I need to refresh the whole screen/desktop.I am painting a rectangle and need to have it clean and not leaving marks when it is dragged around.There were a few claimed APIs that could do it. And then some others which were more specific to other languages.
View 5 RepliesBTW this issue occurs in any MS office program when the VB.Net (or even VBA) is processing information.Example: In Excel, a worksheet is displayed on the screen. I start either, a VB.Net or VBA procedure and within 30 seconds the Excel worksheet (previously displayed) blanks out. In both VB.Net and VBA,ScreenUpdating = False. My expectation is that the previously displayed screen would stay static as if I left my desk to get a cup of coffee; came back and the same ole Excel worksheet was still there?Of course, setting VBA Screen Updating = False accomplishes two goals: 1) speeds up processing and 2) saves the user from seeing unnecessary "garbage-processing" steps.Why does VBA or VB.Net ScreenUpdating = False not freeze the screen at the time of its invoking?
View 11 Repliesim looking for a simple way to refresh the desktop.
View 5 Replieshow can i refresh the desktop?
View 4 RepliesI have a logon script which changes the desktop brackground picture in the registry. The only problem is this change isn't applied until the user logs off and on again. I currently use a small program which uses SHChangeNotify(&H8000000, &H1000, 0, 0) but this will not refresh the wallpaper. I was also hoping this would refresh the Taskbar because I change a registry setting which removes a toolbar.
View 4 RepliesAnyone knows the code to REFRESH the WINDOW DESKTOP by clicking a button from a form?iCzZz...^^Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal senderSystem.Object, System.EventArgs)les Refrh.Click
View 12 RepliesI try to find out a way to refresh desktop and Window Explorer after change in registry.
I use VB.Net 2008 and my OS is Windows7.
I Show/Hide File Extension in Registry with this [code]...
I am using VB.net in VS2008.I wrote a screensaver that cycles through pictures. When the screensaver exits it sets the desktop background to the last picture loaded using API call SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETDESKWALLPAPER, 0, sFilePath, SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE Or SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE).The desktop wallpaper refreshes for WinXP and Vista but not Win7.In Win7, if I run the screensaver as an EXE then the desktop background changes when the program ends. If I run it as a screensaver I need click on the desktop and press F5 before the desktop shows the new desktop background (or click and drag with the mouse to show pieces of the new desktop background).I have tried to add delays and even force a refresh by using SHChangeNotify(SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED, SHCNF_IDLIST, Nothing, Nothing) but with no success.
View 9 RepliesI have written a small application that will allow the user to use DreamScenes on there desktop in Windows XP but i can't get the screen to refresh to reflect the desktop changes. The refresh routine i have used will only work once....This program is part of an application i am writing to allow users to customize/modify the windows xp source.Here is my code:
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
Public Class Form1
Dim DSNAME As String
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I have made a game (real time strategy) and it is running rather fast on my 3 GHz quad 8800 GTX, namely, it runs around 200 FPS usually when there are like 80 units and tanks in a forest fighting.
I would like to limit the FPS. So far my limitation code is pretty buggy... it does limit, but wrongly:
Private Sub LoopGame()
Do While GameIsNotPaused
FPS += 1
[Code]....
Also, after I solve this weird issue, should I set the value to monitor's refresh value which is usually 60 Hz on LCDs? Or should I set it to 30 or what ?
I have a Windows Form application that allows the user to delete several rows of textbox data at a time (i.e., using checkboxes). It takes a few seconds for this to occur and I was thinking about using a progress bar w/in the "delete rows" subroutine. It's also kind of "choppy" while the windows form refreshes. I'm new to this aspect of VB (2010) and how to make the screen refresh appear more professional. Apart from possibly using the progress bar, maybe there is also a way to dim the window until the refresh finishes?
View 5 RepliesI'm making a game using vb.net and GDI+. I've been encountering frame rate problems and one solution that was suggested to me was to only refresh certain parts of the screen. I was also told one way to make this happen was to use rectangle or region structures and since I already have these as hitboxes it seems like a perfect way to efficiently reduce the drop in frame rate.
The only problem is that I have no idea how this would work and so far my google searches have been fruitless. Yet again I turn to this very helpful forum, can anyone help me? By the way I've set doublebuffered to true on my form to get rid of the annoying flicker.
Questions. How do I update or refresh only certain parts of the screen?
I'm using a timer set to tick every millisecond to run everything and it refreshes the screen every 2 milliseconds simply using me.invalidate; each time it ticks things move a little bit and stuff happens that triggers other events etc. The problem is that when the framerate supposedly "drops" things start to change. "Bullets" and projectiles appear to travel many times faster and much less smoothly than they do when there a less objects moving on the screen, it's almost as if the timer runs faster... What's the reason for this? Is there a way I can change this? I remember hearing about a "stopwatch" or something that someone used in their game that was more consistent or something.
Also I'm aware that vb.net with GDI+ isn't exactly the best language to make a video game in but it's for a school project and I have no choice in the matter.
I am looking for help on how to speed up VB.NET (or C#) screen refresh speed. Specifically I need to update many controls and then refresh them on the screen all at once.I am in charge of writing a .NET interface for an older legacy program. Because this needs to run on slow legacy machines I did a performance test and discovered the screen refresh speeds of VB6 is faster then .NET. In VB6 there is barely a flicker as controls change across the entire form all at once. In VB.NET you can see controls change moving across the form like a wave. I must be doing something wrong...
To do a head to head comparison I put together equivalent VB6 and VB.NET programs, each with a maximized form and 48 labels. Clicking on any label changes the background color of all the labels on the form. To really see the problem it is best to try the following code on a slower machine (1GHz etc.)
In VB6 create a project MyProject and add a form MyForm with the following properties
Caption = "Screen Refresh test VB6"
BackColor = Black
WindowState = Maximized
On that form add a label MyLabel with the following properties:
Index = 0
Caption = "Hello World"
BackColor = Cyan
In the form add the following code:
[Code]...
i wanted to develop a application to Refresh the screen.[Simple F5 would work !!] but is it possible.I want a button to start at X:0 Y:0 then on loading the form want the button to move diagonally on the form [ on reaching end the process should repeat ]I want the application that displays current resolution.The supported resolution by monitor and then give user the choice of selecting one.
View 2 RepliesI created an application in vb.net I have a user control having datagridview and some other controls. Grid rows is not fixed and so size is calculated dynamically so that grid do not have scroll bars . when I run my application on different desktops it works perfectly. But when I open the application on laptop for same resolution it shows the scroll bar. Do I need to write different code for laptop and desktop for user control size or any property which need to be set to check it. one more thing Grid is set dock and user control is also set as dock in a panel So I do not wrote about anchor property.
View 1 RepliesI have a splash screen and want to test the loading bar. The % of loading are in 11 stages (0-100% in 10% intervals) and I have 11 different images. What i'm trying to do is set my picturebox.image = to the resource image and then wait 1 second then set picturebox.image to the next resource image. What i was doing is on the SplashScreen.Show method [Code]. What happens is that the picture box doesn't refresh with the image until the last image has been loaded from the procedure and the end of making the thread sleep completes. (this worked fine in VS2005). How can I make it load up the image, redraw the picturebox and then make the thread sleep for 1 second in VS2008.
View 4 Replieshow to display folder on desktop:What I did was:My program read external text files and generate word documents files on d:stage-in.After program finished (exit VB application), how to display folder "d:stage_in" on screen.
View 3 Repliesi m giving u some code here i have created a client server application in which we can send messages and view the screen of the desktop server.I can send messages but can see the server screen
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Im trying to set a forms size to fill my desktop screen is any function that does this or do you have to set the form size manually depending on the screen size each time ?
View 5 RepliesI am a novice programmer and would like to create a program that will divide the user desktop screen into 2 sections such that one bigger section of around 90% screen size is left for user to work with other windows that when maximized should not ovelrap the other 10% section which will hold some other information that will always be static on the user's screen.I am using vb2008.
View 3 Repliesim about to develop a small appliacation for a bet system, which needs 6 screens, each screen will be a touch screen for each client... the application will be running in one computer only just with 6 screens. my question is does anyone knows how to control each screen separately?. somethign that would allow me to output each forms in different screens would work fine.
View 2 Replieshow to make a multi language desktop application in vb.net 2005. only a small desktop application in which i can change language according to countries.
View 1 RepliesI am looking to create simple application that means that when the 'Print Screen' button is pressed, the screenshot is not just sent to the clipboard but saved to the desktop in either JPEG or PNG format.The application will run at startup so that the 'new' print screen functionality is there but the interface of the app is opened manually.(the app interface includes simple options such as choose where file is saved.)
View 4 RepliesI'm writing an app that I need to retrieve and order or invoice number from an external application whose screen is active on the desktop.
View 4 RepliesI have made a small program that record my screen desktop using windows media encoder.
The recording is working good. but wen I start record I can not open any folder in the desktop by double click.
The is the source code :
CODE:
I am in a dual monitor environment. I have developed an application using VB.NET 2005.When I start my application, the splash screen always displays on the monitor where the mouse cursor is at, even if it is not the same monitor that the login and primary form open on.
View 3 Repliesway to do the following in VB 2005:
I need to access, but not display, a web page out of a VB 2005 program. The web page would be an aspx page with a query string as part of the url - with the url using values acquired thru the program - e.g. www.mysite.com?arg1=this&arg2=that
So the aspx page would produce an html output with values I need placed in specific elements. I want to read that page from my app and do stuff with the resulting values.
I have some text boxes in my form that takes data and saves the data to the database. There is a combo box at the bottom of the page that loads data from a specific field of a database. when I enter and save the new data (using the textboxes), the combobox doesn't show the newly entered data. I tried to refresh the combobox using code like combobox.refresh, me.refresh etc, to refresh the form but nothing is working the combobox only display the new data when I close the form and reload the form again. anyway, the data loading in the combobox is done using datasource, displaymember, valuemember in the properties. So, how can I make the combobox show the just added record (field)?
View 1 Repliespicture box refresh issue in vb 2005
View 3 RepliesTake a look at this little snippet of
cnt += 1
Me.lNews.Text = "Redd Loop..." & cnt
Me.Refresh()
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