[vb2008] Minimizing External Application?
Dec 27, 2010
like seen on the web, with both the two following codes:
ShowWindow(Hwnd, SW_MINIMIZE)
ShowWindow(Hwnd, SW_SHOWMINIMIZED)
I can minimize without problems an EXTERNAL application window from it Hwnd.The big problem is that once minimized the application cannot be manually managed: also if I close my program, both left click or right click on the external application taskbar button don't work: I can't maximize it and I can close it only by Ctrl+Alt+Del... why?
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Nov 2, 2009
I am using VS 2010 to create a Mac OSX like dock application.Everything has worked great apart from one of the key features of the dock! So what I want is:When the user clicks the minimize but on any (including external application) it minimize to the dock I have created rather than the windows Task-bar.
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Sep 10, 2011
While the application is running, I want the buttons, text boxes, datagrid, everything thats on the form to resize when the screen is maximized and again resize when its minimized.
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Dec 29, 2010
if I use Spy++ and pass it Finder over the controls of every desktop window I can see the Handle of each of these controls.
what Api / procedure is used to make this job?
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Dec 25, 2010
with the hwnd = FindWindow(Nothing, "MsgBox Title")put in a Timer_Elapsed event i can get the Hwnd of a MessageBox launched from an external application. starting from the Hwnd there is way to get the text ot this message box?
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Jun 2, 2009
Is it possible to have an application where form1 opens a second modal form (form2) and then allows the user to minimized form2 causing the entire application to minimize to the taskbar.(form2 is never shown in the taskbar) A simple example of this is winzip where a second modal progress window is opened which can be minimized?
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Feb 7, 2010
I have a fully functional multi-threaded VB2008 console application that I need to convert to a windows forms application. I am doing this to add additional functionality at a later time. How would I go about doing this?
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Aug 17, 2011
I Have one Windows Application in which i have one MDI Form (Say App1). And I too have another Windows Application in which I have a Child Form (Say App2). So now i want to Call App2 from App1 .. And want to Display App2 form As MDIChild in App1 MDI Form . I am Able to open the Form of App2 , But how to set It As App1' Child .
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Jan 23, 2010
I use SetParent to make an external application a "child" of my Main .Net application. This works fine.What I need to know is why can't I use Me.MDIChildren(0)I thought that using SetParent would increase the number of children by 1, thus allowing me to reference it with the above code, but it shows there are no children in the array.I have been trying, without luck, for 2 days to try to maximize an external app being displayed in my app. I can get it to display, but I would love it if it could Dock to the same size as its container (a panel)
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Oct 3, 2009
I have a quick, yet simple (i think?) question. How can i use the address bar to send commands to a external application?
Example:
AOL Instant Messenger I havent used this application in a long time. But i remembered if you wanted to add a friend to AIM from their online profile it directed them to a link such as:
aim:addfriend=contactID and AIM would pick this up and add it the contactID to the application. The link i posted is more than likely not the correct link they use but it shows what im trying to accomplish.
Im looking to achieve something along the lines of: myApplication:command=commandValue
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Mar 15, 2012
Is it possible to reload a form of the running application from one computer when I executed a function from my other computer with the same application? co'z I want to see the changes of data on my datagrid view?
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Jun 3, 2011
I'm trying to use the Shell to have my application call an external application but its not working...I don't understand why. I get the following error: 'System.windows.shell' is a namespace and cannot be used as an expression!
Heres my code....any ideas what I'm doing wrong. Its got to be a simple...stupid error.
Private Sub mnuUpgrade_Click(ByVal Ctrl As Microsoft.Expression.Web.Interop.Legacy.CommandBarButton, ByRef CancelDefault As Boolean) Handles mnuUpgrade.Click
[CODE].....................
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Nov 2, 2011
I want to control the "My Cafe Pro" application using vb2008 as the front-end. The main function of "My Cafe Pro" is a time logger. The server can control all the clients connected to it (e.g shutdown). I want to control "My Cafe Pro" that even i don't actually open it. For example, i want to create a time code using the vb2008 program, i only click one button and bang!, the code was created on the "My Cafe Pro" application.
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Mar 23, 2012
how to center an external app on the screen, an example would be Adobe Reader, using either Process.Start or Shell. I've 'attempted' both but haven't found anything to control the position. I've also found some code using Api32 functions, FindWindow, MoveWindow, etc, but have not been successful at those either.
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Aug 15, 2009
I am currently working on making a macro in visual basic that will control an external application. I need to know how I can click the menu options in this program. Here is the code I have so far, which makes the application window active.[code]
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Mar 17, 2009
I have looked all over for an answer to this question and have failed to find one. I have two applications. App1: I have no control over anything in this application aside from standard user inteface options. (Enter text, apply, ok) Someone else has created this program and I have no direct access to the database or any code. I can not make any changes to this application.App2: This is the application that I am currently creating. All changes will need to be made here.I currently have a program set up to copy information from App2 to App1. A user clicks a button in App2 and then goes to App1 and hits F8. App2 is waiting to get F8 and when it does it proceeds to use a series of sendkeys to enter the information from App2 into App1.Question 1: Is there a better way to get info from App2 into App1?I am trying to "smarten" my program up a bit. I would like it to read fields from App1 and compare them to certain variables and then do an action. I have tried to use sendkeys to copy from App1. This sometimes works, and other times the clipboard says object not collected it is not a valid format. So this method is obviously not reliable enough for me.Question 2: How do I copy data from a text box in App1? Sendkeys seems to not work. Again, keep in mind that I don't know textbox names in App1 so as far as I know, I can't do anything like textbox1.copy.
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May 1, 2012
How can I move an external application. For example, notepad.location = 200, 200
how would I tell the program what notepad is?
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Apr 28, 2011
hi, i am developing a windows application in visual basic 2008. when i will install or setup my application to clients' computers, do i have to install the dot net framework 3.5 in every single pc or i can include dot net framework 3.5 in my application.
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Dec 14, 2010
i'm developing a linq to sql database application that i created with visual basic 2008. I intend to install the application on another computer system. The problem i'm having now is that, after i've developed,deployed it and installed it on another computer, i can't find the linq to sql database i created with the projectkelvin rolex on the installed application on the other computer,
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Mar 4, 2010
How can Made Winzip Application in vb6 or vb2008?
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Jan 7, 2010
I am using vb2008 express to create an applicationI have an ACCESS 2007 table that I use to fill a form using Fillbywhich works fine however 2 of the fields in the table are YesNoand they do not show up on my form
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Feb 28, 2010
I am trying to make an application using vb2008, and I'm facing a problem. I have a command button, and I want it to generate a new groupbox each time it's clicked. So here's the problem: when the user clicks the button, the previous groupbox disappears, which is sth I don't want to happen. Also, I wonder how I can use each of the controls included in the groupbox, while I can't name them or something...
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May 19, 2012
I want to be able to activate my application through my website. Like AIM, they have a protocol "aim?.." what ever, I was wondering how I might go about that? My application is standalone, I wonder if this would reduce the chances of this being possible.
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May 1, 2011
I have got Skype configured to launch minimized on windows starts.Now I need to bring Skype to front from a button from my full screen application button. I have got this code:
For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("skype")
ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, SHOW_WINDOW.SW_NORMAL)
Next p
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Dec 17, 2009
In VB.NET, you can set focus to an external application using
AppActivate("Windows Name")
or
AppActivate(processID As Integer)
Now this works fine if you do for example:
Dim intNotePad As Integer = Shell("C:WINNTNotepad.exe",
AppWinStyle.MinimizedNoFocus)
AppActivate(intNotePad)
But when I do:
For Each theprocess As Process In processlist
If InStr(theprocess.ProcessName, "DWG") Then
strProcessList += String.Format("Process: {0} ID: {1}", theprocess.ProcessName, theprocess.Id) + vbCrLf
AppActivate(theprocess.ID)
[code]....
then it doesn't find the window, even if it's open and even if it finds the window using the window title.But I need it by process ID.How can I do that?I need it to set focus on a 3rd party installer in a windows installer setup project.
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Jun 6, 2011
I am developing a program where I will save the information from a "Log file" from an external application..I have a biometrics system that reads and saves the log file to disk,once the user logs to the system, the system will save the file to a log file after that the system that i will develop will read the data from the "log file"(probably a text file) and send it to sql server.
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Oct 21, 2009
I am developing a program where I will save the information from a "Log file" from an external application..example: I have a biometrics system that reads and saves the log file to disk,once the user logs to the system, the system will save the file to a log file after that the system that i will develop will read the data from the "log file"(probably a text file) and send it to sql server what event should I use?
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Apr 23, 2010
i'm working on visual basic with an external program and want to lunch this program from visual basic like withe the shell but what i need the most is to make him incorporated into the form means that the executable is lunched within the form included into it in order to make them like one part for the user is there any way to make it with any version of VB or .net or visual studio even the 2010 ?
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Aug 9, 2009
I'm wondering if there is any way to exit an external batch application. My project is to make a server auto Restarting program, and the application that runs the server is titled runserver.bat I am using Visual Basic 2010 Beta 1 (with .NET 4.0 framework),
[Code]...
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Nov 3, 2010
how can I make load "DXSETUP.exe" at center screen position using this code?
Private Sub Panel3_MouseClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Panel3.MouseClick
Try
[Code]....
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