I am trying to make the transparency of forms change in someway. I tried making a track bar with checked boxes and that didn't work, and I tried the ALT with the UP and DOWN keys,I tried to change the code so it would fit in with my program and that didn't work ether.
View 5 RepliesIve been on the same thing for the past seven hours now. Im trying to ether get the MDI child form title-bar-less in maximized mode, or now, get the transparency working to where the MDI child has transparency. ) This is for a home automation system im working on. major alpha stages. Hardware control works ;) but this stupid GUI is kicking my butt. So three options i have. In maximize mode on the MDI child remove the title bar, or remove the parents scroll bar so i can make the MDI child the size of the parents MDI window, or make the MDI child transparency work. Im posting a screen shot to show you what im talking about.
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I have a 8 bit Gif, that is transparent, with controls sitting on top of it, all in a custom control. This part works fine. However, This control is a menu ring (appears around another control with a few options). The transparent part is over a Picbox, that is in a panel. The transparent part of the image seems to skip the picbox and go right through to the panel. I set the panel to a back color of RED. The custom control when its placed instead of showing the image in the pic box that it is on top of, it shows the RED panel I have made sure all my Z orders are right.
View 5 RepliesI have a menu strip with a item titled options. This drops down and there is a dropdown list. Then there are various percents that the user clicks to set the transparency of the window. What code can I use to enable the percents to be clicked and the transparency to change?
View 16 Repliesi know how to make a picturebox have a transparent image within it, and i know how to make forms transparent, but what i cant seem to figure out is how to add an image which has transparent parts to a completely transparent form and have it still look nice. you know when you find images which look really good by them selves, but then look really bad when moved to a different background cause they still have the white border (or any other colour border). is there ANY way which i can accomplish removing this border? its almost like the alpha channel that removes the ugly border, when putting the image on the form, is forgotten about and the colour of the forms background fills in the gap..
View 3 RepliesNoticed that in my MDI Application, all my child forms lose the transparency of the border that Aero provides. Is there a way to "force" them to inherit the styling or is there a property i've overlooked to allow this?
View 2 RepliesI use a lot of picture box, label, and custom controls, all of which are oddly-shaped, and must overlap. In almost all cases, the backgrounds are not solid colored.I am using transparent .png images for the background images of many of these controls (except labels), and using transparent as the backcolor, creating a custom shaped control. However, when these controls overlap, the one towards the front will not show any controls behind it through the "transparent" background. This is getting annoying, because I cannot use any alternate object arrangements.How do I create true custom-shaped forms?
P.S. Some of my controls have extremely irregular shapes, so using simple line and curve drawing functions is probably not an option.
I created a background image for the form with rounded corners. I filled the outer edges and empty space with Lime color (00FF00) and then set the same transparency key in the properties for my form. It worked well, the edges were transparent and the form appeared round-edged. This was accomplished with Visual Studio .NET 2005 on Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit.The very same application was ported to a different platform. Visual Studio .NET 2005 on Microsoft Windows XP Professional 32-bit. All the settings are the same and nothing has been changed. But the transparency effect is not appearing on the Windows XP platform.
View 5 RepliesFind this tutorial on Dot Net SourceReason of this project:This is the next part of the previous tutorial. We'll learn here how to add, change, read, delete registry keys and values using vb.net.I included a sample that contains all those functionality.Project details:1- How to add a registry key/value2- How to read a registry value3- How to delete a key or a value4- Changing a value or a key5- Hints to use registry with VB.net6- The registry reader (VB.net)1- How to add a registry key/valueOne thing that I think I forget to notice.
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I have a problem detecting whether one of the arrow keys is pressed, all the other keys seem to be detected apart from the arrow keys??? I have set key preview to True........ It detects the arrrow keys BUT ONLY if I have NO other controls on the form??? example..
Me.Text = e.keycode
It works, but then if I add a button for example, it stops.
So I've been trying to make a form in which a few of the buttons have keyboard shortcuts such as the F keys as well as the arrow buttons. Here's the code I've been using
Private Sub frmOrganizer_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
If obSelect = True Then
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I have an unbound DateTimePicker Control on a form. When the form loads the control shows 2005 - 01 as expected. I can use the arrow keys left and right to switch between highliting the year or the month. Pressing the up and down keys to change the month doesn't work an exception is raised. I don't understand why. I started a new project. Just added a DateTimePicker and the following code.
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I have formA.vb and I added some shortcut keys using the key_up event handler. Before coding the handler I change the keypreview property of the form to true. I added this code :
Private Sub IntRMA_KeyUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyUp
If e.KeyCode = Keys.ControlKey And e.KeyCode = Keys.C Then
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I would like to be able to press shift+D+A+L to open another form (form2) ussing VB.net how do i do this?
View 1 RepliesI want to use System.Windows.Forms.Keys with a variable for example
shortcutkey = "A"
keydata = System.Windows.Forms.Keys.shortcutkey
The idea was to implement custom shortcuts that the user specifies to perform certain actions.
My code is like this
If (((BindingFunctions.IsKeyDown(Keys.ControlKey) AndAlso BindingFunctions.IsKeyDown(Keys.ShiftKey)) AndAlso BindingFunctions.IsKeyDown(keyData)) AndAlso (keyData = Keys.L)) Then
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I'm currently working on a project for university, basically we were given an incomplete program to finish off with bonus points for adding addition features in.Part of the program is to move an image (a monkey) around the picture box (pen). Now to move the monkey we use 4 buttons on the form called Up, Down, Left and Right, however as we need to move the monkey around to test other parts of the program it gets annoying having to click on the button. As such I was able to get some code which allows me to move the monkey around using the arrow keys (I think you can all see the benefit of this). When I use the code in a blank form it works fine, however when I add a button onto the form the arrow keys will instead highlight the buttons.basically set up a button to disable all buttons on the form until a certain key is pressed, however I would prefer not to have to do this.
View 3 RepliesI'm working on a simple base form in which all the other forms in the project will inherit. This base form only adds 5 properties (at the moment) dealing with painting a gradient background. The problem I'm facing right now is when I change a property on Form1 (the test form) and click run it doesn't show that change. I also checked the .designer.vb file and when I make a change it's not added to the code behind file, I'm at a loss right now to why.
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just wondering how i could give my auto typer hot keys, for example they press f1 to start the typer f2 to stop it.
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I'm trying to create a shortcut which expands or collapses my treeview using the ctrl+alt+up-arrow or ctrl+alt+down-arrow:
If Keys.ControlKey And e.KeyCode = Keys.Alt And e.KeyCode = Keys.Down Then
mytreeview.ExpandAll()
End If
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How could I loop through a list of the keys that are available in the 'Keys' enumeration? It seems like it should be something easy to do, but I'm not having any luck finding a collection that I can loop through.
View 6 RepliesI have a question how can I change the BackColor of all forms at runtime?
I tried to loop through each form but didn't work for me
So I found this little morpg. The game is fun but really repetitive. I would like to simplify some of the tasks in the game. I do not know how to start this project. How can I recored arrow keys and then tell the computer to enter the arrow keys? One of the objectives in the game is to run around a farm 2x and scare away any wolfs. So the commands would be "arrow key up" for 30sec and then "arrow key right" for 4 sec and repeat. I have worked with robots in real life for some time. We would fill arrays with such instructions. One of the most fun things to program! But I have no idea how to do this in VB.
View 12 RepliesI need to capture the left and right arrow keys in Form1.KeyDown event so I can use them as hot keys. Instead they seem to be assigned to tab order (move focus to previous/next control) and the KeyDown event never gets called. How can I remove the arrow keys from tab order and use them for my hot keys instead?
View 2 RepliesI have 2 separate forms which are the same, except the second is rotated 90 degrees to the left.
How can I animate the change between the 2 forms, so that it looks like the form is simpling rotating to the left?
I originally developed my VB 2010 project on an older PC in a resolution I cannot recall.I set my forms to be 1024 x 768 in pixels.When I purchased a new PC, a high-end gaming desktop, I copied the project to the new PC running at 1920 x 1080 resolution and continued programming and everything was fine.More recently, I bought a high-end gaming laptop and copied the project to that PC, a laptop, with the same 1920 x 1080 resolution and my forms changed size inside the IDE.All the 1024 x 768 forms are now 1362 x 943 (not just on the screen; the dimensions properties of all of the forms have changed), representing increases of 33%/23% respectively of the two dimensions.
View 1 RepliesSo.. I created an full-screen application. It worked out perfectly on my own computer, but at my friend's computer, it was totally ****ed up. I guess it's the screen resolution. So, here's the question: - How do I automatically change the forms resolution, based on the screen size? (I don't want the user to do it manually...)
View 2 RepliesI have a two forms with about 25 bound controls on each in the same solution. All of the data for both forms is in the same SQL table. I need to filter the data and only get the data appropriate to the called form. I consulted an University VB professor and he would only say "it won't be easy".
I tried removing all of the bindings and rebinding them to the new datasource but there were still some remnants (probably from the navigator) that proved illusive.
Is the only solution to recreate the VB forms and bind them to the new datasource?
(using Visual Studio 2008 Professional)
Private Sub HazMatlLabelsBindingNavigatorSaveItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles HazMatlLabelsBindingNavigatorSaveItem.Click
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In VB6 I was able to do this
Public Sub SetLabelColours(ByVal Colour As String, ByVal TFont As String, ByVal TColour As String, ByVal TSize As String)[code]...
Is there a way to do it in 2010 .Net? It errors on Forms. also it doesn't like FontSize, I don't see a setting for font size in the drop down, can we set it no more in 2010? I am using RTB's as well.
I need to create a simple label and when the user clicks the label, the label changes color...sounds easy BUT...if the user moves the mouse cursor away from the label and then clicks the label a second time, then label returns to its original color. I am trying to create a loop to loop through two array indices, but it just doesn't seem to work.
View 2 RepliesI didn't like to make another thread so i decided to ask here, maybe somebody knows how to change calendar day color?
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