Hello I'm new to the whole .net framework. I need to create reports from labwindows and found your library very usefull. In labwindows there is the option to create a .net controller which takes your dll file and creates an instrument driver. This driver contains a huge amount of functions like AODL_Document_Content_Text_SimpleText__Create. Problem is I don't know which functions I need to use to create a paragraph with simple text for instance... I had a look at the code snippets but it seems my .net controller has a really different behavior. It takes really a lot of code to do something simple.
It might sound all very strange but maybe a code snippet might explain my issue. int error = 0; AODL_Document_TextDocuments_TextDocument dochandle; AODL_Document_IDocument idochandle; char str[10]="check.odt"; CDotNetHandle cnethandle=0; AODL_Document_Content_Text_SimpleText texthandle; AODL_Document_Content_Text_Paragraph parhandle; AODL_Document_Content_Text_ParagraphCollection parcolhandle; int ret;
It's a lot of code to just create the document. I was not able to create a paragraph with some simple text...
Could someone help me on my way?
Thanks
Greets,
GErrit
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Re:.net in labwindows
Date: 2007/01/26 22:45
By: Lars B
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Hi Gerrit,
sorry but I've never used LabWindows/CVI. But it seems that it build a wrapper for the added AODL .net assemblie. Also it looks like that LabWindows/CVI could'nt manage namespaces and so the wrapper put all prefixes, the classname and the method together to a unique name.
e.g. AODL_Document_TextDocuments_TextDocument_SaveTo (dochandle,str, cnethandle); seems to be namespace: AODL.Document.TextDocuments class: TextDocument method: SaveTo
so I guess you should split all these unique names into their complement .net parts and then use the compiled help file to find out more.
Regards Lars
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Re:.net in labwindows
Date: 2007/01/26 23:26
By: Gerrit Van Damme
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Thanks Lars for your very fast response.
Indeed labwindows seems to have some trouble with the namespaces. But OK now I now the .net wrapper is OK.
Now I'm still not able to create a simple paragraph. AODL_Document_Content_Text_Paragraph_Set_Document (parhandle, (AODL_Document_IDocument)dochandle, 0); This is the function to assign a created paragraph to a document right?
And this functions needs an IDocument as argument.Can I cast a Textdocument for this argument like in the code above or is this not allowed?
regards,
Gerrit
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Re:.net in labwindows
Date: 2007/01/26 23:40
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Hi Gerrit,
the IDocument interface must be implemented resp. supported by every document inside AODL and so you can pass a document object as value where ever a IDocument interface is required.
For adding a paragraph to the document contents take a look at the following code snippet. It demonstrate how to do this in C#.
// Use the static CreateStandardTextParagraph method // of the ParagraphBuilder class to create a new paragaph Paragraph paragraph = ParagraphBuilder.CreateStandardTextParagraph(document); //Add some formated text FormatedText formText = new FormatedText(document, "T1", "Some formated text!"); formText.TextStyle.TextProperties.Bold = "bold"; paragraph.TextContent.Add(formText); //Add the paragraph to the document document.Content.Add(paragraph);
Sorry once more, but I couldn't translate this into LabWindows code
Regards Lars
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Re:.net in labwindows
Date: 2007/01/27 00:01
By: Gerrit Van Damme
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Hi Lars,
Yes I had a look at those code examples. I also got the AODLTest resources from CVS which are also very nice as example code.
Now do you think that: document.Content.Add(paragraph); could be this in CVI AODL_Document_TextDocuments_TextDocument_Set_Content (dochandle,(AODL_Document_Content_IContentCollection)parhandle,0);
I think I created a paragraph but I'm not able to add it.
But this code doesn't execute because I can't cast a paragraph to a IContentCollection (it seems)
greets,
Gerrit
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Re:.net in labwindows
Date: 2007/01/27 00:17
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Hi Gerrit,
while looking at your code line, I guess it's the set property method to set the IContentCollection of the document. It's definitely not the method to add a paragraph. This must be an Add method. Does there exists a method that looks like the following
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