I created a toolstrip with some buttons. I have a form with some objects (like textbox,checkbox,button etc.) and when i get the focus on last item,when i finish to compile i need with tab on keyboard to get focus on save button on the toolstrip.
View 1 Repliesi have a textbox and a button on tool strip. i wan to set focus on the button when user enters data in textbox. after enter key is pressed it shoul focus on the button.
View 1 RepliesI really want to make use of the toolstrip and databinding but these two technologies keep conflicting with each other. I think the root cause is something to with the fact that the toolstrip buttons don't recieve focus in the normal way.
I invite you to try the following:-
1. Create a form and put some text boxes a tool strip with a save button on it.
2. Write a query or sproc to get a datatable back and bind your text boxes to the field in the datatable.
3. In the code behind your Save ToolStripButton put some code that makes an arbitrary change to a field on the dataset (it doesn't matter whther this field is bound to a text box or not). eg:-
m_DataTable.Rows(0).Item("CommissionRatePerc") = "0.0000"
4. Put a breakpoint in the save and run the form.
5. Make some changes in the text boxes. Do not leave the last text box but rather click save while a text box whose contents you have edited still has focus.
6. When your code hits the breakpoint, query the value of the data table field that is bound to the text box you were editing when you clicked save - it will still contain the unedited value. Unless you do something about it that unedited value is going to get saved back to your DB.
We did get around this problem by explicetely setting the focus to another control on the form before saving. That worked most of the time because it prompts the text box to flush it's value back to the datatable (nb EndEdit does not work, although you'd have expected it to). However, and this is the reason I suggested you add a line of code that changed a value in the underlying datatable in step 3, if you change a value in code in this way before the value from the text box get's flushed back then it doesn't seem to matter what you do, the user's current edit is simply lost. They will still show in the text box, though, leading your user to believe that the change has been committed when it hasn't. Our final solution is that we never ever change a value in the adtaset in the code behind our toolstrip buttons. That's working but it's a pretty big restriction.
I have two Toolstrips(tsp). Among the two the second one is hidden. There is a tsptextbox on the second tsp. When the user checks the button on the first tsp, i want the second tsp to be shown and the tsptextbox should be selected. I use the following code but the tsptextbox isnt getting the focus
View 3 RepliesI would like my ToolStrip button to actually look like a button instead of this flat thing that is the default. I would also like for it to depress when the user clicks on it, just like a standard Windows form button. I've spend a couple of hours searching
View 4 Repliesi added a toolstrip in my form,actually on adding a button on the toolstrip this appears but actually i want this print image.
View 3 RepliesI used a toolstrip and set an image for it's button but I removed this image from resource in solution explorer and all toolstrip is gone. I removed images that have !sign in resource tab of properties but toolstrip is not visible in design view. how it returns? before I had typed tooltip instead toolstrip and I edit it now.
View 12 Repliesi want to add property Tooltriptext of Toolstrip to my Button.Do you know how to do?
View 10 RepliesI want to select a button("Exit") on the ToolStrip after pressing a button ("ButtonFocus To Exit") outside the toolstrip. I used ExitToolStripButton.Select() on ButtonFocusToExit.Click but which seems like its selecting the button ("Exit") but when i pressed enter it never execute the code in "ExitToolStripButton_Click" .
So the button is still not active. Can anyone have fix to it?
default hover color of a Toolstrip button in Visual Basic.NET
View 7 RepliesIm using buttons from A to Z in a toolstrip which I need to capture the text property of the button which trigger click event. I do it this way which took a long coding to mention all buttons (A-Z) click events.
vb Private Sub az_btn(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles A_ToolStripButton.Click, B_ToolStripButton.Click ... Z_ToolStripButton.Click
'shows text property of the clicked button
MessageBox.Show(sender.ToString)
End Sub
is there any efficient way to do this?
Is it possible to set focus on the keydown event so after the button control, sets the focus into the keydown? although says often control can have focus,.Putting a button and a keydown event on a form...
View 2 RepliesI know this may sound really stupid, however, I really do not know. Though I have been programming with VB2005 for about the last 4 years or so, I have never used toolstrip at all. Just simply never has a need to, until now. So, I tried it by simply clicking it in the toolbox, which is simple enough, and choose the toolstrip button for the toolstrip as well. I change the button image to the image I have and want, which seems to be piece of cake operation. Everything looks good in design time. However, when I ran the program, I have the toolstrip simply look blank (no show of the button or the image at all)! The button was there alright, as when I clicked it, it responded. However, it just simply not visible at all, nor the image. When I ran my mouse over it, it did change color (which I guess indicate it is there), but no image either.
View 3 Replieshow i can make a button (UpdateBtn) in my toolstrip Act like a NotifyIcon so i can use the BalloonTip features i have looked on goggle all over and cant find a single thing about it (unless im looking for the wrong thing) im thinking it either cant be done or no one has bloged about it yet
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In wndProc method WM_MOUSEACTIVATE is not working. When I click on Toolstrip button m.Msg is not returning the value 33 and m.Result is not returning value 2. know how to handle the WM_MOUSEACTIVATE
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How to make sure that the an focused(selected) textbox performs its validating event before the user clicks on the toolstripbutton?
View 5 RepliesI have a Main form, called Main.vb, that is a Parent Form. I have another form called Notes.vb. Inside Main.vb I have a toolstrip with a button on it called Notes. I'm wanting to change the checked status of the Button to either True when the Notes.vb window is open inside the parent or to false when it is close. Is this possible?
View 6 Repliesi m working on a payroll software, and for user facility i want to provide calculator and Microsoft excel file with our module, so there is no need to explciltly open the calculator,,whenever it is required,,,,,i want the code that provide me calculator by clicking a tool strip button on mdiform?
View 3 RepliesI want to be able to click on one toolstrip button and hide it while making another visible.I tried the .show and .hide expressions but they come up with an error.
View 4 RepliesI have a favorites bar in my web browser and when I display them on a toolstrip as a toolstripbutton but the bookmarks are stored as a string collection in my.settings and It only displays the url of the bookmark (not the document title of the site)Is there a way to have a toolstripbutton that has the text of the Document Title of the url and the url as the tag of the toolstrip button?
View 11 RepliesI have a sequence of ASP.NET web forms, each holding a placeHolder control and 3 buttons: "Previous Page", "Quit" and "Save Answers" (in this order). On page-load event, the placeHolder is programmatically filled with a list of questions an a series of radioButtonList's for answering, and the focus is set on the "Save Answers" button using btnSaveAnswers.focus()
When the page loads, the focus is set on the "Save Answers" button as expected. The problem is that when i start clicking in radio buttons to answer questions, the focus shift on the "Previous Page" button (maybe because its the first in the row?) but i want it to stay on "Save Answers". So ho could i prevent shifting of the focus?Enclosing the 3 buttons on a panel and setting the defaultButton="Save Answers" property of the panel did not work. The tabIndex of the 3 buttons are 3, 1 and 0 respectively
My application is an Touch Screen HMI to operate some machinery using VB.net 2008. I am trying to get a button to activate code while touched then other code when released. I have experienced HMI's where when a button is pressed then slide finger out of focus the button stays down. This is what I am looking for.
View 5 RepliesThe scenario is two forms. Form A has a button. You click on the button to open form b. Form b opens. Close form b. The focus returns to the button on form a. When the focus returns to form A, I'm trying to put the focus on another object like a text box and it won't go there. It keeps going back to the button. If I try to set the focus to a text box, the focus event of the text box is triggered but then it still continues to go back to the button. If I disable the button then I can prevent the focus from going back there, but then I can't use the button.
View 7 Repliesif I click on the SearchSearch Textbox, I want the highlight to be on the Search Button and not on save without using AcceptButton or any TabIndexing so if whenever i press ENTER and the 'I' cursor is on the SearchSearch Textbox, the search button will be triggered.
Javascript:
function getFocus(textboxName,e) {
document.getElementByIdSearchSearch(textboxName).focus();
}
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before i made the Search button on focus whenrver i click on the Search textbox. so what happens is everytime i click on the textbox it instantly focuses on the Search button making me unable to type anything. I tried also making a Panel for the Search textbox and button having a DefaultButton but it doesnt highlights the Search Button
I have a split container in my vb program that has 2 buttons right on top of each other in container 1. In container 2 I have a datagridview. The buttons are to mark a row as a blanket order that is in the DGV, so I'm only wanting the button enabled if the user is in the DGV. I was using another way of doing this by using the backgroundcolors of the rows like this :
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I have a form that has mutiple buttons and textboxes. When the form is loaded, I want to set focus to a button as well as a textbox so when the person presses the Enter key the actions within that button must be processed.
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I am working on a timing program and have a start button programmed to clear all the variables and start timing events. I have another button programed to stop the timing and show the data. The problem is that when I place the cursor on the start button and press the left mouse button it workes fine, but when I move the cursor to the stop button and press the left mouse button the start buttons 3D showes that it was pressed? Since the start button clears all of the data there is nothing to display in the text boxes. If I press the left mouse button again the stop buttons 3D shows that it was pressed. Have looked everywhere for a hint as to what to do but have found nothing yet.
View 12 RepliesI usually use standard button and do the settings like causevalidation etc if required.
i decided to use toolstrip and inserted some buttons but end up that it doesn't do the validation for control and also doesn't call leave event of textbox control.
so my question is, anyway to use regular button functionality for toolstripbutton or there is a way to add regular button on toolstrip.
I have a save button on toolstrip which is "SaveToolStripButton". When the button is clicked, then "Save_Data()" is executed like #2 below. I try to implement to save changed data by pressing the SaveToolStripButton other than "BindingNavigatorSaveItem" like below #1.
This is my problem. It detects the change and correctly update themi if I use #1, but #2 does not detect any chnge at all.What is wrong with my code which is #2?
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I am setting my Winforms Button control properties to appear as a hyperlink would on a web page. I've formatted everything fine, except the border in the FlatAppearance object. I have code to act as pseudo-CSS (FormBackColor is a string constant.):
b.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Flat
b.BackColor = ColorTranslator.FromHtml(FormBackColor)
b.ForeColor = Color.Blue
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The code removes the border from the flat Button control except on MouseOver, where I add a 1 pixel border. On MouseLeave, I remove the border. This is to show some visual feedback. This works fine when the button does not have the focus. However, if I click on the button, giving the button focus, mousing out and over again now shows a greater than 1 pixel border around the button. I'm imagining it's combining my button's explicit 1 pixel border with the traditional "Winform Button has the focus, so add a border" border around the Button.How can I disable/remove the "Winform Button has the focus, so add a border" border? Or, should I just do a check in ButtonMouseOver to check if the control has the focus, being a condition of adding the border, and just be done with it?