Disable KeyStroke During Form Loading?
Dec 3, 2009
Problem: Form hasn't fully initialize but shortcut keys can be usedDetails: Launch an mdi child with database access retrieving data, and user is already using the shortcut keys while the data is still been retrieve which results to error since object hasn't fully initialize yet.
Goal: Hinder user from using shortcut keys by disabling the keys at initialization then enabling it after all objects are good to go.
Another Situation is:A form with a gridview and a button.I got a hotkey that when press, handles a gridview getfocus event.
The problem is that the gridview is still making its instance and when press the hotkey, it activates the getfocus property of that gridview(which is still creating its instance).
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Jan 6, 2009
I need to disable the escape key on loading my program and enable on closing.Although I have searched vb 2008 books and forums I cant find any reference.
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Apr 18, 2008
How can I stop users from clicking into a webbrowser until the webpage has completely finished loading ?Until the webbrowser DocumentCompleted event has completed users should be able to see the page but not click into the control.
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Aug 26, 2011
Im Using VB 2008. I have MsgBox() statements in all Mouse & Form Click events to TEST & NOTHING FIRES during Form Load when I click on Form or Button Controls !!! The Form Load event contains code for Displaying the Label.Text control many times with changes in the Text to simmulate annimation.
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Nov 20, 2008
the code that send keystroke to another app by vb.net
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May 14, 2010
How can I disable the parent form when I call a child form?This code doesn't disable the parent form like I thought it would:
frmChild.ShowDialog()
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Jul 8, 2009
The feature I'm trying to implement allows the user to press the down-arrow key and "tab" through different features on the form. Is there a way to use the keyPressEventArgs or something similar to catch that? Is it necessary to delve into hooks and processes? And if so, does anyone know a good resource for a beginner?
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Jan 7, 2009
I'm having problem with keystroke detection, I want to detect only "enter" and "I" keystroke.If you press "enter", it will automatically close the form the datagridview located and send data to other form, I'm using keydown function, but I don't know how to detect only "enter" and "I" keystroke, usually I'm browsing datagrid with tab button, but when I press tab, it also closed down.
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Dec 23, 2009
I need to stop the keystroke event when I pressed a particular key. E.g.: If press alt+tab key then that keys should not perform that operation, that should operation should be stopped. I captured that particular keystroke, but I want to know how to stop that particular operation.
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Oct 21, 2010
I'm trying to send a keystroke to a window (of an external executable) but am having problems.
If I launch the exe with a window I can successfully send it a "q" (in order to make it exit) using the follow:
1) AppActivate and SendKeys
2) SendMessage API using WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP
3) AppActivate and keybd_event or SetForegroundWindow and keybd_event
However, if I launch it without a window, obviously method 1) does not work as SendKeys only work on applications with visible windows, but I thought that method 2) would work. However, it doesn't. Also, using method 3) with SetForegroundWindow as this seems to only work with visible windows, which is not really a surprise I guess, given the name.
Another method I have tried, which won't work is using the RedirectStandardInput - I have this working correctly, but the application is looking for keyboard events, not writes to its StandardInput stream, so this doesn't have any effect.
Finally, I have tried using SendMessage and FindWindowEx, and TranslateMessage, to find any child windows or controls that should be receiving the messages, rather than the main window. However, no child windows or controls are found, and I wouldn't have thought this would be the solution given that, if the window is present, the main window receives the message as it should.
So, I have confirmed that the messages are going to the correct window, as they arrive as they should when the application is launched with a window, but I cannot get the application to receive the message when it is window-less. The solution doesn't have to involve messages, or even be particularly robust, but this is what I have tried so far (all the obvious stuff!)
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Mar 29, 2010
is there something wrong with this? its not sending the key
Dim inputEvents As New USER32.INPUT
inputEvents.ki.wVk = Convert.ToInt16(key)
inputEvents.ki.wScan = 0
inputEvents.ki.time = 0
inputEvents.ki.dwExtraInfo = IntPtr.Zero
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Mar 15, 2012
my application have a main form. i have set the isMDIcontainer to true on the form properties. How do i set other forms to child form of the parent. i need to do this because the other forms start position is CenterParent.but as it is now when i run the program the other forms start position is not the parent form centre.Secondly, how do i disable the parent form when a child form is on display. so that user cannot click on the parent form until the child form is closed.
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Feb 18, 2009
I've got a very simple screen saver program that displays alot of stuff in pictureboxes and labels...dynamic display. I want to end the program on any keystroke or mouse movement. I've placed the statement "me.close()" in Public Sub Form1_KeyDown routine (Form1/Events). Nothing happens when I type though. I've seached the forums.....keypreview is true....
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Oct 4, 2010
I'm trying to send a single keystroke to an application that has no window (because I have launched it with StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True) and therefore I can't use SendKeys. I had a look at SendMessage but this doesn't seem to be quite right as the programme I'm sending it to doesn't process message queues.I would usually use the StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput property and send it via a StreamWriter but this doesn't not work as the application it is being sent to is looking for actual keyboard keystrokes, rather than pulling info from StandardInput (an old C++ programme using getch). Anyone have any ideas how to send a keystoke to an application with no window (FYI I don't need anything back from it, I don't need to wait until it's processed, and I only need to send one letter and no carriage returns or linefeeds, though these wouldn't hurt)
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Mar 28, 2010
i am trying to send keystroke using sendinput but it doesnt seem to be sending. I have sendInput declared in user32 class with the input type
dim key as Keys = Keys.A
Dim inputEvents As New USER32.INPUT
inputEvents.ki.wVk = Convert.ToInt16(key)
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am i setting the flags wrong to send a key? not 0 then a 2?
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Jan 18, 2009
I was curious if there is an easy way, besides making a new custom DataGridViewColumn, that on each keystroke validation is done (while the D.G.V.TextBoxCell is being edited), instead of when focus is lost off the cell.Or in a different senerio, if there is a way to restrict user keystrokes while a D.G.V.TextBox Cell is being edited, while not relying on making a new custom DataGridViewColumn. I would go through the work of implementing this new Column, except the customer for the job I am working at wants small, managable code. And even if this is a useful feature, they would want to avoid having an extra class being made.
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Dec 9, 2009
I am fairly new to programming and I am completing the Step by Step by Microsoft for Visual Basic 2008, but I am not finding anything in the book about binding keystrokes for a program. I want to add the Number Pad into my Calculator Program so that every keystroke on it would correspond to a button in my program but I am unsure how to do this take.
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Mar 20, 2012
I have an issue regarding Sendkeys Class, as i want to use this class in order to send some keystroke to the active application. As a first step i want to test the {Enter} keystroke, so in order to achieve that i made a simple application in vb.net 2010
Public Class Form1
Public Shared data As String
Private Sub SendintText(command As String)
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By the way in order to use double quotes in a parameter you need "test"...(i have spent 15 min to find out) so it might be usefull...
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Nov 15, 2009
I want to create application that will keylog keystroke and if specific word or key stroke is typed than it will change typed word to somestring.
Example :- (kinda like flowchart)
1. User types "something" in word, firefox, etc.. ( doesn't matter it should be able to capture value from any app )
2. Application captures keystroke and check if keystroke is "something"
3. If keystoke is "something" then it will transfer or take away "something"
4. Instead of something it will type or write "I just wrote something."
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Mar 23, 2009
give me the line or code on how to check the characters as you type into a textbox. What i want to do is, creating a calculator.. but on the numpad, if you strike the "*"(asterix) or plus... or what have you... then it should change the Sign to it.. and not type the actual "*" in the text box..
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Jun 14, 2010
Is there a way to turn off all visual updates to a .NET form while I am manipulating it? When my program first loads, for example, I set the tab control to the tab that was last open. The user can see the program switching tabs.
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Aug 29, 2011
I have 2 forms. When a user clicks something on form1, form2 pops up. After user is done with form2 and closes it (where the dataset is updated), I want form1 to "reload" the dataset to reflect changes made in form2.
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May 18, 2009
let me explain in more detail so you don't get the wrong idea of what I'm trying to accomplish.If I have a button object, say Button1, on my form and I select it with my mouse, it brings up another form or dialog. If in the text field property of Button1 I enter &Button1, the B will have an underscore under it and if I hold down the Alt key and press b, it too will invoke the other form or dialog. I would like to also have the capability to do that with a datepicker field or textbox field.
Right now, I can set up several buttons with Alt-keystroke combos that work by default, but it seems like I have to write some form of keystroke intercept routine and test for the conditions I'm looking for and force the focus to the datepicker or textbox. Am I missing something? Is there a better way to do this? Or is there actually a way of setting up a label on a textbox or datepicker object.
Kind of like when you're using MS Access and building a report, the fields have a leader that you can type a label in. That's what I'm looking to do. So if the label part of the datepicker field says Date: if I press and hold the Alt key and press d, it will invoke the datepicker field (aka open the calendar for selection).
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Dec 22, 2011
I am confused what will happen, when I disable a timer. Will it finish the process and then disable or will it immediately disable without completing process? for example
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I want to run getMessage from somewhere else, so I need to disable timer during that time to be asured not to override anything and also before timer disable it should complete that function code.
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Apr 10, 2009
what I would like to do is create a program that runs in the task bar next to the time. What I want this to do is listen for the key stroke combo of CTRL-ALT-T no matter what program they are in. When they hit this key stroke I want the program to do is hide the task bar on the bottom of the screen. you know how you can change the hight to two rows one row and so on but you can also drag it down so it has no rows and can't see it. Then when they hit CTRL-ALT-T it will then display the task bar with what ever the hight wa set to. Just don't know what direction to go to do this.
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Jan 15, 2012
I'm new in vb.net. enable and disable form using MDI
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Jul 29, 2009
on one of my form, if user press a button then it sync data with another database and it takes time. i show a hidden group box on form which show progress bar of processing. during this process i want to disable all the controls of the form so that user not able to do anything form until process if finished.because most control on the form has validation and if i do me.enabled = false, it disable the control but still use can click on any of text box and then depending on validation event get fired.in a nutshell, want to disable any kind of activity on form.
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Apr 25, 2009
I need to disable every control on my Form so that the user can not click or press any key that will change values of listboxes and other controls on the form. I need to be able to lock the whole Form like this because as part of the project I have to print the form 3times with 3 different colors and the only way I've been able to get it to work is with a timer. So for about 3 seconds the form is changing colors and printing itself, so in between that time the user could accidantely click something and change a value on the form when all three prints should be of the same form, only difference is in the color.I can't use disable as that will make all the controls look faded and messed up, I need a clean way to prevent anything from being changed.
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Feb 27, 2009
I need to disable keys using a form, when pressing a button, searching in the forum, I found this:
If (e.Alt = True) Then
If (e.KeyData = Keys.F4) Then
e.Handled = True
End If
End If
but I can't get it to work, is there a way to disable keys?I need to disable a, s, d , f keys?
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