.NET (Core and Framework)

29-Jul-05 11:42

Okay, I have had no luck and somehow I know this should be easy. I made an app that receives data and processes the info and does calculations, etc. But I can't get the data to write to anything on the form. I know how to use form button and such, but I want the app itself to write to a textbox, datagrid, whatever on the form. But I can't get it to work. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm using Visual C# .Net. I can make it write to the console, but I want it on the end user's app form.

Thanks,
RABB17

S. Senthil Kumar29-Jul-05 23:15

29-Jul-05 23:15

What exactly is the problem you're facing? Text that you write to the textbox doesn't appear? Throws exceptions? Are you writing to the form controls from a different thread?

If you can show us the offending piece of code, it would be much easier.

Regards
Senthil
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Rabbit1730-Jul-05 8:12

30-Jul-05 8:12

I have my Mainform which gets initialized upon start of the .exe file.

Once the user clicks Start the program receives info from other apps, hence no further user intervention happens. This info is then processed based on the what the other apps are doing, hence when a data app does something, the MainApp process that info and returns a calculation. This is done over and over as the data app returns new information, but never with any additional user intervention.

I can do a printout on a command prompt, but I want it to appear on the MainForm. It's always just a single line of text.

But whenever I reference the form within the MainApp, I get an exception error.
"Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set toan instance of an object." to be specific.

Hope that explains it better. Any help is greatly appreciated!

RABB17

S. Senthil Kumar31-Jul-05 4:04

31-Jul-05 4:04

How does MainApp get a reference to MainForm? From the error, the MainForm instance in MainApp is null. Make sure MainApp has a valid reference to MainForm before attempting to call methods on it.

Regards
Senthil
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Rabbit1731-Jul-05 7:19

31-Jul-05 7:19

First, I appreciate your helping on this.

The namespace in MainForm is IRead.
In MainApp, I have:
"using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using IRead;
using System.IO;
using System.Resources;

then following calculations I call
printDecision();

which looks like this:

public void printDecision()
{
mainform.MainForm_UpdateText();
}

*********************************************************
My MainForm looks like This:
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Resources;
using IRead

namespace IRead
{

#region Public Delegates

// delegates used to call MainForm functions from worker thread
public delegate void DelegateAddString(String s);

public delegate void DelegateThreadFinished();

#endregion

///

/// Main form for WorkerThread Sample
///

public class MainForm : Form
{
.
.
.
public MainForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
MainForm_UpdateText();
}

And further on, inside class MainForm but outide public MainForm():
public void MainForm_UpdateText()
{
this.textBox11.Text = MyApp.finalDecisionString;

}

S. Senthil Kumar31-Jul-05 8:41

31-Jul-05 8:41

Rabbit17 wrote:
public void printDecision()
{
mainform.MainForm_UpdateText();
}

But where has mainform been assigned to an instance of MainForm? That's where your problem is, you need to somehow pass an instance of MainForm to MainApp, if you want to call methods/properties on MainForm. I'd suggest adding a property to MainApp, something like

class MainApp
{
  public static Form MainForm
  {
     set { mainForm = value; }
  }

}

class MainForm
{
  ...
  public MainForm()
  {
    ...
    MainApp.MainForm = this;
  }
}

Regards
Senthil
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Rabbit171-Aug-05 11:13

1-Aug-05 11:13

Okay, I did that... yeah sometimes the basics are so overlooked... now it doesn't update. But at least it compiles now! This is my code on the MainForm:

public void textBox11_TextChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{

}

public void MainForm_UpdateText()
{

textBox11.Text = MyApp.finalDecisionString;

}

and I call MainForm_UpdateText() from the MainApp with:
public void printDecision()
{
MainForm dummy;
dummy = new MainForm();
dummy.MainForm_UpdateText();
}

So I guess my question is if the textbox can only be changed by an object sender, how can I make sender something internal instead of a user click?

S. Senthil Kumar1-Aug-05 18:31

"Simple" Form Output question

1-Aug-05 18:31

Rabbit17 wrote:
public void printDecision()
{
MainForm dummy;
dummy = new MainForm();
dummy.MainForm_UpdateText();
}

This is not going to work. You're creating a new instance of MainForm, so changing the textbox value in that form is not going to reflect in the original form. You need to have some property exposed by MyApp, that is set in the MainForm's constructor (see my previous post). You'll then call MainForm_UpdateText() on that instance, which will do what you want.

Regards
Senthil
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Rabbit1729-Jul-05 5:41

Re: "Simple" Form Output question

29-Jul-05 5:41

I'm fairly new so this is probably a dumb question.

My App generates various data in class files away from the form class that have nothing to do with any additional user input. Basically, they start the app and it makes calculations.

My question is, how do I get the output to display somewhere on the form. I tried using textboxes, but that was a bust because I couldn't reference them without it bombing out. Apparently they are mainly for users inputting text, not seeing displayed text.

Thanks,
RABB17

Not Active29-Jul-05 11:45

Not Active

29-Jul-05 11:45

Don't reference the form, or textbox, in the class; reference the class in the form.

Form1_CalculateButtonClick()
{
MyClass cls = new MyClass();
Textbox1.Text = cls.DoCalculation();
}

Re: "Simple" Form Output question

Rabbit1730-Jul-05 8:02

Re: "Simple" Form Output question

30-Jul-05 8:02

I tried your code above but it didn't help. It does makes sense, but once my app is started it is constantly running and gathering data from other apps and therefore it only initializes the Mainform once.

If I do try to reference the form I get this error:

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Any further ideas? Thanks!
RABB17

Dave Kreskowiak1-Aug-05 15:23

Dave Kreskowiak

1-Aug-05 15:23

All you have to do is set the Text property to whatever string you need to display the results.

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Automatically Create Dial Up During Setup

Guyver197828-Jul-05 23:18

Guyver1978

28-Jul-05 23:18

I have created a basic setup project to install several files. One of the files is a batch file that makes a RASDIAL call to a specific Dial Up Connection in Network Connections. If possible I would like to automate the creation the Dial Up connection if it does not exist during the setup process.

Is this possible ? Is there a way for creating a template or file that can just be placed in a specific location that will be viewed by the system as the dial up connection ?

-> Installatoi Intended for a WinXP system
-> Using the .NET Enviroment

Thanks
Clint

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Strange ArrayList behavior?

Jon Rista28-Jul-05 8:18

Jon Rista

28-Jul-05 8:18

I am having some very strange problems with ArrayList in a class I've written. When I create and populate an ArrayList, only the odd indexes are populated, and the evens are no where to be found. When I try to iterate through the list, it fails on the first index with an "Object not set to an instance" error (since index 0 is technically even). If I start on index 1, it succeeds, but fails when it gets to index 2.

When I watch the ArrayList in VS.NET's debugger, I get a list like this:

list - {Count(5)}
[1] - object 0
[3] - object 1
[5] - object 2
[7] - object 3
[9] - object 4

When it should be this:

list - {Count(5)}
[0] - object 0
[1] - object 1
[2] - object 2
[3] - object 3
[4] - object 4

Has anyone ever encountered something like this before? Any ideas what could possibly be causing such odd behavior with the ArrayList object? Thanks for any help.

Dan Neely28-Jul-05 9:08

Dan Neely

28-Jul-05 9:08

Without seeing your source I can't say for certain, but at a guess you're incrementing the index you add at both before and after you insert an element into the array.

S. Senthil Kumar28-Jul-05 9:24

28-Jul-05 9:24

How are you populating the ArrayList? Using the constructor that takes an ICollection as parameter?

Regards
Senthil
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Jon Rista28-Jul-05 10:47

Jon Rista

28-Jul-05 10:47

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

foreach (obj in objectarray)
{
list.Add(obj);
}

return list;

Thats basically it. I'm not doing anything special, or out of the ordinary. I'm just using the arraylist at its most basic level.

S. Senthil Kumar29-Jul-05 0:14

29-Jul-05 0:14

Very strange. What exception do you get when you try to access index 0?

Regards
Senthil
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Scott Serl29-Jul-05 14:10

Scott Serl

29-Jul-05 14:10

From the c# programmer's reference:

The foreach statement repeats a group of embedded statements for each
element in an array or an object collection. The foreach statement is used to 
iterate through the collection to get the desired information, but should not 
be used to change the contents of the collection to avoid unpredictable side 
effects. The statement takes the following form.....

If you change the collection, the iterator is no longer valid.

[the first time I posted this, I accidentally replied to S. Senthil Kumar. sorry for the mistake]

[P.S. I actually did reply to Jon Rista this time, but it still shows as a reply to S. Senthil Kumar. I don't know what I can do.]

Robert Rohde29-Jul-05 20:49

Robert Rohde

29-Jul-05 20:49

Well that's true, but he is iterating over an object array and is changing the newly created ArrayList so this shouldn't be the problem...

Scott Serl29-Jul-05 22:32

Scott Serl

29-Jul-05 22:32

Sorry, I must have read what I thought he was saying rather than than the actual code. I'll have to get these glasses checked! Smile | :)

Robert Rohde29-Jul-05 20:50

Robert Rohde

29-Jul-05 20:50

Is it possible the the objectarray contains null values?

Try this:

ArrayList list = new ArrayList();

foreach (obj in objectarray)
{
   if (obj != null)
      list.Add(obj);
}

S. Senthil Kumar29-Jul-05 23:12