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Actually, I (mostly) know all that. I've also written overlay icons for the shell. The concept is nothing new. As I said, I've been programming with the PSDK for many, many years but haven't gotten quite so deep into custom drawing a control.

One thing you said is what concerns me (since you seemed to have confirmed it). ImageList_SetOverlayIcon actually overlays the icon I specify onto the other icon (lets call it the background icon) and adds that to the image list? Ouch. I could've done that manually in my current implementation (which uses SHGetFileInfo to get icons and file type descriptions) but that could be very memory intensive. I'm guessing that this isn't the solution, then.

I figured that the overlay was only added to the icon during paint operations. Am I missing something, here. I do know from my shell extension that the icon overlay is drawn per-item (even though the item has the same icon), or so it seemed. And since the shell uses all the same classes (SysListView32 and all it's messages / notifications / structs / etc.), I figured the same.

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Okay, I've been thinking about this more and perhaps am thinking too much because I've confused myself ( I think WTF | :WTF:

)

First, are the icon overlay images (just overlays) stored in the same image list as the large and small images, or a different one initially. Second, are the overlays actually applied to the primary (background, as I think I called it in the previous message) image in the image list?

With these two questions answered, then the next question becomes: does the LVITEM.state (bits 8-11) hold the overlay imageindex or the overlay imageindex applied to the primary image?

I was planning on deriving from ListView of course, and then handling the OCM_NOTIFY message (didn't even remember the reflected messages, since only child controls like the header would send WM_NOTIFY Blush | :O

). For the CDDS_ITEMPREPAINT flag I would set the LVIS_OVERLAYMASK in LVITEM.stateMask and then the bit-shifted overlay image index in the LVITEM.state field, right? I take it that the ListView will draw this automatically since it is set appropriately? I'm confused on that one because it seems to me that it would (otherwise, why are those bits there and used?), but the one or two examples I found via google are doing the custom drawing themselves.

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Hi,

The names of the Columns in the ListView I have created are wider than the individual col. How can I make sure that the complete col name is displayed without increasing the width of every column ?

Either by increasing the height or wrapping the column names. But I don't find any property that does that !

Thanks,
Paul

And you won't. You're going to have to override WndProc and delve into this with P/Invoked (and redefined structures), utilizing lots of stuff from the Platform SDK. Believe it or not, all the Windows-like controls you see in System.Windows.Forms are actually the Common Controls themselves and the Windows Forms assemblies use P/Invoked code (and redefined structures, messages, etc.) HEAVILY. Now you'll have to, too! OMG | :OMG:

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How about aligning the text that's shown in the ListViewItems to right or center ?

Can that be done !?!

While aligning text in the header is easy (ColumnHeader.TextAlign), you'll once against have to override WndProc to do this. Once you do that, handle WM_CUSTOMDRAW, and redefine a few PSDK structs (like LVITEM), this is actually pretty easy.

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[edit]Forget what's below, this is not intended to do a column header wrapping, but only to auto-fit the width of header columns[/edit]

Instead of creating columns by passing a positive integer, pass -1 to it.

Namely, instead of writing :

listView1.Columns.Add("Very very large column name",50,System.Windows.Forms.HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("col2",50,System.Windows.Forms.HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Items.Add( new ListViewItem("My Item1"));

write :

listView1.Columns.Add("Very very large column name",-1,System.Windows.Forms.HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Columns.Add("col2",50,System.Windows.Forms.HorizontalAlignment.Left);
listView1.Items.Add( new ListViewItem("My Item1"));

And see how column 1 is nicely wrapped to adapt the content in columns.

PS : for your info, -1 is constant LVSCW_AUTOSIZE = -1 declared in commctrl.h

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Hi,

My Question Is: with regards to XML in a C# context.

For the record, I'm using VS 2002, running Win2000 dayly updated, cel400mhz,192ram,dotNET1.1

The Premices:

Put simply, I am trying to use XML as a relationnal database for an application.
I figured an XML schema, an XML file, and some code to plug it in and that was it.

The application is to store contacts information and more types of info
as we upgrade it. So what makes sense here is to have an XML file for each type of info.
The user needs to be able to do the usual, such as view, add, modify, delete entries.
The XML files should reside in the main application folder. Now, this is part of what I tried:
-please bare in mind I'm kinda new with xml... Wink | ;)

The Faulty Code:

        string item;<br />
	XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument();<br />
<br />
	myDoc.Load(Application.StartupPath + "\\Contact.xml");<br />
<br />
	XmlNode myNode = myDoc.FirstChild;<br />
	item = myNode.FirstChild.InnerText.ToString();<br />
	txtFirstName.Text = item;

The Error Message:

An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException'
occurred in Orchus_temp.exe Additional information: Object reference
not set to an instance of an object.

The Question Redux:

" How do I add, modify, view and delete data that is stored in an XML file and rendered in a C# application? "

I propose to write an article about the resolution of theses issues, since a
lot of people have to resolve these kind of problems, I believe.

So feel free to respond extensively as this will be the substace of my first article! Big Grin | :-D

Thanks!

Antoine Dubuc
Montreal, Canada

This by our hands that dream,
"I shall find a way or make one!"

You can try generate a TypedDataset from the schema Smile | :)

leppie ::AllocCPArticle("Zee blog");
Seen on my Campus BBS: Linux is free...coz no-one wants to pay for it.

myDoc.FirstChild; is the problem.
this is not a safe way to read an XML file - the first child could be a processing instruction...

you are better of using SelectSingleNode(xpath);

where xpath is the thing you want - in you case I'm guessing its "/contact/firstname" depending on you xml file structure...

"When the only tool you have is a hammer, a sore thumb you will have."

Good.

Xpath is something new to me. I'll check that out and try it.

thank!

Antoine

This by our hands that dream,
"I shall find a way or make one!"

Hi Phillip,

Ok. So I am trying to display the firstname of the first contact in the Contact.xml file...

XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument();<br />
	myDoc.Load(Application.StartupPath + "\\Contact.xml");<br />
	txtfirstname.Text =  myDoc.SelectSingleNode("//Contact[1]//firstname").Value;

What am I missing? I am trying to find a good XPath resources, but its hard. MSDN doen't do it for me up to now.

thanks Smile | :)

Antoine

This by our hands that dream,
"I shall find a way or make one!"

Hello Guru,

How to embed an icon to your main EXE file? So the icon shows up in windows explorers. I would appreciate very much any of your tips.

Thanks
Have fun with C#
Khang Nguyen

Just replace the app.ico file with your icon and it will build with your icon.

Wow! You're great, Daniel! Thank you so much.

Khang
Big Grin | :-D

I have searched throughout code project, GotDotNet, the SDK, and the Internet without any resolution!!!

When I write an entry to the Eventlog, I get the following message appended to my message:
The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Navigator ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer.

So what do I need to do to establish a message DLL file and have my Event ID's defined so that the Event logging works properly? Does anyone know?

Thanks,
Michael

_____________________________________________
_{The world is a dangerous place.
Not because of those that do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.}

I would like to make the dropdown for a combobox display the last selected item in the middle of the listing area rather than at the top. Everything I've tried so far (Click event, DropDown event) only seems to affect the control before the dropdown list is displayed. Even tried subclassing to override the OnDropDown, but again everything occurred before the list was displayed.

Thanx for any help...

>>>-----> MikeO

Hi!

I'm created Windows service project(C#) and now I want to debug code.
In MSDN i read instructions, but I have a PROBLEM in first step, with installing my service.

I was write in cmd line "InstallUtil.exe myservice.exe" and I get a result in log file (attached). Looks ok!????

But I don't see a service name in Server Explorer (or in Admin->Services) list, so I could not start the service.

Could you help me and write me what i doing wrong.

TNX 1000 times.
Hambi

David Pavlovič
david.pavlovic@adacta.si

Did you add both the ServiceInstaller and ServiceProcessInstaller components to your project and "configure" them accordingly? If you just run InstallUtil.exe on your service without those things, it won't actually do anything.

Be sure to check the documentation for those two classes, as there's several things you must understand to make it work, like using the same service name (not the display name) for both classes, etc.

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Please check following codes, it dosen'g work properly, the title bar is still empty.
( the method PanitNonClientArea(Graphics, RectangleF) can work properly. ）

<br />
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)<br />
{<br />
	Graphics g;<br />
	RectangleF rectf;<br />
<br />
	Point pt;<br />
<br />
	switch (m.Msg)<br />
	{<br />
		case WMConsts.WM_NCPAINT :<br />
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			{<br />
				Region rgn = Region.FromHrgn(hrgn);<br />
				g = CreateGraphics();<br />
				rectf = rgn.GetBounds(g);<br />
				PaintNonClientArea(g, rectf);<br />
			}<br />
			else<br />
			{<br />
				g = CreateGraphics();<br />
				rectf = new RectangleF(0,-23, Width, 23);<br />
				PaintNonClientArea(g, rectf);<br />
				g.Dispose();<br />
			}<br />
			<br />
			//base.WndProc(ref m);<br />
			break;<br />
<br />
		default :<br />
			base.WndProc (ref m);<br />
			break;<br />
	}<br />
}<br />

I want to create a menu control on top of all windows and desktop as parent.so that I can make it available to all applications..Is it possible?

VikramS

You mean a menu-like equivalent of the Taskbar? Yes, it's possible. If you plan to do this in C#, you're going to be redefine a hell of a lot of interfaces and structs. You best stick to C++ because this requires a lot of COM.

For starters, see the Platform SDK docs for the SHAppBarMessage function, or search for said function in google. There are lots of examples, though mostly in VB and Delphi, but it shouldn't be hard for you to understand the concepts.

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I don't know if this is exactly what you had in mind.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx?SampleGuid=bc0a1f5c-07ff-4b50-b3ff-ff60795fd21e

Thank You
Bo Hunter

Good find!

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Im writing a toolbar for internet explorer . I am usijng COM . I need to access the current document in the browser . How do i do this . Ie what are the classes i can use . The code for this is to be embedded in the toolbar and the functions in the toolbar code should be able to perform some actions on the document in the browser . Also importantly i need to get the selected /highlited section in the document . Are there direct classes supporting this operation .

Srikar Y
NITK Surathkal