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The Catalyst wrote:
And are there any techniques to increase the speed at which rendering occurs?
If you care about speed, use GDI or DirectX (in extreme cases) for drawing.
GDI calls should provide enough speed for most uses.
The Catalyst wrote:
Note: I'm rendering this image to a picturebox Image, and redrawing the image on every itteration. I'm still looking for a better way to do this.
Actually, you should only call Invalidate/Update on the control and let it redraw itself when needed (on the Paint event or an overrided OnPaint method). This will keep you from drawing faster than the video card/driver can handle. You'll need only to draw 60 times per second, as the video does not refresh more than this. This means that times you have around 160ms to draw, and flip the buffer when the monitor's vertical retrace happen. What do I mean about "flip the buffer"? Do a bit of search and read about double-buffering, and you'll understand better how to achieve high frame rates, even with a slow drawing.
The .NET framework offers suport for double-buffering, but I suggest you to read more about how it works before using it.
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I'm already double buffering it actualy, but thanks for the point.
I will look at GDI, I don't think i'll need DirectDraw. Although I did notice they took it out of the latest version of the DirectX9 SDK. Why do that?
Cheers
Tris
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I did a little investigation, and the native .NET draw methods are all based on GDI plus, so there's not much I can do there. I'm downloading the DX9 SDK now.
I think you might be wrong about the 160ms... when I wrote the following code:
start = Enviroment.TickCount;
Thread.Sleep(Timespan.FromSeconds(1));
MessageBox.Show((Enviroment.TickCount - Start).ToString());
It displayed 1000.
Therefore, to get 30fps, I would need to do all the rendering in less than 33.3 ms. Which currently, I'm unable to do, even on a simple scene.
I'll look into DX9, and see what I can do, but do you have any more suggestions?
Cheers
Tris
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The Catalyst wrote:
I did a little investigation, and the native .NET draw methods are all based on GDI plus, so there's not much I can do there.
The problem is with the "plus" part: GDI+ is not hardware accelerated (although some top-notch cards do accelerate it), while the standard GDI is. GDI is way more difficult to use, and you'll need to resort to API calls. Search for BitBlt and you'll understand what I mean. BitBlt performance is almost the same as DirectDraw, as it's intercepted by the video card and uses its capabilities fully. GDI+ is suitable only for drawings that don't need speed.
About the frame rate, you're right: I divided 1000 ms / 60 and I don't know why I got 160ms, when I should get 16ms. Probably a typo on calculator 
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I was being such a Schmuck. I was rendering to the bitmap and then setting it to the image... no wonder it crippled my drawing process.
I'm now rendering to a bitmap and flipping it to a graphics object derived from the window handle. I've added a few dozen objects to the screen and it's still taking only 16ms to render.
There are however a few issues with the regular jump to 32ms, which is still frustrating. I've tried adding a GC.Collect() command after each graphics itteration to ease things out, and that worked a bit, but i've also had to add a 10ms wait on the rendering loop to finish the smoothing, anything else and it still jumps regularly occasionaly.
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The Catalyst wrote:
ut i've also had to add a 10ms wait on the rendering loop to finish the smoothing,
Sorry, but I don't understand: why do you need this delay? Aren't you just invalidating the picture control?
About the delays, it's hard to predict what's going on in a GC environment. Beware that adding GC.Collect() to a loop may do more harm than good to time predictability: it may move objects to Gen 2 too soon, and increase the delays, instead of reducing them.
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Hi
I got a little Form with a Textbox. With a Barcode Scanner I
put a Database ID into this Textbox. By onclick the Button "Show"
the DatabaseRecord will be shown in a new Form. It works great.
But I think the user should not click a Button. It's too much work
So I made a TextCahanged Event on this Textbox. The Scanner read the
Barcode and the Record should be shown. But it don't work! Why??
This is for the Button:
private void btnShow_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string id = this.textBoxScan.Text;
frmShow x = new frmShow(id);
x.Show();
this.textBoxScan.Text="";
}
This for the TextChanged:
private void textBoxScan_TextChanged(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
string id = this.textBoxScan.Text;
frmShow x = new frmShow(id);
x.Show();
this.textBoxScan.Text="";
}
And this happens on the second Form:
public frmShow(string id)
{
InitializeComponent();
string x = null;
x = id;
dc.Connection(System.Convert.ToInt32(x));
fnGetDataBindingForTextBoxes();
}
dc is an Instance from the Connection Class.
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Don't know why the TextChanged event handler didn't work (maybe it's not submitted correctly.?).
Anyway, as you want to automatically show the second form after reading with the Barcode scanner in my opinion the textbox is pretty useless, because you write a value to it and in the TextChanged event show your form and clear the textbox. So why not showing the form directly after reading from the scanner.
Besides, you should dispose your form after using it, so the resources get cleaned up. Or use the using statement as shown by the following code snippet:
using(frmShow x = new frmShow(id))
{
x.Show();
}
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But how can I call an Application or Form by only scanning a Barcode?
It's only an low Cost Scanner. During Debugging my App. a green Arrow
appears in the Solution Explorer of the second Form. The Message is
that the Code have called another Function. When this Function is done,
the next one will be called.
The mark the following row..
dc.Connection(System.Convert.ToInt32(x));
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In your first post you wrote: "I got a little Form with a Textbox. With a Barcode Scanner I put a Database ID into this Textbox."
Thought you already do the latter in your application, so that instead of putting the Database ID into the textbox and catching the TextChanged event to open an extra form you could directly open the extra form.
Or what exactly do you mean with the phrase: "With a Barcode Scanner I put a Database ID into this Textbox."
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The Cursor is set in the TextBox. I read the Barcode and the Value
appears in the TextBox. Submit the Button and the new Form, that includes
the Record, will be open. The Barcode was created from a Database ID.
ID 222 -> create a Barcode from 222 -> print a label with the Barcode
and put it on Hardware. If the Hardware is defected, we want to audit wether
Warranty is given.
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Does your BarCode scanner send an ENTER key after the code? Most scanners can be configured to send a termination character after the code. If not, the TextChanged event won't fire until the user hits enter in the TextBox or, like in your case, clicks a button to do it.
RageInTheMachine9532
"...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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I got it.. I think so..
I can not clean the TextBox when I use the TextChanged Event.
this.textBoxScan.Text="";
When I delete this row from my Code it works. But I need
an empty TextBox.Ahrgggg...
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You could unsubscribe the TextChanged event handler before cleaning the TextBox and then resubscribe it afterwards.
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Does somebody know how to create an array of textboxes with the designer?
Please reply, if you know the answer. Thank you very much.
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OK lets say that I have a very big DB and I want to put it in a grid now when i load the app it takes very long how can i fix that or if is not fixable how can i make a progress bar incrementing while it loads?
The second problem is that all records are in the grid and when i try to filter the grid by some values writen in an edit box again it take long to filter?
Thx
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You are correct. Binding massive amounts of data into a datagrid can be very slow and, although the datagrid provides a built-in paging mechanism, it functions in memory, after the result set to be bound has already been returned (adding to delays).
Your best bet is to implement custom paging and load only a page worth of data at a time. This is a well-known, well-covered issue, and there are some very good articles on codeproject.com as well as here[^].
Filtering should, again, be something you do when requesting your result set from the DB, but assuming you are binding your grid to a DataView, you should be able to implement filtering in your code-behind as well; just be sure to re-bind the grid's datasource after executing the filter.
Hope this helps.
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Hi every one...
I've a DataGrid with a DataView as DataSource & it cells colors changed according to their values however.......
the DataView is updates frequently & if the order changed of the columns according to the new comming values all cells change their colors... this is not what I want....
so I want to know how to find out if the rows order was changed in the DataView .......sp Plz help me
A.Mohsen
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How can implement Drag-and-drop operation between applications?
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The same way you do within an application. Handle the ItemDrag event (or whatever is appropriate, or even just implement dragging yourself) and serialize your data in a format that can marshal across application boundaries, like text. If you're just trying to pass a control reference it won't work because that control is owned by the application from where you're dragging. If you serialize it, however, you can deserialize it in the other application (be sure to use a unique clipboard format (a string in the .NET implementation of drag and drop that wraps OLE's drag and drop)) and add it as a new control.
If you click "Search comments" above and search this forum (always a good idea to try first) and search for "drag drop" you'll find many examples, including several posts where I've discussed cross-application drag-n-drop as well as serializing and clipboard formats.
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hi,
i m using a dll built in vc++ 6.0 that is returning a BYTE* for image and its corresponding BITMAPINFOHEADER, Now i want to display this image through a picture box (if posible)using C#
Please Help Me
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If you're receiving a pointer to a byte array, it should be fairly easy.
Create a MemoryStream instance using the byte array in the constructor, then create a new Image instance from the stream.
Example:
public Image LoadPic(byte[] serialImage)<br />
{<br />
System.IO.MemoryStream stream = new System.IO.MemoryStream(serialImage);<br />
return System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(stream);<br />
}
Hope this helps.
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thanks for your reply but i was still not able to solve the problem
first q i want to ask is that i am allocating size of image/its byte array exectly the length X width (640*48)is it right cause bitmapinfoheader is also giving me the same length
the problem now is that; on the line
"return System.Drawing.Image.FromStream(stream);"
it is causing
"An unhandled exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in system.drawing.dll
Additional information: Invalid parameter used."
Please help me out
thanks
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Is there anyway of having a dataset that is linked to my access database in such a way that when the database changes the dataset automatically updates itself?
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The idea of ADO.net is to work on databases without an active connection so i wouldn't have thought so. You could get the program to create the connection every X Minutes / Hours and update the dataset accordingly.
Kev
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