1. On the main form a scanner class is instantiated that (in the scanner's constructor) sets the scanner settings (baud rate, parity, etc) and opens the scanner for use
2. A barcode is scanned (via a scanner connected to the device in a seral port) while on the main form
3. In the scanner class, the DataRecieved event gets the needed info from the scanned code.
4. Then that info is passed back to the main form to a method RunCommandCode (which takes the scanned info as an argument)
5. On the main form the RunCommandCode calls another method CommandCodeHandler, passing the scanned info again
6. In the CommandCodeHandler sub a method is called in a Utils class (SetSelectedTab), which interacts with the form itself (determines how many tabs exist on a tab control), which is the reason for the invoke in the first place
So, before I figured out I needed to use the Invoke method (and, more specifically, that the scanner was working in a different thread), I was getting an error in step 6 on the line that got the TabControl.TabPages.Count.
I have a filesystewatcher object. On it`s event it runs a procedure which fills a treeview with a data. I had problems with treeview methods, but when I run them using invoke method everything is ok. But I still have one problem. When I load the form for the first time, everything works fine. But, when I then close the form (me.dispose, me.close), and load it once again, when Filesystemwathcer start the procedure i have an exception "invoke or begininvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created" trying to run a treeview.invoke method?
I have been using a pretty slick generic invoke method for UI updating from background threads. I forget where I copied it from (converted it to VB.NET from C#), but here it is: Public Sub InvokeControl(Of T As Control)(ByVal Control As t, ByVal Action As Action(Of t))
I am implementing a custom iDispatchLLInvoke handler for VB.NET - some of this is working.So Far - I have been able to intercept and provide custom handling of simple functions and property calls - but I am stuck when I try to set a property and get an error "Invalid Pointer (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80004003 (E_Pointer))".
I am using the new .NET 4.0 ICustomQueryInterface to do this. In Summary - I intercept and provide my own implementation of iDispatch - I load the dispIDs on the first call - and return a the dispID for each call within GetIDsOfNames - this ID is than passed to Invoke where reflection is used to get the value and return the result.
When I attempt to set a property - a call is made to GetIDsofNames and I return a valid dispID - the application than crashes with the error above and no call is made to Invoke.As a result - I am assuming that the issue relates to my interface definition been wrong becase the code never get's back to .NET code - see below for this code:
<ComImport(), Guid("00020400-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"), InterfaceTypeAttribute(ComInterfaceType.InterfaceIsIUnknown)> _ Public Interface IDispatch Sub GetTypeInfoCount(ByRef pctInfo As UInt32)
I've created a MyFunc extension (in Module Extensions) for all the base types as well as generic arrays, ICollection(Of T) and Dictionary(Of String,T):
Function MyFunc(Of T)(a() As T) As String Function MyFunc(Of T)(collection As ICollection(Of T)) As String Function MyFunc(Of T)(dict As Dictionary(Of String,T)) As String
I want to invoke a method on a class that i have a reference to. The method that I want to call has a custom attributes. Currently I can find this attributes and call the property of my class Attribute.
is there a way to invoke that method ?
PS/ The project is written in vbnet, but I think the solution is the same in c#.
Is it possible to somehow invoke foo("SomeAwesomeString") from VBScript directly (i.e., without it having to launch an additional process)?
The use case is this: I am trying to write an 'extension' application for hMailServer (hMS), but hMS can only invoke VBscript scripts when an event happened. I can have the VBscript launch an .exe every time the event happened, but the processing involve opening and closing a connection to a back-end database. So, every invocation is very expensive. I had been thinking that I can reduce the expense by having a Service to maintain the connection (i.e., opening it once and re-open it if the connection closed). Plus by implementing the processing as background worker threads will result in a non-blocking processing + less process-starting overhead.
I have a COM component that I want to call using late-binding from VB.NET (using Primary Interop Assembly - PIA method). My IDL signature for the COM method looks like: HRESULT Send([in]BSTR bstrRequestData, [out]VARIANT *pvbstrResponseData, [out]VARIANT *pvnExtCompCode, [out,retval]int *pnCompletionCode);
So 2 'ByRef' parameters in VB.NET lingo, and a return value. I attempt to invoke this method like so: Dim parameters(2) As Object parameters(0) = "data" parameters(1) = New Object() parameters(2) = New Object() Dim p As New ParameterModifier(3) [Code] ..... This fails spectactularly with an exception: {"Invalid callee. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020010 (DISP_E_BADCALLEE))"}
I assume this means I'm doing something wrong in my parameterMods array. Because if I comment out setting any value of the ParameterMods array to 'True' - it works. It of course doesnt update the parameters that are [out] parameters and so it's not working as intended. Is there something else to consider since the method also has a return value? The MSDN example pretty much does exactly what I am doing, with the exception that example did not have a return value.
I Have a Function on my frmMain Class wich will update my control to something else after an invoke. When i type "?Label1.Text" on the Immediate Window, the text property IS updated, but when i go check the Form, nothing happened. The code is just like this
I have a ASP.NET (C#) web page which utilizes a VB class library. The VB library performs a SOAP POST to a remote web service and returns a message. However the VB library keeps running into a "No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" However, I've also created a C# test client which consumes the same VB class library and can perform the post just fine! [code]
The problem is that, when I call the "SetStatusBarText" sub from another thread, InvokeRequired is True (as it should be), but then my threads stall on the Me.Invoke statement - pausing execution shows them all just sitting there, not actually invoking anything.
I'm working with the DevExpress XtraGrid control.I have a routine that goes thru and adds all the controls on the current form dynamically, and launches on a seperate thread the routine for a given control to initialize it to the value that will be displayed to the end-user. Some of the controls are displaying calculated values, and take some time to return their values, so that's why we are doing it on a seperate thread.
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I'm using a similar snippet of code for any control properties that have to be updated, and all work fine. On the above code when the actual Invoke is called, it APPEARS that the thread just ends and never calls the delegate, and doesn't return to finish either.
I have an annoying bug which is very difficult to replicate. When I start my application, from time to time, I get this error message "Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created". This makes the user think the application is unstable... I have no idea what could cause this problem. The application uses a splash screen. It's built in Visual Basic using VS 2010 and .net framework 4.
I show a waiting form (saying "Please wait...") on a different thread when there is long-running code in some forms (for example, during data loading). I show the form like this:
m_PopProcessingThread = New Thread(New ThreadStart( Sub() m_PopProcessingForm = New WaitingForm(m_Message) Application.Run(m_PopProcessingForm) End Sub))
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The stack trace points to the part of code where I hide the form. How could the handle not have been created, when just before the Invoke call, I loop until said handle is created?
how to invoke methods, but how does one change a simple property?
For demonstration-sake, here's a very simple set of code that should help. Let's say I need to set the visible property from a child form, and thus, it needs to be invoked:
Friend Sub activateItem(ByVal myItem As PictureBox) If myItem.InvokeRequired = True Then ????
i'am trying to open the autocomplete-window from a textbox without typing chars into the box.Normaly the autocompletewindow opens only if you type in a character, but this means, you have to know the first char.Is there any way to open the autocompletewindow without the first character? For example at the mouseover event of the textbox?
I've run into a bit of a problem.. I am unsure as to how many people know how "IRC" Servers work here but basically, i'll explain. We are re-creating an IRC Client we made for our Chat site in VB.NET originally vb6. We have serveral different forms but the main problme we are having at the moment is FrmMain is where you login to the servers, it grabs your data from our MySQL database such as "Nick, Gender, Font" etc. Then proceeds with connection to IRC server on Raw 001 we know the connection to the IRC server has been established... so therefore we open up FrmAuth which in this case they can see roomlist etc. We are unable to get FrmAuth to load probably.
We originally had this working opening up FrmAuth before the connection to IRC server has been established.. This really is no good for us causes alot of errors etc. So when we use just simply "me.show()" the form loads but freezes we tried doing Me.Invoke(New Del(AddressOf me.show))
however, this didnt work in which I assume that is because the "FrmAuth" hasn't yet loaded the GUI thread therefore there is no Thread to invoke so we tried FrmMain.Invoke(New Del(AddressOf me.show))
This didn't work either i assume you cannot access another forms Invoke method? we are receiving the error A first chance exception of type.'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll which i assume has something to do with it but not quite sure..
So my question comes down to the fact of, how do we open up FrmAuth without it freezing? Is there a way to access the invoke method on another form?
I have a relatively simple question regarding the best way to call the DataGridView.Rows.Add function when it is inherited into the current control. Which is the best way to make the call to the inherited control? Call it directly in the invoke or call it using recursive-like function? They both seem to produce the same result, a row gets added and the quantity is returned, but which is the most efficient?The delegate: Private Delegate Function ReturnDelegate() As Object
The two ways are:
A) Private Overloads Function AddRow() As Integer If InvokeRequired Then Return CInt(Invoke(New ReturnDelegate(AddressOf AddRow)))
I'm currently invoking a function that takes ByRef parameters using Control.Invoke (which I notice specifies the Object parameter array to be ByVal) but the array of parameters I give it isn't updated by the function. Is this possible with VB.Net 2003 or must there be some error in my code?
i AM TRYING TO USE A THREAD TO UPDATE SOME CONTROL during runtime using invoke and i get this message.here is my scenario:im trying to build a performance monitor tooli have a mainform that is MDI parent and i create mdi child using
We are re-creating an IRC Client we made for our Chat site in VB.NET originally vb6
We have serveral different forms but the main problme we are having at the moment is
FrmMain is where you login to the servers, it grabs your data from our MySQL database such as "Nick, Gender, Font" etc. Then proceeds with connection to IRC server on Raw 001 we know the connection to the IRC server has been established... so therefore we open up FrmAuth which in this case they can see roomlist etc. We are unable to get FrmAuth to load probably.
We originally had this working opening up FrmAuth before the connection to IRC server has been established.. This really is no good for us causes alot of errors etc.
So when we use just simply "me.show()" the form loads but freezes we tried doing
Me.Invoke(New Del(AddressOf me.show))
however, this didnt work in which I assume that is because the "FrmAuth" hasn't yet loaded the GUI thread therefore there is no Thread to invoke so we tried
FrmMain.Invoke(New Del(AddressOf me.show)) This didn't work either i assume you cannot access another forms Invoke method..?? we are receiving the error A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll which i assume has something to do with it but not quite sure..
So my question comes down to the fact of, how do we open up FrmAuth without it freezing? Is there a way to access the invoke method on another form?
We have a UI with a progressbar. I know how to invoke, safely, the control from which it was not created from a thread. there are threads being processed in a threadpool, all of which calls an "agent" (which is a notifier to raise an event back to the UI to then increase the progressbar). an "agent" is set as a property in a State object, which is then passed into a method which will be executed on the ThreadPool. so, I invoke on the UI the method to update the progressbar, but the bar does not seem to update at all (screen frozen) and it takes a very very long time for it to execute. without threading, no problem.
