[2008] Get Form To Appear On Top Of Media Center?
Jan 19, 2009
i have media center's "put media center always on top UNchecked, but it doesn't seem to affect how the program works if it's maximized. I have a custom media control interface with functions that change depending on an event such as holding the button in. To show the user what it's SUPPOSED to be doing, i've tried a few different ways to get a notification to show over the top of media center's screen.
1. Had media center's display notifications turned on and showed a balloontip in the task bar... NO EFFECT
2. Found a MCE Plugin i can shell to, but am unable to actually find a download site in english for it
3. Wrote a simple vb.net program to give a popup form to show text but it appears behind the mce window always, even when i have the form's "always on top" checked, and i even tried the setwindowpos api call, although i might not have used it correctly since i manually converted it from vb6.
My final attempt will be to send the keycommand to "restore" the media center window which will open up some screen real estate on the bottom and right, exposing part of my program's window that i can show text on.
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Dec 13, 2009
I've used Windows Media Center and I'm very impressed by its UI. I wonder how to write such a program like that, I mean "full screen", effects... I think it is written in DirectX or something. I want to know this just for my curiosity.
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Jul 10, 2009
I have made a really simple program launcher for my home theater pc that allows me to launch 6 programs, open/close the optical drive and shutdown.I don't have a mouse or a keyboard normally hooked up. I can navigate the buttons with the up and down arrows fine, but only in the tab index order. Is there a way to allow the left/right arrows to focus on the buttons to the side? Here is a screen shot of my application to hopefully give a better idea of what I'm asking. (eg. Can I hit the right arrow from my first button and focus on the Open button?)
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Nov 15, 2009
Can I use VS2008 to create a windows media center add on? If so how would i do so.
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Nov 23, 2009
I cannot believe after all the hype of .net framework and using any language that MS and the VB.NET team keep ignoring Media Center add ons for us VB.Windows 7 is now out, put something together for this and let the add ons start flowing from the VB world...A template and an example app.It is high time MS and the VB team aid us in getting into the MCE world.
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May 12, 2009
I am looking to buy Xbox 360â„¢ Universal Media Remote or Harmony® Advanced Universal Remote for Xbox 360® to use on my application. Is it possible to use them from vb or csharp?
If it's possible where should i be looking for some infomation?
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Jan 3, 2012
When I call this Messagebox, is it possible to center the Messagebox on the parent form rather than centering it on the center of the screen?
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Dec 9, 2010
We are working on a media center plugin to show internet tv from a local provider. They are distributing their metadata as this link[URL]..It seems to be an xml list of rss feeds, because if I open the links in internet explorer, I get a nice html page.
My task in this project, is to write an aggregator that read the xml feeds, convert this into collections of metadata objects, that will be used to build the menu in media center. These will be simple List of... objects with categories, synopsis etc.
What is the best way in .NET to make this happen. It isn't even pure xml but rss feeds and I have never worked wit this. Can I benefit from technologies like xsd schemas, LINQ etc to make my job easier?
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Apr 30, 2010
How do I get the Center (x,y) of the form?
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Feb 7, 2011
Is there any way I can move a form in the center of the screen ? I am talking about run time for a form that is already shown . I need this because some times this form may become larger or smaller during run time and I'd like it to be moved in the center of the screen in order to look better . Back in VB6 I used to show again the form (despite being already shown) by MyForm.Show , which resulted i the form being moved to the center , but now it seems this doesn't work anymore ...
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Jul 27, 2009
This sub moves a rectangle to the center of the form and when it gets there it moves back to its original location. But something weird has happened and the rectangle still moves, but the boolean values dont change. I tested to see if that part of the code was executed by putting a messagebox where the boolean values are supposed to change and the messagebox didnt appear.
Here is the sub:
Public Sub Start()
Dim Energy As New PictureBox
_IsMoving = True 'here is the boolean values along with some other variables
[CODE]...
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Jun 12, 2010
I have a desktop computer with a cable connection on the back that allows me to watch TV on the computer using Windows Media Center. I had the idea of writing a program that would access this feed and send it to another computer (laptop) via my network. That way I would be able to watch TV from anywhere that my network spans. I have no idea if this is possible or how I would even do it,
So I have three questions.
1: Is it possible?
2: How would I go about access the feed?
3: How would I send it over the network?
My original thought was doing it in Flash, but I'm not very good at Flash so I wanted to do it in VB.Net.
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Mar 4, 2012
i have my main form and other forms. the other forms startposition is set to manual.is there a way i can set the start position of the other forms to center at the main form
Me.Location = New Point(150, 248)
the above code will position according to the monitor not the mainform.
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Apr 19, 2009
I,m working in project that had MDI, I need to center the child
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Jun 11, 2012
i found this video today and its a simple vb game but made me wonder how they kept the charater centered during movement.url...Anyone have a simple snippet to demostrate how they made a larger resulution then vewable and kept the picturebox centered and only moved the viewable area?
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Jul 27, 2009
im trying to center some pictures 5 above and 5 below in the center of a form "Form1". Right now i can make them look centered in a smaller area, but when i maximize the screen the pictures are in the upper left. I tried changing some options with no luck and have been browsing some WWW posts but im not coming up with any understanbable.
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Jun 21, 2010
center a label with a form. I have tried with the following code but was unsuccessful.
Me.Width = 135
Me.Height = 38
Dim w As Integer = Me.Width / 2
Dim h As Integer = Me.Height / 2
[code]....
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May 19, 2010
How would I center an application on or near the mouse location?I've made an application that opened after right clicking its associated extension, I want this to load close to the mouse (Similar to the explorer right click menu does)
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Feb 26, 2006
How can i center MDI child Form in its Parent MDI from?? Without using the size of MDI parent form. i don't want this- ParentMDIFormwidth/2-MDIChildWidth/2?
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Feb 2, 2012
I have a form size is 1092, 626 in design time. i set startPosition screen center. i write a code in loading event Me.Width = 486 i mean resize my form . but when it load i will not center. it was in little bit left size.
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Dec 15, 2008
I want to Align my form to center of my screen ,i have set ( form properties "Start Position = CENTER SCREEN ") .But its not Aligning to center . Every time the window is moving right wards when it opens.
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Oct 14, 2011
how to center aline a label to the form.On form Load event the label text will be changing, and the displayed label should be center aline to the form.Form size will remain the same.
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Sep 18, 2009
-I have a form where IsMdiContainer = True
-I add Split contaner which has 2 panel vertically (panel1 and panel2)
-In Panel1 I have buttons where every button should display a form in panel2
I want to display a form in the center of panel2 .I had tried the below code and not working
frm_Login.TopLevel=False
frm_Login.Parent = Me.SplitContainer1.Panel2
Me.SplitContainer1.Panel2.Controls.Add(frm_Login)[code].....
Should I do the math my self and assign Top and Left to the form?
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Nov 13, 2009
Is there a easy way to center MessageBox in parent form in .net 2.0
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Oct 14, 2010
I have three control in Center Form
i want the control stay in the Center if the Form Maximize or Restore to Normal
like Google Site TextBox and Button
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Oct 25, 2011
I just converted from Visual Basic 2008 to Visual Basic 2010.The application that I'm working on has several forms that change size depending on the situation and I want them to appear in the center of the screen.
This code:
Me.Height = 161
Me.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen
worked perfectly in VB 2008 and doesn't in VB 2010
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Dec 15, 2011
I m trying to open a filter form at the center of a form which is inside the panel 2 of a split container.. I ve selected Start Position of the filter form => Center Screen but the problem is that when I push the button which opens the filter form for the first time the form appears at the upper left corner of the panel 2.. next time I open the form it appears at the center.
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Mar 3, 2011
I have a form called Form1. Its set to startup-Position = Center but when executed it opens up somewhere else (At a random position evrytime).I am working under Windows XP SP3 , using IDE Visual Studio - 2010. Please provide a workaround to this problem. url...
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Aug 23, 2011
how to center my form and make it full screen
[Code]...
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Sep 18, 2009
Im trying to make the contents of my form appear in the center of the screen, no matter what screen resolution is being used.I have been searching the net and have found code similar to the following but i cant get anything to work.
Dim x As Integer = _
(Me.ClientSize.Width - GroupBox1.Width) 2
Dim y As Integer = _
[code]....
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