I know I can open the control panel item by using the following command
%windir%system32SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe.
However what I do not know is there a way to programmatically select the options on that control panel item? For example in a vb program I can launch that panel quietly have the program select "adjust for best performance" or select "let windows decide" Apply it and then close ?
I am trying to use vb to open windows 7 visual effects in control panel and only select certain options then saving it. Either buy making vb do all the work or making vb find the registry keys.
View 9 RepliesI am writing a windows forms application in visual studio 2010 (using VB). I want to change the control shown in a particular cell of a Table Layout Panel at runtime. Like this...
If radiobutton1.checked then tablelayoutpanel1's cell 1,1 shows panelOne
else tablelayoutpanel1's cell 1,1 shows panelTwo
after selecting an item from a drop down list the focus can move to a button control with example code in .Net
View 1 RepliesI am in need of a form that shows various options, exactly like the Options in Visual Studio. Since there are so many options I too want them categorized, with a TreeView to the left taking care of showing the right category.The usual 'easy' approach here would be to just place a TreeView control on the form, add some nodes, and give those nodes a tag or key that corresponds to a panel or UserControl with the options for that category.Since there will be a lot of options however, this is not really feasible design-wise; the form would be cluttered with possibly 50 panels, all of which I would need to select and bring to front from time to time to add controls to them that represent the options.
So I decided to create a custom control that does exactly that. The control is very similar to my Wizard usercontrol, users can add OptionsPanels at design time, which inherit Panel and simply represent one panel of options. When they do, the panel is added to a container panel, and at the same time a TreeNode is added to a TreeView. The control uses a custom ControlDesigner to handle design-time clicks in the Treeview, selecting a different node would select and bring to front the corresponding panel, allowing the user to add the controls he wants.
Due to the design time support the problem of having 50 panels is no longer present, only one panel will be visible at a time and selecting the right panel is as simple as selecting the corresponding TreeNode, just as during run-time. Anyway, I got all this working, but only for a single 'level' of categories. As you can see in the Visual Studio options, there can be multiple levels of categories. For example, the Environment node has a bunch of children, where each child represents one 'options panel'. There can even be deeper nesting, see the Text Editor node for example.Let me begin by drawing out the basics of how my control works so far.
The main control is an OptionsView control, which contains a SplitContainer with a TreeView to the left and a OptionsPanelContainer to the right. The OptionsPanelContainer is merely a Panel to which only OptionsPanel controls can be added, and which raises events when this happens, as well as when OptionsPanels are removed from it. An OptionsPanel also inherits Panel, and these are the actual panels the users will see in the control, one for each option category.For now, each OptionsPanel has exactly one corresponding TreeNode (and vice versa). In the Visual Studio options, each 'parent' category usually has a 'General' node as the first child, and the parent and this General node show the same option panel, but I am ignoring that for the moment.
The OptionsView control has a property Panels that returns the ControlCollection (Controls property) of the OptionsPanelContainer (in other words: it returns a collection of OptionsPanels that are in this container panel).
vb.net
<Editor(GetType(Designers.OptionsPanelCollectionEditor), GetType(UITypeEditor))> _ <DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _ Public ReadOnly Property Panels As Control.ControlCollection Get Return Me.PanelContainer.Controls End Get End Property
A custom CollectionEditor for this property takes care of the designer: even though the property type is ControlCollection, the CollectionEditor knows it should create instances of the OptionsPanel control instead of just Controls.When it does this, a corresponding TreeNode is also created and its Tag property is set to the OptionsPanel. Vice versa, the Node property of the OptionsPanel is set to the node. Hence the node and panel both know their corresponding object.
vb.net
Public Class OptionsPanelCollectionEditor Inherits System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor Public Sub New(type As Type) MyBase.New(type) End Sub Protected Overrides Function CreateCollectionItemType() As System.Type
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So far so good, this all works fine. I can add Panels via the designer and when I do a new TreeNode appears in the TreeView. I can select this node and the panel becomes visible (comes to the front).Now, I am a little stuck. How do I implement child option panels? And more importantly: how do I let the user add child panels?The most logical choice I think is to let each OptionsPanel have a property (ChildPanels or something) that returns the child OptionsPanels for that panel. Once the user selects an OptionsPanel then, he can look in the property grid to find its ChildPanels property and add child panels to that.
There is a problem though: what would this property return? It must return a ControlCollection of some container (this is, I think, a requirement for the designer features to work, otherwise panels are not added to the Form.Designer.vb file). But there is no container. I cannot add them to the OptionsPanel itself, that would make no sense because the parent OptionsPanel has its own set of controls (the options itself...), there cannot be another (fully docked) Panel on top of those obviously.The container of the main OptionsView then? That is not an option either, its Controls collection holds ALL OptionsPanels, not just the children of the selected panel. I cannot 'select' only the right panels either, that would require me to return a new instance of ControlCollection, it would be impossible to return the actual ControlsCollection that holds merely a small selection of its controls.
I have a form with a richtextbox and a scrollbar. I want to be able to keep appending text to the textbox without loosing my selection. I can save the selectionstart and selectionlength before I append the text and set it back and it works. The problem is when it comes to reverse selecting. The best I could do is set back the selectionstart at the right position but I have to move the mouse so it selects text again. I'm using the following functions before and after I append the text:
Private Sub StopRepaint()
Dim pt As Point
' Stop redrawing:
SendMessage(txtchat.Handle, WM_SETREDRAW, 0, pt)
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My main goal is to be able to select and copy text even when new text is being appended to the richtextbox. Anyone knows how to correctly select text in reverse OR easily fix my problem about text being deselected?
I have been trying to understand how to make thumbnails that I create from a directory, and place in a flow layout panel, selectable. That is, when someone klicks one of the thumbnails that thumbnail should be selected and, either automatically or by the click of a button, a new window (picture viewer) opens and shows the original picture. This is probably very easy to implement, but I am at a loss for the moment.I've tried to find an answer to this by searching the forums, but nothing good has been found so far.
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The above code works perfectly and creates thumbnails from the directory c: emp and whatever subdirectory the user writes in the textbox (textbox2). No problem here, it is how to proceed to the next level that has got me stumped. As stated I want the user to be able to select one of the thumnails to get a better look at it in another window. So in selecting it, the procedure should get the path to the original image, and the rest is magic.
How can i remove an array item by selecting an item from listobx and press remove/delete button?for an example, if i want remove index 2 from listbox, so the array should remove index 2 item and move the item of index 3 to index 2 and so on.
View 7 RepliesIf you right click a item.. it brings up the menu of things to do with it. How do I add something to that?
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to add a group of four radio buttons to a form. There are other radio buttons so I'm grouping them by placing them on a Panel. However using the below I just get the panel added to the form without the radio buttons... Am I doing something wrong here?
Dim arrRButton(3) As RadioButton
arrRButton(0) = New RadioButton
arrRButton(1) = New RadioButton
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I would like to be able to set the following settings in the folder options:
- single click to open an item
- double click to open an item
I am using Visual basic 2008 Express edition.
My problem is i have two comboboxes, cmbFamily and cmbModel, I have values in cmbFamily: A320, A330 etc And i have a database that has all the available models for these aircraft types, i have got some help on a query so i can fill up cmbModel with all the models of aircraft available, but i only want to display the models related to the family that is selected in the cmbFamily combobox.
The query i have so far is
Query = New OleDb.OleDbCommand("Select Model From Availability", AccessConn)
'AccessConn is my database connection string I would like to have something that views the text in cmbFamily and then looks for all related model entries in the dataset.
I have a picturebox inside a panel, the picturebox is long, and the panel is set to allow scrollbars, which it adds. I can scroll the picture at design and runtime, but how do you scroll it programmatically?
Starting with the picture box with the top set to 0, and then doing this... (using any non-zero value as the lY value)
Dim newLocation As New System.Drawing.Point(0, -lY)
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So how do i get the value to change (e.g. to scroll the picturebox!)
I want to have a listbox on the left and on the right a textbox and when i select an item in the listbox i want to read a text file or database and display the value related to it and then have the ability to amend the content.
View 2 RepliesSay I have a listbox lb, which I initialize using:
lb.DataSource = wordList \wordList is a list of strings
lb.DataBind()
The listbox is initialized perfectly, and everything that should appear there does.
However, now I select one of items in the listbox with my mouse (coloring it dark blue, in case anyone wondered what I meant in "select"), and perform the following test:
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When my application starts, it scans the computers registry for COM ports and adds them in the combo box. The combo box first index is just a blank, and the second is COM1, COM2,...COMn. What I want to do is by default, I want my program to select the first COM port in the combo box, so in this case, COM1.
I know I have to use the PORTNAME property of the serial object, but not sure how I would set that equal to the 2nd index of the combo box.
I am new in programing and I need some help setting the Enabled = True on a botton when selecting an item from a listbox.I have a project when I have and add a new record form and an edit record form, in the form I have added a listbox where displaying the name of the file that I am attaching, but I have also added a delete button on the form, When I load the form I have the delete button disabled:
HTML Me.BtnDelete.Enabled = False But I would like to do is that when I select an item from the listbox for the delete button to enable.
This is what I have but doesn't seem to work:
HTML
If ListBox1.SelectedItem = True Then
Me.BtnDelete.Enabled = True
End If
When i select an item in my combobox it raises the following errorColumn 'field1, field2' is constrained to be unique. Value 'test1, 1' is already present.The combobox is bound to the table to populate it with values from field1 witch is the first part of primary key of the table. (field2 is secont part of primary key).
View 1 Replieshow to program by stating if the first item in the combo box is selected then
View 1 RepliesHere's how I'm trying to manually select a specific item in my combobox. cbEditCategory.SelectedIndex = cdEditCategory.Items.IndexOf(editItemCategory) I setup a msgbox to show "cdEditCategory.Items.IndexOf(editItemCategory)" and it's reporting -1. Why is it not giving me the right index?
View 2 RepliesOur project is to make some simplified POS software, in our case, for a restaurant. The form I am currently working on is where you pick food items and add them to a listbox which will essentially be the order form. I made a database in Access that has food-item info and linked it to the VB project.url...My combobox narrows down the food items according to what category is selected, i.e. "Lunch".Now.. is there any way I can select an item from my database records (right box) and add them to an empty listbox that I'll save to a txt file. The database box is called "FoodItemsDataGridView" but maybe I don't even refer to that, I have no idea..
View 1 RepliesI have a listbox with all items related to a person written in one line, e.g. Name, Gender, Phone #, Address, Email (all separated by a ControlChars.Tab).. How do I choose each individual item alone, e.g. Name, from a line to put it in a separate line in a file.This isn't working.. Can you tell me what code to use?
Dim outputFile As New System.IO.StreamWriter("Info.txt")For i = 0 To lstAllInfo.Items.Count - 1outputFile. WriteLine(lstAllInfo.Text.Substring(0, lstAllInfo.Text.Substring (" ")))Next outputFile. Close()
I'd like to select a node (item) in the TreeView control to get its path information as a string. I'm finding it's not like selecting an item in a listbox.
View 4 RepliesI'm trying to automate a form process from a previous employee. One of the things that I have to do to achieve this is select a COM port from a dynamically populated list. I've looked around and the closest thing I could come up with is something like:
.cbbCOMPorts.SelectedItem(1) =
True
While this compiles, the computer does not like this at run-time. It throws an exception out:
"Object variable or With block variable not set."
My program that I'm creating is a quiz creation tool, based for teachers to create quizzes and then use them to aid with quizzing their students.I've got the whole program working in that you can create quiz, play the quiz and then see how many questions were answers correctly and how many questions their were The problem I'm having is that I don't know how I can save multiple quizzes, for example you can create one quiz, that then saves as a .txt in debug however, when you then create another quiz and click the save file the old quiz details are sitting in the .txt
Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click
Dim filename As String 'full file/path name for QuizRecords.txt
Dim index As Short 'loop control variable
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So what I'd like it to do is, when saved create another text file? Or another set of data questions, I have been looking through my Computing projects in Visual Basic . NET book as well as through online but I can't find anything that I understand as such.
The List Box has three candidates and a record Button. Every time the record button is hit I need it to add those button clicks for each candidate that is selected in the List Box. My code keeps counting all the clicks no matter which candidate I am selecting in the List Box. How can I differentiate between each selected item in the List Box.
Private Sub exitButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles exitButton.Click
Me.Close()
End Sub
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I got a Combobox with some items (item1-item7) to select and 54ish Buttons(sButton1-sButton54). Also an array(53) called Buttons. The array is filled with the items to select, like: Buttons(0) = "item 1, item 2" Everytime another item in the Combobox is selected, I'd like only some of the Buttons to change their Image. Therefore I got the array. If Item 1 is selected and Buttons(0) contains the item1 I'd like to change the Button1's image.edit: It works with changing the image of every Button:
sButton1.Image = My.Resources.image1
But I'd prefer to change all in one go (Loop) instead.
sButton(0) = "item1, item2, item3"
sButton(1) = "item2, item3"
sButton(2) = "item1, item3"
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I am new to programming and i am working on a windows fom app. In this moment i have my windows form set with several controls that insert data into sql db. Now, what i need is this:
When the user select a employee name from my dropdownlist, i want the form automatically fill with the data inserted in the past to the tables db. Is like choosing the different profiles by selecting the name in the dropdownlist. I have many controls to fill, name, secondname, lastname, telmobil, address, etc.
I have a Private Sub that I execute whenever a user clicks one of two or three things, and in it I create a new tab in my TabControl. Once the new tab has been created, I select it then add a formatted textbox to it. However, it is not selecting the new tab and therefore only adding the rich text box into the already selected tab (not displayed, of course, because it has a dock style of Fill.) Here iis my code to select the new tab and format / edit the rich text box:
Try
tabMain.SelectedTab = tabMain.TabPages.Item(intTabIndex) 'Select the new tab
AddHandler rtbCode.TextChanged, AddressOf DisplayUpdate 'Add TextChanged event to handle updates
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i'm doing a desktop application using VS2005 with MSSQL 2005. i have a problem with the where clause in the update statement while selecting the listbox item. this is the code for the listbox in load page:
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and this is my update query in the delete button event handler: mySQL = "update Appointment set recordStatus = 'deleted'" how do i put in the where clause in when i have 4 columns in the listbox? so can i do this with listbox or have to do with datagridview?