I have a small program I have designed to be able to sit in the background on my desktop, and whenever a new form is given focus (foreground) it's title and thread are recorded.
However, I would like the program to also report to me the X and Y coordinates of the foreground form. Could be any form NOT one that is attached to my program.
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So currently i have been working on a application that is a MDI parent, with child forms. I use a un docked toolstrip as a toolbox since i like the small icons and mouse hover, but one issue that bugs me is that when a child form is open in the parent form it's "under" the toolstrip. For example moving childform1 pass the toolstrip menu makes the form go under rather ontop. Is there anyway to give the child forms foreground when moving?
View 3 Replieshow do I set a form in the foreground and prevent it from being set to the background if another form is clicked... when a form comes up, i disabled the other forms so no object within them could be selected, but if i just click on them, the foreground form disappears... i want it to stay in the foreground until the user closes it manually...
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I'm using Visual Basic 2010 Express.I have a form that can be minimized.There's also a tray icon.I've coded it so that if you double-click on the tray icon, the form's FormWindowState becomes set to Normal; this restores the form to where was before it became minimized, but the form does not become the active window on my desktop.
How can I make the form become the active most foreground window? I've tried various functions that I can think of but no luck yet. Tried searching with various queries to try and find the right wording but no luck.I'm new to Visual Basic - only started a couple hours ago.Probably something simple but I can't seem to find the correct function or anything.I have the form/window open, and then I overlap said form with a window of another application. When I double-click my app's tray icon, I want my window to become the active window, bringing it to the front, but can't figure out how
On my program the user clicks a button which then runs the main code for my program. The problem is once the code is executed I can no longer move or interact with any form boxes, reliably at least . Sometimes there will be a period of delay where I can move it for an instance. Is there anyway I can make it so that my form is able to be moved while the program is running?
View 3 RepliesI have a winform project which lists all the files in a specified folder. It allows the user to select a new destination for each file, and when the user has chosen the destinations for all files that he would like to be moved, it moves the files, one by one.My next step is, I need to display a confirm form when the files are being moved, and add each file's name and destination to the confirm form as it is being moved.How can I add more text to the confirm form's controls after I already loaded it (using confirm.showdialog() from my other form, without any user interaction? I imagine that I need to do it from the original form, because it needs to display each one when it starts to move that file?
View 3 RepliesI've written a program using Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition in Visual Basic. It's a Windows Forms Application. The program is very simple, it just reads a directory of text files, parses the text and outputs another text file as .CSV file
for import into Excel. There's no user interaction required but it never displays the form and therefore the progress bar. If I put a GO button on the form and modify the program so that the subroutine that does the processing isn't called until the user clicks GO it shows the form and the progress bar etc. How can I make the program run at startup, show the form, show the progress bar and then pause for 10 seconds or so and then exit?
I'm trying to make an application which will log me into a site and read the text of the site and display a certain part of that text in my form. I'm stuck at the login, its a .php page with 2 text boxes, 1 check box and 1 button.Is there any way to manipulate those objects by using controls in my form?
View 14 RepliesI am trying to use appactivate to bring a window to the foreground however this is not working. When the program is already open on the desktop and there are other windows on top of it and I use AppActivate then it brings that window into the foreground. However if that window is minimized to the windows bar below, then the only thing appactivate does is have that program selected but it does not bring it into the foreground. I need to have any window forced to the foreground while retaining its original size.
View 2 RepliesI just wanted to know that When our Vb.net application terminates are all our foreground threads automatically terminated.I read that all our background threads (worker threads) are all automatically terminated once the application shutsdown (when we dispose it)H/owever i wanted to know about Foreground threads , I know that wehn we use
dim t as thread
t = new thread (address of blahblah)
t.isbackground = true ; //This makes it a worker thread ... which will terminate when the form is disposed
t.start()
my question is now suppose i dont set the background property and make it run as a foreground parallel thread. Will it close when the application disposes...
I've searched a good deal on the topic and have found little results. It seems adding foreground into the criteria on any engine I've used causes tons of entry level documents on threading in .Net.
In my current project I have a foreground thread within a static class that lies dormant until it is told otherwise. It contains a queue of items that must be processed and the items application cannot close without all items being processed. Right now I have a method that tells the thread that it should stop accepting new items and close when it is finished processing everything, but not everyone on the team remembers to call the method. Having the GUI close while the process still runs in the background is quite a bug in my opinion. If I can add a periodic check to see if the queued thread is the last foreground thread, then I can call the method and not have to worry about others that use the class.
Is there a way to draw in the foreground of a container control. Such as a Panel, or PictureBox.
I need to be able to draw across multiple controls all within the same container.
Lets say, that you have a Panel containing Five Buttons. Is there a way to draw say a line across all five buttons, that will show as a continuous line, using only the Graphics object of the container?
I can only get the line drawn in the background such that the controls are drawn over the line and it appears broken. In the actual usage there are 25 controls and I would rather not have to loop through each contorl and drawn the line if needed, every time the control is invalidated.
How would I go about forcing a seperate application to the foreground?
View 1 RepliesThe user32.dll provides functions to get the process id from a process executable name, and I can also obtain the active or foreground window that the user is working.Can I determine what windows the targeted process has opened? Otherwise, can I find out what details about the process that opened the foreground/active window?
My code needs to run only when another specific process is running and the user is actively using that window, while that window is the top-most window on the desktop.
I'm trying to send keys (or more precisely, paste the clipboard, i.e., send a "ctrl+v") to the foreground application and I'm sort of stuck since I can only find ways to send a keystroke at once.
View 5 RepliesHow do I alter the background and foreground color in a listview box. I tried this code but it does not seem to work.
ListView1.Items(x).SubItems.Add("Samantha", Drawing.Color.Black, Drawing.Color.Yellow, myFont)
I have an application that gathers information from a user into a Win.Form and then uses the Process.Start() to start Notepad and then using Sendkeys write the Notepad document.Sometimes this works great and sometimes the Notepad window is not started as the foreground process and the document is not written.What is the best way to ensure that the window opened by Process.Start("Notepad.exe") is the active window for the duration of the Process?
View 10 RepliesOk so i have this function at beginning:
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View 1 RepliesHow would I go about forcing a seperate application to the foreground?
View 8 RepliesKnown the external window size, it Hwnd and the x/y coordinates of the button to press, I am trying this code, like seen on the web[code]\...
View 4 RepliesI need to know how to change the foreground color of a single character in a textbox control programmatically.
View 2 RepliesAfter upgrading to .net 4, my project is throwing errors everywhere I try and change the Foreground Color in code. It works fine in .net 2, 3 and 3.5
View 18 RepliesI was wondering if it is even possible to interact with other websites using my own.Here is the scenario: Lets say I have a Lockerz account, which is a place where you do daily tasks to earn points. Once a month you can redeem those points to get prizes such as an ipod, macbook, or other items. I know that sounds rediculous, but stay with me.
For someone to gain membership to this website they must be invited by a member. So I get your email address then log in to my account, then send you an invite from there.What I want to do is create a website where a user enters their email into a textbox and presses a submit button. From there the program, behind the scenes, sends my login information, and the users email address to lockerz and sends the invite. All without ever leaving my site.I have worked with ASP.NET with VB codebehind for a while now, so I understand the basics of that. I am just wondering if what i want to do is even possible.
I have two following rows of code:Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.Beep()or Microsoft.VisualBasic.Beep()The result is the same in this two rows.what is Interaction class?And when shold i use it?
View 3 RepliesI have a static picture, one for hover, and one for press.is there a way to make the picture change depending on my actions with the button?
View 4 RepliesI am using VB within the Visual Studio 2010 platform.I have created a simple Database with Access.I have connected my database to my VB 2010 project using the Visual Basic BindingNavigator object.I now need to navigate my Database with code from within VB 2010.
1) More specifically I need VB routines that allow me to:
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GoTo first record
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GoTo a specific record
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MoveDown one record at the time and sense the EOF.
2)I need to add new records at the end of my database as data become available through a change in four text boxes.
3)I need any other VB 2010 statement or routine that might apply to Database navigation and communication from within VB 2010.
My Database consists of four columns: Date, Time, Bid (Double Integer), and Ask (Double Integer), and was created with Access.Is Access the best solution for creating a Database today?
I would like to prompt the user, in the middle of a VB program, either with MsgBox or any other dialog, to input data in a worksheet of the Workbook that contains the code and then, on some event, read the data and continue execution. I was not successful with MsgBox (and other forms) since it is modal. The user cannot get focus on the worksheet, input data and then continue execution by clicking a command button.
View 2 RepliesIn the application I'm actually building, I'm dealing with two dynamically-added controls that need to interact with each other, but I've reduced the problem to an as-simple-as-I-can-make-it example with the controls being statically loaded, and it still presents the same problem: a NullReferenceException when invoking the delegate. Here's the gist:
Control 1
Partial Class Control1
Inherits System.Web.UI.UserContr
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I have set up a scrollbar to have a value between 0 and 264 (i.e. 0-255 when taking the width of the slider into account). I also have a text box that is set up to display the current value of the scrollbar as an interger. However I am currently unable to enter a value in the text box which also moves the scrollbar to its equivilent position. The closest I've been is when I was able to change the value but kept ending up with an error when a number above 255 was entered or when there wasn't a number in the text box.[code]What I am after is to be able to enter a number between 0 and 255 (and only a number between 0 and 255)in the text box and it change the position of the scrollbar accordingly and to omitigate the errors which occur when there is nothing in the text box by accepting an empty box as 0.
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