Comments by Sicppy - CodeProject

Sicppy 20-Jan-18 4:50am View

I sort of abandoned this question haha, but i wasn't actually making the game in winforms, i was making the game in unity, but it was a rhythm game, I made a separate program in winforms to attempt and make a sort of planner which timed events with music, in the end I just ended up using Vixen a program used for syncing Christmas lights to music, and exported the projects in a raw text format and parsed them in my game in unity.

Sicppy 25-Jul-17 15:54pm View

I'm drawing the contents with the paint event

Sicppy 24-Jul-17 22:53pm View

I already have a scrollable panel, I just can't get the item inside the panel longer than 1260

Sicppy 24-Jul-17 22:52pm View

Yes it is a windows forms application.

Sicppy 13-Jan-17 15:50pm View

No problem, it took me like a week of digging to get all this so I figured I'd post it here and save someone the trouble, glad someone got use out of it!

Sicppy 29-Apr-16 22:06pm View

I was just going to have it randomly select from a list of nodes of the same return type in each parent, would that be considered an incorrect implementation of the algorithm?

Sicppy 9-Jan-15 20:20pm View

Well I don't have one specific use, I need to be able to analyze and even change PCM data from any audio endpoint device. I would also like to be able to detect and enumerate what drivers are available on the system, for example DirectSound or ASIO.

Sicppy 24-Dec-14 2:13am View

You might consider expanding your question to include what exactly you are trying to accomplish here. I have posted an answer which would cover some of the most common needs for such an operation, and if it answers your question, please consider accepting the solution.

Sicppy 24-Dec-14 2:11am View

I might do just that!

Sicppy 24-Dec-14 0:46am View

Yes they were a bit vague, lua is usually my goto for these type of things as you can link lua functions to c# functions in your program and essentially program without compiling.

Sicppy 30-Nov-14 4:53am View

I checked through that before asking the question, and like I said in my question, it is a valid managed dll, the .net version is the same, and the platform targets are both x86

Sicppy 30-Nov-14 4:43am View

Well both of them are being built with the x86 architecture

Sicppy 30-Nov-14 4:33am View

Edited question to include the call stack and exception message.

Sicppy 20-Oct-14 12:58pm View

I'm able to get the button on my page and define my scope and such, but I am confused on how to get the user's information and sign them out

Sicppy 2-May-14 12:25pm View

I don't see any relevance here, if there is some that we're missing you should add a message to the answer rather than posting code that means nothing out of context.

Sicppy 26-Apr-14 21:52pm View

Windows does have a way to define it though, as he pointed out in his response, and if I end up finding the answer for n*x later in another location, then I will accept his response because it contributed to my final answer

Sicppy 26-Apr-14 21:50pm View

What two contradictory concepts would that be?

Sicppy 26-Apr-14 20:12pm View

I don't really want to have to make function pointers for all of the functions in a DLL especially because it is object oriented

Sicppy 26-Apr-14 19:59pm View

Good information, which is why I rated 5, but since the solution you provided is windows only, I can't accept it as the solution.

Sicppy 26-Apr-14 19:57pm View

This is why I have the environment variable, so it knows where the engine is installed. I was going to use the registry, but it is windows only.

Sicppy 26-Apr-14 19:57pm View

Well you see, I am developing a gaming engine, and the engine would be installed to one place in the computer to prevent the entire engine from being statically linked and downloaded with ever application that uses the engine. Rather, they would install the engine once, and every application that uses the engine would simply link to the pre-installed engine dll

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 15:16pm View

Well this is my current mesh.cpp but it just freezes in the LoadMesh function

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 15:06pm View

You said "Here you go" so I thought you were trying to give me a link or something

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 13:44pm View

Was there supposed to be a link there?

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 12:26pm View

I want to read and parse each line into memory using fscanf and cstdio

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 11:57am View

Alright, well, anyways, I still need to know the best way to read the entire file.

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 11:49am View

Sorry, I need to stop assuming things are common knowledge, I come from a background in 3D modeling where .obj is common knowledge

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 11:30am View

Well if it was up to me I would've made it prefixed, because using clunky ways to find the file size isn't exactly my idea of efficient, but this is the format specification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefront_.obj_file

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 0:37am View

It doesn't have the number of records stored I mean

Sicppy 18-Apr-14 0:37am View

I'm loading a Wavefront(.obj) and unfortunately it does not have the number of records

Sicppy 17-Apr-14 21:01pm View

Then how would you suggest I go about reading an entire text file?

Sicppy 17-Apr-14 19:20pm View

First of all, I go back to the beginning after going to the end. Second of all, I told you, the reason I go to the end, is to get the overall file size, if you go to the last byte in a file and read back where you are you will get the file size.

Sicppy 17-Apr-14 19:07pm View

No you haven't text files don't have meta, they're just an array of characters. Also, I'm not reading something at the end, I'm going to the end and then having it tell me where it is in the file so I know the size of the file, also, I've solved it myself, it actually gives me one less than the actual byte size for some reason.

Sicppy 17-Apr-14 18:49pm View

Actually, the first fseek goes to the end byte, the ftell tells be where it is(giving me the size of the entire file) then I go back to the beginning, and use fgets to read the entirety of the file into a char*

Sicppy 17-Apr-14 17:53pm View

By the way, I realized I forgot to fclose(); it has been fixed.

Sicppy 16-Mar-14 17:12pm View

Does not appear to have occurred again, so I'll accept your answer for now, however it showed up in another context and it seemed to be an error with the object being disposed and then being used again

Sicppy 16-Mar-14 7:24am View

Thanks, not sure if it fixed it yet, the problem stopped when I created, a new file and messed around with it, but I'll keep experimenting, I'll let you know as soon as I find out!

Sicppy 11-Dec-13 12:20pm View

Thanks, I'll check it out, if I like it I'll accept your solution!

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 17:19pm View

Yeah, I ended up using the original locking statements, it was just the easiest way to portray a very crude use of my library.

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 16:27pm View

Thanks for the advice, I think I'm going to refrain from using your library because this is to demonstrate a library of my own, I think it would be silly if they had to download more DLLs to run an example for my DLL

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 12:47pm View

It does that, and I was just hoping to have a single file code that and can copy and paste into an article I'm writing, which is why I do not want to do something like make a forms application.

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 1:31am View

Do you know how I might go about doing this?

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 1:16am View

Hmm, I just tried that code, and it doesn't work exactly the way I expected, I wanted to still be able to output in the background while I'm receiving the user input.

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 0:52am View

Alright, I'll keep that in mind next time!

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 0:48am View

Will do! Also, I want to take an extra moment to thank you for all of your useful responses, you always seem to have the most useful and immediate responses on all of my questions, so again, thank you!

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 0:47am View

Also, I was aware nothing is truly simultaneous, it was just the easiest word to explain what I needed.

Sicppy 1-Dec-13 0:42am View

Thank you for this answer, I know it doesn't make any practical sense, it is just for a simple chat program to demonstrate the use of other code, I will add a special thanks in the article as well!

Sicppy 20-Nov-13 15:25pm View

It is actually an animated GIF, which is my my first instinct was to use a PictureBox, but I strayed away because as you mentioned, it is almost completely pointless.

Sicppy 20-Nov-13 13:40pm View

I think you are missing the question, I do want to do it with a graphics object, but I want to display the image, the same way a PictureBox zoom mode does, try this, make a new form, put a picturebox in it, click the right facing arrow in the top right corner of the picture box, and click dock in parent container. then click the arrow again, click the drop down arrow, and hit zoom. then load any image into it, run the program and try re-sizing the form, thats the effect I want to create, but with the Graphics object.

Sicppy 20-Nov-13 13:36pm View

The graphics object, System.Drawing.Graphics

Sicppy 21-Oct-13 15:39pm View

I just want to make it effecient

Sicppy 21-Oct-13 15:31pm View

Thanks! I'll try that!

Sicppy 21-Oct-13 15:04pm View

I'd just like to point out that I have an actual uncle named Paul haha.

Sicppy 21-Oct-13 14:43pm View

I want to send it over a TCP stream, so I would like to serialize 1KB, send it over a TCP stream, and then delete it from ram and continue until it has sent the entire object

Sicppy 21-Oct-13 14:31pm View

I want to avoid the large number of bytes that would be stored in RAM.

Sicppy 17-Oct-13 3:57am View

Nevermind I figured that out.

Sicppy 17-Oct-13 3:41am View

Is there any way I can use those to write/read to/from a Byte[] ?

Sicppy 17-Oct-13 3:27am View

I have just found the BitConverter is that how you would suggest sending the ULong value?

Sicppy 17-Oct-13 3:16am View

I find that comment pretty rude and completely incorrect, the whole reason I am doing this is to learn. I am trying to ask you how I might go about representing an integer in bytes, I am not ignoring you nor disregarding you, I am simply asking for your advice, is that not obvious to you?

Sicppy 17-Oct-13 3:08am View

I'm not trying to be convinced, and I'm not asking you to convince me, I just want to know how I can get the biggest possible number into the smallest amount of bytes and be able to read it when it shows up on the other end

Sicppy 17-Oct-13 2:22am View

How would I represent a large number without taking up a large amount of bytes though?

Sicppy 16-Oct-13 23:10pm View

ASCII is the best way to represent the number I think because each character only takes up one byte, and that code has since been changed slightely. And I am a bit of a beginner to working directly with bytes, but hey, I'm only 16, I have time to learn.

Sicppy 15-Oct-13 23:54pm View

Look at my modified code and tell me what you think, the first 20 bytes are the size, which it reads immediately and converts to a string, and then an int. Then it loops through and checks if data is available and if there is it reads the data it loaded off into a memory stream, and it will keep doing this until the amount of bytes gathered is equivalent to the amount of bytes sent.

Sicppy 15-Oct-13 22:33pm View

Exactly!

Sicppy 15-Oct-13 15:47pm View

I'm probably going to do both, precede with the size so I know how many to expect and then keep collecting in increments to ensure that I get all of the data

Sicppy 15-Oct-13 15:35pm View

This has worked for me perfectly fine so far, but I will try the other as well.

Sicppy 15-Oct-13 15:35pm View

It will only loop until there is no bytes left hence the "> 0" in the while loop

Sicppy 15-Oct-13 15:09pm View

I don't need to know the size, I just needed to be able to get the entire stream

Sicppy 15-Oct-13 14:51pm View

It just seemed like more work than really needed to be done. I achieved the same sort of result by reading the stream into memory in 1kb segments until the stream was empty, then I could simply read the length from the memory stream, thank you for the reply however.

Sicppy 4-Sep-13 20:42pm View

Using the SelectionStart and SelectionLength makes a selection with use of the cursor, it highlights the area, which moves the cursor and causes inconveniences when trying to type.

Sicppy 4-Sep-13 12:59pm View

I need to change the color of certain chunks of text, it is for a syntax highlighter.

Sicppy 30-Aug-13 21:01pm View

I need to make a new control because i need to be able to change the color of the text without changing the cursor position.

Sicppy 27-Aug-13 15:03pm View

What I mean is, how would i go about creating a new type of object, so i could create a custom richtextbox

Sicppy 27-Aug-13 13:09pm View

Already have, i would like to make my own.

Sicppy 27-Aug-13 12:48pm View

Alright this brings me to another question, how would i go about creating a windows forms object in c#?

Sicppy 26-Aug-13 15:45pm View

Thank you for the resource!

Sicppy 26-Aug-13 14:33pm View

Eventually it will evolve into a syntax highlighter, but for now, its supposed to just color everything green, i want to do it char by char to test the syntax application method

Sicppy 13-Aug-13 17:15pm View

Yeah, i was just making sure. Thanks again!

-Jordan

Sicppy 13-Aug-13 17:06pm View

Thank you much! Let me test, but if it works ill accept the solution!

Sicppy 13-Aug-13 16:56pm View

How and where do you want it done? Do you want it to loop through and progressively add more delegates? Or do you want it to just keep checking the variable and wait until it has enough?

Sicppy 13-Aug-13 14:22pm View

MEF is starting to look like a serious possibility especially considering it comes with the .NET framework, but could you give me an example of how i could pass a variable back and forth through the API and host application.

Sicppy 13-Aug-13 9:26am View

That is full fledged plugin loading and implementing API, which isn't what i'm looking for, I have already created the plugin loading system, i just need to be able to grab realtime variables from the host application.

Sicppy 13-Aug-13 9:24am View

What exactly do you mean by linking methods to events, and I am using .Net reflection for loading the DLLs dynamically.

Sicppy 28-Jul-13 2:10am View

Incorrect, I have made multiple programs with Code::Blocks and MinGW where I have been given a single compiled EXE

Sicppy 27-Jul-13 20:58pm View

No, no matter what, visual studio will give you multiple files instead of just an exe file you can distribute anywhere, which is what im looking for.

Sicppy 27-Jul-13 17:35pm View

Why would i append .zip? That renders the file useless as an exe.

Sicppy 27-Jul-13 15:59pm View

Thank you for your detailed solution, i posted this same question on stack overflow and all i got were a bunch of people saying it would take to long, or its impossible, if your interested in helping me work on this project, just email me at officialtoxicdub@gmail.com essentially what im doing, is creating a simple, flexible installer creator, for programmers that aren't quite making enough income to afford one of the more popular installer creators, or don't want to learn NSIS, this project will be distributed completely free.

Sicppy 27-Jul-13 15:50pm View

I use Code::Blocks which comes with mingw, I prefer it over visual studio, its more flexible than visual studio, although I do use visual studio often for things like c# and VB.net

Sicppy 26-Jul-13 11:16am View

Im doing this for fun, and also, for full control over what the extractor does, to come up with a result i like, i might have to use 4 different self extracting archive utilities, or, i could make my own.

Sicppy 26-Jul-13 8:23am View

Thanks, but as i mentioned in the question, I would like to make it with native c++, so i can distribute 1 .exe file with no dependencies

Sicppy 26-Jul-13 8:22am View

It is, both new, and unique, im not looking for a pre-made resource, im trying to make my own, self extracting hard drive utility

Sicppy 15-Apr-13 15:50pm View

thanks but not quite what I'm looking for, I couldn't find in there anywhere a means of going about this.

Sicppy 15-Apr-13 15:48pm View

I am aware of the daunting task ahead of me, I am just looking for a starting point

Sicppy 3-Apr-13 0:44am View

Also, I would really appreciate it if you took a look at my first article post and give me some feedback, its about a developer resource I made to make programming with TCP Sockets easier

Sicppy 3-Apr-13 0:40am View

Thank you for joining the party :-)

Sicppy 30-Mar-13 6:52am View

oh, and the - 1 was unnecessary

Sicppy 30-Mar-13 6:51am View

Actually that worked, sorry to jump to conclusions, thanks mate!

Sicppy 30-Mar-13 6:46am View

Nice try but no, that line of code worked in the previous version where it wasnt an array of clients, I'm am fairly certain it has to do with the while loop

Sicppy 28-Mar-13 19:30pm View

THANK YOU! so many people assume these days that if it doesnt have a debugger its not a programming language. It's good to know that I'm not the only one with an accurate definition of Programming Language

Sicppy 28-Mar-13 19:26pm View

I will learn powershell and have looked into it many times, but I would still like to finish this project the way I started it... With spaghetti logic

Sicppy 28-Mar-13 19:10pm View

I can tell you right now, I absolutly hate debugging, although I do like what it does. Second of all, I like batch for a couple of reasons, It was the first programming language I learned(well that and qBasic), and also because so many people hate it

Sicppy 28-Mar-13 19:01pm View

Yes, it is very convenient, but other than that, I really enjoy coding in batch, also, alot of the functions of this program are going to be in java/c++, the batch is just a host, if you would like to see the whole project I can send you the zip file

Sicppy 28-Mar-13 18:40pm View

I meant to make the a reply

Sicppy 28-Mar-13 18:30pm View

Batch is 'real' coding, you put together a sequence of commands to make a functioning program, and i'm using batch for fun, its just a little project im doing, its not complicated, so no need to use a more complex language

Sicppy 4-Feb-13 13:07pm View

That did it, if you post that comment as an answer I will accept it

Sicppy 4-Feb-13 12:54pm View

Thanks for your suggestion but that doesn't seem to solve my problem

Sicppy 2-Jan-13 2:51am View

Also I forgot to mention that Key1 is a boolean value getting the current state of the 'A' key

Sicppy 2-Jan-13 2:50am View

I did some creative debugging and figured out that its on that first line

Sicppy 2-Jan-13 2:37am View

it throws the error when running and doesn't tell me what line its on

Sicppy 2-Jan-13 2:27am View

nMap is an array, Count is a variable used in: for Count as Integer = 0 to 11

Sicppy 1-Jan-13 18:24pm View

I was saying that margin: 0 auto; and magin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; accomplish the same thing, and neither of them solve my problem, I want to put a nav box in the margin, but I cant because it floats above or below the margins.

Sicppy 25-Dec-12 1:28am View

Two things, first, using the margins would take up the space in the margins not allowing me to put a div there, second, using margin: 0 auto; gets the job done, I recommend using that instead

Sicppy 16-Dec-12 2:46am View

First of all, if you use css inside of the same html page id recommend using the <link> tag to add an external css page that would be applicable to all the pages, second, what exactly are you saying I should do

Sicppy 16-Dec-12 2:37am View

Center tag isn't supported in html5

Sicppy 16-Dec-12 2:31am View

I don't have a center tag

Sicppy 16-Dec-12 2:19am View

I don't quite get what you mean, could you sketch up some quick sample code

Sicppy 16-Dec-12 1:50am View

I told you, I need to know how to keep the site centered while still being able to put stuff in the margins

Sicppy 16-Dec-12 1:30am View

of how it is now
or do you want me to make a rough sketch of how I want it?

Sicppy 12-Dec-12 17:21pm View

Thanks, I never thought about doing an array but that would probably be helpful

Sicppy 12-Dec-12 12:01pm View

Yes that would be extremely helpful, if you post it as an answer to this question I will accept it, I would also like to take this time to thank for your help on this(and other) questions

Sicppy 12-Dec-12 2:56am View

Also, what would you suggest I do to keep my program responsive and still continue the rest of my code running instead of constantly waiting for something to happen, thanks in advance,

-Jordan

Sicppy 12-Dec-12 2:52am View

I see what you mean, I realized that my other comment had reflected something other than my intent, I appreciate your understanding in that I wasn't trying to come come across rude or arrogant, thanks for your luck

-Jordan

P.S.
I am doing this project in my free time, more of a side project than something that should be consuming a lot or most of my time, however thank you for the advice.

Sicppy 12-Dec-12 2:21am View

I was not trying to give you the impression that I was unwilling to take your advice, it is a free open source program because I'm trying to give something back to the community, I would like help with this because it is something that has been bugging me for awhile, but it is not my first priority to other programs I am designing in HLLs to gain support for my business, this is why I'm not trying to make it super highly professional and organised.

Sicppy 11-Dec-12 20:54pm View

First of all, this code isn't supposed to be very pretty, its a free software it doesn't have to be super professional, second of all, by putting the Application.DoEvents() it keeps the program responsive, if I don't have that when the while loop is running it, (1) Won't register key press events (2) Wont't register when the form is closed, minimized, or maximized.

Sicppy 5-Oct-12 14:47pm View

I have checked it out and I may try writing a module for it, Thank You

Sicppy 5-Oct-12 14:40pm View

I will but now I have another question, is there a way to make a virtual microphone in java, so I could use one of the pre-made shoutcast tools and just stream from a virtual mic

Sicppy 2-Oct-12 15:25pm View

OK, thanks, ill take a look

Sicppy 2-Oct-12 14:56pm View

Well not completely but well enough to make a decent program

Sicppy 2-Oct-12 14:44pm View

I want to use java so i can code a couple extra features in, I need some code that will let me stream to a shoutcast server,
Jordan

Sicppy 2-Oct-12 14:38pm View

cause i only completely know java and vb.net

Sicppy 2-Oct-12 14:33pm View

I would like to be able to stream to a shoutcast server using java code, I have no idea how to do this, I tryed JMF but that didn't work out, other than that I haven't found anything that could even possibly work.

Sicppy 2-Oct-12 14:13pm View

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I would like to be able to stream to a shoutcast server using java code, I have no idea how to do this, I tryed JMF but that didn't work out, other than that I haven't found anything that could even possibly work.

Sicppy 2-Oct-12 14:05pm View

There's some code I'm gonna put in so that they can put in requests from the website I'm makin

Sicppy 17-Jul-12 2:32am View

P.S.

My purpose for all of this is to be able to use my digital keyboard as a midi controller

Sicppy 17-Jul-12 2:31am View

By note analysis i meant i want to be able to identify the note(s) being played from a live input via the mic, the midi output does not need to be a DLL I just need something to get the job done.

-Jordan

Sicppy 2-Jul-12 4:31am View

I haven't got to try your response yet, i have been busy the past few months with some projects I've been working on, but by the looks of the comments it seems to have worked for some other people, I'll give it a shot and get back to you soon,

Thanks

-Jordan

Sicppy 7-May-12 20:47pm View

Yes, it is a joke, and it's translating English to Stereotypical Russian, even if it's not translating from English to actual Russian, it's still a translator.

If you actually do know how to program in bash, I would like some help getting the program to work, so please run this code on your mac/linux distro and see if you can't get it to work.

-Jordan

Sicppy 7-May-12 14:46pm View

First of all, it's not an actual translator, it's a stereotypical translator, meaning, instead of translating it to russian, it translates it to a russian stereotype or what americans see russian as. All this translator is supposed to do is take out all the vowels and spaces in a sentence. Second of all, that wasn't a sample phrase, that was just the question phrase, it's what pops up when the program first starts that tells you it wants input.

Sicppy 7-May-12 14:32pm View

It's not an actual translator, it just removes all the vowels and spaces.

Sicppy 9-Feb-12 14:34pm View

it was just an example, I have it set up the right way in my actual program. It sets a string. assign's it a value from within a try, but it says the variable isn't initialized when i try System.out.println(x);
from outside of the try block

Sicppy 6-Feb-12 16:08pm View

I already tried that, but the changes only effect what is inside the try block. for example if I ran this code(just pretend that the syntax is right)

String x = hi;
try {
x = goodbye;
}
System.out.println(x);

The outcome would still be hi

Sicppy 11-Dec-11 2:58am View

sorry i ment,

$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM testtb WHERE name=$name");
$array = mysql_fetch_array($query);
$rnd = $array['<name of="" column="" you="" want="" to="" pull="" value="" from="">'];
echo "$rnd";

Sicppy 11-Dec-11 2:57am View

I am afraid to say it didn't work, thanks for your response though,
-AKsicppy

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