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Luc Pattyn wrote: What happened to the normal people?
Ahem, I've barked at the OP a few times
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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Sorry, I forgot about your daily show...
Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
This month's tips:
- before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google;
- the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get;
- use PRE tags to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets.
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It's okay
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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Don't worry - I've no doubt that you'll be joining the hallowed ranks soon enough.
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I pretty sure someday Just need to get off my butt and write some articles
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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No, in other words, you plainly have no idea what you're doing and should learn some basics before wasting all our time asking questions you don't understand the answer to.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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in form2
form1 f1 = new form1()
f1.show()
try this.
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That's also pretty bad.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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I'm going to suggest that you use one of the design patterns here. One that I'm thinking might help is the Mediator pattern (have a look on Google to find it), but it basically looks like this:
public class Mediator
{
private Form1 _loginForm;
private Form2 _buddyForm;
public Form2 BuddyForm
{
get
{
if (_buddyForm == null)
_buddyForm = new Form2(this);
return _buddyForm;
}
}
public Form1 LoginForm
{
get
{
if (_loginForm == null)
_loginForm = new Form1(this);
return _loginForm;
}
}
public void Logout()
{
LoginForm.Show();
BuddyForm.Hide();
}
}
public class Form1 : Form
{
private Mediator _mediator;
public Form1(Mediator mediator)
{
_mediator = mediator;
}
protected virtual void Login_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
_mediator.ShowBuddy();
}
}
public class Form2 : Form
{
private Mediator _mediator;
public Form2(Mediator mediator)
{
_mediator = mediator;
}
protected virtual void Logout_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
_mediator.Logout();
}
}
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Since you couldnt help here is how you do it declare a public, static variable of type Form1 just below the Form1 class declaration. I’ve named the variable frm1
public static Form1 frm1 = null;
then when you show form2
frm1 = this;
this.Visible = false;
Form2 frm2 = new Form2();
frm2.Show();
then from form2 you can call
Form1.frm1.show();
so thanks for all your help lol
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Wow - that's some nasty ass code. Can I make a few suggestions:
1 - buy a beginners book before you become more entrenched in the really bad habits that you're currently forming. Otherwise, your code will always suck as much as this code does.
2 - try to use real variable names. form1 and form2 make sense on your first day of coding, they are not workable in a real project
Seriously, you come here, ask for help, complain when you get it, and then you're all proud because you found a way that frankly, belongs in the coding horrors forum.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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That's one seriously bad piece of code. Why do you think yours is better than the solution I posted above? Let's see - I've been in this industry over 20 years, and have extensive experience in developing applications including using patterns to develop robust systems - and you? Well you accept default form names. Nuff said.
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But look how much code yours is. His is three lines or something, so it MUST be better.....
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
"also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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Thanks for that - that really made me laugh, and I needed it.
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Can any one tell me how to center align the items in the combo box? I've been reading quite a few forums but couldn't figure out any proper method.
I want both the list of items in the combo box and the selected item to be center aligned.
Thanks in advance.
Bala
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Bala Thirumalai wrote: Can any one tell me how to center align the items in the combo box?
Using an alignment property if one exists would be the way. If it does not exist the you can do OwnerDraw.
led mike
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they should have a text aling property
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But I couldn't find any such text align property for the combo box. My exact requirement is to use a drop down list type combo box. I'll try Owner draw. Thanks!
modified on Friday, March 7, 2008 9:57 PM
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Hi,
I want to find out how to use the "SecurityTrimmingEnabled="True"" on a Windows Form. I need to impliment Authentication and Authorization on a application and I need to hide/show controls based on a user(s) Role.
Can someone please tell me how to do this or give me advice as to find information on this?
Thanks!
Illegal Operation
Making Computer Software Talk
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Illegal Operation wrote:
Can someone please tell me how to do this or give me advice as to find information on this?
I know absolutely nothing about this, it sounds like you know more than I do about it. If I wanted to know more I would try to find some documentation on the MSDN site.
led mike
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You can't use this directly (a la the sitemap), so you would need to role your own. You could use the standard Membership/Role providers API - it is possible in a WinForms app; I've done it. Then you could use an ExtenderProvider to achieve this - I've written something along these lines here[^].
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Anyone have any ideas how I could go about detecting any windows context menu while it's popping up?
Is there any message I can register for, that you may have heard about?
Just to be certain, I'm not trying to hook all context menus in my application, I'm trying to hook all menus globally.
www.wickedorange.com
www.andrewvos.com
modified on Friday, March 7, 2008 5:23 AM
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I don't know whether it can be done or not but if it can I guess you will need global hooks.
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Okay, SetWinEventHook does what I need.
Now I just need to get a handle to the context menu.
FindWindow("#32768", NULL) seems to get the temporary pointer assigned to the menu, not the actual HMENU.
Any ideas now?
www.wickedorange.com
www.andrewvos.com
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