Program stops working when the form looses focus

[hianupam_cg]

Guru's,
I am brand spanking new to c#. I am using VS 2005 and trying to modify a console app to a windows app.
I added a form with a couple of textbox and got the main proc in program.cs to update the textboxes in the form. I changed the properties and got it to build etc.
Miraculously it also works. But the issue I am having is anytime the form looses focus, the program stops working. It will not work even when the window gets focus back.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks.

[eclipsed4utoo]

can you describe what you mean by "stops working"? can you post the code?

[Shuja Ali]

Also what does the program do? As already mentioned, please post the code and show us what your program is supposed to do.

[JonnyPoet]

Guru's,
I am brand spanking new to c#. I am using VS 2005 and trying to modify a console app to a windows app.
I added a form with a couple of textbox and got the main proc in program.cs to update the textboxes in the form. I changed the properties and got it to build etc.
Miraculously it also works. But the issue I am having is anytime the form looses focus, the program stops working. It will not work even when the window gets focus back.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks.

Why you dont simple create a new WinForm Application and then adding all the stuff you have in your console to your forms application in the way it will fit. ( Some things like writing to a console will not bring you the wanted effect in a WinForm Application as this would only write to your 'Direct Window ' then
IMHO much easier then to figure around whats wrong with your application.

[hianupam_cg]

Thanks all for replying to my thread.
Brief synopsis of the program:
It calls a soap function continuously to check for new data:
Here is the call to the soap function:

namespace eDataFeedClient



{
public class GetData
{
public collectionActualValueData getmyace(String uid, String pswd, String url)
{
// create the web service and point it at the correct URL
EDataFeedService service = new EDataFeedService();
service.Url = url;
// Create the WS-Security token for the SOAP header
UsernameToken userToken = new UsernameToken(uid,
pswd,
PasswordOption.SendPlainText);
service.RequestSoapContext.Security.Tokens.Add(userToken);

// Create the network credentials and assign
// them to the service credentials
NetworkCredential netCredential = new NetworkCredential(uid, pswd);
Uri uri = new Uri(service.Url);
ICredentials credentials = netCredential.GetCredential(uri, "Basic");
service.Credentials = credentials;

// Be sure to set PreAuthenticate to true or else
// authentication will not be sent.
service.PreAuthenticate = true;

// this property is set to prevent 505 HTTP Version Not Supported in Tomcat
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;

// set this property to signal the server to compress the response
service.EnableDecompression = true;

// call the web service
return(service.getAllAce());
}

public static void Main()
{
Application.Run(new frmdisplay());
}


}
}

The above code is in my program.cs
The code below is in my display.cs

namespace eDataFeedClient{



public partial class frmdisplay : Form
{
public frmdisplay()
{
InitializeComponent();
}






public string AceTime
{
get { return this.lblAce_Time_Value.Text; }
set { this.lblAce_Time_Value.Text = value; }

}

public string AceVal
{
get { return this.lblAce_Val_Value.Text; }
set { this.lblAce_Val_Value.Text = value; }

}

public string TestVal
{
set { this.lblTest.Text = value; }

}

private void cmdStartApp_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
String OUT_DATE_FORMAT = "HH:mm";
collectionActualValueData adata;
String uid = "someuid";
String pswd = "somepassword";
String url = "someurl";
// Create a new GetData Class
GetData gdata = new GetData();
for (int i = 0; i < 500; i = i + 1)
{
adata = gdata.getmyace(uid, pswd, url);
foreach (actualValueData node in adata.actualValueData)
{

this.AceTime = node.timestamp.ToString(OUT_DATE_FORMAT);
this.AceVal = node.value.ToString();
this.TestVal = i.ToString();
}
this.Refresh();
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
}



}
}

I can build this and run it. The form shows up and when I click the button it goes and fetches the data. But the moment I click on anything else like say a different window, the data in the form stops refreshing. It won't start when I click back on the form.

[BigEd781]

Can you wrap that code in [ code][ /code] tags please so that we can easily read it?

[hianupam_cg]

Can you wrap that code in [ code][ /code] tags please so that we can easily read it?

Apologies.. Here goes again

Thanks all for replying to my thread.
Brief synopsis of the program:
It calls a soap function continuously to check for new data:
Here is the call to the soap function:

namespace eDataFeedClient



{
public class GetData
{
public collectionActualValueData getmyace(String uid, String pswd, String url)
{
// create the web service and point it at the correct URL
EDataFeedService service = new EDataFeedService();
service.Url = url;
// Create the WS-Security token for the SOAP header
UsernameToken userToken = new UsernameToken(uid,
pswd,
PasswordOption.SendPlainText);
service.RequestSoapContext.Security.Tokens.Add(userToken);

// Create the network credentials and assign
// them to the service credentials
NetworkCredential netCredential = new NetworkCredential(uid, pswd);
Uri uri = new Uri(service.Url);
ICredentials credentials = netCredential.GetCredential(uri, "Basic");
service.Credentials = credentials;

// Be sure to set PreAuthenticate to true or else
// authentication will not be sent.
service.PreAuthenticate = true;

// this property is set to prevent 505 HTTP Version Not Supported in Tomcat
ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;

// set this property to signal the server to compress the response
service.EnableDecompression = true;

// call the web service
return(service.getAllAce());
}

public static void Main()
{
Application.Run(new frmdisplay());
}


} 
}

The above code is in my program.cs
The code below is in my display.cs

namespace eDataFeedClient{ 



public partial class frmdisplay : Form
{
public frmdisplay()
{
InitializeComponent();
}






public string AceTime
{
get { return this.lblAce_Time_Value.Text; }
set { this.lblAce_Time_Value.Text = value; }

}

public string AceVal
{
get { return this.lblAce_Val_Value.Text; }
set { this.lblAce_Val_Value.Text = value; }

}

public string TestVal
{
set { this.lblTest.Text = value; }

}

private void cmdStartApp_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
String OUT_DATE_FORMAT = "HH:mm";
collectionActualValueData adata;
String uid = "someuid";
String pswd = "somepassword";
String url = "someurl";
// Create a new GetData Class
GetData gdata = new GetData();
for (int i = 0; i < 500; i = i + 1)
{
adata = gdata.getmyace(uid, pswd, url);
foreach (actualValueData node in adata.actualValueData)
{

this.AceTime = node.timestamp.ToString(OUT_DATE_FORMAT);
this.AceVal = node.value.ToString();
this.TestVal = i.ToString();
}
this.Refresh();
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
}



}
}

I can build this and run it. The form shows up and when I click the button it goes and fetches the data. But the moment I click on anything else like say a different window, the data in the form stops refreshing. It won't start when I click back on the form.

[JonnyPoet]

As much as I can see you havn't defined the threading Model like we usually do

static class Program {
    /// <summary>
    ///The Main Entypoint of the application.
    /// </summary>
    [STAThread]
    static void Main() {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new MainMDI());
    }
}

But why not really opening a brandnew WinForm Project and copying that lines into it. Shouldn't be to much work and you would get rid of any issues depending on your change from Console to WinForm

[toraj58]

your application should be built on a thread apartment to interact with os. so you need to use [STAThread] attribute for your main method.

[JonnyPoet]

your application should be built on a thread apartment to interact with os. so you need to use [STAThread] attribute for your main method.

Yep. Exactly what I showed him in my post

[hianupam_cg]

As much as I can see you havn't defined the threading Model like we usually do

static class Program {
    /// <summary>
    /// Der Haupteinstiegspunkt für die Anwendung.
    /// </summary>
    [STAThread]
    static void Main() {
        Application.EnableVisualStyles();
        Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
        Application.Run(new MainMDI());
    }
}

But why not really opening a brandnew WinForm Project and copying that lines into it. Shouldn't be to much work and you would get rid of any issues depending on your change from Console to WinForm

Guru's thanks. This is exactly what I needed. It is working beautifully now !