I have made a program with a main Form and several auxilary forms. Is it possible to modify the auxilary form in a way like a msgbox. It stays always in focus, and you cannot interact with the main form. What I did find was the Form.enabled (True or False) method, but then the main form completely greys out, but I don't like the way it looks.
View 1 RepliesI'm making a loginsystem and I want the form that I'm making it in will keep focus so if the "user" try click on another program there is running my form will take focus again, so the user cant get into the other programs there is running.
View 3 RepliesMy application is an Touch Screen HMI to operate some machinery using VB.net 2008. I am trying to get a button to activate code while touched then other code when released. I have experienced HMI's where when a button is pressed then slide finger out of focus the button stays down. This is what I am looking for.
View 5 RepliesHow can i make a program stay above the task bar even when it loses focus with visual basic 2008?
View 1 RepliesLike Say If I was Playing Halo..and I wanted my Program in Visual basic To stay on Top Of The Halo Game ...how would I do that.
View 4 RepliesI have two forms in an application. One is he background and then I show another keypad form called with the show() method (not showDialog) because I need to perform some validations on btn click.
The kepad has 10 buttons and an Enter Button. The problem is that the form keeps loosing focus (I checked this with a messagebox which keeps poping up once for focus=true and again for focus=false, it continuously keeps losing and gaining focus) so it does not process any keypress events untill i click somewhere on the form. I tried using me.focus() in form load event but to no avail. The forms TopMost property is also set to true.
im looking for code that will let me keep a form on top with in my application, Like form2.vb will stay on top of my form1.vb, How can i do this i searched the forum and could not find what i was looking for.
View 1 Repliesallow label1 to stay on the form when i close it or load it?
View 10 RepliesHow can I make a form stay above a game? Something like a D3D/OpenGL game
View 12 RepliesWhen I tried to resize the form, the textboxes and buttons stayed on the top left. I would like to know if there is a way to make them stay in the center whenever the form is resized or maximized? I have tried using anchor but the buttons and textboxes ended up getting stretched.
ps: the area highlighted in green represents the size of the original form. Red arrow represents how I resized the form.
Is there a way to make a form ALWAYS stay behind any other form?
View 12 RepliesHow to make a form always stay on top of another form. Also both form's enabled property must be true I don't wanna make use of topmost property.
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How can I make it so that when I re-size my program all my buttons and text boxes move with it. I don't know how to explain it, but it's like if I have a button in the center of my form and I re-size my form I want my button to stay centered not just have the form stretch out.
View 1 RepliesAfter I did a sendkeys to another program from my form, i wanted to return focus to the form. i tried me.focus = true but that doesn't work.
View 1 RepliesI have mdi application, on main form which is mdi container and has a tree view. i open the child form on afterselect even of treeview. the issue i'm facing that i open the form but focus remain on tree view until i click on the the form. my question is how i can give focus to form rather it stays on treeview. i tried frm.focus also activatemdichild(frm) no sucess.
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View 4 Replieshow do you keep focus on a particular form...
like i have playagain.focus()
but if i click on my other form it playagain goes behind it
I have a form where in it there's a webbrowser control doing some autonomous tasks. I leave it running in the background but, due to the navigation in the webbrower control, the window pops-up in front of all others and this is really annoying when Im doing something else.
Is there a way to disable the form from auto-focus or whats doing? Even if I hide the form using Hide() it still is able to remove the focus from whatever window has it.
i have this form, lets call it form1, i dont want the user to be able to click outside the form or let the form lose focus, kind of like when you are setting an options for a program and you click outside of the options settings and the options dialogue box flashes and refocuses your mouse on it and wont let you click anywhere until after you hit ok. i also dont want the user to do a cntrl + alt+ delete and open that options box thing that takes over your screen
View 2 RepliesI'm working on a program to wish my girlfriend a happy birthday, my idea is to show a label like a notification, similar to the one used in messenger, but I want it to be on top of whatever she is working on the computer at the time, even games (she's a hardcore gamer). Is this possible??what I'm asking for is a form on top of everything, not stealing focus, and if she presses a key, for example "q", the message activates no matter what she is doing. I'm a beginner, and I know how to do the label, the key press, but I don't know how to do the above mentioned
View 6 RepliesI want to create a program that gets if the user has pressed a code, for example F8, but without the user having to have focus on the form. I want the program to start hidden, and while the user works normally (say browses the internet (Go Google Chrome)), he just presses F8 and the form shows up. So I ask, is there any way to get key presses outside the form? [code]
View 2 Repliesi have two Forms. The first one is my Main Form and the second one my Child Form. From the menu in Form1 i open Form2, butnot as ShowDialog(). After showing Form2 this form has the user can do something. But at the same time he is, and he msut due to application function, able to do something in Form1.Basically this works, but the problem is when the user klicks on Form2 on a Button and then he wants to clicks on a Button on Form1 he has to click two times1. time to set the focus for form12. time to click the button
View 1 RepliesWhenever you have a messagebox, it grabs attention from your main window and doesn't let you click back into your form until you hit okay.I want to make a form that does kind of the same thing. I have this for that shows download progress and I don't want the user to be able to click back into the main form until the download form is finished.
View 4 RepliesIs it any way to loop so a form always is in focus?
View 3 RepliesI am just getting into the learning curve of .net. I have thus many tinyl hitches to get some quick fix. Thus if my questions are dumb or too down right primitive, please pardon the novice.I have a few text boxes in a form1st QI want to get to a particular 1st_txtbox when the form opens. Hence in the load event i place a line: 1st_txtbox.focus()But on reopening the form the 2nd time, if user has already moved to 2nd_txtbox, the cursor gets to 2nd_txtbox. Where did i go wrong?
View 3 RepliesThe form is the main form, this form is Disabled while the user goes to a different form and then Enabled once returned (this is so some functions are automatically processed when this happens using Handles EnabledChanged) within this I want to set the focus to a certain text box i have tried setting the textbox to the lowest TabIndex but i don't think this will make a difference as this isn't the first time the form is opened and I have also tried textbox.focus() but neither of these have worked.
View 3 RepliesMost of my experience in Visual Basic programming is in VBA. I'm currently trying to build a VB.NET Windows application that basically consists of a form that has one button and one label. When the button is clicked, the label should serve as a "counter" that counts from 0 to infinity until the user closes the window with the "x" button. I do this by putting a loop with a sleep statement in the onclick sub. The loop iterates the integer that is displayed in the label and does a "Me.Refresh".The problem is when the window loses focus. When it loses focus (when I click off of it), the counter stops. Even when I click back on it, the counter doesn't resume.
View 19 RepliesWhen I run my VB.NET Winforms app I do not want it to steal the focus from the other open apps. FYI, my app is started from the command line but that shouldn't make a difference. I've seen question 577076 but that doesn't seem to work.
View 2 Repliesi am working on a System. But everytime i show another Form, or Focus Something Else, One Particular Form gains Focus on it's own right after. Does anyone know how i can Fix this?
View 6 RepliesI have two mdi children forms open. I would think that clicking on the non active form would change the focus from the active form to the form I just clicked on. It only does this if I click on the title bar. Then the focus changes. But if I click on a control on the non-active form, focus does not transfer.
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