Delaying A Form Opening Until Wordpad Is Closed/loses Focus?
Jan 13, 2010
I have a question regarding waiting for closing a window or changing focus back to my app. What i have is an app that creates a few tables, that then puts the tables into a temp file that wordpad opens for the user to check they are correct, this is where i need help, i would like to now wordpad is open wait until the user closes wordpad or changes the focus away from wordpad until i open the next form which is responsible for using the tables and converting them into xml.
Which event should i look at using that fires when a program is exited or gets focus?
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Feb 13, 2012
I have a form which contains a progressbar and a Listbox which update as the code runs through and performs some sometimes time-consuming calculations.
At one point in the code, it breaks to ask the user to enter a number using :
Usedefault = MsgBox("Do you want to use the default value of " & Default_No & "?", vbYesNo)
If Usedefault = vbNo Then
[Code].....
this works fine but I find that once the data entry is complete, and the code continues to run, the form loses focus and the progressbar and the Listbox updates cannot be seen until the code finished its calculations.
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Jul 22, 2010
when 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?
[Code]...
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Jun 18, 2009
I have my form set up to be able to be kept on top if the user so chooses. When it is set to be kept on top, I want the opacity to be reduced when the form loses focus. When I set opacity on init, it works fine. When I use this code, it doesn't work:
Private Sub Form1_LostFocus(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.LostFocus
Me.Opacity = 0.2
End Sub
[code]....
Maybe I misunderstand how LostFocus and GotFocus work, but according to MSDN this appeared to be what I wanted.
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Mar 15, 2009
Most 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.
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May 12, 2011
We have a main form which opens an MDI child form. What we want is to set the focus on a particular control in the child form, namely a telerik textbox. When the form is opened for the first time, the focus is set to the textbox control which has a tabIndex = 1 as expected. If the winodw is closed (and disposed) and then reopened via a button on the tool bar that calls the same code that opens the window when the application starts, no control has focus. We have added lines such as Me.rtxtPatientId.Focus() in the Paint event, load event, and activated event handlers but still cannot get the focus to the control. The code is quite extensive so posting it is difficult. However, here is the section that opens the child window:
if PatientSearchForm Is Nothing Then
PatientSearchForm = New frmPatientLookup
End If
PatientSearchForm.MdiParent = Me
PatientSearchForm.Show()
If PatientSearchForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then
PatientSearchForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal
End If
PatientSearchForm.Activate()
PatientSearchForm.rtxtPatientID.Focus()
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Feb 11, 2010
I have a project in VS2008.Net3.5. I have 3 forms in total. The Sub Main() in Module1 first calls the Form1. Then Clicking Button1_Click event in Form1 opens up Form2. In Form2 I have a text box that I will fill out from Form3. But when I am Clicking Button1_Click event in Form1, it can't keep Form2 open but it opens up Form3 directly. I dont want this. I want to open Form2. In Form2 I will press the textbox and then we have Form3 open. But this is not working.==============
Module Module1
Public frm1 As Form1
Public Sub Main()
[Code]....
The Sub Main() in Module1 first calls the Form1. Then Clicking Button1_Click event in Form1 opens up Form2. In Form2 I have a text box that I will fill out from Form3. But when I am Clicking Button1_Click event in Form1, it can't keep Form2 open but it opens up Form3 directly. I dont want this. I want to open Form2. In Form2 I will press the textbox and then we have Form3 open. But this is not working.
I knew that in Form2 the first focus is going to the textbox and it then opening the Form3 for the GotFocus method. How can I move the focus to other control in Form2 instead of the default focus to my textbox. Or is there other event method other than GotFocus?
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May 4, 2011
I have a form with a "print" toolstrip button. When I click that button I run the code shown below. The print dialog box appears. The title is dark blue seeming to indicate it has focus. The main form is lighter blue indicating it does not have focus. But hovering over the "Print" button (or the cancel button) does not cause it to change color. If you click on the print button, then the color changes and the second click causes the appropriate action. Same with the cancel button. If you click on the dialog label or on the main form the only thing that happens is the print button will then become "active" and a click there then works. If you click on the main form once, nothing happens, but if you click on it a second time you get the "bonk" sound indicating you ae clicking on the wron modal. As if this isn't strange enough, this action just started recently. I made a few unrelated (as far as I can tell) changes, and discovered this action.[code]....
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May 26, 2010
I have a listbox on a form and when the user selects a value and the listbox loses focus I want to validate the value the user chose. How do I call my function once the listbox loses focus?
I tried using a custom validator but it gives me an object is missing error.
Mike
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Mar 18, 2011
I have a richtextbox, when I leave it for example to go to another panel where I want to manipulate the selected text I can no longer see the selected text. Is there a way to make it still show the highlight?
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Apr 22, 2012
I have the following gridview that is inside an updatepanel:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Button ID="ButtonAdd" runat="server" OnClick="ButtonAdd_Click" Text="Novo Artigo" />
[code]....
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Jun 3, 2009
i have a checkbox, when checked, contextmenu shows and remains visible until unchecked.. then i ran into a problem.. if i click any other control on my form, the context menu disappears and the checkbox remains checked. i have tried placing
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Mar 3, 2010
How can i make a program stay above the task bar even when it loses focus with visual basic 2008?
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Feb 27, 2012
I'm trying to have a Textfield lose it's leading zeroes when the user leaves the field. I made the following "Leave" event but it's not working. It works for the first half however to set it back to 1 if it's blank or if a user entered 0. I tried following the advice on this answer, but it didn't work:
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Jul 22, 2010
Is there anyway to detect if the vb app I am developing loses focus, ie, if a user switches to another task. Maybe is there a way to detect which process in windows is active ?
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Jan 6, 2011
When I start my simple program I want textbox1 to have the focus, without have to click in it. Is there a simple way to do that?
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Dec 17, 2010
I have Hotspot Shield and I want it to open the process, then back to focus to my application, and wait about 15 seconds and then kill the process. How do I do that
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Nov 26, 2009
I 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.
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Dec 30, 2005
How do I delay my splash screen in 2005?Ive tried this function but it does not work as stated in the documentation:[code]
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Jul 20, 2010
How would I go about delaying an otherwise instant process... (With a timer). I've been playing around with it for a while, and cant get it...
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Nov 7, 2011
I have a vb.net MVC3 Razor app that generates PDF files. The problem is that if 2 seperate users click the print button at the same time it throws the following exception..:
The process cannot access the file 'E:webxxxxxxxxxxsonlPDF_FilesMailingLables.pdf' because it is being used by another process.
All of the controller actions to do with printing are basically like below:
Function Ind_Cert(ByVal firstName As String, ByVal lastname As String, ByVal classRef As String)
Dim _Attendance As attendance = db.attendances.Where(Function(f) f.Completed_Class = "Completed" And f.firstName = firstName And f.lastName = lastname).FirstOrDefault
[code].....
This error happens like I said any time 2 users try to generate a PDF file at the same time.
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Oct 25, 2011
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.
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May 31, 2011
for example i have this code :
Sub Month()
Dim Conn As New Data.OracleClient.OracleConnection
Conn.Open()
Try
Dim Cmd As New Data.OracleClient.OracleCommand
With Cmd
[Code]...
What will happen to the datareader when the Connection is closed ( Conn.close)
Will the Cursor that is used by the datareader be freed ? or will it stay open ?
If the cursor that is used by the datareader is still open , when will it be automatically closed ? or should i just closed it manually ?
Will it cause the dreaded "ORA-01000: maximum open cursors exceeded" ?
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May 24, 2008
I am making the interface controls on my forms to go from right to left using with RightToLeftLayout and RightToLeft which I have set the properties set to true. When I run the application and I open another form on the same application that I am using, I click the button to set the form to go from right to left. When I click the button where the code are running, it close one form as it leave the one other form running. There is no code like Me.Close() that required to close one form. I am using Me.RightToLeftLayout = True,
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Jan 10, 2012
I am trying to delete a file after viewing it. I loosely copied the code from [URL]. The problem I am running into is the filename I am passing is still in use after I close this form. How to get id where the file is being held open. Here is the relevant portion of the code. This is how I am opening it
Private Sub TifViewer_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
PicImage.ImageLocation = PassedImage
PicImage.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.Zoom
cboFrameNo.Items.Clear()
'Sets the tiff file as an image object.
[Code] .....
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Jun 8, 2009
I have multiple forms in my VB.NET application. How do I make it so that any form I close will terminate the application?
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Aug 13, 2010
I need a way to detect when a child form has been closed. I've created an MdiWindowList thing (but in the form of a toolbar with buttons, similarly to the Windows taskbar), and everything works great, but the method I have for refreshing the taskbar's windows has to be called when a child form closes. I've trying calling the method from the child's Form_Closing event, but there's a slight lag so whenever there's more than 1 window open the first one gets skipped (then the others close properly, since the taskbar is being refreshed first before the form actually closes).
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Nov 15, 2011
And this problem:+ I have 2 form. - Form 1 have 3 combobox with some item load from database Access.- Form 2 load data when change item at combobox form 1.
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Oct 29, 2011
Using VB Express 2010 in windows XP Pro 64.
A ListBox shows the project forms names.
On ListBox_DoubleClick
For Each F As Form In xFormCollection
[Code]....
Works fine the first time but after closing the form opened by the DC, if I try to open it again, throws an exception "Cannot access a disposed object".
Since I can still access any other form not previously showed I guess that the closing changes a status that allowed the form to be .Show, there is no F.Load , F.Activate after the exception doesn't seem to do anything. What should I do?
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Sep 1, 2009
I need to know if a form2 is already open when a button1 on form1 is clicked. I found the following code which fails when I open form2 then close form2. When I click button1 on form1 nothing happens. Is there a way to reset form2 to nothing or is this just wrong?
Sub isFormOpen()
If xmlTest Is Nothing Then
xmlTest.Show()
OpenXML(filename)
End If
End Subdavidbell
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