I 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 RepliesOk i am making a game in visual basic where its 1998 and you have windows 95 and you find time travel software and travel to different time periods with different operating systems...so far i have coded windows 95 and partly windows 98 into the game and have a good time travel sequence... (this will be a completely free game in the future)
Theres just one major problem i have. Whatever operating system you are using for your current computer (windows 7 in my case) the buttons and tabs and everything else (apart from the windows border... or whatever you all it which i made myself) everything has the modern buttons on it.Hes an in game screen shot :As you can see it looks totally horrible... even the start menu has the windows 7 blue glow effect...I recently found another application (universe Sandbox) and it has the classic buttons even though i am using windows 7.how can i actually make my buttons classic? (without making picture boxes of each button)
How do you change the desktop wallpaper and visual styles using vb.net?
View 7 Repliesi am working on a little project for myself in Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 and i want to add an option so that when a user clicks a button it will open a browse directory window where they can select their directory and when they click "Ok" it will copy files into it. [Code]
View 8 RepliesDon't know how to copy images to resources file on VB and create background change button. I am trying to add my graphics folder to the resources folder in my project but I get some kind of error. That's the easy question. Now, I have a panel container in which I want to show an image that will be change about 5 times when I click on my background change button. What codes do I need to use for this?
View 4 RepliesI have a copying error with my program. I am trying to copy the internet cache folder, and the error states that some files cannont be copied (read only maybe?) How can i make it copy, or just skip the uncopyable files?
My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Internet Cache), "d:My Documents")
I have an issue with the Windows permission system. And every time it tries to do something that needs a windows permission (to be ran as administrator) it fails !
At the moment I was trying to implement an updater which should download a file from an ftp site but because copying a file into one of the program files folder requires a permission I am not able to do this.
opening a program and type something in their textbox or click on button of program if you can tell me refrence or .net platform class that can i access to another filed program
View 12 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" >
...
</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
View 3 RepliesI was wondering how to click a button on the internet or another program via a program in visual basic 2010.An example would be: Have a program being able to click the "Search" button in google or the "I'm feeling lucky" button??
View 3 RepliesI am new the Visual Basic and just downloaded 2008, and I am wanting to make a program with a button that will run a .exe that is in the same location as the program/
View 2 Repliesadd custom Visual Styles to .net 2010 form?
View 1 RepliesHow do I combine fontstyle.bold with fontstyle.Italic? I tried simply adding them together but no go.
Dim MyFont as New Font ("courier new",12,FontStyle.Bold + FontStyle.Italic)
Evidently font styles are not constants.
I'd like to know if it's possible to have a Label/TextBlock that has two or more different font-sizes/styles/weights within the same label/block.
Something like this:
This is an example of a string.