I'm making a form that has a completely owner-draw nonclient area and have to manually hittest to open the system menu.
The code below opens the system menu, but the items don't do anything whn you click them.[code]...
How do one create System Level environmental variables manually. I just installed a GeoSupport Desktop Edition software and in the document it is mentioned that I need to create system-level environmental
variables for PATH and GEOFILES manually
Add the location of the GDE executables to the system-level environmental variable PATH.Normally this means adding C:Program FilesGeosupport Desktop Editionin to the PATH.
This is my 1st time i deploy a system in vb and i deploy it at the desktop So after i install my system, i can see my system in the system menu.But may i know that why my system cant open in the system menu, it is not type .exe while is ClickOnce Application Reference and each time i need open to my system is from my location desktop setup.exe there, is it normal ? Besides that, may i know how to make my system install in the program file directory?
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to add an item to the system menu of my WinForms application. The following is the snippet of code I'm using. When this runs I can see the separator line added to the menu, but my 'About...' entry isn't added. I'm using VS2008, and running on Windows 7.[code]....
View 1 RepliesSo basically im around 2 months into building a text based rpg game in vb 2010 which is coming along lovely. there are unique charachter creations, bans, loans, monsters to fight, levels, skill points, spells, inn's, etc etc... you get the idea. so now its time to move on to one of the largest problems of all. an inventory :O now, i have a db with the correct information in, i have even sorted all the code for the program to read the db with the correct items and its all working fine. but now i would like to have a more gui system. meaning:a grid based box where pictures of each Item_ID are displayed so you can see what items are in your inventory at any time. now i can sort this out myself with a case select and just load all the images into the local resource and pull itempictue1 when id = 1 itempicture2 when id=2 etc etc you get the idea. what i was woundering is...
could i build a drag and drop system where the player can move the items inside the inventory fairly easily? i have done some research into this but as vb isnt much of a gaming language i've run into a fair few dead ends. Not sure if i have come across right, but in essence, if you have a grid, 4x4 and item 1 is in grid space 1 and item 2 is in grid space 2.. to swap them around with the mouse.Please, dont shout if im asking too much :L nobody likes haters. any help is much appreciated and if you dont think vb can do this then please tell me and i will consider all alternate possibilities unless you have a better idea?
I have a flowlayoutpanel populated with custom thumbnail controls. I have code set to display a context menu on the thumbnail controls and the panel. Once a page is displayed, I have to right click on a control twice before the menu will be displayed. I have debugged and followed code execution all the way down the line. There seems to be no difference in code execution on the first click which does not display a context menu, and the second click which does. After a context menu is displayed, everything is normal. All thumbnails will display context menus as they should. But...not the panel....I have to do the same to the panel, then it is fine.
View 5 RepliesHow do you add an item to the system context menu? I would like to let my users be able to right click anywhere and launch this program. I cannot seem to find it documented anywhere either.
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View 5 RepliesI am looking to create a menu system in vb 2010 windows app. See attached file to give you an idea of what I want to achieve. I could do it by creating 4 buttons and have 4 panels. when button one is pressed make panel one visible and hide other 3 panels, etc This just seems messy. Will any of the built in VB menu components do this?
View 4 RepliesI has been looking for the codes which it avoid the system menu to be showing on title bar when you click on your right mouse button. The only one I found is removemenu method. I don't want to use removemenu as it would disable the title bar close button. I only needs the code to avoid me to click the right mouse button on the title bar so I still has no luck.
View 2 RepliesI have written a VB.Net Windows Application using VS2003.Net under the 1.1.4322 framework. This application loads a lot of data on startup (about 4MB, taking about 30 seconds) and that data needs to be readily available to the user, so I wrote it to sit in the system tray, using the NotifyIcon and ContextMenu objects.Everything is working fine, even the menu (I have simple options like 'Update' to update the datasets, 'Show' to show the form, 'Hide' to hide the form, and 'Close' to actually close the application).However, when the user attempts to do a Windows 'Log Off', 'Restart', or 'Shutdown', the system refuses.After shutting down every application on the users' computers EXCEPT for my application, the system still refuses to perform the LogOff, Restart, or Shutdown event.In fact, the application I wrote does not even perform it's 'Dispose' method.[code]Therefore, I am convinced that it is my application interrupting the system's process somehow.I have written other Windows Applications WITHOUT the context menu / notify icon objects (apps that don't sit in the system tray) and this problem does not occur.I have also written other applications that DO sit in the system tray, and the same problem occurrs.To summarize this problem: I believe there is something wrong with the way my application is responding to the System events 'Log Off', 'Shutdown', and 'Restart'.This is occurring on Windows XP SP2 computers (has not been tested elsewhere).Could someone explain to me why this happens?? Is there some workaround or some known bug in .Net that causes System Tray applications to interact differently with Windows system events than expected??
View 4 Repliesmy test:
Public Class Form1
Public Const WM_SYSCOMMAND As Int32 = &H112
Public Const MF_BYPOSITION As Int32 = &H400
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and i get an error:
PInvokeStackImbalance was detected
Message: A call to PInvoke function 'WindowsApplication1!WindowsApplication1.Form1::GetSystemMenu' has unbalanced the stack. This is likely because the managed PInvoke signature does not match the unmanaged target signature. Check that the calling convention and parameters of the PInvoke signature match the target unmanaged signature.
i want to be able to open IE/FireFox/Google and the like, and when i right click in a text box on a webpage i can click my email so that it places the email address straight into the box instead of typing it in. in other words i want to integrate a ContextMenu into the already system context menu. I think i am shooting above my belt but just need a start as to where to start. Ie: Service, Background Worker, Windows Form?
View 7 RepliesI'd like to disable the 'Refresh' option in the right-click menu for internet explorer. Our application uses Javascript, ASP.Net and VB, but I'm sure it'll need to be done through Javascript.
View 1 RepliesI'd like to disable the 'Refresh' option in the right-click menu for internet explorer. Our application uses Javascript, ASP.Net and VB, but I'm sure it'll need to be done through Javascript
View 20 RepliesWe are in the final stages of releasing a new in-house written system within our company. We have opted to create a single system/project containing multiple programs (like a mini ERP system).We are stuck on the navigation mechanism which will allow the user to load the appropriate forms. I am personally not a fan of the Tree View control because I think it is unfriendly to users. I have been looking on the web for some inspiration and I am interested in the design of the OPEN BRAVO ERP system. Before we dive in though, I wanted to get other programmers opinions. What do you find works best in VB 2008?
View 3 RepliesI am trying to return two menu tabs using System.Windows.Forms. I have tried using an array and tried using control.add but I cant seem to get this working. What am I doing wrong?
Public Function MonitorsInit() As System.Windows.Forms.TabPage Implements LabTech.Interfaces.ITabs.MonitorsInit
Dim TP As New Windows.Forms.TabPage("Ticket")
Dim TP1 As New Windows.Forms.TabPage("Ticket1")
TP.Controls.Add(TP1)
Return TP
End Function
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Now I want to display picture in picturebox1.To do this I use this codes, but it does not display picture
on this line: Dim arrPicture() As Byte = CType(dt2.Rows(0)("img_path"), Byte())
it shows this message,
Unable to cast object of type 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.Byte[]'.[code]......
I see a bunch of solutions about editing the template, but seeing as how my gridview changes between 10 different datasources a template isn't possible. how I can accomplish this?
View 1 RepliesI am changing the content menu strip of the control to my menu strip but nothing happens.I can see my menu strip in the rest of the form but dhtml edit control does not react to right click.
View 2 RepliesI am writing an application using Visual Basic Express 2008 and I need the right and the left mouse click to both act like the left mouse click. That is the right mouse click should not display a menu of any sort and be able to select items just as the left mouse click.
View 3 Repliesi'm trying to implement my own custom titlebar using a picturebox. can anyone tell me why my right click won't open the system menu?here's my code:
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class Form2
<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Public Shared Function ReleaseCapture() As Boolean[code]......
I am wanting to display a popup menu when a use clicks the right mouse button on my ListView.I have created a ContextMenuStrip with the items I would like.
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The thing is, the menu is way up to the top left. How can I set it to be where the user presses the mouse.Also, how can I set it to pop up only when the user presses the right mouse button on the lstView.
I have created a form with a menu-strip containing sub-menus. The sub-menus will open on clicking the menu items but I am willing to display the sub menus on moving the cursor on menu items(mouse-hover). What will be the code for this? Is there any property in menu-strip to display like that?
View 1 RepliesSimply saying I've added an Notify Icon to my project and then added context menu showing up when the left mouse button is pressed. The problem is that with the context menu some blank form is showing in the taskbar. There is no such form within the project.Does anyone know why it may be happening or how to get rid of the effect? I might add that I have other context menu attached for mouse right click button and it works fine, no blank forms and such showing on the taskbar it's just the left mouse button that works that way.Here is the code that I am using to show the menu:(the visible state to false is necessary for the other menus not to pop up with the one i want... unless anyone knows better method)
Private Sub NotifyIcon_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon.Click
If e.Button = MouseButtons.Right Then
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create a program that enums icons of the tray bar that have been created calling the function ShellNotifyIcon. So my question is how do you do to enum the windows that have called this function and want to appear in the system tray, whit its icons, and display a menu when you click on them. because i want to do the same that explorer.exe does but whit my own program (shell). Is this a secret?
View 2 Repliessuppose i have meeting 31/1/2011 9.30 and when current time becomes 31/1/2011 9.30 it displays a
View 3 RepliesI have looked on the net for demos of how to display a text message in the system tray, but all I can find are examples which say you need to use trayicons. Where you render your string into a bitmap, and then point the trayicon at the bitmap to display it.
Unfortunately this is no good for what I want to do, the trayicon is limited to only 16x16 pixels, and I want to display a longer message, which will just not fit. I can't resize the size of the icon, and if I make the source bitmap larger, it just gets scaled to fit within the 16x16 space (crushing it together into an awful mess)
So I tried using an array of trayicons and split the bitmap between them, but this also fails, because windows inserts about 3-4 pixels of padding between each tray icon.
I'm trying to display the ram usage for my system with.
VB.net
MsgBox(My.Computer.Info.AvailablePhysicalMemory My.Computer.Info.TotalPhysicalMemory)
I always get zero why? Also i want to avoid the performance counter for this.
We have an application that has a main form with a map on it. Right now the paradigm is to have forms that are displayed using menu items to display information to the user. Most of these forms are modal forms, but a couple are non-modal forms that interact with the map. For some of the forms, it really would make for a better user experience if we could dock them in the main form of the app and allow the user to see both the form and the map. For instance. We could have a list of map features in a docked window, and select one of the items on the list and have the map zoom to that feature. Or do the reverse: let the users select a map item and have a docked window that shows details of the feature. Sounds great, but I wonder about what sort of gotchas we may encounter. In particular, what if we have two windows docked at the same time? Could we get tangled up in our event code?
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