the same problem and I couldn't find any other solution. While the code I posted is OTT, I was trying to demonstrate a quick fix to the issue. For your case, it could make sense to create a method that you could reference that would do this, so you only have to write it one time. If your string bank in in a class, you could possibly override the accessor to get your value from the string bank so that it did this "automatically".
Hogan
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Hey, thanks for your input!
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In the end, I decided to type the text out in notepad with the relevant newlines/tabs in place and then paste the string in the string resource database. Not very pretty but works fine 
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Hello friends,
In my program I need to create a report with Crystal Reports at runtime. The user may select any dataset column to view in the report so a Crystal Reports template which already has fields do not work for me.
I searched through the net but found nothing about creating a report file from ground.
Hence, I need to create a report file on the fly, add fields to it (depending on users' choice) and fill these fields with data.
I will appreciate any help, code, advice, link etc.
Best regards.
.:: Something is Wrong ::.
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hi
i just deploy my program with clickOnce but i cant figure how i can decide where the program gonna be installed
it seem to install it where he wants and i dont find where i can change the destination in my project
if someone can help me
thanks 
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RIPOUX wrote: just deploy my program with clickOnce but i cant figure how i can decide where the program gonna be installed
AFAIK, you can't. ClickOnce distributes all applications in their own folders to a common root that you can't change.
If this is an option you want, you have to go with the traditional setup project, which isn't an option with the Express Editions of Visual Studio. You'd need an external tool to do this.
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thanks for the answer though
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www.advancedinstaller.com[^] is, I think, the link for Advanced Installer. Their free version is probably all you need.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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I have a form called frmsettings where the user can make changes to settings in my application. The form has a close button and I can intercept the this.close() method there to make sure they have saved their changes but I do not know how to catch the closing of the form via the X in the upper right hand corner of the form. Pretty much I want to catch the form closing from any method and check to see if they have saved their settings, if not I would like to give them the option to cancel the close. Much thanks
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Have you tried the FormClosing event?
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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There are formclosing and formclosed events
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I tried those events but did not see a way to cancel the event. I can have something happen when the event fires but don't know how to stop the close.
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In the eventhandler of formsclosing event write this:
e.Cancel=true;
Of course it won't work if the program is killed through task manager
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Giorgi Dalakishvili wrote: Of course it won't work if the program is killed through task manager
Actually it will, just use: e.CloseReason.
Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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Yes I know that enumeration but you won't be able to cancel application closing if it is killed by task manager
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Very cool, thank you 
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hello,
can anyone tell me how I can string.format a double to turn a value of 0.5 into 1/2 or, for example 2.0 into 2/1?
thanks in advance!
/matthias
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Your article is getting smacked pretty hard. You might want to rewrite it so it explains how these things are done instead of just documenting how to use your library.
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