Creating an icon for the system tray - losing a lot of colours! - C# Discussion Boards

Mario Majčica24-Jun-11 4:12

Mario Majčica

24-Jun-11 4:12

Try to do reset the focus on the caller form.

Form a = new Form();

a.Show();
this.Focus();

Bye

MicroVirus24-Jun-11 6:08

MicroVirus

24-Jun-11 6:08

From MSDN[^]:

Focus is a low-level method intended primarily for custom control authors. Instead, application programmers should use the Select method or the ActiveControl property for child controls, or the Activate method for forms.

So, you should probably use Activate in this case.

Mario Majčica24-Jun-11 9:50

Mario Majčica

24-Jun-11 9:50

That's a good point, I should be more detailed, but I was in hurry and he specifically spoke about the Focus.

Thanks

msmq throws an exception when called the receive.

MicroVirus24-Jun-11 11:14

MicroVirus

24-Jun-11 11:14

I transitioned from VB6 where SetFocus was the only thing you had (and an annoying thing too, kept throwing exceptions when it failed, rather than returning true or false).
I eventually discovered about the Select method while reading MSDN documentation about focus change events. Anyway, I'm guessing Select/Activate is more robust than SetFocus.

prasadbuddhika23-Jun-11 19:45

prasadbuddhika

23-Jun-11 19:45

i'm using a msmq for my application and i create a queue when the application is loading.And to receive the message i set the timespan for 10, in the debug mode it works fine and the messages received as expected, but when i deploy the application in the release mode it gives a "timeout exception" at the receive method.

i would really appreciate your ideas about this .

thanks in advance.

Re: msmq throws an exception when called the receive.

surender.m23-Jun-11 20:58

Re: msmq throws an exception when called the receive.

23-Jun-11 20:58

If there are no messages in queue then it will raise tiemout exception.

No need to worry about that exception .. just catch it and say there are no messages in 'Q'.

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mahendren29-Jun-11 2:03

mahendren

29-Jun-11 2:03

You should also possibly increase your timeout (or at least make it configurable)
Or start another thread/method etc. to listen for the next message.

Creating an icon for the system tray - losing a lot of colours!

Peter_Smithson23-Jun-11 1:45

Peter_Smithson

23-Jun-11 1:45

Hi,

I don't know much about icons and bitmaps so please bear with me.

I have a .ico file and several .png files provided to me. The code I have overlays the .png file to indicate a status. The code seems to work fine right up to the point that it gets an icon. The icon doesn't quite look right though it's hard to see in the system tray.

So I changed the code to write it out to a file and now it seems to look even worse (looks like a very small colour pallette) so I don't know if it's the same issue.

Here's a photo of the two files opened up on Visual Studio -

http://flickr.com/gp/psmithson/9s2KnQ

This is an extract of the code producing the two files -

Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(stream);
      bmp.Save("c:\\tmp\\stage1.ico"); // save what we have here
      IntPtr Hicon = bmp.GetHicon();
      Icon icon = Icon.FromHandle(Hicon);
      // Looking at stage2.ico gives a different version to stage1.ico
      using (var fs = new FileStream("c:\\tmp\\stage2.ico", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.Delete))
      {
        int pgs = icon.Height;
        icon.Save(fs);
      }

The system tray icons don't look that bad but they're not quite right. Is there a limited pallette available in the system tray?

Thanks.

Peter.

Re: Creating an icon for the system tray - losing a lot of colours!

GuyThiebaut23-Jun-11 4:47

GuyThiebaut

23-Jun-11 4:47

This may be of help:

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Guy

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Re: Creating an icon for the system tray - losing a lot of colours!

BobJanova23-Jun-11 4:53

BobJanova

23-Jun-11 4:53

Standard .ico icons do not support multi-level transparency. If your PNG overlay or generated bitmap contains that, strange things will happen. Saving to a .ico may well use a low colour depth by default.

I suspect the problem lies with where you are setting the system tray icon. That is a p/invoke if I remember right? Can you post the section where you set that (including setting up the image object that you assign to it)?

Re: Creating an icon for the system tray - losing a lot of colours!

Peter_Smithson23-Jun-11 5:32

Peter_Smithson

23-Jun-11 5:32

Transparency could be the main problem. The colours don't look so bad in the actual system tray but there is a black blob at the top right where it should be transparent.

I just dragged a NotifyIcon onto the form from the Toolbox under "Common Controls".

I get this generated -

this.notifyIcon = new System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon(this.components);

Then I just set the icon very simply -

notifyIcon.Icon = iconNoStatus;

The "iconNoStatus" is just an Icon that has been created using the code I posted initially.

Thanks.

Re: Creating an icon for the system tray - losing a lot of colours!

BobJanova23-Jun-11 6:25

BobJanova

23-Jun-11 6:25

Oh, I didn't know about that class. I guess that hides all the tricky bits.

I don't see anything in the Icon class that allows you to set colour depth – perhaps I am missing something?

Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

surender.m23-Jun-11 0:10

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 0:10

Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password?(c#,console)

Thanks inadvance

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OriginalGriff23-Jun-11 0:26

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 0:26

Look at the FtpWebRequest Class[^]

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surender.m23-Jun-11 0:39

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 0:39

Thanks for the reply..

is there any other ways other than Ftpwebrequest.. pls help me..

i have tried
1) MAP drive
2) NET USE

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OriginalGriff23-Jun-11 0:48

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 0:48

If you are looking for an off the shelf application, then I use FileZilla[^] - it's open source and works well.

You can't use MAP drive (AFIAK) unless the computer has a fixed IP address and share name - I've never tried that either, but in theory it should work.

NET USE will probably have the same problem.

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surender.m23-Jun-11 0:54

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 0:54

Thanks for the reply sir,

I want to achieve file transfer through c# console application by specifying remote system's domain,user name & password.
can it be done so..? pls help me..

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OriginalGriff23-Jun-11 1:00

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 1:00

The third example in the original link shows how to do that, I thought...

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surender.m23-Jun-11 1:10

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 1:10

sir didn't get u.. third example ??

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OriginalGriff23-Jun-11 1:18

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 1:18

If you follow the first link I gave you, then scroll down.
After the "Remarks" section there are three examples: Deleting, downloading, and then uploading a file from a remote site via FTPWebRequest.
The example you want is the third of these, and is about 1/4 of the way down the whole page.

Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.

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surender.m23-Jun-11 2:03

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 2:03

sorry for the wrong communication.

i will explain it clearly.

Consider machinA and machineB.
- A & B are located on different domains.
- B is having a network share path(ex: \\192.168.10.12\d$)
- Now i want to transfer a file abc.txt from machineA to share path on MachineB.

I am trying with File.copy() method bt was failed with longon failure as the servers are located on different domains.

So, is there a way that if i know MachineB logon account(domain,username&password) can i be able to transfer file??

pls guide me a way to achieve this.

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Pete O'Hanlon23-Jun-11 2:39

Pete O'Hanlon

23-Jun-11 2:39

You need to impersonate the account in order to access the other domain. Had you searched Google, you'd have found this[^] article which does exactly what you are trying to do.

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Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

surender.m23-Jun-11 3:02

Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

23-Jun-11 3:02

Thanks for the reply sir,

Yes i had gone through that Link earlier, but i was stuck at LongonUser() part.

Will it accept localuser account or remote server's user account?

which username,password&domain i should give?

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Pete O'Hanlon23-Jun-11 3:07

Pete O'Hanlon

23-Jun-11 3:07

You need to give it the remote account details - that's the user you are trying to impersonate. It's no use giving a local account.

By the way, please don't cross post. I just found the same question posted in Q&A - if you post in multiple places, it's hard to see what advice you have been given, and the missing nugget of information can get lost because we haven't seen the other post.

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Re: Is there a way to transfer files to remote computer of different domain using remote server's username and password??? (c# , console)

surender.m23-Jun-11 19:13