Re: howto: multi-languaged gui - C# Discussion Boards

Zombies with Coffee, LLC18-Jun-02 6:09

Zombies with Coffee, LLC

18-Jun-02 6:09

Have you seen the 'Language' property?

Go to your dialog, change the 'Language' to the desired locale, and then .NET handles it for you. Was one of the neatest features I've seen in the IDE yet.

Rüpel18-Jun-02 20:51

18-Jun-02 20:51

what's the use? it didn't changed anything (i thought at least the system-menu-entries (minimize, maximize, move, etc.) should have changed)

btw: this doesn't help with the menu and labels etc. because I assign the text-properties myself (or is there some hidden dictionary somewhere) Eek! | :eek:

- and when i want my application to appear in a completely different language, all texts have to be changed.

or am i getting something wrong... Unsure | :~

:wq

Zombies with Coffee, LLC19-Jun-02 3:55

Zombies with Coffee, LLC

19-Jun-02 3:55

No, it doesn't change anything. You need to change it.

Make a new dialog and put the text field 'Name:'
Now change the language to French and rename the field 'Nom:'

Now change the language back to English.

Cool, eh?

Michael Mac19-Jun-02 3:57

Michael Mac

19-Jun-02 3:57

I would choose build-in function called globalization.

In the property window there is a property called Language.
First of all, enter text for your controls in the default language. Then change the language to another and change text.

For one language the editor creates one .resx file the WinForms directory.
For example:
default language - MainForm.resx
second language (in this case Polish) - MainForm.pl.resx

For details see the documentation
Smile | :)

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Michael Mac19-Jun-02 4:35

Michael Mac

19-Jun-02 4:35

I almost forget. Smile | :)

The following code shows how to change the language programmatically

System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture = 
     new  System.Globalization.CultureInfo( "fr" );
		
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;

where fr is a language code ( see MSDN ).

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Rüpel21-Jun-02 0:51

21-Jun-02 0:51

i just want to mention, that using the form-editor was a BAD idea.

my menuitems are objects of my own menuitem-class - after just changing the language in the properties-window, the menu completely vanished. setting the language back to 'default' didn't bring it back! the variables are still there, but the AddRange-functions of the main menu items were absent. ok, i added them by hand. fault! the form-designer showed me an error-message instead of the form-preview.

i corrected these things by changing the order of the variable-definitions (!!!) - but the designer now doesn't work, as he did before. the additional properties of my menuitems are set back each time i compile after using the form-designer... Dead | X|

i tell you: you better stick to the standards when using the form-designer.

i will do that all by hand from now on... Unsure | :~

:wq

Michael Mac21-Jun-02 2:13

Michael Mac

21-Jun-02 2:13

The globalization function is cool.
The C# designer seems not to work correctly with custom classes, for example Menu. Frown | :(

I use globalization but I don't use designer. I write my own code.
This code use Carlos H. Perez's library - designer is not supported.
There is only one minus of it. You must create the resources yourself using resgen.exe and al.exe

private System.Resources.ResourceManager m_mResources = new System.Resources.ResourceManager(typeof(MainForm));
// MainMenu
ToolBarEx menuToolBar = new ToolBarEx( BarType.MenuBar );
			
// Menu File and its submenu
ToolBarItem menuFile = new ToolBarItem( (string)(m_mResources.GetObject("Menu.File")) );
MenuItem[] submenuFile = new MenuItem[3];
submenuFile[0] = new MenuItemEx( (string)(m_mResources.GetObject( 
       "Menu.File.Options")), new EventHandler( OptionsHandler ), Shortcut.CtrlO );
submenuFile[1] = new MenuItemEx( "-", null );
submenuFile[2] = new MenuItemEx( (string)(m_mResources.GetObject( 
      "Menu.File.Close")), new EventHandler( CloseHandler ) );

menuFile.MenuItems = submenuFile;

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Can not close the window

Iftekhar Ivaan17-Jun-02 9:22

17-Jun-02 9:22

I can not close the window with X on the window(System close)
Can anyone help me with that?

Thanks Confused | :confused:

Rüpel18-Jun-02 0:09

18-Jun-02 0:09

what functions did you overwrite in your application?

:wq

Iftekhar Ivaan18-Jun-02 8:10

18-Jun-02 8:10

I did not over write any function?
Confused | :confused:

Rüpel18-Jun-02 20:45

18-Jun-02 20:45

in the case, it doesn't close when you click - does it close when you click a second time?

maybe it's a focus-problem (although windows are closed when you click the "x" and they don't have the focus...) Unsure | :~

:wq

Iftekhar Ivaan19-Jun-02 3:40

19-Jun-02 3:40

I can not close at all.
but If I create a Exit menu and put "Dispose(true);" then I can close the window.

X is not calling the Dispose(true) methode at all.

Thasnks Confused | :confused:

A stupid question

Abin17-Jun-02 5:46

Abin

17-Jun-02 5:46

If you want to build a COM server component using Visual C#, which project type do you choose in the "New project" window?

Re: A stupid question

17-Jun-02 10:15

Anything will do. You can use EXE or a DLL. You need to apply the correct attributes and register the assembly using regasm

Re: A stupid question

Iftekhar Ivaan17-Jun-02 10:30

17-Jun-02 10:30

May be I am stupid, But what are you talking about.

Sometime I can close my main window and some time I can not close the window with system menu. Are you talking about this?

Thanks
Eek! | :eek:

Re: A stupid question

17-Jun-02 17:20

I did not answer to your question Eek! | :eek:

Looks like the forum is screwed up

paging dataGrid events

sharon17-Jun-02 2:21

sharon

17-Jun-02 2:21

hello you all,

I have a problem:

I have a dataGrid with two events:

1. public void DataGrid1_ChooseLine(object sender, DataGridCommandEventArgs e)
{
try{
complaintId = Convert.ToInt32(e.Item.Cells[6].Text);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
}
}

and:
2. public void changePage(Object sender, DataGridPageChangedEventArgs e)
{
DataGrid1.CurrentPageIndex = e.NewPageIndex;
DataGrid1.DataSource = dataSet;
DataGrid1.DataBind();
}

each of them works wonderful alone, but when I use them both I get this exception:

"System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values..."

what can be the problem and how can I change it to work?

thank you very much for your help,

sharon.

sharon17-Jun-02 19:32

sharon

17-Jun-02 19:32

after some debugging I noticed that when I change page it goes to the ChooseLine event and than go to the pageChang event (very weird) Confused | :confused:

maybe someone knowes why?

Rüpel18-Jun-02 0:12

18-Jun-02 0:12

usually the debugger tells you, in which line exactly the exception was thrown. which line is it?

:wq

sharon18-Jun-02 20:36

sharon

18-Jun-02 20:36

the line that debugger tells me is:

complaintId = Convert.ToInt32(e.Item.Cells[6].Text);
in chooseLine event

i.e. he goes to the wrong event.

why???

Rüpel18-Jun-02 20:43

getting a disabled picture

18-Jun-02 20:43

well, the cell-array doesn't seem to have 7 elements - thus cell[6] rises the Out-Of-Range-Exception.

:wq

Rüpel17-Jun-02 1:43

Re: getting a disabled picture

17-Jun-02 1:43

hi all,

when i put a bitmap on a button and disable the control, the image is painted in a smooth gray-scale way.

is there any chance to access the corresponding

Image MakeMyImageGrayScale(Image my Image);

function directly, giving it the colored image and getting back the grayscaled one?

or is the algorithm easy, so that someone can describe it here in the forum or knows a link to a description? if someone tells me how, i would do that myself.

would be Cool | :cool:

thx in advance

:wq

Rüpel17-Jun-02 3:39