General C# programming Questions
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I have a few questions if there are any C# experts out there.
1. Has anyone found a really good forum for c# help? This is my first time posting here so it might be good, but then again this is gamedev.net not appdev.net...
Now for the real questions:
2. I have a TreeView on a form that has a context menu assigned to it. When I right click to bring up the menu, it pops up and selects the node I right-clicked on. Then when I press one of the menu items, or cancel the menu by clicking outside of it, the node selected returns to the previously selected node. The problem is, I cant figure out how to identify the node selected when the context menu is up in the code. Anybody know how?
3. I have successfully inherited a TreeNode into the class I made called TreeNodeEx, which has some extra variables that I need. I can add/edit/delete this new node class to any existing treeview using casting and all seems well. I tried to do the same thing with a ListViewItem by inheriting it to a ListViewItemEx class and adding a few variables. Suprisingly, I cannot add this ListViewItemEx to a ListView class, no matter what I do. Question is, why can''t I do this?
Any help to these questions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.
quote:Original post by ISOPimp
I have a few questions if there are any C# experts out there.
1. Has anyone found a really good forum for c# help? This is my first time posting here so it might be good, but then again this is gamedev.net not appdev.net...
I prefer the official newsgroup: news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp . However there are also more specialized newsgroups for technologies like Windows forms, GDI+ and ASP.NET.
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2. I have a TreeView on a form that has a context menu assigned to it. When I right click to bring up the menu, it pops up and selects the node I right-clicked on. Then when I press one of the menu items, or cancel the menu by clicking outside of it, the node selected returns to the previously selected node. The problem is, I cant figure out how to identify the node selected when the context menu is up in the code. Anybody know how?
Wouldn''t the
public TreeNode GetNodeAt(int, int); method be useful here?quote:
3. I have successfully inherited a TreeNode into the class I made called TreeNodeEx, which has some extra variables that I need. I can add/edit/delete this new node class to any existing treeview using casting and all seems well. I tried to do the same thing with a ListViewItem by inheriting it to a ListViewItemEx class and adding a few variables. Suprisingly, I cannot add this ListViewItemEx to a ListView class, no matter what I do. Question is, why can''t I do this?
What happens when you try?
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Yep, use the GetNodeAt() method. If you need further accountability for each node...there is an Index property on TreeNodes. Also, there is a Tag property on nodes, that you could set to a GUID for each of the nodes.
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[edited by - Leathrewulfe on August 29, 2002 10:14:15 PM]
"Wisdom is proportionate to your reference base. Intelligence is the ability to appropriately use that Wisdom."
[edited by - Leathrewulfe on August 29, 2002 10:14:15 PM]
Inheritance may not be required for "adding a few variables" to a tree or list. You should look into the Tag object. It has a infinate number of cool uses :-)
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quote:Wouldn''t the public TreeNode GetNodeAt(int, int); method be useful here?
I believe it is useful, I didnt even see it. I tried to implement this but I then realised that the PopUp event handler doesnt pass the mouse position, and I cant find information about getting the mouse position independently. Any help with this?
quote:What happens when you try?
quote:You should look into the Tag object. It has a infinate number of cool uses :-)
Both of these options throw an invalid cast exception.
Here are some code snippets of how I used the tag object.
//Here is my own derived tag class//--stripped of 2 other long properties for simplicity--public class TagEx: object{ private long m_UniqueID; public TagEx(): base() { m_UniqueID = 0L; } public TagEx(long UniqueID): this() { m_UniqueID = UniqueID; } public long UniqueID { get { return m_UniqueID; } set { m_UniqueID = value; } }}//In another section of code I do the followingSystem.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem li = new System.Windows.Forms.ListViewItem("New Item");//this next line throws the invalid cast exceptionli.Tag = new TagEx(1L);
You can try CodeProject for C# forums. The web site also has tons of code for MFC and general Windows programming.
quote:Original post by ISOPimp
I cant find information about getting the mouse position independently. Any help with this?
System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Point returns the cursor position in screen coordinates. quote:public class TagEx: object
Deriving explicitly from
object is redundant, but harmless.quote:li.Tag = new TagEx(1L);
There is no reason whatsoever that line would throw InvalidCastException, so I would venture to guess that throw comes from within the ctor proper. Maybe the problem is with the two properties you omitted?
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Thank you very much Arild and others. The problem with the casting was one of those "I can''t believe I didn''t see that" type problems. I was doing 2 other casts on the same line to get some DataRow elements into the TagEx but I was casting the wrong column.
All problems are now solved (for now). Thanks again.
All problems are now solved (for now). Thanks again.
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