How do I get a VB program to display a character to the screen after clicking a button and then once the character has been pressed for the character to dissapear from the screenP.S Possibly using a messagebox - i can easily display one but cant find a way for it to exit upon pressing a keyboard character
View 2 RepliesI know i've made a few posts previously on this, but none have fully worked. I now have my program doing everything I need it to do, except having the ability to display the text to the centre of the screen. It needs to be able to perform the same functionality it does on the form but without the form being there (e.g. the letter disappearing after being pressed)
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I am writing a program to control light and sound for a show I'm working on.
The program has buttons and stuff controlling music and sound effects but I am at a loss as to how to get the video part to work.
My computer is hooked up to a projector in extended desktop mode. (I can't change that, otherwise my control panel would show up on the big screen.
I need the video to display on Screen 2 (the projector), so I made a form and used this code:
Dim screen As Screen
screen = screen.AllScreens(1) 'the array is 0 based
Form2.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual
Form2.Location = screen.Bounds.Location + New Point(0, 0)
Form2.ShowDialog()
to display it when I press a button. This worked fine, I set form2's border to none and fullscreened it, tested again, no probs. My problem arose when I tried to add a WMP ActiveX control. I ran the program, pressed the button, and... form2 (along with WMP) appeared on my laptop display. I desperately need this by tomorrow. If no solution is available, is there an alternative to WMP?
I would like to display 2 forms side by side. Frm1 will call Frm2. The problem is, if Frm1 is too near the edge of the computer screen, when Fr2 is shown, part of it will be outside the screen. How do I make it so that if Frm1 is near the right-side of the screen then Frm2 will show on the left-side of Frm1 and vise-versa?
View 2 RepliesI have a variable which I called ElapsedTime. I press a button and it displays the time in seconds since clicking the button, into a label . I did it with HTML
Private Sub Timer2_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer2.Tick
LblElapsedTime1.Text = ElapsedTime
ElapsedTime = ElapsedTime + 1
End Sub
Private Sub BtnStart_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BtnStart.Click
Timer2.Enabled = True
End Sub
This updates every second a bit like a simple stop watch. Great so far, because I do need the elapsed time (in seconds) for later use in my app. However, whilst elapsed time is being displayed in this label on the screen I want it to be shown in HH:MM:SS format. How can I convert it into a new variable " ElapsedTime2 " so that I can show it in the desired format yet still retain my original " ElapsedTime " variable for later.
I'm building a program in which it asks for your name and age and determines a ticket price based upon these details. I want it to show the person's name, then their age, (jump down a line) then their ticket price, and then it jumps down a line to show the next person's name, age and ticket price. Issue is, when it's meant to jump down to show the next person, it just completely deletes the last person's details.I'm using this line of code:
TxtFareShow.Text = (Name & Age & vbCrLf & Price) & vbCrLf
How do I fix this?
I've been writing a weight program for flooded pressure vessels and I'm having trouble retrieving the data from the text files I've been saving. I know how to write the data to the text file, but retrieving it with OpenFileDialog is not so easy for me.The user has individual text boxes that they input strings or numbers into and when they save the file, each text box input is written to one line in the text file. For example, the first text box is for the username, therefore the first line of text that is saved is the person's name, the second text box is the customer, thus the second line in the text file is the customer name, and so on.
(Actually, the first line of text in the saved file designates whether English units were used or Metric units because when the user retrieves the saved file, English units will open one form and Metric units will open a separate form, so some If...Then statement will need to occur).I need to be able to read the first line, have either my "EnglishForm"form open or my "MetricForm" form open, and then have each subsequent line of text be displayed in their corresponding text boxes. I know I need to use ReadLine or LineInput, but I don't have a clue what to do.Assuming the syntax I've displayed below would just magically work (if only life were that easy), it would look something like this
If FirstLineOfTextInFile = "English" Then
EnglishForm.Show()
ElseIf FirstLineOfTextInFile = "Metric" Then[code]....
And so on...I read a lot of articles from the MSDN library and exhausted each link that I've looked through from Google and Bing, but most only retrieve data from the file to a single text box through some loop or streamreader and don't take into account multiple forms.
Can someone please help me create a very very simplistic sample page as the chat page included is too coomplete. something as simple as detecting a change in the database and displaying the word "change" on screen in realtime for any client connected.and I tried creating a global.asax file into which I added in the line mentioned in the link above, but it does not seem to like the word "Setup" in the line [code]
View 2 RepliesMy application outputs log text every so often and I need the user to be able to see the latest text at all times. I've tried a label, a text box and a rich text box, but I can't figure out a way to show the bottom-most text at all times.
View 2 RepliesBTW this issue occurs in any MS office program when the VB.Net (or even VBA) is processing information.Example: In Excel, a worksheet is displayed on the screen. I start either, a VB.Net or VBA procedure and within 30 seconds the Excel worksheet (previously displayed) blanks out. In both VB.Net and VBA,ScreenUpdating = False. My expectation is that the previously displayed screen would stay static as if I left my desk to get a cup of coffee; came back and the same ole Excel worksheet was still there?Of course, setting VBA Screen Updating = False accomplishes two goals: 1) speeds up processing and 2) saves the user from seeing unnecessary "garbage-processing" steps.Why does VBA or VB.Net ScreenUpdating = False not freeze the screen at the time of its invoking?
View 11 RepliesI'm trying to create a small program, which I think will be helpful to others(in here). My aim is to convert the English text shown in screen to Malayalam. English-to-Malayalam conversion is not a problem. But the problem is, how to extract the text from the screen. In most of the converter/translator, the text needs to be copied or written down in the translator tool. But my program will cut off that part. That is, simply move the program window (having a rectangle hollow portion) to the English word that needs to be converted. And upon pressing a button (or autodetect), the English word is converted to Malayalam.
So, my question is how to extract the English text(or words) from the screen (which is seen through the hollow portion of the window.
Here's a screenshot of what I'm trying to do.
i am trying to bring up a text message when the cursor moves over a certain label . No problems using the cursor enter . But i can not figure out how to display a text message in a balloon without a background (transparent) . Tried using a form but get the following message when trying to set background as transparent "Control does not support transparent background colors." Also i have tried using a user control but again no success .
View 2 RepliesI would like to display the word " Volts(V) " in the Y axis, just like the one you see from the attached image. But that image is crop from elsewhere and placed into a picturebox, which to me, doesnt look nice. I would prefer if the words are type in manually into a label and then rotate.
I did some research through the forums and websites, and came across this: [URL]
from there, i have a brief idea on it , tried out but it didnt work though. Or i may not have done it correctly.
I have code to append value from dropdownlist to the textbox. But I am not certain why this does not display text of any kind in the textbox. Try Add the selected text to the end of the text already in txtExpression textbox txtExpression.AppendText(cboOpenParen.SelectedText)Catch ex As Exception
View 1 RepliesI need to display text on the form (not a msgbox). A large text box would be acceptable if it's background could be made transparent with no border, but it seems that is not allowed.
View 7 RepliesI am sending a write command "*IDN?", and then trying to read back the information and put that into a text box inside of VB6. The "*IDN?" command gives back some information about the piece of equipment. When I send this command and read back using the NI488.2 interactive control utility I see the correct information displayed. I am not sure what I am missing in my VB code. My gui only consists of a text box to display the information read, and a command button to start the sequence. Here is my code.
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I have a little format issue that I would like to clean up.The form uses a label to display: triva/notable info:Next to that labe there is a text box that gets populate from a DB.What i would like to do is get it to somehow word wrap around Triva... The pic shows what it is currently doing but where the red line i would like it to start the text there on the 2nd line. Is there a nifty tool or trick to make this happen:
View 3 RepliesI need to display a button when a textbox is being used.
View 1 Repliesi have a datagridview which i populate from a SQL database. one of the columns is of a Ntext type. i would like to enlarge the cell on focus so the user would be able to read what's in it without entering edit mode.
View 1 Repliesi am making a safari booking system, and i have a combo box list(contains a list of hotels) how do display the prices of the hotels in a text box
View 1 RepliesI have the following code that displays the last line of my text file:
VB
Private Sub btnCurrent_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCurrent.Click
Dim path As String = "C:Documents and SettingsTwiLiteDesktopWindows Programming - Laura Malave/MadEaters SolutionMadEatersSurvey.txt"
Dim readText() As String = File.ReadAllLines(path)
Dim s As String
For Each s In readText
lblResults.Text = s
Next
End Sub
How I can display the last 12 lines of code instead of just the last line.
I want to display the text which scrolls from left to right using vb.net windows application.
View 11 RepliesI have a listbox that is connected to a text file and this file is created when the program opens for the first time and then users can add data to the file as they wish. However what I am having a problem with is that how can I link the selected item in the listview to a textbox.
I.e.
Listview has 3 columns: Name, Surname and Location
Then when the line is selected i want the 3 individual variables to display in 3 seperate text boxes that has been set up.
on my application i have a username and password form that saves the username & password It's not meant to be secure, and it writes to a text file displaying as so
Johnson:password1
Newname:password2
Newname2:password3
here is the code
Private Sub cmdPostAdd_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdPostAdd.Click
'Add new username and password
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This all works fine, but i have no idea how to reload this information when the form loads.Obviously it needs to read the string, the seperate the username and password.also is it possible to password char the password section in the listview? at the moment it can be read.
I want the NotifyIcon displays Text from a website. For this site: [URL]
View 3 RepliesI have a textbox which is part of my program and when I input data to the text box it fills the database with the data the way it is supposed to. I navigate through the data and the textbox show all the data from all the records I input. The problem is when I close the program and reopen it the textbox is empty for the first record. When I run a report or look at the access data base the data is there. If i navigate and go to the second record it shows the data for second and all the others the way it supposed to in the textbox.
View 11 Replies-Castlevania (info).txt-
[Name]Castlevania
[GoodName]Castlevania
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Description] "Every hundred years, the dark vampire known as Dracula resurrects and terrorizes the land. A vampire hunter named Simon Belmont bravely ventures into the Count's mansion in order to defeat him. Along the way he'll have to defeat skeletons, bats, fishmen, medusa heads and other evil creatures.Castlevania is a side-scrolling platform action game. The player taking the role of Simon Belmont is able to jump and crack his whip directly in front of him. Power-ups can be obtained by defeating enemies or by whipping candles that appear in the castle. One such power-up increases the power and length of Simon's whip. Different weapons can be gathered which consume hearts when used, these hearts can also be collected from monsters and candles. Additionally, some walls will hide secrets such as the health-restorative turkey or the Double and Triple shot abilities for the weapons Simon has collected. At the end of each section of the castle is a boss, which must be defeated. Progression through the castle eventually leads to a confrontation with Count Dracula himself."
I've put a page long document into a richtextbox, thinking I could get rid of the cursor (or caret -- whatever it is when you click on it) but no luck. (I guess there is an API for this -- and it may come to that).
View 1 RepliesI need to write some fixed-width font (i.e Courier New or Consolas) text to a .net Winforms window in the Paint event - not using a label or any other winforms control - rather using a graphics object method to render the text onto the form's client area. I am having difficulty aligning text on different lines under headings even though it is fixed width font. How can I get a precise measurement of the width of a single character in the fixed-width font? How can I get 2 lines to print out aligned horizontally in successive text out calls?
For example:
Heading 1 Heading 2
Short Other text
A bit longer Still aligned?
I need a separate call to render each cell of text under Heading 2. For argument's sake - let's say column 1 items are printed in black and column 2 are printed in blue - we can't use the same text out call for the entire line.
This code will display selected checkboxes Text in textbox as in the order I checked it 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. But it will not display selected checkboxes Text in textbox after 9
Partial Class _45seater_WebUserControl
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserControl
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim str As String = Nothing
Dim id As String = Nothing
How to show after chekbox10, checkbox11, checkbox12 in text box as 10,11,12 ......so on using this code