I am using visual basic 2008 and third party controls "Dotnetbar" in my project. I am trying to use colorpickerdropdown as theme change I mean when I choose any color from the colorpickerdropdown my form backcolor will be changed as well as the whole project.
View 6 RepliesIs there a way to see if the user is using Windows 7.If yes, can we change their theme when the Form loads, and change it back when it closes?
View 2 RepliesI have tried the following code but has no effect:
Imports system.Runtime.InteropServices
<DllImport("UxTheme.DLL", BestFitMapping:=False, CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.Winapi, CharSet:=CharSet.Unicode, EntryPoint:="#65")> _
[Code]....
I was looking all over but didn't find how to change VB 2010 Express default gray theme,
View 5 Repliesknow that there is library which can change the theme of the form but i do not
View 1 RepliesI have a theme called 'Zune' on my computer, and like the way it looks.Is there a way too, make the program use the 'Zune' theme..even if the computer itself is using the default xxxx theme?I can simulate it by doing the graphics, but to make the program border less, then to do the move code when they click on the image box...etc... makes it for tedious work.
If I could somehow make the program use the theme..
Ok 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)
View 9 Replies1.Multiple monitors are connection to one computer and they are extended.
2.My window spans to two monitors (Any window like notepad or settings wizard).
3.We change Visual Style From ON to OFF ( i.e. Changed theme from basic and high contrast to Aero or vice versa)
4.The window which was present on two gets shifted to either primary or secondary monitor.
5.This behavior is ok with normal application but I am developing such application which fails if window moves away.
6.I have added handler to check if user changes theme or visual style using :
AddHandler SystemEvents.UserPreferenceChanged, AddressOf UserPreferenceChangedHandler And in UserPreferenceChangedHandler I have checked if UserPreferenceCategory.VisualStyle changed and if it is changed then I have reset the window position back to old values before theme changed , but still it not reverting back to old position.
7.One strange behavior I observed is, it works if I set break point and step through code , but if I remove it then it's not working.
a. Added handler to catch user preferences changed event.
Private Sub RecordingWindow_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
AddHandler SystemEvents.UserPreferenceChanged, AddressOf UserPreferenceChangedHandler
End Sub
b. Copied old position
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
If m.Msg = WM_MOVING Then
' Console.WriteLine("Window is moving")
[code]...
d . This is additional code which i tried instead of WndProc
Private Sub RecordingWindow_LocationChanged(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.LocationChanged
_windowLocBeforThemeChanged = Me.Location
End Sub
Ok 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)
I was looking all over but didn't find how to change VB 2010 Express default gray theme?
View 4 RepliesI am trying to make a tabbed webbrowser Using DotNetBarI already tryed the Most common ways to do It but It is giving me an error every time and Sometimes its working but if I click the add tab button It will ad an tab without webbrowser and It keeps on giving me errors
View 4 RepliesI've already got the progress bar working but i was wondering how to use the dotnetbar gauge instead. All i need to know is how to set the minimum and maximum value. Then set the value.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to use the dotnetbar reference in my project..However I'm getting this error messages..I haven't got a clue what's wrong :S
View 4 Repliesim using dotnetbar tabcontrol as it has the capability to make your GUI looks better than the default tabcontrol of visual studio. my problem is that i cant disable the Ctrl+Tab Shortcut Key for TabControl. i tried this code
Public Class Form1
Protected Overrides Function ProcessCmdKey(ByRef msg As Message, ByVal keyData As Keys) As Boolean
[Code]....
but it only works using tabcontrol(vs2008 default) not the tabcontrol from dotnetbar. i've read somewhere that, that code will only works using System.Windows.Forms, so i think that is there a way for TabControl(dotnetbar) to inherits the System.Windows.Forms, any other solution? i need to disable the Ctrl+Tab because i used Tabcontrol as wizard type in registration.
There is a question that I have from YEARS after working with DotNetBar Components that How do you set the Marquee style of a normal progress bar on the circular one? The circular progress bar from DotNetBar, i want to be clear.There is no "Style" Property and now I really need to know it for a project I'm doing now
View 3 RepliesI am using dotnetbar and their tabcontrol and the problem is when I try to make a tab the parent of the rich textbox I get an error saying:QuoteValue of type 'Devcomponents.DotNetBar.TabItem' cannot be converted to System.Windows.Forms.Controls Here is the image:
and the code: Private Sub ButtonItem2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonItem2.Click
[Code]...
The problem im having is that DotNetBar gets referenced fine and all the controls appear in the tab but when i drag one from the toolbox to the form it stays in the panel where usually the timers and other controls are..Example : Drag a ButtonX from DotNet toolbox tab and it goes to where timers and dialogs usually appear instead of on the form.The standard default controls work fine. But seeing as i already have 60-70% of my application done with DotNetBar controls, I am receiving errors like frmMain.chkboxx cannot be accessed as its private.I was working on my laptop and decided to install VS2010 to Desktop and Copy/Paste the whole project folder over and this happens (I can still open the project on the laptop fine and DoTNetBar works)[code]
View 16 RepliesI need to add forms to TabPages in TabControl, but I need to find bindings between a TabControl and TabPage, that means i want to add a Form to a TabPage which is connected to TabControl1.
View 1 RepliesHow to use theme in vbwhat's codeOr what's step to use themeI don't know anything about itonly 3 days i have to send my program
View 3 RepliesI saw other program can use theme in their program , they don't care theme of windows.Can i add theme to my program?but care theme of OS
View 14 RepliesI'm trying to make my app look ok on different computers with Windows XP. Therefor I want to check for the systems "theme" (you know the "olive green" or "standard blue" settings) so that I can load different buttons and backimages etc.
View 2 Repliesi am not able to figure out any code on how to do this. I am trying to make it so when the person chooses a color in the ColorDialog, the all my buttons forecolors go to that, then the dialog will show to pick a back color.
View 2 RepliesDoes anyone here know any Visual Basic 2008 Skinner? I want to style my application, so that it just wont look like traditional windows forms.To aim is not enough. You must hit.
View 5 Repliesis there a way to determine what theme that the end user is using.for example im making a program where the glass is extended so if the end user uses the program on a computer that is not using the vista aero theme then the program will look different then it would if they were using the aero theme.how would i check to see if they have the aero theme and could i set the theme to aero from my program?
View 2 RepliesI need to change the theme of the Windows Operating System on which the application will run. I have to use the files with .theme extension. Can anyone guide how to do this, so I can finish my application.
View 7 RepliesDisable aero in visual basic HowTo: How to programatically disable the Windows Aero theme for standalone ArcGIS applications
C# - Enable / Disable DWM Composition (Aero)
Any of you whiz bang kids know how to accomplish this with VB6? (I realize this is not a VB6 forum but just curious if any of you VB.NET programmers know how to translate this into VB6 Basically, this code ported to VB6
[DllImport("dwmapi.dll", PreserveSig = false)]
public static extern int DwmEnableComposition(bool fEnable);
static void Main(string[] args)
[code]....
As my Christmas week side-project I thought I'd knock up a quick console app that I can run from the windows Start-up folder.
The application is going to delete some unwanted Global Corporate Desktop Icons (I like to run a clean desktop - is this common?) and Reset the Windows 7 Theme to my lovely Visual Studio 2010 graphics.
I have read the reasons why this shouldn't be done pro grammatically for the user but I feel this case is different as every morning I am manually deleting the icons and resetting the theme (policy is not stopping this - just reapplying it every morning) so I though this little side project could save me time in the long term.
I am deleting the Icons OK but I am struggling to set my theme ala:
Dim key As RegistryKey = My.Computer.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey("SoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionThemes", True)
[Code]....
This is setting the registry key correctly but not applying it. Ultimately I may try a simple Wallpaper Set but I would like to use the theme if possible!
I'm building a theme manager. Each theme contains and XML file to describe the theme and a couple of images. I load the themes with a custom control into a wrappanel. As a preview of the theme I use a custom control, that shows the first 3 images of the theme. I load the picture into the images as follows (codeblock 1). You can delete the theme by selecting it in the wrappanel and then press delete theme button. It will add the name of the theme to a list and will delete the theme when the app exists. But then the app will bring up an error message saying that the file is used by another process - which is the main window of the app that has been closed.
Dim imgsrc As New BitmapImage
imgsrc.BeginInit()
imgsrc.DecodePixelHeight = theme.Image1.Height
imgsrc.DecodePixelWidth = theme.Image1.Width
imgsrc.UriSource = New Uri(fi.Directory.FullName & "" & nodes.Item(i).ChildNodes.Item(0).InnerText)
imgsrc.EndInit()
theme.Image1.Source = imgsrc
Previously I used to piddle around with VB6 to develop a couple of personal projects. Following my upgrade to Windows 7, I've decided to piddle about with vb.net Express Edition 2010.If I wanted my VB6 application to blend in with the visual style of Windows, I would use the code and techniques described here. In short, I would use a Manifest file and a couple of calls within the application and most of the elements would look similar to the XP theme applied. If it was run on 2000, 95 or 98 then it would look like a standard Windows app. All was good.
Now I've moved onto vb.net, I've written a simple "Hello, world" application but I have absolutely no idea on how to make it look like the Windows 7 theme (eg. the font matches the system font and the widgets are styled correctly).Just changing the font is a hack and will look out of place on machines that are set-up differently or run a different version of Windows where the default font is different.How do I ensure my application matches the applied Windows theme irrespective of the version of Windows?
My next question is how do i use a .msstyle file for the form theme/style? Preferably not using SkinSoft Visual Styler.net because this doesnt support some things like fixed single border. It also isnt free.
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