Cryton's Q&A profile

• Game Technologies: DirectX, XNA, XACT, etc. Font troubles

  Im a new to XNA so please be patient with me. I'm feeling really frustrated trying to get my own fonts to draw on the screen.  Ive found classes that will take their example image and draw with those fonts.  But I dont want those fonts.  I want mine.  I know that I have to have an image with my letters of my font on it. And that image has to get parsed. Im trying to avoid having to create my own classes and tools to do this. So I downloaded the Bitmap font generater from Angle code. The classes I've found, both here in these forums and at angle code,  that suppose to work with this Angel code tool do not correctly parse the .fnt. At first I was getting exceptions. So I debugged through it and got passed that. But i ...Show All

• SQL Server New to SSIS, where to research how to normalize and re-key tables and lookups?

  I am just getting started studying SSIS with Kirk Haselden's "Integration Services" book. The problem I am trying to solve would seem easy enough to solve in code, but I am still early in the book and would like to be able to focus on the aspects of SSIS that would help me expedite this with SSIS, or to find out early whether what I need to do cannot be easily done. The problem itself is simple enough: I have a database of roughly 100 tables. Ignoring the poor normalization in the database for the moment, my more pressing problem is that that I need to rekey all of the main OLTP tables from a mashup of different key schemes to UNIQUEIDENTIFIERS. For example, Client table is presenrly keyed on an INT, Client Number. ClientFile ...Show All

• SQL Server Please give me your suggestions on Report Query - Very Urgent

  I need to disaplay number of Active Agencies on monthwise in one of my report. I have tbl_Agency table with ActiveDate and ActiveFlag. ActiveDate column contains always first Activation Date. If any chances in the agencies(update/delete) the same record will move to tbl_AgencyHistory table. "If an agency is inactivated in September 10th, inactivated all of October, and then reactivated November 10th - the agency would be counted in September, not in October and counted in November" ActiveDate column has always first activation date, I could not meet this requirement. This is very urgent issue, Could you please help me on this. Thanks, Malar Malar: Please re ...Show All

• Audio and Video Development identifying button from script

  Hello, I'm trying to find a way to identify a button which is pressed without using id, so far with no luck. -- markup -- <button style:x="350px" style:y="100px" style:width="200px" style:height="100px" style:position="absolute" /> <button style:x="350px" style:y="300px" style:width="200px" style:height="100px" style:position="absolute" /> <button style:x="350px" style:y="500px" style:width="200px" style:height="100px" style:position="absolute" /> <button style:x="350px" style:y="700px" style:width="200px" style:height="100px" style:position="absolute" /> <button style:x="350px" style:y="900px" style:width="200px" style:height="100px" style:position="absolute" /> -- script -- addEventListener("d ...Show All

• .NET Development informix: exist a wizard to create dataset with this king of database?

  i have read the client sdk of informix that have a native object to connect to informix database. It's possible create a wizard as the oled/odbc procedure for thi kind Exist a short way to connect to informix database, and generate sql with a wizard tool any idea thank u ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Viewing a splashscreen before viewing the form of an application

  I'm working on an application, a webbrowser. I followed the documentation in the book "Build a program now! Visual C# 2005 express edition", Chapter 6. The problem is that the splashscreen is viewed, but in the background you can see a part of the form, that should be visible afted the splashscreen dissapeares. I created a splashscreen. In the constructor of the form of my browser I wrote the following code: Splash splashScreen = new Splash (); public Browser() { InitializeComponent(); splashScreen.Show(); Application .DoEvents(); } When the form is finished loading it throws an "Activated" event. I catch this event with the following method: private void Browser_Activated( ...Show All

• Silverlight (formerly WPF/E) Interactive WPF/E ?

  Hi I'm trying to create a small interactive app with WPF/E that among other things lets the user place elements like lines in a canvas. I have the MouseMove event and CreateFromXAML method but I need to convert coordinates that the event passes me into canvas coordinates. Any ideas anyone Tim You should be able to either subtract the Canvas.Left and Canvas.Top values from the X and Y mouse coordinates (assuming uniform scaling/translations/rotations). Depending on your app, you might be able to get away with keeping track of the differences in mouse position (from either previous mouse event, or from the MouseLeftButtonDown event). Hope this helps! Ed Maia WPF/E PM ...Show All

• Visual J# using swing classes

  Hi I am importing a large java application into J#. and still using the .java file extension. I have read in this forum, many of you have succeeded. I am using vs2005 with J# 2.0 redistributable. For some reasons, when I build the application, I get errors like "Cannot find type JButton" for statement like this: private final JButton startstop_ = new JButton( "Start" ); What am I missing Thanks Anthony Please add a reference to the "vjssupuilib". You will find it when you right click on the "Reference" and select "Add reference...". Find the library in the .NET tab and select "OK". After that it should work. ...Show All

• Visual C++ friend and non-member function

  hello, i should implement this class: [code] namespace test_1 { class statistician { public: // CONSTRUCTOR statistician( ); // MODIFICATION MEMBER FUNCTIONS void next(double r); void reset( ); // CONSTANT MEMBER FUNCTIONS int length( ) const; double sum( ) const; double mean( ) const; double minimum( ) const; double maximum( ) const; // FRIEND FUNCTIONS friend statistician operator + (const statistician & s1, const statistician & s2); friend statistician operator * (double scale, const statistician & s); private: int count; // How many numbers in the sequence double total; // The sum of all the numbers in the sequence double tinyest; // ...Show All

• Visual C# An object reference is required for the nonstatic field, method, or property

  I know you have all seen this one before, for which i am sorry. But I can't figure this out. I am not sure if what I am trying to do here will even work in the end but this is my first project and I am learning as I go, so please try not to laugh. I have a combobox of form1 that is bound to a data source and on form3 I have a report viewer that (I hope) will load using the text that is in the combobox on form1. This is where I have the problem! I have searched many forums but still don’t really understand!! (it is the WHERE SaveName = '" + Form1 .comboBox2.Text + "'" ;where the error occurs, as follows: (An object reference is required for the nonstatic field, method, or property 'Stock_Scan.Form1.combo ...Show All

• Windows Forms Another ContextMenuStrip question regarding focus.

  First off, this is in c#. I have a ContextMenuStrip that comes up as soon as the right mouse button is pressed (not clicked. So if the right mouse button is held down the ContextMenuStrip is still there). What I want is that while the right mouse button is held down, I can highlight different menu items while the mouse moves over them and then the final selection is done on the MouseUp event. I have the menu showing up, and I know how to do the selection on MouseUp all that is easy. The thing I can't figure out is the menu doesn't really seem to have focus because as the mouse moves over each item in the menu, they aren't highlighted. Any help with this would be much appreciated. I've tried explicitly calling the Focus() and using the Set ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office URI Formats are Not Supported

  Software:  VSTO SE, Visual Studio.NET 2005 Solution Platform:  MS Word 2003 Template I'm using the following code to open the SaveAs dialog with file name created in prompt, and set to the path of a common web folder.  However, the error I get back says that "URI Formats are Not Supported".  Please advise as to how I can edit this code for the save to web folder. Thank you, for any assistance you can provide. sample code: Private Sub FileSaveWebFolderWithNamingProtocal() Dim eRom as string eRom = " http://www.eromaddress.org/erom/foldername/subfoldername/ " ChDir(eRom) With Application.FileDialog(Microsoft.Office.Core.MsoFileDialogType.msoFileDialogSaveAs) .InitialFileName = varia ...Show All

• SQL Server Get the variable from Execute Process Task to C#

  Hi! I need help with some C# code. I have build a SSIS package with an Execute Process Task. I need to send dynamic variables in to my C# program so I thought it was a good idea to use the StandardInputVariable. How do I get the variable in my C# code Thanks Carl I tried it but it didnt worked. The only thing I got was the name of the variable. You wrote earlier: is this necessary can't you just use a dynamically updated ssis variable when calling your executable in the execute process task What did you mean by that ...Show All

• Visual C# Enums of chars, strings...?

  Why isnt possible to create enums of chars, strings As far as I saw I can only create integer Enums...then I had to work this around by putting a subclass to function as a container of types... Any ideas on this You can use: enum Regards : short { hello, Hi }; MessageBox .Show( Regards .hello.ToString()); // Show "hello" On this way you can obtain the equivalent string. I you want organizate a string key <--> string value relation, you must use a Hashtable, Dictonary, StringDictionary, ... etc... See this class: Hashtable Dictionary<> SortedList SortedList<> ListDictionary Dictionary<> HybridDictionary ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions Connect data base to create datatable problem (about datatable's columns)

  Dear all I have a question to need you help,about connect to access 's data base Dim connStr As String = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=db1.mdb" Dim dt1 As New DataTable Dim sqlcreate As String = "Create table info_dt(column1 CHAR,column2 _Char,column3 Char,column4 Char,column5 Date,column6 Char,column7 Char,column8 Char)" Dim da1 As New OleDb.OleDbDataAdapter(sqlcreate, connStr) dt1.Clear() da1.Fill(dt1) da1.Dispose() When i create 7 columns' data table ,it will be successed,but when i create 8 or more columns,it will be fail the fail message like to say that the record is too big. how can i solve this problem i need to create 14columns 's data table thank you ...Show All