send mouse click to a specified control on another program? - C# Discussion Boards

Mycroft Holmes2-May-09 2:40

2-May-09 2:40

What is it with you people, you state some requirements and say thanks. For what, you have not asked for any information, you have not shown any effort in thinking this through and you do not shown you are capable of even understanding the question.

Do some work and when you are stuck ask specific question and we'll try to help!

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Re: Dynamic report generation

KIDYA2-May-09 3:00

KIDYA

2-May-09 3:00

I want to do this in my crystal report:
select table from combo box(List of tables from database) and then show table data on crystal report.My code is in C#.net
e.g.my combobox shows tables emp1,emp2,emp3....etc.if i select emp2 and click on show button then my report shows all data of emp2.

Help!!!

Re: Dynamic report generation

Mycroft Holmes2-May-09 3:06

Mycroft Holmes

2-May-09 3:06

So design a CR report that is based on your emp dataset and pass it the dataset of the selected emp - simple really.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Re: Dynamic report generation

KIDYA2-May-09 3:15

KIDYA

2-May-09 3:15

But my table name varry every time.i created tables dynamically when new employee added.i want facility to choose new table name every time when i open same crystal report.
Can u please show me it with code(C#)

Re: Dynamic report generation

Mycroft Holmes2-May-09 14:34

Mycroft Holmes

2-May-09 14:34

KIDYA wrote:
i created tables dynamically when new employee added

You WHAT, are you nuts, that is a disaster, give it up.

Read up on database design and data structures, chuck what you have and start again. There is no hope for you with that structure!

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

Need a datagridview like excel spreadsheet

Reyhaneh631-May-09 21:10

Reyhaneh63

1-May-09 21:10

Hi I need a datagridview like excel spreadsheet .
would you mind helping me?
thanks alot

Re: Need a datagridview like excel spreadsheet

dan!sh 1-May-09 23:33

dan!sh

1-May-09 23:33

Can you be a bit more descriptive?

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send mouse click to a specified control on another program?

Darkdude9891-May-09 21:09

Darkdude989

1-May-09 21:09

Hi.
I want to build a small application that has the ability to open and interact with other applications. So far I've figured out how to open files with the Process class, and I can get my application to send a mouse click to the other application. The problem I have now is that I want to get my application to click on a specified control in the other application, and not just a hard coded coordinate.
Is there a way to programatically open an application, check for a specific control, and send a mouse click to that control no matter where its location might be?

Re: send mouse click to a specified control on another program?

Member 10339071-May-09 22:16

Member 1033907

1-May-09 22:16

Read some MSDN info on FindWindow and SendMessage(..., WM_CLICK, ...) win API functions. Other than that, you may want to use Spy++ utility (optionally installs with VS) to learn some info about the controls you wish to click.

H.

Re: send mouse click to a specified control on another program?

dan!sh 1-May-09 22:16

dan!sh

1-May-09 22:16

Search for Inter-process communication. You will find a lot of help. Or, look into this[^].

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modified on Saturday, May 2, 2009 5:47 AM

Re: send mouse click to a specified control on another program?

Member 10339072-May-09 0:20

Member 1033907

2-May-09 0:20

I don't think hooks are what he is looking for. He doesn't want to capture clicks on controls of other processes, he wants to initiate them. This is how I understood it.

Re: send mouse click to a specified control on another program?

Darkdude9892-May-09 14:11

Darkdude989

2-May-09 14:11

Yes, watching programs for events is not exactly what I've had in mind, but thanks anyways for the advice.

I just need a way of finding a specific control on a application outside of my own. I'm hoping that if I could do this, then I would be able to extract the location of that single control and send mouse clicks to that location.

Re: send mouse click to a specified control on another program?

Member 10339073-May-09 1:17

Member 1033907

3-May-09 1:17

Read again what I said in my first reply. FindWindow (and/or FindWindowEx), is going to find the control you wish to click on and SendMessage can simulate clicking (I believe). I wouldn't say it is neccessary to click on some screen-coordinates, just send WM_CLICK message to the control (Button, whatever) found by FindWindow(Ex) and forget about coordinates altogether.

Bottom line: do some research on FindWindow/FindWindowEx and SendMessage win32 api functions, they're going to help you.
H.

Null reference Exception while using Ipc with Remoting in .net 2.0

chandu19251-May-09 20:08

chandu1925

1-May-09 20:08

Hi all,

I'm facing a problem in Ipc with remoting in .net 2.0

objAuction = (AuctionWeb.AuctionService.clsAuctionProcess)Activator.GetObject(typeof(AuctionWeb.AuctionService.clsAuctionProcess),
"ipc://AuctionService/RunService");

Here i have created an object using activator.getobject.
after creating the object if i want to go for any method with that object then i'm getting the Null Reference exception
"Object reference is not set to the instance of an object"

Can any one give me a solution.

Thanks in advance.

Question on mshtml.

Evgeni571-May-09 19:56

Evgeni57

1-May-09 19:56

Hey,

I'm building some automation tool of some web site.
It has the following code:

<TD style="cursor:pointer" align="right" dir="ltr" onClick="javascript:function1(list of params);" id="12345">qwerty</TD>

.

I'm using EtmlDocument HtmlElementCollection and HtmlElement and my HtmlElement variable has:
OuterHtml =

<TD style="cursor:pointer" align="right" dir="ltr" onClick="javascript:function1(list of params);" id="12345">qwerty</TD>

OuterText = "qwerty"

What should I do in order to generate mouse click and fire function1 and get the reply?

Thanks.

Re: Question on mshtml.

Member 10339071-May-09 22:22

Member 1033907

1-May-09 22:22

Do I get it right that you are writing some bot that clicks on web pages and processes the replies, pretending to be human?

Re: Question on mshtml.

Evgeni571-May-09 22:43

Evgeni57

1-May-09 22:43

Yes, you do.

Re: Question on mshtml.

dan!sh 1-May-09 23:18

dan!sh

1-May-09 23:18

Sounds suspicious.

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Re: Question on mshtml.

Member 10339071-May-09 23:32

Member 1033907

1-May-09 23:32

Well, I don't know. When I did this, none of the pages I targeted used javascripts for server interaction so it was easy to simulate clicking with HttpWebRequest/Response classes. In your case, I guess you'll have to emulate the javascript flow, as browsers do, to get the idea what the actual request should be. Unless someone else has something to say.
H.

Display Datetime As per GMT

Sun Rays1-May-09 19:35

Sun Rays

1-May-09 19:35

Hello All,
I am running on .Net Framework 2.0.
creating WEB Application.

I have a different users from different country. And I have property LOCATION for a User as well.
Now if UserA logged in and it's from UK country then all time should be display as per UK time. So i want to globalize the application. How can I do this ?

Kindly help into this.

Thanks.

Thanks,
Sun Rays

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How to connect excel database

kaushik_dass1-May-09 19:34

kaushik_dass

1-May-09 19:34

I am working on server 2003.i am trying to connect excel database but it shows error could not find installable ISAM.
Please Help me.

here is my code
string strcnn=@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" +strpath + ";Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes";
oledbcon=new oledbcon(strcnn);
oledbcmd=new oledbcmd("select * from[QE150409$]",oledbcon);
oledbda=new oledbda(oledbcmd);
ds=new dataset();
oledbda.fill(ds,"e1");
DataGridView.Datasource=ds.Tables[0].DefaultView;

Re: How to connect excel database

Sun Rays1-May-09 19:38

Sun Rays

1-May-09 19:38

Hey,
check this.

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=could+not+find+installable+ISAM&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a[^]

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Noob question: Displaying a List in a ListView

Quake2Player1-May-09 19:00

Quake2Player

1-May-09 19:00

Hi,
I want to know if this is the way to work with ListViews:

I noticed that ListViews contain strings only.. so.. if I have a List of persons List<Person>, and each Person has properties Id, Name, Age, and much more.

I want to display only name and age (there are two columns in the ListView: Name, Age),

My question:
I'd like to work with the Person (object Person!) selected.. I'm currently doing it this way:

Adding the items to the list:

foreach (Person person in personList)
{
                ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem();
                lvi.SubItems.Add(person.Name);
                lvi.SubItems.Add(person.Age.ToString());
                lvi.SubItems.Add(person.Id.ToString()); 

                listView1.Items.Add(lvi);
}

And the subitem Id is not listed because of "lack of column", i mean: There are two columns.. so Id is not displayed because it would need 3 columns..

Then, that way i can use the Id of the person and refer to the object..

Is this the way one would do that ? I suppose not because it doesnt look very nice..
In fact if i would add later a new column i would have to change things

Help please!

Re: Noob question: Displaying a List in a ListView

Member 10339071-May-09 22:34

Member 1033907

1-May-09 22:34

You've got it almost right. The property used for storing info about items is called Tag. For other purposes (when addressing items in the ListView if you don't know the index) you might like Name.
Also - the leftmost column is somewhat main and contains SubItems that specify text displayed in other comlums. Therefore set the Text and Tag property of the leftmost column and populate its subitems (the way you do) to specify the text of other coumns.
The code:

foreach (Person person in personList)
{
  ListViewItem lvi = new ListViewItem(person.Name); // sets the text of the main (leftmost) column
  lvi.Tag = person.Id; // no need for conversion, .Tag is of type object
  lvi.SubItems.Add(person.Age.ToString());
  listView1.Items.Add(lvi);
}

Hope it helps, H.

Re: Noob question: Displaying a List in a ListView

DaveyM691-May-09 23:24

DaveyM69

1-May-09 23:24

The previous answer was good!

If you're going to need this functionality alot then it can be useful to create a ToListViewItem method in the Person class.

Also, if a reference to the person object itself would be useful (sometimes it can be easier to deal with the object rather than one of its properties to save multiple lookups etc) then you can put that into the Tag instead - just cast the Tag back to Person when you need it.

public ListViewItem ToListViewItem()
{
    ListViewItem result = new ListViewItem(Name); // using name here saves you creating the item for the first column!
    result.Tag = this;
    result.SubItems.Add(Age.ToString());
    return result;
}

Add like this:

foreach (Person person in personList)
{
    listView1.Items.Add(person.ToListViewItem());
}

To get the object:

Person selectedPerson = (Person)listView.Items[itemIndex].Tag;
// ID is available in selectedPerson.ID

Nothing wrong with the previous answer, just throwing a couple more ideas out there Big Grin | :-D

Dave
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