Visual Basic

Convert mouse position to langtitude-longitude on a map

24-Mar-10 3:20

Read up on CreateFile[^]. I think the section you're interested in is about half way down, under "Physical Disks and Volumes". There is no ".NET way" to do this. You have to P/Invoke the Win32 functions directly to accomplish this.

There an article here [^]on CP about it, but it's not written very well.

and a quick Google for "read disk sectors vb.net" comes up with these[^].

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Johnkokk23-Mar-10 23:53

Johnkokk

23-Mar-10 23:53

OK, let's say i have this map loaded on a form http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Satellite_image_of_Greece.jpg[^].

Is there a way to convert the mouse position on that map as i move, to latitude and longitude ?
If no, how such a thing can be done ?

Thanks.

Re: Convert mouse position to langtitude-longitude on a map

Steven J Jowett24-Mar-10 1:02

Re: Convert mouse position to langtitude-longitude on a map

24-Mar-10 1:02

If you know the coordinance of the top-left and the bottom-right, then it's down to basic maths to calculate the coordinance that the mouse is pointing to.

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David Skelly24-Mar-10 2:57

David Skelly

24-Mar-10 2:57

One thing to be aware of is that a map is a projection of a three dimensional curved surface onto a two dimensional plane, and there are different ways of handling that projection. So in order to convert the mouse position to a latitude/longitude on the map you need to know the projection in use for this particular map.

In this case, it's not really a map, it's a satellite photograph. I have no idea how the maths works for mapping a 2D digital photograph back to the corresponding real-world position on the surface of a sphere. In fact the world is an oblate spheroid, I think, not a perfect sphere but you could probably make things easy by assuming a sphere and still be close enough for most practical purposes unless you're planning to write your own cruise missile guidance system.

Re: Convert mouse position to langtitude-longitude on a map

Steven J Jowett24-Mar-10 4:10

Send Message on selected System IP Address.

24-Mar-10 4:10

David Skelly wrote:
unless you're planning to write your own cruise missile guidance system.

Well actually..... Wink | ;)

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dcdhingra23-Mar-10 23:50

23-Mar-10 23:50

Hi All,
I want to develop an application in which it will show list of IP address of all working System in LAN and when i select any IP address from list and want to show message box on selected IP address's System then it will show message box.

I am able to get all IP Address of all working system. but not able to send message on selected IP address's System.

So my question is that, how i send message at selected IP Address system?
I don't know much about Network and Socket Programming.

Please guide me what i need to do for this task and what is the best way to achieve them.
If you all have any reference book then please revert me back name of the book.

Regards
Dharmchand Dhingra

Eddy Vluggen24-Mar-10 1:50

Eddy Vluggen

24-Mar-10 1:50

dcdhingra wrote:
So my question is that, how i send message at selected IP Address system?
I don't know much about Network and Socket Programming.

Is there an application on that system that can receive and display the message? Or should it display it without installing extra software?

If you're "just" going to send a short notification, then take a look at the "NET SEND" command - it might do the trick without much trouble. There's a CodeProject-article here[^].

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dcdhingra24-Mar-10 3:52

24-Mar-10 3:52

Thanks for quick response.

I think Code project article will help me.

Currently i am studying that article and what output will come will tell you within tomorrow or few day's.

Thanks once again.

Regards
Dharmchand Dhingra

dcdhingra29-Mar-10 2:38

29-Mar-10 2:38

Hi,
Thanks a lot.
I have done my task which i want. The code project article which you gave me link of that article help a lot to solve this problem.

Once again Thanks a lot.

Regards
Dharmchand Dhingra

Eddy Vluggen29-Mar-10 2:44

Eddy Vluggen

29-Mar-10 2:44

You're welcome, and thanks for the feedback Smile | :)

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Dave Kreskowiak24-Mar-10 3:13

24-Mar-10 3:13

Without some piece of software running on the remote system listening for the messasge and knows what to do with it (like showing it in a messagebox), you can't show anything on the remote workstation.

You can use the "NET SEND" command (Start -> Run -> CMD -> NET SEND /?) to send to a user, not an IP address.

How do you have your code setup? What are you doing to try and send this message?

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dcdhingra24-Mar-10 3:54

24-Mar-10 3:54

Thanks for quick response.

I already tried Net Send command but it is not working in Window 7 and Vista.

I need to create that type of application(Means Net Send). which will Work on All Windows OS.

Regards
Dharmchand Dhingra

Dave Kreskowiak24-Mar-10 4:30

Crystal Report from Datatable

24-Mar-10 4:30

It doesn't work on Vista and Win7 probably because there is a firewall running on those machines that are blocking the incomming requests or the services that listen for those messages are not running.

If you still want to go further and create your own, Google for "vb.net TCP/IP chat" for examples.

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bassmaster_general23-Mar-10 7:08

bassmaster_general

23-Mar-10 7:08

Trying to generate a report from a datatable. using SQL to populate a datatable. previously the table was simply displayed to the user, now I want the user to be able to generate a report after viewing the information without a new database query, i simply want to pass the current Datatable to crystal reports.

Public Sub printVisits()
Dim _row As Row
Dim newRow As DataRow
Dim printVisitSelection As DataTable = New DataTable("VisitData")
printVisitSelection.Columns.Add("No", System.Type.GetType("System.String"))
printVisitSelection.Columns.Add("Date", System.Type.GetType("System.String"))
printVisitSelection.Columns.Add("LastName", System.Type.GetType("System.String"))
printVisitSelection.Columns.Add("FirstName", System.Type.GetType("System.String"))
printVisitSelection.Columns.Add("VisitType", System.Type.GetType("System.String"))

For Each _row In fgVisits.Rows
'newRow = New DataRow
newRow = printVisitSelection.NewRow()
newRow("No") = _row(1).ToString
newRow("Date") = _row(2).ToString
newRow("LastName") = _row(3).ToString
newRow("FirstName") = _row(4).ToString
newRow("VisitType") = _row(5).ToString

printVisitSelection.Rows.Add(newRow)
Next

End Sub

Re: Crystal Report from Datatable

Steven J Jowett23-Mar-10 11:22

Reading properties of files

23-Mar-10 11:22

You need to use a Typed DataSet.

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Steven J Jowett23-Mar-10 6:30

Re: Reading properties of files

23-Mar-10 6:30

I have need to determine which user created a particular file on the server, therefore I was wondering if anyone knew of away of reading the Details properties of a file. ie if you right click a file and select Properties there is a tab called Details. One of the properties here is called 'Owner'

I have already tried the Microsoft Developer Support OLE File Property Reader COM Object but not have any luck there.

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks

Steve Jowett
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Richard MacCutchan23-Mar-10 7:54

Richard MacCutchan

23-Mar-10 7:54

This article[^] may help you.

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Re: Reading properties of files

Steven J Jowett24-Mar-10 0:55

VB 2008 Express, Get Modified date stamp

24-Mar-10 0:55

If anyone is interested, I found this code snippet that returns the information I need, in particular the file owner :

Sub Main()
        Dim arrHeaders(35)

        Dim shell As New Shell32.Shell
        Dim objFolder As Shell32.Folder

        objFolder = shell.NameSpace("\\PDMHH01\RMSage\GroupRM\SageSP")

        For i = 0 To 34
            arrHeaders(i) = objFolder.GetDetailsOf(objFolder.Items, i)
        Next
        For Each strFileName In objFolder.Items
            For i = 0 To 34
                Console.WriteLine(i & vbTab & arrHeaders(i) & ": " & bjFolder.GetDetailsOf(strFileName, i))
            Next
        Next
        Console.ReadKey()
End Sub

Point to note, you do need to reference in the \Windows\System32 folder

Steve Jowett
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nhsal6923-Mar-10 1:16

nhsal69

23-Mar-10 1:16

Hi there,

I'm pretty new to this but what I'm after is a method of getting the Last modified date from a file, then renaming the file to that data/time stamp.. If there are any duplicates then appending _1, _2 etc to them....

I've been looking for the correct file.getX and have found the
file.getattributes, for hidden /readonly etc.. but can't find the correct one for file Properties, specifically modified time.

Can anyone help...

Thanks

Re: VB 2008 Express, Get Modified date stamp

Dave Kreskowiak23-Mar-10 1:33