Get Active Form Caption Color?
Aug 3, 2009How can i get the color of the caption of the active form in winforms?
View 1 RepliesHow can i get the color of the caption of the active form in winforms?
View 1 RepliesI want to have some labels on a form with the same font color as the caption on my group boxes, and furthermore I want these colors to change if the user has applied a different Theme on their system.
Can I do this without changing the GroupBox caption from its default?[code]...
I'm trying to be able to get the caption of the currently active window. I've figured out that I should be using GetForegroundWindow, but when I use it I'm just getting a long string of numbers, which I think is the handle. How do I go from that to the actual caption?
View 4 RepliesI want to get the active control (control which has the focus or where the cursor is on) each time the cursor moves to another control or each time a control receives a focus.
View 5 RepliesI need to use the existing color of a tab in TABCONTROL to color other buttons that are not on tab area. How should I do this. My tabs use the 3 number system and not the names of colors.
ie: BackColor 255, 128, 0
I want to change the form caption to center align by default it's right align .
View 2 RepliesHow to get rid of all the buttons - or boxes - on a form's caption bar without actually eliminating the bar itself? The closest I've gotten is setting the FormBorderStyle = FixedToolWindow, but that still leave a close button ('x'). If I set the control box property = False, that get's rid of the bar itself. I want to the users to still be able to grab the bar to move the form around, but not to minimize, maximize, or close via the caption bar - only the buttons I have on the form. It's always difficult when user's want something that's not standard windows design.
View 6 RepliesI want to show the Window caption form the Window_hWnd in
Label26
But just can't get it to work
Please add the code line and any declare
The code is working and do get the hWnd so everything is declared and right it is just if there is any other declarations[code]...
I have recently moved from developing in vb.NET 2008 to vb.NET 2010. There is a form in the application that uses an old Ascend Gradient Caption control to visually separate sections of the form. These controls are located on a tab control. The problem isthat the gradient captions seem to be unstable. They appear in odd locations on the tab pages at runtime, and I can't seem to select them in the designer. I can choose them from the combo box on the property page and edit the properties, but they stillbehave erratically. I understand that these are older controls and was wondering if anyone has had this problem and/or could recommend an alternative control
View 1 RepliesI want the background of my form to be the same color as the window frame color that the user selects, even if that changes. I selected System->WindowFrame as my background color, but it always remains a dark grey, regardless of what I have my window color set to. How else would I achieve what I want? I assumed I was doing it the correct way. Do I actually need code that gets the system window color and then apply it?
View 4 RepliesHow can i change the color or put a gradient color of their top of Form?
I'll try to change it a Formstyle to None and put a image on it....
But i want to know what the other ways to change the color of Top Form....?
It has to be a simple line of code but I do not know how to construct it. Using VB 2010 Express, I have a MDI parent form and many child forms. I want the parent form to determine what child form is active and load data into the RichTextBox1 on the child form. Each Child form has a RichTextBox1. The parent form gets its data by loading a file.
I am close to a solution but just can't get there. You will see in the code below, if I make a direct reference to a specific child form, it works great. What I want to do is to use the Active Form function to determine which form to write to. I have looked at the MS tutorial which gets me close.
Private
Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender
As System.Object,
[Code].....
I am trying to have any only one form type eg Countries, Projects, or Vendors etc. open at the same time. So, if a user has the Country form open and goes to open it again from the menu I would like the applaication to bring the form to the Front of the MDI container. I have tried a number of things like BringToFront, ActivateMdiChild, etc.
[Code]....
i want to know is there any way i can zoom my form in vb.net. i could resize the form and byanchoring all controls to left top right bottom i can make it look like zoom. but it is not actually zooming. it is resizing. while font size and other formats are still as same.
View 1 RepliesWhen debugging in VB6 it was easy to find the name of the active form because it was automatically highlighted in the Project Explorer.
How do I find the name of the active form in VS2010?
I want to get the active control (control which has the focus or where the cursor is on) each time the cursor moves to another control or each time a control receives a focus.
View 1 RepliesI need to build a program that can get the form's name of whatever window/application that is currently active/in focus. How do I do that?
View 2 RepliesI would like to put an active login form where by if one fails toput the correct password after 3 trials the program exits
View 1 RepliesI have a mdi application. When some childforms are open (but only one is active) and the user press a button, I want to know, what form is open, because depending on this, an event will fire up. I imagine this so: at first I determine the active form with a separate function. And then with a select case statement the event will be fired up. How can I make this?
View 2 RepliesI am writing an application where active directory validation is required before accessing the main form. There are 2 forms. Form 2 is the login form and form 1 is the main form. The main form would have a simple look, with about 10 checkboxes.I have managed to get the authentication working great but what now need to do is validate groups. Say if "user A" is in "groups A,B and C" and "user B" is in "groups B and C" i would like for them to use my login form, once they log in, the groups that they are members of would appear in a listbox on either form, (whichever is easiest) and is hidden from the user ... if they are in group A, then the main form would show only the first 3 checkboxes, if they are in group B, then it would show the 4th and 5th checkboxes, if in both groups then show the first 5 checkboxes etc.It is a simple idea, but is complicated to explain.As i said, the login form is working with the active directory... here is the code for the login form:[code]Form1 in the code is my main form, and wish for it to change according to which groups the user is in.
View 9 RepliesI am developing a Windows Forms application. I have four forms which is inherited from Baseform in another project. In all four forms I am using a label to show some transaction count based on network status. I have implemented a thread which gets the active form of application and setting up the text. The code works fine if application screen is active. If I minimize and open any other application, I am getting an null error exception.
How do I get the active form of an application?
Private Sub StartThread()
pollThread =New Thread(AddressOf PollfileStatus)
pollThread.IsBackground =True
running =True
pollThread.Start()
[Code] .....
I am new to vb.net and what I want to do is change the bg color if my form is active.
I have tried searches and try and fail but I cant figure it out
I was wondering if there's a method to set the form as the active window (not topmost obviously), if it's currently not the active window (meaning another window is currently the active one). By active I mean "selected".
View 1 RepliesI want to get the contents of the active child MDI form, how do you do that? Here's what I did to create a child form.
childForm += 1
If childForm > UBound(childForms) Then
ReDim childForms(childForm)
[Code].....
So say I want to get the text from an active form. How can I get the active form id so I can just do this?
childforms(childform).textbox1.text
I just starting to use MDI form. I can show the child MDI form, without any problem. My problem is that I want to close the child form also from the parent menu bar. This is my code:
Private Sub CloseToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CloseToolStripMenuItem.Click
Dim frmActive As Form = Me.ActivateMdiChild
[code].....
I'm an old Access developer and know VBA quite well, but now I'm working at learning VB.net. I'm trying to find the equivilent of the following Access VBA code using VB.net:
Function EvalField()
Dim x As Integer, ctl As Control
Set ctl = Screen.ActiveControl
x = Val(Mid(ctl.Name, 5))
Screen.ActiveForm.Controls("Formula" & x) = ctl
ctl = Eval(ctl)
UpdateTotal
End Function
This code sets a control variable to the currently active control, then copies the text from that control into it's matching "Formula" field for reference by the user), then turns the string of math into the answer. For example, if the user enters 5 + 4, that will be copied to the Formula textbox, then it will be evaluated and the answer will replace the 5 + 4. And lastly, the UpdateTotal sub will execute which will add this answer to the existing Total field.
The form my application starts with is called Form1.
now if i have another form called form2 and call
form2.width=500
when you press a button on form1 then form2 is resized to 500
BUT if I call
form1.width=500
from the same button Form1 is NOT resized why is this?
I've got a module for my program thats displays the active time and date, on a form. For some reason my code is incorrect and nothing happens when I run the form. Heres the code I have in the module:
Module ModDateAndTime
'Declares tmrdat as a timer with events
Public WithEvents tmrdat As Timer
'declares lbldat as a label
Public lbldat As Label
[Code] .....
And the code in the form's:
'declares lbldat as lbldateandtime
lbldat = lblDateandTime
The relevant label in the form is named lblDateandTime
I have created a form containing a text box and a button. i would like to know if it is possible to embed this form in the title bar of the current active window that is opened eg: ie,notepad,word this is so that i can enter a word in the text box and use text to speech to say it or highlight a word in the active window and it will be placed in the text box of my form. i can position the form in the top right location but then the form position is stagnant.
View 3 RepliesI have created an application which has a parent form and various child forms, when all child forms are closed and only the parent form is viewable would it be possible to exit the application?[code]...
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