I create a winform project with a single form with 4 textboxes and a button.
On button click, I perform the following:
Window1 w = new Window1();
ElementHost.EnableModelessKeyboardInterop(w);
w.Show();
Where window 1 is a Wpf window. Window1 has a single button on it and when that button is clicked the following occurs:
System.Windows.MessageBox.Show("HelloWOrld");
When you run the application the WinForm Form pops ups. If you hit tab it cycles through the 4 textboxes no problem. Then Click the button to open the WPF window. Click that button and popup the messagebox. Leave them open and then go back to the WinForm form you can no longer tab through the fields but you can type other characters. It appears as though the textboxes get the keystrokes but the form doesn't get them. I also get a system beep as though the model was getting the keystroke.
EDIT 9/9/2014 3:44PM
Hans responded in the comments and was correct. I tried describing a simpler case that would be easier for other people to reproduce that gave use the same symptoms. Our actual problem is that we have created a window base class that supports modal to parent capabilities. Here is the relevant code for our BaseWindow
public class BaseWindow: Window
{
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern bool EnableWindow(IntPtr hWnd, bool bEnable);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
public void ShowModalToParent(Window frmParent, Action<bool?> callback = null)
{
IntPtr myHandle = (new System.Windows.Interop.WindowInteropHelper(this)).Handle;
EnableWindow(myHandle,
SetForegroundWindow(myHandle);
this.Closing += Window_Closing;
ShowInTaskbar = false;
Owner = frmParent; // Keep on top of parent
ClosedCallBack += callback ?? (p => { _modalDialogResult = p; });
var parentHandle = (new System.Windows.Interop.WindowInteropHelper(frmParent)).Handle;
EnableWindow(parentHandle, false); // Prevent events for parent
new ShowAndWaitHelper(this).ShowAndWait();
}
internal class ShowAndWaitHelper
{
private readonly Window _window;
private DispatcherFrame _dispatcherFrame;
internal ShowAndWaitHelper(Window window)
{
if (window == null)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("panel");
}
this._window = window;
}
internal void ShowAndWait()
{
if (this._dispatcherFrame != null)
{
throw new InvalidOperationException("Cannot call ShowAndWait while waiting for a previous call to ShowAndWait to return.");
}
this._window.Closed += new EventHandler(this.OnPanelClosed);
_window.Show();
this._dispatcherFrame = new DispatcherFrame();
Dispatcher.PushFrame(this._dispatcherFrame);
}
private void OnPanelClosed(object source, EventArgs eventArgs)
{
if (this._dispatcherFrame == null)
{
return;
}
this._window.Closed -= new EventHandler(this.OnPanelClosed);
this._dispatcherFrame.Continue = false;
this._dispatcherFrame = null;
}
}
}
I'm sure this code was taken from a Blog/Forum post of some sort but am unable to find any reference to it in code. We want to keep the modal to parent but some how address the odd key press issue. To reproduce the issue replace the button_click in Window1 to call ShowModalToParent on a window that uses this as a base class.
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I am having issues updating the text in a tooltip for a system tray application. I have a timer updating several strings, but it will not update the notifyicon text. Here is what I have tried.
//This is in my main
System.Timers.Timer aTimer = new System.Timers.Timer();
aTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(OnTimedEvent);
aTimer.Interval = 5000;
aTimer.Enabled = true;
}
private static void OnTimedEvent(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
ProcessIcon.GetDNS();
ProcessIcon.GetIP();
ProcessIcon.getMAC();
ProcessIcon.showALL();
Fixes.SetNotifyIconText(ni, ProcessIcon.showALL()); //This one will not update, the others update fine.
}//End part of my main
//This part is in another class for the notifyicon part.
public void Display()
{
// Put the icon in the system tray and allow it react to mouse clicks.
ni.MouseClick += new MouseEventHandler(ni_MouseClick1);
ni.Icon = new Icon("WhoAmI.ico");
Fixes.SetNotifyIconText(ni, showALL());
ni.Visible = true;
// Attach a context menu.
ni.ContextMenuStrip = new ContextMenus().Create();
}
I removed the timer and now call each function when the user hovers over the icon.
I have a issue in our application where the memory is not released when the user controls
are unloaded. This will increase the memory starting from 40MB and ends up with 200MB and more.
To simulate this,
I created a wpf project which has the main window and a user control
loaded 1000 objects into a wpf datagrid which is placed in a user control
A scroll viewer is put in the main window
The user control is loaded inside this scroll viewer Once the show button is clicked
The user control is removed from the Content of the Scroll viwer once the Close button is clicked
Once i checked with the task manager, before the 1000 objects are loaded to the grid, the memory consumption is 14MB. Once its loaded by clicking on the show button it increases to 70MB. But when i click on Close button to remove the user control from the window, the memory reduces to 67MB only. Shouldn't it reduce to 14BMB or something close to that??
When i checked this with the ANTS memory profiler, it shows that the 1000 objects remain in memory even after the User control is removed from the Window. Shouldn't the garbage collector release these objects when the user control is removed from the window (once the Scroll viewer Content Property is set to null)?
Following is the Code i used for this. I didn't use any styles, data templates or any third party controls, only used the WPF DataGrid control to load the data.
The User Control Code Behind
public partial class UserControl1 : UserControl,IDisposable
{
List<TestClass> list = null;
public UserControl1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public void Dispose()
{
BindingOperations.ClearBinding(dgList, DataGrid.ItemsSourceProperty);
list.Clear();
GC.Collect();
}
private void UserControl_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
list = new List<TestClass>();
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
TestClass obj = new TestClass();
obj.Name = "test name";
obj.Age = 34;
list.Add(obj);
}
dgList.ItemsSource = list;
}
}
public class TestClass
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public int Age { get; set; }
}
Main Window Code behind
public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
UserControl1 control = null;
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void btnClose_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
control.Dispose();
scwContent.Content = null;
control = null;
}
private void btnShow_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
control = new UserControl1();
scwContent.Content = control;
}
}
Thanks.
The Garbage collector only collects when memory is needed, not when references are set to null.
(Only exception: calling GC.Collect())
Why are you trying to call GC? That is not required
Change
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
TestClass obj = new TestClass();
...
To
TestClass obj;
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
{
obj = new TestClass();
...
You can set the list object to null ..
Read this for understanding setting objects to null
Setting an object to null vs Dispose()
Well I'm using a Window as my custom message box with a couple of controls which are displayed/populated with text depending on which constructor is called.
I have a defined event, which is subscribed to via the original class, this fires once the button has been clicked.
However I can't see how to use this effectively, preferably I'd like to return a bool whether Yes or No was clicked, however obviously my code will carry on executing, hence the method which is subscibed to the button click. Below is some example code to make the issue clearer.
Message Box Window
public partial class CustomMessageBox : Window
{
public delegate void MessageBoxHandler(object sender, EventArgs e);
public event MessageBoxHandler MessageBoxEvent;
public CustomMessageBox()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public CustomMessageBox(string message)
{
InitializeComponent();
this.txtdescription.Text = message;
}
public CustomMessageBox(string message, string title, string firstBtnText)
{
InitializeComponent();
this.lbltitle.Content = title;
this.txtdescription.Text = message;
this.btnstart.Content = firstBtnText;
}
}
public static class MessageBoxButtonClick
{
public static bool Yes { get; set; }
public static bool No { get; set; }
public static bool Cancel { get; set; }
}
Window Which Instantiates the MessageBox Window
private void StartProcess_Click(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
{
foreach (var result in results)
{
if(result.ToBeProcessed)
_validResults.Add(new ToBeProcessed(result.Uri, result.Links));
}
_msgbox = new CustomMessageBox("Each Uri's backlinks will now be collected from Yahoo and filtered, finally each link will be visited and parsed. The operation is undertaken in this manner to avoid temporary IP Blocks from Yahoo's servers.", "Just a FYI", "OK");
_msgbox.MessageBoxEvent += (MessageBoxHandler);
if (_msgBoxProceed)
{
_msgbox.Close();
Yahoo yahoo = new Yahoo();
yahoo.Status.Sending += (StatusChange);
//What I'd like to happen here is the code simply stop, like it does when calling a messagebox is winforms
//e.g.
// if(ProceedClicked == true)
// do stuff
// yahoo.ScrapeYahoo(_validResults[Cycle].Uri, _validResults[Cycle].LinkNumber);
//Cycle++;
}
else
{
_msgbox.Close();
}
}
private void MessageBoxHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (MessageBoxButtonClick.Yes)
{
ProceedClicked = true;
}
else
{
ProceedClicked = false;
}
}
Hopefully that makes it clear enough, I can't put any execution code ie call a certain method due to using it multiple times throughout my application.
Very hard to understand what the problem exactly is. Also the code you wrote here, doesn't seemt to have any calls, that would actually show the CustomMessageBoxWindow.
But I'll take a stab at this...
First of all, am I right in guessing that in your main Window you want your code to wait at if(_msgBoxProceed) until the user actually presses a button in your CustomMessageBoxWindow (currently it just shows the message box and continues executing the next statements)?
If so then I'm guessing you are showing your message box window with the Show() method. Use ShowDialog() instead. That will cause code execution to stop, until the message box gets closed.
If you don't want to use a modal dialog then there are two options. Either use thread syncrhonization objects (eg AutoResetEvent) or set up a new event for when the message box closes and continue your code execution in the closed event handler (in StartProcess_Click the last line would be a call to _msgBox.Show() and everything from if(_msgBoxProceed) would be in the closed event handler).
I have a reusable usercontrol that uses a few commands and corresponding keyboard gestures,
(specifically Escape and Ctrl+1...Ctrl+9)
Now as I use this usercontrol in multiple locations I'd like to define the input gestures in the usercontrol, which works fine as long as the focus is within the usercontrol. However, I'd need it to work as long as focus is within the current page/window.
How can I do it, or do I really have to do command/input bindings on every page?
You could handle the Loaded event of the UserControl and walk up the logical tree to find the owning page/window, then you can add the bindings there.
e.g.
public partial class Bogus : UserControl
{
public Bogus()
{
Loaded += (s, e) => { HookIntoWindow(); };
InitializeComponent();
}
private void HookIntoWindow()
{
var current = this.Parent;
while (!(current is Window) && current is FrameworkElement)
{
current = ((FrameworkElement)current).Parent;
}
if (current != null)
{
var window = current as Window;
// Add input bindings
var command = new AlertCommand();
window.InputBindings.Add(new InputBinding(command, new KeyGesture(Key.D1, ModifierKeys.Control)));
}
}
}
I am using the code below to save and restore the window position and size upon restart.
I am observing an upward drift of 28 pixels everytime I execute this code!
Am I reading the wrong values, or am I restoring them incorrectly? Where is the number 28 (size of the chrome?) coming from (and how would I account for it programmatically, rather than a fixed number in code)?
Here is my code:
public partial class MainStudioWindowControl : RibbonWindow
{
public MainStudioWindowControl()
{
App.MainWindowOwner = this;
this.Loaded += new System.Windows.RoutedEventHandler(MainStudioWindowControl_Loaded);
}
void MainStudioWindowControl_Loaded(object sender, System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs e)
{
System.Windows.Window mainWindow = System.Windows.Application.Current.MainWindow;
mainWindow.WindowStartupLocation = System.Windows.WindowStartupLocation.Manual;
if (Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Width > 0)
{
mainWindow.Left = Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Left;
mainWindow.Top = Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Top;
mainWindow.Width = Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Width;
mainWindow.Height = Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Height;
}
Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("Loading: Top = {0}", this.Top));
}
protected override void OnClosing(System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e)
{
base.OnClosing(e);
System.Windows.Window mainWindow = System.Windows.Application.Current.MainWindow;
Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Left = mainWindow.Left;
Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Top = mainWindow.Top;
Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Width = mainWindow.Width;
Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Height = mainWindow.Height;
Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Save();
Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("Saving: Settings.Top = {0}", Studio.Properties.Settings.Default.Top));
}
}
Try this:
1) Derive your class from the normal Window, not the RibbonWindow - if that fixes it, it's a RibbonWindow issue.
2) Use hard-coded values to set the measurments in the Loaded handler - if that fixes it, the problem's got something to do with the settings.
With these two changes, it worked fine for me. The window appeared where it should every time.