Apply Styles / Themes In Program?
Jul 23, 2010How do you change the desktop wallpaper and visual styles using vb.net?
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View 7 Repliesiam working on windows application using vb.neti developed a patient information system it is working well but i have to improve the look and feel of my application using themeshow to apply themes for my forms like windows themes for each and every control
View 3 RepliesI am looking at adding styling to my forms and would like to know if it is possible to have the user select the theme and then apply it to their induvidual account within the program.I am trying to make it have the ablilty to be changed so that if people need text sizes different or bg colors changing the can, but to just them not everyone.
View 4 Repliesi am now creating a Sql server Database and i will connect it to my App using ado.net. the program & the db will be in the host computer. and each client in my network will have access to the App via a specific Username & Password. the user will choose an options to his interface( themes & colors & fonts & language etc....) via an option form. how to make each user have his own settings and when the user access the App in another time the settings to him will be the what he chose in the last time?
View 8 RepliesI have buttons throughout my program and most are dynamic. How do I assign a specific batch of qualities to them... like I want all my buttons to be 100,100 and flat appearance, etc.... Is there a way to assign all these attributes (attributesA) and then when I create this button, say give it all those attributes?
View 4 RepliesIs there a way to like apply or skin a vb.net form?
View 1 Repliesadd different types of themas in vb.net application
View 4 RepliesI have developed an application which used gridview to display 1 images, description, price, and other details.
I have to give a professional look to my gridview.
Where can i download some free gridview styles to use in my application.
There are multiple rows and many pages will occur for my gridview.
How can we add themes/skins in vb.net for desktop application? we want professional look for our application.
View 5 RepliesHow can we add themes/skins in vb.net for desktop application?
View 2 RepliesI wrote a small app we use on our computer to keep them running optimally and do some utility things (delete temp files, defrag drives, clean registry, backup my docs to the server, etc). One of the options I ahve in there is "Reset Windows to Defaults" and the objective was to setup windows how we normally would set them up before we give them to our users. So if a user messes with all his/her settings we can click this button and reset it all back. So far it resets IE settings, changes Window Explorer views, puts all the default icons on the desktop and turns off desktop cleanup, etc. Well one of the last things I want to do is change to the default Windows XP theme and apply it. After a lot of searching the internet I found this:
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It does reset colors and stuff back to the theme. The problem is if a user has "Windows Classic" set and this is run it does apply the theme.....mostly. Things like dialog boxes stay in classic while the menu structure and desktop go the XP style. If you go into display properties it still shows "Windows Classic" but under Appearance it shows "Windows XP" which leads me to believe even though this function is for themes its actually just applying the appearance and not actually setting the theme.
I am currently writing a website for a company to display their products to their customers. One of the things I am putting into it is the ability to add news items onto the homepage, only part of the admin side of the site.
I have managed to extract some news items from the database, and display them dynamically in a Web User Control which I have added to Default.aspx. I have managed to add buttons for "Update" with events. The problem is that, on clicking one of these update buttons, the page reloads with the theme applied (as it should), but the css files from the theme do not apply - the body text is bigger than it should be and changes back to the default font. I know the skin files apply as I have tried setting all button backgrounds to black by default. The css files seem to apply to any text which is generated from clicking an update button (I have it so it writes the title of the news item for the button that was clicked. This text is the size and font it should be). I have spent HOURS trying to work out why this is happening, with loads of Googling but no success. It is almost as if the theme is being applied between the PageLoad event and the ButtonClick event, but the skin files would say otherwise. Does anyone know why this is?
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I am looking for the best way to make a plugin type system for themes. have allow users to create custom GDI based controls in a dll plugin that is to be able to be switched on runtime by users. My issue is there is no way to have a dynamic inheritance so how can I make it so the controls show in the toolbox and can be changed on runtime?
View 5 Repliesi've been developing a usercontrol that uses a listbox with ownerdraw on. I need each element of the listbox to be expandable and thus - I need to draw an expand/collapse button ( [+]/[-] ) on each element. I've been using the Win32 DrawFrameControl function but it doesn't support XP styles apparently. So, the question is:Is there a way to make the DrawFrameControl API function draw elements using XP visual styles or should I use different API function? Is there some native .NET Framework functionality for something like this?
View 1 Repliesi have 2 Combo boxes[_cmbxFontName, _cmbxStyleName] i can load all installed fonts into _cmbxFontName. but i could not load Fonts Style. if i select a Font Name in _cmbxFontName then the other _cmbxstyleName combobox wants to load it's Styles [Regular,Normal,Bold,Italic......]. i know all fonts has different styles but how can i found and load its....
View 1 RepliesI need to start Windows Forms Application with a startup object that it is not a form (is a Start Sub, so i can instantiate several components, prepare all structures without any form loaded, etc). Problem is since i had unchecked "Enable Application framework" i had XP visual styles disabled also; and all graphical elements look a lot like a vb4 app running in windows 98. Any suggestion how to enable XP visual styles in this scenario?
View 1 RepliesIs there anyway to add custom styles to a tabcontrol? Like the tabs themselves I want to have a different background to the normal one. Just so I can style it to look nice
View 1 Replieshow to disable XP visual styles in VB?I unticked "Enable XP visual styles", but application still has XP visual style. I want to achieve that application will be in Windows Classic color scheme look. Basically the same what you can do in windows settings, but that`s for entire windows and I want it for my application only and default on every computer, where application will be installed.
View 3 Repliesi have just switched to VS 2008 from 2005. On every web page I create, CSS styles are being automatically generated and added to every control on the page ... this is driving me crazy. Is my setup wrong? And, more importantly, how do I stop this very annoying event?
View 3 RepliesSo, to set the body style for a webpage, I can just sayWebBrowser1.Document.Body.Style = stylexBut let's say I set "stylex" equal to "background-color:red;". That will set the background color red but ONLY to websites that do not have a background color already set.ike Google's isn't set so it'd work, but other websites it is set and it won't let me change the background color. So how could I override their style with mine?
View 1 Repliesi want to use a custom visual style what is this one on deviantart on my vb.net form how do i make it work?
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to change the format of the progress bar so that the style can be changed for example change the color of the bar itself, or even the background to it.
View 4 RepliesI am creating an application that needs to have a similar style to the office package. on a quick way to implement my project to have this style? or does it all need to be done manually?
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to get more cursor styles for my controls? I'm drawing freehand on a picturebox control and would like a pencil
View 2 RepliesI need to make a program that can disable visual styles in windows 7.I also need to know how to enable it again.
View 8 RepliesI have an element that I'm trying to style:
<tr runat="server" id="row" >
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</tr>
And I set the style programmatically:
row.Attributes("style") = "background: #cccccc;"
I get this output:
<tr id="SearchResults_myRepeaterPlain_ctl04_row" style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;">
Where is all that additional style information coming from, and How can I stop it?
I have a rtb and I need the user to be able to switch between bullet styles. How would i do this. I can not figure this out, i do not even see a bullet style properties.
View 4 RepliesIf I want to set my Font I can use new Font=("Times New Roman", 12, Drawing.FontStyle.Bold)Instead of Bold, I can use Italic, Regular or Underline
View 1 RepliesI have a WPF window appliaction that I would like to build the functionality to have a dynamic style (font family, weight, size, etc) that is stored in a SQL database allowing a user to specify the type of style to use on control's such as ListView's and labels, etcI have started defining styles in the Application.XAML file and am not sure if this is the best approach to achieve a dynamic style.
View 1 RepliesI have a number of ActiveX controls which make use of consituent controls (edit boxes,combo boxes etc). I'm using these in a VB .Net 2005 project.When I run the application within the IDE, all the ActiveX controls display correctly with the XP visual styles.But when I run the built assembly, the ActiveX controls display without XP visual styles
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