Re: Event Firing - C# Discussion Boards

J. Dunlap11-Jun-07 13:13

11-Jun-07 13:13

There's MeasureCharacterRanges but it's a pain, buggy, and slow. I wrote a textbox control from scratch, and used the GetCharacterPlacement[^] GDI API. For your convenience:

[DllImport("gdi32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
internal static extern int GetCharacterPlacementW(IntPtr dev, string text, int count, 
                           int max, [In, Out] ref GCP_RESULTS results, GcpFlags flags);

[Flags]
internal enum GcpFlags // Win32: GCP_xxx flags, WinGDI.h
{
    DBCS = 0x00000001,
    ReOrder = 0x00000002,
    UseKerning = 0x00000008,
    GlyphShape = 0x00000010,
    Ligate = 0x00000020,
    Diacritic = 0x00000100,
    Kashida = 0x00000400,
    Error = 0x00008000,
    Justify = 0x00010000,
    FliGlyphs = 0x00040000,
    ClassIn = 0x00080000,
    MaxExtent = 0x00100000,
    JustifyIn = 0x00200000,
    DisplayZWG = 0x00400000,
    SymSwapOff = 0x00800000,
    NumericOverride = 0x01000000,
    NeutralOverride = 0x02000000,
    NumericsLatin = 0x04000000,
    NumericsLocal = 0x08000000,

    FliMask = 0x0000103B
}

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
internal struct GCP_RESULTS
{
    internal int lStructSize;
    [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPTStr)]
    internal string lpOutString;
    internal IntPtr lpOrder;
    internal IntPtr lpDx;
    internal IntPtr lpCaretPos;
    internal IntPtr lpClass;
    internal IntPtr lpGlyphs;
    internal int nGlyphs;
    internal int nMaxFit;
}

[EDIT: Oh, duh - I forgot: I used a hack that allowed me to use DrawDriverString() GDI+ function to draw the text in the resulting character positions, even though it is not made available in System.Drawing. This is sounding more like material for a whole article, not a single post... hmm. More on this when I get a chance...]

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Event Firing

tobriain11-Jun-07 8:13

tobriain

11-Jun-07 8:13

Hello,

I hope one of you have found a solution to the following problem before. . . Thanks in advance if you have.

I'm receiving events from an external dll (an RTDServer - set up like an observer pattern), and i've a Notify method that's called when there's an update to be collected. I can then collect a System.Array with a list of updates on a separate thread.

The problem is that the list will contain a number of different update types, and i've to set different variables in an object based on the differentupdates andI've to handle that list (one by one). Which of the following are possible/advisable, and can anyone recommend a better approach?

(a) use a hashtable/sortedlist/sorteddictionary with an indexer and the names of some variables in an object. Search the list, set the object variable, and let the object call any other events needed in the get/set method.

(b) write some kind of custom enumerator for the event types or variables to be set.

(c) use a hashtable/sortedlist/sorteddictionary with an indexer an objects of type Event. Just search the list for the indexer, and call the event to subscribers.

(d) some combination of the above.

The only thing is that speed is very important, because I migt have to call these events sequentially - I haven't investigated doing a foreach on the invocation list and calling asynchronously.Although they're small, I'll have possibly a hundred of these objects, with a hundred threads collecting updates.

Any help with this problem would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom.

Re: Event Firing

Luc Pattyn11-Jun-07 9:15

Luc Pattyn

11-Jun-07 9:15

Hi,

I am not sure I fully understood, why do you need an indexor ? If you are just
colledting events and passing them to one (or more) thread(s) that then must process
them, seems like you need one (or more) queue)s).

Into such queue (or any other kind of list) you could insert objects that represent
the entire update job, i.e. with all relevant information embedded.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn

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Re: Event Firing

tobriain11-Jun-07 10:11

tobriain

11-Jun-07 10:11

Hi Luc

I have to implement an interface defined in an external program. The deal is that I have a method Notify() in my object that implements that interface, and that when there's an update, that method is called. I can then collect any updates with a method call that returns a System.Array consisting of an ID (given by me when implementing the connection), and a value. There'll be at least 20 different IDs, and the events will be unsorted in the array. I have to either update variables in the 20 objects (maybe stored in some kind of collection with the ID) or define 20 events, and store them in some sort of list for hashing.

Can I test for the speed of some of the ideas I have for the design (i don't now too much about the details of some of the objects I could use)?

I'd appreciate any help I could get on this.

Regards,

Tom.

Re: Event Firing

Luc Pattyn11-Jun-07 10:36

Luc Pattyn

11-Jun-07 10:36

Hi Tom,

it still is not clear to me why you need an indexor, or why you would have to
sort anything. Cant you just treat one event after another ? (or do you have to
process them ordered by event type ? )

if you can avoid searching, it is always better for performance. If you must search,
I would try to organize the data in such a way that the search gets optimized (e.g.
by hashing).

If the action needed for each ID is different, and IDs cover a limited range of
integers, I would consider an array of delegates and call the one that corresponds
to the ID at hand. If the ID values cover a wide range of integers, I would try
to find a mathematical mapping onto a very small range and still use an array
(basically that means look for a static hash function, rather than a universal but
dynamic one); if that fails, a HashTable seems appropriate.

Final remark: how is speed important ? are you concerned about throughput
(events per second), or latency (reaction time, from event received to event handled) ?
And do you already have an implementation and an idea about its speed, and how far
it is off what is needed ?

Greetings,

Luc Pattyn

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Re: Event Firing

Leslie Sanford11-Jun-07 10:53

Leslie Sanford

11-Jun-07 10:53

tobriain wrote:
I have to implement an interface defined in an external program. The deal is that I have a method Notify() in my object that implements that interface, and that when there's an update, that method is called. I can then collect any updates with a method call that returns a System.Array consisting of an ID (given by me when implementing the connection), and a value. There'll be at least 20 different IDs, and the events will be unsorted in the array. I have to either update variables in the 20 objects (maybe stored in some kind of collection with the ID) or define 20 events, and store them in some sort of list for hashing.

Just so I understand... After the Notify method is called, you then call a method that returns an array of objects. Each object has an ID and a value property? Is that close?

tobriain wrote:
Can I test for the speed of some of the ideas I have for the design (i don't now too much about the details of some of the objects I could use)?

You could try the Stopwatch class in System.Diagnostics. Start/Stop it at strategic points in your code. Write the elapsed time to the Debug.WriteLine method. This will show up in the debug output window pane.

Re: Event Firing

tobriain11-Jun-07 11:21

tobriain

11-Jun-07 11:21

Thanks for the swift and helpful replies.

>Just so I understand... After the Notify method is called, you then call a >method that returns an array of objects. Each object has an ID and a value >property? Is that close?
Leslie has articulated the problem better than I actually did. I'm limited by the interface i've to implement - i collect an array of IDs and values.

>If the action needed for each ID is different, and IDs cover a limited range of
>integers, I would consider an array of delegates and call the one that >corresponds to the ID at hand.

There's only four delegates, so if it's faster to search an array with the ID than a hastable to get the right object, i'll do that. Next problem: which is more efficient: firing events with the update values (referenced to delegates/then public accessor methods in the objects), or just setting the values by a call to the public accessor method of the object found in the array/hashtable myself straight away?

>Final remark: how is speed important ? are you concerned about throughput
>(events per second), or latency (reaction time, from event received to event >handled) ?
Both are important, unfortunately. . The speed concern is because of the fact that I'll have a long hierarchy of subscribers to different events fired as a result of the updates, and don't want to be sitting waiting for the method to return before going to the next row in the update array. . . It's important that the events happen in the right order, so I want (for the moment) the updates to be done sequentially. If I start doing begininvoke on the invocation list, I've no guarantee that anything will happen in order without a serious amount of synchronisation.

Hopefully it seems clearer. I'd appreciate any help on this.

Regards,

Tom.

Re: Event Firing

Leslie Sanford11-Jun-07 12:03

Leslie Sanford

11-Jun-07 12:03

I'm taking a shot in the dark here because I still may not completely understand your problem. However, that's never stopped me in the past. Smile | :)

I would keep a collection of objects for each ID. Actually, a list of lists would be appropriate here. Then I'd use a switch statement or a string of if/else statements to update the objects when you receive a notification:

public MyObject
{
    objectList = List<List<UpdateableObject>>();
 
    objectList.Add(new List<UpdateableObject>());
    objectList[0].Add(new UpdateableObject()); // ID: 0
    objectList[0].Add(new UpdateableObject()); // ID: 0
 
    objectList.Add(new List<UpdateableObject>());
    objectList[1].Add(new UpdateableObject()); // ID: 1
    objectList[1].Add(new UpdateableObject()); // ID: 1
 
    // And so on...
}
  
public void Notify()
{
    Update[] updates = GetUpdates();
 
    for(int i = 0; i < updates.Length; i++)
    {
        if(updates[i].ID == 0)
        {
            foreach(UpdateableObject obj in objectList[0])
            {
                obj.Value = updates[i].Value;
            }
        }
        else if(updates[i].ID == 1)
        {
            foreach(UpdateableObject obj in objectList[1])
            {
                obj.Value = updates[i].Value;
            }
        }
    }
}

In this case, I'm assuming the ID's are consecutive integers, but the code above doesn't depend on that. The ID's could be anything. If you have a lot of ID's you will have a long string of if/else if statements. But as long as this is isolated to a single place in your code, I wouldn't worry about it.

You can have variations on this by storing the list of updateable objects in a hashtable, as you've mentioned, by the ID. Or use an array of delegates like Luc suggested. I wouldn't create 20+ events that you trigger yourself, though. I think that would be the least efficient way to go. Just my opinion.

Active Directory - logonhours

Runtorious11-Jun-07 8:06

Runtorious

11-Jun-07 8:06

Hi,

I'm working on a screen saver that will log users out if they are outside of their allowed logon hours.

I've done this all ready in vbscript as proof of concept and I'm 95% of the way there in C#.

I'm having trouble getting the user logonHours property. It returns a System.Byte[] that should be 21 bytes. Each bit representing an hour out of the week.

No matter how I get the property it always returns as a object, and I can't access the values of the byte array to sort them out. My current code to get the object looks like this:

object objHours;
DirectoryEntry userDSE = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://" + userDN);
objHours = userDSE.Properties["logonHours"][0];

The line that creates the object works, and I have tried creating the object 2 or 3 other ways. Through the logonHours object I cannot access the values of the array. I have also used a binary stream to convert the object in to a byte array, but the byte array returns a 48 byte array that I don't trust to stay constant in size. I would prefer to access the values through the object properly.

I need some help. It would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dwayne.

Datagrid rows

md_refay11-Jun-07 7:58

md_refay

11-Jun-07 7:58

i have datagrid that bound to database
when i put that row in my code error appear
datagridview1.rows.add();
i need tro allow usert to put new row just in the case of click new button
i need fast answer
thanks

md_refay

CPU load for spesific proccess

crash89311-Jun-07 7:58

crash893

11-Jun-07 7:58

How or where would i look to get current cpu ussage of a spessific proccess ( in this example winword.exe)

thanks so much

crash

Re: CPU load for spesific proccess

Luc Pattyn11-Jun-07 8:07

Luc Pattyn

11-Jun-07 8:07

Task Manager can show you such information.
And you can get access to it programmatically by using the PerformanceCounter class.

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Re: CPU load for spesific proccess

crash89311-Jun-07 15:31

crash893

11-Jun-07 15:31

example please

.NET documentor

HexaDeveloper11-Jun-07 5:35

HexaDeveloper

11-Jun-07 5:35

hi all ,

i have an open source program from microsoft corporation
(called .Net documentor)this program is an automatic documentor but it have alot of files and i cant use it can any one tell me how to use it and if there is another program that is easier or best or both together

Generator

Re: .NET documentor

Joseph Guadagno11-Jun-07 16:32

Joseph Guadagno

11-Jun-07 16:32

Try NDoc or SandCastle.

Here are some of my articles.
Hope this helps!
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transparent background

bDreea11-Jun-07 4:22

bDreea

11-Jun-07 4:22

hi,

i am drawing 3 images using device.DrawUserPrimitive.
what i am trying to do is to set the background as transparent, so that the desktop is visible and on it my 3 images.
the problem is that i don't know how to do it under directx ?
if anyone has any suggestion i would be greatful!
thanks,
andreea

Re: transparent background

Hesham Yassin11-Jun-07 6:35

Hesham Yassin

11-Jun-07 6:35

you can find your answer in this link :

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/BLACK_BOX_II.asp[^]

i wish it helps u Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

How add multiple icons

Mark F.11-Jun-07 4:03

Mark F.

11-Jun-07 4:03

I have two icons. One is for the program and the other will be used for the registry file association for the documents used by the app.

How do you have more than on icon image for an executable?

Thanks,
Mark

Re: How add multiple icons

Giorgi Dalakishvili11-Jun-07 4:05

Giorgi Dalakishvili

11-Jun-07 4:05

As far as I know an icon cannot be specified from a managed dll/exe

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Re: How add multiple icons

Mark F.11-Jun-07 4:23

Mark F.

11-Jun-07 4:23

Giorgi Dalakishvili wrote:
As far as I know an icon cannot be specified from a managed dll/exe

I'm not sure what you mean. Executables (.exe,.dll) can have many icons (e.g., shell32.dll). In an registry association you pick one using the icon's position.

For example: C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,2

I simply want to know how to embed two icons into my application .exe.

Mark

Re: How add multiple icons

Giorgi Dalakishvili11-Jun-07 4:44

Giorgi Dalakishvili

11-Jun-07 4:44

Mark F. wrote:
Executables (.exe,.dll) can have many icons (e.g., shell32.dll). In an registry association you pick one using the icon's position.

For example: C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,2

I know that but if I'm not mistaken you can't choose an if the dll or executable was compiled from a .NET language then you can't choose icon from it

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Re: How add multiple icons

Not Active11-Jun-07 4:51

Not Active

11-Jun-07 4:51

Add them as embedded resources

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Re: How add multiple icons

Squeaker11-Jun-07 5:18

Squeaker

11-Jun-07 5:18

I found this article that gives some good info on this subject:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms951285.aspx[^]

Best regards-
Squeaker

How to keep a progress bar running when the form is busy with some file operation

d_sinha11-Jun-07 3:57

d_sinha

11-Jun-07 3:57

Hi all,

I have a form which does some TIME TAKING file operations. During this I want the progress bar to run. But the whole form hangs as the machine gets busy with file operations.

I tried to use threading as well but dint work.
Can anyone help please .

Thanks,
Deepa

Re: How to keep a progress bar running when the form is busy with some file operation

Giorgi Dalakishvili11-Jun-07 4:01

Giorgi Dalakishvili

11-Jun-07 4:01

You should use multithreading. Have a look at BackGroundWorker component in MSDN. It has quite a good example

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