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convert windows form to pdf file
I am trying to print a Windows form to PDF in a similar manner as the above question, however the method described in that particular answer is essentially taking an image of the form. I have controls that use a scrollbar (e.g. tablelayoutpanel) and need to see all of the information within, rather than whatever selection the scrollbar happens to be on.
Is this possible?
You will need to take a screen shot and use that image to generate a pdf.
The only way I have seen this done is using a program called Snagit, which scrolls the application window automatically whilst capturing it and I assume stitches that together.
I would imagine you would need to do that programatically to get the output you need?
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As a learning project in C# .net I am re-creating a Gnome 3 plugin for seeing who of the streamers you follow on Twitch is live. I have the settings form done, I am now working on the interface that is viewed from a click on the taskbar.
This is a rough image of what I want the interface to look like. When two or more streamers are live the interface would add another block and resize the form vertically similar to the menu for selecting a Wifi network in Windows.
What would be the best way for me to complete this?
My current thought is to maybe create a custom control and just place those inside a FlowLayoutPanel with some kind of code to change the vertical size of the form to match the added entries. Maybe this can be done without a custom control and be done with code inside a FlowLayoutPanel? I'm not too sure.
Ideally I would also have a click event in the panel for each streamer so I could then open a browser to their channel. A slight highlight would also be a plus (maybe change the background colour based on mouse hover).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
I'm making C# application design with images, but when I launch it, I see loading images (~1sec), so how to make simple loader, when images (background, logo, etc..) fully loads, to show my app? I know it's possible but I don't know how to. Thanks so much!
This sounds like standard behaviour. The controls get painted one by one in z-order and if one is slow the rest may appear to flicker.
You could try double buffering the whole form as shown here:
How to fix the flickering in User controls
Alternatively you could suspend the layout while everything is drawn and resume it afterwards:
How do I suspend painting for a control and its children?
I have tried inspecting this window using Inspect.exe provided on Windows' 8.1 Software Development Kit Testing Tools. I couldn't seem to identify the control handle for this huge rich textbox like control. I could however get the control handle of the edit box below the textbox. I was hoping I could talk directly to the control and use a library such as WindowScrape to get the text.
I believe the external program is created in VC++ . If that helps.
This is the window. I am trying to get text from that is boxed in red color. This is a chat window , messages come in every 5 to 10 seconds. This box scrolls automatically. I want to tail through the text and get the latest message.
Is there any other way to accomplish this?
Tesseract maybe, but I do not know where to start to monitor a specific position relative to the window. So that when I move the window it will still be able to monitor that window.
Can you provide a screenshot of Inspect results showing both the tree and details panes while selecting the chat box?
I am trying to reproduce a window from the Microsoft built-in Registry Editor. The window is the one which is opened when you select "Modify Binary Data..." from the context-menu when a value is clicked.
The goal is to make an identical(!) window in my .NET C# application using Windows Forms.
The problem is the textBox displayed in the window which contains the binary data. I have tried using a RichTextBox, but it isn't as simple as it seems to be especially when it comes to editing data and the behaviour of this textBox.
So I have 2 questions:
How to achieve an identical textBox in C# using Windows Forms? Maybe you know some other ways to reproduce this textBox?
I also need the font name used in this textBox, I couldn't find it :)
Thanks!
I can think of two ways you can approach this. The first is a DataGrid, painstakingly styled to have transparent grid lines and exact margins between columns, with filters to enforce hex digits only. All this, set alongside a richtextbox for the ASCII display, with your code synchronizing the selection between them.
Alternately, you can replace the DataGrid with a collection of TextBoxes, again styled for invisible borders, automatically adding new textboxes to the collection when the user adds more data.
All in all, it seems like an awful lot of work, especially in WinForms - WPF might make this a bit easier, especially the styling, but still a lot of work.
Regarding the name of that control - I tried using Spy++ to sniff it out, and it seems it's registered as a Window Class named "HEX", but I'm not sure that will really get you somewhere:
Here is an open source project containing a hex editor control for Winforms, looking at least very similar:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hexbox/
I guess you can modify it accordingly to your requirements. But beware, the source code for the control is ~6000 lines of code (including more than a dozen utility classes). It inherits directly from "Control" and does all the text display using GDI+ (so no modified DataGrid or RichTextBox).
I have a WebBrowser control in a Windows Forms Host in a WPF application. I know that in order to print it's contents, I use simply WebBrowser.Print(), however, how can I tell the printer to print the contents in landscape rather than a portrait orientation? I've been searching the Internet on this and oddly enough, it seems to be actually something that is a bit hard to do -- is this really the case? It seems odd to me that it wouldn't be easily implementable.
Thanks!
INFO: WebOCHostCSharp.exe Hosts the WebBrowser Control in C# .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326217
The Print(String) method prints a document and does not display a dialog box. This method uses a Microsoft HTML (MSHTML) print template to automatically control print options such as paper size, orientation, and number of copies.
Note: This project does NOT contain this mystery overloaded method "Print(string)", It's actually called "PrintFormatted(string)"