how I would make hotkeys e.g "ctrl + 1" to do an action even when the application ism't the active window.
for example I am working on photoshop and then i press ctrl + 1 and my app appears in front of it.
or if I press "ctrl+2" a new window will open.
I need this to also work when the application is hidden and in the system tray as well as when application is visible
I'm trying to get hotkeys to work in my application (to make it visable if its minimized). I got it to work except that they only work once... the second time you try it does nothing.
here is the code i was using
Public Enum HotKeyModifiers As Integer
MOD_ALT = &H1
MOD_CONTROL = &H2
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I have an application which uses hotkeys which are to be defined by the user. It is a combination of 2 keys, either CTRL, ALT, SHIFT as one hotkey and the F* Function keys as the other (e.g. CTRL + F1, ALT + F2 or SHIFT + F8) As stated these are then chosen by the user before a global keyhook is put in place to listen for them and trigger an event. In my app I have all my function keys as follows:
Public Const VK_F1 = &H70
Public Const VK_F2 = &H71
Public Const VK_F3 = &H72
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How can I make inactive textboxes / Richtextboxes autoscroll? I have Multiple richtextboxes that are constantly being appended with data automatically and at the moment only the one that is active scrolls and all the others stop when the fill up. How can i get round this?
View 3 RepliesI am having trouble creating inactive users in VB. I watched the tutorial [URL]but it is for C# and the code behind won't work in VB. I need the users to be inactive when they register and send the administrator an email saying someone has registered to be approved.
View 3 RepliesI'm sending keystrokes to in inactive window. And I got that all good.
But now on my program there is a textbox pass, and I want to get that text, and send it threw postmessage. But It doesn't seem to work.
Dim pass As String
pass = textbox1.text
PostMessage(windowHandle, WM_KEYDOWN, pass, 0)
I am working on a bitmap class module in Visual Basic 2010 that has an option to create a graphic grid on the bitmap.
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I am making a "fake Operating System" or "Virtual Machine" or what ever you want to call it. It has all of its own programs. I want Windows XP to stop running so that it will go faster and so on.Okay so I will obviously need coding on the Form1_Load and Form1_FormClosing Subs.Here is my attempt at coding it (Note that this is just the attempt at coding this particular part. It is not necessary to give you everything cause it would be to much and it might confuse people) :
Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
System(My.Computer.FileSystem.Drives.Join)
End Sub
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imagine following situation 2 forms, one form with some buttons and another form with a RichTextBox on it, if i click on the buttons the text in the RTB changes. Now i want to mark some words in the RTB with the mouse. The form with the buttons is the active form, if i click in the RTB and try to mark something, the form gets focus and comes to the front but if i move the mouse nothing happens. I have to perform a second click at first to mark something.I already tried a lot of things like setting focus to the form if the MouseButtonDown event fires, but all of that doesn't work. The only possibility that works if i set focus to the form when ever the mouse moves over the form, but this is annoying, cause everytime i move the mouse on the form the form pops to the front.How can i manage to mark the text with one simple click? Applications like OpenOffice or Notepad++ are able to do this as well.
View 1 RepliesMy toolbox was working previously & now is inactive for every program I pull up, old, new, and samples.
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View 18 RepliesGot a question regarding declaring a variable. Basically I have a module that writes to a text file using textwriter which is declared for the whole module to use at the top of the code. But what I want to do is clear the contents of the text file when the program is executed (using file.writealltext). The problem I have is that the file is obviously already in use as a result of the textwriter and the file cannot be modified because of this.
My question is: is there any way of declaring the textWriter object later on (not during the initial initialization of the module) without passing the object between functions? Setting the variable as inactive or something along those lines during initialization would be ideal.
For example, a user logs in and sets his status in SQL Server to active. While using the program, it suddenly blacks out. The status in SQL Server remains active. When the user logs in again, he can't access the same account in the program because in SQL Server the status remains active. How can I set the status to inactive during blackouts?
View 1 RepliesI want to manually add two items as "Active" and "Inactive" in a ListBox. When the user selects "Active", I want to get the value "A" and when "Inactive" is selected, I want to get "I". How do I do this in VB.NET.
View 3 RepliesI am trying to get a checkbox to activate and deactivate a button. While the button is deactivated it is dimmed or faded out. While Actvated the Text and button is fully visable. I did use ctype to activate the button from the checkbox.
Private Sub COMMEDIT1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles COMMEDIT1.Click
COMMFORM1.ShowDialog()
End Sub
Private
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I found this code in the help section online to enable & disable an inactive button but do not know how to apply this to the button.Enable or disables the automatic generation of inactive button images.
I want to be able to make an internet window (its a java game in a popup) that are "active" or even "inactive" all time.In example: I'm opening a MSN chat window, in the game a symbole next to my name changes to "ZZ", what i want to do is to make this "ZZ" won't appear
View 24 Repliesi'm trying to create a flat tabcontrol with a rounded rectangle tab for the selected tab + no border for inactive tabs?basically i'm trying to recreate that ribbon control in a very simplified form as a usercontrol.
View 5 Repliespossible to register 2 hotkeys? If so h
View 7 RepliesI seem to have a bit of a problem with the ICShartEditor text editor. It works fine for me in a Windows Forms app, except that if I have a button (or any other control) on the same form that defines a hotkey (like ALT-S for a Save button), then whenever I try to type 'S' in the text editor (or whatever the hotkey might be), then it triggers the hotkey rather than adding the character to the text.What appears to be happening under the hood is that all the ProcessMnemonic() methods for all controls of the form run, so those methods kick in and handle the keypress, which I would think should only happen if a key like the ALT-key is pressed.
View 1 RepliesI'm writing a program where there's a toolbar at the top, and to hide the toolbar you click "Hide Toolbar", but I need to create a hotkey to make it come back.
View 14 RepliesI have a code to detect Flashdrive USB insert. It works, but how can I detect a disconnect? You can google for any code to detect usb flashdrive insert, it's easy, but how disconnect.I needed to have a hotkey for a button function. I made an insivible menustrip with the code with the hotkey. How can I make the hotkey work EVEN if I alt tab out of the program (As long as it runs background)?
View 5 RepliesI want to know how to use hotkeys outside my form, but I am terible in searching online, and I only find how to declare them, but not how to use them.
View 5 RepliesNow my question is, is it possible to use Hotkeys and ScreenCapture in a Fullscreen game?If so, how?What im acutaly trying to do is a program to take a screenshot ingame (for some reason, this game doesnt have an option to take screenshots ingame.. Bad Company 2)
View 7 RepliesI have a program that locks the desktop when loaded and will only close if a username and password is entered.
the problem i am having is that once the user presses alt+tab or even the windows key the other apps are accessed.
how can i get my form to ignore any hotkey input.
I have been trying over the past few days to make a program sit open on the computer, waiting for a key press (which will be the hotkey). When the key is pressed, it will execute a peice of code and minimize itself. Im really sorry if this is too simple but im stumped over this one. I have searched google alot but no luck
So: I need to know how I can have the program 'monitoring' or 'looking for' a certain key press while it is doing something to tell it to stop, bearing in mind when the program actually starts it will minimise and stay minimised untill this hotkey is pressed that makes it maximise itself and stop the program.
How do I make hotkeys for buttons, which will activate it, like I pressed the button?
View 4 RepliesI've written a simple WAV player in VB 2010 - a Windows Form App with no menus. I'm trying to create a hotkey, like CTRL-D that would make a text box visible. Typing the correct password in the box will expand the form and show some Administrative functions. I'm having issues creating the hotkey with more than one key.I've got the following code, but it does not work. I do have KeyPreview set to True.
Private Sub _KeyDown(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Control And e.KeyCode = Keys.D Then
txtPWD.Visible = True
I've also tried
If e.Keycode = Keys.ControlKey & e.KeyCode = Keys.D
and many other variations including changing to ALT and SHIFT but nothing seems to work. If I remove one of the Keys, it works just fine.
I how how to register HotKeys for Keyboard but is it possible to do for a mouse?keyboard example - Registering Button "D"
RegisterHotKey(Me.Handle, 100, 0, Keys.D)How to register Left Mouse Button?
I'm trying to make a prank program that registers all of the letter keys on the keyboard and then will make random message boxes pop-up when you press certain ones, or just re-arrange the letters.But before adding any pranks, I'm trying to just get all of the hotkeys to work like a normal keyboard because when you register a key to be a hotkey, it no longer works for anything else. So registering "e" in the program will cause "e" to do nothing when your in notepad or something.
So far I've gotten pretty much everything to work except for this weird Shift bug. Whenever I press Shift and then a letter, the Sendkeys will correctly send the uppercase key, however as soon as I release shift and press a key without it, it still keeps the uppercase for one more letter.So if I press Shift + E then "E" will be successfully sent to Notepad, but then if I just press "b", "B" will be sent instead, but then after that first error it will successfully send lowercase again.
I was using wordlabel to store the letters so as to see if the shift uppercase problem was something in my coding, but actually when I press Shift + A and then just press a, it will do Aa in the label but AA in a program with the focus, like Notepad. So I don't know if this is a problem with Sendkeys or what but does anyone know of a solution?
How would I use "custom Hotkeys"? For example, if my textbox's text is F5, then how would I use GetAsyncKeyState to get "F5"?
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