Sending values to text box in form

Hello,

I have a C# program that reads the ROM from a 1-wire device. This part is working fine so far. The issue I'm having is sending the data read from the device into a textbox on my form.

Code:

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This is the Program.cs file that gets the data from the 1-wire chip.
I can display the ROM data in the console when calling the function readDevice();, but I want to be able to send it to a textbox on my Form1.cs.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;

namespace uni_1_Wire_Programmer_Candela
{
    static class Program
    {
        //This file must be located in the bin folder of the C# GUI program
        [DllImport("uni_1-Wire_ProgrammerDLL.dll")]
        public static extern int ComPortInit();
        [DllImport("uni_1-Wire_ProgrammerDLL.dll")]
        public static extern int readDevice();

        /// <summary>
        /// The main entry point for the application.
        /// </summary>
        [STAThread]
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ComPortInit();
            readDevice();
 
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new Form1());
        }
    }
}

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This is the Form1.cs file and I want to be able to display the data acquired from the readDevice(); function on textBox4.

Quote:

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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;



namespace uni_1_Wire_Programmer_Candela
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}



private void label1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void dateTimePicker1_ValueChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void label2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void label6_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void textBox3_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void label5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void comboBox1_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void textBox4_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

}
}

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Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Create a new constructor for Form1 that takes a string as an argument. In this constructor call InitializeComponent() just like the default constructor and after that set the text using textBox4.Text = theStringYouSentToConstructor

This is the fuction. I'm not sure how to create the constructor, I'm new to C++/C#

Code:

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int readDevice()
{
int rslt,i,cnt;
  int sendlen=0;

        cnt = 0;
 
        rslt = OWFirst();
        //return(rslt);
  while (rslt)
  {
          cnt++;
      //print device found
                //for (i = 7; i >= 0; i--)//use this to print out correctly
                for (i = 0; i < 8; i++)
                {
                        printf("%02X", ROM_NO[i]);
                        //ROM_NO_array_by_dev_found[cnt][i]=ROM_NO[i];
                }         
    // printf("  %d\n",cnt);
          rslt = OWNext();
  }         
  return(cnt);
}

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Code:

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public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

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this is the default countructor of the Form1

Code:

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Application.Run(new Form1());

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and this is the place there it is used


you can add another constructor to the class

Code:

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public Form1( string param)
{
InitializeComponent();

//do something with the param here
}

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and create the form using this constructor

Code:

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string param = value read from device;
Application.Run(new Form1(param));

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I have not been able to get this thing working.
The readDevice() function is being called from a DLL file using the

DllImport.

Is there anyway that I could import just the ROM_NO[] array, this is were the data resides in the dll file once the function is called.

Is that your readDevice function? Is it changeable? If so, why not have it do something useful, like give you back the data instead of just printing it out? (As in pass some sort of array-like data structure that can get filled in?)

to get string from c-code to c# code you'll need something like this:

Code:

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//c-code
int test(char* sbuf, int bufSize)
{
        const char* data = "string to be returned";
        if(strlen(data) < bufSize)
        {
                strcpy(sbuf,data);
                return 0;
        }
       
        return -1; //not enough buffer
}

//c# code
        [DllImport("test.dll")]
        private static extern int test(
          StringBuilder s,
          int bufSize);

        public int getstringfromdll(ref string result)
        {
            StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(2048);

            int res = test(s, s.Capacity + 1);
            if(res == 0)
                                result = s.ToString();
            return res;
        }

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Ok, so I finally got it working so far, it displays the string on the text box.
The only issue left now is that I get characters in the text box and I want to see the hex values instead. The below code is what I use is C# to import the ROM ID from the 1-wire and display it in the text box.

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        [DllImport("uni_1-Wire_ProgrammerDLL.dll")]
        public static extern string Read_1WireString(int datasel);

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
          textBox4.Text = Read_1WireString(1);
                }

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The above gives an output of -«Ûg in textBox4 which is the correct hex value for 2D AB DB 67 02 00 00 04 and the hex value is what I want dispalyed.

You convert a string output such as yours to hex quite easily.

Code:

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private String StringToHex(String str)
{
    String result = String.Empty;

    foreach (byte b in Encoding.Default.GetBytes(str))
        result += String.Format("{0:X2}", b) + " ";

    return result;
}

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So you'd use it like this...

Code:

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textBox4.Text = StringToHex(Read_1WireString(1));

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Hope this helps.

Thanks, that worked, but it's only displaying five bytes 2D AB DB 67 02 and missing the rest of it 00 00 04

Sounds like an encoding issue. Try Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes rather than Encoding.Default.GetBytes.

It doesn't help with UTF8.

Below is the function in the DLL that sends the string to the C# form.

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unsigned char *_stdcall Read_1WireString(int datasel)
{
        switch(datasel)
        {
        case 1:
                return ROM_NO; //ROM_NO is: [unsigned char ROM_NO[8]] and can't be changed.
                break;

                        }
}

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Also the C++ project to build the DLL file is set to Use Multi-Byte Character Set , don't know if that makes a difference.

Hmm, looking at your function, you're returning an unsigned char array which is not strictly the same as a string. The missing 4 bytes problem you're having exists in your function's return value's representation as a c# String object. It seems to be terminating when it reaches the first null.

Perhaps it would be worth playing around with your p/invoke signature because I'm not convinced that a c# String is the best representation of an unsigned char array. I think a byte array (byte[]) would be more suitable than a String object. Plus you'd be able to convert the byte array to a hex string without character encoding being an issue.

Sorry that I couldn't have been more help.

Just create the hex string in C
and return it olready ready to be displayed without converting in c#

Code:

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unsigned char data[] = {0x2D, 0xAB, 0xDB, 0x67, 0x02, 0x00, 0x00,  0x04};
char buf[100];
int len = 0;
int i;
for(i = 0; i < sizeof(data)/sizeof data[0];i++)
{
    int written = sprintf(buf+len,"%02X, ", data[i]);
    len += written;
}
len -= 2;
buf[len] = 0; /* to remove last , */

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