Set Contents Of Picturebox As Desktop Background?
Dec 5, 2009Set contents of picturebox as desktop background?
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Picturebox Transparency - App Has Scrolling Images In The Background And A Picturebox On Top
Feb 28, 2009My app has scrolling images in the background and a picturebox on top. The image in the picturebox has transparent parts. How can It so that the transparent parts show whatever is belo the picture box, not the form background? I have tried taking screenshots and positioning them as background but this just freezes the app.
Dim ScreenSize As Size = New Size(154, 83)
Dim screenGrab As New Bitmap(154, 83)
Dim blank As New Bitmap(100, 300)
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Change Desktop Background?
Feb 17, 2010Is it possible to change desktop background using VB.NET?I'd like to change the icons too plan on making a VB.NET program that can automatically make Windows XP look like Mac in just one click.
View 4 RepliesSet Video As Desktop Background?
Aug 29, 2010I have enabled windows dreamscene on my windows 7 x64 system and would can right click on a media file and click "set as desktop background".
My question is: how can i/is it possible, to do this programmatically? I know how to handle the images files and set them as the background but I just cant get the damn video files such as .wmv!
I am using visual studio 2010 and am coding in visual basic.
PS: I had to install a .dll file for the dreamscene to work and have tried adding references to it but with no luck.
Change Desktop Background Picture
Oct 5, 2009How to change the desktop background picture using vb.net"? ie , i want to change my desktop background through my vb.net code?
View 2 RepliesVS 2010 - Stick An App To The Desktop Background?
Jan 7, 2011I would like to have my application basically appear as if it was part of the desktop background, I've removed the form border etc and made the background colour of the form the same as our standard company background so it all blends in nicely. I have also made it so the app does not appear in the toolbar and it is set to launch on startup so it appears as soon as the user logs in - so all works fine and looks fine because any new apps that the user opens will open on top of my app. The only problem is that if they press the Show Desktop button (or use Windows Key + D) to minimize all apps, mine gets minimized as well and disappears. Its easy enough to get the user to make it appear again as it has a system tray icon that they can interact with, but it would be better if it just didn't vanish when they did this.Now I know the best thing for this on Windows 7 would be a Gadget but the problem is that Gadget's annoyingly have to be HTML/javascript and a) I'm not great with web coding and b) I don't think it is even possible to do what my app does from a HTML/javascript page... oh and c) I can't find any way to deploy gadgets in a business network (there is no way we are installing it manually on all 300 of our PCs), so the gadget idea is not looking very promising.I'm wondering if there is some window message I can capture and ignore in the WndProc event handler
View 12 RepliesSet As Desktop Background (Fill / Center And Tile)?
Jan 23, 2010I'm using this code to set a picture as the desktop background:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
SetDesktopWallpaper("C:\image.jpg")
End Sub
Private Shared Sub SetDesktopWallpaper(ByVal fileName As String)
[Code] .....
It works well, except the wallpaper is always centered. How can I have the ability to choose Fill, tile or center with separate buttons?
Desktop Screenshot To Picturebox Not Working Using Bitblt?
Jul 29, 2010[URL]
Finally "upgraded" to vbnet and got no idea how to do this! What I'm doing is using bitblt to take a screenshot of the desktop and put it in a picturebox. What I really need is just the raw data from the picture, not the picture showing on a picturebox.
Only problem is that it is not working at all!
Here is the entire sourcecode. How is it not working??
Module1
Module Module1
Public Declare Function GetDesktopWindow Lib "user32" () As Long
Public Declare Function BitBlt Lib "gdi32" (ByVal hDCDest As Long, _
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Transfer Picturebox Contents To Excel?
Aug 4, 2011I have drawn some lines into a picture box as per an engineering standard. I wish to do the following:
1) Transfer the contents to an excel spreadsheet.
2) Before transferring to excel, it would be nice to add texts at four different locations of the picture box. I have tried various solutions which I found on the net but they were not very successful. The main problem with most of the solutions is that they washed the contents of the picture box which I manged to drawn after considerable pains.
Make PictureBox To Non Background?
May 12, 2012I want to make a PictureBox to non background color, when I change its backcolor to transparent its backcolor still black.
View 2 RepliesTransparent Background In Picturebox?
Nov 1, 2011ok, is there a simple way to make a color in an imported picture in a picutrebox transparent?
View 2 RepliesCheck Background Image Of Two Picturebox Same Or Not?
Dec 23, 2010I use the following code to check the background image of two picturebox but it not work.
name of 1st picturebox is :cell1
name of 2nd picturebox is:cell2
code :
If (cell1.BackgroundImage Is cell2.BackgroundImage) Then
'Do somethings
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Forms :: Transparent Background Over A Picturebox?
Jan 3, 2009I have a picturebox with a pic in it, and I have a label on top of the picture.
I want the background of the the label to be transparent, so I set it's background prop to transparent and it's parent to the picturebox. I do this on form load, but for some reason the label entirely disappears once the form loads?
Printing A Picturebox Image As Background?
May 17, 2012I'm trying to print the selection of my picturebox as the background of the image. I can get the image to show, but it's not the height and width of the background.
' Fig. 15.24: CheckWriter.vb
' Printing a paycheck.
Imports System.Drawing.Printing
Imports System.Drawing.Imaging
[code]....
Show Background Image For Picturebox?
Apr 15, 2011I have a form that contain an big image and an small image.The small image will be showed on top of the big image. Both images are in .gif format and the small image background is transparent.I set the picturebox's backcolor for small image to transparent, but I only get the backcolor of the form in stead of the big image.Is there anyway to see the big image at the transparent area of small image?
View 2 RepliesVS 2008 - Picturebox Transparent Background
May 9, 2010I have a picturebox that contains an image and the background of that image has been set to transparent and saved as a .gif in photoshop cs2.
I used that image in a picturebox and I set the BackColor of that picturebox to transparent, but it's not transparent; I have a gray background on that picture.
Background Image In PictureBox With Tile Effect?
Jun 18, 2010I have a picturebox and I have a image with a blue and red square. When I click a button it puts that image into the picturebox as background image. The background image property is set to tile. But when I click on my form to draw the image to it, it just draws the original not the one that has the tile effect from the picturebox. Is there a way i can do this to keep the tile effect?
View 5 RepliesCopy Background Of A Form To Picturebox / Bitmap?
Oct 4, 2010Using a blank form I draw simple colored shapes to the form(x800 - y600 @ x0 - y0).
I'm using a picturebox(x800 - y600 @ x0 - y0), how do I copy whats on the form to the picturebox?
I want a mirror image copy.
Also, how do I copy from picturebox to form?
PictureBox Controls In Form With Transparent Background
Dec 31, 2011I have multiple picturebox controls in my form. Both of them contain an image with a transparent background. I want them to be on top of each other. I've already set their BackColor property to Transparent, but when I place one on top of the other one, the following happens: [URL]. How can I make them transparent while they are on top of each other?
View 4 RepliesVS 2005 - Setting Background Of PictureBox As Image?
Nov 11, 2009I have a problem when i opened a picture that
size image < size picture box
How can make the background of the picture box become an image too because my coding was to get the pixel from width and height picture box.. When I found the none image property, vb will show the error.. said coordinate(x,y) was null. It can be illustrated like on the picture above.
Sometimes I will used it when:
picture properties - size mode = center image
So the picture will found at center height and width.. and the background will surround it. Sometimes I used it after rotating the picture.. The problem occur when the picture get rotate for 45 degree. I am taking all point corners of the image and rotating it. So the picture will create 4 triangle at the corners..
VS 2008 : Making A Picturebox Background Transparent?
Oct 17, 2010I have a few pictureboxes that move and contain an image of a fish. When they overlap, I would like to be able to see one fish under the other fish.I have made the background (white) of the image transparent in photoshop and the background color of the form seems to show through the background of the fish image, but when 2 fish overlap, ones background covers up the other.
View 1 RepliesFilling Background Area Of PictureBox With Grid Colors?
Nov 20, 2011I want to replicate what I have with a Mac application. I want to fill the background area of a
PictureBox with grids as shown in the following screenshot (right below the blue arrow).What I have is a simple translation of the code that I use with this Mac application to create the background area, which doesn't quite work.Private Sub PictureBox1_Paint(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.Paint
Dim g As Graphics = PictureBox1.CreateGraphics()
Dim i, j As Integer
For j = 0 To Math.Ceiling(PictureBox1.Height / 20)
[Code]...
Onion is a recent refuge from Mac OS X and hates Mac App Store. System: Windows 7 x64
Panel Containing PictureBox Flickers On Background Change - How To Eliminate This
May 13, 2011I have a panel with the BackgroundImage set that I'm using as a button. The panel also contains a PictureBox with a png image loaded so that parts of the image are transparent and the panel image shows through. On MouseDown I change the panels BackgroundImage, then on MouseUp I change it back again. The problem is that when the panel image changes, the PictureBox flickers badly when redrawing its transparent areas. I've tried using the DoubleBuffered property of the form its on; no luck there. I've also tried SuspendLayout just before changing the image, refreshing the PictureBox, then ResumeLayout. Still no luck.
View 1 RepliesPicturebox - Clear The Background Double Buffer Before The Flicker
Jun 10, 2011I have a htpc project that I am working on. The main program loads dlls which are basically other win forms. On each of these forms, including the main program, I use a picturebox (double buffered picturebox) for the background image and then draw everything on it by hand. Whenever I go from the main program to the dll, I get a weird flicker. It looks like it is the previously used double buffer. Is there any way to clear the background double buffer before the flicker?
View 3 RepliesVS 2008 - Picturebox - Remove The Image And Have A Transparent Background
Feb 26, 2010Im displaying an image in a picturebox when i mouse over a button PictureBox1.Image = (My.Resources. Get_Info_icon) But when the mouse leaves the button how do i remove the image and have a transparent background, so u cant actually see the picturebox ?
View 1 RepliesForms :: Transparent Picturebox - First Picture Cover The Second One With The Background Color?
Dec 30, 2010i'm using VB 2010 and i'm trying to make a transparent images but without success .i draw 2 GIF pictures in Photoshop and save it as transparent.i put that GIF's in 2 pictureboxes on the form and the background of the pictures is really transparent, but when i try to put one picture in the top of the other one, the first picture cover the second one with the background color (and becuase it's transparent it's like the form color)
View 2 RepliesVS 2010 Function For Changing Picturebox Background Image With String?
Mar 1, 2012What I have done is named a bunch of picture boxes "Q," "W," "E," etc. (the whole alphabet) and named picture that correspond to these picture boxes ("Q.png," "W.png," and so on) and added them to my resources.
For example, the following code would give the picture box named "Q" it's corresponding image "Q.png":
vb
Q.BackgroundImage = My.Resources.Q
Of course, it's kind of a pain in the backside to copy and paste this code and change all the Q's to W's and so on, so I was hoping to create a function to do the job for me:
vb
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
'So that I can run the letter as a string through the function,
[Code].....
Hopefully I've provided enough detail so that it is obvious what I'm trying to do.
Obviously, the code I tried above (the second block) doesn't work - it gives a syntax error. I need to change/write to make this function functional.
Interface And Graphics :: Rip Pixel Color Off Of The Background Image Picturebox ( The Level)?
Feb 27, 2009Ive been working on creating a side scroller game, and the back color of my pictureboxes needs to go. when transparent, it shows through the program and onto whatever is active in your Windows os(usually Visual studios).
I am trying to rip pixel color off of the background image picturebox( the level), and replace parts of the character picture box that show transparency with the level art. there may be poor logic in my code?
Heres my code:
Dim newImage As Bitmap = New Bitmap(PictureBox1.Image)
Dim backImage As Bitmap = New Bitmap(PictureBox2.Image)
Dim ximg As Bitmap = New Bitmap(PictureBox3.Image)
[code]....
not the best idea, but all i get is one color for all the level pixels placed in the new image, which is odd. any poor logic you see in this code that could allow the newImage.setPixel not to be 1 color? when i breakpoint, it is recieving different colors from the backimage.getpixel, but only putting one shade on for setpixel somehow. im not going for an accurate color read from the background yet, just wondering why im getting 1 pixel color for the whole picturebox background when being changed.
Open Excel On Local Desktop Using Remote Desktop Application ?
Jun 11, 2012We have a Windows Forms VB.NET application running on Windows Server 2008. Users access this app using Remote desktop.The app displays information in Excel, but Excel opens on the server.Is there a way for the .NET app to launch Excel on the users local desktop?
View 1 RepliesStart Explorer.exe - Switching To A New Desktop It Starts A New Instance Of App In That Desktop?
Sep 5, 2011Some of u already know I'm making a 'virtual desktop'- thing.Only one problem. When switching to a new desktop it starts a new instance of my app in that desktop (works) and on the form load event it says process.start("explorer.exe") <- here is the problem. It only shows a window not the actually bar.Also this may be important it shows the window, but when I navigate to explorer.exe 'C:Windowsexplorer.exe' and open it there. The explorer bar does show up.
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