Determine The Top Most (zOrder) Window Other Than The Form?
Dec 21, 2011
im trying to find the top most window other than my form or its parent form...Background:Im writing software for a TS-MFD (touch screen - Multi function display), it has a docked menu bar at the bottom with the option to pull up an onscreen keyboard. Now the keyboard ive written and works well but the only drawback is i need to specify what window to send the keys too, be it inside my own application or a 3rd party app such as notepad. I believe the answer lies an recursively looping through GetForegroundWindow() from user32.dll and ignoring "Keyboard" and "MenuBar", but I dont know how to advance to the next top most window, i only know how to get the top window...so my window order is likely Keyboard,Menubar,(then the window im trying to grab)?
Looking for a way to be notified when any windows ZOrder changes?Zorder refers to the layering of the windows. a zorder of 0 is at the bottom. I don't know any other way to ask this question.
in outlook, I use the code below.I open an url, than a second one.I want that the second has the same properties than the first. That is not the case with my code.How can I determine what is my second window, let's call it child, so that I can then do
I am creating an application for Windows Mobile 6 in Visual Studio 2005. I have a TabStrip on the main form. There are 2 buttons i want at the top of the tab strip, but i don't want them to be part of it. I need the same buttons to show when the tabs change. I used to use the ZOrder function or Parent function but can't see how to do it in the new version. Any ideas?
I have create a project with one main form window and also i have to use a number of other forms as well. now i want to open these other forms inside the main window and not outside. I'm using Visual Studio .NET 2010 as developing environment.
My program has many forms that can be launched from the main form, and when launching a form, I need for my program to know whether or not there is already an existing instance of the requested form open before it launches the requested form.
So, if I have form "Search" with button "View" that launches form "Details", I need to know if the "Details" form is already open when the user clicks the "View" button.
Apparently, if I had developed my application as an MDI application intead of an SDI application, I could just do "If frmDetails.visible = True then DoStuff()", but the Details form's Visible property always comes back as False, even when the form is already open. If the form is always being reported as not being visible even when it is indeed visible, what method do I use instead to find out that the form is open/visible/in use?
I have three buttons on my main form, say Form1. Clicking any of the buttons brings up Form2 modally for input, it's a number pad. Now, depending on which button was clicked to get there, after the user enters his numbers, I need to change a specific label on Form1. In other words, btn1 clicked puts user input into lbl1 and so on... I could probably do this with a variable but wondering if there is a more elegant way.
First off a short background of the project I am working on- I am developing a program that will be run off removable media (i.e. USB Flash drive). This will be a �virtual desktop� which you will be able to take with you and have the same �desktop� on any system. As we know drive letters can change with each host system the drive is plugged into, I need to be able to determine the path for the flash drive and access a specific folder ( i.e. My Documents)
I have an picture box(representing the icon) placed on my form (form1) and when I click the icon I want to be able to open and view the a specific folder from the portable drive. I need a click event that will determine a dynamic drive letter for a directory on the removable drive and then open that directory in an explorer window.
How to catch the event of the window close button(red X button on window right top corner) in wpf form ? We have got the closing event, window unloaded event also, but we want to show a pop up if he clicks the close button of the wpf form.
I have a number of dropdown lists that I'm trying to chain together and they all have autopostback. How can I tell which one of the dropdown lists was the one responsibe for the autopostback?
I have an MDI application that can either run in TABBED or WINDOWED mode. When a user selects something from the menu a form is shown. All menuItem clicks pretty much look the same:
Dim frm As New <SomeForm> frm.MdiParent = MDIParentForm frm.Show()
way to reset a timer if there is form activity so it will not expire until the mouse has been at rest for 2 minutes.
This timer runs for 120000 milliseconds usually, and sometimes it lapses (and logs you out) when you are in the middle of editing. Sometimes 2 minutes is not enough time to do all the edits. So I wish to reset the remaining interval as long as there is mouse activity. But I am not sure the best method to do this?
I have found the mousemove event but to me this seems like it's going to fire way too often and tax the resources if I preform operations here, maybe not? Is there a better way to get this functionality?
I want this functionality so that if someone starts editing on the UI and walks off/gets distracted it will lock the grids back so that some other user can't come dork things up.
I have a Windows Forms project that is getting an error running on Windows 2008 server. I need help determining the problem based on the Problem signature information:
As Autodesk is going to discontinue VBA for their Inventor product in the near future I have been looking at other ways to run VB.NET in Inventor. To date it doesn't look like VSTA will be the replacement. Automation from an External VB.NET app is certainly possible, but leaves something to be desired for speed and integration. Compiled Add Ins are the Cadillac of choice but can be a royal pain to debug and develop. Autodesk now provides a lightweight VB.NET script interface called iLogic. It's main purpose is to allow extreme customization of Solid Modeling parts. The code actually resides inside the Part Model file.
Iam creating an application. i have a main form it has 5 buttons i have created 5 more forms. my aim is to show a particular form for every button the form is opened in a new window i dont want to open in a new window it should be embed in the main form when i click anthor button it will show the related form in place of previous form
Iam creating an application.i have a main form it has 5 buttons i have created 5 more forms.my aim is to show a particular form for every button the form is opened in a new window i dont want to open in a new window it should be embed in the main form when i click anthor button it will show the related form in place of previous form?
Is there any way to determine whether a form was closed by clicking the "X" button or by calling Me.close? They both fire the FormClosing event, but I need to determine how the form is being closed so I can do different things.
I created an application to allow users to delay a package from running. I just discovered today that if a user changes their Windows 7 Display property to greater than 100%, the bottom of the window is cut-off and you can't read the buttons. Is there some way to prevent this?
In vb6, we have a windows (kind of layout of the screen), that allows us to manually position a form, by simply moving it with the mouse to the desired position.Don't we have same feature in .net ? am not finding where I can show this Window in visual studio 2008
i wonder how i can open a new form in same window . Example : i have a button on my first form when user click the button , form2 must appear in same window .
I want to open a second form from the same window.the form2 should have the same size of the form1.I have searched a lot in order to find a good solution for this.and i thought of using panels. i would hide the panel when opening form1. a button in form1 will show the panel. it works just the way i want.form1 has the datagridview while the panel contains the details in which i will use to update the table.but i cant seem to update the table.is there a better way to open form2 in the same window and how can i update the table if i use panels.
