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It's all in the Paint event. To make things worse. I copied and pasted all my code into a form and it works like a charm. I'll dig in more into the control but something isn't right with that.
Joshua Guy
Sonork ID: 100.9944
ICQ: 519642
Hotmail: JoshuaJGuy@hotmail.com
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DOH! It was so stupid I won't even admit what I did.
Joshua Guy
Sonork ID: 100.9944
ICQ: 519642
Hotmail: JoshuaJGuy@hotmail.com
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But you must tell us, if not for us do it for the children; think of the children who may fall into the same trap you did. 
James
Simplicity Rules!
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If you must know.
I posted the message with the following code:
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer & ControlStyles.UserPaint & ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);
Which of course would not enable the double buffering.
Neil points out my stupid mistake(which I originally had in my other test form, but a monkey came along and changed all the |'s to &'s as a nasty joke, so as you see this was clearly the monkeys fault not mine)
this.SetStyle(ControlStyles.DoubleBuffer | ControlStyles.UserPaint | ControlStyles.AllPaintingInWmPaint, true);
So I see Neil'd observation and hit myself. Well evidently I hit my self so hard that when I went to change it I went into the source of my dummy app in which I was testing the control. So the parent form was double buffered correctly. Thinking that I had enabled it in my control I was sad. So I left it alone until now. And after a break and looking in my code again I relize that the monkeys &'s had not be changed to |'s... If it weren't for the monkey I would have been set.
Joshua Guy
Sonork ID: 100.9944
ICQ: 519642
Hotmail: JoshuaJGuy@hotmail.com
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Damned dirty monkeys
James
Simplicity Rules!
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LOL, I hate it when I do that...  , Errr, The monkeys I mean...
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using xml, i need to have a wizard (add-in or ui-less control) generate controls and place them on the form.
for instance, the xml reads:
<code>
<controls>
<control tag="DB_COLUMN_NAME">
<name value="Sample"/>
<type value="MyLib.Controls.TextWithLabel"/>
<label value="My Sample"/>
<defaultText value="Enter Text Here"/>
<size>
<width value="200"/>
<height value="34"/>
</size>
. . .
</control>
</controls>
</code>
so when this control loads this xml, it creates a 'TextWithLabel' control and places it on the form as if the user drew the control from the toolbox.
this is a hard topic to search for and i would appreciate any good books/articles on Generative UI development. *like this or more hardcore only please*
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Why don't u use XSL, it's perfect for such task (controls is a pseudo-hierarchical recorset in fact & is enough flat to avoid dirty case).
You should asso look native format .resx (see resgen.exe) which the XML schema of microsoft form. Other tracks:
* Configuration
* Visual Inheritance
* Designer
good luck
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How to convert? (varius methods if possible, please)
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Using atoi will work:
CString str = "42";
int i = atoi(str);
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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it would be cool 
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You might even be able to do this through PInvoke, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it  I think I'll stick with "What is Convert?", Alex 
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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OOOPS!!!!! I've been in the MFC forum all day and my head is still in that
Use the Convert static functions to do what you want.
string s = "42";
int i = Convert.ToInt32(s);
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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What's the difference between convert and parse.
string s = "42";
int i = int32.parse(s);
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Parse is specific to the Int32 class while Convert is a generic class supporting all types.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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It should also be noted that in the case of converting a string to an int via the Convert class it calls Int32.Parse.
James
Simplicity Rules!
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Good point, James. I'm so accustomed to using the Convert class for everything that I never think about Parse.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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thx... i was looking for this conversion in string class. As I can see there is special class to conversions.
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So I guess my followup question would be when to use one or the other (parse vs. convert). Also, is parse more efficient? Just looking for some guidelines here.
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Convert can convert from all intrinsic datatypes to the other types; parse only accepts strings. Convert also calls the appropriate parse method when converting a string to that format except when converting UInt32 which isn't CTS compliant and converting string to string where it just returns the value  .
I would use Convert for consistancy in code, but in some cases, Parse will take a few extra parameters you may wish to use.
HTH,
James
Simplicity Rules!
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How do i create a control that when painted, does not show up on the form, but rather on the bottom like an imagelist does?
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Have your class inherit from System.ComponentModel.Component instead of System.Windows.Forms.Control.
HTH,
James
Simplicity Rules!
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hello,
this by the way is an excellent article. shows how to deal with the CodeDom object. i've been making some use of this object with some success.
i can create the dll and write it to disk. the problem is that i'm trying to write the dll being generated to a directory of my choice.
codeCompiler.CompileAssemblyFromSource(compilerParamaters, sourceWSProxy);
this line automatically generates the dll in the bin\Debug of the application directory. i can't seem to over ride this.
hope someone can help with this one.
thanks
Orion
Orion
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Um, what article?
Cheers,
Tom Archer
Author, Inside C#
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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This one 
James
Simplicity Rules!
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