I would like to make a window for example (calculator window) and set its parent to my form
But I would like this to be able to be flexible to where I Just have to specify the Window's exe path and its parameters.
Example: (pathTo)explorer.exe -documents
how can I use main form like MDI parent form in window application?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to create a simple parent-child form in VB2010. I use a datagridview for each table/datasource and each is bound to the paretn/child table and each table grid fills correctly. What I want is the parent-child relation to enforce filling the child table with only rows that fulfill the current row on the parent. I have created a DataRelation in the form load, but it will not permit a relation between tables in 2 different datasets. If I attempt to place both tables in a single dataset and define the PK-FK relation in the SQL Serve,r I cannot create 2 separate datagrids from the same dataset.
View 12 RepliesI am having form called Test1 which contains button( Button1). When I press the button the message box is getting displaying,but at the same time I am accessing the Form Test1. It should not be the case, because before closing the message box the control should not allow to focus the Test1. But in my case the control is allowing to focus the Test1(form) before closing the message box.
Sample code.
If myReader.Read() Then
MsgBox("Matched record exist.", MsgBoxStyle.Information, "Data Tool")
Else
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In my project i have one parent window form with one menu bar and one status bar. that is what i want is:when i show the child form to see in the status ber an icon relative to the child window.How i can do that?And if that can't be how i can see an icon in a task bar?
View 1 RepliesVB Windows form Application.. I am developing an application of which part of the program is around configuration settings allowing the user to enter configuration items. When the menubar item for configuration menu is clicked on the main form the menu opens.This is fine but the mainform should not become active again until the configuration menu has closed. This does not happen right now and the mainform simply comes to the foreground and the configuration form goes to the background... I realize that coding an event on the Child form to handle this would not work because the child window loses control and the main form gains control.. I thought of coding a function as follows on the main form but it does not seem logical because i would have to add to it for everyform and do checking to make sure the child is actually open before trying to close it..
Private Sub Form1_GotFocus(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.GotFocus
MailSettingsWindow.Close()
RentalSettingsWindow.Close()
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I did away with the above sub routine and used the below code as per the recomendation of using showdialog which works just as i was looking for.
Private Sub MailingAndEmailSettingsToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MailingAndEmailSettingsToolStripMenuItem.Click
Dim MailConfig As New MailSettingsWindow()
MailSettingsWindow.Showdialog()
End Sub
I am looking to close the application when I click a cancel button in a login page, but I don't want to do it in such a way that Window 2 closes itself, but by sending some notification to Main Window, and Main Window closes the application. Here's the code that I have so far:
(in loginPage)
Public Event CloseApp As EventHandler
Private Sub CancelButton_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) Handles CancelButton.Click
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If I show a new non-modal child window using .Show(frmParent), and then the parent window is minimized, the child will get minimized automatically as well.
View 2 RepliesI am working on my final project and I need to have 1 MDI Form. For the life of me I cannot figure out what to do. My book mentions doing this:
Dim childForm as New ChildFormClass()
childForm.MdiParent = parentForm
childForm.Show()
When I put that in the Parent form it doesn't like the ChildFormClass(). I wouldn't think it would be too hard to make a parent child relationship? I have tried looking for the MdiList property but I cannot seem to find it. I think I need to have some menu items to have a child form. If there is a way to have an MDI form without that I would like that. Does anyone know a good tutorial that explains creating MDI forms well, and what to do/put in the parent and child forms code?
I'm trying to make an MDI parent form to call other forms. I have put this code which I found in a post here into the main form which I added to my project as an MDI parent form:
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I get an error message which say FrmEmbed is not defined. How can I correct this?
I'm experimenting with a plugin architecture for my company's internal business system. I have managed to read all .DLLs in a Plugin folder which implement a specific interface. What I am trying to figure out is the best method of communication between the "host" MDI parent application and forms that will be in the .DLLs which I intend to make MDI children.
Currently, I am returning just ToolStripMenuItem objects from the .DLLs to add to the MDI Parent. I've also tested that events wired in the .DLLs to the ToolStripMenuItems do propagate to the code in the .DLLs. I've also managed to return a Form object via the interface and open that form, as the Plugin folder is being "scanned".
However, I am not clear how I would make these forms MDI children. Also, any other forms living in the .DLLs will also have to be MDI children. I created a VS 2008 Addin project just to see what's going on, and it seems that the Addin accepts an Application object on which it adds to the ToolStripMenuItems and does other operations. The code to build the menu inside the .DLL. This is opposite of what I have done so far, where the MDI requests a ToolStripMenuItem from each .DLL and adds the returned object to its own menu.
Would designing my plugin architecture to accept an application object in the same manner the only way I could get forms to open as an MDI child? Am I asking for other, currently unknown to me, headaches by NOT passing in the application object to the .DLL?
I'm using Visual Basic 2010 Express.I have a form that can be minimized.There's also a tray icon.I've coded it so that if you double-click on the tray icon, the form's FormWindowState becomes set to Normal; this restores the form to where was before it became minimized, but the form does not become the active window on my desktop.
How can I make the form become the active most foreground window? I've tried various functions that I can think of but no luck yet. Tried searching with various queries to try and find the right wording but no luck.I'm new to Visual Basic - only started a couple hours ago.Probably something simple but I can't seem to find the correct function or anything.I have the form/window open, and then I overlap said form with a window of another application. When I double-click my app's tray icon, I want my window to become the active window, bringing it to the front, but can't figure out how
make a window change instead of a whole new form coming up(EX: when I press the next button, the layout of the page changes, but no extra forms)Well, If it is not worth it, it is not fun - you say programmers are boring but i say they are worth it.
View 2 RepliesI have an application, in which i have some windows forms and About form.When i show these windows, As of now they are coming somewhere near screen top left. But i want them to come at the screen centre.
View 8 RepliesWhat I wanna do is make mouse click on the Form/Window.Anywhere in the form/specified coordinates.So how can I?
View 1 RepliesI had a master form which has a MDI container.When I was load the master form, I will also display another form inside the MDI container.But I was fail to maximize the child form to fix the MDI container. The image below is my problem Untitled2.jpg. I need to expand the form above to touch the MDI container border. (Full size in the MDi container)But I was fail even I was set the child form window state to Maximized
View 3 RepliesI am using VB Express Edition 2010, and I want a button, when clicked, to make the form 'full screen' (border style done and maximised window state) and once clicked again, to return the form to maximised but with a fixed single border style. Here is my
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How to send a message to parent window in VB .Net?In my VB .Net application, there are a few windows which pop up in order.Main form starts form1, form1 starts form2, and form2 starts form3.In form3, I have a button which calls "Jump to Main". Once I click this button,I want to it to close
View 6 RepliesI have the following code in child window which is working but what I want to do is instead of using response.write I want to use label control or to display all the filename like this:
music.pdf, inventory.doc
My Ultimate goal is to pass the values in string (e.g.: "music.pdf, inventory.pdf" ) to the parent window. How do I do it?
Protected Sub btnUpload_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnUpload.Click
Try
'' Get the HttpFileCollection
Dim hfc As HttpFileCollection = Request.Files
For i As Integer = 0 To hfc.Count - 1
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I'm working on a sdi-like WPF application with VB as the code behind. Basically, I have a main window that has some tabs and a button that opens (shows) another child window. I need that child window to refer back to the parent main window and automatically bring it in focus and have a specific tab selected (via a button on that child). The child window is a separate class file with its own xaml and VB code in my project.In the child I tried using
My.Windows.MainWindow.myTabControl.ItemSelected = My.Windows.MainWindow.tabIWantSelected
My.Windows.MainWindow.Focus()
but this does not appear to work as the main window in the background doesn't appear to be referenced in this way. I can use My.[bla bla].Show() - but that creates a whole new instance of the main window on top of the old one. Activate() doesn't work either since the main window is already activated.It seems like a simple task but am I forced to use something like SetForegroundWindow()?
I haven't programmed in Visual Basic before. I downloaded the 2008 Visual Basic and I'm trying to write something that activates the frontmost window of the parent process. I realize that there's a few steps... find the parent process, get its first window (z-axis wise), then raise that window even though it currently isn't the active program.
I've found some example code on the net, but none of it compiles, even code I found at Microsoft. I'm guessing that it's all an older syntax that's no longer supported. [code]...
Here's an example of what I mean: I have Microsoft Word open. I click 'Save As' to open the SaveFileDialog. When I try to click back into Word the SvaeFileDialog window flashes and it plays a beep noise. More importantly, it doesn't let the main program gain focus whilst it's open.
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i am using vb2008: now i can find the parent window with this block of code
Private Sub Button11_Click_2(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button11.Click
Dim theHandle As IntPtr
theHandle = FindWindow(Nothing, TextBox9.Text)
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i do know how to use sendkeys, but if i use that and click on something else while i send the keys it picks up that window and trys to send the keys there thats what i dont wantnow using the top block of code along with this module how can i get the childwindow with focus on the "Richcntl" box to send text to itin a diffent click button:in this block:
Private Sub Button13_Click_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button13.Click
End Sub
i've small problem in vb.net .i've mdi container form,in child form datagridview is there previoues,next buttons in parent form.
How to pass datagrid values to parent window?
i'm new to vb.net.Pls help me any one.
how to disable parent window while child is open so the user cannot click any object in the parent window and to Force the user to interactive only with the child
View 2 RepliesI am using modal window for my VB.NET program and I am trying to open this child modal window from another window, after I close the child modal window I am trying to refresh the parent but I am getting retry/cancel popup, I tried a lot of things to avoid but I can't get rid of this popup.
View 1 RepliesI'm using ASP.net; I have a popup browser window that contains an databound gridview with textboxes. It has an "Add to Order" button which takes the values entered and updates the database, then closes the popup and refreshes the parent. This currently works perfectly using window.opener.document.forms[0].submit();self.close(); in a RegisterScriptBlock
I now need to update the database on gridview page chage so that textbox values are not lost. I put window.opener.document.forms[0].submit(); into the PageIndexChanging event of the datagrid, but it does not refresh the parent window. Refreshing the parent window with the order lines helps the user see what they have already ordered. My update database method runs fine, just not the parent browser refresh. I also tried "window.opener.location.href = window.opener.location.href" to no avail.Refresh parent browser window on GridView page change?
I am creating a modal popup window using the Telerik RadOpen function on an Asp.Net webpage.The popup window appears correctly, but the parent window refreshes and scrolls the popup down the page. How do I create the popup without scrolling the parent window.The code I am using to create the popup is:
btnEdit.OnClientClick = _
"radopen('newDialog.aspx?id=" + _id.ToString() + _
"&_newid=" + _newId.ToString() + "', 'newDialog'); return false;"
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I am making an address book for my final project in school, and have a few questions. In my address book, there is a feature to add groups so you can sort your contacts. The problem is, the add group feature is in a different form, I tried calling a procedure from the parent form to refresh all data but it does not work.[code]
View 2 RepliesIf you have ever noticed in the Task Manager, when you right-click on the running task, you have many options which include 'Minimize' and 'Maximize'. Is there anyway to do achieve this in vb?
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