[2008] Show Image While Main Form Loads?
Feb 10, 2009
I have an app that connects to a remote database.The connection to the database is triggered by the form load event of the main start up form which prompts the user for user name and a password.Here is my problem:Sometimes it takes a number of seconds for the database connection to be established after the user has double clicked the desktop icon. this means that during this period it appears that no action is taking place until the startup form becomes visible.Some impatient users assume that nothing is happening and double click the icon again.What I want to do is to have a graphic image or something pop up on the screen immediately when the program starts that displays something like 'Connecting To Database, please be patient"
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Aug 14, 2011
I have created a project that shows a splash screen first and then shows the main form once the main form has been fully loaded. I only want to show my splash screen once the main form has completely loaded in the background. My main form by itself takes like 3 seconds to load, so I would like to display the splash screen for about 3 seconds and then show the main form because the main form will then be fully loaded, but instead it shows the splash screen for 3 seconds and then the main form still has to load anyway.How can I load the main form in the background and then show it when it is fully loaded?
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Aug 5, 2010
i have my main child form open. then i show the new form:
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but when the form opens it flickers a lot. so i want move the new form behind the main form while it loads so the user does not see the flicker. once it is done loading i will set the form to topmost. how do i move the new form behind the main form?
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Jan 10, 2010
I was wondering if there was a way to trim the working set when the main form loads in vb. I know in C# you can use
SetProcessWorkingSetSize(GetCurrentProcess, -1, -1) API call
But I am not quite sure how to implement this in vb. Basically I got an application that is showing 11,000K+ mem usage in the task manager when in actuality it is really only utilizing about 1,000K if that and I want to try and trim the working set to show the actual usage in the task manager rather than what the framework is reserving.
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Nov 3, 2009
Q1: How can i make it so that my window that i want to show as a drop down does not appear to take the focus off the main form that is calling it?
Q2: The form that is dropping down has the FormBorderStyle Property set to None - thus the window does not have a drop down shadow - how can I make the popup window have a shadow?
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Jul 28, 2009
My app works fine on the development machine and 3 other machines. However, some machines just show the main login box and then fail to show the main screen. There is no error message. I installed VS 2008 express on on of such machines and when i compile the project, the following errors appear:
Type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Access.Application' is not defined.
Type 'dao.DBEngine' is not defined.
[CODE]..........................
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Jul 15, 2010
I am trying to get a label to show briefly (3 seconds) when the form loads. The following code gives the 3 seconds, but the label doesn't show. The label is set to visible in the Designer properties.
'hide label1 after 3 seconds
Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000)
Label1.Visible = False
Adding 'Label1.Visible = True before the sleep function doesn't help.
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Jan 2, 2012
The first column in my Data Grid is actually not my first column. It has an arrow pointed to the first row and then the last row has an asterisk by it. Is there anyway to make this column not show every time my form loads?
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Jul 15, 2010
I am trying to get a label to show briefly (3 seconds) when the form loads. The following code gives the 3 seconds, but the label doesn't show. The label is set to visible in the Designer properties.[code]
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May 12, 2009
I am trying to use a progressbar to show on main form and then finish when next form is loaded, I have got this code.
1. When I click on button, it must open next form, but the next form must only open when the data in my list box has been loaded from Access Databse. When I run my program, it only shows the progressbar and don't open the next form.
Main form code:
Public Class Main
Dim PB As ProgressBar
Private Sub main_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
End Sub
[CODE]............................
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Jan 23, 2010
i have been looking all over for a tutorial or code snip that will show an image strip on a form from a predetermined dir?
all the ones i see is one pic but there is a browse button.. i need it fix.with all predetermined directories..
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Feb 9, 2011
In this code the program did not show me the screen and start loading.I see the Form when they has finished with the load of the file
Private Sub Main_Form_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
TotalRecords = 0
Call Find_Total_Records()
[code]....
I want the program FIRST show me the screen and after i see the form to start load the file I have try with the 'Application.DoEvents() and System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(200) without any effect?
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Feb 8, 2012
I have a couple of user controls, which I show in my main form.
So let's say here's what i want:
Sub Show_Control1()
UserControl1.Show
'CODE TO HIDE EVERY OTHER DISPLAYED USER CONTROL ON THE MAIN FORM
End sub
Right now I have to hide them one by one with hide, because I don't know what's the current displayed form.
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Feb 3, 2012
how i can refresh my main form background image once a user picks a different image as the background.I have 2 forms namely Form1 (main form) and form2 from where the user can select the image he or she would like to set as the background image of form1.But the problem is that after selecting the image file from form2,when form1 is opened the background image doesnt change and remains the same as before.Only when the user ends the program and re-runs it again the image changes.
I tried
Form1.reload()
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Sep 28, 2011
I have a table in my database with 5 columns (ID1 to ID5) and just one row. I'm trying to bind a comboBox, to show ID1 through ID5 in the combobox when my form loads. I have a dataset and tableAdapter's made for this already. I just want to know how to bind a combobox to those ID values.
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Jan 18, 2010
Public Sub ReadSample()
Me.Focus()
Do
Application.DoEvents()
[code]....
When i put:
Private Sub ThinkSec_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
ReadSample()
End Sub
The application wont start.But when I put the sub to run when clicking button, it works.Why?I've tried all do until, while, for etc variations to get it correct but i have no success.
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Mar 9, 2009
i was wondering if i can copy my application to the startup folder in windows when the form loads. The path i want my app to copy to is: C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersStart MenuProgramsStartup
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Jun 27, 2011
When I press "Show Desktop" button in the taskbar my main form "disappears". The only way to show it again is by pressing an other program which is open in the taskbar (lets say Word) to rise and unrise again.
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Aug 28, 2009
I am making a program that will fill in some info on a form. The information that needs to be filled is:
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The thing is i need the program to click on a button on a website then open a new tab with the page it just clicked on, fill in email and click submit, then fill in the info that is above before pausing. I would also like the info above to be randomized each time the new page loads so it is not the same. I have already looked on this site and cant find what I am looking for.
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May 24, 2011
I have a form that it do some calculations on datas,I create another form (for example progressform) that has a progressbar and a label with text:"Please Wait. I use progressform.SHOW() in first line of my analysis form load event, but when I run the project the progress form loads incompletely and you can not see the label and progressbar in the form! if I add a messagebox.SHOW("anything") after the line progressform.SHOW() the problem will solve and the label and progressbar apear in the form. it seems that before the progressform loads completely the computer starts the analysis...
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Feb 13, 2009
I have done a lot of googling and tested a few snippets of code i can't seem to get this, all i want to do is show an image in my picturebox1 that is from the web instead of on my harddrive, i thought:[URL]..
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Aug 27, 2010
I am trying to do repetitive loads of images to one picture box. That is: An image is loaded to the picture box from a bitmap image.It is done this way so the image can be scrolled using the mouse.That works fine.The image is loaded from a file.When I attempt to load a second image from a file, I get an error indicating that the resource has not been released.I have tried Dispose() etc, nothing seems to be working.I started with VB 1.0 and worked up through VB6 over the years and am now transitioning to VS 2010. A bit of a neck snapper, but it seems to be worth it.
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May 12, 2010
I have a SCADA program I'm working on, I need to add sum sort of paging when the user hits the page up/down button. I have about 100 station to show. I can fit 28 stations on one screen at 1280 X 1024.
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Jun 13, 2010
I have a combobox on my main form and it lists geographical locations that the user creates. How do I make the combo-boxes on the sub forms match the one on the main form?
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Dec 14, 2011
As of the moment I have 24 buttons that are keys to a piano.24 of the button codes have a call method that calls the note to be played.24 of the private subs that are called have an .wav audio playback command within them. I was hoping I could move the .wav private subs into a separate class, and just call them from my main form, therefore cleaning up the lines of code I have at the moment. [code]That example only counts for one Button "The Key of C", and the audio file that is called with it. Multiply that by 24 and you get a big mess of repetitive junk.Can I move the audio subs into a class and call them from my main form?
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Mar 6, 2011
I am trying to write a program which loads a tiff image on picturebox. Then the user clicks somewhere on loaded image to set the starting x,y coordinates and clicks again to set the ending x,y point. Then clicks the run button and the starting and ending x,y points are written on label.
Just to test the program a loaded a tiff image that has a dimension of 75x75 pixels. When I click upperleft and downright corners of the image, the program outputs the coordinates as starting x,y as (103,89) and ending points as (170,157). The program outputs wrong coordinates becayse the image has 75 rows and 75 colums only. To me, it should have outputted starting point as (0,0) and ending points as (75,75).
Public Class Form1
Dim StartX, StartY, EndX, EndY As Int16
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
[code]....
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Oct 21, 2010
What I'd like to do is in my application move a control like a groupbox or frame with content on it from e.g the main form to a tabpage on that same main form using code.
I can change the position of the control using it's location, but I haven't got a clue on how to move it from the main form to a tabpage, or from 1 tabpage to another.
-Is this at all possible and if so, how can it be achieved?
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Sep 26, 2009
Ok Guys what id like to do is Have a set of buttons across the top of my form and when the user clicks one id like the botom of the form to change to reflect that click. Kind of like the Office 2k7 ribbon but apply that to the whole for
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Aug 31, 2009
how to raise an event.I have a class that does some calculation using a For... Next loop, from 0 to 100.How would I return the value to the main form AFTER each iteration is completed? How would I raise the event? I have read the documentation but I can't wrap my head around this.
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Aug 12, 2010
I'm trying to get an image to show in Visual Basic 2008 from a path I set in a textbox.
The textbox is called "textbox2" and its on a window called "config.vb" The picturebox is called "picturebox1" and its on a window called "main.vb"
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