C# - Get A Code Template/design Pattern Can Use When Reacting To Mouse Clicks Or Button Presses?
May 3, 2011
One of the problems that I constantly see with Winforms applications is that the GUI thread is stuck while a long-running task is running or just plain stops refreshing (yes, I know - needs threading). Is there a code template/design pattern I can use when reacting to mouse clicks or button presses? Should there be a processing thread always running in the GUI app? Basically, how do I write a great Winforms Application that is easy to maintain and doesn't have any quirky refresh bugs?
In teh MVC design pattern, Controller is strongly related to the view (GUI). IN my application i need to generated a new BrandID, i used stored procedure to retreive the highest BrandID from teh DB (The model calls the stored procedure and sends the retreival value to the Controller), then in the controller increments the BrandID by "1" to create a new brand ID. SInce, controller is strogly related to "view", should i include this "brandID increment" part in teh controller or in the model classes?
I need to visually moves the cursor using keyboard keys.
1) I need to get the mouse to where the button is
2) Simulate the mouse movement to the button from wherever it is
3) and simulate a button click.
Only after i select a button i can start drawing on my form. I have a code here, when i hold the Ctrl key and press the arrow keys, the mouse will start drawing straight lines. But what happen when i need to use controls like buttons, comboboxes etc.?
I'm running a survey to count how many times a user clicks the left mouse button. But the mouse click applies outside of the form, even applies to clicking start or other locations of the of the PC when the form has been minimized with a NotifyIcon. I know how to count the mouse clicks within a form but not outside the form. Somehow I feel I need to use a timer event but need it to apply outside the form. The timer tick event doesn't have a e.button event or mouse down event or mouse click for that matter. Whats a good way to get this function to apply outside the form?
how to do enter key from keyboard to do the same function when the user clicks a button from the mouse...For example, istead of clicking the button with mouse click, i would like to make enter key from keyboard to do that function for shortcut purposes..Its like when login form button..
I am wanting to display a popup menu when a use clicks the right mouse button on my ListView.I have created a ContextMenuStrip with the items I would like.
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The thing is, the menu is way up to the top left. How can I set it to be where the user presses the mouse.Also, how can I set it to pop up only when the user presses the right mouse button on the lstView.
The following code inserts same data two time in database table, but I want it to insert only one item when button is clicked.What is the problem in this code?
Protected Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click If RadUpload1.UploadedFiles.Count >= 0 Then
I have this code that tries to kill the wampmanager process when the user press on a buttonBut how can I achieve the same thing if the user clicks on the close button. Is it possible to execute a small line of code just when the user clicks on the close button?If you know any alternatives in
Dim pProcess() As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("wampmanager") For Each p As Process In pProcess p.Kill()
Im using Visual Basic 2008 Express..Is there a way to disable mouse click for a while in Visual Basic 2008, I mean if mouse was clicked more than 1 time in very short time to click only once? -- I need it because my mouse became like crazy one.. when I click once it may clicks twice or more.so until I buy another one, I'd like to filter click, to allow only one click and to block another clicks that were made in last second.
So what I am trying to accomplish is running a program that constantly tracks mouse coordinates relevant to a specific process window rather than all of the screen.
Using VB.Net, I'm looking for best practices in dealing with the following idiom:[code]What I really want is something VB.Net doesn't offer -- additional and simultaneous iterators on For Each statements.[code]I'm interested in both Linq and non-Linq recommendations, comments about Copy method design, comparisions to C# or other languages.
I am working on a parser for a serial data protocol. I have an overarching Packet class, a couple sub-classes such as CommandPacket and StatusPacket, and then a few sub-classes of each of those:
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While I don't think it is entirely relelvant to the discussion, I am doing this in VB.NET. There is also a similar (but not quite the same) question posted here: Java - subclass validation design pattern
I've been studying design patterns off-and-on now for a project I've recently been working on. I've been fortunate with this last one not to have to work with databases, but will soon have an opportunity.
I'm trying to replicate a design pattern used in a graphical programming language called LabVIEW. One thread produces commands, and another thread, or series of threads, consumes the commands.This is very similar to using Queues in VB...but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to start the consumer thread when new items are added to the queue.
Here is what I would like to accomplish, please let me know if there is a straightforward way to accomplish this with out of box .Net functionality.1) Start the Consumer Thread...it sits idle, waiting for some new commands to appear in its Queue.2) Producer places a few commands into the Queue. Example: "Home X Axis", "Home Y Axis", "Initialize Pump", "Display Ready Message"3) Consumer thread 'wakes up' at seeing the new commands, then performs the 4 tasks specified in 2.4) Consumer thread goes 'idle' again, and simply waits for new commands to appear in the Queue.
Process can continue on and on forever. The main problem I see with Queues is that there is no 'Wait for Something to Appear in Queue then Retrieve it" functionality. I don't want to use a perpetual loop to keep checking ever n milliseconds.
With C# anonymous delegates, we can avoid declaration of extra method, I know in VB.NET they're not available, but is there a design pattern that I can use so that I can avoid writing an extra method each time? I need it for SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges which will be used a lot of times in our code.
Public Sub Control1Updated() Handles control1.TextChanged control2.Text = SomeFunction(control1.Text) End Sub
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Basically the pairs of {control1.Text, control2.Text} and {control2.Text, control1.Text} should be the same. If control1.Text is changed to let's say "a" then control2.Text is ALWAYS "b". If control2.Text is changed to "b" then control1.Text is ALWAYS "a". How do I achieve this with events without going into an infinite loop? [the best I can think of is to make a check if the other control.Text is already the desired value].
In the MVC design pattern we must use a controller(s) classes.
What are the fucntions (features) of the controller apart from handling communication bewteen Model and View?e.eg; can we include input validation code in the controller?
I have a winform which allows people to edit data from a database, to simplify things assume there is a Customer table in database with 3 fields - Name, City, Country. Through winform(s) people can Add/Edit/Delete customers.For each of these actions we need to save:
What the field names are (Name,City,Country in this case)What the field values were before they were modified What the field values are after they are modified.If the action is Add or Delete then 2 and 3 will be the same.I have already implemented this using XMLSerialisation (but not using any of the design patterns) and my XML output looks like this.
The solution can handle different areas of the system with different number of fields (i.e the same thing works when you are modifying Products for instance).is there a well defined design pattern to deal with this kind of behavior?
having difficulty with understanding object lifetime / instantiation.I have a windows from with a datagridview and a panel. The datagridview has a checkbox column and a list of names which is populated from a database.The panel has a few text boxes (e.g. name, age, favourite sports team) and a 'save changes' button.
The idea is that when the user selects a person in the datagridview by checking the appropriate checkbox then the panel shows the relevant data for that person (name, age, fav sports team) by pulling the data from a database. If the user would like to update the person's details they can do so by typing in the textboxes and then clicking the 'save changes' button. All quite simple so far.
The way I have designed this is to have a 'panel' class and to create an instance when the user checks a checkbox.(NB - the reason I have created a 'panel' class is that I intend to replicate the datagridview and panel on other tabpages within my form and thought it would be useful to have a generic 'panel' class that I could re-use.)
My code looks a bit like this:
If CheckBoxClicked Then Dim UpdatePanel As New UpdatePanel(MyForm.NameTextBox, MyForm.AgeTextBox, MyForm.FavSportTeamTextBox, MyForm.SaveButton) UpdatePanel.GetData() ...
When the user clicks the SaveButton the data is updated to the database and I have a display message (simple textbox) which says "Update successful" and displays for 5 seconds before hiding itself.
Here is the problem:Suppose a user checks a checkbox, reviews the data and does not make any changes, and then checks another checkbox and decides to update the data by clicking the 'save changes' button. What happens is that the "Update successful" message is displayed twice.
I think this is because every time the user checks a checkbox an instance of UpdatePanel is created. If a I select five different people using the checkboxes and then hit 'save changes' I get five "Update successful" messages.
I am not sure how to overcome this. It feels like each time a checkbox is clicked I need to check if an instance of UpdatePanel exists and then destroy it. I tried using UpdatePanel = Nothing and also investigated IDisposable and GC.Collect() but with no luck.
Assume you have controls A, B, C, D and E all with a Visibility property. You also have states 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 in which various combinations of your controls would be displayed. Currently this is being handled by switch statements for each state: i.e.
Select Case PageState case "1" a.visible = false b.visible = true
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As you can imagine, this becomes a pain as every state needs a show/hide statement for each control. How can I refactor this so that adding controls and/or states becomes trivial?My first instinct is to extend the control and add a collection of states that it should display for but this sounds like overkill.
Edit:I was deliberately vague in my question in case this has other implications. In my current instance the "controls" in question are ASP Panels. Does that change anything?
I have an application in Visual Basic Express 2008 that just has a Windows Media Player control on a blank form. In order to prevent the user from double clicking which would result in the media player full screening, I want to disable both right and left mouse clicks on the form and Windows Media Player control. Any suggestions?
i found an example for hooking global mouseclicks, but i can't get it running.the error is in the start subroutine, -SetWindowsHookEx failed.what am i doing wrong?
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class UserActivityHook Public Delegate Function HookProc(ByVal nCode As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal lParam As IntPtr) As Integer Public OnMouseActivity As MouseEventHandler[code]....
how do I make a textbox that counts every single mouse click made while the application is open?
Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal VKey As Long) As Integer Private Sub WebBrowser1_MouseDown(ByVal Button As Integer) Select Case Button
