Form Or Panel As Graphics Device?
Jan 9, 2010
Im wondering how best to create my graphics device. It seems that traditionally in applications that use directx, the graphics device is almost always a new windows form (from the examples ive seen). However, im looking at something different in my application.I have a windows form with a ToolStripContainer that has been subdivided into several other panels using SplitContainer objects So as you can imagine, i have quite a lot of panels on the screen. I want to render my graphics in one of these SplitContainerPanels.My concern is whether this will result in poorer performance or excessive flickering etc.
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Jul 12, 2011
I've got an app that I want to have an MDI with. It functions fine, but there needs to be a control panel off to the side of it to drive the child documents' creation. I have two problems with this.
First, if I add the control panel to the side of the form, it just overlays the MDI portion of the form and the children will spawn behind it. I can more or less manage the positions of these children, but the problem comes when I want to minimize the children, they minimize behind the control panel and I don't know how to move them. So I need to shrink the area they can move around in. I've read in places that you can use the splitter object, but that never seems to cooperate with me and only wants to move to the extreme left or right of the parent form. How can I reduce the area the children get to interact with? I've tried creating a MDI Panel, but VS has a fit with that.
Second, I've got a datagridview holding the data that will spawn the child forms. This is working well, but even though I've set the rows to be not resizeable, I can still make them grow or shrink during run-time (not programmatically). How do I stop this?
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Oct 4, 2010
I have a TopBar, A LeftBar, A VScrollBar, A HScrollBar and a Panel inside a SplitContainer Panel.The issue I'm having is that when my SplitContainer Panel is small enough to enable one of the ScrollBars, I will slide the ScrollBar and then when I resize the Split Panel, my Panel1 is staying where I scrolled it too.I'm having troubles thinking of the correct code to fix this.
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Jul 30, 2009
I have one panel, is there anyway I can control two different drawings in that one panel? I have a gradient background which changes colors, then I have an Ellipse which I would like to move around the panel, without effecting the background gradient.
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Feb 28, 2012
I have a panel that has a BackgroundImage set to "zoom". Because of this, the image usually has some grey "letterboxing" showing the panel beneath the BackgroundImage. I want to paint on the Graphics Object of the Panel using its paint event handler. Is there a way to contrain my painting to just the image part of the panel? Is there a way to find the rectangle that the BackgroundImage is occupying within the panel?
P.S. I don't want to make a graphics object from the BackgroundImage because I'm already using that for some other "paint layers".
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Mar 17, 2009
I'm making a plotting program. The panel (vs picturebox) is necessary because the data doesn't all fit into one screen so scrollbars are needed. I'm using graphics to draw the background layer and buttons for the data points.
When I scroll, the background is redrawn incorrectly since the top left corner of the panel is no longer the top left data point. Ideally, I'd like to prevent the background layer from redrawing entirely (after the initial draw). Alternatively, how do I take in consideration the new position of the scrolled panel in drawing the shapes & lines in the background layer?
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Aug 13, 2009
Is it possible to capture a panel and save it as an image?
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May 15, 2011
I'm planning on using the Smart Device Framework 2.3 to use the signature control panel in a Windows Mobile 5 application using the compact framework 3.5.
The control has the option to save the signature as either a byte array of points, or as a bitmap. Now seeing as I want to store the signature in a sql compact database, I guess the byte array is going to be better. The trouble is, I'm not sure how to render that in a full WinForms application after I've transferred it back to the desktop.
I need to show the signature on a report, so it would need to be an image I could link/embed into the report.
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Oct 24, 2009
Im using this code
Private Sub Form1_MouseEnter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.MouseEnter
For i As Integer = 38 To 2 Step -1
Panel1.Height = i
Next
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I have 2 panels on the form butttt for panel one i want to slide height and panel 2 i want it to slide width.
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Jun 6, 2009
I need to center the red panel in the middle of the dark grey panel, when you resize the form the red panel should be in the middle, and the red panel can't be resize, anyone have a code or property to do this?
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May 5, 2010
how can i make my program feel if any device or usb device plugged into the computer or unplugged.url...
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Nov 13, 2009
A Problem in accessing a device from VB Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system. (Code 42) This error is because i am using 2 devices of the same company which has the mass usb storage on it and when i install one of the device the other hides. So one is detected the Other is not. It also give a error called designed dragnonacally something...
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Jun 30, 2009
I have one form lays on the top of a form or a panel. I would like be able to drag the top form within the boundary of the bottom form or panel. How can I do that?
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Mar 24, 2011
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.
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Mar 4, 2012
I have been trying to place a form inside a panel. This has been achieved by[code]...
In the IterationForm, I have values being calculated and displayed as and when an operation is being performed.
In the panel it shows only the blank form. I need to have those values displayed as well.
I have tried using MDI parent with my menustrip1, same thing, that is the form being displayed without the values.
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Jul 13, 2009
I want to add a MDI parent form to a panel on a base form, the problem is that i must set the toplevel = false when add the parent form to the base form, but if i set its toplevel to false i can't set isMDIParent parameter to true. how can i fix this conflict?
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Nov 20, 2009
Is there a way that I can open up a new form in Panel2 of my main form?
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Oct 12, 2010
I am having two forms say form a and formb and having two panels in formb and i want to show this panels from forma based on some condition and the code which i am using is[code]...
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Sep 18, 2011
I am trying to Anchor a Form (Top, Bottom, Left & Right) in a panel.
I have tried:
frmFnct.Anchor = AnchorStyles.Top Or AnchorStyles.Left Or AnchorStyles.Bottom Or AnchorStyles.Right
This doesn't error but as the parent Form is re-sized, the panel re-sizes but the Form that is loaded in the Panel does not re-size.
I guess I can use the Parent Forms Resize Event and size the form to the panel dimensions but just wondering if there is a way to use built in functionality?
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Mar 26, 2011
Taking the following code into the account: [code] This makes my entire form client area act like a cpation bar and i can darg it using any any part of it! Becuase i had a borderless form that is why i used this code (which is definitely not mine - no offense) . This works perfect in windows 7 but in lower OS versions it acts weired like even if user makes little dragging on the form occasionally this triggers and takes the form out of the bound of screen! I was wondering can i alter the above code somewhat like instead of intercepting the form area as caption bar it detects a panel (docked at the top giving illusion of a caption bar) and make that my form move. I know you brothers will make me say that using the mouse down mouse move and mouse up events of panel i can attain this, definitely i can but thought of some more professional approach. url...
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May 16, 2012
how to add all windows form on the same panel in vb .net?
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Jul 22, 2009
My name is DN and I'm creating a strategy game. I have created a panel and I have put a PictureBox on it. Now, the problem is here: The PictureBox is bigger than the panel. I know that we can solve the problem with putting to the panel two scrollbars, but as in a good game scrollbars should not exist in the main picture (map). I want for the people to control the map with keys (up,down,left,right) and the scrollbars should not be visible.
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Jun 15, 2010
Is it possible to place 54 panel on a form? .The purpose is for printing.
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Jun 10, 2011
Resize Form by a Panel?
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Mar 4, 2012
Is it possible to resize a form automatically when a panel is made visible or invisible? Is it required to have the panels directly on the form? I am trying to do this with some panels within panels and having quite the problem.
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Mar 18, 2010
So I have another form/dialog open in my application, how do I set it's bounds to a Panel control? Like, it can't be moved out of the panel?
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Oct 23, 2011
I am trying a little demo project to create my own Caption Bar. Basically i have a form with a panel docked to the top.
You can use the mouse to drag the panel around (which moves the forum) Problem is the cursor is always located in the upper top left. I am trying to move the form around but to leave the cursor at the point it is currently at on the panel
My code so far is below
#Region "Point Variables"
Dim LOC_Form As New Point(0, 0)
#End Region
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I am dragging the panel from the middle, but the form moves to the cursor point. I have tried calculations like Cursor Position - Form Location etc but cant get it right
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Jul 28, 2009
I am using a panel to print my form in VB 2008. The quality comes out poorly because the panel converts it to a bmp when it prints it. Is there a way that I can print it with good quality? Can I somehow tell the printer to print the panel without converting it to bmp? My form contains labels,textboxes, and lines.
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Feb 25, 2012
I am moving a project from 2005 to 2010 and I wanted to make some changes. Currently I have a customer form that has a 3rd party tab control in it. A few of the tabs are Customer Information, Invoices, Orders, Quotes. Each tab has a ton of controls and the form has a ton of code. What I would like to do is have individual forms that show up on each tab. So, I would have a Customer Form, Invoice Form, Order Form, and Quote Form. This way I can also use each from individually as I have the need to. Can this be done though inheritance or something like that?
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Dec 15, 2011
I have a an inherited form that has a panel control on it. I want to paste other controls onto this panel but the paste option is grayed out and won't let me do it. I made sure that the template form did not lock the panel. I'm stymied from making progress until I can get this resolved.
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