Greetings, I have been challenged with accessing an Act2000 dbf with a c# program for readonly access. The odbc doesn't work properly with any of the drivers I have been able to find. Act2000 isn't fully odbc compliant either. I found crystal reports uses the driver pdiract3.dll or p2iract3.dll to access the database. Is there a way to use the dll in a c# program to access the database directly like crystal does? Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers.. Mark

Hi ACorbs, That was it.. I had the taskbarNotifier1 instance of the TaskbarNotifier() constructor created in the Thread1() of my new thread. I moved the taskbarNotifier1 and as you said the problem went away. Awesome!!!! Thanks!!!! Time to move on..... Thanks alot ACorbs,Skynard and Mav for your kind help!!!! Mark

Hi Skynyrd, Thanks for you time on this. I tried creating a delegate and using the Invoke method and the same thing happends. The way the code works is as follows: Main App---> thread -->taskbarNotification.show() Main app creates a thread that loops checking the server for new messages. When there is a new message the thread calls the taskbarNotification1.Invoke... This is when the line appears at the bottom of my screen. The line looks like a border and is the same width as the bitmap background specified for the popup window. Like I said previously if I call MessageBox.Show("anything") after I call the taskbarNotification1.Invoke the program works perfectly with an annoying messagebox every time. Thanks again for your time!!! Mark

Hi Mav, The TaskBarNotifier is as follows. The code works fine in a non-thread environment. Thanks alot for your time!!! I have a main routine create a thread that polls a sql server and calls the show method in the following code snip. When you call the show method it displays a small line above the taskbar. If you add a messageBox.show() right after you call the taskbarnotifier.show() it works fine. I got the taskbar notification code from an article on this site. // C# TaskbarNotifier Class v1.0 // by John O'Byrne - 02 december 2002 // 01 april 2003 : Small fix in the OnMouseUp handler // 11 january 2003 : Patrick Vanden Driessche added a few enhancements // Small Enhancements/Bugfix // Small bugfix: When Content text measures larger than the corresponding ContentRectangle // the focus rectangle was not correctly drawn. This has been solved. // Added KeepVisibleOnMouseOver // Added ReShowOnMouseOver // Added If the Title or Content are too long to fit in the corresponding Rectangles, // the text is truncateed and the ellipses are appended (StringTrimming). using System; using System.Drawing; using System.Drawing.Imaging; using System.Drawing.Drawing2D; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; namespace CustomUIControls { /// /// TaskbarNotifier allows to display MSN style/Skinned instant messaging popups /// public class TaskbarNotifier : System.Windows.Forms.Form { #region TaskbarNotifier Protected Members protected Bitmap BackgroundBitmap = null; protected Bitmap CloseBitmap = null; protected Point CloseBitmapLocation; protected Size CloseBitmapSize; protected Rectangle RealTitleRectangle; protected Rectangle RealContentRectangle; protected Rectangle WorkAreaRectangle; protected Timer timer = new Timer(); protected TaskbarStates taskbarState = TaskbarStates.hidden; protected string titleText; protected string contentText; protected Color normalTitleColor = Color.FromArgb(255,0,0); protected Color hoverTitleColor = Color.FromArgb(255,0,0); protected Color normalContentColor = Color.FromArgb(0,0,0); protected Color hoverContentColor = Color.FromArgb(0,0,0x66); protected Font normalTitleFont = new Font("Arial",12,FontStyle.Regular,GraphicsUnit.Pixel); protected Font hoverTitleFont = new Font("Arial",12,FontStyle.Bold,GraphicsUnit.Pixel); protecte

Hi All, This ones a stumper.... The thread gets started that loops indefinately. It checks a database for a new message and displays it in the taskbar popup window. In the thread class i created there is a block of code initializing the popup window. When you call the show function: taskbarNotifier1.Show("Chatter",what,500,5000,200); You get a small line on top of the taskbar. If I change the code to this.. taskbarNotifier1.Show("Chatter",what,500,5000,200); MessageBox.Show(what); The popup window shows as long as the messagebox is open. When I close the messagebox the popup disapears. This is very strange almost bug like. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on this.. Please help!!! Thanks, Mark

Hi All, This ones a stumper.... Some more detail.. The thread gets started that loops indefinately. It checks a database for a new message and displays it in the taskbar popup window. In the thread class i created there is a block of code initializing the popup window. When you call the show function: taskbarNotifier1.Show("Chatter",what,500,5000,200); You get a small line on top of the taskbar. If I change the code to this.. taskbarNotifier1.Show("Chatter",what,500,5000,200); MessageBox.Show(what); The popup window shows as long as the messagebox is open. When I close the messagebox the popup disapears. This is very strange almost bug like. Does anyone have any suggestions or thoughts on this.. Please help!!! Thanks, Mark

Hi, I recently downloaded the code from a project on this site called TaskbarNotification. It is a little msn style popup window that pops up on the taskbar. When using this class in a single threaded application it works fine. Now i have to use multi-threading because the program checks a mysql database for updates and pop's up the window when there is one. Since i need to loop indefinatly I had to thread the task. Now a line only appears at the bottom of the taskbar and goes away. If I add a call to MessageBox.Show("whatever") write after i call taskbarNotification1.show() the message box pops up and the taskbar notification window shows. I thought the problem could be the passing of the background bitmap to the taskbarNofication class. I tried to initialize the background bitmap in the actual class but get a resource error. I guess threads don't have access to the resources the Microsoft Studio makes you add. Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks.. Mark