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    - Bug or bad design in System.Windows.Form.Form Hi While developing a Windows forms application I encountered what I consider to be a bug or a design flaw: Consider to have 3 Forms namely A B and C. B is owned by A and C is owned by B. If we close A, all three forms should close which is exactly the design described in the class library reference on msdn. However, if the windows run in NON modal mode (i.e. not showed using ShowDialog(IWin32Window), closing A does call the OnFormClosing on A and on B but NOT on C. C gets closed without a way to check for unsaved data, because the FormClosing event doesn't get raised. If window B and C run in Modal mode (ShowDialog(IWin32Window)), C raises the FormClosingEvent (from within the OnFormClosing Method), but setting e.cancle = false will NOT prevent the window from closing, and even worse, the OnFormClosing method will run AFTER the window has already been disposed. Possible Reason: The invaluable resource .NET Reflector gave me some insight to the Implementation of the System.Windows.Forms.Form class. When a window closes, it calls OnFormClosing on all of its MdiChildren and Owned Windows. If e.cancle does not evaluate to false after these calls, the form gets Disposed. Dispose(bool disposing) calls Dispose on all owned forms, and thus it works recursively. But OnFormClosing does NOT. So when I call A.Close() it "asks" B to close, and if B does not set e.cancle, A disposes itself which in turn disposes B and C. So C gets Disposed without a prior call to OnFormClosing and no event rising. Shouldn't the (private) WMClose method in System.Windows.Forms.Form call some RECURSIVE method to check recursively for all owner relationships if the owned forms (in all levels of the owner relationship) can close? Possible workaround: (NOT tested yet) override the OnFormClosing method that it calls OnFormClosing for all owned forms recursively. This however will cause the OnFormClosing method to be called twice for all owned forms that are directly owned by the "root" form, because WMClose calls OnFormClosing on all its directly owned forms, and later calls this.OnFormClosing. The loop which calls OnFormClosing for all owned forms shouldn't be in WMClose but rather in OnFormClosing itself, thus be recursive. For MdiWindows this problem does not exist, because MdiCild Relations can only exist in one level, so for MdiChildren this problem does not exist. But when one closes the MdiParent of an MdiChild which owns some window X, OnFormClosing and the FormClosing Event will NOT be called for X. Has anyone ever encountered problems with this behavior as I did? And how did you solve the problem? I would consider this behavior either a bug or a design flaw! Regards Stephan Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108232
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    - ControlDesigner OnMouseDragMove only called once? I am playing with overriding the ControlDesigner OnMouseDragMove. But for some reason it only appears to get called when a control just begins its drag. I was anticipating it to be called for every movement of the mouse during the drag. Am I missing something so that this method is only called once? Is there another method I should be using that will be called for each movement of the mouse? Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108231
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    - notification windows a la Outlook Hi all, I've been recently struggling to get to the bottom of this, but can't find the proper way to do this. I have a notification window, which may appear on screen when certain events are received. Currently the notes are created and displayed on the main form's gui thread. It works ok, until you go into 'modal' mode. That is, if there are a modal form and the note simultaneously on the screen, I cannot click on the notify window. There are two scenarios here: first the note pops up, then a modal window is opened; or the other way around: you receive the note while the modal window is on top. In both cases, I can't access the note. I looked at Outlook, how it behaves, and you can access the note (of course, trying to 'open' the email results in a warning message, stating it can't do that while modal windows are opened). I believe Outlook is using a different thread for the notes. I tried to do this, but it's not that easy. Notes must be _created_ (and displayed) on the 'notification thread'. Bottom line: I want to be able to create and display the notes from the gui thread, on the notes' thread (ideally I want only one thread for all notes, not one thread for each note). Any ideas are welcome. Thanks in advance, Cosmin. Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108227
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    - VB WinForms Application doesn't inherit from WindowsFormsApplicationBase Hi there, Just out of curiosity.... Looking into Application.designer.vb as part of MyProject i see Partial Friend Class MyApplication <Global.System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()> _ Public Sub New() MyBase.New(Global.Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.AuthenticationMode.Windows) .. End Sub .. End Class how come this class class doesn't or should i say "where does this class" inherit from WindowsFormsApplicationBase? I can see thats its partial and that its calling mybase.new but wheres the rest? Ive looked into the directory using windows explorer but still cant find it. Is this part of the visual studio/ vb compiler hoo doo voodoo? thanks richard Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108215
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    - Print Dialog I need to programmically close a PrintDialog form after it is displayed with the "ShowDialog" method in case the user does not dismiss it himself. My app needs to have it time out. How can this be done ? Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108211
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    - SystemParametersInfo call hanging. Due to the nature of our application, it is necessary to set a system setting that increases the size of the scrollbars when the application is the "active" one. When it is not, the system setting is reverted so that the scrollbars appear in their normal size. To achieve this, I am overriding the WndProc method and checking if the message received is WM_ACTIVATEAPP, (this is the message received when the application gets focus). Upon receipt, I make a call a call to the user32.dll call SystemParametersInfo to make a change to the scrollbar size. This seems to work just fine, but when my application receives a SystemEvent.PowerModeChanged or SystemEvent.DisplaySettings event, my call to SystemParametersInfo (called via the WndProc override) seems to hang... and I can't figure out why. Does anyone have any ideas on why the call to SystemParametersInfo would hang? It requires the user to kill the application. Thanks, Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108210
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    - SystemParametersInfo call hanging. Due to the nature of our application, it is necessary to set a system setting that increases the size of the scrollbars when the application is the "active" one. When it is not, the system setting is reverted so that the scrollbars appear in their normal size. To achieve this, I am overriding the WndProc method and checking if the message received is WM_ACTIVATEAPP, (this is the message received when the application gets focus). Upon receipt, I make a call a call to the user32.dll call SystemParametersInfo to make a change to the scrollbar size. This seems to work just fine, but when my application receives a SystemEvent.PowerModeChanged or SystemEvent.DisplaySettings event, my call to SystemParametersInfo (called via the WndProc override) seems to hang... and I can't figure out why. Does anyone have any ideas on why the call to SystemParametersInfo would hang? It requires the user to kill the application. Thanks, Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108209
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    - ANN: TayLayout Release 00.00.15 for IronPython TayLayout Release 00.00.15 for IronPython http://code.google.com/p/taylayout/downloads/list New This Release * Wordsearch generator sample (80% functional) * More controls specially supported (listbox, webbrowser) * More compound controls * Controls can now be right-aligned * Plenty of bug fixes TayLayout is a more sophisticated version of the flow layout - you can add controls to a panel or form and it takes care of positioning them. Controls are added in a Left to Right order until you specify that a new line is required. More info available at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd59dk39_2jh3xf9 Thanks, Davy Mitchell Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108205
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    - Find the day of the Week I am currently writing a program in Visual Basic .NET and need to be able to find the day of the week when given the date (Ex. 1/20/07). Once the function is given the date it will the deliver the day such as Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and so on. Thank you very much. b89 Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108202
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    - Windows CBT Hooks (Help!) I hope you can answer a question. I am writing a poker utility that tracks what windows are open and displays information about opponents that are still playing and their previous history that is stored in a game DB. It is a very cool project with Pattern Recognition (Pixel Screen SCraping to OCR) and pretty advanced calculations. I just started writing my first prototype in C# and discovered that I could not set a System Wide CBT hook. .Net will not allow hooks CBT hooks to be set globally, period! Works for mouse and keyboard, but not CBT. I need to trap when a window is created, destroyed, gotfocus, or resized. I do not want to cancel or redirect those messages. I just need to get new rect information about the window. I have discovered ways of doing it in either VB6 or C++. I am not sure which is the best strategy to pursue. I do not code in either language. Can I have this hook in VB or C++ and then call my C# function? Anone have any suggestions for interacting in between managed and unmanaged code when the unmanaged code needs to trigger a C# method? Thanks, Andy Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108201
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    - ImageList performance problem Hi all, I'm experiencing performance problems when adding a large set of bitmaps to an ImageList. The bitmaps are 55x55 pixels in size, which matches the ImageList's ImageSize property. Adding approx. 5000 bitmaps takes about 1,5 minutes. The bitmaps are generated from scratch, resized and other things much faster than that (in just a few seconds) so why should adding them to an imagelist be so slow? The imagelist is also the source for a ListView, which displays the results. I've tried adding the bitmaps to the ImageList via Add(), AddRange() and using the async. virtual mode. The latter sounded promising, but didn't help. Any ideas, hints? Cheers, Johan Sj=F6str=F6m MSc, MCAD, MCTS, MCITP Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108199
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    - Where are the 'most often used program' shortcuts stored? Hi, I'm talking about the ones that are displayed in the XP Start menu? Does anyone know where they are/how to get a list of them. Cheers, James Randle. Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108197
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    - Reason for Application.ThreadExit Hi, We have the strange problem that sometime in our application Application.ThreadExit is raised and out application shutting down. We do not see any previous exceptions before this event fires. Moreover the Application.ThreadException event is not fired at all, so we have not unhandled exceptions that occurs. We are working with SQL-2005 and with some unmanaged code too. What can be the reason for such behaviour ? And how can we catch such error ? Thanks, Pavel Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108195
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    - Render window to video port? Is it possible to redirect the rendering of a windows form to the video port/overlay device of a video card? In my situation I must present the contents of a window on an hdtv and I can't use a desktop clone trick because there's going to be another application running that cannot show up on the tv. Any ideas? Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108188
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    - freeware .NET graph library needed Hi! I need such library to make UML modeler with which i'd be able to make UML schemas(primarily for designing software projects).What i'm trying to achieve is to make something like any other UML drawing tool. I've found some commercial ones(yFiles.NET, Essential Diagram)and freeware Netron graph library(but it doesn't contain all UML elements). Thanks! Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108175
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    - vs2003 to vs2005 Hi I have a vb.net 2003 database winform app which uses non-bound controls and the associated plumbing is done in code. If I move it to vs 2005 would it work without any change? Thanks Regards Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108169
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    - Moving the MdiClient area I programmatically moved the MdiClient of my MDI form to be nested inside a Panel so I can control the layout better. I also removed the 3D border on the MdiClient using Interop. When trying to open MDI child forms, I first received an error about the parent not being an MDI container. I suspected this was because I moved the MdiClient, so I set IsMdiContainer back to true after the move. I no longer get the error, but now the MDI children don't display at all. I'm assuming I need to hook the MdiClient back up to the parent form somehow. How do I do this while keeping the MdiClient nested in a Panel? TIA Jared Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108168
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    - VS 2005 SP1 Hi I am almost finished with a vs 2005 (pre sp1) project which I need to deliver in the next couple of days. I am wondering if I should deliver project with sp1. Is it safe to install sp1 at this late stage? Thanks Regards Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108166
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    - "UpdateEvent" I'm looking for some kind of form level event that I can hook/add/use to tell me when ever some input control has changed its state. As a hack currently I set KeyPreview to true and hooked the KeyPress event. This works great for text boxes etc, but if a user uses the mouse to select someting in a listbox it doesnt catch it of course. The idea is something like this, in the even I want to check the state of the inputs and enable disable for example the Save button. Delphi had a neat way to do this with actionlist and I know there are free and 3P action lists for .NET, but this is an existing WinForms app and I cant redo it. I just need a basic event I can hook to properly enable/disable controls. The other "hack" option is a timer, but thats pretty ugly too. I've also considered hooking into the windows message pipe and ignoring obvious ones like WM_Paint etc, but again I'd like to avoid this and find something else. Anyone have any suggestions? -- Chad Z. Hower Microsoft Regional Director "Programming is an art form that fights back" http://www.KudzuWorld.com/ Need a professional technical speaker at your event? http://www.woo-hoo.net Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108161
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    - Flashing scrollbar on MDI child window after cursor key hit! My application has a main form with its "IsMdiContainer" set to 'true'. I create a form to serve as a child form, setting its "MdiParent" to the main form before calling its "Show()" method. The "AutoScroll" property is set to 'false'. My child form class has two scroll bars which I added manually; an HScrollBar and a VScrollBar. Each of these scroll bars has its "TabStop" property set to 'false'. (As mentioned above, the "AutoScroll" property of the child form class is set to 'false'; I do not want to use the form's automatic scroll bars.) Any instance of the child form properly has its OnKeyDown() handler triggered when the child form has focus and regular keys are pressed. All works great -- until I press a cursor key (i.e., up, down, left, right). When I press a cursor key, one of the scroll bars starts to scroll, and starts to flash! When I release the cursor key, the scroll bar continues to flash, and no other key events are received by the child window. Wait... I just solved my own problem! Override OnPreviewKeyDown(), and then disable each scrollbar (set its "Enabled" property to 'false'), and call Invalidate(false) to put a repaint message in to the queue for the form. When the scrollbars are disabled, this is evidently enough to prevent the cursor key from finding a scrollbar and locking to it, starting the flashing, and capturing the input. Upon repaint we can set the Enabled property of the scrollbars back to 'true' if appropriate. Whew! I thought I was going to have to implement my own "MDI" logic instead of using the "IsMdiContainer" feature. Wow, the worst part about Windows Forms is the crazy logic concerning how cursor key events, mouse wheel events, focus, and other things are handled... What next?! Anyhow, I am sharing my discovery for the benefit of others. --- Colin Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108136
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    - How to iterate over a combobox's items? Say cbRoadwayType is my combobox: for (int i = 0; i < cbRoadwayType.Items.Count; i++) { cbRoadwayType.SelectedIndex = i; int val = (int)cbRoadwayType.SelectedItem // INVALID EXCEPTION cast if (val != FILTER_ALL && val != FILTER_NOT_SET) { roadwayList.Add(val); } } But, I get an invalid exception cast. How do I just get the value of the combobox item, based on an index?! Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108132
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    - Packaging registry file only, please Hi! Is there a way to package registry file only? I can not seem to find the way using VS 2003 & Package and Deploy Wizard. In a nutshell, I need to merge a .reg file to create some keys + values. I need to create an .msi package as our clients do not accept anything else. I can not really write a program that does it programmatically and then package it. Any help is greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108131
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    - Multiline TextBox with Autocomplete? I have noticed that Autocomplete stops working when you set a TextBox to Multiline. Is this the designed behavior? Is there any way to make it work, other than developing your own custom control? I would also like to see a behavior where the list of suggested items resets after each space, so in other words you could use Autocomplete multiple times in the same TextBox. Do I have to start developing my own control for this? -- Paul Fountain, Software Engineer InsureMe Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108117
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    - Is .NET no good for some things? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C7362A.C4679EC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It used to be simple in Basic to "open" a printer (like LPT1), then = "write" ASCII characters to it. Alternatively, one could create a = text-file, then a simple DOS copy operation could copy the text file to = a printer using shell. There is no documentation to indicate how this = might still be accomplished=20 Does anybody know if one can still "copy" a file to a windows printer = i.e. use shell to dump a text file to a device (e.g. \\main\HP Laser = which might be a printer attached to one of the nodes of the network or = perhaps to 192.168.1.20 which might be the IP address for a network = printer)? I believe copy can still be done if one maps a device to LPT1 = or something. However, I'm not sure about how to do this using the = network name or the IP address of the printer if it is not connected as = a shared resource of a PC Thanks and have a great day! Bill Angus, MA http://www.psychtest.com ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C7362A.C4679EC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1586" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>It used to be simple in Basic to "open" = a printer=20 (like LPT1), then "write" ASCII characters to it. Alternatively, one = could=20 create a text-file, then a simple DOS copy operation = could copy=20 the text file to a printer using shell. There is no documentation to = indicate=20 how this might still be accomplished </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Does anybody know if one can still = "copy" a=20 file to a windows printer i.e. use shell to dump a text file to a=20 device (e.g. <A href=3D"file://\\main\HP Laser">\\main\HP = Laser</A> =20 which might be a printer attached to one of the nodes of the network or = perhaps=20 to 192.168.1.20 which might be the IP address for a network printer)? I = believe=20 copy can still be done if one maps a device to LPT1 or something. = However, I'm=20 not sure about how to do this using the network name or the IP address = of the=20 printer if it is not connected as a shared resource of a = PC</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks and have a great day!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bill Angus, MA<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.psychtest.com">http://www.psychtest.com</A></FONT></DI= V></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C7362A.C4679EC0-- Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108114
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    - Added integrated help to my application Hi, I'd like to add help functionality to my application. I like how the integrated help displays in Visual Studio, and would like to simulate this in my own application. What technologies / components would I need to look at to get this working? I would want the viewer on its own form, which would be set as an MDI child. Thanks Andy Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108112
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    - How do I stop FlashWindowEx when me.handle gets focus? Hi.... I'm using FlashWindowEx to flash the taskbar and titlebar when my processes are done. I set the number of flashes to 5. But when the user returns to the window the flashing continues until all 5 flashes complete. How do you stop the flashing once the user returns to the app.? (Code Below) Thanks for any help, Marc Miller Public Structure FLASHWINFO Public cbSize As Int32 Public hwnd As IntPtr Public dwFlags As Int32 Public uCount As Int32 Public dwTimeout As Int32 End Structure Private Declare Function FlashWindowEx Lib "user32.dll" (ByRef pfwi As FLASHWINFO) As Int32 Private Const FLASHW_CAPTION As Int32 = &H1 Private Const FLASHW_TRAY As Int32 = &H2 Private Const FLASHW_ALL As Int32 = (FLASHW_CAPTION Or FLASHW_TRAY) Public Sub FlashNow(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs, ByVal iTimes As Integer) Dim flash As New FLASHWINFO flash.cbSize = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(flash) '/// size of structure in bytes flash.hwnd = Me.Handle '/// Handle to the window to be flashed flash.dwFlags = FLASHW_ALL '/// to flash both the caption bar + the tray flash.uCount = iTimes '/// the number of flashes flash.dwTimeout = 1000 '/// speed of flashes in MilliSeconds ( can be left out ) '/// flash the window you have specified the handle for... FlashWindowEx(flash) End Sub Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108101
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    - access another forms controls & properties at runtime how can you access a control on a form from another form at runtime. For example to set the datasource and datamember properties of a forms binding source from a different form? I am trying to do something like: form test = new form(); test.show(); test.bindingsource.DataSource = bla bla; Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108091
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    - Using variable as form field name Hi I have two fields field1 and field2 on my form. Is there a way that the field names can be accessed via variable so that choice of the actual field to access is decided at runtime? Thanks Regards Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108090
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    - Is this normal Hi there, Is it normal for form-based events to fire in "InitializeComponent()". I've got a "DataGridView" on a form and I set its "CellValueChanged" event using the forms designer. Ok, VS initializes my event in "InitializeComponent()". However, "InitializeComponent()" later calls "ComponentResourceManager.ApplyResources()" which (to my great surprise) fires my event (which my handler then chokes on since it thinks the window is already running). Looking at the call stack, the event was fired while initializing the header text on one of my "DataGridView" columns (from the resource file). I'm not sure if this particular event should even apply in this situation but in any case, the form hasn't even been created yet. Is it therefore normal for some form-based events to be fired while the constructor is still running. If so then it's potentially dangerous to define events using the forms designer so we should presumably add them ourselves in "OnLoad()" typically (or otherwise design all handlers to check that the window has actually been created which is ugly IMO). Can anyone elaborate on this situation. Thanks. Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108085
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    - DataGridViewComboBox selectively hide arrow I have a column on my DataGridView that is of the type DataGridViewComboBoxColumn. On some of my rows, I want to keep the user from changing the value in that field. What I'm doing now is, as soon as I populate my rows, I run through each row something like this: private: System::Windows::Forms::DataGridView^ Fields; ... #define COMBO_COL 3 for (int i = 0; i < Fields->RowCount; ++i) { if (it shouldn't be changed) { Fields->Rows[i]->Cells[COMBO_COL]->ReadOnly = true; } } That works, but it both looks ugly and doesn't give the user a clue about why the combo box's arrow doesn't do anything. Ideally, what I'd like to do is hide the arrow altogether for those rows. Does anyone have any ideas about how to do that? One thought is that I could change the cell type on the fly to a regular edit cell. I'm not sure how to do that, or if that would just confuse the control altogether. Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108077
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    - Drag-n-Drop to Folder or Desktop I have a form that displays a list of bitmaps. I have read the MSDN docs regarding drag-n-drop operations, and have reviewed some examples online on how to do this, but the examples I have seen thus far only show how to create an internet shortcut file. When the user drags an image from the form to the desktop, I would like to either save the image using a default filename (if possible) or show the Save As dialog so the user can enter a name for the file themselves. So, the form with my images (which are in-memory bitmaps and are not stored on the file system) needs to be able to have the images dragged from the ListView control (which are ListViewItem's of course) and dropped onto a specified folder or the desktop (actual folder or desktop, not part of my app)... Thanks, Mythran Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108063
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    - Help. Getting exception when I rebind grid to another dataset and change column names Hi, I am using a datagrid and two dataset with different data. Both views of the grid contains 5 columns. I toggle between two different views of the grid which display different types of data. When I toggle, I change the last 3 columns to different name and bind a different dataset. When I startup the application, the first dataset when I click on any empty cells, it works find. However, when I switch for the first time to the alternative dataset and change the name, it will throw an exception Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than th esize of the collection. Parameter name: index When I keep the column names the same between the two grid views, it works fine. However, I need to change the column names to indentify the column type of data. Any help is appreciated. Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108062
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    - Generating a modal form from a MDI child form I am trying to display a simple modal form from a button on a displayed MDI child form toolstrip. Does anyone have some simple sample code example to send me. Will be much appreciated. Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108058
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    - hiding public methods in the DropdownList. hi guys! again with some interesting Question. i've some public methods in class. i dont want to show this methods in the dropdown list while you are typing the code in .net IDE (it long story that why i dont need those methods in the list). i guess there are some arrtibutes those can prevent showing method in the popuped dropdown list but as i dont have much idea about this attributes, i need your expert help on this. please let me know if you know how can i do this or may be some other resource that can help me to find out the way of doing. thanks, Lucky Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108042
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    - WebBrowser in UserControl in IE HTML Hi, I built a Windows Control Library that includes the WebBrowser component. It runs fine in Windows Apps or the TestContainer. When I embed it into a web Page as <object> it displays only the outline. When I delete the WebBrowser from the UserControl it runs fine. All IE security settings are set to minimum. Do you know about security restrictions related to "component in component in IE"? thanks marc Tag: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text Tag: 108041
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Hi,

I am trying to implement a context menu that is 50% transparent. Setting
the opacity to 0.5 works but unfortunately the texts are also displayed
with transparency which makes them very hard to read.

Now I would like to draw the menu background with transparency but the text
without.

I have tried various approaches without success:

- Implement a ToolstripRenderer: Draws a gray background despite overriding
all overridable methods
- Handle Paint event of each menu item: Text gets drawn with transparency

Does anybody have an idea how to approach this?

Thanks in advance,

Hans

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Re: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text by Bryan

Bryan
Tue Jan 16 19:29:09 CST 2007

Take a look at this example:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/06/vista-glass-in-c_17.html

--
Bryan Phillips
MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE
Blog: http://bphillips76.spaces.live.com

"hans_merkl@rhmmedia.com" <hans_merkl@rhmmedia.com> wrote in message
news:5v9zmgwhz9fx.1nbl8kl1cx43e.dlg@40tude.net:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to implement a context menu that is 50% transparent. Setting
> the opacity to 0.5 works but unfortunately the texts are also displayed
> with transparency which makes them very hard to read.
>
> Now I would like to draw the menu background with transparency but the text
> without.
>
> I have tried various approaches without success:
>
> - Implement a ToolstripRenderer: Draws a gray background despite overriding
> all overridable methods
> - Handle Paint event of each menu item: Text gets drawn with transparency
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to approach this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Hans

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Re: Transparent ContextMenuStrip with non-transparent text by Hans

Hans
Tue Jan 16 21:17:05 CST 2007

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:29:09 +0000, Bryan Phillips wrote:

> Take a look at this example:
> http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/06/vista-glass-in-c_17.html

Bryan,

It seems that code works only with Vista. Do youn think I can use parts of
it with Win 2000 or XP?

Hans

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