I Am currently working on a project where I want to have the SpeechSynthesizer speak a text. I also want a textblock to display the words as they are spoken. This is so you can read along if you don't understand the Speech Synthesizer.
So basically the problem is that i cant find a efficient way to append every letter to a text within a textbox right when its spoken by the Speech Synthesizer. So it looks like the Speech Synthesizer is typing along with what he is saying.
Example
If I would do this:
SpeechSynthesizer x = new SpeechSynthesizer();
x.SpeakAsync("Hello there");
I want the textbox text to write along as the words are spoken by the x (SpeechSynthesizer ). Something like this:
http://youtu.be/hx6JL7PsLrg?t=1m56s
As Eric mentioned, you have to use the SpeechSynthesizer.SpeakProgress event:
For Example:
var ss = new SpeechSynthesizer();
ss.SpeakProgress += (sender, args) => txtBox.Text += args.Text;
ss.Speak("Hello this is " + true);
This is kind of hacky (and isn't guaranteed to do letter-by-letter), but you could use the PhonemeReached event as a hint to display the next letter (and stop at word breaks) and then use the SpeakProgress event to generate the remaining letters in the word. If you're using SSML, you'll need to skip over markup, of course.
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I have a WindowsForm application having all text(On form labels/buttons/other controls) written in the Norwegian language. I want to convert all text in English using localization. Is there any way in Devexpress where we can convert all text into English without writing the meaning of every text in a resource file manually?
For example:- In the attachment, "Brukernavn" is hardcoded on a label. I want to auto-convert it into English without assigning its value in English-ResourceFile. What should be the approach in Devexpress localization?
I'm not aware of any Devexpress method to do this. A good solution would be to actually do the work of building a localisation file for English which would work like following.
Add a InternationlisationLayer to your application.
This layer
scours the application to locate all Controls you would possible want
to translate.
After finding all Controls you have to match their
Text values to the translated text.
After finding a matching English
text you will have to replace the Text Property on these Controls.
If you want to avoid building a proper Localisation system a far easier solution is explained below.
Make a List of type and fill it with all control texts you want translated.
Translate the strings and add format them as such that you have a Dictionary of type (where Key would be the original text and Value being the translated text).
At application Start get a list of all Controls you want to translate and do something like the following:
public static IEnumerable<System.Windows.Forms.Control> GetAllControlsOfType(this System.Windows.Forms.Control control, Type type)
{
var controls = control.Controls.Cast<System.Windows.Forms.Control>();
return controls.SelectMany(ctrl => GetAllControlsOfType(ctrl, type))
.Concat(controls)
.Where(c => c.GetType() == type);
}
public void DoTranslation()
{
var ctrls = this.GetAllControlsOfTypes(new List<Type>() { typeof(Label), typeof(Button) });
foreach (var ctr in ctrls)
{
var element = dict.FirstOrDefault(i => i.Key == ctr.Text);
ctr.Text = element.Value;
}
}
I am trying to clear a text field using this action:
emailField.sendKeys("gmail.com");
emailField.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL,"a",Keys.DELETE);
In above code, the last line only selects the text, does not delete it, but if I separate the actions it works.
emailField.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL,"a");
emailField.sendKeys(Keys.DELETE);
From the JavaDoc for WebElement.clear():
If this element is a text entry element, this will clear the value.
Has no effect on other elements. Text entry elements are INPUT and
TEXTAREA elements. Note that the events fired by this event may not be
as you'd expect. In particular, we don't fire any keyboard or mouse
events. If you want to ensure keyboard events are fired, consider
using something like sendKeys(CharSequence) with the backspace key. To
ensure you get a change event, consider following with a call to
sendKeys(CharSequence) with the tab key.
Most likely you simply need to call:
emailField.sendKeys("gmail.com");
emailField.clear();
But if you need the clearing to be done via the keyboard for some reason, use Keys.BACKSPACE.
keys.DELETE can not work to delete the input text,you should use keys.BACKSPACE.
emailField.sendKeys(Keys.BACKSPACE)
From the JavaDoc for Keys.chord
chord(java.lang.CharSequence... value)
Simulate pressing many keys at once in a "chord".
You should be able to use
emailField.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL,"a",Keys.DELETE));
Tested in chrome driver
WE.send_keys(' \b')
This will add space then delete it (backspace)
I use in javascript and it's working fine:
await textBox.sendKeys(value);
await textBox.sendKeys(Key.BACK_SPACE);
emailField.sendKeys(Keys.BACKSPACE)
doesn't worked for me .
I used 'Key' instead of 'Keys'
emailField.sendKeys(protractor.Key.BACKSPACE)
emailField.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "a",Keys.DELETE);
In PHP:
if you use php-webdriver (https://github.com/php-webdriver/php-webdriver) you must:
use Facebook\WebDriver\WebDriverKeys AS Keys;
.
.
.
$this->driver->findElement(By::id('demo'))->sendKeys([Keys::BACKSPACE,'Any other text']);
Just adding another working C# example using the Google Chrome webdriver.
SendKeys only takes one parameter so created a string with the Crtl + A. This code sequence will select the current text in the field then delete the text.
Code example:
var crtlA = Keys.Control + "a";
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/div/span/input")).SendKeys(crtlA); Wait(5000); // Select current text
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/div/span/input")).SendKeys(Keys.Delete); Wait(5000); // Clear current text
driver.FindElement(By.XPath("//div[3]/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div/div[1]/div/span/input")).SendKeys(newItemSku); Wait(5000); // Input SKU name
1. in WebdriverIO, i tried to edit the text by clear text (which contains special charactes like #, +, _) in text field by below following step. Eventhough it was not successful.
example: text=> abc+1234#gmail.com
step1:browser.clearElement(selector);
step2:browser.execute(function () {
document.querySelector(>>>Cssselector<<<).value="";
});
step3: browser.doubleClick(selector);
browser.keys("Delete");
step4: browser.click(selector);
browser.keys(['Meta',a]);
browser.keys('Meta');
browser.keys('Delete');
Note: below step is resolved this issue.
var count= browser.getAttribute(selector, value).length;
for (var i=0;i<count;i++)
{
if (browser.getAttribute(selector, value)=='')
break;
}
else
{
browser.doubleClick(selector);
browser.keys("Delete");
}
browser.pause(200);
// it will clear your text field easily.
Note:
You can add the new text now.
In Qt Designer I'm creating multiple labels (for instance):
my_label1
my_label2
my_label3
...
my_label n
Then if I want to hide them I do this:
ui->my_label1->hide();
ui->my_label2->hide();
ui->my_label3->hide();
...
ui->my_labeln->hide();
However I would like to define the labels like
my_label[n]
So then I would be able to do this:
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{
ui->my_label[n]->hide();
}
I read that I can define the widget like:
QLabel* my_label[5];
but is there any way to do the same from Qt Designer?
Thanks in advance!
Finally I decided to do direct assignment:
QLabel* my_label_array[5];
my_label_array[0] = ui->my_label1;
my_label_array[1] = ui->my_label2;
my_label_array[2] = ui->my_label3;
my_label_array[3] = ui->my_label4;
my_label_array[4] = ui->my_label5;
Then I can do for instance:
for(idx=0;idx<6;idx++) my_label_array[idx]->show();
for(idx=0;idx<6;idx++) my_label_array[idx]->hide();
for(idx=0;idx<6;idx++) my_label_array[idx]->setEnabled(1);
for(idx=0;idx<6;idx++) my_label_array[idx]->setDisabled(1);
etc...
Then I was able to perform iterations. I believe is not the cleanest way to do it but given my basic knowledge of Qt is ok for me.
Thank you very much for your answers and your support! This is a great site with great people.
Instead of creating an explicit array, you may be able to name your widgets using a particular scheme and then use QObject::findChildren() on the parent widget to get a list of the widgets you are after.
If you only want to hide widgets, you can put all the widgets you want to hide in an invisible QFrame (set frameShape to NoFrame) and hide them all by calling setVisible(false) on the QFrame. This may cause some unwanted side effects with layouts so you may have to tweak some size policy settings.
In case you are wanting to hide controls so that you can simulate a wizard type UI, you may want to check into QStackedWidget.
I have another dirty workaround for this:
in header file
// .hpp
class UiBlabla : public QWidget {
...
QLabel** labels;
};
in source file
// constructor
ui->setupUi(this);
labels = new QLabel*[10]{ui->label_0, ui->label_1, ui->label_2, ui->label_3,
ui->label_4, ui->label_5, ui->label_6,
ui->label_7, ui->label_8, ui->label_9};
I haven't seen anything in QtDesigner to do that, but there are a couple of relatively easy ways to get that behavior.
1) Simply store the my_labelx pointers (from QtDesigner) in an array (or better, a QVector):
QVector<QLabel*> my_labels;
my_labels.push_back(ui->my_label1);
my_labels.push_back(ui->my_label2);
Then you can iterate through the QVector.
for(int i=0; i < my_labels.size(); ++i) {
my_labels[i]-> hide();
}
// or with QFOREACH
foreach(QLabel* label, my_labels)
label->hide();
There is a little setup needed in terms of adding all the labels to the QVector, but on the plus side you only do that once.
2) Depending on the layout of your gui, you could have all your labels be children of a container object and iterate through the children
I need to take snapshots of Control in time and store them in one FixedDocument. Problem is that VisualBrush is somehow "lazy" and do not evaluate itself by adding it to document. When I finaly create the document, all pages contains the same (last) state of Control. While VisualBrush cannot be Freezed, is there any other chance to do it? I would like to have more snapshots on one page so generate document page by page isn't solution for me. Aswel as converting VisualBrush to Bitmap (I want to keep it in vectors). In short - I need to somehow Freeze() VisualBrush
for(;;)
{
FixedPage page = new FixedPage();
...
Rectangle rec = new Rectangle();
...
rec.Fill = vb;
page.Children.Add(rec);
PageContent content = new PageContent();
((IAddChild)content).AddChild(page);
doc.Pages.Add(content);
}
I used serialization:
string svb = XamlWriter.Save(vb.CloneCurrentValue());
// Replace all "Name" attributes (I don't need them already and deserialization would crash on them) with "Tag" - not best practice but it's fast :)
svb = svb.Replace("Name", "Tag");
rect.Fill((VisualBrush)XamlReader.Parse(svb));
EDIT
Better way is to save Visual as XPS document and then take the Visual back. (De)serialization has some problems with SharedSizeGroups and many other "reference like" things.
XpsDocumentWriter writer = XpsDocument.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(doc);
control.InvalidateArrange();
UpdateLayout();
writer.Write(control);
Visual capture = doc.GetFixedDocumentSequence().DocumentPaginator.GetPage(0).Visual;
Greetings,
I have a problem with printing in WPF.
I am creating a flow document and add some controls to that flow document.
Print Preview works ok and i have no problem with printing from a print preview window.
The problem exists when I print directly to the printer without a print preview. But what is more surprisingly - when I use XPS Document Writer as a printer
everyting is ok, when i use some physical printer, some controls on my flow document are not displayed.
Thanks in advance
Important thing to note : You can use XpsDocumentWriter even when printing directly to a physical printer. Don't make the mistake I did of avoiding it just because you're not creating an .xps file!
Anyway - I had this same problem, and none of the DoEvents() hacks seemed to work. I also wasn't particularly happy about having to use them in the first place. In my situation some of the databound controls printed fine, but some others (nested UserControls) didnt. It was as if only one 'level' was being databound and the rest wouldn't bind even with a 'DoEvents()' hack.
The solution was simple though. Use XpsDocumentWriter like this. it will open a dialog where you can choose whichever installed physical printer you want.
// 8.5 x 11 paper
Size sz = new Size(96 * 8.5, 96 * 11);
// create your visual (this is a WPF UserControl)
var template = new PackingSlipTemplate()
{
DataContext = new PackingSlipViewModel(order)
};
// arrange
template.Measure(sz);
template.Arrange(new Rect(sz));
template.UpdateLayout();
// print to XpsDocumentWriter
// this will open a dialog and you can print to any installed printer
// not just a 'virtual' .xps file
PrintDocumentImageableArea area = null;
XpsDocumentWriter xps = PrintQueue.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(ref area,);
xps.Write(template);
I found the OReilly book on 'Programming WPF' quite useful with its chapter on Printing - found through Google Books.
If you don't want a print dialog to appear, but want to print directly to the default printer you can do the following. (For me the application is to print packing slips in a warehouse environment - and I don't want a dialog popping up every time).
var template = new PackingSlipTemplate()
{
DataContext = new PackingSlipViewModel(orders.Single())
};
// arrange
template.Measure(sz);
template.Arrange(new Rect(sz));
template.UpdateLayout();
LocalPrintServer localPrintServer = new LocalPrintServer();
var defaultPrintQueue = localPrintServer.DefaultPrintQueue;
XpsDocumentWriter xps = PrintQueue.CreateXpsDocumentWriter(defaultPrintQueue);
xps.Write(template, defaultPrinter.DefaultPrintTicket);
XPS Document can be printed without a problem
i have noticed one thing:
tip: the controls that are not displayed are the controls I am binding some data, so the conclusion is that the binding doesn't work. Can it be the case that binding is not executing before sending the document to the printer?