[Closed] DotNet Loading Assembly

dotNet.loadAssembly only works with dll files.
Why are you trying to load an XML file as an assembly ?

By the way, this custom ListView control looks pretty good and very interesting.

Its just that the maxscript help file has code like this:

dotnet.loadAssembly "system.xml"
 dotnet.loadAssembly "system.xml.dll"
 

And the release/ folder that came with the custom dotnet control had XML and DLL file, so I though you are supposed to load both of them.

Well only loading the DLL doesn’t work either. I get following error msg: – Runtime error: Cannot resolve type: XPTable.Table

However based on the documentation that is the correct class.

EDIT: Sorry my mistake, the correct class is “XPTable.Models.Table”

should be an excellent control for your project – good luck

Well I guess that control doesn’t work too well on vista, or at least with max. Adding row crashes always.

dotNet.loadAssembly "XPTable.dll"
xpTable = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.Table"
xpTable.ColumnModel = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.ColumnModel"
xpTable.TableModel = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.TableModel"
xpTable.Height = 200
xpTable.Width = 250
xpTable.ColumnModel.Columns.Add (dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.TextColumn" "Text")
xpTable.ColumnModel.Columns.Add (dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.CheckBoxColumn" "CheckBox")
xpTable.ColumnModel.Columns.Add (dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.ButtonColumn" "Button")
xpTable.TableModel.Rows.Add (dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.Row")

Actually the problem is with 64bit system. Oh well.

Yeah I was looking for it mainly because it has spinners. However it doesn’t support reordering columns…

I guess I stick to standard dotnet stuff and use DataGridView, it’s more suitable for spread sheet editor than ListView.

“System.Xml” is an assembly but not an XML file. It contains code for the System.Xml namespace. See the “assembly” directory in the WINDOWS path.
The documentation of dotNet.loadAssembly says first : “This method loads the specified assembly. The assembly can be specified as an assembly name or the filename of the dll containing the assembly.”
“System.Xml” is an assembly name. “System.Xml.dll” is the filename of the dll containing the assembly.

Was looking for an alternative to DataGridView and I stumbled on to this thread. Very cool control and I was having the same problems of locking up and crashing that Bercon was having. Recompiling the .dll did not provide the magic fix I was hoping for so I created a new application in VS and took a look at the code it was generating. It looks like the missing piece was defining some cells for the info to go into.

 dotNet.loadAssembly "XPTable.dll"
 
 table1 = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.Table";
 columnModel1 = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.ColumnModel";
 tableModel1 = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.TableModel";
 
 row1 = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.Row";
 cell1 = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.Cell";
 comboBoxColumn1 = dotNetObject "XPTable.Models.ComboBoxColumn";
 
 -- table1
 table1.ColumnModel = columnModel1;
 table1.Name = "table1";
 table1.TabIndex = 0;
 table1.TableModel = tableModel1;
 table1.Text = "table1";
 -- columnModel1
 columnModel1.Columns.Add comboBoxColumn1;
 -- tableModel1
 row1.Cells.Add cell1;
 row1.ChildIndex = 0;
 row1.ExpandSubRows = true;
 row1.Height = 15;
 tableModel1.Rows.Add row1;
 -- comboBoxColumn1
 comboBoxColumn1.Text = "DD";
 -- Form1
 hForm = dotNetObject "System.Windows.Forms.Form"
 hForm.Text = ""
 hForm.Width = 400
 hForm.Height = 300
 hForm.TopMost = true
 hForm.TopLevel = true
 hForm.Controls.Add table1
 hApp = dotNetClass "System.Windows.Forms.Application"
 hApp.Run hForm
 

So for what its worth!

Works great, but gives some errors on the properties of row1:

Unknown property: “ChildIndex” in dotNetObject:XPTable.Models.Row
Unknown property: “ExpandSubRows” in dotNetObject:XPTable.Models.Row
Unknown property: “height” in dotNetObject:XPTable.Models.Row

Don’t know what you’re trying to achieve there, but these are the properties of row1:

   .Alignment : <XPTable.Models.RowAlignment>
   .AnyCellsSelected : <System.Boolean>, read-only
   .BackColor : <System.Drawing.Color>
   .Cells : <XPTable.Models.CellCollection>, read-only
   .Editable : <System.Boolean>
   .Enabled : <System.Boolean>
   .Font : <System.Drawing.Font>
   .ForeColor : <System.Drawing.Color>
   .Index : <System.Int32>, read-only
   .RowStyle : <XPTable.Models.RowStyle>
   .SelectedCellCount : <System.Int32>, read-only
   .SelectedIndicies : <System.Int32[]>, read-only
   .SelectedItems : <XPTable.Models.Cell[]>, read-only
   .TableModel : <XPTable.Models.TableModel>, read-only
   .Tag : <System.Object>
 

[edit] Asked how to add the XPTable to a rollout, found the answer, which is below (quite simple actually).

To add the XPTable to a rollout instead of running it as an application, create a listview like you would with a normal dotnet listview:
  
  [i]dotNetControl XPTableControl "System.Windows.Forms.ListView[/i]"
  
  Then use Dave's code, and add the following code to embed the XPTable into your listview
  
  [i]XPTableControl.controls.add table1[/i]