insert images in a combobox. I understood the code, but what I'm asking is how do I add multiple images per line of the combobox?? I mean the way, the smileys are displayed in dropdown grid in Yahoo! messenger or the sort when you click on the smiley button..
I'm using Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition with .NET Framework 3.5
I have multiple bitmaps(i) in arrays, and I want to know if I can save each of these bitmaps into on animated gif file. I thought about using image.saveadd() but i'm not sure if that will work.
View 2 RepliesHow to work with multiple combobox. I have several combobox. I it to have same itemlist and set a default value for this.I used to do:
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Dim MyItemToBox(3) as System.Object
For i as integer = 0 to 3
MyItemToBox(i) = "A" & i
Next
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how do i change the picture inside a picture box.I wanna make 5 dice that change when you press roll.. the number generator is easy i just wanna use graphics rather than a label to display the numbers.
View 1 RepliesI managed to combine two .png images into one, and then display the result in a pictureBox image.However, the pictureBox seems to scale up my image! Makes it bigger!The pictureBox size is 96x128. The two images I have combined are 96x128. The pictureBox's SizeMode is set to "Normal"I have noticed that even though the pictureBox's image seems to be zoomed, it is cut to keep the 96x128 rect. But I don't want it to be zoomed...
View 6 RepliesI've got a picturebox on my form which is supposed to hold a compass. I've created the compass with DrawEllipse, then I used a translatetransform() to move the origin to the center of the picture box:
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The problem is that it creates two images, one is correctly displayed of a compass with red tick marks, but the same image is displayed over it and is offset at the new origin (midx,midy). I tried using the prepend and append overload for the translatetransform sub but it didn't make a difference. I thought everything after the translatetransform would be set at the new origin, but it seems I'm creating the image twice, what am i doing wrong?
My app allows the user to set a new button on a tabpage, move it and resize it. They will do this over a background image so the buttons line up with images in the background.Without the background image, the buttons move smoothly and quickly. With the image turned on, the buttons want to move sloooowly and they drag. I made up this code just to show the basic function of what I am trying to accomplish.
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Public Class Form1
Public finalshape As Region
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I have an "array" of picture boxes. I load a default image into them which I need to swap in a loop (very small gif). A bit like this:
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I am starting to develop a card game client for a CCG a friend of mine and I are creating.
I have 2 forms Client.vb and Hand.vb linked with a module.vb
In essence when the app starts up I see the client. I can then click the "Hand" button and the Hand Window is shown as well.
What my goal is is to have it so that when i hover over the card (picturebox) in my hand form that it displays a larger image of that card in the preview box (Another picture box) In Client.vb
I have everything working except when i actually mouse over the image in the hand form it creates an error:
Error:A first chance exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in CCG 2.0.exe
The code in the mouse hover event:
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F1.PictureBox2.Image = F2.PictureBox1.Image
Im Almost certain im going about this the wrong way but I cant seem to figure out any other way...
PS.I have attached an image to demonstrate what Im trying to do...
I'm developing a VB.Net 2008 application which uses background images (in jpg format) in some forms and controls, but this makes the application to use a lot of ram. My question is how to make it to use the less possible.
View 3 Repliesmy interface is like this, i've put 4 text boxes above, followed by a Generate Button in the middle and a multiline text box below the Generate button (please see the attachment)
so all i want is when i click the Generate Button, i want the data entered inside the above 4 text boxes to display in the multiline text box at the bottom in 4 seperate lines and not in 1 row. Also i would like to have some line spaces.
this is the code i used
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' This is used to display in Bold
OutputTextBox.Text = "" & TextBox1.Text & ""
' This is used to display TextBox2.Text
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Just wondering, is it possible to put some tabs above the big multiline text box at the bottom, say like 4 tabs and each tab consists of a big multiline text box inside it. And then when clicked the Generate Button which displays different data ...
I'm trying to rotate a mirror, which I represented by a line across a specific point. I translated the point of rotation to the center, rotated by an angle indicated in a text box and then translated it back to its original position.
Here is my code :
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Dim theta As Single
Private Cntr_X_blu_Mirror As Single = 5
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I hope the code is good. The problem I encountered is that the line becomes smaller and smaller as I rotate it. and that's bad! Sometimes it even grows longer [I think when I rotate it in the oposite direction!]
Also, when I rotate it at 90 degrees, the rotation does not resembles a 90 degree rotation. It seems to be inclined at 45 degrees instead!
I'm trying to make a custom combobox from scratch that multiple instances will share the listbox that holds the data on. I'm trying to draw the button face manually using GraphicsPaths and pens and brushes, but I'm having a few issues with it:
1. How do you draw that down arrow glyph in a way that doesn't look like a two-year-old sneezed on it? I'm having problems with the shape looking like the traditional one.
2. How do you position the listbox that contains the data in such a way that isn't bound by the containing form's render window?
3. I've tried to make the background look different when it has focus, but the OnPaint seems to think it always has focus and always makes the background the "focused control" background.
In a application i'm working on i need to be able to select a graphic (a line to be specific) and then i need to change or move it but i cant find how to add a click event to the line when a draw it. Basicly i want to click on the line to select it (make it fatter or an other color) and then be able to alter it in position and size (lenght). Is there any way or what is the correct way to do this?
View 6 RepliesI would like to build a line chart which can redraw or change during a period of time with dynamic data. So that the x, y axis will change if out of range. The graph may be somehow similar to Matlab. I am using vs2005.
View 2 RepliesI look at hundreds of VB.Net user interfaces through the internet and they all look horribly unsophisticated from a graphics point-of-view.Compare this to the backgrounds seen on tv broadcast that use blurred line gradients to create graphics that have some interesting appeal and draw the eye to them (at least my eye).I've attached some sample screenshot grabs below that I have annotated with magenta rects showing the interesting sections.What types of graphics routines can produce these types of graphic effects? The options that I have identified so far:
1.) More carefully done line smearing (see below..)
2.) Line drawing with a VB.Net version of the "Bresenham's line drawing algorithm"(as passel mentions in this post) (that might allow a specialized set anti-aliasing routines - like a wu algorithm).
3.) Line drawing with some Gaussian blurring as seen in the attachment to this post from my Perlin Noise thread.
4.) Possibly a gradient shaped by a vector GraphicsPath?
5.) Some other VB.Net gradient generating method?Possible the use of multiple passes with an alphafade brush?
6.) Last resort: manipulating the colors of individual pixels with lockbits marshal copying (highly undesirable).
I've done a fairly complete survey of whats out there on the internet for VB.Net samples for drawing lines to see if any of them combined line drawing with gradient effects and found very little.I played around with some code I found that did line drawing through mouse dragging and managed to achieve what I call the "line smearing" effect.I've attached my Line_Smearing_Demo below..As yet I have been unable to combine lines with shaped bezier curves,to produce Guilloche/Lissajous/complex Spirograph patterns like those seen on this page.
I'm working on a small app that takes a series of screenshots to analyze a graph. The problem I'm having is that, on my 3-monitor setup, the screenshot works fine on the primary monitor, but when I drag my app to either of the other monitors, the screenshot is black. I've also tried taking screenshots of the other monitors while the app is in the primary monitor by feeding the coordinates into the CopyFromScreen call directly, and that works, but as soon as I drag my app to one of the other monitors, all my screenshots are black. Also, and I'm pretty sure this will be important later, my primary monitor is attached to the on-board video, whereas the other two are attached to a separate video card. Both the on-board and installed cards are ATI Radeons.
Here's the screenshot code I'm using:
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Namespace ScreenShot
'/ Provides functions to capture the screen, in whole or part
Public Class ScreenCapture
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I have a strange problem; on my form there is a TabControl, and every tab contains a DataGridView.I set all DataGridViews Autosize column property to DataGridViewAutoSizeColumnsMode.Fill and then I set for every column the width with FillWeight, using the same set of values for every DataGridView.Although all these DataGridViews should look the same, the one on the first TAB looks different, it looks like I used different FillWeight values.All others DataGridViews on subsequent tabs looks the same, only the one on the first tab looks different..
View 2 RepliesI don't know the best way to use multiple forms in VB, but I have created a problem and I'm not sure where it came from or how to fix it.
Background: I start the program at Sub Main. This is the main function:
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Module modFunctions
Dim frmD As frmDAQ
Dim frmT As frmTrendView
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it works, but I don't want to have to change the entire project.
I need to be able to add (specific) special characters to text boxes. Problem is, there are five of them spread across two forms and three tabpages. What I'd like to do is bring up a form when the user presses something like "F2" while the text boxes are focused, then on that form would be a grid of buttons. When the user pushes a button, the character is added to the box. How do I get this form to reference the box that called it without passing a global variable or calling a public function? I tried Form3.Parent.Name, but that always seems to refer to nothing. Also, once this is done how can I get it to just insert a character where the cursor on the calling box is? It probably shouldn't even be on a form either since that will take the focus when it's called (which I don't want)
View 3 RepliesThe Title says it all Adding Multiple Checkboxes on FormLoad Depending on Amount of Items In Database. [code]
View 4 RepliesProblem drawing dotted path lines, with even dots along the path line.I want to draw a path line that can be any shape (square, round, outline etc), and along this path line I want even dots to appear.
I also want to be able to resize the shape (as in the example attached)This is very easy to do using "DrawPath" and defining points for the path and using a pen defined as dots.The problem I have is I want the dots to be evenly placed along the path, on any shape or size I draw.In the example I have created, I create a square with 4 points and draw a dotted path.There are 2 buttons that allows me to resize the square (larger or smaller) this helps show the problem more clearly.
The path starts at the top left corner and finishes back at the top left corner, the dots are evenly placed along the path, except the final dots at the end of the path. (Sometimes the dots are even and other times they are not even).The shapes I want to draw can be any size and any shape, but I have used a square in this example to show the problem I have. point me in the direction I need to go that allows me to draw the dots and give the impression that they are even all along the path, for all shapes and sizes.
In the pictures below if you change the size of the shape, one will have even looking dots, the other will not.
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I've drawn a graph where each gridline represents 15 minutes. (Every 4, 1 hour of time)The resolution is 100 dpi per inch. Each column is 12 DPI. (Not very big)Each gridline can have zero to multiple "Lines of data" which must be centered under the associated gridline using a vertical transform. (Each drawtext label represents an event that happened at that point in time)This I can figure out. The problem is that there can be 3 labels at 3:00AM, then another 2 labels at 3:15 AM with more labels as time progresses through the day. If each "label takes up 24 dpi of space, I need to center 120 dpi of data under 12 dpi of space.(Drawing the lines from the gridline to the associated data should not be an issue depending on how the "label is centered)How can I center all 5 labels at runtime. I've considered an array but each time a "label" is added, I would have to recaculate each labels position. Besides that, how can my program recgnize that the data it is coming up to (data is read one line at a time) is a group or how large the group is?
View 17 RepliesIm working on a project that needs to print a report of one client.Everything went smooth untill i came across my multiline input text data.When i display it in the PrintPagePreview the text go's outside my page. Even when im printing it only the halve of my text is displayed. I googled and looked everywhere but i can't get a clear fix for it.
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I used to program with Visual Basic 6, so I have alot of old programs that I'm updating, plus I'm learning the new VB2008 methods. I'm writing a program that replaces the old "BitBlit" function which is no longer supported by Visual Basic 2008. It involves three picture boxes, one holds the sprite bitmap, a second holds the mask (silhouette) of the sprite bitmap, and a third has a background image.
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drawing text on a window which is not the current form's window.I remember doing this in Win32 api with getwindowdc(handle) to obtain a DC for the Window, then textout() on the DC.
View 2 Replieshow to create a user interface in a game such as the application XFire using Visual Basic?
View 3 RepliesI'm working on a design project where I have to use a Graphical User Interface that contains a drag and drop form. It consists of having a window dropped on a wall. Both of them are images to scale. I would like to know what kind of code I would have to use to show the x and y coordinates of one of the points of my window when dragged so when I drop it, I'm dropping in it on the desired coordinate of the wall.
View 2 RepliesOk, I want to create a class that will handle a special rectangle graphic.In my form, I want to have two of these special rectangles. So, basically, I need two instances of that class in my form, right?I manage to initialize two, alright. But, how exactly am I supposed tomanage drawing/graphics etc in a class, and the results to be displayed in my form?
View 13 RepliesUsing graphics paths for designing...but am getting an error when trying to add a shape to : _shapelist.add(createshape())
It says : Value of type 'system.drawing.drawing2d.graphicspath' cannot be converted to '1-dimensional array of system.drawing.drawing2d.graphicspath'