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I want to implement a progressbar that indicates the progress of a thread going on
I've got a
public void F1(Object o)
which has the thread body
and a button which start the thread
and when I want to make things like
progressBar1.Maximum = 100;
in the F1 a get a cross-thread error
can anyone help?
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Sure. Controls are not thread safe. You should use Invoke to update your progressbar:
1- Make a method in your form that has the progressbar. Let's say
public void UpdateProgress(int NewPosition)
{
MyProgressBar.Value = NewPosition;
}
2- Declare your delegate in the form:
public delegate void MyDelegate(int NewPosition);
3- Now in your Thread, just invoke it like this:
public void MyThreadMethod()
{
MyDelegate MyProgressDelegate = new MyDelegate(UpdateProgress);
Invoke(MyProgressDelegate, new object[] { 10 });
Invoke(MyProgressDelegate, new object[] { 20 });
Invoke(MyProgressDelegate, new object[] { 30 });
}
Regards ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Hi,
I didn't know where I should post this, but because it is in C# I thought this would be the best place, even though it is ADO.NET stuff.
Anyway, I have a question, I have created a datasource to the northwind database and created a simple windows form. With the first name, last name textboxes etc. and to select the employees I use the listbox with the employees last names in it. I have added an the TextBox_Validate Event to each textbox with the code:
private void TextBox_Validated(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />
{<br />
employeesTableAdapter.Update(northwndDataSet1.Employees);<br />
<br />
employeesTableAdapter.Fill(northwndDataSet1.Employees);<br />
}
Yet, when I change a name, and then tab or click somewhere else, it doesn't update the database with the new name.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Any reply is appreciated
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I've used ADO myself for sometime and have seen alot of errr.... Surperises you'd call them?!
Anyway, I'm sure the code is called, and that it's excuted without errors. From your code it looks like you've used the designer. Why didn't you use it to make the textboxes. It would update them automatically using a DataNavigator?
Regards
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Blekk wrote: What am I doing wrong?
It would appear you did not look at the MANY database articles here on CodeProject. Give it a shot, I imagine it will help.
led mike
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Hi,
I wish to have a magnify function in my program (C#) to view the form,
like that program in Windows XP (/Accessories/Accessibility/Magnifier).
How do I get the forms current view (appearance), and how do I show that in another form?
Can anyone help out?
Thanks in advance!
Gywox
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1- Get current mouse position using Form.MousePosition property
2- Copy the area of the screen you desire using Graphics.CopyFromScreen()
3- scale it using Graphics.Scale() method.
3- Draw it into a Bitmap
4- View the bitmap in the other form inside a PictureBox for example.
Regards
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I have a unique situation. I need to selectively play some mpeg videos in different sequences depending on the state of my main App. I have been able to add WMP to my form and play videos by setting URL = @"C:\path\filename.mpg". However, in the release version I cannot store the videos on the customers drive, so they must be embedded in the resources of the app. That's not the problem though.
I would like to be able to create a MemoryStream and dynamically build the "file" which will reside in memory. However, there is no way to tell the WMP control to play my System.IO.MemoryStream. I would have to save to disk and set URL = the new temporary file, and that isn't allowed.
Is there a way to point the URL at a resource in an assembly ?
If not, can I tell WMP to play a System.IO.Stream ?
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Both are possible, I'm quite sure. But telling WMP to play a Stream would involve writing a shell extension that pretends your stream is a file.
An easier option might be the embedded resource route. Does this article[^] help you?
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I have a windows form that inherits numerous controls from a parent form. Whenever I open the child form in the designer, I immediately get an asterisk that the file has unsaved changes, before I have changed anything. When I look at the .designer.cs file, numerous lines have been added, such as below:
Infragistics.Win.Appearance appearance1 = new Infragistics.Win.Appearance();
Infragistics.Win.Appearance appearance2 = new Infragistics.Win.Appearance();
this.ultraGridValidator.DisplayLayout.Appearance = appearance1;
...
And numerous lines have changed throughout the designer file (mostly locations and sizes):
this.configTab.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(766, 295);
When I open the base form in the designer, I get the asterisk, but usually nothing has changed. Sometimes locations / sizes have changed, even though I haven't moved anything. Obviously we're using Infragistics, but I don't know if that's the cause of the problem. I only suspect it because most of the lines added are related to the grid. I am also suspicous of the toolbar we recently added, just because of the timing. I have read msdn articles regarding problems with editing complex controls on inherited forms, but we're not trying to edit anything. We're just trying to keep things from randomly changing!
Has anyone seen anything like this? And any suggestions on how to fix it? It's killing productivity on our gui.
This is .NET 2.0 with Infragistics 6.1. I tried the latest VS service pack, but no luck.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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I've noticed this when I'm working with files via sourcesafe, and I switch to design mode or html mode.
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Thanks for the reply. I do remember this happening when I've used sourcesafe in the past, but we are using svn.
And just to clarify, this is a windows form.
Thanks.
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I'm programming for a Symbol CE device (WT4070) with reduced key board, no mouse, and no touch screen. As such, I have to tab from button to button on the form to get the focus on the button i want. Then to invoke the button with focus i have to hit two keys on the key board (blue and backspace) to send a space in order to "click" the button. I want to just hit one key, the enter key, instead.
So, how do i trap the enter and turn it into a space?
I tried putting the following code in my form class, but it failed to compile saying "no suitable method found to override. Note I have "using System.Windows.Forms at the top and the object browser shows the ProcessDialogKeys is in there.
Any Ideas?
Here is the code that doesn't work:
protected override bool ProcessDialogKey(Keys keyData)
{
switch (keyData)
{
case Keys.Enter:
case Keys.Space:
return base.ProcessDialogKey(Keys.Space);
}
return base.ProcessDialogKey(keyData);
}
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Hi coders
I'm doing some advanced calculations mostly on sound, but I'm relative new to C#...so
I was wondering if anyone has some advice on how I can (if possible) speed up the more primitive part of my code...e.g when I want to multply to arrays colmnwise. In Matlab this would look like Z=X.*Y but I cannot figure out a smart way to do this without using a for-loop in C# like
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
{
Z[i]=x[i]*Y[i];
}
As you can see, this takes a long time if the array consist of a sound segment of e.g 3 seconds which is 132300 samples. Do you know of any better way how this can be done...
Best regards
AL
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Behind the scenes, Matlab is creating a for loop for you. If you want a faster implementation that avoids the .net bounds checking, you could try writing the innermost layer of your code in c++ (with optional processor specific asm optimizations to use MMX/SSE instructions) and then using pinvoke to call it from the main c# portion of your app.
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Unsafe C# can get around bounds checking as well, and would be a lot easier that having to code up a separate C++ lib and invoke that from C#.
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True, but IIRC native code is still faster than unsafe.
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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I'd be surprised at that. And given the P/Invoke overhead that would be required with a C++ lib on the side, unsafe C# may quite well out-perform.
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I'm not sure if this counts or not, there'e //unsafe comments in the C# source, but I thought you needed an unsafe keyword as well which I didn't see. It does have c++ scoring better in most math related benchmarks.
Bencharks[^]
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Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Yeah, it looks like he commented the unsafe portions, meaning he's back to normal array bounds checking and all that. I wonder why?
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There always will be a loop either in your code, or in code you call.
100K samples will not be processed by a linear sequence of instructions !
You can improve performance by using pointers; this is possible in C# too,
it is considered unsafe, and requires the "unsafe" keyword (and a compiler switch
to enable it).
Look in Visual Studio's help for "unsafe code, sample [C#]"
Luc Pattyn
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One way to speed up things like this on multi-processor or multi-core machines is to use multiple threads to do the processing. Say you have one of those new Intel Quad Core processors, you've got 4 hardware threads available. Split the array into 4 segments, then spawn 3 new threads, each the processes a segment of its own. Then have the current thread process a segment of its own (4 threads total). You've essentially increased performance 4x.
Of course, this solution only works for processors that are hyperthreaded (i.e. 2 hardware threads per physical processor core) or for machines that have multiple processors or multiple cores.
p.s. one should always question optimizing code like this unless you're absolutely, positively certain that there is a performance bottleneck here and the current performance is not acceptable.
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For a job as simple as an inner product, I expect bus bandwidth limitations will
be dominant over CPU limitations, so no much help from multi-threading...
I do fully agree with the p.s. though
Luc Pattyn
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The job is simple, but the bottleneck is the linear time it takes to compute one operation, move onto the next, until finished. Meanwhile, potentially 1 or more cores are idle and could be doing these operations in the meantime. I'm quite certain you'd see a good speed up here.
The MS Robotics team that built the CCR (concurrency and coordination runtime, a .NET library for threading and coordination among threads) found big speedups, often near a multiple of the number of cores in a machine, by utilizing multiple threads to do this kind of thing. Given, they are doing lots of IO, however.
Joe Duffy, a CLR architect, is busy working on the PLinq (Parallel Language Integrated Query) project that will allow devs to easily parallelize queries and transformations on data. This is essentially the technique I described above: using 1 thread per hardware thread to parallelize queries and transformations on data. Eric Sink has an article[^] on his blog showing how C# can do Map, which utilizes this idea.
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