Forms :: Program Launcher - NotifyIcon And ContextMenuStrip
Apr 22, 2009
Basically, I'm going for a program that has a NotifyIcon and a ContextMenuStrip working together to create a program launcher. I began by adding all the necessary controls and setting the properties. Next I set up StreamReader for a text file I will be using to save program paths. StreamReader and individual lines of text.
I'm essentially in the dark in this area, and for my program, I'm aiming for the NotifyIcon's ContextMenuStrip's buttons(Long title) to display the names or paths of the program. So I need to add individual lines to each button. I thought I would come back to that, so I moved on to the next thing, adding buttons to the ContextMenuStrip.
I have buttons already in place, like Add Program, Remove Program and Programs(for the actual list) but I need to be able to add buttons to those. Kind of like sub-buttons. If that didn't make any sense, I mean like when you hover your mouse over a button and another menu pops up.
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Feb 2, 2012
I'm trying to have my NotifyIcon show the native context menu of the Operating system. When I use ContextMenuStrips they have the custom skin made from Microsoft which I dont want. I want to use the original menu that all other applications use on my computer. How Can I use that menu? I have tried using the "old" ContextMenu control but It doesnt work with NotifyIcons, it only displays with other controls.
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Aug 26, 2010
When creating a right click (ContextMenuStrip) menu for a systray (NotifyIcon) icon, how do I give it the same style as most other context menus? Most other menus have a nice fade inout when right clicking on the system tray Icon. In addition they respond immediately when moving between nested levels. I cannot replicate this in Visual Studio 2008 using a simple form, NotifyIcon and ContextMenuStrip assigned. The menu appears harshly with no fade effect regardless of any property.
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Mar 25, 2010
How can I change the text of an ContextMenuStrip item which is used by a NotifyIcon? and how can I delete a item form the menustrip?
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Aug 16, 2009
How do I make a program Launcher? There is 2 items. There is a textbox and a button. The textbox is for the program location and file and the button is to launch it.
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Sep 6, 2010
I'm in the middle of making a program launcher. I've been able to make a version of it before, but now I want to add more options for viewing the shortcuts. The 2 main views I'm trying to get are: Icon only and Icon with the name.
Here is my original code for only the name:
VB.NET
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'Start bottom right of screen
Dim working_area As Rectangle = _
SystemInformation.WorkingArea
[Code] .....
I have switched over to a listview because I assume that's what i will need in order to show images. So I guess my first question will be how do I get only the icon from each file and then show it in the listview.
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Apr 12, 2011
I am making a customizable launcher for a game.I have already made the launcher. now I want to make a program that can edit stuff on my launcher. A method that Im thinking is make the editor produce a file that the launcher can read.Are you getting what I mean?
There are 2 buttons in the launcher,1 webbrowser and 1 progress bar.The 2 button are links for the users personal website the webbrowser is for the news panel where they can put there news about the game and 1 progress bar for auto updating of the game.
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May 12, 2011
i made a .exe launcher, i was able to launch a program named minecraft using the process.start. But this certain program generates error usually, so what i tried to do was get the window title of the minecraft and categorize if its an error or the actual game.
This is what i did:
Code:
So this transfers the window title of the launched program to a textbox then the "if statement" compares it and if its the error, it kills the error and relaunch the program. This is already a working program but i want to make the launching faster, the problem is if i hasten the interval of timer 2, it sometimes kill the non, error program that successfully launched. If anyone can help me, Hide the error or remove it please do help me. Im not yet an expert on vb.net but i want to learn from the best.
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May 16, 2011
I am currently working on a launcher, and it must consist of the following:
- one main routine being called, NO WINDOW may be created at any times after or before this main routine.
- one small form called by the main routine if a certain command was sent through the Command (shortcut).
At this point I use a Windows Form, but it seems a little useless to create and initialize a form if you won't even use it. Any way to make a routine run when my program starts without showing any window? But still make it possible to show that small dialog?
I did this at first but it seems a bit dangerous:
'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer 'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer. 'Do not modify it using the code editor.
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> _
Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Main()
End Sub
Sub Main()
'Code to run here
End Sub
It starts another program (process) which has a GUI, so I do not want to display a console window.
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Jan 20, 2011
The program goes and "Hides" itself as the very last step (InitializeNotifyIcon - does a close which triggers the Form1_FormClosing), but for some reason it shows back up right after it hides iteslf.Here is my code:
Public Class Form1
Private contextMenu1 As System.Windows.Forms.ContextMenu
Friend WithEvents menuItem As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
[code]......
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Dec 11, 2010
I've created an application that displays a NotifyIcon when an event happens.
Public ContextMenu1 As New ContextMenu
Public NotifyIcon1 As New NotifyIcon
Public Sub CreateIconMenuStructure()
[code]....
In the form load to "Initialise" the NotifyIcon it then works fine when made visibleinvisible by code in the OnRegChanged event.
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Dec 6, 2009
NotifyIcon stays on taskbar when application closed, then when I move mouseover it, it disappears.[code]...
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Mar 5, 2010
I have an application that's using NotifyIcon control. Everything is fine except when I exit the application by the Task Manager, the icon is still in the "system tray" area. I want it to disappear once I exit the application by the Task Manager. [code]...
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Mar 18, 2009
why when I am Closing the program by clicking on the X button, the NotifyIcon did not closed? it just stay there until I move my mouse over it....
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Dec 22, 2011
Im Trying to create a NotifyIcon Program. I want this to basically be like a service that every second looks at a database to see if anything has changed this is the module thus far
Imports System.Data.OleDb
Module ModNtifi
Public conn As New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=\MyserverMyDatabase.accdb ;Persist Security Info=False")
[CODE]...
The Problem i am getting is that after the start procedure has finished the program closes. i want it to start the the timer and then keep it going till the user exits the program manually.
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Jan 6, 2010
ContextMenuStrip like Start Button's All Program's One
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Nov 17, 2009
Im trying to restore my program from the system tray using a Contextmenustrip. Ive googled it but can seem to find anything.
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Jan 10, 2010
the thing is that i am creating a little launcher shell that will start on a lan-party computer full with games.all the things i am doing with it is for my own use only and will not be used for harmfull stuff. in the other topic i got the intention that they thought i was a cracker of hacker or something.im am just creating a launcher app that launches my games without the use of explorer.exe to be loaded with windows.i have done several things to try to load a game when i press a button but they always crash. when i start the games normally there is no problem.first i thought it needed the use of explorer.exe but when i tested my app with explorer.exe running i got the same result. so i think its my app that is causing the problem.
i have used this:
Process.Start("C:\Program Files (x86)\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\BF2.exe")
and this:
Dim startInfo As System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
Dim pStart As New System.Diagnostics.Process
startInfo = New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Related Designs\ANNO 1404\Anno4.exe")
[code].....
as for the people who replied in the other topic. the register files you have seen in my code was for activating the GameShell.exe to run as shell instead of the explorer.exe for the current user and for all users and to restore it to explorer.exe.
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Jan 8, 2012
Alright, well im making a launcher for a game i play. and i want to make it so it says how many users are online. and im not sure how to code that out??
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Apr 24, 2010
ive tried playing with the code, references, settings, resources but cannot get this code to work Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Startgame.Click Dim ss As String = Startgame("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREblizzard entertainmentworld of warcraft",
[Code]...
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Mar 14, 2011
way to have a launcher/updater app for a program I'm working on. It'll have people register, and not let them run the main program without registering. So, say, I have launcher.exe, and main.exe, and I open main.exe. I need it to exit and open launcher. I was going to use sockets to do a simple ping/pong type deal, but sockets are breaking my face in vb.net since I've only used them in vb6.
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Apr 5, 2010
I'm trying to make a patcher/launcher for a game. I want it to happen like this. When the user press's the PLAY button, I want it to check if the files are up to date. If they are, then it will run the exe (it will be in the same directory). If I updated a file, say Sound.x, I want it to download it with a progress bar showing. But the thing is, I looked around and I have no idea how to check if the file is up to date or not.
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Jun 4, 2012
I want to make an application launcher that looks for the .exe file by itself. Instead of writing:
[Code]...
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Jan 13, 2010
Our Winform app consists of a Main.exe and a Launcher.exe. The purpose of the Launcher app is to check for updated versions of the Main.exe. If it finds no updates it launches Main.exe using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start
If it finds an update, it copies the new Main.exe into position and launches Main.exe the same way (in this case it will be a fresh copy of Main.exe).Here's the Process.Start code:
Dim p As New ProcessStartInfo
p.FileName = "Main.exe"
p.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal
Process.Start(p)
This code executes whether or not there's been an update and always successfully fires up Main.exe.However our Main.exe, if it's being run for the first time (ie. after an update), will error on any line which references the My namespace, such as My.Settings or My.Computer.FileSystem For example this line will cause an error:Msgbox(My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.Desktop)
Here's the error: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find special directory 'Desktop'. at
Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.SpecialDirectories.GetDirectoryPath(String
Directory, String DirectoryNameResID)at
Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.SpecialDirectories.get_Desktop()
at
Microsoft.VisualBasic.MyServices.SpecialDirectoriesProxy.get_Desktop()
But while this example refers to Desktop remember it can't find any of the SpecialDirectories. It's not restricted to Desktop. But only the first time it's run (ie. immediately after an update). Thereafter it will run fine.If the process failed more spectacularly, to do with file system issues, locks or threads, it would be more understandable. But why just this "minor" problem with the My namespace?
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Mar 11, 2012
im making a game launcher for a runescape private server. and well when i run the .jar file plain without the launcher it works, but when i run with the launcher, it give me an error on the game.Here is all the
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://www.*****.com")[code].....
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Feb 25, 2009
Uhm, I am making a Launcher for a Game Called Cabal, and it will be for Private Servers. The thing is, that it is so easy to Hack/cheat on Pservers, and because the files for Cabal we use are old, we dont have good protection against hackers. One of the things is, that when a player presses CTRL+***+*** or something, they acivate a GM command, which is only allowed for GM's. I need to prevent that, and I also need to prevent people from using Cheat Engine. I am also planning on using Update Funcion, so if a player tries to change the CabalMain, so the Version will change (Which must not happen. If they change it to a specifik version, they can use GM commands)If there is any Anti-Hack out there, which is free, please link it. I have google'd for 1 hour. And more, and just did not find anything.
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Jul 3, 2009
I have this question. I am making an game launcher kind of thingy for my pc. I want to show all the games i own, and when you press it, it launches. But there is this admin pannel to add games,
but how should i save the data? Since i must be able to add as mutch games as i want. How should i do that?
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Apr 19, 2009
I was bored and started to build a launcher for MS office. It has 5 buttons and each button launches a program, then my launcher closes.Each button has this
Me.Close()
Shell("C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12WINWORD.exe")
This works fine, but Word loads so fast that by the time the program has closed, word is in the background and i have to click on the taskbar to get it up. This kind of defeats the object of it. I'm trying to be lazy here!!Also, each button has an image on, but i want you to be able to press a key for each button. Is that possible? Ultimately Laziness?
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May 25, 2011
I would create a launcher for a game that is located in \folder\executable.exe I tried using the command shell, but the game does not start because it needs all the files found in folder.
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Apr 11, 2011
I am using VB 2008,I am trying to make a launcher my private server but, I failed it always say 'This exe can't execute independent" I tried these method
Shell ("Game.Exe") And System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Game.exe")
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