I have tried sizable tool windows and regular sizable windows. Whenever I tell my window to Maximize it becomes too large and goes underneath the start menu.
Here is the code I use to Maximize (I run this in the Form Load):
vb
theForm.WindowState=FormWindowState.Maximized
Is there a easy way to maximize a window in VB when the maximize button is pressed so that everything that is contained in the Window (Forms, Panels) will also automatically resize to the screen size?
View 4 RepliesI want to maximize my form size when i maximize my window. means when i double click on window to maximize then my form also get maximize with window, i used dock property bt still not getting proper result.
View 16 RepliesI am using VB 2005 express edition and I need to develop a simple application. It should open a certain program (called MyMobiler) when a button is clicked. So far, I haven't managed to start it maximized (using shell (programpath, vbMaximizedFocus)), it always opens restored, although trying with notepad works (notepad opens maximized if i put vbMaximizedFocus). What else could I try? Here's my code
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Label1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
End Sub[code]....
How do you maximize a external minimized application that is already running?
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When i Maximize The window it will not expand it all. I want it to expand everything when i maximize the window.
View 2 RepliesI having trouble with the WindowsState Maximized Property. I have a MDI WinForm application with a number of Child forms. I setup up each Child form with the WindowsState Maximized Property in the Property screen of the VS 2008. The MDI Container form is also Maximized.When I run the application, the MDI Container opens Maximized as it should. When I try to open a Child form it opens partaly Maximized. The MenuStrip and ToolStrip are Maximized including the MenuStrip having the Close, Maximized, and Minimize controls in it. On the form, the BindingNavigator and the Form itself is the size they would be if the WindowState was Normal.If I Minimize the MDI Container form and bring it back the Child form will be fully Maximized as it should be.
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I have a form with i.e 2 buttons and a webbrowser ok now how to keep these 2 buttons and a webbrowser fitting the my form when I maximize my form or minmize it using codes ?
View 6 RepliesI'm attempting to recreate the windows maximize/restore button, where when clicked it will either send the window to its previous state or put the window in full screen BUT fitted with the taskbar visible.
View 7 RepliesI have searched for an answer to this but have not found anything satisfactory but basically my MDI parent and MDI child both need to use an icon under my resources.When the Main form opens its child form the child keeps turning the normally sized icon into a large stupidly sized icon which throws out the layout of the menu strip.The additional thing is I deliberately tell the child not to have an icon when maximised or when initially called, yet the icon insists on going to a large size every time I open the child form.The Icon is 32x32 and here is the initialisation code of the parent,[code]
View 4 RepliesDecided to move from VB6 to VB 2005.Net.I want my form (remember these are early steps) to maximize into the top 10% of the screen.remember am a VB3,4,6 developer for the last 17 years, old habbits die hard
View 2 RepliesThe following code will not set focus to the ie window that I need nor will it maximize it kike its supposed to
Option Explicit On
Public Class Form1
Public Declare Auto Function ShowWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long
[Code].....
I need to create a form in such a way that when i run it the form will open in maximize i.e,the top three box with be like the following Attachment 71929 Normally when we run a form it is in the following pattern:Attachment 71928
I tried with the maximize box but it is for enabling and disabling the maximize button.
I have a tutorial Application (in VB.NET 2005) for MS Office 2007 and have some Exercises for Users. When User clicks on given Exercise (for example: MS Excel), this Application minimize and launch related Excel file through program with Modal Form over Excel Application containing Exercise text in Label and Button to Submit the Exercise. User performs that given task and submit it by click on the given Button. This will check that file, close it and maximize the Application again for next Exercise.
My problem is When User perform the Exercise and click on Submit button, it checks the file, close it and didn't maximize the Tutorial Application all the time. Sometime it Minimize / Maximize properly, but sometime it doesn't Maximizes. (I can see it running in Task Manager)I have used the following code:
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I only found the form event for form closing or form closed, do you know any event for "minimize or maximun form"?
View 2 RepliesI have got Skype configured to launch minimized on windows starts.Now I need to bring Skype to front from a button from my full screen application button. I have got this code:
For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("skype")
ShowWindow(p.MainWindowHandle, SHOW_WINDOW.SW_NORMAL)
Next p
I was wondering how to create my own minimize and maximize buttons. I would like a oddly shaped form, so my FormBorderStyle is set to None.
I still want the user to be able to minimize and maximize the form, and in vb6 it would have been like (I use commandbuttons on the form)[code]...
This is my code to disable excel maximize button:
Option Explicit
Declare Function GetSystemMenu Lib "user32" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal bRevert As Long) As Long
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I am drawing graphics on the screen and when the form resizes it needs to clear and redraw all the graphics b/c the form is a different size and the graphics are supposed to scale with the size of the form. Well that works, but not for maximize or restore. So I had to look on the internet for how to capture the maximize and restore event. I got it from here and it does capture it, but it does all the events (such as redrawing the graphics) first and then it maximizes, which totally defeats the purpose. I tried to do Application. DoEvents but it still doesn't do it. Any way to have the graphics redraw AFTER it maximizes?
Code:
Private Const SC_RESTORE As Int32 = &HF120 'When a Form is Restored
Private Const SC_MINIMIZE As System.Int32 = &HF020& 'When a Form is Minimized
Private Const SC_MAXIMIZE As System.Int32 = &HF030& 'When a Form is Maximized
Private Const WM_SYSCOMMAND As System.Int32 = &H112 'Minimized/Maximized/Restore comes when we have this msg Const WM_NCLBUTTONDBLCLK As Int32 = &HA3 'When User Clicks on the Title Bar
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
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I need to do this in the MDI: Generate Form1 to maximize the potential in MDI. And mdi form to generate second Form2 order has always been above Form1. When clicking on the form 1 form2 disappear under it. Normally, when you click on the form1 Form2 hides under it. All must appear in the MDI.
View 2 RepliesI have a form, with a lot of controls on it, and I make the form to be a mdi-form. When the application begins, the main form will show the mdi form, and maxmizes it.
My question is, the maxmize process of the mdi-form is showing to the user, that's very bad looking. We can see the mdi-form show itself on the screen with it's original size, and then change it's size to mazmize itself. During the process, it look like all the controls on the mdi-form are shining.
I want to hide the maxmize process to be not seen, and make the mdi-form visible AFTER it's Maxmize process. But I don't know how to do this.
I tried this:
Mdi-form.visible=0 in the form_load of the mdi-form, but I don't know where to do the Mdi-form.visible=1. I can't find the event of Maxmize process.
I have three control in Center Form
i want the control stay in the Center if the Form Maximize or Restore to Normal
like Google Site TextBox and Button
It's been a while since I used VB4 to write a program. Now I have VS 2010 Express and I want to write a simple text editor.
My first question is, I have a text box I put onto a form with a menu strip. When the program is run, I want my text box (my main editing area) to be the biggest size on the form. How do I do this? Is there an automatic way to do this? Or do I have to set the text box's x, y, width, and height properties when the form loads? Which form event would I put this in? I cannot seem to find Form_Load or Form_Activate. [code]...
I've a form with a couple of buttons and a richtext box, and I want to resize the richtext box to fit window when window is maximized.
Actually i press the maximize button and it expands the window but the controls stay in the same size. I want it to resize/shrink.
Allready used this (from here [URL]
[start]
Change AutoSize to false or set ... AutosizeMode to GrowOnly
I have an application of which only 1 instance can run at the same time. Thus in the StartUp event I check for this to be true, and if not close the new instance started. At the same time though I'd like the application to switch automatically to the instance already running. By finding the processid of that instance and using appactivate this is working properly, except when the instance already running is minimized. It then switches to it, but since the instance is minimized, its ide will not show.
I need to use something like sendmessage, but am not able to find how.
-Since I already have the processid, could someone tell me how to use code to maximize and bring to the front the ide of another currenly minimized application?
I have a form with formborderstyle = none. I already know how to move this form and resize it. But I want to maximize the form when you double click it.
I already know:
Private Sub Form1_MouseDoubleClick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Me.MouseDoubleClick
WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized
End Sub
Now its maximized, but now I want it to go to the previous size, so when you double click again when maximized, the form goes back the the previous state.
I'm making an appication that needs to maximize the window of another application. In Spy++, the way it works is -> "Working Model - Untitled1" -> "MDICloient" -> "Untitled1"This is what the tree view looks like.I need to maximize Untitled1, but I'm not sure how. I tried findwindow "Working Model - Untitled1" and then used get and setwindowplacment for it, and it worked. Then I used findwindowex on "Untitled1" but it did not maximize. What am I doing wrong here? I'm sure mdi windows can be maximized; the "Untitled1" window itself has the 3 buttons (- + X) on the caption bar.
View 1 RepliesIs their any option to maximize form automatically on run time?
View 1 Repliesafter i run the program, the form pop up showing no problem.however, when i click on the maximize button on the top right of the form, the form enlarge and fill the screen. but the components will not move accordingly.
View 2 RepliesI'm building a border-less form so I can customize the Minimize-Maximize-Close buttons. I've noticed now that I can't move the form. I docked a panel up at the top of the form to replace the regular window border. I put custom Min Max Close on it. How could I program the panel to move the window like the border does with a regular window?
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