Windows Forms

PrinterSettings/DefaultPageSettings incredibly slow on a machine

12-Jul-08 5:43

Well I want I have password in my Form but I want to change it and how? what will you advice me

namespace WestNotePad
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void changePasswordToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
PasswordChange ps = new PasswordChange();
ps.ShowDialog();

}

}
}

namespace WestNotePad {
public partial class frnPassword : Form {
public frnPassword() {
InitializeComponent();
}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
DialogResult = DialogResult.Cancel;

}

private void txtPassword_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) {

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {

DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;
}

}
}

namespace WestNotePad
{
public partial class PasswordChange : Form
{
public PasswordChange()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void ChnButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;
}

}
}

namespace WestNotePad
{
static class Program
{
public static bool a = true;

///

/// The main entry point for the application.
///

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
int n = 0;

m:
if (ValidatePassword())
{
if (a)
{
Application.Run(new Form1());
}

}
else
{

n++;
while (n<4)
{
MessageBox.Show("Erorr");

goto m;
}

}

}

private static bool ValidatePassword()
{
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(Settings1.Default.Password))
{
return true;
}

frnPassword f2 = new frnPassword();

if (f2.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{

return f2.txtPassword.Text== Settings1.Default.Password;
}
else
{
a = false;

}
return true;
}

}

}

Settings1.cs

Password | string | User | ABCD

C# Developer

nxtwothou11-Jul-08 5:31

nxtwothou

11-Jul-08 5:31

I've hit a stumbling block on trying to figure out this problem. I have a winform app written in C# that was started back with 1.0 frame, then upgraded to 1.1, and recently I created a test 3.5 version. The deployed app is still the 1.1 as we have a lot of old 98 machines several of which don't want to upgrade to the 2.0 framework.

Here's the simplified code that I'm having problems with:

//1
PrintDocument printDocument1=new PrintDocument();
printDocument1.PrinterSettings.PrinterName=LastPrinterName;
//2
PrinterSettings ps=printDocument1.PrinterSettings;
PageSettings dps=ps.DefaultPageSettings;
string defaultsourcename=dps.PaperSource.SourceName;
//3
foreach(PaperSource p in ps.PaperSources)
comboBoxPaperSources.Items.Add(p.SourceName);
//4
string defaultsizename=dps.PaperSize.PaperName;
//5
foreach(PaperSize p in ps.PaperSizes)
comboBoxPaperSizes.Items.Add(p.PaperName);
//6

Basically my software has some 280 different reports and different ones go to different printers and to different sizes of paper. So the full code brings up an option screen that remembers the last settings and allows the user to store the settings for the specific report section and select a checkbox to not ask them for settings the next time they generate the report. The comments with numbers are to help identify how long it takes to do each section.

On my machine, a dual-core Server 2008 64 bit 4 gigs of ram, 8 printers set up, my 3.5 version in release mode takes this long:
1->2 0ms
1->3 31.2ms
1->4 46.8ms
1->5 78ms
1->6 109.2ms
On another Vista 32 bit machine, 2 gigs of ram, 12 printers set up, my 1.1 version in debug mode:
1->2 0ms
1->3 73ms
1->4 101ms
1->5 201ms
1->6 289ms
On my machine in a Hyper-V XP 32 bit window, 7 printers set up, using my 1.1 version in debug mode:
1->2 0ms
1->3 78.08ms
1->4 93.7ms
1->5 171.79ms
1->6 234.26ms
On my bosses new machine he received last week, a quad-core Vista 32 bit, 3 gigs of ram, 2 printers set up, my 3.5 version in release mode:
1->2 0ms
1->3 4,056ms
1->4 6,864ms
1->5 11,856ms
1->6 15,600ms
Using the 1.1 debug version puts 1->6 up to 17,255ms

Obviously, there's some sort of titanic problem with my bosses machine. The machine itself is incredibly fast. Every other operation in my software beats the tar timing-wise compared to my machine. As soon as it touches printers, it craps out. Wordpad/notepad/word/excel/acrobat/etc all seem to pull up printers fine. The machine is pretty "clean", all the crapware was uninstalled off of it, no virus scanner running, I've task manager killed everything non-critical. I've deleted all his printers out, reinstalled just the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. I've cleared out his temp folders and run a chkdsk. I've eliminated all the standard "this is why its slow" reasons that I know of. If it had been any other program on the machine, I would think its a windows issue, but since its just my software I'm stuck.

Does anyone have any suggestions on where to go from here?

It doesn't seem to be Vista 32 bit.
It doesn't seem to be number of printers.
It doesn't seem to be amount of ram.
It doesn't seem to be something running in the background.
It doesn't seem to be disk or printer corruption
It not affecting any "mainstream" apps
It doesn't seem to be a specific .NET framework version

So I don't know if its
Quad core and .NET
Some chunk of code I'm missing
Something I haven't thought of.

Re: PrinterSettings/DefaultPageSettings incredibly slow on a machine

Luc Pattyn11-Jul-08 6:19

Luc Pattyn

11-Jul-08 6:19

Hi,

my guess is the slow machine has one or more printers set up that are hard to find, networked ones e.g.
so it takes a long time building the list of available printers or whatever other information it needs
to respond to your code. So check the list of installed printers. Or (temporarily) remove most of them.

Smile | :)

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Re: PrinterSettings/DefaultPageSettings incredibly slow on a machine

nxtwothou14-Jul-08 3:18

nxtwothou

14-Jul-08 3:18

Already tried that. I went down to having nothing but a local "virtual" printer(the XPS document writer that comes with Vista). Didn't change the speed very much.

Windows Media Encoder get installed Automatically, when i instal mu project set up.

balaji_vbr10-Jul-08 21:20

balaji_vbr

10-Jul-08 21:20

Dear sir,

I am developing one windows application , in this we are using visual studio.net 2005, c#.net .
I have msi file package & set up file for this application.
To run the application I need windows encoder set up also.
So, Externally I install windows encoder set up also

Now my application is ready but In this situation, when I give it to client I ask him to install “windows media encoder “ also. Other wise I will go to customer home & I install both my set up and windows media encoder.

My requirement:

I want to make my msi file & setup automatically install the “windows media encoder” also , when customer install my setup.

How can I done this.

Similarly , when I uninstall my set up, it automatically uninstall windows media encoder also.

Please help me by giving solution for this.

Thank you ,

Skip readonly columns in DataGridView

WILLIAM MAIN10-Jul-08 11:43

WILLIAM MAIN

10-Jul-08 11:43

I have a DataGridView on a form with a number of columns that are calculated and hence set to readonly. What I wanted was to have these columns skipped whenever the user entered them. I thought to use the OnEnter event to test the readonly attribute of the current cell and set the currentcell to the next one. A problem arose using this methed in that by changing the currentcell in the event handler, I was invoking the non-reentrant changedcell method. Instead I resorted to a SendKeys.Send("{tab}") instead and this appears to work.

Re: Skip readonly columns in DataGridView

Kschuler11-Jul-08 6:38

Kschuler

11-Jul-08 6:38

I had this same issue a while back. I did some searching and posted on forums and the SendKeys.Send("{Tab}") solution was the only one I was able to find. Let me know if you find something better.

Child list for field RelLicData cannot be created.

sam1287410-Jul-08 9:18

sam12874

10-Jul-08 9:18

This is the error which I am getting in this line-->dgDataItemgrp.DataMember = "myTable.RelLicData";

dsetView = dset.DefaultViewManager;
dgDataItemgrp.DataSource = dsetView ;
dgDataItemgrp.DataMember = "myTable.RelLicData";
DataRelation relLicData;
DataColumn colMaster1 = new DataColumn();
DataColumn colDetail1 = new DataColumn();

colMaster1 = this.dset.Tables["myTable"].Columns["LicensegroupID"];
colDetail1 = this.dset.Tables["myTable1"].Columns["LicensegroupID"];
relLicData = new DataRelation("RelLicData", colMaster1, colDetail1);
dset.Relations.Add(relLicData);

any clue what can be the reason ?

Password&Label in Windows application

Sider8910-Jul-08 8:28

10-Jul-08 8:28

Hi I have one question, in my code if pasword is incorrect, when I click Ok, I want to change label like that "your password is incorrect"

using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Drawing.Printing;
using System.Security;

namespace WestNotePad
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

...

public bool isModificed()
{
if (textBox1.Text==String.Empty)
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}

}

}

}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WestNotePad {
public partial class frnPassword : Form {
public frnPassword() {
InitializeComponent();
}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){
DialogResult = DialogResult.Cancel;
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e){

DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WestNotePad
{
static class Program
{
public static bool a = true;

///

/// The main entry point for the application.
///

[STAThread]
static void Main()
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
if(ValidatePassword()) {
if(a) {
Application.Run(new Form1());
}

}
else
{
// MessageBox.Show("Erorr!");

<br />
here I wont my questions answer plz<br />

}

}
private static bool ValidatePassword()
{
if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(Settings1.Default.Password)) {
return true;
}

frnPassword f2 = new frnPassword();

if(f2.ShowDialog()==DialogResult.OK) {

return f2.txtPassword.Text==Settings1.Default.Password;
}
else {
a = false;

}
return true;

}
}
}

thx

C# Developer

Ashfield10-Jul-08 9:33

Ashfield

10-Jul-08 9:33

label1.text = "whatever you want";

replace label1 with whatever you label is called

Bob
Ashfield Consultants Ltd

Sider8910-Jul-08 20:35

10-Jul-08 20:35

what you suggested me, I have already done, but It's not work...

C# Developer

Ashfield10-Jul-08 21:05

Ashfield

10-Jul-08 21:05

Try adding

label1.Refresh();

after setting the text.

Bob
Ashfield Consultants Ltd

Sider8910-Jul-08 21:42

10-Jul-08 21:42

frnPassword f2 = new frnPassword();

f2.label1.Text = "Error";
f2.label1.Refresh();

like that??

but It's not work again Cry | :((

C# Developer

creating Docklet Application for windows [modified]

Ashfield11-Jul-08 1:14

Ashfield

11-Jul-08 1:14

I give up then, it works for me. Any error messages?

Bob
Ashfield Consultants Ltd

kimozz9-Jul-08 13:02

9-Jul-08 13:02

hi All,
me and my friends are trying to make a Docklet application for windows and i am not sure of the things to learn to be able to start codding the application,
so if anybody can help us and tell us the things to learn to be able to make our application come true.
i know that there exist already docklets apps for windows but i want to make my own :> so if any body hava a clue of what to do please tell me.
till now all i know is i need C++ and we are good at, and OpenGL which we are going to learn.
thanks all and Best Regards.

modified on Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:35 PM

led mike10-Jul-08 4:52

led mike

10-Jul-08 4:52

kimozz wrote:
till now all i know is i need C++

Really? I guess you need to clarify what you mean by "Doclet".

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/javadoc/overview.html[^]
Doclets are programs written in the Java^TM programming language that use the doclet API to specify the content and format of the output of the Javadoc tool.

led mike

kimozz10-Jul-08 10:52

10-Jul-08 10:52

no that's not the DOCKlet in mean, what i am talking about is a windows application that look like the system tray that has shortcuts to your favorite apps like the one in the MAC OS.
i didnt mean the java doclet.

led mike10-Jul-08 11:31

led mike

10-Jul-08 11:31

So are you saying you just made that up? Don't do that, don't make up your own terminology. No one will have freakin clue what you are talking about. Can you doclet that?

kimozz wrote:
i am talking about is a windows application that look like the system tray that has shortcuts to your favorite apps like the one in the MAC OS.

kimozz wrote:
till now all i know is i need C++ and we are good at, and OpenGL

I have no idea what the thing in the MAC OS is that you mentioned but what would OpenGL have to do with displaying shortcuts in a system tray? Confused | :confused:

And finally, this is the "Windows Forms" forum. That means System.Windows.Forms which is a namespace in the .NET Base Class Library. For questions working with Native Windows development you want to use the Visual C++/MFC forum. But be warned, if you don't use standard Windows programming terms it is unlikely anyone will figure out what you are talking about.

led mike

kimozz10-Jul-08 11:35

10-Jul-08 11:35

hey google it and you will find it and some apps already done that

led mike10-Jul-08 11:48

led mike

10-Jul-08 11:48

Hey I see you fixed the misspelled Doclet in the subject of your first post but see how it shows up in the replies anyway? That's sort of like a Docklet hu? And that's why I did find anything but a Java reference when I googled "doclet" instead of "Docklet". Like did you notice how the C++ compiler produces an error when you omit those semicolons? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

So basically you want to create a Windows Application that has similar features to this ObjectDock application? Go to the Visual C++/MFC forum and read the first post in the forum titled "How to get an answer to your question", pay attention to item #2.

See you around.

led mike

kimozz10-Jul-08 11:57