Hi this question or problem i have its very hard i have search and ask in the university and i have no idea how to make this happen, or even if it is possible.
Here we go...
I am making a photo or image editor with the variation of letting the user to insert buttons in top of the edited image(this buttons when clicked plays an audio file) all of this works so far.
BUT at the end when the user finish his work i need him to save it, so it can be send and view by others.
Now I think I know how to save an edited image but that dose not contain the buttons (controls) .... its like when we save a file at power point and we send it to others they contain audio and the image. Hope fully you guys understand if so can any one point me in a direction to do this or show me how if possible.
( Some people told me to use meta-data others the manifest file but I am so confuse).
too bad i cant post pictures of the work until i get 10 points......
Thanks For the first four quick response and sorry mistake of not telling that I am working on C# 3.5 .Net and in Windows Form app.
It seems you all quite understand what i am trying to do here. I will post the picture thanks to the points i receive from TheVillageIdiot. and about the XML I have never ever used that before ill try my best to understand you guys but if any one can show me an example two or were to read ( dose xml works on Windows form app.?) Here is ...( sorry if the picture its too big) an example of what the program it's doing so far that black transparent box its the MouseOverBackColor... when clicked it loads a player that plays x_x the sound. Its like tagging but with audio.
I really need help i reached my limit don't know were to look and the time is killing me.
HI I am back again this time with a simple sample of what i need to learn how to save the dinamic buttonarray
Today is 10/11/10 (i made a acount with !##$%share to share the sample with you guys i hope this dosent bother any one here) here is the Link . i will explain again what i need to do and i have no idea or code on how to do it.Imagine a person that uses the program and create like 5 buttons any were in the form , it needs to be save so he can send it to others that have the same program, this way others can view the buttons the user created.
hopefully you guys can help me out with a simple example i really neeed some sample working code. Note: I am working on windows form app WFA C# 3.5 .net M.V.studio2010 (the file I gave above has a backup with a 2008 vercion) thanx in advance.
Similar to jim's answer, I would suggest having an archive of some sort (ZIP or otherwise) containing all the media necessary.
Store the images and sounds files by name or checksum in the archive and keep the meta-data (button positions, names, what media they use, etc, we'll call it the definition file) in a file also stored in the archive. You may be able to use XML to make that human-readable.
The entire package will then be simple to distribute and use, as everything will be contained in the archive. Your application simply needs to scan for archives, check each archive for a valid definition file, and load the ones that are needed.
Edit: Going from the screenshot you posted and my understanding of the problem, I'm going to suggest the following:
When a user creates a button (defined as a rectangular area or "hotspot"), open a dialogue asking for a sound file to associate. Then, store the top-left and bottom-right corners of the button and the filename in a XML file, something like this:
<Button name="myButton!">
<Position top="128" left="128" />
<Size height="200" width="200" />
<Audio filename="something.mp3" />
</Button>
Now, when compiling a plugin, create a ZIP archive. Inside, place the XML file and all the audio files you need.
When loading a plugin, read the XML file first and find the audio file (assume all audio files are in the same archive as the XML file). Then create the button and add the audio filename as, say, its Tag property. Assign all buttons one generic OnClick event, and in the OnClick event, play the audio file given by the current object's Tag.
If you don't understand what I mean, I'll try to elaborate further. I think that method should work neatly and be pretty simple to work with. :)
One solution: Create a ZIP file that contains both audio and images.
Basically, you've got two things you want to save.
The edited image, and then the locations of the buttons and their actions.
You've got the image-saving part happening, so now you need to save the other information. This can be considered "metadata", and you can save it in some format that you invent, such that it allows you to load it back. Typically it would be easiest to do this via XML Serialization. So look into that.
Assuming you are writing a stand-alone application and no web - application.
If you are adding the Button as a .NET component (new Button()) there is no way to do that unless you supply your own player software with it.
If you want to supply your own player, create a (seperate) file with the info about the button and read the file and then re-create the button.
(Be aware though that all the resources - jpeg, mp3) also have to be available at the target PC) Alternatively, pack all you info into one file (jpeg, button infos, mp3's) and save that file.
hth
Mario
You have two choices
Create your own format and then make a player app that read it and play the results
Find some format that supports your features and create that kind of file. This works well if you expect others to have a player.
For #2, here are some formats that could support what you want to do
Flash
PDF
Compiled HTML Arhive -- need IE to play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML
EXE -- create code with resources and compile it -- basically your player + resources
PowerPoint
Related
Is it possible to play a specific audio object in Wwise without having a separate event for it? I'm implementing a dialogue system, and I have thousands of audio clips for dialogues, and making an event for each and every one would be extremely time consuming and error prone and impossible to maintain.
So either play an audio object from a bank directly or somehow giving the event an argument as to which object to play (I know that goes against the idea of events and the fact that the caller shouldn't know exactly what clip is going to be played).
Use Wwise External Source plugin, described relatively well here. The docs on this feature are not the best, but the general workflow I used went something like this:
Stored voice over files outside the Wwise project and Unity streaming assets folder (could be anywhere, I used a folder next to the Assets folder)
Create a new Voice audio object in Wwise and add an External Source to it (edit the audio object, click "Add Source" and select External Source)
Wrote a simple python script to generate a .wsources XML file that reads all the files in the voice files folder
Add the .wsources file to the external sources in Project Settings in Wwise
Post the event from Unity with path being whatever you used as "Destination" in the .wsources file, ie. it's not an absolute path
as a starter of c# (And honestly not really loving the visual express c# environment) I'm in need of a back-up function to finish off my program.
I have 4 xml files in the /Data folder (In my project's root)
Now, what I want to do is back these files up in a file-save sense.
When a user clicks the "Back-up 1.xml!" button I want the program to open a saveDialog which automatically saves a pre-defined XML file (/Data/1.xml), to wherever the user wants, under whatever name the user wants.
However, I just cannot get googled how to make c# preselect that file. I only get these plugins from MSDN (which isn't very usefull either)
Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance!
It looks like you need to copy a file from one location to another one.
Here is another StackOverflow thread that looks similarly to yours:
Copy a File
Esentially, the only thing you need to do:
System.IO.File.Copy(oldPathAndName, newPathAndName);
You can get newPathAndName from user input. You know oldPathAndName already.
OK, I thought this was a fairly simple task, but apparently it isn't ...
I have a folder with +1000 photos in it. These are all photos taken with a camera, each about 3 MB. Users need to be able to view these pictures (as a list), rename or delete them. That's it.
A possible solution would be this control : ImageListView - CodeProject
but because it has an Apache license, we can't use it.
So how to do it? Any ideas or suggestions? I'm using .NET 2.0
.... EDIT : .....................................
OK, apparently we CAN use the Apache license. (Also see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1007338/can-i-use-a-library-under-the-apache-software-license-2-0-in-a-commercial-applic) However, using the license is very confusing for me. I read the following guide but still don't exactly know how to apply it to our project : http://blog.maestropublishing.com/how-to-apply-the-apache-20-license-to-your-pr
it says:
you need two files in the root or top directory of your distribution.
What's exactly meant by 'distribution'? Is that our installed application, and top directory meaning Program files/OurApp/ ?
It also says:
Replace all [bracketed] items in the above notice statement. There are only two of these items so should not be hard for you to do.
But that would give me a notice file, reading :
Copyright 2012 OUR_COMPANY
Licensed under the Apache License, etc...
But our app isn't licensed under the Apache license?
I'm sorry but I'm very confused and don't want to make any mistakes with this legal stuff...
What would I need to do exactly to be able to use this control?
Perhaps you need your own control for this task.
What i think is just a sketch of what i`d do in your place.
You need your own control with paging(to show only limited photos to user) or scroll-event-driven(to load photos on demand).
Perhaps you need some thumbnail generator.
Point is you probably face a huge pile of photos, so you cannot get them all in one time.
"Thats it" is not that simple.
For 1000+ that is over 3 GB.
Would need thumbnails for faster preview.
If users are going to access this files directly then they would need NTFS permission.
Maybe what you want.
What you are going to get into in locking problems.
If one user has a file open then you cannot rename or delete it.
I know you are not going to like this but to do it right you need a server app to manage that folder and users access via a WCF service so there is a single control point.
I'm new to using Directshow. I'm more than willing to post the pages of code I've writen but I'm hoping someone could explain or hint in the right direction for a solution so I can figure it out myself.
Basically I have a WPF program that displays a window that has a preview of my webcam - this is done and working. Now I'm trying to get it to record the preview - done using graphBuilder.SetOutputFileName
However everytime I show the window to record another session is just overwrites the last file it recorded, even though I'm calling graphBuilder.SetOutputFileName again!
So my question is how can I change the outputfilename to record a second video. I know I'm missing something but don't know what.
Thanks in advance.
Rich
Filter graphs normally create media files starting from scratch on your initial Run and closing the file on your Stop. Next time you repeat the calls, you just start it from fresh from empty (overwritten) file. There is no appending. If you want to keep the previously recorded content, you need to switch files by providing new name, or copying/renaming the completed file.
I want my C# (winforms) application to be multilingual. My idea is:
I will have my translations in some text file(s), each "sentence" or phrase will have it's unique ID (integer)
at the start-up of the app I will iterate through all controls on all forms I have in my app (I suppose this should be done in each form's 'Load' event handler) and I will test the control of it's type
i.e. if it is a button or menu item, I will read it's default 'Text' property, locate this phrase in one text file, read it's unique ID and through this ID will locate translated phrase in (other) text file
then I will overwrite that 'Text' property of the control with translated phrase
This enables me to have separate text file with phrases for each and every language (easy to maintain individual translation in the future - only 1 txt file)
I would like to hear from you - proffesionals if there is some better / easier / faster / more 'pro' way how to accomplish this.
What format of translation text file should I use (plain text, XML, ini....) - it should be human readable. I don't know if finding a phrase in XML would be in C# faster than going line-by-line in plain text file and searching for given phrase/string...?
EDIT - I want users (community) to be able to translate my app for them into their native language without my interaction (it means Microsoft's resources are out of the game)
Thank you very much in advance.
CLOSED - My solution:
Looks like I'm staying at my original concept - every phrase will be in separate line of plain text file - Unicode encoding (and ID at the beginning of the line). I was thinking about deleting ID's too and to use only the line numbers, but it would need advanced text editor (Notepad shows no line numbers) and if somebody accidentaly hits shortcut for "Delete line" and doesn't notice that, whole app would go crazy :)
//sample of my translation text file for one language
0001:Text of my first button
0002:Text of my first label
0003:MessageBox title text
...etc etc
Why not use Microsoft's resource file method? You won't need to write any complex custom code this way.
It sounds like you are somewhat invested in the "one text file" idea, or else you would probably lean towards the standard way and use Microsoft's resource files. Handling for resource files is built-in, and the controls are already keyed to support it. But, as you are probably aware, each translation goes into it's own resource file. So you are left juggling multiple files to distribute with your app.
With a custom, roll-your-own solution, you can probably trim it down to one unicode file. But you will have to loop through the controls to set the text, and then look up the text for each one. As you add control types, you will have to add support in your code for them. Also, your text file will grow in large chunks as you add languages, so you will have to account for that as well.
I still lean towards using the resource files, but your phrasing suggests you already don't like that solution, so I don't think I have changed your mind.
Edit:
Since you want the solution separated from the app to avoid having to recompile, you could distribute SQL-CE database files for each language type. You can store the text values in NVARCHAR fields.
That will make your querying easier, but raises the self-editing requirements. You would have to provide a mechanism for users to add their own translation files, as well as edit screens.
Edit 2:
Driving towards a solution. :)
You can use a simple delimited text file, encoded in Unicode, with a convention based naming system. For example:
en-US.txt
FormName,ControlName,Text
"frmMain","btnSubmit","Save"
"frmMain","lblDescription","Description"
Then you can use the CurrentUICulture to determine which text file to load for localization, falling back to en-US if no file is found. This lets the users create (and also change!) their own localization files using common text editors and without any steep learning curve.
If you want the users to edit the translations through your application while keeping things simple and quick, resource file is best. If you don't like it, the second best option is XML file.
Still, to answer you question on how to do it best with a text file, it is pretty straight forward: You just make sure that your unique identifier (int probably) are in order (validate before using the file). Then to search quickly, you use the technique of the halves.
You look for number X, so you go to the file's middle line. If id > x, to go to ΒΌ of the file, etc.
You cut in two until you get to the right line. This is the fastest know research method.
NOTE: Beware of the things that are external to the application but need translation: External file items, information contained in a database, etc.