Hello,

I have tried a few experiments with UltraWinToolbars but they are always worked fine. If you have any specific version of NetAdvnatage for WinForms giving you a trouble please feel free to specify it and I will be glad to look further into it for you.

I have tried using the latest version for 10.3, 11.1 and 11.2 and I was not able to reproduce such behavior.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any other questions with this matter.

I am also getting this same error but it only happens on one machine in our office. It works perfectly fine on many other desktops. This is really a problem because this application is used heavily by this user and I am concerned that more of our users will start to experience this. 

Client OS: 32 bit Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Version: 11.1.20111.2030

Stack Trace

ExceptionType: ArgumentException

HelpLink:

Message: Parameter is not valid.

Source: System.Drawing

StackTrace    at System.Drawing.Graphics.GetHdc()

   at System.Windows.Forms.Internal.WindowsGraphics.FromGraphics(Graphics g, ApplyGraphicsProperties properties)

   at System.Windows.Forms.WindowsGraphicsWrapper..ctor(IDeviceContext idc, TextFormatFlags flags)

   at System.Windows.Forms.TextRenderer.MeasureText(IDeviceContext dc, String text, Font font, Size proposedSize, TextFormatFlags flags)

   at Infragistics.Win.DrawUtility.MeasureStringHelper(Graphics gr, String text, Font font, Size layoutArea, StringFormat stringFormat, Int32& charactersFitted, Int32& linesFilled, Boolean returnElementsFitted, GdiDrawStringFlags drawStringFlags)

   at Infragistics.Win.DrawUtility.MeasureString(Graphics gr, String text, Font font, Int32 width, StringFormat stringFormat, GdiDrawStringFlags drawStringFlags)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsManager.MeasureString(AppearanceData& appearance, Font font, String stringToMeasure, Boolean isVertical, HotkeyPrefix hotkeyPrefix, ToolBase tool)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.ToolBase.MeasureString(AppearanceData& appearance, Font font, String stringToMeasure)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.ToolBase.GetTextSize()

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.ButtonTool.CalculateLogicalSizeOfToolInstanceHelper(ToolBase tool)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.ButtonTool.CalculateLogicalSizeOfToolInstance()

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.ToolBase.CalculateLogicalSizeOfToolInstanceHelper()

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.ToolBase.CalculateWidthResolved(Boolean useCalculateLogicalSize)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.ToolBase.get_WidthResolved()

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarBase.AdjustToolWidths(Int32 extent)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.DockRow.GetToolbarLogicalPositions(Int32 extent, Int32[]& widths)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.DockRow.CalculateMetrics()

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsDockArea.RefreshDockAreaSize(Size& currentSize)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsDockArea.RefreshDockAreaSize()

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsDockArea.AddToolbar(UltraToolbarBase toolbar, Int32 row, Int32 col, Boolean refreshDockAreaSize, Boolean exclusiveOnRow)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsDockArea.AddToolbar(UltraToolbar toolbar, Boolean restoreOldPosition)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsManager.AddToolbarToDockArea(UltraToolbar toolbar, Boolean restoreOldPosition)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsManager.AddToolbarsToDockArea(List`1 toolbarList)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsManager.AddToolbarsToDockArea(DockedPosition targetDockArea)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsManager.InitializeDockAreaToolbars()

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsManager.OnFormLoad(Object sender, EventArgs e)

   at System.EventHandler.Invoke(Object sender, EventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

TargetSite: IntPtr GetHdc()

Hello atelford4tell,

I have tried to reproduce this exception using the latest service release for 11 vol1 - 2071, and the application worked correctly.

Could you please download this service release from your "My IG" , "My Keys and Downloads", applied it to your machine after that, and verify the behavior of your application against it.

If the exception still occurs, could you please let me know what is the current version of your GDI file, and if possible provide me with a small sample that I would be able to test at my end.

Please feel free to ask if you have any other questions with this matter.

I tried the suggestion from guther but unfortunately it did not work for me. It did send me on a path to play around with this particular machines video settings. I did successfully make it work by selecting a non Aero theme for the machine. When I switch the machine back to Aero I get the error, switch the theme again and the error is gone. Thank you for the direction guther

I will try the latest service release as suggested by Danko but it will be a while before we can do that as we recently finished the latest upgrade and all of the costly regression testing that goes with it and we can't take on that cost again for a while.

Hi, one of my clients get's this error too quite often. Are there any new insights of this? The client uses Windows 7 and there are dozens of other clients within the same environment without any issue.

Thanks!

Error:

Ungültiger Parameter.
bei System.Drawing.Image.get_FrameDimensionsList()
bei System.Drawing.ImageAnimator.CanAnimate(Image image)
bei Infragistics.Win.AnimatedImageManager.CanAnimate(Image image)
bei Infragistics.Win.AnimatedImageManager.AnimateHelper(Image image, UIElement owningElement, Boolean isBackgroundImage)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElementDrawParams.DrawImageBackground(AppearanceData& appearance, Rectangle rect, Rectangle invalidRect, Boolean enabled)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElementDrawParams.DrawImageBackground()
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawImageBackground(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)
bei Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawHelper(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode, Boolean clipText, Boolean forceDrawAsFocused, Boolean preventAlphaBlendGraphics)
bei Infragistics.Win.ControlUIElementBase.Draw(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode, Size elementSize, Boolean preventAlphaBlendGraphics)
bei Infragistics.Win.ControlUIElementBase.Draw(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode)
bei Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGridUIElement.Draw(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode)
bei Infragistics.Win.UltraControlBase.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)
bei Infragistics.Win.UltraWinGrid.UltraGrid.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
bei System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
Additional Information:
System.Drawing

Hi,

While I get the hardware details, there are few more details I would like to add. This error is seen while running our automated tests in QTP, which had to be upgraded to TestAdvantage 15.2 Version Free for the application to continue to be tested with QTP. These errors crop up every couple of hours or so when the test suite is running. These tests worked with previous Infragistics 11.2 and TestAdvantage 11.2 CLR4. And we are using the version free dlls of Infragistics 15.2.

Hi,

Some of our users are getting similar errors after upgrade to Infragistics 15.2 from 11.2. It is not consistent. The users are on .NET Framework 4.0.

System.ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid.

   at System.Drawing.Image.get_FrameDimensionsList()

   at System.Drawing.ImageAnimator.CanAnimate(Image image)

   at Infragistics.Win.AnimatedImageManager.CanAnimate(Image image)

   at Infragistics.Win.AnimatedImageManager.AnimateHelper(Image image, UIElement owningElement, Boolean isBackgroundImage)

   at Infragistics.Win.ImageUIElementBase.DrawImage(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.ImageAndTextUIElement.ImageAndTextDependentImageUIElement.DrawImage(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawChildElements(UIElementDrawParams& drawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawElement(UIElementDrawParams& defaultDrawParams)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.DrawHelper(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode, Boolean clipText, Boolean forceDrawAsFocused, Boolean preventAlphaBlendGraphics)

   at Infragistics.Win.UIElement.Draw(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode, Boolean forceDrawAsFocused, Boolean preventAlphaBlendGraphics)

   at Infragistics.Win.ControlUIElementBase.Draw(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode, Size elementSize, Boolean preventAlphaBlendGraphics)

   at Infragistics.Win.ControlUIElementBase.Draw(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode, Size elementSize)

   at Infragistics.Win.ControlUIElementBase.Draw(Graphics graphics, Rectangle invalidRectangle, Boolean doubleBuffer, AlphaBlendMode alphaBlendMode)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraControlBase.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)

   at Infragistics.Win.UltraWinToolbars.UltraToolbarsDockArea.OnPaint(PaintEventArgs pe)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.PaintWithErrorHandling(PaintEventArgs e, Int16 layer)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmPaint(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

Hello,

Have you tried the latest volume release of Infragistics Windows Forms. Does this issue is also reproducible there ?

Are your application use methods implemented externally ?

I am waiting for your feedback.