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Hi,
I have a dictionary of Terrain objects in a game I'm working on. Here's the class that holds a single Terrain (I didn't include the properties for brevity, but they map directly to the fields):
<code>
public cass Terrain
{
private string name;
private string description;
private List<string> tiles;
private bool blocks = false;
public Terrain ()
{
this.tiles = new List<string> ();
}
}
</code>
Another quick question: would that class be a good candidate for a struct?
I have another class TerrainManager that has a Dictionary<string,Terrain> of these.
I did have code like this to create a terrain and add it to the TerrainManager:
<code>
Terrain terrain = new Terrain ()
terrain.Name = "Grass";
terrain.Description = "The green stuff.";
terrain.Tiles.Add ("grass");
terrains.Add ("grass", terrain);
</code>
That'd be fine if there were going to be just a few, but there will likely be hundreds. So I decided this might be a good excuse to learn a bit about XML. Also this way I don't have to recompile to make a change. Here's a sample of the XML format I decided upon:
<terrains>
<terrain key="grass">
<name>Grass</name>
<description>The green stuff.</description>
<tile>grass</tile>
</terrain>
<terrain key="tree">
<name>Tree</name>
<description>They're big.</description>
<tile>grass</tile>
<tile>tree</tile>
<blocks>true</blocks>
</terrain>
</terrains>
As you can see the <blocks> element is optional and there may be one or more <tile> elements. The key attribute in the <terrain> element is the key used in the dictionary.
I got it to work using XmlTextReader. So I guess I should be happy, but I'm not, because I'm not sure it'll handle all situations gracefully and the code is a bit hard to understand after a day after writing it.
This seems like a simple thing to do. I've read about Serializable objects and thought this might help me, but those tutorials only focus on writing XML from the objects, but I don't need to write XML. I only need to read it in once the program starts and fill the Dictionary<TKey,TValue> in my TerrainManager.
I just want to do this in the simplest way possible. I'm sorry if this post was long it's my first post here. Also I'd be happy to post the code I'm currently using the load the Xml. Thanks everybody, I've enjoyed reading the articles here since starting my journey in C# and .NET.
Also I should mention I'm using Mono on Linux, but I don't think that should matter too much.
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Mark A. Nicolosi
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Hi Mark.
I think the simplest way to do this would be to use XmlSerializer [^]class. Using this class, you just mark your class with the [Serializable] attribute, then when you want to save your object:
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Terrain));
serializer.Serialize(someFileStream, myTerrainInstance);
And when you want to load a saved terrain object:
FileStream terrainFile = ...;
Terrain myTerrainInstaince = (Terrain)serializer.Deserialize(terrainFile);
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I'm also a great fan of the XmlSerializer but according to a discussion I recently had in the XML forum it does not support the IDictionary interface. Therefore instances of the Dictionary though marked as Serializable cannot be used with the XmlSerializer.
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Stefan Troschuetz wrote: it does not support the IDictionary interface
You're right, however, there are workarounds[^].
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Thanks for the link. I'll bookmark that one 
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Thanks Juda, I'll give that a try. I think this is exactly what I'm looking for.
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Mark A. Nicolosi
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Hi all,
i'm working on CheckedListBox, where in which i am using itemCheck event To capture the checked and unchecked values of checkboxes of CheckedListBox,
But here if Am loading some values
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The common thing to do is to set a flag that tells you to ignore the event, within the event itself. If it's on page load tho, you could just hook up the event handler AFTER setting your values.
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ya i've taken a flag, saying for the first time[when count is zero] i have restricted my itemCheck event code,
but its not working
int count=0;
if (count != 0)
{
if (e.NewValue == CheckState.Unchecked)
{
lstChcked.Items.Remove(chklstMultipleMdfyTbl.SelectedItem.ToString());
}
else if (e.NewValue == CheckState.Checked)
{
//ChklbxAdd= Convert.ToString(chklstMultipleMdfyTbl.CheckedItems.Count);
// string[] ChklbxFill = new string[chklstMultipleMdfyTbl.CheckedItems.Count];
lstChcked.Items.Add(chklstMultipleMdfyTbl.SelectedItem.ToString());
}
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("try to restrict this event");
}
}
I DIDN't Understand ur last line,
***you could just hook up the event handler AFTER setting your values.**
reply please
prashanth,
s/w Engineer,
Syfnosys.
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pashitech wrote: I DIDN't Understand ur last line,
***you could just hook up the event handler AFTER setting your values.**
It's the same thing I'm telling you over and over again.
BTW, your count flag cannot work since you obviously defined it inside the event handler, so it will always have the same value (0) when execution reaches the if statement. The flag has to be an instance field that preserves its value between subsequent executions of the event handler. Furthermore, it would be sufficient to use a boolean instead of an int.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook www.troschuetz.de
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Thnx alot, and i am done with it,
ya i've used bool and used in pageload event.
at last,1 morre,
do u know any alternate method, to deselect all the checked values of Checkedlistbox.
for (int i = 0; i < CHECKEDLISTBOX1.Items.Count; ++i)
{
CHECKEDLISTBOX.SetItemChecked(i, false);
}
if i use this, the total days work is vanishing--i mean the rest of the code that u've helped me is not working,
anyway thnx alot for ur help,
bye byes
prashanth,
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hi all,
how to create setup file for a windows application so that user can uninstall the application without going to control panel that he should get a sub menu in all programs menu along with menu to launch the application.
thanks and regards,
praveen
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In Visual Studio, add a Setup project. Click on the setup project's file system editor. Right-click, add special folder-> users start menu. There, add a shortcut to the uninstaller.
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I am trying to create a TabPage as separate object. I can edit them iside s tab control allright, however, I can't create or edit the control layout of a separate TabPage.
When I create a user control (or a form), and change the base class to "TabPage", the editor changes to a generic controll collection.
What can I do?
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I don't think there is a Visual Studio designer that allows you to layout tab pages visually. If you really need this, I think you're going to have to create your layout as a custom control, then add that to the tab page at design time.
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This actually was easier than I thought - thanks! 
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WHEN I WRITE CODE, visual studio.net unexpectactly closes, and restart itself, i get the following errors.
OSK.EXE title
System Failed to initialize
and the second Error is VCSPAWN.EXE TITLE
APPLICATION FAILED TO INITIALIZE
I HAD A CODE THAT CONNECT TO SQL7 DB, IT CONNECT VERY WELL AND DISPLAY THE CONTENTS OF MY TABLE, BUT AFTER THAT IT ATTEMPT TO SHUTDOWN. I HAVE SCREEN SHOTS OF THE OCCURANCE, BUT I DONT SEE AN OPTION TO ATTACH IN HERE SO YOU CAN SEE, PLEASE PROVIDE ME WITH YOU E-MAIL I WILL ATTACH IT. THANKS
NOTE:THIS HAPPEN AFTER I FORMAT THE PARTITION, AND I FIRST INSTALL VISUAL STUDIO 2003.
PLEASE HELP
Vuyiswa
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WRITING IN ALL CAPS IS JUST ANNOYING AND WONT MAKE ANYONE HELP!
*ahem*
Anyway did you bother searching? It takes less time to open up google and search for something than it does to post on here ...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=vcspawn.exe&meta=[^]
Now repeat after me: "I will always search before posting multiple times in a forum and in caps"
Edit: spelling X(
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I was searching for how windows detect MMC or SD or Flash disk and bring up a dialog that gives you options to open folder or in windows media player..etc. ...
I want to build application that make the same...
I had made an application that detect any change in disks generally but for example ( I'm intereted in MMC ) my application can detect the memory reader when it's plugged or unplugged but when I insert a memory stick in the reader it doesnot detect any change ...should I make timer that watch the memory reader all the time!! I think it's not good way..so any one has any solution for this??? and this dialog that windows brings up is from shell32.dll so any one knows how to know the function and its parameters??
thanks in advance
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Ok I you create a new C# windows project and then create a ".settings" with an item (string) and (user) as the type. Now this will create an app.config file associated with the project. Go into the properties for the app.config and change the Build Action to (Embedded Resource). Now in your windows form create and edit box and a button which loads and saves the setting that your created.
Build the project. Go into the bin folder and click on the exe file to run the project. Try changing the settings and saving the settings. Close the project and load it back up by clicking on the exe file to verify that the save works which it will.
BUT WHERE DOES IT SAVE TOO??????????
I cant figure it out......
Chris
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Hi,
It saves it somewhere in C:\Documents and settings\UserName\LocalSettings\Application Data \Your Application Name .Exe XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX\VersionNumber\user.config
Try search *.config in your documents and settings and u will find it.
That's because .Net wants to save Config settings for each Windows user. so it does not touch the application.config file that can be shared between many users.
That happens even u don't set the Build action to Embedded Resource wich is not logic because the config file must not be embedded in the exe.
HTH.
Hayder Marzouk
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Hi, I am just beginner in .NET with C#. In my study, I have learned that when an instance of a class created in the heap is not owned by reference (a variable of that class) , the Garbage Collector (GC) removes this instance from the memory after a while. In my first small application in .NET, I hasitate in a point that When I am testing a click event of a button control of my Form1 class, I declared a variable of type a Form class (let's say Form2). The View is like this:
private void button1_click(....)
{
Form2 myForm2 = new Form2();
myForm2.Show();
}
Here when the execution gets out of the click event, then I expect that the local "myForm2" becomes out of scope for availibility. But my new form (Form2) still apears on my screen. Why? Cause no availiable reference to this Form2 instance anymore, immediately after the button click event routine. Anything I need to know more about "scopes" and GC ?
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As u have created reference of form2 from form1's button click event so this reference of form2 will remain in scope till the form1 is in scope and as soon u will close the form1 the reference of form2 will also be lost and GC will reclaim the memory back and will close the form2 also.
rahul
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