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Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

3-Jan-04 7:37

Could anyone point me to a multiline (text of an item can be displayed on multiple lines) listview Windows Forms control?

Thanks

Heath Stewart3-Jan-04 7:47

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

3-Jan-04 7:47

Trying searching[^] first. There's a ton of examples of this on CP alone, besides what the link above provides. It's just an owner-drawn ListView which is trivial to do. You could also google for it.

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Roman R.3-Jan-04 7:55

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

3-Jan-04 7:55

Thanks, but I searched first and then asked for help.

Heath Stewart3-Jan-04 10:59

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

3-Jan-04 10:59

Do you need a ListView or a ListBox? The samples that are available are vastly different, and owner-draw ListBox examples are far more plentiful because they provide managed support for owner drawing, where a ListView requires that you override a hell of a lot of Windows messages and handle many different notification messages.

Roman R.3-Jan-04 17:21

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

3-Jan-04 17:21

I need a ListView control.

Heath Stewart3-Jan-04 17:24

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

3-Jan-04 17:24

At this time, there isn't many articles on CodeProject about this. There was one, but the guy used CodeProject as a testing front for what he later turned commercial. Frown | :(

To know what you need to do, research the Windows Common Control ListView. There are messages and notifications that you must be familiar with. After this, you override WndProc in your ListView derivitive class and handle those notification messages. You'll probably also have to P/Invoke several methods (especially SendMessage) and create constants that represent message ID, and several structs.

You can try googling for an example, too.

Carlos H. Perez3-Jan-04 11:26

Carlos H. Perez

3-Jan-04 11:26

Obviously you are looking for a free implementation but just in case you don't find it and you need to save time, you can check ours.

we have both:

MultilineListBox:
http://24.199.8.122/MultilineListBox3.aspx[^]

MultilineListView:
http://24.199.8.122/ListView4.aspx[^]

Regards,
Carlos.

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

Nick Parker3-Jan-04 11:42

Nick Parker

3-Jan-04 11:42

Carlos, just curious if you plan to continue posting your articles here, they are always full of great information and a great learning tool.

- Nick Parker
My Blog

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

Carlos H. Perez3-Jan-04 12:11

Carlos H. Perez

3-Jan-04 12:11

Hi Nick,

I would like to write a series of articles on WinFX --or Avalon, or whatever the name for new technology for writing Windows Application in Longhorn will be.

Probably, when Longhorn gets into beta and things get more well defined I will start posting some of my findings here. The new batch of technologies making a debut in Longhorn will surely keep us busy for years to come and I am certainly looking forward to sink my teeth on all the information related with the new UI model.

Regards,
Carlos.

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

Roman R.3-Jan-04 17:27

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

3-Jan-04 17:27

True, I am looking for a free one, but I've saved your link for time when I will develop software for sale. Thanks

hammackj3-Jan-04 21:55

hammackj

3-Jan-04 21:55

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/aa_listview.asp[^]

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

Roman R.4-Jan-04 5:49

Re: Need a multiline listview Windows Forms control

4-Jan-04 5:49

Thanks. I will check it out. This seems to be what I need. No source code, though. Frown | :(

hammackj4-Jan-04 10:49

hammackj

4-Jan-04 10:49

The source is in the demo project.

Custom MessageBox buttons

Broken God3-Jan-04 6:24

Broken God

3-Jan-04 6:24

Is it possible to somehow specify the text of the MessageBox buttons?
I'd very much like some "Yes to all" and "No to all" options, but the aren't many standard button titles to schoose from Frown | :(

Re: Custom MessageBox buttons

Colin Angus Mackay3-Jan-04 6:51

Colin Angus Mackay

3-Jan-04 6:51

You're probably going to have to create your own message box class.

--Colin Mackay--

Re: Custom MessageBox buttons

jconwell3-Jan-04 18:05

jconwell

3-Jan-04 18:05

Nope, if you use Anikrino and look at the code for MessageBox.Show, it calls the Win32 MessageBox calls, which only allow you to specify Yes, No, Cancel, Ignore, Ok, Retry.

You'll have to create your own message box form.

Using Word with C#

Stephane David3-Jan-04 5:43

3-Jan-04 5:43

I've tried to used this article http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/CsAutomateWord.asp?target=Word to create a character sheet.

I have a CCharacter class, that contains all information about a character, and I want to generate a MS Word document with these information.

So I've created .dot document, with thinks like
Name _Name_ Age _Age_
in arrays (I've tried also without the array, directly in the text). _XXX_ is code that I will use for replacement.

Now, to the code:

// Create a Word application
Word.ApplicationClass vk_word_app = new Word.ApplicationClass();
// Open the .dot
object FileName =Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()+"\\Models\\Sheet.dot";
Word.Document vk_my_doc = vk_word_app.Documents.Open(...
// Create a new document
Word.Document vk_new_doc = vk_word_app.Documents.Add((...
// Copy the .dot into the new document
vk_my_doc.Select();
vk_word_app.Selection.Copy();
vk_new_doc.Select();
vk_word_app.Selection.PasteAndFormat(Word.WdRecoveryType.wdPasteDefault);
// close the .dot
vk_my_doc.Close( ref vk_false, ref vk_missing, ref vk_missing );

All the previous steps work. I get a new document, build from my template.

Now, I'd like to fill it with actual information. So I do this

// Select the new doc
vk_new_doc.Select();
// Define some variable
object vk_false = false;
object vk_true = true;
object vk_num = Word.WdFindWrap.wdFindStop;
object vk_find = "_Nom_";
object vk_replaceWith = Name_Familly; // This one is a member of CCharacter class
object vk_replace = Word.WdReplace.wdReplaceOne;

// Try to replace the text
vk_word_app.Selection.Find.Execute( ref vk_find,
ref vk_false, ref vk_false,
ref vk_false, ref vk_false, ref vk_false, ref vk_true,
ref vk_num, ref vk_false,
ref vk_replaceWith, ref vk_replace, ref vk_false,
ref vk_false, ref vk_false, ref vk_false );

And... it doesn't work.

I got this error:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800706F7): Le relais a reçu des données incorrectes.
at Word.Find.Execute(Object& FindText, Object& MatchCase, Object& MatchWholeWord, Object& MatchWildcards, Object& MatchSoundsLike, Object& MatchAllWordForms, Object& Forward, Object& Wrap, Object& Format, Object& ReplaceWith, Object& Replace, Object& MatchKashida, Object& MatchDiacritics, Object& MatchAlefHamza, Object& MatchControl)

My form close, the word doc stays opened.

"Le relais a reçu des données incorrectes" would translate as "incorrect data received".

Any idea of a way to solve this would be greatly welcomed!

Heath Stewart3-Jan-04 8:03

3-Jan-04 8:03

The form is probably closing because you're not handling the exception like you should be. Users should never see an exception thrown but should see a nice little error message without your app crashing.

As far as the COMException, I'm betting the problem is where param values should be an empty variant but you're passing a reference to false. This is not the same in the world of COM. Instead, try the following:

object empty = Missing.Value;

Anywhere you need to pass an empty argument, pass a ref to empty (or whatever you call it).

Also, .NET naming conventions recommend that you don't use the hungarian notation, like putting "C" before a class name. Just consider how all the classes you use in the .NET Base Class Library (BCL) are named, as well as the methods, properties, etc. Using the same conventions is important, because anyone using your library or extending your application - and that's any language that targets the CLR like C#, VB.NET, MC++, COBOL.NET, and many others - should be consistent to avoid confusion and other hastles.

Stephane David3-Jan-04 9:58

3-Jan-04 9:58

Thank you for your answer. I agree that user should never see an exception, but I think it is even better to write correct code and avoid the exception, rather than displaying the error message. Exception would be nice if for instance the .dot file doesn't exist, but here it seems to be different.

About the empty : the Find.Execute function takes 15 parameters. The VBA help of Word gives me the feeling that none are supposed to be empty, but false. I have tried to use empty with some of these parameters, that are supposed to be facultative, but it changed nothing.

So I'm in need of more specific solution.

About the naming convention: I usually don't use hungarian notation, except in two cases. First, to differentiate between some parameters (like if I have a member Param, and a parameter Param), or when I'm porting an old C++ code, which is the case here, and I forget to rename a few classes or function.

Nick Parker3-Jan-04 10:05

Nick Parker

3-Jan-04 10:05

Stephane David wrote:
but I think it is even better to write correct code and avoid the exception, rather than displaying the error message.

I don't agree, exceptions are meant to happen and be handled, it doesn't necessarily mean they are bad. Since you need to properly handle them and using a MessageBox to the user is typically a good option, when it is pertinent. Some exceptions can be handled internally, however when they are of value to the user, they should be informed.

- Nick Parker
My Blog

Stephane David3-Jan-04 10:16

3-Jan-04 10:16

That's what I meant. In that case, the only information I can provide the user with is "this function doesn''t work, and I don't know how to make it work". If the error happens 100% of the time, then is it not an exception, it really is a programming error. It doesn't prevent me from handling the exception, but it is not a solution to my problem.

Heath Stewart3-Jan-04 10:58

3-Jan-04 10:58

Stephane David wrote:
I agree that user should never see an exception, but I think it is even better to write correct code and avoid the exception, rather than displaying the error message.

This is a bad assumption! Did you write Microsoft Word? I'm betting you didn't, so why trust the work of other people whom you probably don't know, and code in another application where a whole different set of problems exist? Never do. Never trust user input, and never trust another application. Always account for problems that might occur. Do you think that Word blindly accepts input from calling functions?

And just because a parameter takes a value of true doesn't mean that the converse is false. Look again at the type: Variant. When a variant isn't specified, it is an empty or missing variant, hence using Missing.Value (or sometimes you see

Type.Missing).<br />
<br />
I found this example on MSDN: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wrtskhowtosearchfortextinworddocuments.asp">How to: search for text in Word documents</a>[<a target=_blank title='New Window' href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_wrcore/html/wrtskhowtosearchfortextinworddocuments.asp">^</a>]. They use <code>Type.Missing

to find text. You have the right values for the ReplaceWith and Replace parameters. Also, you can search over the whole document (since in the example they set the range to the first two paragraphs) by using Document.Content instead of Application.Selection.Range, which - if I remember correctly - is an empty range anyway. I don't know about that, though - it's been a while since I programmed with the Office libraries. In any case, Document.Content is a Range over the whole document, which seems to be what you wanted anyway. Good luck!

Stephane David3-Jan-04 19:00