I have a pretty busy UI that involves a lot of controls nested in table layout panels.
I'm trying to use the "Tab" overlay to set the tab order, but the problem is that the numeric boxes you click to choose the order overlaps on controls that are close together so I can't see which is the correct control to click.
how to either zoom in or alter the layout?
Sometimes when updating the entire screen or moving around controls etc, there is some fairly bad screen flickering.
View 2 RepliesSuppose that one has a panel an inside it there are many buttons with Dock=Top. The button would tend to be stacked on top of the panel. How can I get a reference for each button from top to bottom? The button would be created in a random order, so I don't think that using the index of each button in the Controls collection of the Panel would suffix.
View 4 RepliesI dynamically add picture boxes to a vb.net form. However, when I add the new picture box, it is always under/below/behind the picture boxes that I previously created. Is it possible to change it so that the newly created picture box would always be in front of the others?
View 2 RepliesThis is part of the last coding that codeorder helped me with. I didn't include this in the last post because I thought this was something that I was going to be able to do. Unfortunately, it is not working properly. In addition to the controls being removed, the control rows after the removed row should be changed so it's still in sequential order. Private Sub PictureBoxRemove_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Dim RowRemove As String = CType(sender, PictureBox).Name.Replace("PictureBoxRemove", "")
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I have a bunch of buttons on a form and when the person presses TAB I want the focus of the controls move in a specific order.
View 3 RepliesMy form contains a datagrid and a checked listbox. The listbox is populated on the form_load event. There's a function called when the datagrid's SelectionChanged event is triggered that modifies the checkmarks in the listbox. It all works fine when I manually click on any item in the datagrid.
However, the very first time the form runs, the checkmarks are not affected, even though the first item in the datagrid appears selected. I discovered that this is because the actual listbox is not yet populated on the form at the time the very first SelectionChanged event is triggered. So when the function tries setting the checkboxes, it doesn't get anywhere, since it doesn't see any items in the listbox.
Somehow the datagrid is getting populated, even before the form_load event is triggered. I need the listbox to be populated before the datagrid is populated, but I have no idea how to control this.
I am working on an application that requires buttons and links to be added during run time, it's a bit like a flow chart. The buttons are used to display information similar to a multi line text box, but I also use the click, double click and mouse events for these buttons. The links are drawn as label controls. My problem is that I want to control the format order of these controls with the buttons always being on the top layer and the labels one layer back so that when labels are added they aways pass behind the buttons. If this was done at design time it is very easy to use the menu Format > Order to get overlapping controls displayed the way I want. But, the controls placed on the form at run time do not have a Format or Order property.
View 1 RepliesThe code generator creates code with references to a component I am using, before it's dependent components (datasets) are initalized. Although I can correct this by editing the form.designer.vb file, everytime I make a change on the form the code is re-generated in the wrong order. Where does VS2008 store information about the order of the components for code generation.
This Runs:
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'AppointmentBindingSource
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Me.AppointmentBindingSource.DataMember = "appointment"
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I was wondering if, using API, there is a simple way to adapt exactly a form and its controls to the screen resolution.
View 12 RepliesI am trying to write program in vb 2010 that is independent of screen resolution. I am designing the program in 1920*1080 and when I change the resolution to e.g. 800*600 everything blows up and the program won't fit the screen. I have tried three different approaches:
loop through all controls and scale their position and dimensions
Friend Sub ResizeControl(ByRef ctl As Control)
'---------------------------- GET SCALES -------------------------
Dim DesignScreenWidth As Integer = 1920
Dim DesignScreenHeight As Integer = 1080
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None of these methods has worked for me. One thing I figured out was that my main form is larger than 800*600 pixels so when I run the designer in 800*600 resolution VS cut down the with to 812px so my calculations of with and thus scaling ratio becomes wrong. This error goes applies for all three methods.
In my vb.net project, i use to add Datagridview dynamically into a tab control. tab pages's autoscroll property is set to true. i calculated the gap between consecutive DGVWs and pass the parameter in the location as like this. [Code]
supposing if i want to 7 DGVWS, say 5 DGVWs are placed finely in expected gap until i do the scrolling the vertical scroll bar. whenever i scroll the bar(vertical) to the downmost end and then again add DGVW into the tab page. unfortunately the 6th DGVW is placed somewhere down and the gap between 5th and 6th dgvw is enormous difference. what i understand is whenever the scroll bar is brought to the bottom most end, the drawing point is taken as the current top view. i don't want like this. Is there any setting needs to be take care.
Anyone knows how to change the Forms and controls of the project as the Screen resolution of the computer changes?
View 1 Repliesi have a win form application in vb.net. it works fine but trouble comes when i change my screen resolutions.
How to resize my controls and form according to my screen resolution...?
how to adjust my controls according to screen size...?
I need to print a windows form which contains radio buttons, checkboxes, and other controls.
Printform doesn't work - even with the scrollable option it only prints the visible screen.
The PrintDocument doesn't work, because I can't add controls to it.
I can't capture the screen image, because the form occupies more than the visible screen.
I have a project (Written in Visual Basic, using Visual Studio 2005) which has several user controls. I have had no problem setting it up where you click a button and it load a user control, but I cannot get it to remove the control that is currently open. For example The program opens on a starts screen, which has the choices, Control1, Control2, and exit. When you click Control1 button it should open up a screen to display an inventory. It does this just fine, but it does not close the main menu screen.
Here is the code for the initial startup of the project:
Public Class Form4
Public Sub Form4Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim CtrlMain As New ControlMain()
With CtrlMain
.Location = New Point(0, 0
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I am creating an application for a company and this CD will be distributed to hundreds of people. Many users will have different computer screen size and different screen settings such as their resolution set to 1024 x 728 and their monitor size 17" inches.
I noticed when I loaded the application on a different computer with different settings the application was to big for the screen and did not work. I notice that lot of other programs from microsoft resize their controls and text but never knew how they did it. How can I resize the form and control according to the user's setting.
BTW this issue occurs in any MS office program when the VB.Net (or even VBA) is processing information.Example: In Excel, a worksheet is displayed on the screen. I start either, a VB.Net or VBA procedure and within 30 seconds the Excel worksheet (previously displayed) blanks out. In both VB.Net and VBA,ScreenUpdating = False. My expectation is that the previously displayed screen would stay static as if I left my desk to get a cup of coffee; came back and the same ole Excel worksheet was still there?Of course, setting VBA Screen Updating = False accomplishes two goals: 1) speeds up processing and 2) saves the user from seeing unnecessary "garbage-processing" steps.Why does VBA or VB.Net ScreenUpdating = False not freeze the screen at the time of its invoking?
View 11 RepliesI have a combo box bound to a datasource. I need to change one combo box (of many) to order the items in descending order.I'm guessing I could order the collection in the dataset, but that will mean all my combo boxes will be reordered?
View 2 RepliesI have a databound Datagridview. The DGV is bound to a datatable of a strongly typed DataSet created using the wizard. Is there any way to re order the columns before displaying them eg: the Columns are displayed in the DGV in this other Col4, Col6, Col3, Col1,Col5, Col2
But I want to it to show as Col1, Col2, col3, Col4, Col5, Col6?
I realise that the display order followed the Column order in the database table and by extension, the datatable. I have re-arranged the columns in the Database but the Datatable still retains the old order.
I have a re sizable panel which i am adding over 100 buttons to. to do it i have a timer which detects any change in the height or width. then clears the panel and re draws all 100 buttons on. however i am encountering issues with flashing (where the buttons are gone for a split second before being repainted) and also speed issues. it seems to be slowing down the users ability to re size the window.
i was thinking by adding the buttons through its own thread it might combat the main (speed) issue.
The data is loaded from a xml file (which the code parse the xml, and create datagridview cell dynamically). and the user is allowed to change the data, when the program exists, it will write back to the xml file to save the change.It works fine when there are not many rows. when it has too many rows, say, 10K rows, the program loads slowly. I searched, found some suggestions, but it seems they do not work very well.1) when load the data, not create the rows directly. instead, create a datatable, then add the table to the datagridview's data source. it still takes time for the dgv to show the data.
2) then, I guess maybe I should paging the dgv. then it comes 2 questions:2.a) I only have a manually created table, how can I get a dataadapter/dataset from it? do I have to put data in a database table first (i.e. sql express), then load it to data adapter? is it possible to manually create a data adapter/dataset?2.b) if I paging the dgv, does it mean I still need manually update the dataset/datatable to keep the possible change when the user navigate through the dgv? or, I can simply use an update method?
I have a lots of strings.So I will need to do some statistics.The problem is some strings are the same.So,I will need to know the numbers of the same strings.How to do this.Shold I hold the strings in a Array of a List?
View 5 RepliesI want to show lots of text in my form but i'm not sure how to do this efficiently.
The text is just instructions to the games Pong and Match so it isn't very long, but long enough to not be practical to type into a textbox's text control. The instructions will have paragraphs, but no other formatting.
I have a form with lots of labels on it, and a reset button to reset them to a default text. This reset sub has lots of lines of code to get this done, but I think it cen be done in just a few. I thought of something like:
For Each Label In Me.Controls
Text = "0"
Next
but this doesn't work, or anything else that I've tried. how to do get this done? And what if I want half of the labels set to 0 and the other half to 1? Would that be possible without setting them all seperately?
I'm creating a program which navigates through a tree-like structure. There are lots of items with a single 'parent' and many 'children'.
Using a SQL database, I've got all of the items information stored, but I'm struggling with how to hold the IDs for each Items children.
For example:
A: no parents, Children: B, C, D
B: Parent: A, Children E, F, G, H
F: Parent: B, Children: J, K, L, M
Where each item will have hundreds of children, for which I don't really want a column for each child...
Is there a simple (or more complicated) way to hold and retrieve a large number of integers within one column... i.e. as some kind of sub-database, or an array with the column??
I'm considering making an application that will perform various tests against servers on a local network - for example pinging them, checking hard drive space, checking the state of services, whether or not databases are available, etc etc. Very similar to Hostmonitor if anyone has ever used that - but my app will be free
These tests would have to be performed at specified intervals, but the problem is that there could be literally hundreds of tests and I'm not sure how well my app would cope with hundreds of timers running... especially if they are all configured to run every minute or two (they all need to run independently of each other).
Really I'm just wondering how you guys would design such a system.The best way I can think of is to have a separate timer associated with every test and then when a test's timer has elapsed use the ThreadPool to do the work that the test will perform. That way if loads of them happen to run at the same time then the ThreadPool will queue them rather than trying to run say 200 at once. I also think I would need to have some kind of staging for when the app first starts, so that every single test is not going to have the exact same time to run (well, every test that has the same interval configured), but that shouldn't be too much of an issue.I guess it would be a good idea to try and use some sort of grouping so that more than one test can use the same timer - like if 20 tests were set to run with a 5 minute interval then I could use one timer and run all of the tests when that one timer fires.
I am going to work with 300 000+ words... what is the best thing nowadays to put so much text so it can be searched fast (runtime)? I would use a jagged array but maybe there is something new since I read my last book with tips&tricks.
View 6 RepliesThis might not be so 'VB' as it is 'SQL using VB' I have an application with a built in MS Access DB. I have a table that has a column full of integers, I shoot the DB a SQL "order by 'column name' " string and it returns the table ordered by my column of integers.BUT it returns them like this, and I want them like this
0 6
1 5
2 4
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How do I get the OrderBY to do a descending list starting with the highest number?
I'm working on the exercise page 73 (VB 2010 in 24 hours). It's basically a form with 2 text boxes, 2 text labels and a command button. It's really simple and uses this loop to cycle through the items, and tell me the name of them in a Messagebox
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