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2-Dec-05 9:50

Hi all!

I got a Windows Forms application where an event is fired from a secondary thread. When this event is fired, I call

this.BeginInvoke(new MethodInvoker(someMenuItem.PerformClick));

to simulate a menu item click.
This works fine, but when the event handler for someMenuItem pops up a modal dialog, this dialog appears more than once if the event re-fires before the first dialog is closed. Frown | :(

So I tried encapsulating someMenuItem's event handler code inside a lock(this) {} and now only a single modal dialog is shown at most.
So far, so good.
But if the event re-fires now, all these events are suspended as long as the lock() statement is active and executed in row afterwards.
Is there a way to change the behaviour so that the events are discarded instead of being stored?

Thanks in advance for any ideas,
mav

Jared Parsons2-Dec-05 11:37

Jared Parsons

2-Dec-05 11:37

BeginInvoke() is Asynchronous. You should switch to using Invoke() and that will solve your problem.

Jared Parsons
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mav.northwind2-Dec-05 12:03

2-Dec-05 12:03

Jared, thanks for your comment!
Of course, you're right. That way I can block the second thread until the first call to the event handler is finished.
The dialog can still pop up twice in a row (when I click the menu item in the main app and afterwards the other thread fires the event), but I think I'll use this approach nevertheless.

Or do you have any further suggestions on how to really discard every other call?

Thanks,
mav

S. Senthil Kumar2-Dec-05 21:13

S. Senthil Kumar

2-Dec-05 21:13

The only way I can think of is having a volatile bool variable that is set before Invoke and is reset after it. That way, you can simply return if the flag is set.

class XYZ
{
   volatile bool isMessageBoxVisible = false;
void Func()
{
    lock(this)
    {
       if (isMessageBoxVisible) return;
       isMessageBoxVisible = true;
    }
    this.Invoke(...);
    lock(this) { isMessageBoxVisible = false; }
}

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mav.northwind2-Dec-05 21:52

Crystal Report ParameterFields

2-Dec-05 21:52

Thanks!

That could be a way, but then it gets quite messy, because I allow the user to configure which menu item or toolbar button is pressed when a certain button on the external input device is clicked.
So I'd have to create a variable for each and every menu item/toolbar button... Sniff | :^)

I was looking for a behaviour like what you get when you use the mouse to click a menu item/tbb. A modal dialog can pop up, but then the UI of the main window is not accessable any more and thus the same menu item/tbb can't be pushed more than once. And the additional clicks aren't queued but discarded.
Something like

if (mainForm.IsIdle)
   this.Invoke(...

But just as I write this I got another idea:
I usually set the form's Cursor to Cursors.WaitCursor at the beginning of my menu/toolbar event handlers and reset it to Default in a finally block.
This information can be used to decide whether the main form is busy (executing an event handler) or not. I think I'll try it like this:

if (mainForm.Cursor == Cursors.Default)
  this.Invoke(...

Thank you all for your help!

mav

Bedevian2-Dec-05 9:28

Bedevian

2-Dec-05 9:28

i wrote a sales report, which works fine with my application if i include start date and end date in the database, {gndsale.dob} in {date.startdate} to {date.enddate}.

but if i change the report to pass Parameter Fields, {gndsale.dob} in {?Start Date} to {?End Date}
when i load the report first time it's okay i can see the correct parameters on the Page header and in Details, but if i load report 2nd time with different parameters , the page header is updated but the details not, some how i need to refresh crystalReportViewer1 after i pass parameters. ???

check this code

ReportDocument1.Load(RptPath.ToString());
crystalReportViewer1.RefreshReport();
crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = reportDocument1;
paramFields = new ParameterFields ();
ParameterField crParamFld = new ParameterField();
ParameterDiscreteValue CrparamValue = new ParameterDiscreteValue();
paramFields = crystalReportViewer1.ParameterFieldInfo;
crParamFld = paramFields[0];
CrparamValue.Value = PassDT_Start;
crParamFld.CurrentValues.Add(CrparamValue);
ParameterField crParamFld_2 = new ParameterField();
ParameterDiscreteValue CrparamValue_2 = new ParameterDiscreteValue();
crParamFld_2 = paramFields[1];
CrparamValue_2.Value = PassDT_End;
crParamFld_2.CurrentValues.Add(CrparamValue_2);
crystalReportViewer1.ParameterFieldInfo = paramFields;
crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = reportDocument1;

Or this code

reportDocument1.SetParameterValue("Start Date",PassDT_Start );
reportDocument1.SetParameterValue("End Date",PassDT_End );
crystalReportViewer1.RefreshReport();
crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = reportDocument1;

MDI child forms states

Ammar Ben Hadj Amor2-Dec-05 8:14

Ammar Ben Hadj Amor

2-Dec-05 8:14

Hello,
I’m programming an MDI application. My application contains a sizable child form and a fixed dialog form. The problem is that when I maximize the sizable form, the fixed dialog form is maximised too. I don’t know how to keep the fixed dialog form in its normal state while the sizable child form is maximized. Has any one a solution? Thanks.

Re: MDI child forms states

Dave Kreskowiak2-Dec-05 10:47

Dave Kreskowiak

2-Dec-05 10:47

Is the dialog form an MDI Child form? If so, you can't seperate the two. If one MDI Child is maximized, they're all maximized. There is no way to stop that from happening. The solution is to make the dialog form a normal form, not an MDI Child.

RageInTheMachine9532
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File.Copy Error - Please Help

Joshua Lunsford2-Dec-05 8:02

2-Dec-05 8:02

The Error:
Could not find file "\\myserver\share$\myfile.txt".

The Code:
File.Copy(@"\\myserver\share$\myfile.txt",@"c:\myfile.txt"), true);

The file is there. The premissions on the share$ is set to everyone. I can navigate to the file using the above quoted string. What am I missing?

Joshua Lunsford2-Dec-05 9:19

2-Dec-05 9:19

mav.northwind2-Dec-05 10:12

2-Dec-05 10:12

Hi!

I guess the problem lies in the share itself.

If you enter "\\myserver\share$" in the address bar of a windows explorer, do you get a dialog asking for a user name and password?
If you can see the file in your explorer, does the program still throw the exception afterwards?

Or is the code executed from within a windows service process running under LocalSystem account?

mav

Joshua Lunsford2-Dec-05 10:15

2-Dec-05 10:15

thank you for responding...

no.. no dialog box appears. Any lowly person in the company and open this share no problem.

And the code is being executed by ASPNET account

Joshua Lunsford2-Dec-05 10:51

2-Dec-05 10:51

i think i've boiled down the issue. ASPNET service account is a local service account to my machine. I'm trying to copy a file from a domain server. The premissions on the server is set to everyone, but that means everyone in the Domain, not local mcahin accounts. Now I need to figure out how to pass premissions with my file.copy... any clues?

Dave Kreskowiak2-Dec-05 14:16

Dave Kreskowiak

2-Dec-05 14:16

You don't.

You can create a domain account, restrict it's log to certain machines!, that the ASP.NET server can run under. It doesn't have to run under a local machine account!

Then you can give that domain account appropriate rights to the machines and folders required to run your code and do file copies.

RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome