Chapter 7 - WPF Text Editor

Crissytenav · September 9th, 2009, 12:36 PM

Wrote code on page 236 w/errors: illegal characters in path, etc.

Re-wrote first button code, which seemed to be giving me problems.
Still have illegal characters in path -- any ideas how to make this work?

<Window x:Class="Window1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="Text Editor" Height="460" Width="600">
<Grid>
<ToolBarPanel Height="26" Name="ToolBarPanel1" VerticalAlignment="Top">
<ToolBar Height="26" Name="ToolBar1" Width="575">
<Button Name="tbrClear" ToolTip="Clear">
<Image Source="file:///C:/Program Files/Microsoft
Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/VS2008ImageLibrary/1033/VS2008ImageLibrary/
Actions/32bitcolor bitmaps/16x16/NewDocumentHs.bmp"></Image>
</Button>

Thank you!
Christina

Crissytenav · September 9th, 2009, 01:50 PM

I went back to the absolute path -- copy and pasted ito add the XAML control. Looks slightly differant from the book. No errors so far!

Code:

<Window x:Class="Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Text Editor" Height="460" Width="600">
    <Grid>
        <ToolBarPanel Height="26" Name="ToolBarPanel1" VerticalAlignment="Top">
            <ToolBar Height="26" Name="ToolBar1" Width="575">
                <Button Name="tbrClear" ToolTip="Clear">
                    <Image Source="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary\Actions\32bitcolor bitmaps\16x16\NewDocumentHS.BMP">
                    </Image>
                </Button>
                <Separator Padding="1" />
                <Button Name="tbrRed" ToolTip="Red">
                    <Image Source="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary\Actions\32bitcolor bitmaps\16x16\Color_fontHS.bmp">
                    </Image>
                </Button>
                <Button Name="tbrBlue" ToolTip="Blue">
                    <Image Source="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary\Actions\32bitcolor bitmaps\16x16\Color_LineHS.bmp">
                    </Image>
                </Button>
                <Separator/>
                <Button Name="tbrUpperCase" ToolTip="Upper Case">
                    <Image Source="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary\Actions\32bitcolor bitmaps\16x16\FillUpHS.BMP">
                        </Image>
                </Button>
                <Button Name="tbrLowerCase" ToolTip=" Lower Case">
                    <Image Source="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary\Actions\32bitcolor bitmaps\16x16\FillDownHS.BMP">
                    </Image>
                </Button>
                <Separator/>
                <Button Name="tbrHelpAbout" ToolTip="About">
                    <Image Source="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033\VS2008ImageLibrary\Annotations&amp;Buttons\bmp_format\Help.BMP">
                    </Image>
                </Button>
            </ToolBar>
        </ToolBarPanel>
    </Grid>
</Window>

abuford · April 14th, 2010, 10:38 AM

I received the 'invalid character' error message after typing in the code exactly like the book. The problem appears to be related to spaces in the filename. A quick fix is to take out the line breaks and put all of the 'Source' tag on one line. This made the error go away for me.