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Hmmmm....maybe.

What i meant is that if you start WMP from startmenu then you have the chance to set filetype by going thru the menu: TOOLS > OPTION and then the tab FILE TYPES.

Yes...so maybe this should do it then

I will give it a try.

Thanks for your help

Heino

hi there,
i m trying to find string but its irritating me, dont working as i want
i dont know where i did mistake,here is the codes

int isthere = -1;
     int quan = 0;
     int[] selectedindxes = new int[subtypeCmb.Items.Count];
     int check = -1;
     for (int a = 0; a < subtypeCmb.Items.Count; a++)
     {
         check = -1;
         check = subtypeCmb.FindStringExact("ABC", isthere);
         if (check != -1)
         {
             isthere = subtypeCmb.FindString("ABC", isthere);
             selectedindxes[quan] = isthere;
             quan++;
         }
     }

"ABC" is on 3rd item of combobox and 'check' is always 2, however its assigning -1 in every loop

the no of "ABC" item in combobox is 1, so 'quan' should be 1, but it always show 8 as total items in combobox is 8

can someone tell me where is mistake
i tried it with all ways i can but problem persist

Becoming Programmer...

Hi,

why do you need a for loop?
You search the ComboBox by just calling FindStringExact, and it finds one occurence.
You repeat it 8 times, so you find the same thing 8 times...

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i m using loop because i want to search all items in the combobox named "ABC"
i put 'quan' to get the number of items find in the combobox
i got another way to do that what i want but the findstring method not working correctly with overload of 'startposition'

Becoming Programmer...

Hi,

as I said you don't need the for loop, and you don't need subtypeCmb.Items.Count

if you want to find all occurences, what you need is a while loop ("while there is more")
based on the correct use of FindStringExact and startIndex. I suggest you reread the MSDN
page on FindStringExact

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I need sugge./ advice for video processing for bleow requirement

Person or object will be selected in the first frame of video sequence
manually by mouse. Now the selected object/persion should be segmented in
rest of the frames by the algorithm/porgram.

any souce code/algorithm/ links / suggestion are greatly appericated

Thanks in advance

->electron

Take a look at Andrew's articles. Particularly the Motion Detection Algorithms article, sounds like exactly what you want to do.

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- Could u share your ideas?

My intent is to download more than 100 files from web server. Assume that my web server is http://111,222,333,444/ and i have 100 files(with small size) named "A1","A2"..."A100" within Data folder likes

http://111.222.333.444/Data/A1 .

Which is the best way to download all of these files with highest connection speed?

Because of i applied WebRequest , WebResponse, and multi-threading(1 thread for 1 file),it has too long delay when connect to each file.Could u give me an adviced how to do this?

This is my sample code.

<br />
ArrayList filenameList=new ArrayList();<br />
filenameList.Add("http://111.222.333.444/Data/A1");<br />
filenameList.Add("http://111.222.333.444/Data/A2");<br />
filenameList.Add("http://111.222.333.444/Data/A3");<br />
...<br />
filenameList.Add("http://111.222.333.444/Data/A10000");<br />
<br />
for(int i=0;i<filenameList.Count;i++)<br />
{<br />
   Thread workThread=new Thread(new ParametrizeThreadStart(downloadMethod));<br />
   workThread.Start(filenameList[i]);<br />
}<br />
<br />
public void downloadMethod(object TargetUrl)<br />
{<br />
   string Target=TargetUrl as string<br />
   HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(Target);<br />
   req.Timeout = 100000 * 3;<br />
   req.Proxy = new WebProxy(new Uri("http://localhost:3128"));<br />
   resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();<br />
   Stream stm = resp.GetResponseStream();<br />
   int ReadCount;<br />
   byte[] buffer = new byte[65535];<br />
   FileStream f = File.Open(SaveDirectory + "/" + filename, FileMode.Create<br />
                  , FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None);<br />
   if (stm.CanRead)<br />
   {<br />
     while ((int)(ReadCount = stm.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)<br />
     {<br />
         f.Write(buffer, 0, ReadCount); <br />
     }  <br />
   }<br />
   f.Flush();<br />
   f.Close();<br />
}<br />

Likes that,the main problem is "resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();" becuase it has too much delay time.

Can i use multi-threading like this? Are there better way?

Thank
=)

-- modified at 6:40 Wednesday 12th September, 2007

My suggestion is to start for instance 4 threads that each take 1 entry from the list (and remove it from the list) and download that particular file. Once the file is downloaded it takes the next entry from the list and download that and so on. Once the list is empty the thread can just terminate. Personally I would use the ThreadPool for the threads since you do not need to clean those up manually.

Hope that helps,
Mark

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You can use multi-threading, but you are going to run into problems due to limitations in the TCP/IP stack as implemented by Microsoft. The TCP/IP stack only allows a certain number of concurrent operations, so you aren't going to see the performance you are expecting. (You can verify this by trying to download more than 2 or 3 large files at one time through Internet Explorer. After the 2nd or 3rd download, the next one you click will sit and wait until it either times out or an earlier download finishes.)

You might want to check out this article[^] as well. It provides a component you can use to asynchronously download a file.

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Thank for ya help.=)
but i have another questions.

1. As you can see that A1..A10000 files are in the same folder "http://111.222.333.444/Data" but with HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse i have to create connection to every files(too long delay time wait for each connection.) instead of just create connection to "http://111.222.333.444/Data" and download files within it.

Is it possible just create one connection to "http://111.222.333.444/Data" then start download files within it? how?

2. The speed is important for this project,so i need to known which is the best way to gain th highest performance between syncronized (multi-threading) and asyncronized(async-threading or download just one file at one time)?

HTTP is inherently a stateless connection, and only keeps a connection open long enough to transfer the data. Using any of the HttpWeb classes, you won't be able to open a connection to a folder and then download files. You need to open a connection for each file you want to download.

In general, any time you are doing disk I/O operations (like saving the file as it is being downloaded) you should use async calls.

To do what you want you would need to program directly at the socket level, which is possible but not trivial.

If you have control over the files at the other end, you could create an archive of the files and download that instead of each individual file.

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Thank u you all =)

I have two forms. Form1 has a textbox and a button. Form2 has a label. When the button on form1 is clicked, form2 is opened and the text in the textbox in form1 is shown in the label of form2. To get the text in the textbox to appear in the label, the code I have for this is in the Form load event. In this event I want to check if the button on form 1 has been clicked. How do I do this?

I can access the button (located on form1) from form 2 by firstly making this public and then using this code:

((Form1)frm1).button1.

I do not know how to finish this line of code while it is in an IF statement.

Lucy

You can create a bool variable in Form1 and set it to true in the click event handler of your button. Then check it's value from your method in Form2.

Sorry I'm not sure how to do that. Can you explain your answer please?

Lucy

Events and delegates.

Either get Form2 to subscribe to Form1.Button's onclick event or capture the onclick event on form1 and tell Form2 it has been clicked using a delegate :-

<br />
//in form1<br />
public Event Eventhandler OnButton1Click;<br />
<br />
void form1_buttonClicked( objects sender , EventArgs args)<br />
{<br />
   //handler tied to the actual button click on form 1<br />
   //do other stuff<br />
<br />
   //tell any subscribers we've been clicked<br />
   if (OnButton1Click != null)<br />
     OnButton1Click( sender , args );<br />
}<br />

<br />
///form2<br />
<br />
public void MyHandler( object sender , EventArgs args)<br />
{<br />
///button on form1 has been clicked<br />
}<br />
<br />
<br />
//in ctor or some initialiser of Form2<br />
<br />
form1.OnButton1Click += MyHandler;<br />
<br />

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set modifiers of your form2`s label to "public" in properties
then in button`s click event ,writes these codes

form2 frm = new form2();
frm.label2.Text = textbox1.Text;
frm.Show();
//or ShowDialog

hope it will help...

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I have tried that but it comes up with this error when you click the button:

Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

I do not understand the other comments people have made as I am still very new to c#.

Lucy

i think you are clicking button when your textbox value is null

Becoming Programmer...

No the error still occurs when the textbox has text in it.

you are doing some mistakes

Becoming Programmer...

Yup - one of the first mistakes is making a control public. You really shouldn't make controls public because you have opened up the whole scope of what the control can do to another unrelated instance.

Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

Another way is like this:

Add another Label to your class variables:

private System.Windows.Forms.Label Form2Label;

Create a method in form one like this:

public void getLabel(Label label) {
Form2Label = label;
}

Then, when you click the button in Form1 just add a bit of extra code.

Form2Label.Text = this.TextBox.Text;

Now when you start Form2, run the method, and pass it the label.

Form1.getLabel(this.label);

That should work. You'd have to try it out.

Try using this way

declare a bool variable in form2 with public accessiblity

like

<br />
public bool clicked;<br />

and in the form load event you can check like

<br />
            if (clicked)<br />
            {<br />
                //do whatever you want to do when button1 on form1 is clicked<br />
            }<br />

in form1's button1's click event write

<br />
        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
        {<br />
            Form2 frm = new Form2();<br />
            frm.clicked = true;<br />
            frm.Show();<br />
        }<br />

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