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I would like to create a application walkthrough for users to reveal functionality and give a short introduction to the software like this: http://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/design/ux-flows-how-when-to-design-app-walkthrough
This is often used for smartphone apps or browser applications. I've never seen this for Windows applications before, but this should be possible or not?
The application is implemented in C# and WinForms and uses a lot of controls from Infragistics.
It isn't possible to find anything about that on google or SO because "walkthrough" could be anything... :/ Maybe I'm looking for the wrong keywords?
Yes, this is definitely possible in a Windows App. We've done something like this before. I see your frustration regarding lack of documentation on the web. There isn't a lot out there specifically for windows desktop. Take what you can learn from the tutorial that you linked and translate that over. What we did a lot of was used semi-transparent panels containing the necessary content and then just lay those over everything. This way, you can get the 'greyed out' look for the main content of the app but control user's access.
Good luck!
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I am currently in college doing a project for a business of my choice where I want to create a modern calendar scheduler app using .NET 4.7.2 in C# and I cannot do it I have tried to search for videos and find APIs but none of them seem to work for me. An example of what I desire is below:
I have currently tried to watch a tutorial which works up till the point where i need to add the user control to all of the panels inside the flow layout panel. Ideally i would like to workout how to fix this issue but if there is a simpler more efficient option then id happily do it. Also any help on how to make the user control apply to all panels inside of the flow panel would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: I would also like to add the final project cannot use any paid services such as a VPS and must run everything on a windows 10 desktop. I do not mind if i have to pay my own money for an API or something similar i just cannot run it through a server
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I am new to GUI development and Embedded programming using DSP Processors.
I would like to build a GUI of 4 channel oscilloscope using Visual C# and Windows Forms. The signals will be communicated from DSP processor using serial port RS232.
What kind of Windows Forms controls help in building such a GUI? and how to start with the work?
If there any other useful tools to be used along with Visual studio C#?
Any useful links explaining the basics of development may be helpful.
What kind of Windows forms controls help in building such a GUI?
There is a nice tool un Windows Forms called Chart. You can draw graphs of different kind with it.
Here is a Tutorial
Here is a Video that shows how to use it.
How to start with the work?
You should start and play with this control.
Learn how to add values.
Learn how to remove values.
Learn how to bind values.
Learn how to handle the axes and the ranges to be displayed.
If there any other useful tools to be used along with Visual studio C#?Any useful links explaining the basics of development may be helpful.
here you find all different chart types that can be displayed.
and here how to use them.
This answer is partly copied from a previous one of mine.
I would suggest to search also for "online/real time display of data with chart control" or "moving chart".
This link might be usefull. It asks for almost the same as you.
Here you can find some samples
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I work for a small Point of Sale Company, and we are working on a in-house tool to make our lives easier when it comes to ticketing and troubleshooting. Part of my task in this tool is to write a 'softphone' in C# WPF that we can use to accept incoming and make ongoing calls with.
We currently use OnSIP as our SIP provider, and are looking to build custom software to essentially allow us to auto-generate support tickets based on the phone number of the incoming call. In addition we will need call transferring, recording, hold/wait, etc.
The question that seems to be causing me the most trouble is really where to begin on something like this. Thoughts?
I'm presuming this is a desktop application?
Lookup pjsip.org, it's a portable C library which is very well proven. It will allow you to do all that you are asking, although it'll take you some time to write the wrapper code - you can find examples on the internet, however we have written a wrapper ourselves which I'll check on as we had intended open sourcing it. This is because when we did this last year, the examples just didn't work too well :-)
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Can you please point me into the right direction?
I want to edit other application textbox or click, programmatically. For example, in a web sites, I can edit elements and invoke button clicks.
I have no idea how to do this, but I can move mouse and use keyboard run time is it possible to edit other application's textbox ?
I have C++, VB.NET, and C# knowledge - any suggestions or sample code?
Thanks.
There is no easy way to do this, but it is possible. You will dig through the Win32 Api to get what you need. There will be a lot code needed for this, too much to put in sample here.
You will need to start with finding the window you want. This could be accomplished with FindWindowEx. When you have the window, you can enumerate the child controls using EnumChildWindows.
When you finally get the handle to the control you need, you can hook up to the windows message subsystem and send a WM_SETTEXT message using the SendMessage function. There is a wrapper function available: SetWindowText but the documentation clearly states that it will NOT work for windows of other applications.
Be prepared for a lot of digging around in the Win Api. You will probably run into issues regarding security in newer windows OS's. When you get it to run the functionality will be highly depending on the OS, UAC settings etc.
I remember doing this once, 15 years ago in Windows 98, even then it was problematic! So good luck!
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I want to write simple application with some 3D objects for Windows OS.
The application is very simple, like a gallery where we can move and see some pictures. When users go to the some picture and click on it a window will open and show picture with some information.
Which is the best framework for this task WPF, XNA, or something else? Application will be written in C#.
I can not say which is best, but I have done a while ago some things with the WPF 3D API and I liked it.
It was IMO very simple to use and the rendering seemed to be relatively fast. A really nice thing I found, was that it has an object-model that contains high-level-events such as mouse-down and click. Therefore you don't have to do much math. However, maybe provide also other APIs such high-level services, I don't know.
I would not try to create an action-game with it, but for a small app as you have described, I think it is worth a try.
Unity has been used for similar stuff. It can work on browsers (via a plug-in) or as a program, has a lot of documentation and most of the work involved in creating a 3D environment and interface is already done. Code can be written in Mono (open source C# implementation), JavaScript or a Boo, a modified Python scripting language.
It works in Windows, MacOS, iPhone, iPad and Android. And it is free in the standard version, or really cheap.
XNA is a little lower level, so it will require more work to get things started. It supports Windows, WP7 and Xbox 360.
See this discussion : WPF VS XNA