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oh ok thanks i have already done so.

i do believe i have found the file(or files) that are the problem.
i looked at the log file in the debug folder and it said:
Creating library Debug\GlobalCbtHook.lib and object Debug\GlobalCbtHook.exp
LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt

oh and how do i send the author a message?

true i will give it a try.

ah ha! i went into the debug directory and looked at the GlobalCbtHook.log file and it said:
Creating library Debug\GlobalCbtHook.lib and object Debug\GlobalCbtHook.exp
LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt
so i think the problem might lie in one or both of these files that it list

well i am running windows 7 64-bit and i am running this in a RDP session
i think this is relevant info

i don't need to do a file search because i see a bunch of files named "GlobalCbtHook" one has a vcproj extension and another has a vcxproj extension and another has a cpp extension so it could be any one of them

what file is "LINK GlobalCbtHook"?
i can't find it in the directory the error message is talking about.

A. i don't see the "new message" button.
B. i don't think this is a problem on the author's end i thinks is something i am doing wrong, maybe its some stupid checkbox i didn't check in VS. this is why i am posting here.

ah ok missed that sorry.

what else do you need to know?

yeah but keep in mind i am only going to be using this for personal use only so if i want to store my own windows profile password in my app it wouldn't be a problem because no one else would be seeing it

i reason this:
if hackers can physically destroy your machine from anywhere in the world(and keep in mind that machines they are destroying are running windows which has all this claimed security) why can't i do i much more simple task of unlocking my computer from a background app?

well what if i ran this app i am proposing as a service in the lock desktop session?

so how would i do this?
like i said in the post, based on what i have read i will need to use a windows credential service and will have to run this app as a srevice in the background

the secondary purpose is to learn how to do this.
the way i have learned all that i have learned is, i come up with an idea and then i learn how to implement my idea.
as regards to how interesting this is, its very interesting to me at least.

i do believe i would have to run a background service to do what i am asking right?

just the local computer.
and this is just for my personal use, yes i do understand the security issues with that but this is only for my personal use, not for a professional environment.

i would like an app that is running in the background to trigger the unlock

i had for automation purposes.
think of this scenario:
its 12:00, lunch time. I want my app i am making to lock my pc and after an hour(or whatever amount of time i specify it will then unlock the computer automatically. that way, come 1:00 i don't have to type my password and log back in, my app will do that for me(i am kind of lazy that way)

ParentFormHanlde is a local variable that i set like this:
ParentFormHandle = ParentHandle.ToInt32();

oh sorry i did call base.WndProc.
i am updating it now

ah ok thanks

why should i use a using statement?

your post is crystal clear to me, i understand it.
i tried your first suggestion of creating a new stream and disposing of the old one. but when i did my memory usage still climbed every time i clicked the key in the app. this is what i don't understand.
i have a felling that this problem might not be related to the MemoryStream at all, or it could be i just don't know.

i am really sorry i'm not getting this

ok, i reread your solution and the first suggestion seems like i would just Dispose or Close the Stream and then open a new one and all the data in the old one would be gone.
so maybe i just am not doing something right, or the MemoryStream isn't my problem.

i have done this(this referring to me using the Dispose/Close Methods every time i am done with the stream) that already but when i was watching the process in Task manager, the memory usage still climbed every time i click a note on the keyboard.

and as regards to your first suggestion, i found the Write method in the MemoryStream class its just i don't know how to use a byte[](i think its called a byte array) parameter.
and when i say "directly write something to a MemoryStream" i mean use the Write method to write something to the stream

oh and just to let you know, i have already tried to use the Dispose and Close methods with no success

ah.
i don't know how to directly write something to a MemoryStream.
i am using the classes the author of the article i linked to write sound data to the stream.
so how would one overwrite the data in a memory stream with nothing?
also i do know how to set the streams write position to 0

what do you mean when you said "initialized to empty data"?

ah i didn't realize that he was using the MouseHover event(making a huge face palm because i could have figured that out from the name of the method)
sorry

wow this works perfectly(once i did a few modifications)!
what was i doing wrong?

well not exactly, but i am getting there take a look at this post i made: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/857130/Csharp-Problem-With-My-Current-Word-by-Word-text-S?arn=5

you have a very interesting idea with your code i am currently thinking up an idea of how i would implement this.
thank you.
and every time i post a question i do still try to come up with a solution for the problem not just wait for some one to answer.
thank you for all of your help.

i have setup 2 variables, one a string variable to save off the last spoken work and 2 a integer variable to save the last start position of the selection. so thats my start.
i just don't know how to change the back/forground color for only a certiant length of text not just selected text(i don't know how to unselect anything.)

and i have updated my code(not in my post) so that when the TTS operation starts it sets the RTB's ReadOnly property to true and when the SpeakCompleted event fires it sets the RTB's ReadOnly property to false(i am getting pretty good at using events).

ok i don't really under part C of step 1 could you elaborate a little more

you didn't offend me about mention Christmas.
and yes i am in a place where i can work on this by.

1. i don't celebrate Christmas
and, i am sorry to hear you have no grandparents living.
and 2. the text in the RichTextBox does not change(i mean technicality it can because you can type in it but, i would assume the user would be reading or following along with the TTS speech, i will be fixing that right now) while the TTS operation is running. i just want to highlight the current word that the TTS opp is speaking.

sorry for the long delay in the reply, i was talking on the phone with my grandfather

oh yeah everything that is not highlighted has a Black forground color and a white background color

could you please explain more.

huh?

oh ok, and your solution was relevant at the time you posted it, thats why i accepted it. it was also very helpful to(in the sense that you showed me a much simpler way to do a counting operation in a separate thread).

oh i wasn't trying to judge your post.
it was great and was well done.
its just that i didn't really solve the problem of cross-threading calls.
thank you this does help me to understand better how my class works though.
thank you

yeah thats the problem that i had with this solution

i updated my post with the latest version of the "ManualThread" class.
it also has clearer comments.

you see its like this:
an event fires in the "ManualThread" class, that triggers a method in the "ManualThread" class. Then that method that was triggered tells the class that holds the winform app to run a specific method(that is in the winform class)
this is what i want to do.
the poster of the article i read did this in VB so i know its possible, i just don't know how to do it.

yeah i could easily wrap that in a class

what i don't know is how the "CountCompletedEvent"(which is in the "ManualThread" class event is supposed to fire the "CopyFiles_CountCompleted"(which is in the winform class) method which does runs the BeginInvoke method.
what is not clear is how i am supposed to invoke a method not in the "ManualThread" class but in the winform class.

ok I have read your post on the Invoke vs. BegineInvoke.
i still don't get it
i am trying to use a BeginInvoke statment like this:

private void CopyFiles_CountCompleted(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Handles CopyFiles.CountCompleted
//BeginInvoke causes asynchronous execution to begin at the address
//specified by the delegate. Simply put, it transfers execution of
//this method back to the main thread. Any parameters required by
//the method contained at the delegate are wrapped in an object and
//passed.
this.BeginInvoke(new ManualThread.CountCompleted(ThreadOperationCompleted));
}

private void ThreadOperationCompleted()
{
txtSpoken.Text += "It Worked!";
}
but i don't understand how the "CopyFiles_CountCompleted" method is supposed to be ran when the "CountCompletedEvent" is fired.
i think i have to make the "CountCompletedEvent" event fire this method right?
if so how would i possibly do that?
i am sorry that i am not getting it (i can be kind of thick headed sometimes)

i know the basics of how to use create and use a thread.
but how do i use the Invoke method to call the "CountCompletedEvent" on my UI thread?

can you take a look at my post i have updated it

oh and as regards to the background worker thing, read my comments in the original post.
i have already explained this to Bill

yeah i don't have an event handler for the event and i don't know how to setup one.
and i have already tried this and it didn't work for the fact as like you said there is no event handler so it will be null when it reaches the if statement.
so this doesn't really help, but you telling me that "It will be null if no handler were attached to it." that explains why the event is null.
thanks you for your help.

and yes a BackgroundWorker does meet my needs.
you see i like to learn how to do challenging things first and then learn the simpler things Like for example: if i can master using threads directly then using BackgroundWorkers will be easy as pie. this is how i learn when it comes to programming.
(I hope you understood that because i have explained this to other people and they didn't get it because this is a very different way of thinking.)

i am very good at using BackgroundWorkers but i am not so good at using threads.
i know the basic concepts of both of them but i am not really good at implmenting those concepts when it comes to threads

i have considered using a BackgroundWorker but i wanted to use threads because of A: i would learn how to manipulate threads and how to be able to work with them in. B. how a class is properly constructed(this is an area i have been having a really hard time with) C. using threads is more flexible than doing this the easy way and using a BackgroundWorker. so in short i am trying to do this the hard way because its more flexible and i will learn a lot from this method.
and what is a "Task Library"? i have never heard of that.

wow why couldn't i have found this article when i actually needed it?
this article has explained mutlithreaded applications in a way that seems soo simple to me and i get it!
man that would have been nice a while back

a BackgroundWorker is a control you can find in the toolbox in the designer, if you didn't know.

here is an article i found on codeproject that might be of big help:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/16174/Multithreading-Backup-Utility

and also you might try using a BackgroundWorker

sorry i meant to say: so if you know how to, try running your Copy operation on a separate thread.

that might be it but it also might be the fact that you are doing the file copy on the same thread as the application it self.
i had that same problem when i would use the System.Speech to do Text to Speech.
the UI would freeze up until the program stopped speaking.
so i asked how to fix it here and the answer i got was that i had to use the SpeakAsync method instead of the Speak method.
this is due to the fact that SpeakAsync will run the TTS(Text To Speech) operation on a different thread than the UI(or sometimes called the Winform, Application) thread.
I looked and there is no CopyAsync methods so of you know how try running your Copy operation on a separate thread.

and are you using the System.IO.File class?

well right before the line of code that uploads your file to the server set the "FormEnabled" variable to true

well anyone?

oh and if the solution works for you click the green accept button to mark this thread solved.

ah ok.
i have never seen an iPhone update but i do know how to disable all the controls in a from at will, would that partially solve your problem?

oh and does the progress bar have to move?

could you post the code you used to do the uploading to the FTP server(without the username and password)

yeah eh the in window CMD session was just a bonus
thank you.

can i see the solution.
i am curious how you did it.

yeah blender(if you want to see what i am talking about get blender here:
blender.org) has a interactive python window(this is the window where you type test commands and so forth) and blender also has a debugging console, this is where blender prints all the errors in python scripts and stuff. also when i do the cls command in the interactive python console it clears the debugging window not the python console.
i would think that would be part of the reason why it didn't work, another part might be that blender has a built in version of python, it doesn't rely on a external installation of python (as you can see i am pretty good with blender, i have been working with blender for about 3 years).

the code snippet the OP posted int his question looks like it might help:
http://www.codeproject.com/Answers/277721/How-I-send-lots-of-image-in-a-file-to-ftp-server

i looked around on code project and found that the answer probably lies in the System.Net.FtpWebRequest class.

if i where you i would also put the name of the path\name of the file into a variable.
i did it like this:
Dim SelectedFile As String = myFile.FileName.ToString()
Note: i put this at the bottom of your code snippet.

well i would first declare your username and password for your FTP server

if you want to, you can improve your question and out the VB code tag around your code to help everyone see it better

hey quick tip: when you post something its easier for everyone to see your code when you wrap it in a language specific code tags. just click the code button and click the language that you are inputting
here is the tag you would use for VB:
<pre lang="vb">Put your code here</pre>

huh strange, i tried opening a CMD session in blender and it opened CMD in a new window not in the debugging or the python console(yes there is a difference) eh any who the clear command work for the debugging console(which is the console i wanted to clear) thank you again!

by the way when i said "due to my system admin, he/she" he/she means 2 people
--clears throat-- just for clarification.

oh and what is a "VT100"?

i have no idea what this would even entail though but if/when you add more i might understand.

ok cool, thanks.

all i have to say to that is COOL!
i have i large number of ideas of what i could do with a CMD session in a python console.
i can't wait to try this!

i was thinking i would have to use the print() function because the print() function prints what ever the you specify to the destination you specify, and if the destination parameter if nothing it will print the string to the console.
so i was thinking i would have to send some kind of clear all command to the console(blender's built in python console has a function to do just that)
i didn't realize that wasn't possible with print
good to know
Thanks again,
MasterCodeon

but thank you for your input anyway.

sorry i cant't go to any links other than here on codeproject(this is due to my system admin, he/she has all the net blocked except a handful of links(Microsoft, MSDN and codeproject being a few necessity's)

huh, so if i replaced the 'cls' with 'start' (or whatever CMD command i wanted) and use the correct arguments i could open a new CMD window or what ever i specified right?
and if i could open a new CMD window would it open it in the python console or would it just open up in a new window?
nevertheless very cool,
thank you for your help
ProgramFOX, i shall have a much easer time debuging python scripts now
Thank you.

ah thank you i was wondering how everyone else does that

thank you very much for the solution though

wow that seemed kind of complicated in my first comment
uh what i meant to say is what goes on under the hood with this command(I know what the import os does though)

i will be trying this in about an hour(its 12:00 noon for me in an hour) by the way.

also when ever you post a solution or a question how to you get the commands you wrote to be in bold dark red?

how does this work?
i mean i know what cls does in windows but how would running that command on a python console work, i would think the 2 would be incompatible.

ok i shall do so, but the last question asked on the article was june of this year so i don't think i am going to get a response anytime soon.
thanks for your help,
MasterCodeon

yeah i know the general programming concepts but what i don't know is some types that are specific to C++ like in the GetMessage doc(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms644936(v=vs.85).aspx) one of the parameters is a LPMSG type which i have o idea what that would equate to in C#
when i get the chance i will have a look at the 2 pinvoke.net links.
thank you for all of your help.

i tried to go to the pinvoke.net links but my admin has them blocked.
i will ask my admin to unblock them when she gets the chance to do so.

i have already seen the comments from the article and tried some of them but none helped

i have tried the demo app from the article that i was trying to use and it didn't work.
when i clicked the button to initialize the hook it would say it activated the hook but it wouldn't receive any messages(maybe i don't quite understand what the hook does? or what kind of messages its supposed to recive?)
so whats going wrong?

i found the article you where talking about but how would i get all the messages that applications are sending(like Spy++ but using a Global Hook)
the article works for my by the way.
thank you!

what in the world is it?

oh and the documentation explains how to use it but they explain it in C++ not C#. and i don't know almost anything about C++ so i don't understand all of the parameters and the types(some parts look like gibberish to me)

sorry for the bad spelling(i am bad at spelling)

by the way i think you don't need the @ symbol in the @"User32.dll" line, i think you just need "User32.dll"(this should work just fine)

well i figured out that i am going to have to use the GetMessage method to receive the hot key message but how do i use the get message method(sorry i don't know how to code in C++ so the parameters seem very confusing to me)?

oh no inconvenience i was just cirious

i have added a solution check it out

oh he he funny, i get it. so what does it really mean then?

why is the term Opponent used here anyway?

ok why does everyone keep calling me OP?
what does that mean?

oh and also how do i tell if the hot key has been pressed?
i cant go to the second set of links(not because there dead its just on my end)

how do you use the UINT fsModifiers parameter in the RegisterHotKey method?
i want to use the CTRL and the ALT Modifier code how do i use more than one code in the same paramater?

oh i was just posting a general message, sorry for the mix up

huh? what do you mean? i have setup my profile to not send me notifications.

Anyone Got Any More Ideas?

True but what about minimizing the app or Bringing it to the front with a keyboard shortcut?

wow thats a way better idea than mine thank you so much!

i have updated/modified my question take a look

oops i meant to say "i saw"

yes i say thats great.
it works like a charm thanks!

thank you this works so much better.
i though about trying to get the bounds of the form but i idn't know how to do that thanks for all of your help.

oh yikes, its complicated to me at least i would hate to see what a complicated problem would look like

ok sorry i say a user who has a simalr user name and avatar picture
here is the site i was talking about http://blenderartists.org/

uh i don't know how to find what version of C# i am using but i know i am using Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.5(but i know the .NET version has nothing to do with C# version)
and is the second snippet supposed to be a void, is it supposed to be public private what?
sorry for being such a newbie when it comes to this
i have worked with python for 2 years and a couple of years before that my dad started to teach me C# and just recently i picked up C# again(but i am doing pretty good at it so far, or at least i know the basics.)

ah yes that clears things up.
yes i do see ctrl {Text = "button2"}
but for the first button i have its:
ctrl {Text = "Test Button"}
thanks for the explanation.

and yes i can see that this is a very complex question that i asked

Oh and you wouldn't by any chance be a user on BlenderArtist forms would you?
because if so i have funnily enough asked you questions related to bge programming(my user name is SGA)

I get the first part but when i try to use the second code snippet VS gives me 12 errors
could you explain a little more i don't get it
sorry i am kind of a newbie

ok so what happens with this loop is that for each control in the "Controls" property of the form the local variable "ctrl" is always the text of the control. So if i had a control that had the text "Test Button" the value of ctrl would be "Test Button" but the button that says "Test Button" has a name of "button1" not "Test Button" so the loop is trying to get the button in the form named "Test Button" when there is no button named that.
sorry if this sounds complicated or if you can't understand this (i have come to learn not by you but by my own experience that i tend to over complicate things)

no not really i don't have any child control(unless you count buttons on a context menu strip) but the only events i want to subscribe to are the "MouseEnter" and the "MouseLeave" events, so i am pretty sure all of my buttons, list boxes, text boxes and labels will have those events.
And my foreach loop that i have does not work.

i want to know how to iterate through all controls of a form, and for each control in the form, subscribe to an event linked to the (whatever the name control is that i am currently accessing in a foreach loop) on the form.

If you have time check out my next question http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/854113/Csharp-How-To-Subscribe-To-An-Event-For-Each-Contr

Oh and i am not using the using the "Fill" setting for the Dock property on any of my controls.

Yeah the timer does start when either event is fired I just didn't realize it did (he he oops)
Moreover, as far as modifications go I only switched out the names and used the designer to do the event handling of the timer.
I also have another question about this, why doesn't this work for all the buttons and other controls as well?
because when ever I put my mouse over the background of the form it will fade to and fro like it’s supposed to but whenever I put my mouse over a control(like a button or a textbox) it won't fade to or back.
I reasoned that I should subscribe to the MouseEnter and the MouseLeave events for each control in the form using a foreach loop:

<pre lang="c#">

foreach (Control ctrl in this.Controls)
{
ctrl.MouseEnter += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_MouseEnter);
ctrl.MouseLeave += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_MouseLeave);
}
</pre>
(Sorry if the code doesn't display properly in the comment, I don't know comments can use the C# code tags)
Now this doesn't work quite right because when I use this loop it still doesn’t fade in and out for all the controls in the form.
How do I fix that?
Thanks for all your help again

ah thank you so much!
i opened a new winform project and i had to change the timer name and i had to subscribe to the MouseEnter and MouseLeave events, and i had to start the timer on the Form_Load Method but with those few little modifications it works!
thank you so much!

good to know.
sorry for the newbie question(if you haven't guessed i am a newbie at C#)

Yes it works!
thanks for all of your help everyone.

It works thanks!

ah ok, giving it a try now.

What do you mean by "escape the path string" Richard?
do you mean use 2 \\ in stead of one?

I already have a reference, and i have converted the VB if statement to the added code in the post.

thanks that really helped.
i am posting the code i used to get the article text as a new solution
Thanks for everyone's help!

Oh and by the way it worked like a charm thanks again!

Could you send me the source for that text to speech article you did(i can't access the link)if you could that would be great because i need a way to speak the selected text not just all text.
if you can just send me a PM with it or something.
please and thank you.

could you elaborate please.