Yes!! StormIDE, That is the one! Thank you both very much for your help!

(Not a programming question!) Was reading through the latest articles sometime around new years. I found an interesting article in which a guy had developed a set of controls for C# IDE development. Such as a code editor with syntax highlighting. I have just spent the last hour going through my browser history and latest article searches going back to november. Unfortunatley I have been unable to find the article. Does anyone else remember reading this article? Remember what it was called? (Btw, its not the article "Peter - Programmers Extensive Text Editor" but it was very similar)

Thanks, Andy

Ah perfect! Thank you so much. This works perfectly :) Thank you!

Hi, The best way I can explain this is to just show you. If you go to this site, http://www.extjs.com/examples/explorer.html#messagebox , (I know its an Ajax framework) and click on any of the buttons (Confirm, Prompt). When you click the button, a dialog box pops up, But the rest of the page fades out and cant be interacted with. This is to bring the users focus onto the dialog box. Now, I know to get the fade effect I have to: 1) add a div to the body tag 2) set its background to black 3) set its opacity to 0.1 4) set its z-index to something like 1000 What I dont understand is how to make it so that the user cannot interact with the other controls on the page. As long as the dialog is showing, the user cannot interact with the rest of the page hidden behind it. But if I add this to my own HTML page. Just a div with width/height 100% and background/opacity black/0.1.. The user can still click buttons or edit textboxes on the page? Does anyone know how is this achieved? Thanks, Andyyy

Thanks Jase, I had found this last night. It got me really interested and I wanted to read it all, but as you see to read the full article you have to download the pdf.. and the link for the pdf is broken. Edit, just did a search and a filename, found it on a different domain :) http://factaee.elfak.ni.ac.rs/fu2k71/9caleanu.pdf[^]

Indeed it is very complex. I dont expect there to be any library or control for free. But I cannot find any libraries, even ones you have to pay for.

I have been looking for a way to preform facial recognition with C#. I have searched and searched for a library or control for such a task. I could only find one... "ActiveFace" but activeface.net is just a blank page and all the download sites i can find redirect me to the blank site. Does anyone know of any control or library for preforming face recognition with C#? Andy

Ah thank you, I see where my mistake is. form.Show() only works if you have Application.Run on another form. ie: new Form2("b").Show(); Application.Run(new Form2("c")); Thank you very much =]

Ah I see. Well when i use form.Show() it shows the form and closes it straight away. It doesnt give the user a chance to select an account. I have tried form.ShowDialog() and that seems to keep the form active. LoginForm loginForm = new LoginForm(); loginForm.ShowDialog(); I then added OpenMainForm(string accountname) to the Program class: public static void OpenMainForm(string accountname) { Application.Run(new MainForm(accountname)); } So when the program launches it shows the login form, and then when the user selects an account it calls the static OpenMainForm in the Program Class which uses Application.Run(), but thats gives errors. Starting a second message loop on a single thread is not a valid operation. Use Form.ShowDialog instead. Considering the invalid methods I have been using, would it be more logical for me to launch the main form with Application.Run(), have it hidden and show the login form as a dialog from within the main form? Andy

My apologies for not explaining my situation clearly. It is a small client application, the first form is a login form which shows the user a dropdown list which they select an account name from. Then I wish to pass this account name to the main form. It has been awhile since i have done any work with multi-threading but you cant just use form.Show() can you? I just tried and the form shows and then closes straight away. As far as I was aware if you are using multiple forms, you needed to use Application.Run()? Please correct me if I am wrong.

Hi, In my application i need to open 2 forms. After the first form is loaded, iti loads a second form with the following..

System.Threading.Thread MainFormThread = new System.Threading.Thread(new System.Threading.ThreadStart(OpenMainForm));
MainFormThread.Start();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1500);

Where OpenMainForm() just has Application.Run(new MainForm()); The MainForm has a webbrowser control, and it will not compile due to the error:

ActiveX control '8856f961-340a-11d0-a96b-00c04fd705a2' cannot be instantiated because the current thread is not in a single-threaded apartment.

Does anyone know how i can solve this issue? Thanks for reading. Andy

Hi, firstly please do not get the wrong idea, this is for good intentions,not spreading malicious software. My school has over 300 computers connected to the network, and somehow they have ALL been infected with Conficker (the C edition). Unfortunately the schools IT manager recently retired and when it comes down to it I am the guy for fixing small IT problems. We have already tried shutting down all computers and running the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (April 09 Edition) on each computer one by one. We have done this twice but obviously we are missing it somewhere and the dam virus keeps resurrecting and infects the whole network again. My best guess is to somehow run the malicious software removal tool on all computers at once. Does anyone know a way to copy and run a file from the server onto all networked machines? I have full administrator access so thats no problem. Im just unsure of how to do this. Thanks for your time in reading.

Hi (: Im currently developing an application in C# that requires chat/support discussion features. I have all of the back-end networking sorted out, But im stuck when it comes to the UI. . . I cant find a nice and efficient method for displaying the chat session/logs to the users. Ive tried using just a textbox.. but it looks primitive, Ive tried using Chat Controls i have found online, but they wouldn't work. . . and i have tried using HTML rendering controls from here on CP, but when the message stack builds up the rendering slows the whole UI. Could someone, maybe who has tackled a similar situation, offer some advice as to how i could go about both professionally and efficiently displaying chat sessions in my UI? Thanks for your time in reading, Andy.

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Ill try keep it short, Usually when I write networking applications, I spawn a new thread every time a client connects to the server. This works fine for my small time applications, but how do people who deploy large scale servers handle client communications? If you have thousands of users, for example a simple busy irc server, surely you cant spawn threads for all the users, what other methods are there? Andy

Haha i love it. Definitely an Irish joke!

Hi, Ive been trying to figure out how to go about doing this for a few hours, Was wondering if someone could offer some advice. What i have is "List Files = new .." containing a number of file paths in order of last opened. The list is LIMITED to only holding 10 items. When a new file is opened, i want to shift all of the items in the list by +1 place. So Files[1] goes to Files[2] ... and Files[2] goes to Files[3] and so on. So then i can keep adding new files, they will go to Files[1] and all of the others move up a position. Anyone any advice? If what i said even makes the slightest of sense? Thanks for reading my confusing stuff ;P

Thanks for the reply ravi! Thats pretty much exactly what im looking for, it already has the C# DLLs so i can easily include in my project. But GOLD has the same problem as COCO, it requires a grammer file, which i am not experienced enough to write, i dont know that much about C++ to write a grammer table for the whole language. Do you know of any free available GOLD C++.cgt (Compiled Grammer Table)

Hi, im working on a bare basic IDE style application in C#, Just a custom application for coding in. I wish to be able to display a treeview or other control with details on C++ Code typed in the editor. I have looked into using Coco/R, but i cannot find a C++.atg to use with the C# coco.exe to generate a parser. Does anyone know any other open source libraries or such that would allow me to inspect C++ Code from a C# Application? Thanks for your time in reading =]

Hey guys Thanks, Ill check out http://www.infragistics.com/[^]. I already do use the Krypton Toolkit, and it does have a customized listbox, but its just the normal listbox with their own themes applied.

This isn't actually a programming question, more of a development question, so sorry if I have got the wrong board. Im developing a small chat application, and I wish to display a nice list/menu of users currently online. I have searched and searched, and I have gone through many articles on this site but I just cant find anything that works well. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any nice controls that they may have seen or used in the past? I really liked the, Vista Style Menu[^] But in use, it doesnt scroll when i have more list items then the forms height, and it doesn't dock to fill. Andy