Printing live calculated values onto main window

Question

I am writing an application in Visual Studio 2013 using C#

I have some live values that I get from Kinect and I process those values and save them in a floating point.

there are about 8 values

I need to print these values out on my window how do I go about that??

Answer 1

If you just need to Display your constantly changing floating point number on your Window, You can use Label . But as values changing frequently this may cause GUI to hang. To prevent this I have an extension Class

public static class CrossThreadExtensions
{
    public static void PerformSafely(this Control target, Action action)
    {
        if (target.InvokeRequired)
        {
            target.Invoke(action);
        }
        else
        {
            action();
        }
    }

    public static void PerformSafely<T1>(this Control target, Action<T1> action, T1 parameter)
    {
        if (target.InvokeRequired)
        {
            target.Invoke(action, parameter);
        }
        else
        {
            action(parameter);
        }
    }

    public static void PerformSafely<T1, T2>(this Control target, Action<T1, T2> action, T1 p1, T2 p2)
    {
        if (target.InvokeRequired)
        {
            target.Invoke(action, p1, p2);
        }
        else
        {
            action(p1, p2);
        }
    }
}

And use in this way

On value change event:

Thread erThread = new Thread(delegate()
{
    label1.PerformSafely(() => label1.Text = _YourFloatingPointValue.ToString());
});
erThread.Start();
erThread.IsBackground = true;