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Hi!
I have been looking for a way to extend the default printdialog in PresentationFramework. I need to filter the available printers some how. Does anyone know if it is possible either to filter the printer queue datasource or to extend the dialog to add such functionallity?

Andreas Johansson

Senior Software developer at Tieto Sweden

I dont know exactly what the answer to this should be, but this might be a starty:
Extending C# PrintDialog Part II[^]

Other helpful things might be:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/winforms/thread/a2e1963e-60d6-4d4e-bac5-66fdb41b7b3b[^]

Thank you for your reply.
I have already found those articles and posts but they all work with the windows forms version of the printDialog. I cant figure out how to apply the technique to the presentationframework PrintDialog.

Andreas Johansson

Senior software developer at Tieto Sweden

Well, there is always the option of constructing a completely new PrintFile dialog in WPF from scratch, but that seems like a lot of work..

I know

Looks like thats my only way out.

Andreas Johansson

Senior software developer at Tieto Sweden

Hi i am writing an application that has WPF as its front end and a Windows service which is responsible for scheduling and executing the my operations.
At the moment i use WCF to send live progress messages to the client from the service and i add this message to a listbox on the WPF listbox using the items.add function from the code behind, But the performance is very poor. I need help or suggestions on the best way to display this messages efficiently.

What sort of volume and why do you consider performance poor. You have described the standard architecture for a monitoring app!

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RAH

I would bind a property containing the messages, perhaps a subset of messages, to a multiline textbox.

Andreas Johansson

Senior software developer at Tieto Sweden

Good Day

i have buttons and i have defined them like this

HTML

<Grid>
                         <StackPanel HorizontalAlignment="Center"  VerticalAlignment="Stretch"  Orientation="Horizontal" Height="400">

                         <k:KinectTileButton  Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Style="{x:Null}"  x:Name="btnA"    Click="btnA_Click"   MinHeight="400" MinWidth="350" Width="198"    >

                         <Image  Source="../Images/A.png"   />
                     </k:KinectTileButton>

                     <k:KinectTileButton  Background="{x:Null}" Style="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}"   MinHeight="400" MinWidth="350" Width="198"   x:Name="btnB"  Click="btnB_Click"    >

                         <Image  Source="/SchoolPlay1;component/Alphabets101/Images/B.png"   />
                     </k:KinectTileButton>
                     <k:KinectTileButton  Background="{x:Null}" Style="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" x:Name="btnc"      Click="btnC_Click"  MinHeight="400" MinWidth="350" Width="198"      >

                         <Image  Source="/SchoolPlay1;component/Alphabets101/Images/C.png" />
                     </k:KinectTileButton>



                   </StackPanel>
                     </Grid>

and m gridlayout has the following properties

HTML

<Grid  x:Name="LayoutRoot" MinHeight="768" MinWidth="1024" >

and my Page does not have with and height set as i want to cater for different resolutions.

if i remove the stackPanel , my buttons bring big nicely , but i need then in a Stackpanel kind of control so that they will be aligned in order , but when i have the stack panel in the , the buttons become small, can anyone help regarding this, below is the example of the image

Image Example[^]

Thanks

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Hi Viswa,

Why do you need to use a StackPanel? Generally if you have a fixed layout panel, go with Grid.

But anyways, I dont know exactly how KinectTileButton works, but if you specify same size for MaxWidth and MinWidth, or MaxHeight and MinHeight, everything will remain same irrespective of the container.

Do let me know if you are looking for something else.

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hi Abhishek

i resolved the issue by using a Uniform.

Thanks

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You mean UniformGrid right.

Anyways, good to hear that. Smile | :)

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Correct

Thanks

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i need a listview with textboxes,& get the value written in eacgh textbox of each row in listview...

With a little templating, you can achieve this quite easily.

E.g.

XML

<ListBox x:Name="List" >
<ListBox.ItemTemplate >
<DataTemplate>
<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" >
<TextBox />
<TextBox />
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

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ok...thanx

I have done the same thing...

I have this enum bound to a combo:

public enum BOMStatuses
{
    [Description("Cancel")]
    Cancel,

    [Description("Cancelled")]
    Cancelled,

    [Description("Hold")]
    Hold,

    [Description("Priced")]
    Priced,
        
    [Description("Rejected With Reason")]
    RejectedWithReason,

    [Description("To Be Delivered")]
    ToBeDelivered,

    [Description("To Be Priced")]
    ToBePriced,

    [Description("To Be Ordered")]
    ToBeOrdered
}

It's bound in the view like this:

<Window.Resources>
    <ResourceDictionary>
        <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
            <ResourceDictionary Source="..\Resources.xaml"/>
        </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>

        
        <ObjectDataProvider x:Key="BOMStatusList" 
                            MethodName="GetValues" 
                            ObjectType="{x:Type entity_enums:MaterialType}">
            <ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
                <x:Type TypeName="entity_enums:BOMStatuses"/>
            </ObjectDataProvider.MethodParameters>
        </ObjectDataProvider>
        <converters:BOMStatusToDescriptionConverter x:Key="BOMStatusToDescConverter"/>            
            

    </ResourceDictionary>
</Window.Resources>

and

<ComboBox Grid.Row="2"
            Grid.Column="1"
            TabIndex="0"
            ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource BOMStatusList}}"
            SelectedValue="{Binding SelectedBOMStatus}"
            SelectedIndex="{Binding StatusIndex}"
            Style="{StaticResource ComboBoxStyle}"
            VerticalAlignment="Center"
            HorizontalAlignment="Left"
            Margin="0,20,20,2"
            Width="250">
    <ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource BOMStatusToDescConverter}}"/>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ComboBox.ItemTemplate>
</ComboBox>

In certain cases I only want to show 2 of the enum values. How can I filter this list of enum values?

Thanks

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

Damn I was hoping for enlightenment on this one. The obvious answer is to move your enum to a table, add a filter flag and then build your enum based on the tabe. PIEBaldConsult has an article on doing that I believe. Personally I just keep the enum aligned with the table manually.

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RAH

Thats not the obvious answer Smile | :)

. In fact, it sounds super duper overly complicated. Just wrap your ItemsSource collection in a CollectionView or CollectionViewSource and use the Filter.

Ah enlightenment Laugh | :laugh:

I always think the filter needs maintaining by the user and therefore move to a table! And I use Silverlight where the collectionview is not a standard collection (I think).

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH

CollectionViewSource is available in SL for sure. Not sure about CollectionView. They both kinda do the same thing, just a different format for the predicate function. OP didn't specify in which cases he wanted to limit the items, so... Smile | :)

.

Good Day

I am building a Kinect Applications. So i am using WPF on my laptop with the resolution of

1920 * 1080

so everything looks great and last night , i wanted to test it on my Samsung HD TV 42 inch Plasma and my Buttons went missing.

So my TV resolution is 1024 x 768(NATIVE)

so i reduced my resolution to 1024 x 768 on my laptop and i experienced the same thing my TV was experiencing.

I need an Advice to adjust my apps layout to accommodate all resolutions from

1024 x 768(NATIVE) and higher resolution.

Here is an example of a Page that i have , so basically i am using navigation service i have one window that hold the frame and i make it full-screen and others are just pages.

HTML

<Page x:Class="SchoolPlay1.MainMenu"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"  
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Samples.Kinect.ControlsBasics"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006" 
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"  
        xmlns:k="http://schemas.microsoft.com/kinect/2013" 
        xmlns:tk="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit;assembly=Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit"  
     KeepAlive="false"
       Height="1008.94" Width="2086.684"
	Title="MainMenu">
    <Page.Background>
        <ImageBrush ImageSource="/SchoolPlay1;component/Background/Background_Math.png" />
    </Page.Background>
    <Grid Canvas.Top="-16" x:Name="LayoutRoot" Width="1636">

        <Grid Grid.Row="0"  Margin="10,0,0,19.6"> 
            <k:KinectUserViewer k:KinectRegion.KinectRegion="{Binding ElementName=kinectRegion}" Height="100" HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
        </Grid>

        <k:KinectRegion x:Name="kinectRegion" Margin="-226,10,-224,6.8" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="2086">
            <Grid x:Name="kinectRegionGrid" Margin="10,20,160,19.8">
                <Grid.RowDefinitions>
                    <RowDefinition Height="*" />
                    <RowDefinition Height="170" />
                </Grid.RowDefinitions>


                <k:KinectTileButton   x:Name="btnAlphabets"     Canvas.Left="386"  Width="Auto" Height="Auto" Canvas.Top="98"   Click="btnAlphabets_Click" Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Margin="29,53,1521.4,153.4">
                    <Image Source="/SchoolPlay1;component/MainMenuImages/Final_Alphabet.png" Height="426" Width="342"  />
                </k:KinectTileButton>


                <k:KinectTileButton  x:Name="btnMath" Width="Auto" Height="Auto"  Canvas.Top="98"  Click="btnMath_Click" Canvas.Left="10" Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Margin="400,53,1137.4,153.4">
                    <Image Source="MainMenuImages/MathMenu.png" Height="429" Width="352"  />
                </k:KinectTileButton>

                <k:KinectTileButton   x:Name="btnFruitAndVeg"     Canvas.Left="702"   Canvas.Top="117" Width="Auto" Height="Auto"  Click="btnFruitAndVeg_Click_1" Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Margin="810,109,783.4,153.4">
                    <Image Source="MainMenuImages/FruitAndVegMenu.png" Height="386" Width="302"  />
                </k:KinectTileButton>
                <k:KinectTileButton   x:Name="btnMiscellaneouss"      Width="Auto" Height="Auto"   Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}" Margin="1161,141,431.4,198.4" Click="btnMiscellaneouss_Click" IsEnabled="False"  >
                    <Image Source="MainMenuImages/Miscellaneous_Menu.png" Height="526" Width="302"  />
                </k:KinectTileButton>
                <k:KinectTileButton    Background="{x:Null}" BorderBrush="{x:Null}"  x:Name="btnBack"      Click="btnBack_Click"   Height="Auto" Width="Auto" Margin="-212,257,211.4,-88" Grid.RowSpan="2"  >

                    <Image Source="NavigationButtons/Back.png" Height="200" Width="500"  />
                </k:KinectTileButton>

            </Grid>
        </k:KinectRegion>
        <tk:KinectSensorChooserUI HorizontalAlignment="Center" VerticalAlignment="Top" x:Name="sensorChooserUi" Margin="461,10,538,0" />
      
    </Grid>
</Page>

Thanks

Vuyiswa Maseko,

Spoted in Daniweb-- Sorry to rant. I hate websites. They are just wierd. They don't behave like normal code.

C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET/SQL7/2000/2005/2008
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Cheat and wrap your grid in a viewbox. It will scale everything automatically. Quick and convenient if you aren't hung up on the aspect ratio changing from system to system.

Thank you for your answer. it solved my problem

Vuyiswa Maseko,

Spoted in Daniweb-- Sorry to rant. I hate websites. They are just wierd. They don't behave like normal code.

C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET/SQL7/2000/2005/2008
http://www.vuyiswamaseko.com
vuyiswa[at]dotnetfunda.com
http://www.Dotnetfunda.com

Our WCF and database connections are designed to handle asynchronous calls without causing a race condition. I still use chained calls to the WCF, when loading the initial static data there can be 15-20 chained calls to load the static data.

While the static data may not be critical when opening a view the sequence and completeness of the data is critical. Therefore I use chained asynch call effectively turns it into a synch process. Only when the chain is complete the view is loaded.

My question is whether it would be better to send the calls asych and each callback set a flag and tries to load the view which then checks a bunch of flags to see if the data load is completed.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH