Forms :: Forms To Open As Part Of A "bigger" Program?
Mar 2, 2010
I would like my forms to open as part of a "bigger" program, where there is a screen that fills the monitor and inside this screen is my form, centered. When a new form is opened, only the new form will be displayed...it will not be form on top of form.It would look similar to the screen in the following link, except the form inside the bigger screen would not have the minimize, maximize, or close buttons.I am just wondering if there is a property in VB.NET forms that will allow this to happen.
i was doing a fair amount of programming many years ago, like 10 it feels like, so I'm sorely not up to date on how my newly downloaded Visual Basic Express expects me to communicate with it.I am writing a program that pulls a cell from a database after the user has gone through several forms to determine which cells they want. When I write it like that, it doesn't sound very efficient, but I've designed it this way for usability.Here's where I have a problem: Should I store the path the user takes in a string, an array, what?
Here's an example:Someone wants baseball stats and trivia. They run my program, main form pops up, they select National League button, the NL Form pops up. Now the way my program is set up right now, is there are two ListBoxes on the form, one is populated, and as the user selects a Team from ListBox1, it jumps to ListBox2. Once they've selected all the teams they want info for, they click a button Next.
What I now need the program to do is show the next form "Team: name" once for each team, and insert the name of the team on the form in the appropriate label which I'll have blank. This form will also do the Listbox thing except the first listbox will populated with Topics like HR Stats, Pitching Stats, Coach History, etc.
I have an MDI running as the parent. How can you stop the forms moving to the back when they are open if you click in the any part of the MDI area. Also I notice if I have more than one form open it creates form instances on my windows task bar?
I have no idea what I have done wrong here, so I'll just attach my project as a zip file and see if any of you are kind enough to look into it for me.I am reasonably experienced in C#.NET but having trouble using VB.NET for a school assignment.I cannot open half of my forms in designer view because "To prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved".
i want to write a program and set it as default to open .txt files so when i double click on a text file that it opens in that program and displays the text into a RichTextBox
my question is how do i display the text in the RichTextBox after opening the program through a double click on a text file?
I have a issue in a serialization process. I'm trying to Serialize a part of a bigger class.
I've a Class named MyBigClass with contain many property and method, and some of them may not be Serializable.
And I'm trying to Serialize one property of the MyBigClass class, witch is a SortedList named SubClassXList defined as SortedList(Int32, ClassX)
My problem is when it is time to serialize the SortedList (SubClassXList) a error tell me that a Class (say Class B) could not be Serialized because it is not marked as "Serializable", but the Class B in question have nothing to do with the SubClassXList in question.
The only thing I could see, is that the Serialization method try to also Serialize the Main Class (MyBigClass).
Here is the method that I use to Clone a Object ClassX do have the attribute "Serializable()"
Public Function CloneObject(ByVal pObjectToSerialize As Object) As Object ' Create a memory stream and a formatter. Dim ms As New IO.MemoryStream()
I have two forms frmMain and frmNew, and one module modMain. In modMain I hold public variables which are needed for application. My question is how to open and close those two forms when needed? I ask this because if i set frmMain as startup form, then when closed, application will end, and one of those two forms will always be displayed. Also if I set frmNew as startup form, then when I close this form, application will also end. Is there a way to do this from module or something so my application won't end after closing and opening any of those two forms?
When using POS explorer, everytime I claim my receipt printer it takes a few seconds. My question is how can i claim the device at program startup then share the device between forms? Meaning I want to open, claim and enable during program startup then use the device on certain forms.
Basically, I have a large number of text boxes. Within these text boxes, I'll be doing calculations based on user input and other things. These boxes will be grouped by numbers, eg Cost1, Profit1, Stock1... Cost26, Profit26, Stock26. Without too much explanation, I went to write a FOR loop to perform a repetitive calculation across multiple groups, and the following line came up.
FOR num = 1 TO 26 Cost(num).text = ItemCost
What I've tried to do is use a variable to decide which 'Cost' textbox, from the available 26, to use in the calculation. For whatever reason, it won't work. I would like to be able to use a variable to specify exactly which textboxes I want used, so that on the 3rd pass of the loop, the 3rd box is used, and on the 19th pass, the 19th box is used. Otherwise, I'd just have to do each calculation separately, and write the same thing 26 times, with slightly different numbers.
During runtime, while (hehe...pun ) doing some operations, part of my windows form turns white, and the buttons don't show, and it doesn't look so user friendly.I am running some processes and I wonder if If its because I am not using the process.waitForExit() function, and I have quite a number of loops...
I want my form to look normal, and preserve the user interaction and all, without whitening out.
'm currently having trouble with a textbox. If the text in the textbox is longer than the textbox itself, it will display the end of text to the user. I need it to display the beginning of the text to the user. Is there a possible way to force that to
I have a vb.net windows form app that I am deploying as using the visual studio deployment project. The app needs to write event logs to the application log in the event viewer. For reasons explained here I need to create the event source during the installation process. Something like this to run as part of the installer
If Not EventLog.SourceExists(My.Application.Info.ProductName) Then EventLog.CreateEventSource(My.Application.Info.ProductName, "Application") End If
That code needs to be run during the installer with elevated privileges. So my questions are:
How do I execute that code above as part of the installer? How do I get the installer to do the UAC prompt to allow that code to run as part of the installation?
I want to close form and open another one without termination of the application, when I try to open second form and close first one the application terminate.[code]...
i want to make two forms open next to each other. So when button 1 is pressed form1 and from6 will open. I know how to make them open but i want form1 to be on the left and form6 on the right with atleast one inch in between them.
i have to open different forms thru menu. Whenever i am opening new from the current form should be minimized and new form should be visible and when closing the new form the old one should be viewed again. First level of menu to new form works fine but when i am using form to another form minimize works fine but i need to view in normal mode again fails to view. How can i do this?
Main.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal [Which is not working]
i am using this code to view. To minimize i have used Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized control.
I would like to hava an application in which I have several buttons on the main scream. Each button will open new screens (or forms) but I'd like them to open it in the same screen as the main form not in a new one.
I am trying to open two different forms depending on if I click yes or no from a message box. The code runs but both yes and no open the same form. Is it possible to open two different forms? My code is posted below.
Both open Form3 when clicked. mbrown686886 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
I am using a treeview as a menu to open forms. Currently, I have a Select Case statement to determine what the node text is, then the form opens.With many forms, Im not too certain that a Select Case statment is the way to go.
I have two windows forms,say frm1 and frm2. I have to open frm2 from frm1 and frm1 from frm2.when one form opens other hide. But the the problem is that everytime when i open the form new object of the form is created which increase the memory usage of the application.What should be the efficient way to switch from one window form to another in vb.net.
I have a form which has has a bound data source (generated automatically by VB - table adapter, binding source etc).How do I use the Form.Show method to open the form ready to enter a new record. Is there a simple way of doing this?
I have multiple tabs opened in 'any browser' and one of it is titled 'LAME', how can i make links open(by buttons) in that tab? I have a simple form with two buttons,
Button one: Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Process.Start("http://www.google.nl/sub1") End Sub
Is there any switch that will allow you to open an application over all the other currently open applications? My problem is getting Explorer to open over all the other currently open applications. Right now, it only opens in the background......
I am using MDI forms and I would like when a button is clicked, if the form is already open. it just puts it on top instead of opening the same form again.
I am doing windows application project in vb.net ,code for how to save ,open and print a file /document.i have used the below code for save but its not working fine. [[code]
I have a project with various forms all of the same size. Is there a way of getting them to appear in, for example the middle of the screen each time they load, in the same position
At one point I have a dialog form open, but in order to process it, the user might want to access information on other (open) forms. This would necessitate the ability to move/resize/scroll the other forms, but obviously everything is frozen during the dialog. I don't suppose it's possible to achieve this "semi-modal" state, where other forms can be browsed, but no other actions taken?
