I 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.
View 5 Replieswhen clicking on the start button in the code below, the form seems to lose focus and I need to click the stop button twice to stop the count. (First click to activate the form, second to click the button) Can someone please explain this behavior or offer a better alternative?
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A common problem I have come across when migrating from VB6 to VB.NET is that to change the focus between MDI children, you can't just click any control to give that child focus, you must click its title bar. The solution that I have found works is to enter the child form's Designer and change the following:
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#Region "Windows Form Designer generated code "
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerNonUserCode()> Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
'This is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
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This needs to be done on all child forms in the project. If one form does not have the fix, once it's opened, the bug will return even when the form is closed.
One would imagine that clicking anywhere within the MDI Child form (or on any control) will focus that form. But in my application I can only focus a MDI child by clicking on its titlebar, which is an abnormal behavior on the part of the user. My forms are filled with either controls or panels so I don't have the luxury of just "clicking on the form." But clicking anywhere within it should focus it.
View 1 RepliesUI is created in VS 2008. I'm using C# .... I need to let the user move/focus between text fields from top to bottom by clicking tab button. How can i do it?
View 2 Repliesi MDI form there, i was create the children form within a same MDI form every time i click on the button to show the form, which means i create a new form, how i do for ensure that each time i click on the button there will not create a new form is the form is really exist? how to avoid duplicate of the form will not exist twice?another 1 more question is also about the MDI form, everytime i create i new form, the new form is covered by old form, how i do that the new form i created will always show infront, other 1 will show at behide
View 3 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.
I am trying to create an application. I am using MDI forms method to navigate throughout the application. However, when a user clicks a button to create a new child or when the application execute this code
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I'm trying to create a MDI DockManager component. Basically what it should do is take each MDI child form and turn it into a TabPage. Instead of showing the MDI forms, the main form then hosts a TabControl with each 'form' as a TabPage.I expect this to be quite a big challenge, and I know I will probably not manage to do it... But it would be a great control if I could!Well, for this to work I need my component to know when an MDI child form is added / removed. As far as I know, there are no events the form throws when this happens... The forms are not added to the Controls collection (are they?!) but the user merely sets the MdiParent property of the child forms.
The only useful event I could find was the MdiChildActivate event, which should fire when an MDI child is activated. I am pretty sure that is not enough for my idea. It might be enough to detect new MDI child forms being added, but if one is closed (eg, removed) there is no way I can detect that.So, I'm basically looking for a way to detect when an MDI child is added or removed from a form. Is that possible at all?
I'm experimenting with a plugin architecture for my company's internal business system. I have managed to read all .DLLs in a Plugin folder which implement a specific interface. What I am trying to figure out is the best method of communication between the "host" MDI parent application and forms that will be in the .DLLs which I intend to make MDI children.
Currently, I am returning just ToolStripMenuItem objects from the .DLLs to add to the MDI Parent. I've also tested that events wired in the .DLLs to the ToolStripMenuItems do propagate to the code in the .DLLs. I've also managed to return a Form object via the interface and open that form, as the Plugin folder is being "scanned".
However, I am not clear how I would make these forms MDI children. Also, any other forms living in the .DLLs will also have to be MDI children. I created a VS 2008 Addin project just to see what's going on, and it seems that the Addin accepts an Application object on which it adds to the ToolStripMenuItems and does other operations. The code to build the menu inside the .DLL. This is opposite of what I have done so far, where the MDI requests a ToolStripMenuItem from each .DLL and adds the returned object to its own menu.
Would designing my plugin architecture to accept an application object in the same manner the only way I could get forms to open as an MDI child? Am I asking for other, currently unknown to me, headaches by NOT passing in the application object to the .DLL?
After 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 RepliesThere's a richtext box in Form 2 and a WebBrowser in Form 1. The richtext box contains several hyperlink. How can I navigate the WebBrowser in Form 1 by clicking the links inside the richtext box in Form 2.
View 4 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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What I need is a code that can read from database (*.accdb). Form example if I select LG from Form4, it should read from a table from the database the price of
the LG, then we press "save", then should return to the Main Menu, then we select, for example, Scanners from the Main Menu that will take us to Form5. There we select, for example 24", that should take the price again from the data base and
add it, after save, to our first LG price, and return back to the Main Menu, and so on. The total price should appear in a new form, form7, after clicking (Total Price).
How I can cancel a specific form by clicking (Cancel) and how to exit.
That is all. How can I write such code?
i made a border-less form. I minimize it by clicking on a picture-box.
Private Sub picminimize_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles picminimize.Click
Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized
End Sub
If my form was not borderless then i could minimize and restore it by clicking on taskbar icon.... But since i made it borderless it doesnot get minimize on doing so... How do i enable it. Such that when user clicks the icon of my program on taskbar it gets minimized..
How to minimize the form It's borderless and I need to minimize it while clicking on the Icon. Example: [URL].
View 4 Repliesi have two form 1 is maximize and the other 1 is small type kinda login system..and i dont want the user to click the main form, it will access the main form if he types the correct info on login form..
View 3 RepliesI want to Animate or put styles when a Form opens up. May be it should break into pieces as it opens up and come together... something like that. Any kind of style.
View 2 Repliesi have been working on an app, that remains just my preset sizes. recently, i have discovered that by double clicking the form title bar, even w/the formborderstyle being set to fixedtoolwindow, the form still maximizes and all of my controls remain in the top/left corner.. not a good view.. so, i set the maximum size of the form, and now when double clicking it, moves it to the top/left of my desktop.. not a good result. here is a quick sample to start w/.
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
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how do i permanently block the double click on the title bar, to have no effect on the form? i do not want to end up w/having to create a borderless form just to avoid this..
I'm trying to close one form and open another by clicking on a picturebox.
I'm using this code:
Me.Close()
Form1.Show
But it shows an error under me.close. I know this is obvious, but I'm sleepy and have been trying to figure it out for a while
how do i delete a certain row by either double clicking it or by means of another form.
View 2 RepliesI'm using visual basic 2008 and I'm trying to find out how I can move the form in runtime by clicking an area other than my caption/title bar? I've searched everywhere and couldn't find an answer.
View 2 Repliesi Right now i am able to print a form by directly clicking one button,But I want to print it using the Dialog box is it possible?
View 1 Replieswhere a message sent, gets displayed to each person currently pls help to add list user and While press on user you see message not a general chat room where a message sent, gets displayed to each person?
server
Private Server As socketServer
Private ServerOn As Boolean = False
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i have a.exe (portable program) , i put it in my project resources, how can i launch the .exe by clicking a button on my form ?
View 7 RepliesWhen the user clicks the Exit button it closes the forms and if there was an open file it asks the user is they would like to save. But after the application closes there is still memory being held in Processes by the application. However, when pressing the [X] in the top of the form the application closes again but in this instance it is not held in Processes. How do I write the close for Exit to take into account how the [X] works and close the application cleanly?
Friend Sub CloseAllForms()
CloseHelpForm(True)
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Someone asked me to add a function when the notifyicon is doublcliked. I figured that'd be easy with the mousedoubleclick event being available. I find out that then both the single and double will then be called. Well that sucks, I want it to only do the one the user requests. So I tried to get it to work:
Private Sub DblClick_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles DblClick.Tick
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I have multiple forms, I need to close the current form -without clicking any button- and directly open another form in this project.. i am using show and close methods but either the 2 forms are appearing together or the current form is not appearing at all.
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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