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Re: How can i add simple .net control (net wpf control ) into wpf window ?

14-Aug-10 22:37

If you control is not a WPF control, this may not be possible.

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Yanshof14-Aug-10 22:43

Yanshof

14-Aug-10 22:43

The control is .net but not WPF

is it possible in this case ?
If its possible - so how can i do it ?

Thanks

Re: How can i add simple .net control (net wpf control ) into wpf window ?

Abhinav S15-Aug-10 0:49

Re: How can i add simple .net control (net wpf control ) into wpf window ?

15-Aug-10 0:49

Yanshof wrote:
If its possible - so how can i do it ?

It is possible.
See any of these to check if they help.

Here[^] or here[^].

Yanshof15-Aug-10 0:58

Yanshof

15-Aug-10 0:58

Thanks.

Re: How can i add simple .net control (net wpf control ) into wpf window ?

Abhinav S15-Aug-10 0:58

Playing a list of files on after the other.

15-Aug-10 0:58

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Tichaona J13-Aug-10 12:29

Tichaona J

13-Aug-10 12:29

Hi
Currently I have written my application to play one media file at a time:

1. Open file dialog is used to select a file
2. File is copied into the media source. mediaElement1.source = (new Uri(file))
3. Then it is played from start to end. mediaElement1.Play();

This works fine, however now I would like to play files which have been loaded into a list box one after the other. I have tried using the foreach loop to attempt to access each file by its index and well looking through the code (using F11) found that all that happened was it would try and load all the files one after the other with out waiting for the current file to complete playing. How do I get it to wait until the current file has finished playing? here is the code that has gone wrong:

int x = lstBx.Items.Count;
for(int i = 0; i<=x; ++1)
{
string cMedia = lstBx.Items[i]as string;
mediaElement1.Source = (new Uri(cMedia));
mediaElement1.Play();
}

Also bearing in mind that the ideal condition for the media element to have completed playing a file is: mediaElement1.Position == mediaElement1.Position.Totalseconds

Please note that the application is being developed under WPF.

Re: Playing a list of files on after the other.

#realJSOP14-Aug-10 0:09

#realJSOP

14-Aug-10 0:09

You can set an event handler for the Completed event on your mediaElement. When that event is fired, load the next file and play it.

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Binding ComboBox Selected Item value

BRShroyer13-Aug-10 5:01

13-Aug-10 5:01

I have been working on this for a day or two and can't seem to find the answer on the internet, or at least I don't get the answer if I have seen it.

I have a window showing various settings for an object:

<Grid x:Name="PalletGrid">
  <Grid.DataContext><XmlDataProvider x:Name="xmlPalletConfiguration" XPath="/PalletConfig/Pallets/Pallet" 
                                     Source="C:\ProgramData\Pallet Configuration.xml" />
  </Grid.DataContext>
  <TextBox x:Name="PickupSequenceTextBox" Text="{Binding XPath=/PalletConfig/PickupSequence}"/>
  <TextBox x:Name="DropoffSequenceTextBox" Text="{Binding XPath=/PalletConfig/DropoffSequence}"/>
  <ComboBox x:Name="SelectedPalletComboBox" ItemsSource="{Binding Mode=OneWay}" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True"
            SelectedValuePath="@display" DisplayMemberPath="@display"/>
  <TextBox x:Name="RowCount" Text="{Binding XPath=Rows}"/>
  <TextBox x:Name="ColumnCount" Text="{Binding XPath=Columns}"/>
  <TextBox x:Name="ColumnDimension" Text="{Binding XPath=YDimension}"/>
  <TextBox x:Name="RowDimension" Text="{Binding XPath=XDimension}"/>
</Grid>

The Pallet Configuration.xml file I'm databinding to looks like this:

<PalletConfig>
  <NumberOfPallets>2</NumberOfPallets>
  <CurrentPallet>3/8</CurrentPallet>
  <PickupSequence>B</PickupSequence>
  <DropoffSequence>A</DropoffSequence>
  <Pallets>
    <Pallet display="6.0mm">
      <Rows>10</Rows>
      <Columns>10</Columns>
      <XDimension>100.000</XDimension>
      <YDimension>100.000</YDimension>
      <PalletALocation>295, -5, -19, 0, -8, L</PalletALocation>
      <PalletBLocation>93, -6, -19, 0, 0, -8, L</PalletBLocation>
    </Pallet>
    <!--More pallet tags ...-->
  </Pallets>
</PalletConfig>

I set the datacontext for the grid to be at the individual pallet level. When I select a new pallet in the combo box, all of the textboxes below update with the values for the selected pallet.

What I can't figure out how to do is databind the <CurrentPallet> in the XML file to the selected item. I want it to save the selected item so the next time the application is ran, the combobox will select the pallet type that was last selected.

I've tried binding to the selecteditem, but haven't been successful. Nothing I have tried has updated the <CurrentPallet> tag when the changes were saved. Also, whatever I have tried made the combobox display a blank line the first one or two times you select a pallet type. It would display like it whould after that. I've also heard that the selecteditem doesn't do well with updating the combobox when whatever it is bound to changes, not that it matters I only want to do this at startup. Any solution that works will be appreciated.

Brad

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Ian Shlasko13-Aug-10 5:14

Ian Shlasko

13-Aug-10 5:14

Here's how I would do it...

Grid: DataContext = /PalletConfig
- 2 TextBoxes bound to the two sequence numbers
- ComboBox: ItemSource bound as you have it now, SelectedIndex bound OneWayToSource to /PalletConfig/CurrentPallet

- Some container (Panel, groupbox, border, etc - Just to organize it) for other textboxes, DataContext bound to ComboBox.SelectedItem (ElementName binding)
-- Textboxes bound to rows, columns, dimensions

Unless the pallets will be shuffled around, storing the index seems like it should be enough, right?

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BRShroyer13-Aug-10 5:18

13-Aug-10 5:18

I was hoping to bind to the name displayed (they are always unique) because the pallets can be shuffled around in the file. The users can move the <Pallet> tags so the pallets they use more often can be at the top of the list.

Brad

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Ian Shlasko13-Aug-10 5:25

Ian Shlasko

13-Aug-10 5:25

Ah, that's a bit more tricky. The thing about binding is that one end of the bind MUST be a DependencyProperty on a DependencyObject. You really want to bind one field in your XML file to another, or alternately bind one property to two different values (Source1 = SelectedItem, Source2 = CurrentPallet).

I don't think you can do either, unfortunately. Your best bet might be to just hook the ComboBox's selection changed and update CurrentPallet in the code-behind. Then you can hook its DataContextChanged to initialize its SelectedItem to the CurrentPallet.

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BRShroyer13-Aug-10 5:33

13-Aug-10 5:33

That's was kind of the route I had planned. It didn't make sense for the datacontext to open the file and me opening in the code-behind. Being that I'm new to databinding, I was hoping there was something easier I could do.

Thanks for your efforts.

Brad

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Ian Shlasko13-Aug-10 5:39

Ian Shlasko

13-Aug-10 5:39

Data binding is great, but it does have certain limits. Binding directly to XML is pretty limited in itself, since it skips the ViewModel portion of the MVVM pattern entirely. Great for simple things, but falls short for anything that would normally require some back-end processing.

If this is going to get more complex, you might want to wrap a class around that XML... Well, two classes... One for the file itself, and one to represent a pallet.

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BRShroyer13-Aug-10 5:47

13-Aug-10 5:47

I've been impressed with some of the things I see data binding do so far. I have had to jump through a couple hoops to get some things working like I wanted, but they work and work every time.

Hopefully this is as complicated as it gets. I'll keep your ideas in mind because after this project is over, I have to go back to the one that originally got me into all of this. It is going to be a lot more complicated. In fact, it will swallow this project as an option. Imagine the software that could be written if there weren't deadlines. Although, without deadlines, there's no guarantee that it would be written. Laugh | :laugh:

Brad

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Data Template Issue

Tauseef A12-Aug-10 22:34

Tauseef A

12-Aug-10 22:34

hi guys i am working in sl4 and doing following
<toolkit:BusyIndicator x:Name="indicator" DisplayAfter="0" IsBusy="{Binding Busy,Mode=TwoWay}">
<toolkit:BusyIndicator.BusyContentTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<TextBlock Text="Please Wait::::"/>
<b> <u> <Button Content="{Binding BusyText6}" Background="Aqua"/></u> </b></StackPanel>

</DataTemplate>
</toolkit:BusyIndicator.BusyContentTemplate>
and in code doing like
public UpdateReportWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.DataContext = new ViewModel.SelectReportVM();

}
but button context property does not work, althoug it works fine anywhere else on my
page , is there anything i am doing wrong?
regards,

Tauseef A Khan
MCP Dotnet framework 2.0.

Re: Data Template Issue

Abhinav S12-Aug-10 22:54

Re: Masking textblock in wpf

12-Aug-10 22:54

Have you created a property for BusyText6? That property should call the PropertyChanged method of INotifyPropertyChanged.

Re: Data Template Issue

Tauseef A12-Aug-10 23:11

Tauseef A

12-Aug-10 23:11

yes it is

Tauseef A Khan
MCP Dotnet framework 2.0.

Masking textblock in wpf

sumit703412-Aug-10 21:26

sumit7034

12-Aug-10 21:26

Hi I am displaying credit card no in textblock. so I am binding the textblock to show credit card no.
Now i want to mask it such a way that it only show last for digits and rest as x like

if card no is 2343324533222422
it should show as

xxxxxxxxxxxx2422

please help

Thanks in advance

Abhinav S12-Aug-10 22:49