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How to get Japanese font-names in Japanese?

I have wrote some code to get the Font name out of ttf file. But when it run on English-windows OS, all the Japanese font return its name in English
Ex: instead of <リュウミン>.
I would like to get the the font name in Japanese when i run the program on my English-windows OS.
If you can give some advice, i will be appreciated!
I searched for System.Globalization namespace but it gets me no-where.
private void getFile_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
fontFilePath.Text = openFolder();
}
private void print_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
StringBuilder strb = new StringBuilder();
DirectoryInfo d = new DirectoryInfo(fontFilePath.Text);
//convert to jp
//System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("ja-JP", true);
//culture. = new System.Globalization.JapaneseCalendar();
FileInfo[] fil = d.GetFiles();
foreach (FileInfo _fil in fil)
{
PrivateFontCollection fonts = new PrivateFontCollection();
fonts.AddFontFile(_fil.FullName);
try { strb.Append(fonts.Families[0].Name).AppendLine(); }
catch (Exception ex) { }
}
FileStream fs = new FileStream(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "/path.txt" , FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
StreamWriter strw = new StreamWriter(fs);
strw.Write(strb);
strw.Close();
strb.Clear();
}
private string openFolder()
{
FolderBrowserDialog fol = new FolderBrowserDialog();
if (fol.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
string folName = fol.SelectedPath;
return folName;
}
else
return "";
}

outlook addin attachment.savefileas

The attachment is found, but the file is not being saved. While debugging, it seems to be successfully saving, but the file is not in the test path.
private void button1_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
{
Outlook.Inspector currInspector = null;
Outlook.MailItem mail = null;
Outlook.Attachments attachments = null;
//change to production paths when working, below are test paths
string path = #"H:\Customer Service";
string archivePath = #"H:\Customer Service\Helpers";
try
{
currInspector = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveWindow();
mail = (Outlook.MailItem)currInspector.CurrentItem;
attachments = mail.Attachments;
for (int i = 1; i <= attachments.Count; i++)
{
Outlook.Attachment vendFile = attachments[i];
//save original in archive folder
vendFile.SaveAsFile(archivePath + vendFile);
//begin document modification and save to path
//StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(new FileStream(path, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite));
//dispose of object
Marshal.ReleaseComObject(vendFile);
}
}
catch
{
MessageBox.Show("Unable to retrieve attachment");
}
finally
{
if (attachments != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(attachments);
if (mail != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(mail);
if (currInspector != null) Marshal.ReleaseComObject(currInspector);
}
}
}

You need to specify the fully qualified path and file name for the SaveAsFile method, not just a folder path:
string filename = Path.Combine(archivePath , vendFile.FileName);
vendFile.SaveAsFile(filename);

How to overwrite extracted zip file in C#, WinForms?

I have this code that backup and restore in C# using MS Access as its database. I finished doing the backup in zip format and now I want to restore the Zipped file. Any help will be much appreciated.
public void BackupDatabase(string dateToday)
{
string dbFileName = "dbCPS.accdb";
string CurrentDatabasePath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory , dbFileName);
string backTimeStamp = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(dbFileName) + "_" + dateToday + ".zip";// +Path.GetExtension(dbFileName);
string destFileName = backTimeStamp;// +dbFileName;
FolderBrowserDialog fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog();
if (fbd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
string PathtobackUp = fbd.SelectedPath.ToString();
destFileName = Path.Combine(PathtobackUp, destFileName);
//File.Copy(CurrentDatabasePath, destFileName, true);
using (var zip = new ZipFile())
{
zip.AddFile(dbFileName);
zip.Save(destFileName);
}
MessageBox.Show("Backup successful! ");
}
}
private void backupToolStripMenuItem1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
BackupDatabase(DateTime.Now.ToString("ddMMMyyyy_HH.mm"));
}
public void RestoreDatabase(string restoreFile)
{
string dbFileName = "dbCPS.accdb";
string pathBackup = restoreFile;
string CurrentDatabasePath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, dbFileName);
File.Copy(pathBackup, CurrentDatabasePath, true);
MessageBox.Show("Restore successful! ");
}
private void restoreToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
openFileDialogBackUp.FileName = "dbCPS";
openFileDialogBackUp.InitialDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + #"Sauvegardes";
if (openFileDialogBackUp.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
RestoreDatabase(openFileDialogBackUp.FileName);
}
catch (Exception error)
{
MessageBox.Show(error.ToString());
}
}
This code extracts the zipped file but I dont know how to do the restore at the same time.
using (ZipFile zip = ZipFile.Read(restoreFile))
{
zip.ExtractAll(CurrentDatabasePath);
}

I've done it! For those who are in need of the code, here it is:
using (ZipFile zip = ZipFile.Read(pathBackup))
{
zip.ExtractAll(Environment.CurrentDirectory, ExtractExistingFileAction.OverwriteSilently);
}

You cannot overwrite directly the database while you are actively using it.
By actively I mean you have an OleDbConnection open on that database.
From your code above it is not possible to understand if you are in this situation, so the first thing to do is to search for all occurences of an OleDbConnection and check if they are closed correctly. If you have a global OleDbConnection that it is kept open for the lifetime of your application (a very bad practice), then you need to close it before trying to overwrite the accdb file
public void RestoreDatabase(string restoreFile)
{
string dbFileName = "dbCPS.accdb";
string extractedFile = Path.GetTempFileName();
string CurrentDatabasePath = Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, dbFileName);
using (ZipFile zip = ZipFile.Read(restoreFile))
{
// Extract to a temporary name built by the Framework for you....
zip.ExtractAll(extractedFile);
}
// Now, before copying over the accdb file, you need to be sure that there is no
// open OleDbConnection to this file, otherwise the IOException occurs because you
// cannot change that file while it is actively used by a OleDbConnection
// something like global_conn.Close(); global_conn.Dispose();
File.Copy(extractedFile, CurrentDatabasePath, true);
MessageBox.Show("Restore successful! ");
// and then reopen the connection
}

private void btn_UodateMembers_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!bwUpdateMembers.IsBusy)
{
bwUpdateMembers.RunWorkerAsync();
}
}
private string ExtractZip(FileInfo fi)
{
string extractTo = Path.Combine(fi.DirectoryName, Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
using (ZipFile zip = ZipFile.Read(fi.FullName))
{
foreach (ZipEntry ze in zip)
{
ze.Extract(extractTo, ExtractExistingFileAction.OverwriteSilently);
}
}
return extractTo;
}
public FileInfo GetLatestFile(DirectoryInfo di)
{
FileInfo fi = di.GetFiles()
.OrderByDescending(d => d.CreationTime)
.FirstOrDefault();
return fi;
}
private void bwUpdateMembers_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
string path = "C:\\Users\\Ghost Wolf\\Desktop\\zip";
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(path);
if (di != null)
{
FileInfo fi = GetLatestFile(di);
string folder = ExtractZip(fi);
MessageBox.Show("Your'e Files Have Been Extracted", "Notice", MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel, MessageBoxIcon.Information);
}
}
PLEASE TELL ME IF THIS WORKED FOR YOU!!

C# ListBox Import from Text File Crash

I am using this code to import text file to my ListBox
OpenFileDialog openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
openFileDialog1.Filter = "Text Files|*.txt";
openFileDialog1.Title = "Select a Text file";
openFileDialog1.FileName = "";
DialogResult result = openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK)
{
string file = openFileDialog1.FileName;
string[] text = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(file);
foreach (string line in text)
{
listBox2.Items.Add(line);
}
listBox2.Items.Add("");
}
It works fine for small text files, with 10 lines or so, but when I try to import bigger list, (4-5 megabytes) the program isn't responding and it's crashing.
Any help?

Use the BufferedStream class in C# to improve performance.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.bufferedstream.aspx

By using this:
string[] text = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(file);
listBox1.Items.AddRange(text);
instead of this:
string[] text = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines(file);
foreach (string line in text)
{
listBox2.Items.Add(line);
}
you will speed up the execution at least 10-15 times because you are not invalidating listBox on every Item insert.
I have measured with few thousand lines.
The bottleneck could also be ReadAllLines if your text has too many lines. Even though I can't figure out why you would be inserting so many lines, will user be able to find the line he/she needs?
EDIT OK then I suggest you to use BackgroundWorker, here is the code:
First you initialize BackGroundWorker:
BackgroundWorker bgw;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
bgw = new BackgroundWorker();
bgw.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(bgw_DoWork);
bgw.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(bgw_RunWorkerCompleted);
}
Then you call it in your method:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (!bgw.IsBusy)
{
OpenFileDialog openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
openFileDialog1.Filter = "Text Files|*.txt";
openFileDialog1.Title = "Select a Text file";
openFileDialog1.FileName = "";
DialogResult result = openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK)
{
string file = openFileDialog1.FileName;
listView1.BeginUpdate();
bgw.RunWorkerAsync(file);
}
}
else
MessageBox.Show("File reading at the moment, try later!");
}
void bgw_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
listView1.EndUpdate();
}
void bgw_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
string fileName = (string)e.Argument;
TextReader t = new StreamReader(fileName);
string line = string.Empty;
while ((line = t.ReadLine()) != null)
{
string nLine = line;
this.Invoke((MethodInvoker)delegate { listBox1.Items.Add(nLine); });
}
}
It will add each line when it reads it, you will have responsive UI, and lines won't affect the listBox before it finishes loading.

It maybe simply not completing its job, and you should have to wait for more. Try with this solution:
http://www.bytechaser.com/en/articles/f3a3niqyb7/display-large-lists-in-listview-control-quickly.aspx

could use a stream to store the data:
class Test
{
public static void Main()
{
string path = #"c:\temp\MyTest.txt";
//Create the file.
using (FileStream fs = File.Create(path))
{
AddText(fs, "This is some text");
AddText(fs, "This is some more text,");
AddText(fs, "\r\nand this is on a new line");
AddText(fs, "\r\n\r\nThe following is a subset of characters:\r\n");
for (int i=1;i < 120;i++)
{
AddText(fs, Convert.ToChar(i).ToString());
}
}
//Open the stream and read it back.
using (FileStream fs = File.OpenRead(path))
{
byte[] b = new byte[1024];
UTF8Encoding temp = new UTF8Encoding(true);
while (fs.Read(b,0,b.Length) > 0)
{
Console.WriteLine(temp.GetString(b));
}
}
}
private static void AddText(FileStream fs, string value)
{
byte[] info = new UTF8Encoding(true).GetBytes(value);
fs.Write(info, 0, info.Length);
}
}
then you event handler
privateasyncvoid Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
UnicodeEncoding uniencoding = new UnicodeEncoding();
string filename = #"c:\Users\exampleuser\Documents\userinputlog.txt";
byte[] result = uniencoding.GetBytes(UserInput.Text);
using (FileStream SourceStream = File.Open(filename, FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
{
SourceStream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.End);
await SourceStream.WriteAsync(result, 0, result.Length);
}
}

Your application becomes unresponsive because it's waiting for the ReadAllLines method to complete and blocks the UI thread. You may want to read files on a separate thread to avoid blocking the UI. I cannot guarantee that the code below will work without errors but it should give you an idea on how to tackle the problem.
First of all, you'll need a method to append an item to the ListBox:
private void AddListBoxItem(string item)
{
if(!InvokeRequired)
{
listBox2.Items.Add(item);
}
else
{
var callback = new Action<string>(AddListBoxItem);
Invoke(callback, new object[]{item});
}
}
The method above checks if it is executed on UI thread and if yes, it simply adds an item to the listBox2.Items collection; if not, it creates a delegate from itself and invokes that delegate on UI thread.
Next, you'll need to move the code that reads the file to another thread and call AddListBoxItem method. For the sake of readability, let's put that into a separate method:
private void AddFileContentsToList(string fileName)
{
using(var reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(fileName))
{
while(!reader.EndOfStream)
{
var line = reader.ReadLine();
AddListBoxItem(line);
}
}
}
And now we will call the method on a separate thread:
OpenFileDialog openFileDialog1 = new OpenFileDialog();
openFileDialog1.Filter = "Text Files|*.txt";
openFileDialog1.Title = "Select a Text file";
openFileDialog1.FileName = "";
DialogResult result = openFileDialog1.ShowDialog();
if (result == DialogResult.OK)
{
var thread = new Thread(AddFileContentsToList);
thread.Start();
}
Hope this helps!

A generic error occurred in GDI+ ExternalException Was caught cant figure out why

The error is on the line:
for (int x = 0; x < myList.Count(); x++)
The x++is painted with green.
Im using backgroundoworker and I used this code same code in another form before without a backgroundworker and it worked good. Now in the other form im using a click button event to show() this form and I want to use a progressBar1 to show the progress of the backgroundowrker work.
I used now try and catch inside this for loop and it went to the catch point and showed me the error. The full exception message is:
at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageCodecInfo encoder, EncoderParameters encoderParams)
at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageFormat format)
at mws.Animation_Radar_Preview.backGroundWorker1_DoWork(Object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e) in D:\C-Sharp\Download File\Downloading-File-Project-Version-012\Downloading File\Animation_Radar_Preview.cs:line 163
gifImages isnt null.
This is the full code of this form:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using DannyGeneral;
using unfreez_wrapper;
namespace mws
{
public partial class Animation_Radar_Preview : Form
{
int mtpStart;
int mtpEnd;
Picturebox1_Fullscreen pb1;
string radar_images_download_directory;
string tempRadarPngToGifDirectory;
int numberOfFiles;
UnFreezWrapper unfreez;
string path_exe;
List<string> myList;
string previewDirectory;
int animatedGifSpeed;
bool loop;
string nameOfStartFile;
string nameOfEndFile;
string previewFileName;
BackgroundWorker backGroundWorker1;
Image img;
private MemoryStream _memSt = null;
public Animation_Radar_Preview()
{
InitializeComponent();
mtpStart = Picturebox1_Fullscreen.mtp1Start;
mtpEnd = Picturebox1_Fullscreen.mtp1End;
animatedGifSpeed = Picturebox1_Fullscreen.animatedSpeed;
loop = Picturebox1_Fullscreen.looping;
pb1 = new Picturebox1_Fullscreen();
radar_images_download_directory = Options_DB.Get_Radar_Images_Download_Directory();
path_exe = Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.LocalUserAppDataPath);
tempRadarPngToGifDirectory = path_exe + "\\" + "tempRadarPngToGifDirectory";
if (Directory.Exists(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory))
{
}
else
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory);
}
previewDirectory = path_exe + "\\" + "previewDirectory";
if (Directory.Exists(previewDirectory))
{
}
else
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(previewDirectory);
}
previewFileName = previewDirectory + "\\" + "preview.gif";
loop = false;
animatedGifSpeed = 0;
unfreez = new UnFreezWrapper();
backGroundWorker1 = new BackgroundWorker();
backGroundWorker1.WorkerSupportsCancellation = true;
this.backGroundWorker1.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
backGroundWorker1.ProgressChanged += new ProgressChangedEventHandler(backGroundWorker1_ProgressChanged);
backGroundWorker1.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(backGroundWorker1_DoWork);
backGroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted += new RunWorkerCompletedEventHandler(backGroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted);
backGroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync();
progressBar1.Value = 0;
}
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DialogResult result1;
result1 = new DialogResult();
SaveFileDialog sd = new SaveFileDialog();
sd.Title = "Select a folder to save the animated gif to";
sd.InitialDirectory = "c:\\";
sd.FileName = null;
sd.Filter = "Gif File|*.gif;*.jpg|Gif|*.gif";
sd.FilterIndex = 1;
sd.RestoreDirectory = true;
result1 = sd.ShowDialog();
string file1 = sd.FileName;
if (result1 == DialogResult.OK)
{
File.Move(previewFileName, file1);
}
}
public void pictureBoxImage(string pbImage)
{
Image img2 = null;
try
{
using (img = Image.FromFile(pbImage))
{
//get the old image thats loaded from the _memSt memorystream
//and dispose it
Image i = this.pictureBox1.Image;
this.pictureBox1.Image = null;
if (i != null)
i.Dispose();
//grab the old stream
MemoryStream m = _memSt;
//save the new image to this stream
_memSt = new MemoryStream();
img.Save(_memSt, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);
if (m != null)
m.Dispose();
//create our image to display
img2 = Image.FromStream(_memSt);
}
if (img2 != null)
pictureBox1.Image = img2;
label2.Text = numberOfFiles.ToString();
label6.Text = nameOfStartFile.ToString();
label4.Text = nameOfEndFile.ToString();
//File.Delete(pbImage);
}
catch(Exception err)
{
Logger.Write("Animation Error >>> " + err);
}
}
private void backGroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
progressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
}
private void backGroundWorker1_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
List<string> myGifList;
Image gifImages = null;
//button1.Enabled = false;
Animation_Radar_Preview ap = new Animation_Radar_Preview();
//ap.FormClosing += new FormClosingEventHandler(ap_FormClosing);
FileInfo[] fi;
DirectoryInfo dir1 = new DirectoryInfo(radar_images_download_directory);
fi = dir1.GetFiles("*.png");
myList = new List<string>();
myGifList = new List<string>();
for (int i = mtpStart; i < mtpEnd; i++)
{
myList.Add(fi[i].FullName);
}
for (int x = 0; x < myList.Count(); x++)
{
try
{
gifImages = Image.FromFile(myList[x]);
gifImages.Save(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory + "\\" + x.ToString("D6") + ".Gif", System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
MessageBox.Show(x.ToString() + "\r\n" + (gifImages == null).ToString() + "\r\n" + ex.Message);
}
}
myGifList = new List<string>();
dir1 = new DirectoryInfo(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory);
fi = dir1.GetFiles("*.gif");
nameOfStartFile = fi[0].Name;
for (int i = 0; i < fi.Length; i++)
{
myGifList.Add(fi[i].FullName);
//backGroundWorker1.ReportProgress(i);
nameOfEndFile = fi[i].Name.Length.ToString();
}
numberOfFiles = myGifList.Count();
unfreez.MakeGIF(myGifList, previewFileName, animatedGifSpeed, loop);
/*this.Invoke((MethodInvoker)delegate
{
pictureBoxImage(previewFileName);
});*/
}
private void backGroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
pictureBoxImage(previewFileName);
}
}
}

I'm not entirely sure what is going wrong, especially as you say this same code worked previously — but it is not clear whether it worked with the same set of images.
Anyhow, the documentation for the Save method says that an ExternalException will be thrown in one of two situations:
Image was saved with the wrong format.
Image is saved to the file it was created from.
It cannot be that you are saving over the file because you are changing its extension, so it must be the wrong format. What this actually means is not clear. Perhaps one of the source images is using capabilities of the PNG format that cannot be converted to GIF, e.g. alpha channel transparency.
If I may take a moment to make some other suggestions too:
if (Directory.Exists(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory))
{
}
else
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory);
}
The empty 'success' case is not required if you invert the logic:
if (!Directory.Exists(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory)
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(tempRadarPngToGifDirectory);
}
Code that manipulates file paths such as the following:
tempRadarPngToGifDirectory = path_exe + "\\" + "tempRadarPngToGifDirectory";
You should consider using the Path class as this will handle the edge cases better and make more portable code:
tempRadarPngToGifDirectory = Path.Combine(path_exe, "tempRadarPngToGifDirectory");