Visual Basic

Re: How to know print given to network printer is success

9-Nov-09 2:15

Normally, you don't. Normally, once your app prints it, your app shouldn't care at all about the job. The job may get hung up in the queue for various reasons, including being about 20th in line to print, none of which are the responsibility of your app to report. It may be an hour before the job actually makes it to paper, even if theres nothing wrong. Those conditions are left up to the printing system to report to the user, not your app. Normally...

What is your app doing that you feel the need to know if the doc printed or not?

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sri_00999-Nov-09 3:00

sri_0099

9-Nov-09 3:00

Thanks Dave,

My application is printing checks. Before printing check number is saved to database. If print fails at any reason (Paper Jam,Paper Out,Not connected...etc) i nedd to update database with default check number "000000". Thats why i need print staus of check.

Dave, Can you please give me idea to get the status.Please

Thanks,
Sri

Re: How to know print given to network printer is success

Dave Kreskowiak9-Nov-09 4:56

How to sort the following list?

9-Nov-09 4:56

You'd have to get the information using the classes in the System.Printing[^] namespace. This is oknly available in .NET 3.0 and above.

If you're using .NET 2.0 and below, you'd either have to use WMI and the System.Management namespace to do something like this, or implement printing directly to the printer without going through the print spooler. You can find an example of that here[^].

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Milad.Biroonvand8-Nov-09 19:19

Milad.Biroonvand

8-Nov-09 19:19

How to sort the following list,
nodes is my list
tv is my treeview

Now I'd like nodes to sort.

Dim nodes As New List(Of TreeNode)
      Dim queue As New Queue(Of TreeNode)
      Dim top As TreeNode
      Dim nod As TreeNode
      For Each top In Tv.Nodes
          queue.Enqueue(top)
      Next
      While (queue.Count > 0)
          top = queue.Dequeue
          nodes.Add(top)
          For Each nod In top.Nodes
              queue.Enqueue(nod)
          Next
      End While

Thanks!

Re: How to sort the following list?

Luc Pattyn8-Nov-09 23:38

Find the difference between two excel sheets using vbscript

8-Nov-09 23:38

Why do you use a Queue? the main purpose of a queue is to act as a pipe where things get added on one side, stored, and removed on the other side, which inherently means their order is always preserved.

What you need is another kind of collection, such as a simple List<treenode>, on which you can call Sort(). Then provide a Comparer to explain how you compare two TreeNode instances. This[^] explains and illustrates it.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn

I only read code that is properly indented, and rendered in a non-proportional font; hint: use PRE tags in forum messages

Bedke8-Nov-09 16:26

Bedke

8-Nov-09 16:26

Hi,

I am trying to write a vbscript which should give the difference between to given excel sheet. I am actually updating a excel sheet i.e adding a row somewhere in between. I want to vbscript show only the added row as the difference.

Any help will do a lot.

Thanks in advance for your help. Smile | :)

Question about threads

crashcup8-Nov-09 12:43

8-Nov-09 12:43

In general, if I start a thread in sub-1 that will thread sub-2...
when sub-2 runs (and sub-1 may never run again), once sub-2 has completed, can I start the sub-2 thread at the end of sub-2 before it finishes?

In other words, sub-1 started the thread for sub-2, then sub-1 ends.
Sub-2 runs and I want it to run over and over in the background..
So can I initiate the sub-2 thread from within (at the end of) sub-2?

Can a sub call its own thread?

Hope I made it clear?

Thanks

Luc Pattyn8-Nov-09 13:25

8-Nov-09 13:25

crashcup wrote:
Hope I made it clear?

No you didn't; actual code would be easier to understand.

crashcup wrote:
Can a sub call its own thread?

That doesn't make any sense. Nothing can call a thread; a thread executes code.
Yes a method A can start a thread that runs method B.
and yes a method A can start a thread that runs method A (Some kind of recursion, dangerous, and most often not very sensible).

If some code needs to run all the time, why not run it in a loop (possibly by one thread)?

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn

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Message Closed

8-Nov-09 14:27

8-Nov-09 14:27

Message Closed

modified 5-Dec-16 6:40am.

Luc Pattyn8-Nov-09 15:06

8-Nov-09 15:06

you seem confused.
A method is like a job, a piece of work that needs to be done.
A thread is a worker, something that performs a job.
A process start off having a single thread, and starts executing your Main() method.

You can write:

public void someJob() {
    while(!done) {
        doSomething();
    }
}

and now you can let your main thread execute someJob() by simply calling it.
Or you can start one more thread that executes someJob(), which causes doSomething() to run forever (or until done is set true).

That is the scheme you most often need, e.g. when dealing with TCPListener. No need to create threads all the time.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn

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crashcup8-Nov-09 15:11

8-Nov-09 15:11

Thanks, no confusion here as I've been programming for years, just not in .Net.

I'll accept Daves answer as it relates directly to my question about subs started by a thread.

Luc Pattyn8-Nov-09 15:13

Re: Question about threads [modified]

8-Nov-09 15:13

yes you are confused, and your vocabulary is wrong.
threads don't start a "sub", in fact there are no "subs".
it is code (inside methods) that start some Thread, then the thread executes the code in the method given to it.

Also what Dave and I are telling you is basically the same. Use a loop. I have shown you code that does that.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn

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crashcup8-Nov-09 16:10

8-Nov-09 16:10

Hmm still no confusion here.
As you can see below the Sub Read() is indeed started by a thread.
And the Read Sub is started from whthin itself.
The program works fine.
And there are Subs as I have 3, 'connect', 'send', and 'read'.
My vocabulary is correct.
These are also considered methods I suppose. But VB calls them Subs or Functions.
Sub procedures are methods which do not return a value.
Function is a method which returns a value.
---------------------------------------------------------------

Public Sub connect(ByVal IP, ByVal Port)
Try
'ccSocket.Connect("127.0.0.1", 2000)
ccSocket.Connect(IP, Port)

Catch ex As Exception

End Try
myThread = New Thread(AddressOf read)
myThread.Start()
End Sub

Public Sub send(ByRef q)
'Dim outStream As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("connect")
'serverStream.Write(outStream, 0, outStream.Length)
'serverStream.Flush()

'Dim serverStream As NetworkStream

Try
serverStream = ccSocket.GetStream()

Dim sendBytes As [Byte]()
sendBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(q)
serverStream.Write(sendBytes, 0, sendBytes.Length)
Catch
End Try

End Sub

Public Sub read()
'myThread = New Thread(AddressOf read)
'myThread.Start()

' Read the NetworkStream into a byte buffer.
Dim bytes(ccSocket.ReceiveBufferSize) As Byte

Try
Dim serverStream As NetworkStream
serverStream = ccSocket.GetStream()

serverStream.Read(bytes, 0, CInt(ccSocket.ReceiveBufferSize))

' Output the data received from the host to the console.
Dim returndata As String = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes)
''Console.WriteLine(("Host returned: " + returndata))
DataIn = returndata
Catch ex As Exception

End Try

Try
If Asc(DataIn) = 0 Then
myThread.Abort()
DataIn = "Connection Closed"
End If

Catch ex As Exception
Exit Sub

End Try

Try
myThread = New Thread(AddressOf read)
myThread.Start()
Catch ex As Exception

End Try

End Sub

modified on Monday, November 9, 2009 5:53 AM

Steven J Jowett9-Nov-09 9:38

Steven J Jowett

9-Nov-09 9:38

Luc Pattyn wrote:

You can write:

public void someJob() 
{    
while(!done) 
{        
doSomething();    
}
}

Does that work in VB.NET? Wink | ;)

Steve Jowett
-------------------------
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to read.

Luc Pattyn9-Nov-09 9:54

9-Nov-09 9:54

what have you tried so far?
did you check the documentation?
ask Google!
hint: probably not, not enough capitals used.

Smile | :)

Luc Pattyn

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Dave Kreskowiak8-Nov-09 13:25

8-Nov-09 13:25

A thread doesn't call "it's own sub" as threads are not limited to a single sub, as you put it. You setup a loop inside the sub to keep itself running until some bailout condition is met. Using Thread.Abort is a poor choice to end a thread.

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crashcup8-Nov-09 14:18

8-Nov-09 14:18

You wrote " A thread doesn't call "it's own sub""

I have done just this and things seem to work ok, or have I inadvertently started a memory leak?

You wrote "You setup a loop inside the sub to keep itself running until some bailout condition is met."

So to clarify, I guess you are saying once a sub is started as a thread, inside that sub, if you want it to continue to run (like TCPListener) keep looping as long as you want it to listen.

"Using Thread.Abort is a poor choice to end a thread."

As an aside, what is the proper method to terminate the thread and can it be terminated from within the 'threaded' sub?

Dave Kreskowiak8-Nov-09 14:50

8-Nov-09 14:50

crashcup wrote:
I have done just this and things seem to work ok, or have I inadvertently started a memory leak?

crashcup wrote:
As an aside, what is the proper method to terminate the thread and can it be terminated from within the 'threaded' sub?

Your description is a bit vague, but, you may have done that. You do not need to keep launching a new thread to execute the sub again. Like I said, you can setup a loop in the sub that keeps executing until a bailout condition is met, such as a boolean variable (flag) being set. With each iteration of the loop, it should check to see if this flag is set and, if so, bail out of the loop and let the code end itself, which also kills the thread automatically.

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crashcup8-Nov-09 15:09

8-Nov-09 15:09

Thanks. I'll accepth this answer, and change my sub to keep looping.

Dave Kreskowiak9-Nov-09 2:10