Opening Programs In Form?
Nov 13, 2010i want to open progream in my Form,like:(The picture edited in Photoshop)
View 2 Repliesi want to open progream in my Form,like:(The picture edited in Photoshop)
View 2 RepliesI am trying to make a tabbed notepad in vb.netWhat I want to do is associate .txt, .rtf, .html, ect. so that when you double click on them, the notepad starts up and loads the text file in one of the tabs. So far I can only get the files to open by using an openfiledialouge
View 7 RepliesI am writing a program that stores filenames, along with a lot of information about the files in a database. I need to be able to open these files in three different programs from my application. One of these programs, AutoCAD is the default program for the files, but the other two are more difficult. These two need to open the file in a program that is not the default for the file type. Eventually, I'd also like to allow users to point the application to the instance of AutoCAD, MasterWorks, or FeatureCAM that they want to open. I have found articles that explain how to open a file in a default application and articles that tell me how to open any application with a file name, but only 1 suggestion of how to control the program used to open the file. For some reason I cannot get AutoCAD to recognize the file I feed in if I use this method though, so I think it's wrong. This is the method I found that doesn't work:
Start("D:Program Files (x86)AutoCAD 2007acad.exe", file)file is a variable that contains my file name. Since this works fine when I take the program path out, I know the filename is correct, but AutoCAD says it is not.
I want to make a program where I can open a program, and my vb program starts with it. My VB program will then use a timer to count to an hour, and then close out of both programs. So i started experementing with things and this is what i came up with:Dim myprocess As Process = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe")
That opens my program fine, but I dont know how to close it from there. Also I want my vb program to start automaticaly, not hit a button and my other program shows up.
I am wanting to create a simple program that monitors what programs are opening and if necessary close one or two. I would also like to know if it is possible to get the window title (using a simple function/sub) and check with a stored list of programs,
whether that particular program is allowed to be open and if so before the program can be opened a password dialog will appear asking the user to enter the defined password in order to continue opening the program. Is this possible? Also should the password entered not match up, the program/process will not be allowed to open and will be closed/cancelled.
some code or point to the part of the microsoft site that has information on getting window titles and how to close current programs open etc
I am sure this can be done, as Visual Studio is basically built this way. What I want to do is simply make a class that my other workmates can use. But rather than have it in a code form, I want to build it (partially), and then my workmate can add it into their programs (sort of, like the add reference for the .NET stuff).
View 4 Repliesusing either (vb2008 or vb2010) I am here to ask how to make my Form show up above all other Programs.even full screen games. Ive searched all over the place and I did get a Code.which was this.
Public Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, _
ByVal X As Long, ByVal Y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long
Public Const HWND_TOPMOST = -1
Public Const HWND_NOTOPMOST = -2
Public Const SWP_NOMOVE = &H2
Public Const SWP_NOSIZE = &H1
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Is there a better way to make a form with multiple buttons opening different things than having a form that has lots group boxes for each tab. So in the begining each box will be invisible and when you click the button the corresponding group box will become visible. Is there any other way?It will be like a background image and it'll have buttons that will mask it with invisible buttons. when the button is clicked it will open the corresponding group box.
View 5 RepliesWhenever I want to reopen a project that I didn't worked on for several month and want to view my form in design mode I receive following error.
Warning1Method not found: 'Void System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner.WndProc(System.Windows.Forms.Message ByRef)'.00
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I used this project in VB2005 express, but also in VB2008.
In the main form the user can choose to download information from a device.Since this request takes time, when "download information" is pressed I open new form in a separate thread: Private Sub RunDownload()
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I would like to know the event order of form which is executed while opening form. I am showing my form using following code and the code in form_load event executes twice. Once when the form variables are initialised and second when form is displayed. I want it to execute once only. form showing code:
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I started with VB 6.0 back when i was 14, I was mostly into coding programs that interacted with other programs. Recently I installed VB.net 2005 pro i got from school, and i grabbed few source codes that teach show interaction, I feel so dumb, i dont remember anything lol. It be great if you guys can share some source codes and other stuff in this field. also other day i was in dream spark and i am able to get copy of VS.net 2010 ultimate edition, are there a lot of major changes, cause i got 2 thick book for VB.net 2005..
View 1 RepliesWhen you've finished a program and you're trying to distribute it to the mass public. How is the best way to go about doing this? What sites would you post your program on and getting the word out that there is a new program on the block and it does xyz. This is directed to freeware so there wouldn't be any advertising.
Sorry for not explaining it very well the first time.
I have a module with Main(). I am calling a form1 from this Main(). Why Form1 is not opening. I set Main() to run at the first in my Project propertis. I am using VS2008.Net3.5 VB code.The Code is:
Module Module1
Public frm1 As Form1
Public Sub Main()
frm1 = New Form1
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I have two forms and a button on the first form. What i want is when i click the button the second form to show and the first one to close.But this isn't working with:
Form2.show()
Me.close
I am a bit confused on the correct way of opening a form. I generally practiced form1.show to open a form, but i came across the following code to open an form.[code]....
View 9 RepliesI am creating a simple email application which sends mail from a user's Gmail account, as I haven't worked out how to receive incoming mail yet.I have created a form (frmSignIn) which asks for the log-in info and another (frmComposeMessage) which has all text boxes necessary for composing an email (to, subject, message body).After clicking Sign In on the first form, it should hide it and open the second form, however I get this error:
System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled
Message=An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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I have form1 and form2 and have when a user clicks on an icon on form1 it shows form2 and hides form1. But how would I get it to when a user closes form2 it will show form1 again?
View 3 RepliesI have 2 separate projects that i created using Visual Basic 2010. I need to have a Command button in project 1 to open a specific form that i have in my 2nd project.
View 1 RepliesI have a program withmultiple Forms and i have made a back and Forward Button so they caneasilgo back to the previous Form.My question is How do you open a random Form with a string i have googled it nd this code is the best one i have found.
View 1 RepliesHow to create an instance of a form if it is not know in advance which formtype has to be opened. If you want to skip the chitchat: the .NET code example is at the end of this post. First the Symantec: when we create a new form, this form has a name. If we refer to that name, we actually refer to the name of the type of object that is just created. When to use of course when reading the subject you might think: why not just pass the form to a parameter that takes a form (or control/object)?
The answer is: you don't when it is not sure, when or if a new instance of the object has to be created or, as mentioned, when the procedure is called it is not known which class has to be created. You could of course hold a bunch of created objects, but that would be a shameless misuse of memory. Imagine the following scenario (seen something like this in a post, but can't find it anymore):
You have a class that is able to trap an event, say the doubleclick of a textbox, and has to open a form when it occurs. If it's always the same form, that's easy, but what if you want it to be determined during runtime? This is a quite common story: doubleclick on article opens the detail form of that article, doubleclick on supllier opens that particular form. If you use a form variable, how do you say to the class which form should be opened? This will not work
Code:
Dim FormToOpen as Form 'you don't want to open it right away, you want to know when the time comes what form to openFormToOpen = Form1You could say FormToOpen = new Form1, but then 1. an instance would be immediately created, even if it never will be used: memory leak. 2. you can never close the form, you'll always have to use the same instance created when setting the form. Consequently, you can never open more than 1 instance using this way.
The solution: use the type. If you know the type, the Activator class will enable you to open (and return) an instance of that form at any time and as much times as you like. (The Activotor class exposes the function CreateInstance which returns an instance of the specified object)The following code creates an instance of the type form1 and shows it.
Code:
CType(Activator.CreateInstance(GetType(Form1)), Form).Show()Or for better readability, the same code split up:
Code:
Dim FormToOpen As Type
FormToOpen = GetType(Form1)
Dim frm As Form = CType(Activator.CreateInstance(FormToOpen), Form)
frm.Show()
I'm trying to create a new screen in the same form, the only thing I've done closest to doing that is when you click on a button in one form, another form opens. But I'd like this action to be presented in the same window. So I guess I want to open multiple forms in the same window.
View 1 RepliesJust as the title says there is a way to have the same 'Windows Form' to open two times ?
View 2 RepliesI'm making a program where the user can choose a question section and the program is supposed to randomly open one of a few forms that contain questions. However, I can't get the code right.
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I need to send this to my other admins on my forums so they have access to editing my website andeverything when they need to, but I don't know how to make it distributable (or
View 1 RepliesOkay, so I was making a program, and I wanted to open a new form, and close the current one.Natuarlly, I did this.
If login = True Then
MsgBox("Logged in.")
Me.Close()
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I have a project in VS2008.Net3.5 with a Module1, form1 and form2.
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Question: At the beginning I am opening form1 from sub Main(). Now from the menu I am openning form2. In form2 I am clicking Done button to hide form2 and go back to form1. It works fine in the 1st trial. Keeping form1 open for the 2nd time, I opened form2 from the menu. Now when I Click the Done button 2nd time it just hides up everything. Form1 does not show UP. It just exits the whole application. But in my btnDone event, I have frm1.show().
I have 3 forms, say Form1, Form2, Form3. Form1 has a public method assigning an image to a picture box:
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The problem is that this code is Opening a new second instance of the first form (Form1), when I see in debug mode and move my cursor over the frmPers variable, It's value is Nothing, altough I am seen it at the screen ¿Why is this? I am loosing my hair after three days trying several forms to do it without any results.
I have created a main form in my program to which I have added a combo box containing 12 months of the year. What I want is when the selected month is changed it should call a subroutine which does a calculation. The procedure works but the combo box acts as if the selected item has been changed as the form is opening which is not what I want as at that time there is no data loaded for the procedure to do it's calculation. So what I want to know is, is there some way to prevent the combo box from behaving this way at start up?
View 5 RepliesI want it to open and close after 3 seconds at each Timer1.Tick What i got so far:
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