Set each character in TextBox a different colour?

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    - Windows Forms SOAP Server Hello. I have been trying to access a local 3rd party application through a web service, but it seems that IIS has no access to the "user space" that the application runs in - even though I have experimented with impersonation, the IIS rights on my filesystem and so on. The idea now is to make a windows form application that can access the 3rd party application and is a SOAP server, i.e. the application is a web server that runs as a "normal" program. I already have developed the form application that can access all data I want from the 3rd party app. The problem is that I want to estimate how long this takes, and since I suspect that there is a class in the .NET environment that simplifies this problem, I want to check if any of you guys have any ideas on where to look... hoping that someone has a brilliant solution to my problem ________________________ Gunnar Gudmundsson Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90176
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    - activex wrapper for a .net control is it possible to provide an activex wrapper for a .Net control, e.g. written as C++ MFC or ATL class? -- christoph.w Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90171
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    - MDI in split panels does anyone know how to use MDI in a split panel application? I have set up the parent window with a toolbar and as an MDI Container and have put a panel in. When creating child windows will i need to specify which panel to use? and how? James Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90170
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    - Create Explorer-like ListView control Hi, The .NET ListView control doesn't support moving items freely as in Explorer pane. Has anyone here come across any 3rd-party ListView control which support the above feature and (optionally) grouping feature (as when we right click on Explorer pane, choose Arrange Icons By - Show in Groups). Thanks in advance Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90168
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    - Taking Bitmap snapshot of a from or a control on a form i have one application running remotly and want to take its window snapshort at any given time, Here is a code i wrote public Bitmap GetPicture() { Bitmap sbmp = new Bitmap(1000, 1000); Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage( sbmp ); System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs pe = new PaintEventArgs(g, new Rectangle(0, 0, 1000, 1000)); this.InvokePaint(this.picturebox, pe); g.Dispose(); return sbmp; } problem with this code is that it works fine with picture box, but if i specify this (current form) or any user control or IE webBrowser control i dont get any thing back its just blank. requirment is that it should be able to get snapshot even window is minimized (or even hidden). Thanks, Sajjad Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90164
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    - Validate on ListBox item change? I have a listbox that, when the user changes the selection, updates a form with data related to the selected item. If the user modifies the data, I want to be able to validate the data BEFORE the selectedindexchanged event is fired. Any ideas? Amil Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90162
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    - Window flickers when over an opengl window I have a splash screen that displays over an application with an opengl context and the window flcikers. I would like to know how I can solve this problem. Thanks in advance. Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90160
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    - That damnedable ComboBox control Just ranting. Too many bugs with WinForms ComboBox. Title says it all. Ignore this post. Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90156
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    - AVI animation on VB.NET form howto? Hi, I tried to find how to show an AVI animation sequence like a "filecopy" animation but did not find how to do that in VB. Is there a control in VB.NET or any other way of doing it?? I be very happy for a code example if possible.....feeling a little lost for the moment ;-) br / Mikael Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90155
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    - problem creating transparent window... Hello guys, I am trying to create a transparent form using CreateWindowEx() by calling the unmanaged code. But everytime after the call the returned handle is zero. i could nto figure what is the problem in that... Here is the code -------------- [DllImport("User32", SetLastError=true)] internal static extern int CreateWindowEx ( int dwExStyle, string lpClassName, string lpWindowName, int dwStyle, int X, int Y, int nWidth, int nHeight, int hWndParent, int hMenu, int hInstance, IntPtr lpParam); [StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] public struct WNDCLASSEX { public uint cbSize; public uint style; public long lpfnWndProc; public int cbClsExtra; public int cbWndExtra; public long hInstance; public long hIcon; public long hCursor; public long hbrBackGround; public string lpszMenuName; public string lpszClassName; public long hIconSm; } [DllImport("User32.Dll")] public static extern int RegisterClassEx(ref WNDCLASSEX wndcls); [DllImport("user32.dll")] public static extern int ShowWindow(long hwnd, int nCmdShow); private string classname = "TestYetTransparency"; private void init() { // Let's create a window IntPtr hInst=Marshal.GetHINSTANCE(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetModule("TestYetTransparency.exe")); WNDCLASSEX wndclass=new WNDCLASSEX(); wndclass.cbSize = (uint) Marshal.SizeOf(typeof(WNDCLASSEX)); wndclass.style = 11; //CS_HREDRAW+CS_VREDRAW+CS_DBLCLKS; wndclass.lpfnWndProc = 0; wndclass.cbClsExtra = 0; wndclass.cbWndExtra = 0; wndclass.hInstance = hInst.ToInt32(); wndclass.hIcon = 0; wndclass.hCursor = 0; wndclass.hbrBackGround = 0; wndclass.lpszMenuName = "TestYetTransparency"; wndclass.lpszClassName = classname; wndclass.hIconSm = 0; int mm = RegisterClassEx(ref wndclass); int nativeHandle = CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_TRANSPARENT ,classname ,"transparent" ,WS_BORDER ,0 ,0 ,Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width ,Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height ,0 ,0 ,hInst.ToInt32() ,IntPtr.Zero); ShowWindow(nativeHandle,5); //SW_SHOW } private int WS_EX_TRANSPARENT = 0x00000020; private int WS_BORDER = 0x800000; -------------- Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90153
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    - ListView LVINSERTMARK is invisible Hello, all: I'm trying to get the ListView Insert Mark to appear in my XP application, and though the SendMessage(...LVM_SETINSERTMARK...) call returns TRUE, the mark is not visible. I built a simple, unmanaged MFC app to do the same thing and it works. Both apps use v6 of CommCtrl, both apps use the same messages to communicate with the control... what gives? The one discrepancy I can find is, WinSpector reports the C++ app as having LVS_ICON style set, but I cannot get that to show up on the WindowsForms side (the constant is 0x0, so I don't know how to OR it with anything meaningful). I am using the LVM_SETVIEW message, but to no effect. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, /m Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90152
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    - False error when trying to return data in datagrid VB.NET 2003 / SQLS2K The Stored Procedure returns records within Query Analyzer. But when the Stored Procedure is called by ADO.NET ~ it produced the following error message. --------------------------- Exception Message: Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints. --------------------------- --------------------------- Exception Source: System.Data --------------------------- If I click OK past the error messages I will get data filling the datagrid. However not as I would like to see it. Even though it returns the proper data rows and includes all the columns I asked for, it also returns plenty of columns I didn't ask for (all the columns of the main table) and all those columns are filled with "null" In addition each row header contains a red exclaimation mark whch when hovered over reads; "Column 'cmEditedBy' does not allow DBNull.Values." An interesting thing about this column 'cmEditedBy' is that there is noting wrong with it and all rows for that column contain data. I believe this error is a mistake! But it probably indicates some other problem. How should I track its cause? M O R E ... Below is the code in the data layer, the stored procedure, and the data returned within query analyzer. \\ 'DataAdapter Friend daView041CmptCyln As New SqlDataAdapter 'SqlCommand Private daView041CmptCyln_CmdSel As New SqlCommand 'Add the command daView041CmptCyln.SelectCommand = daView041CmptCyln_CmdSel 'Select With daView041CmptCyln_CmdSel .CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure .CommandText = "usp_View_041Cmpt_ByJobCyln" .Connection = sqlConn With daView041CmptCyln_CmdSel.Parameters .Add(New SqlParameter("@RETURN_VALUE", SqlDbType.Int, _ 4, ParameterDirection.ReturnValue, False, CType(0, Byte), _ CType(0, Byte), "", DataRowVersion.Current, Nothing)) 'Criteria .Add("@fkJob", SqlDbType.Text).Value = _ "48c64a55-874d-40d0-addc-7245f5d9c118" '.Add("@fkJob", SqlDbType.Text).Value = f050View.jobID End With End With // \\ ALTER PROCEDURE usp_View_041Cmpt_ByJobCyln (@fkJob char(36)) AS SET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT JobNumber, DeviceName, ComponentName, Description, Quan, Bore, Stroke, Rod, Seconds, CylPSI, PosA, PosB, PosC, PosD, PosE, HomeIsRet, RetIsRetrac, POChecks, Regulated, FlowControl, PortSize, LoadMass FROM tbl040cmpt INNER JOIN tbl030Devi ON fkDevice = pkDeviceId INNER JOIN tbl020Proc ON fkProcess = pkProcessId INNER JOIN tbl010Job ON fkJob = pkjobId INNER JOIN lkp202ComponentType ON fkComponenttype = pkComponentTypeId INNER JOIN lkp201DeviceType ON fkDeviceType = pkDeviceTypeId INNER JOIN lkp101PortSize on cmSmallint05 = pkPortSizeId WHERE (fkJob = @fkJob) -- fkJob = '48c64a55-874d-40d0-addc-7245f5d9c118' AND fkComponentType = 2 GO // (note - columns are wrapped) \\ F1111 Clip Driver Cylinder Clip Driver_2 - Top - Cylinder 9 1.250 2.250 .875 2.250 NULL 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1/8 NPT NULL F1111 Punch Mech Cylinder Punch Mech_1 - Cylinder_2 2 2.100 2.000 1.000 1.234 NULL 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1/8 NPT NULL F1111 Clip Driver Cylinder Bottom 9 2.100 2.000 1.000 1.000 NULL 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1/4 NPT NULL F1111 Punch Mech Cylinder Punch Mech_1 - Cylinder_1 2 2.100 2.000 1.000 1.000 NULL 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1/8 NPT NULL F1111 Degate Cylinder Degate 1 - Cylinder 2 1.188 2.500 .875 1.000 NULL 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1/8 NPT NULL F1111 Clip Driver Cylinder Clip Driver 1 - Bottom 1 1.180 1.250 .875 1.000 NULL 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1/4 NPT NULL // Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90150
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    - Activate form on mouseEnter I have an application that runs in the tray and that display a secondary topmost form. I would like that form to get the focus when the user passes over it when the mouse. I've added the code this.Activate() in the mouse move event of the topmost form but notices a strange behaviour. The first time the event is generated the taskbar button associated to the form flashes but the form doesn't get the focus. It get the focus some time after after more MouseMove events are generated. Any idea on how I can solve this? (I can post some sample code if needed). Thanks. Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90149
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    - Is there a dual function for ListBox.IndexFromPoint(Point p)? I'm writing a poor man's browser using an owner drawn ListBox. I was positioning the ListBox items (Controls) using Control.Location until I discovered that Control.Location has the seemingly retarded limitation of 32767 (2^16 signed integer). I had been mapping viewport coordinates to real (logical coordinates) and vice versa when translating mouse event coordinates for hit testing and when mapping real logical coordinates to viewport coordinates in painting. However upon discovering the 16 bit limitation of Control.Location I've decided to ignore that items' Location property and simply use the ListBox.IndexFromPoint(Point p) method in dispatching mouse events and DrawItemEventArgs.Bounds in paint events. In order to translate the mouse event coordinates that are in viewport coordinates to a coordinate relative to the ListBox item clicked on and which is the ListBox item retrieved via a call to: ListBox.IndexFromPoint(mouseLoc); the viewport coordinate of this same item is needed. Is there a way to get that viewport coordinate? This is necessary in order to recursively find the deepest child at a given point (assuming no overlapping children -- i.e. no z-order of children): <code> private static Control FindDeepestAtPoint(Control ctrl,Point pt) { Control child = ctrl.GetChildAtPoint(pt); if (child != null) { //map coordinates to be local to child pt.Offset(-child.Location.X, -child.Location.Y); return FindDeepestAtPoint(child, pt); } return ctrl; } </code> So in summary, is there a way to get the viewport coordinates of a visible item in a ListBox, and more specifically is there a way to get the viewport coordinates of a visible item in a ListBox in C# which has been clicked on and for which ListBox.IndexFromPoint(Point p) has returned the item in question whose viewport coordinates are desired? Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90148
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    - VS 2005 Beta 2 UserControl Mirroring Issue Using VS 2005 Beta 2, I set the RightToLeftLayout to Yes and had every thing working fine except the UserControl that keeps the controls, inside it, in their position and doesn't mirror them. Is there any thing I need to do? Is this a bug? Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90144
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    - BUG - Cancelling DataGrid row delete causes the row to disapear. Hi, I've a datagrid bound to a dataview, the problem is when I cancel the row delete, one of the rows in the datagrid disppears. If there is only one row in the grid that row disappears. If there are three rows and I cancel the deletion of the first row then the last row will disappear. The funniest part is the row will reappear if I click on the column header to sort it. I read another post in this forum which mentioned forcing the grid to redraw after cancelling the delete will solve the problem, but I can't find a way to force the redraw. I've tried grid.refresh, currencymanager.refresh, even cleared the databinding and rebound the grid, nothing happens. Can someone help me please. Thanks in advance, Debi Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90142
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    - CurrencyManager hangs (caused by ComboBox?) Hi guys I bound 10 ComboBoxes to a DataTable. I manage the displayed Information with the CurrencyManager. This works fine except: When the Position of the CurrencyManager is first set, the program hangs for 30 seconds. After this, it works fine. I found some information on the internet that this may be caused by the comboBoxes. However there was no information of how to solve this issue. Thanks for your time Chris Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90139
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    - Resize datagrid column width depending upon text enter by user. Hi, I have a datagrid control which I am displaying in a richtext box control.I want to provide the table functionality as vailable in Ms-Word for that I am using DataGrid control.As in the Ms-Word table the width of the column increases automatically if the text we are typing doesnt fit in the column.I want to provide the same kind of functionality. Thanks in advance pramay Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90137
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    - Disallow drag rectangle Hi, I am implementing a drag & drop feature in the list view, when u click in the list view other then the items, and u drag there is a dashed rectangle that appears. I want to disallow the creation of this dashed rectangle. any help is appreciated. regards Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90127
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    - Interop with OpenOffice? In my application I would like to have a powerfull text editor. RichTextBox falls a bit short of it. I cannot assume my application's user would have MS-Word (it's not standart part of the OS, hey!) Is there any ways / examples of embedding OpenOffice TextControl in .NET? Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90125
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    - Splash screen Hi I have a main sub as start-up. I need to display a splash screen and while it is displayed I need to do some stuff in the background like opening db connections etc. After that is done I need to close splash and open a login form. Can anyone give me a code example of how to do this elegantly? Thanks Regards Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90122
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    - newbie: Basic input dialog? I have a WinForms app that needs to take user input on open - before the FormMain is displayed. On the Form Load event of FormMain, I test for existence of an Access database: if (!File.Exists(Application.StartupPath + "\\myAccess.mdb")) If the mdb is not there, I need to open an input dialog form (with some additional options) for selecting a different mdb: FormDialogDifferentDatabase frmDialog = new FormDialogDifferentDatabase(); frmDialog.Show(); How do I suspend execution of the code in the FormMain while the user selects a different database? FormMain requires access to the database, so I don't want to initialize it until it has a database. Should I put this code in the constructor of FormMain? Also, how do I get the user input from FormDialogDifferentDatabase? Do I use DialogResult? I looked for examples of this but still confused... Thanks in advance. Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90120
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    - Q: How to highlit cell with changed value in DataGrid Hi All! My app uses databound datagrid control (binds to DataSet containing several DataTables and DataRelations). The data in DataSet are being updated what changes some cell values in DataTables (changes are made only to cells with new values). My problem is that I look for an efficient method to highlit changes in DataGrid control (preferable by changing BackColor and ForeColor properties of given cell) to alert user to new vaules. My attempt to catch TaxetChanged event in DataGridTextBox failed flat - changes in DataSource do not trigger that event. Monitoring of DataSet and DataTables obviously is possible, howoever, I would find it to be more elegant to constraint all the highliting code to DataGrid control. Any ides? Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90118
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    - Moving a control inside an Autoscroll Panel Hi, I need to create a control that the user may move within a panel. It works fine until I add it to a panel that has AutoScroll. The control has a transparent background, but I don't think it would be the problem. This is my actual code, most taken from web pages: > bool dragging = false; > int mousex, mousey; > > void DrawViewer_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) > { > if (dragging) > { > dragging = false; > Cursor.Clip = Rectangle.Empty; > this.Invalidate(); > } > } > > void DrawViewer_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) > { > if (dragging) > { > Point MPosition = ((ScrollableControl)this.Parent).PointToClient(MousePosition); > MPosition.Offset(mousex, mousey); > this.Location = MPosition; > //this.Invalidate(); > } > } > > void DrawViewer_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e) > { > if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left) > { > dragging = true; > mousex = -e.X; > mousey = -e.Y; > int clipleft = ((ScrollableControl)this.Parent).PointToClient(MousePosition).X - this.Location.X; > int cliptop = ((ScrollableControl)this.Parent).PointToClient(MousePosition).Y - this.Location.Y; > int clipwidth = ((ScrollableControl)this.Parent).ClientSize.Width - (this.Width - clipleft); > int clipheight = ((ScrollableControl)this.Parent).ClientSize.Height - (this.Height - cliptop); > Cursor.Clip = ((ScrollableControl)this.Parent).RectangleToScreen(new Rectangle(clipleft, cliptop, clipwidth, clipheight)); > //this.Invalidate(); > } > } I tried both overriding and handling the mouse events. I also thought at first the problem could be the Clip, but I finally discarded it. The main two problems are: 1) If you move the mouse fast, it starts mis-behaving. 2) If you go beyond the limits of the actual portion of the panel (when AutoScroll starts to work), the scrollbars start to go up and down, and the control gets out of control :-) Any ideas? Thanks in advance Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90117
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    - DbType vs SqlDbType I've been experimenting with various ways of "talking to the database" mainly a low maintenance way to switch between sql and access. I've finally got something a pretty comfortable with except for this why does this work ok param=new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter(); param.DbType=paramType; param.ParameterName=paramName; param.SourceColumn=paramSourceColumn; param.Size=paramSize; and this does not //now this will give a compile error about converting to sqldbtype from dbtype System.Data.IDbDataParameter param=new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter (paramName,paramType,paramSize,paramSourceColumn) ; //so now i typecast wich does compile ok but doesn't work System.Data.IDbDataParameter param=new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlParameter (paramName,(System.Data.SqlDbType)paramType,paramSize,paramSourceColumn) ; the first scenario works but it gives me concern that it may not be a good thing to do because otherwise i would expect an overload of the new SqlParameter to include dbtype Any explanation of what i'm missing would be greatly appreciated i've been messing with this for a couple of hours now -- Message posted via http://www.dotnetmonster.com Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90114
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    - UserPaint a TextBox - issue with WM_PRINT I am creating a custom textbox that requires me to handle the OnPaint mechanism. Currently, I am using WM_PRINT to draw the text in the textbox and am running into a problem. The text will never follow the font that is specified by the textbox, it is always the same no matter what I change it to. Is there some way to get WM_PRINT to use the font that the textbox is set with? I stripped down the code for my class to the following to show the issue: using System; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace TransTextBox { public class MyTextBox : TextBox { public MyTextBox() { this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint | ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint | ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer | ControlStyles.SupportsTransparentBackColor, true); } protected override void OnPaint(System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e) { System.IntPtr hdc = e.Graphics.GetHdc(); this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, false); try { const Int32 WM_PRINT = 0x0317; const long PRF_CLIENT = 0x00000004; Message m = Message.Create(this.Handle, WM_PRINT, hdc, new System.IntPtr(PRF_CLIENT)); this.WndProc(ref m); } catch { } finally { e.Graphics.ReleaseHdc(hdc); this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.UserPaint, true); } } } } I appreciate any help - thanks. Bob Dankert Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90112
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    - System.Configuration.AppSettingsReader This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C58A1E.1E392280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When I make changes to the config file, the changes are saved, but the = old values persist until I close the app and restart it. Is there a way = to reload the app.config file? Thanks, Brian ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C58A1E.1E392280 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 6.00.2900.2668" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>When I make changes to the config file, = the changes=20 are saved, but the old values persist until I close the app and restart=20 it.  Is there a way to reload the app.config file?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Brian</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C58A1E.1E392280-- Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90109
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    - How to change font, size and style of a label programatically I am trying to change a lables font at runtime. When I sent the labels font to New Font ("Andy",16,2) it wont allow be to set the style(2) If I remove the style it errors because the font does not support the style regular. This has to be easy....What am I doing wrong? Thanks Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90108
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    - want to avoid data selection in a datagrid cell hi all, iam populating a datagrid from a dataset. i set the readonly property of the datagrid to false. so i cant add and delete or change the data. but still i can select the data in every cell. when i click on the cell the data in the cell got selected. i want to avoid that. when i click on each cell i want to select the cell not the content. is there any way to do this ?? ... if i disabled the datagrid then i cant even select a cell. thanks in adavnce. waiting for a helpful reply. -- Deepson Thomas Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90106
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    - Specifying borders for a panel How can I do it so that I can specify which border I would like to appear on a panel? Say for example on a panel I want all sides except the right side to be drawn? Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90101
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    - FolderBrowserDialog won't accept the My Documents (or below) folder for the selectedpath I want to set the selectedpath in the folderbrowserdialog to a subdirectory of my "My Music" folder, yet allow the user to traverse higher than that in the directory if they want (in other words I don't want to set the root folder to this My Music, I want to set it to My Computer). But when I use a selected path that goes to My Documents or below, it doesn't accept it. Now what I mean by doesn't accept, it doesn't return an error, it just doesn't open up that node. When I try to drill down past my documents, it just leaves me at the root. It works fine (selectedpath) up to the point of my username (or other subdirs past my username other than my documents), then after that, doesn't. I'm thinking that maybe it's some type of ACL issue, but I can use directory.getdirectories to list the directories just fine. The code is as follows: Dim fb As FolderBrowserDialog = New FolderBrowserDialog fb.RootFolder = SpecialFolder.MyComputer fb.SelectedPath = "c:\documents and settings\danhi\my documents" fb.ShowDialog() This fails to expand any of the nodes in the display. If I replace the selectedpath with something like "c:\documents and settings\danhi\start menu" that works just fine. Anyone have any idea what my problem is? Dan Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90099
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    - how to write a text file in a web server I have a no touch deployment application. I'm trying to write a file to a web server by using webclient class' UploadFile method but I get an security exception. What should I do to overcome this exception? Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90097
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    - Topmost Tool Window Greetings, I have a vb.net app, and I have a tool window that I was to be topmost while the application is in focus, but not stay on top of other apps that get the focus. Basically, I want it to behave like the tool windows in Photoshop. How do I set the attributes to do this? Thanks for your help! Kevin Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90096
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    - Arrow Key behavior for a Textbox inside a DataGrid I have a DataGrid, with a custom ColumnStyle that displays a user control. The user control has several TextBoxes on it. I would like these TextBoxes to act like normal textboxes with regards to the arrow keys--right and left would move the cursor, holding down shift would highlight text, etc. I can inherit from TextBox, and override the ProcessCmdKey and do all this explicitly, but that seems a lot like re-inventing the wheel. Is there another way to do this that essentially just tells the DataGrid to treat the TextBox like a real TextBox? Thanks Tag: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? Tag: 90095
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Is it possible to set each character in a TextBox a different colour?

Re: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? by Morten

Morten
Tue Jul 19 07:15:11 CDT 2005

Hi redneon,

No, a TextBox can only have a single Font, and therefore only one size, color, shape etc. You can use a RichTextBox though.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:39:01 +0200, redneon <redneon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to set each character in a TextBox a different colour?
>
>

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Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

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Re: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? by redneon

redneon
Tue Jul 19 07:21:02 CDT 2005

> No, a TextBox can only have a single Font, and therefore only one size,
color,
shape etc. You can use a RichTextBox though.

I was thinking more along the lines of overriding the paint method of the
control. Would this not allow it?

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Re: Set each character in TextBox a different colour? by Herfried

Herfried
Tue Jul 19 09:46:12 CDT 2005

"redneon" <redneon@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
>> No, a TextBox can only have a single Font, and therefore only one size,
> color,
> shape etc. You can use a RichTextBox though.
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of overriding the paint method of the
> control. Would this not allow it?

The TextBox control is drawn by Windows, thus it's not as easy to implement
the functionality you want to archieve. I suggest to use the RichTextBox
control instead of the textbox too.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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