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Just so everybody else sees the resolution in case they are trying the same. You were trying to get the mouse position of a click point within a control, and then create a new control over the top of that control on the form. To do this I recommended the following that seemed to work:
global declarations of MouseCoords:
private int Control1MouseX;
private int Control1MouseY;
Form is called Form1
Main control is called Control1
New Control is call NewControl1
in the MouseDown event of Control1 do the following:
<code>
Point p = this.Form1.PointToClient(this.Control1.PointToScreen(new Point(e.X,e.Y)));
this.Control1MouseX = p.X;
this.Control1MouseY = p.Y;
</code>
then when creating and placing the new Control use this:
<code>
Control NewControl1 = new Control();
NewControl1.Location = new Location(this.Control1MouseX,this.Control1MouseY);
Form.Controls.Add(NewControl1);
</code>
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Cursor.Position
You might also want to use Control.PointToClient to translate the screen coordinates to control coordinates.
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Ahh yes, that makes way more sense and also doesn't use quite the processing and memory that storing the coords would. I must have had a brain fart when I came up with that 
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Im sorry for asking this as it is probably already been covered, but i cant seem to put my queary into a search phrase that returns any thing useful to me.
Here is my custom control related problem.
Just to get my head round making custom controls im mocking up a simple windows like menu bar and start menu within my program.
myMenu1: This is a custom control made up of 2 image boxes. 1 is the "start" button the other is the actual bar. When the user places the mouse in the transparent hot region (basicly the blank background of the menu item while the actual images reside offscreen) the menu bar images slide in from right to left, while the mouse hovers over the start button it changes color.
myMenu2 This is a the actual menu that will pop up when the start button is pressed. it is made up of MenuItem custom control items....
MenuItem
Just a label and image box that expose thier image, text and font properties.
What i want to do is have an event in a menu item be handled by the main form directly rather than the custom control.
At the moment the main form can only tell if im clicking on myMenu1 not wether im clicking on the start button or bar.
It can also only tell if im clicking on myMenu2 not which MenuItem.
What im angling for is to be able to click on myMenu1 start button and be able to use that event to set the visable and locaiton property of myMenu2 and be able to click on menu items in myMenu2 and have them function like indervidual buttons on my main form so they can fire of methods, etc.
Again sorry if this has been covered, I am rusty on Events and Delegates and it just seems like a matter of makingthe Click events public... but im struggling getting my head round it
Cheers.
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Create a custom event delegate and event inside the control that your main form can use. When the in-control button is clicked have it check the custom event for registrars and fire it off it they exits. Examples: (I wrote this in the web browser, not a compiler so there may be a few compiler mistakes)
public delegate void OnClickStart(object,SystemEventArgs);
public event OnClickStart ClickStart;
private void button1_Clicked(object sender, SystemEventArgs e)
{
if(this.ClickStart != null)
{
this.ClickStart(sender,e);
}
}
Now in your main form use the code like such:
CustomControl cc = new CustomControl;
cc.ClickStart += new cc.OnClickStart(Mainform_ClickStart);
public void Mainform_ClickStart(object sender, SystemEventArgs e)
{
}
Try this out and let me know if you have any other questions.
-- modified at 11:41 Friday 7th October, 2005
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That is awesome! thank you SO much!
Why cant my books explain that as simply as you have.
Thanks again for opening my eyes.
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No problem, feel free to email me as well if you have any other c# questions 
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I'm not a dot net guru, but I had a similar issue and will share.
I created a control that creates a SQL statement based upon user selections. I needed an event that would fire when the SQL was generated. I first declared the following:
public delegate void SQLCreatedHandler();
[Category("Action")]
[Description("Fires when the SQL is created")]
public event SQLCreatedHandler SQLCreated;
When I wanted to fire the event I called this code:
//Raise event notifying subscribers that the SQL has been created
OnSQLCreated();
And the OnSQLCreated() method looked like this:
// If an event has no subscribers registerd, it will
// evaluate to null. The test checks that the value is not
// null, ensuring that there are subsribers before
// calling the event itself.
if (SQLCreated != null)
{
SQLCreated(); // Notify Subscribers
}
From the hosting application I created a handler for the event:
this.queryControl1.SQLCreated += new QueryControl.QueryControl.SQLCreatedHandler(this.queryControl1_SQLCreated);
And the method for the handler:
private void queryControl1_SQLCreated()
{
MessageBox.Show(this.queryControl1.SQL);
}
Hope this helps, don't mind the codeing. I found the articles here on CP that helped me create the above code. Search the articles, not messageboards
www.lovethosetrains.com
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I'm having a bit of a problem getting this to work. I am writing an application that is using a StreamReader to read the output of a shell process. Here is the code to launch the process:
Process p = new Process();<br />
p.StartInfo.Arguments = "-n 1 -w 200 " + ip;<br />
p.StartInfo.FileName = "ping.exe";<br />
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;<br />
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;<br />
p.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;<br />
p.Start();
The problem I'm having is that ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden seems to do nothing when UseShellExecute is = false. A (blank) console window still comes up for every IP address I'm trying to ping. Everything else works fine except the hiding of the window. I haven't been able to find anybody else that seems to be having this same issue out there. Any clues?
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I used:
p.CreateNoWindow = true;
www.lovethosetrains.com
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Excellent.. I feel so stupid now. Thanks for your response, worked like a charm.
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Just glad that I can actually be of help.
www.lovethosetrains.com
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I have a DLL written in C and am trying to access it with C#. I had to use DLLImport commands to talk with it and am having a problem. I get "Attemped to read or write protected memory." Now longs in C are 32 bits and longs in C# are 64. Could this be the problem and would just using a Convert.ToInt32(variable) fix it. I tried this when I made the call to the DLL and its still giving me the same error. Even when I declare my variable that I am sending to the DLL function as an int it doesnt work.
-Cal
-- modified at 9:30 Friday 7th October, 2005
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Without real code it's hard to tell whether your DllImport declarations are correct.
But no matter if your C function is using long, int or DWORD parameters, you'll have to declare them as int in C#, because all these values are 32 bit long.
long in C# is 64 bit, adequate for a C function parameter with type QWORD.
Regards,
mav
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C:
typedef void (WINAPI* TDM3TOOLKITShowForm)(long Slot);
C#:
[DllImport("mydll.dll")]
public static extern void ShowForm(int Slot);
private void btnShowtest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int Slot = 3;
try
{
ShowForm(Slot);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
lstBox.Items.Add(ex.ToString());
}
}
here is the code with only names changed for anonymity.
the winapi* part dont make a difference I dont think because I have used other functions out of this DLL. The ones that give me a problem are ones that have longs in them.
-- modified at 10:59 Friday 7th October, 2005
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Hi, and thanks for your interest. I have some databound textboxes that are grouped on a number of pages in a tabcontrol. I use a button to call up a dialog box to pull data from a lookup table to speed populating some of the textboxes on the tab control. Updates seem to work fine untill I add some additional code in the Update event to check for null conditions. Then it gets strange, after I fill the textboxes from the lookup dialog I have to click in one (doesn't seem to matter which) of the filled textboxes for the updated information to be posted to the database. I have no code associated with tabcontrol or textbox mouse events on the form.
Code To Open Dialog (Form1)========================================
private void btnLmoLookup_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Form2 LmoLookup = new Form2();
LmoLookup.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent;
if( LmoLookup.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK )
{
txtBoxDocName.Text = LmoLookup.docFullName;
}
LmoLookup.Dispose();
}
Code To Declare Public Variable (Form2)==================================
public string docFullName
{
get{return this.dsExtPhysLookup1.Tables["tblExternalPhysicians"].Rows[this.listBox1.SelectedIndex]["docFullName"].ToString();}
}
Code To Perform Update (Form1)===========================================
if(this.txtBoxDocName.Text.Trim().Length == 0) {
this.dsPatientIndex1.Tables["tblPatientIndex"].Rows[this.BindingContext[dsPatientIndex1, "tblPatientIndex"].Position]["patientRefDName"] = DBNull.Value;
}
else
{
this.dsPatientIndex1.Tables["tblPatientIndex"].Rows[this.BindingContext[dsPatientIndex1, "tblPatientIndex"].Position]["patientRefDName"] = txtBoxDocName.Text.Trim();
}
this.BindingContext[this.dsPatientIndex1, "tblPatientIndex"].EndCurrentEdit();
this.sqlDataAdapter2.Update(this.dsPatientIndex1);
-- modified at 8:53 Friday 7th October, 2005
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I am going to write an application that will be controlling hardware through two RS-232 ports. The code that drives each port will be doing the exact same thing, but the actions will be totally independent of one another. What I need to determine is how to make the code run simualtaneously for each COM port, but independent of the other. My plan is to have a GUI the has two frames on the screen. In the left frame will be the code that interfaces with port COM1 and in the right frame will be the code that interfaces with port COM2. These will be asynchronous events and will basically be running independent of one another except that a signle application will encapsulate all of th code.
Overall, the theory behind what I am doing is pretty easy and I have a lot of experience wirting drivers for hardware, but I need to have mulitple instances running simultaneously in a single application. That is the part I have no expeience and am stuggling with. Any advice, links to tutorials,code ex., etc would be a great help. 
In a nut shell, I want to be able to take a single application to operate some hardware, then be able to run it two, there, four, even more times within the same application at the same time.
Terry Jones
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Put the rs232 code into a thread, and run 2+ seperate instances of it.
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You should use .NET 2.0, it already contains all the code for interfacing with COM ports. .NET 1.1 does not provide this.
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Hi all,
I am a Beginner to c#.
I Need to convert array of byte data type to string. How to do this..
ex:
byte[] bytes = new byte[1000];
this bytes get filled up. Now I need to convert to string.
How to do this..
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Hello
You use the next code:
byte[] bytes = new byte[] { 0x41, 0x42, 0x43, 0x44, 0x45 };
string str = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString( bytes );
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine( str );
With best regards,
Andrew Kirillov, MCP x 3
Prize winner, August 2005
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hi Kirillov,
Thanks a lot..
Worked and my problem is solved..
Have a nice day..
Shiva P
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Can somebody point me to LDAP code for authenticating a user through LDAP or active directory.
Thanks in Advance.
Ramendra Kotharkar
Ramendra K
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DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://testdomain/DC=testdomain", "testdomain/" + textUser.Text, textPassword.Text);<br />
<br />
Object obj = entry.NativeObject;<br />
DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(entry);<br />
search.Filter = "(SAMAccountName=" + textUser.Text + ")";<br />
search.PropertiesToLoad.Add("cn");<br />
SearchResult result = search.FindOne();<br />
<br />
if (null == result)<br />
{<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
}
This only works with AD, by the way: if you find that works with LDAP, please let me know
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