I am trying to build a NOTEPAD/WORDPAD like application with vb.net on visual studio 2008.
I need an option to define and choose (MsWord, or CSS like) paragraphs styles, such as: "heading1", "green quotes", etc.
i am building a tab control (using VS 2010 and 4.0 framework). on Tab 0, this works as expected:
Me.ddUE_B1.SelectedValue = Me.B1.Text <-- changes the combo box selection to what is in the label.
on the other tabs this does not work. when I do a messagebox to show, say, Me.Ea1.Text on Tab 1, nothing is returned.
Is there an issue with referencing controls on tabs that I am missing? In general, I will need to set combo box's value to what is in the database when the form loads.
I am using VS2008, I need to update a vb6 application that I wrote a while back and make it more user friendly. [EDIT] I am not using any of the vb6 code, this is a complete rewrite.[/EDIT] The application basically creates ZPL based on user inputs, it sends the ZPL to the printer via the parallel port and we have our label. I know there are pre-written pieces of software that do this but I have a few other things going on that are not an option for a pre-written label application.
The task at hand at this point is creating a form which will display a mock-up of the label and allow the user to create text, rotate it, move it, re-size it etc. I will also have to add in image support a little further down the line but I figured i would keep it simple to start out. This is my first major project in .net (the company has been hesitant to spend the money until now and I haven't had the time to do much on my own.)
I think the best place for me to start would be with a simple form with a button that allows me to create text and edit it only. I am unsure of the best way to pull this off, should I be using a label, a text box with the design styles turned off or something altogether different that I may not know about?
To summarize:
a) What type of object should I be using?
b) How would I go about creating it?
c) How should I go about making it movable/editable at runtime?
As an aside, I am aware that the ThermalLabel SDK would probably be beneficial in this application but the company is not willing to spend anymore on this project.
How can i create bullet points in a Rich Text Box?
View 1 RepliesI have to make some automatization on a web server, I use Visual Studio 2005 Visual Basic Windows Console Application. I want to make a load/performance test of the web server, so I open several Internet Explorer instances, and I login the application, that is not a problem. But after that I have a mess on the page and I cannot make any more automatization...The composition of the page after the login is like this: I have the default form, another form and a multiple data window(mdw) controller, which dinamically can switches the forms on this part.
The problem is that I don't know how to access the controls of this mdw forms. I couldn't find much about this mdw controller and I am not an expert.
My code is here:
Imports System
Imports System.Diagnostics
Imports System.Web.Ui.Webcontrols
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I'm in the process of converting a VB6.0 application to VB.Net (2008 Express). I have a MDI parent form, I'll call mdiBackground, and 4 MDI child forms, frmStatus, frmShow, frmQwerty, and frmSentence.The layout is as follows:mdibackground - has the menus at top and is a container for the child forms.frmSentence - appears at the top frmShow & frmQwerty - appear at the left and when one is closed the other one is in the same position.frmStatus - appears at the right, it has buttons which control when frmShow and frmQwerty are to appear I have a couple of regular forms that act as dialog forms. The Me.Close() works fine on these.
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I use the code
Dim Selvk As New Selvkost2
Selvk.PassedText = TextBox29.Text
Selvk.Show()
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in my second form and the text passes. but I need to pass values from 20 textboxes. do I have to copy the code in my second form 20 times an declare passedtext2 and so on or is there an easier way to do this?
i am trying to automatically generate multiple text boxes on a form with the following code
Private Sub CreateTB(ByVal x As Integer)
Dim y As Integer = 1
Do Until y = x
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i need it to generate as many text boxes as the variable x states, so i used the do until loop thing. But i am stuck when it comes to naming the text boxes because obviously all the text boxes cannot share the same name. so i would like to know how to programmatically name each textbox uniquely.
I'm trying to read a text file that contains info like this:
ACX-101-011 , J2168
BTXR-130A-013, D6733
AJ4-233-614, T8211
I want to split each line at the comma and write the left side to a textbox and the the right side to another textbox. I'm close, with the code below, but I can only post results from the first line in the file. How do I loop this and append the text results in each of the textboxes.
Dim TempFile As String
TempFile = "temp.txt"
Dim sw As StreamWriter
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I have to save the text boxe values of a form to a text file almost like a data record. I will be saving an Employee First Name, Last Name, Dept Number, and Phone Number. This I know how to do using streamwriter.
next form which we have to use stream reader to load one record at a time. The form has a next button to load the next record. How do I seperate each record (I am sorry for calling it a record if this is inappropriate) when use streamreader and how do I load a record at a time.
I know how to open a file and use streamreader, I just don't know how to read one record at a time and move to the next one.
I have created a VB.NET Class Library that exposes some COM Interop sub routines. These in turn show various forms that are contained within the Class Library. When the forms are shown from VB6 they do not inherit the visual styles of the operating system and act like VB6 controls.
I gather that this probably by design but is there some way to force/control visual styles manually in the .NET assembly? I would imagine that if I use a manifest in my VB6 app then everything will use the correct style but I would like to be able to control this myself if possible because we are using 3rd party controls in VB6 that do not require a manifest.
I will show 3 columns of text in rich text box. i want show the column border with color.i can separate the texts with tabs or spaces but showing data in columns and cells will improve the visual of my program .
View 1 RepliesCan i get text from a textbox and use that text for the second forms code?
View 1 RepliesI'm looking forward to reading and adding more to the community here. I've created a text based rpg. Next semester we are learning Visual Basic. I'm on winter break and I would like to get a head start on my learning. I've been working on creating some forms and message boxes. What is throwing me off, is that I have a good feel for doing coding so that I get functionality the will produce effects in a console. Coding the forms is a bit confusing for me. Is this something that others have run into? Is their some good primers for VB? I don't have my text books yet.
View 10 RepliesWhat is the vb.net equivalent to accomplishing this?
static void Main()
{
frmCalcView view = new frmCalcView();
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In VB.net which control should i use if i want to display a paragraph of text from a database?The text displayed should be uneditable.
I found that i can insert a rich text box and make it read only.
I am trying to grab the inner text of this paragraph marker but I don't have a clue as how this is to be dones because the inner text changes on refresh.
<DIV class=rightcol>
<P class=description>I need to grab everything in here</P><INPUT id=moreoptions class="primary textbox" tabIndex=1 name=toppings[input]> <INPUT id=toppings2> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
Is it possible to turn a paragraph of text (grabbed from a textbox) into one continuous line? I could have the following information:
34 MyRoad
da7 888
london
the moon
And I want it to read :
34 MyRoad da7 888 london the moon
Spaces added to cause line breaks, and sample data formatted as code.
Is there a way of putting a block of text (ie a paragraph) without using the label tool?
View 2 RepliesI use the panel in the form, the panel contains one text box and the form contains another text box. When I click OK button the panel, ill hide.and the form ill show, the value of text box in panel is transfer to the another text box in the same form.
View 2 RepliesI'm new to VB.Net. I try to convert from VB6 to VB.Net (2008) with a simple code as shown in the picture below but its come up with Warning. Did anyone know how to solve this warning. Sorry for lame question..
View 3 RepliesI've got a button_click function that calls a Powershell script and outputs the results into a text box. This sometimes take a few seconds, so I wanted to first change the .text of the textbox (called Results) to "Please wait... searching remote PC" so the user knows the program is actually doing something.
Results.Text = "Please wait... searching remote PC"
Results.Text = RunScript(LoadScript(fullPCinfoScript))
However, the text will not change. It basically waits to change the text of the text box
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I am developping a VB.net application. I would like to add buttons on the MDI but every time I open a child form of the MDI, it appears down the buttons. Is there any way I can solve this problem?
View 3 RepliesI want to be able to type "1 month" into a text box, then for text box to count down in days and hrs.
For more iinformation: I want to type in the box "1 month" or "2 months" etc (not Years or days)
Then for another textbox to begin a countdown in days and hours from the current date and time to the one which it will be in "1" or "2 months" etc
I am not able to find the Exclude Command in VB 2010 Express. I have no idea which version of Visual Studio it is working with. I've got one 217MB VB 2010 Express file and many 2008 VB Express files with one of them measuring 31 MB. There many other SQL files and .Net Files.
View 4 RepliesI am using a thread to call a process which is spliting a text file into various text file and folder using the system.io , now when calling the Textsplit() with thread on click of a button i am getting the error below , how to use thread and why this error occurs.
Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'txtbox_destn' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.
How to increase a forms opacity without increasing the opacity of the controls in the form?
View 1 RepliesI'm searching for a way to change the font size of selected text in a RichTextBox (rtf) having different font families (e.g. Arial and MS SansSerif) and font styles (underline, bold...) using the FontDialog, but without changing the families and styles. The following code resets all the font attributes, which is not what I want:
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I have developed an application for booking meeting rooms. A user has to log in before he / she can use the system.
I want the user name of that user to be shown in the form.[code]...
when i type any web site address in textbox1 and i press ctrl+enter it will add www. and .com.
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