How to implement a floating toolbar in the desktop form that can be placed anywhere in the form and also tell me if this can be called by other form other than actual form implementing it to display to the user for some common purpose.
View 5 RepliesI've two forms Form1 and Form2, I want to add container(*) in form2 having toolstrip(Toolbar) and later want to display that container(containing toolstrip) in Form1, that enable the user to use toolstrip to execute needed actions written in form2.
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How can I make a floating toolbar (like the font toolbar that appears when highlighting text in Word 2007)?
I would like it to appear at a given point when mouse is clicked.
How can I make a floating toolbar (like the font toolbar that appears when highlighting text in Word 2007)?
I would like it to appear at a given point when mouse is clicked.
When right-click the Taskbar -- Toolbars, then click the Desktop, the taskbar will show the Desktop toolbar.
View 1 RepliesI am using Visual Basic .Net 2010. I have created a desktop toolbar in my application. I can dock it on any side of any monitor I have. I can move it. It works great. One problem I have, however, is that when I move the toolbar to another edge it appears to leave something behind. The desktop looks clean, but when I ALT+TAB through my applications, I have several items in the list that apparently are left behind from previous locations of the toolbar.
I am using SHAppBarMessage(ABM_REMOVE,abd) as I leave the old location and then SHAppBarMessage(ABM_NEW,abd) and SHAppBarMessage(AMB_ACTIVATE, abd) (With abd.lParam set to true) and SHAppBarMessage(ABM_SETPOS,abd) and SHAppBarMessage(AMB_WINDOWPOSCHANGED,abd).
One item I saw in an article was the uCallBackMessage parameter of the AppBarData structure. I do not know how to set this correctly and respond to callback messages. I do have a Protected Override Sub WndProc method, but I do not know what to do with it.
I am creating a toolbar for the desktop. The only problem I have is that all though I have the windows above all others windows I need to have the other programs (not created by me) to snap or max to below my program etc. I have tried to search but have not found anything to help me or explain how to do it..
I am using Visual Studio 2010 Ultmate (visual basic 2010)..
Is it possible to automatically insert a Code Snippet when an interface is implemented? If so, how do you do it? I am looking for something similar to when you implement IDispoable in VB.[code]This will be used by web forms when transfering parameters from one page to the next using Server.Transfer
View 1 RepliesI'm creating a program in VS2005 VB.Net somehow like a windows explorer, my problem was on creating a navigation toolbar in my form.
Does anyone know what is the code for back,forward,up one level in navigation toolbar??
I am having trouble with this project I am working on. I am a beginner to vb and have some background in access databases. I will attach my am doing an inventory project. When you execute the form, a main form pops up that allows you to choose Production or Inventory. My issue is with the Production. In the production form that pops up after clicking Production, there are text boxes to be filled out by the user based on the production run.plementing a class that will give the box count based on the box type entered. I have to use a class based on the project requirements.
Basically to calculate the usage, enter in a random number for Pods Produced, then enter in a box type (which is A box, B box, C box, D box, Master Case). I want the Public Class Box Count in the code to be able to be placed in the production form's main class code and calculate the box count based on the box type entered. If A box, box count should be 50. If B Box, box count should be 100, If any other box is typed in, the box count should be 150
this is used to add upon details of username and encrypted password in database
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Security.Cryptography
Imports System.Text
Public Class Form1
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i would like to have a trackbar on my form that will correspond to the HUE of the color of the backgruond, given a range of 1 to 360, and another trackbar that will correspond to saturation of the color of the backgruond, within a range of 1 to 50.
View 1 RepliesGoogle Chrome has a handy feature where I can click a download link and drag it into a Windows Explorer window, and then drop. After dropping, Chrome then downloads the file and it appears where I dropped it.
I would like to be able to drop from Google Chrome into my application, but it seems it isn't so simple. I have a DataGridView called gridFiles, and the following code:
Private Sub gridFiles_DragDrop(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs) Handles gridFiles.DragDrop
If e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.FileDrop) Then
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EDIT: So it seems that with regular URLs, I do get the proper dragged-in UniformResourceLocator format. The behavior I am seeing occurs with the download links in Gmail. It probably happens elsewhere, but I am not sure. When a gmail attachment is dragged from Gmail into my application, I get a FileDrop.
Doing some more digging, it seems that Gmail is using the download_url attribute of the anchor tag. I have never heard of this before. Perhaps this is just an extra property they have added?
In any case, since my application will primarily be used with e-mail attachments, I need a way for the phantom FileDrop to work, as stated above. I am unable to use Spy++. It doesn't seem to show any messages when drops occur.
Edit #2: Here is more information on how Gmail utilizes drag/drop for files: [URL]
I'm trying to set up a data entry form using my own toolbar as a navigator. I am able tor retrieve the data fine, but I'm having trouble with the record navigation. I'm tring to use the movefirst/last/previous/next methods of a bindingsource to move from record to record, but it's not working. The code is below. Apparently I'm not properly attaching the bindingsource..but nothing I try seems to work.
Imports System.Data.Common
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Public Class Form1
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I would like to make a image in the form representing the icon and a label below it to represent name but is there a easy way to do this.
View 2 RepliesI'm getting started with VB 2008 and was wondering which control I can use to create a Toolbar within a windows form title bar, as MS Word 2007 does?
View 5 Repliesi want to make a a form when i send items in form as like as my desktop
View 3 RepliesIn my application, when the main form loads, it also loads a second form.
This form has it's ShowInTaskBar property set to False, has no control box, and is not movable by the user.
This form is only used to show information about the PC, to the User.
I need a way to make the form pretty much completely inaccessible and appear beneath all windows. When the application loads, the second form loads above other windows and you can Alt+Tab to that form.
I was wondering if there was a way to get it to"set" itself on the desktop and no appear in the application list when you Alt+Tab.
i want to add a new floating rectangle with an image inside it to my form when i click on a button control and then use a timer control to move it in a straight line across the Form. the problems I'm having are:
1) Drawing and filling the RectangleF on the screen.
2) Animating/moving it from X1,Y1 to X2,Y2
3) Triggering the Drawing and movement with a Button Control
I use IrfanView for screen capture.After activating it (making it ready) it is necessary to use Ctrl & F11 to invoke the actual screen capture selector.how I may achieve a "Floating Key" which would act in the same way as the Ctrl & F11 combination?
View 4 Repliesi have two forms one is a text editer and the secone one is a big form and i want to save a file form the text editor to the secone form just like on a desktop would.
View 1 RepliesI've spent a while searching around and I can't find a solution to this:I have a transparent, borderless form that displays a clock. I can load this just fine, but I want the clock to be part of the desktop, so it cannot take focus, is behind other applications, and is not hidden with Win+D (similar to applications like RainMeter).
I need the solution to work with VB.Net (I'm using 2010)
Is there anyway to "dock" a form to the desktop? I have a "child" form that will display info when the main form loads. This form is not meant for the User to interact with it. When I load the form and other windows are open, it displays over those windows until I minimize and then restore the windows. So I want to be able to dock it to the desktop.
View 3 RepliesI created an app that allows the user to look up pricing and search for items, to help speed up dealing with customer asking for pricing and what not. The form stays atop all windows at the top of the desktop, and is setup, currently, to shrink down (or up in this case) by double clicking on the title bar; I've disabled the minimize and maximize buttons.
How it is setup now is okay, but not as sleek as I want it to be. Is there any way to minimize the form to just the caption bar, like what happens with a command window; it minimizes to the a title bar above the start menu, but I want it to minimize to the top of the screen, almost blending into the title bar of the other open windows. Right now, the form is out of the clients way when minimized, or shrunk up, but it looks kind of lame, with a thin strip of the gray part the form still showing.
I have an old fashion Database with several random access files and I need to import the data to a new Sql Server dababase the data. There are tables with 6 Bytes floating numbers fields and we have no Number data type with that length in VB. I tried and tried and... and can't find. I found this code in the ERP folder, is AlphaBasic. It use an envoirement namend A-shell from Microsabio .
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I'm new to .net programming, but I do have some experience programming. I've used a picture box to make a custom button. It works on the main form, but when I open a dialog form with the same image the transparent areas shows the desktop and not the dialog. Thishappened for images with an alpha channel and also images that used the transparency key. I tried it with a winform instead and the images with an alpha channel worked fine, but the transparency keyed images showed the screen. All
View 3 RepliesHow to determine whether form is it inside the desktop?
View 3 RepliesI had started a similar thread http:[url].... in May but got side tracked, tried to resurrect it by posting back to it but not getting any response so I am starting anew.I have a .net 2.0, VS2010 application. I have users that occasionaly have the following occur:
Open my application, do some work, leave it open go to another application, excel, IE, Firefox, outlook come back to my application, open a new form My application form opens but instead of it being on top with the focus some other application that was previously opened (the excel, IE, etc.) pops up the user can minimize the offending application and there is my form or go to the taskbar and select my application and there is the form
This post echos my problem: http:[url]....Although my app is a windows form app.The issue arises if I had been checking my email for example in outlook or I may have had IE open for example, so the other aplications on on the desktop not minimized. Both my app and the Outlook(the other application is not important it happens with any open application) are open on the desktop. I finish checking email, I click on my app to bring it to the foreground. I then click on a button that results in opening another form. My "I am working" form pops up. The main app now ready to display the new form closes the"I am working" form, outlook comes to the foreground and I can then see the new form in my app get displayed behind outlook.
The code flow is my app is opened, a midi child is created in the main app window.a double click on a contol causes a background worker to be started. That background worker opens a form that just shows a spinning ajax control with the words "working" in it. Meanwhile the app is busy prepping a form for display.When the form is ready to be displayed the background worker is cancelled which removes the popup form and then the newly constructed form is displayed.
At first I thought this had something to do with the background worker and a different thread being created but that is not the case.I can replace the background worker with a simple popup of a modeless dialog. Of course any work done in the background worker is not done but the modeless dialog will not block the main app. And when the main app closes the modeless dialog I get the same behavior with the last opened desktop app coming to the foreground and I can see my newly created form popup behind it.
I can of course just as soon as return from the call to close the working form give my app focus but that still results in the other desktop app coming to the foreground briefly and then my app coming to the foreground, not really a solution. With that bit of info it seems that my application is for some reason giving up focus between the time the working form is closed and the main app new form pops up.My code is way to big to post and it involves DB reads so it is just not feasible to post it.I tried recreating the scenario in a much smaller project that really did not represent much of the complexity of my application and could not get the issue reproduced.
I'm new at the forums but not to .net development. I'm trying to make an application, which stays above the Dektop level but ALWAYS below any opened window. This application cannot be minimized, it has to be visible as a desktop background (just for getting you the main idea). As I was reading, I found that the way to make the form not to minimize is by using the WndProc function, and intercepting the Minimize message. My question is.. which of all the available messages is the correct for this case?.
P.D.3 (And last one I hope): See, the main reason of this application, is to make some kind of an "Active Desktop" function, which is not supported by Windows XP 64-bit. As XP64 doens't come with Active Desktop to use Web Pages as Desktop backgrounds, my idea is to make an application which loads certain web page and put's it on the desktop background.
can some one so me an example of how i can make a form to a desktop that will let me save files to the form and duble click the file and it open a program to view that file in,
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