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I'm trying to implement a drag and drop between the windows shell and a windows form but although I implement the drag event nothing happens, when I drag a file. I also cannot find any examples on the topic.
Any ideas?
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You may look this implementation[^].
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I am building a custom control in C# out of existing controls. One question I have:
Normally, when a control such as a TextBox is added to a Form, it is declared as private but as a member of the form, the Textbox.Text for example, is acessible for coding in the form. With a custom control, if I declare the controls as private, they are not directly accessible to the form the control is placed on. Should I declare the individual controls as protected or public members in the custom control and the custom control as private? Will this protect the data members or is the another way that would be better?
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Adding set/get properties in your custom control allows to inoculate the public interface from the actual custom control implementation. Hence lower code maintenance for instance when a TextBox becomes a MyTextBoxEx.
Of course, no one needs to care that much about object-oriented programming, and the controls could be declared as public. This would btw shorten development time. And there is no need to feel the same for it, especially when things are obvious.
Unfortunately, there is no known option (or I don't know) to tell the VS.NET IDE to add controls as public, instead of private.
My -0.5 cent
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StephaneRodriguez wrote:
Unfortunately, there is no known option (or I don't know) to tell the VS.NET IDE to add controls as public, instead of private.
In the properties window there is a property called Modifiers in the Design category; that will let you set the class visibility for the control.
James
"And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies
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The Modifiers property applies to an existing control, and on a one-by-one basis. Of course, I admit there is a challenge here for those willing to write the code automating this to the whole set of child controls.(can't figure out by the way why there is no Modifiers property at the Form level, this would have been a nice place for all controls added later).
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StephaneRodriguez wrote:
The Modifiers property applies to an existing control, and on a one-by-one basis
In most cases you can select multiple controls and set the Modifiers property for all of them.
So far the only time I've found that you can't is when the control you are selecting comes from the base class. That makes sense because the forms designer uses the compiled assembly to do its work, so it obviously can't modify the visibility of the variable in the assembly.
StephaneRodriguez wrote:
can't figure out by the way why there is no Modifiers property at the Form level, this would have been a nice place for all controls added later).
This would be a nice addition for those that would like to expose all controls easily. 
James
"And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies
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Thanks for all your comments and especially your perspective on OOP. I know there can be valid reasons to limit access but it seemed overkill to write a get/set and set the value to anything the user wants to anyway! I shall try to judiciously use public members.
don
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I cannot figure out if there are any methods to get the windows resolution in .NET at run time?
Acutally I have a window that resizes according to the data and I want it to center itself on the screen.
Any idea how to do it with pure .NET?
Thank you
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Try this in your constructor:
this.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;
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If setting the StartPosition property doesn't work, you can get the screen resolution by using the Screen class.
Screen screenRect = Screen.GetWorkingArea(this);
this.Location = new Point(
(( screenRect.Width - this.Width ) / 2) + screenRect.Left,
(( screenRect.Height - this.Height ) / 2) + screenRect.Top
); The reason I add screenRect.Left and screenRect.Top is because in a multi-monitor situation the top-left corner of the screen might not be (0, 0).
Untested code, but that *should* work 
James
"And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies
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This one really looks great. I'm goint to try it as soon as I return to my development os. I suppose screen is a .net class. I haven't noticed it - too many classes, too much to learn  Thank you!
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Zinj wrote:
I suppose screen is a .net class.
Yes, I forgot to mention that, the full name is System.Windows.Forms.Screen
James
"And we are all men; apart from the females." - Colin Davies
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and I think I have used Rectangle for the declaration
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Hello,
Does anybody know how can I convert color in HSB format to RGB ??
(from RGB ro HSB I can use Color class)
<br />
Color cl=Color.FromArgb(64,128,162);<br />
float h=cl.GetHue();<br />
float s=cl.GetSaturation();<br />
float b=cl.GetBrightness();<br />
But Color hasn't got any SetHue, SetSaturation or SetBrightness method 
Thank you
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Hi
Someone post a method a few months back in this forum, do a search for HSB, you should find it easily.
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Here is the link[^]
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I thought it was you
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Thank you
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What is the best way to implement manual scrolling in a textbox?
The problem I'm having is getting the scroll bar position to "align" to the text. Particulary the last line/end of line....
I guess the whole issue is around what size I must chose for my scroll bar range. Should that be equal to my content size - visible size, or be equal to the numbers of lines - visble lines, all assuming content size is bigger than the visible size? If lines, how do I handle the horizontal scroll bar then?
Thanx
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How would you create a text within a Console app, which would be a different color such as red?
--Stickman
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Have a search in the GotDotNet.com 's userfiles area for ConsoleEx, cant remember if its VB.NET or C# , but it has quite alotta cool functions, something small did bother me, but I cant remeber what now...
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i have created a form in c#
when i press ctrl+Break it destroy.
and an exception occure.
who to get rid of that?
i want when i press ctrl+break then it does not do any thing.
can any body give the solution of it?
r00d0034@yahoo.com
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I believe that only happens when you run the program under a debugger; I tried out two different programs (without running it from within VS.NET) and neither of them stopped execution.
James
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