I can launch my external program which is a Virtual Keyboard, but once it launchs then I have to click the textbox on my form or no text appears when I use the Virtual Keyboard. How can I make my form be the focus after the Virtual Keyboard launches?
View 1 RepliesIm creating a Virtual Keyboard for a touchscreen application and I was wondering if there is a way to know whenever a control gets focus, what type of control it is, basically either another thread or a watch function or something that raises an event when a control gets focus.GLOBALLY, not just one control or one form, but any control on any form in the whole program..Basically i want a keyboard icon to appear whenever the control is of Textbox type.
View 4 RepliesI have created a virtual keyboard like the "Windows onscreen keyboard". So, I have used the method sendkeys.But if I click on the button, it doesn't write nothing.
I think I have a problem with the FOCUS.As you can see, the "Windows onscreen keyboard" is always on top.This doesn't happen to my form. How can I do?
I'm trying to create a custom keyboard for my accounting firm. I have all the buttons and button events sorted out.How can I make it so that when buttons a pressed, the text is input into where the cursor is? Currently i put the cursor for instance in an excel cell, then click the key on the virtual keyboard and nothing is inputted into the cell, i assume because it selects the keyboard window when i click the button. For some keys I'm also simply using:SendKeys.Send("q") for example.
View 11 RepliesI am having troubles in connecting my virtual/simulated keyboard and real keyboard. i.e., when I press a button say "B" the button in my real keyboard, my virtual to response with that same "B" press.
View 1 RepliesI have seen similar questions which attempt to solve this issue, but none seem to work for me so far.Basically, for my first VB project, I am creating a virtual keyboard where a sound is played from the resources on KeyDown. So far, the program seems to work except for the fact that each key needs to be clicked by the mouse before the sound is played by pressing each key (hence put the object in focus), where I need the key to play the sound without clicking the keyboard key (put the object in focus on KeyDown).Below is an example of my code:
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I was looking to launch a program, such as MS Word, by pressing a button on particular form. Is there a way for me to do this?
View 1 RepliesI want to launch a program with the program path on the textbox typed in and i will press the button to launch it.
View 3 RepliesIs it possible to open/start a program at a specific time/date ?
View 2 RepliesIm trying to launch a program from any computer by using Application.StartupPath & "firefox.exe", but i cat get it to open , heres what im using atm.[code]I dont wanna use the full path names as they may be different on other computers, i know Firefox and IE etc will be the same , but im loooking to open any program regardless of its location.
View 2 Repliesi want my program to understand what i push the key "+" for example and do something. i can write this "something" but i dont remember how to make it see when i push the keyboard keys (NOTICE: i want the program to see the keyboard keys even if the program is minimized and another program is maximized)
View 5 RepliesI need to manipulate an external edit control from with in my program. (IE: Get new text whenver it's being enter into edit control and parse the infomation in my program).So, is it possible to create an edit control in my program that base on the handle of an existing application using win32 api or something
View 4 RepliesI am currently building a "program launching application" for personal and home use.Basically all it does, is have a toolbar for example File, Edit, Run, Programs ect....Run will bring down a list of common command prompt buttons which then, once clicked, will load cmd and input said code.
Example
Under run > cmd > IPconfig/all my code is as follows:
Private Sub IPConfigurationDisplayConnectionConfigurationToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles IPConfigurationDisplayConnectionConfigurationToolStripMenuItem.Click
Dim Command As String
Command = "ipconfig /all"
[code]....
I know how to make a progress bar, but.... how do I get it to show progress on opening adobe reader?
I want to hook keyboard with vb , so that whenever my application written in vb runs it will capture all the keys pressed from the keyboard and show all the keys being pressed in a textbox on window's form
View 1 RepliesSo recently my Netbook keyboard stopped working, I got this new one. That would not be a problem if it was not for the missing [FN] key. My computer has several shortcuts, like FN + F6 = Turns screen off.
I cant seem to figure out how to bind these shortcuts to buttons in Visual Basic so I can just hit the button and turn the screen off that way, I've only used VB to make small simple fun stuff.
Respect, I should write a program for my keyboard player, which would have the option of changing sounds. So, the device is plugged into the USB, which lets you plug in 4 MIDI device or its keyboard. In order to select a song, a program should then all keyboards set the preset sounds. Is it possible to make? Do you perhaps know what we all need?
View 1 RepliesI'm afraid I don't have any code to show, as I don't know where to begin with this. I'd like to have it so that if the user presses "Ctrl+O" it will run the OpenDialogue from the Menu. If someone really wants me to (don't see how it'd help, but whatever it takes ) I can post the fully functional open function.
View 4 RepliesHow do I get VB 2008 to Listen to the Keyboard Key strokes when I am in another program??
View 4 RepliesI am making this little tool for this online game i play (league of legends some of you might know it) Basically I made a small program which consists of 4 buttons and when you click button it starts timer and beeps once it reaches 0. Thats fine. Problem is I have to go out of game to click the button to start the countdown.My question is. While the program is running in background is there a way to press the button by assigning specific key on keyboard ? for example if I press F5 it will start the Bluebtn when i press F6 it will start Redbtn while I am in game.
View 1 Replieswell the title kind of explains it, what i would like to do is code a program or script that will make it so that when i plug a usb keyboard in that instead windows making it a clone of my laptop keyboard that it makes it a totally seperate device with 108 programmable keys that i can turn into scripts...now dont know if this is possible and if it is i am totally drawing a blank of where to start...once i get going i think i could handle it but its the starting point thats killing me.
View 2 RepliesSo I have my form, I add one combobox (combobox1) and a button that says "Launch..."Button 1's
Process.Start(ComboBox1.SelectedItem)
When you select a program from the combobox (combobox1) and click launch, it launches that program, for example, cmd.exe (command prompt) when I click the button, it launches the command prompt, but if I select a game (for example chess.exe, for vista), it says it can't find the file, this is because the search for the file is only: WindowsSystem32, how can I change that? OR, how can I add a reference that searches the WHOLE Disk, not just WindowsSystem32?
im having trouble getting my program to call an external application. the only thing is that im trying to get the path from a setting
my.settings.e1p
so far i've tried this
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(My.Settings.e1p)
I am using VB 2005. I am trying to open an external program, make it invisible, and then control it. It is fine if the external program shows up in the Windows Task Manager, but I don't want anything showing up in the Windows taskbar. I already know how to open the program I want to use. For that I am using:
Code:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:Program FilesSomeProgram.exe")
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I start an external Program using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start I want monitoring when a user has started a new file, saves or opens another file and get the info of the file in current process
View 1 RepliesI want to make a simple program that will click certain keys on my keyboard at a certain interval. I have VB10. Could someone provide me with some code?
View 7 Repliesi need the code in VB.NET on shutting down a windows computer
Also how can i write a program that disables the keyboard completely from working
Where should I go to leanr to program stuff like getting keystrokes, locking keyvoards, changing desktop backgrounds, opening CD trays, changing IE homepage, etc.... Basically everything windows... I'm using VB.NET right now. Is there an api or something to learn for this kind of stuff?
View 10 RepliesSo, I'm using shell to start up an external application at the press of a button, but the application requires several other external files with it in order for it to work. How could I make it work? Note: I'm a newbie
View 7 Repliesi am trying to get some text form an external program. Currently i am using this code:
Dim lngHWND As Long
Dim lngHWNDF As Long
Dim lngID As Long
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I am getting values for both the lngHWND, lngHWNDF and the lngChild. However, they are only values (numbers) and not the text itself.
Here is an image of the program i am trying to get the text from:
How can i go about getting the text from those items it finds?
i wanna know how to launch an external program as administrator Like tick a tick box and it launchs the program as admin if you tick it and push the button.
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