I need to take a snapshot of a form which is not necessarily visible on the screen. I need to save that into a Bitmap object. I cannot use Graphics.CopyFromScreen() because if there was anything obstructing the form, it will appear in the snapshot taken.
View 6 RepliesCurrently I have the following VB.NET code to make a screenshot of my desktop, but it only takes a picture of the active screen:
Public Function SaveScreen(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
Try
SendKeys.Send("%{PRTSC}")[code].....
The following code is how I execute the above function, if it makes any difference, which I don't think it does:
SaveScreen("C:Lexer_tracescreen.png")
Now, I need to be able to take a picture of the entire screen, not just the focused window.
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 made this VB.NET code to take a picture of my entire screen, but instead it only takes a photo of the focused area. Why is this?
Public Function SaveScreen(ByVal theFile As String) As Boolean
Try
SendKeys.Send("{PRTSC}")[code]....
Below is the exception code info. when I try to make form visible for the first time from another form then I get an exception code. something like 'a required variable not set'
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I'm having an odd problem when making a form visible and not visible and it not continuing to function. Here is what I have happening. I have a main form (frmMain) that is an MDIParent. On this form I have a menu to open a second form (frmCalculate) and populate a listview from Items in the database.
As I click or select items in the listview on frmCalculate the tag is read and data is pulled based on the id stored in that tag and fills in various fields on the form. This works great. However, I also have a context menu attached to the listview that allows me to perform a "what if" scenerio on the items I am calculating. When I select this menu, I hide the frmCalculate and open the frmWhatIf form where I can mess around with values on the item I had hilighted in the listview on frmCalculate. Nothing is pulled from or written back to the database here, all the information is filled in from fields on frmCalculate. It just allows me to look at rising costs and how they will affect my margins.... anyway.
If I then close frmWhatIf, it brings my frmCalculate back by setting its visible propery to true (never closed frmCalculate, just hid it). At this point if I click an item in the listview I get an exception for a null reference. IF however I never hide frmCalculate, I can open and close frmWhatIF without ever having an issue. Why do I lose the functionality to select items just by hiding and unhiding the form? As a test I added two menus to the toolbar on frmMain one called hide and one called show. I then opened frmCalculate with original menu item to populate the listview and selected a few items to test that it was working and then using the hide menu I made the form invisible and the show button to bring it back. This yielded the same exception so without even opening frmWhatIf the problem still occurs.
I am trying to code something that will check if a png image is visible on your screen. So lets say the image is a purple square with yellow circles in it (random example). It will keep checking to see if the same purple square with yellow circles is on your screen. What I'm trying to say is, instead of checking for one pixel color, check to see if the actual image is on there (maybe multiple pixels?)
View 10 RepliesHow to do app active on screen all time?
View 2 RepliesAfter running the following code (which locks the computer), what code must I be applying to see if the user has successfully logged into the computer and that "Lock Screen" I'd so called has disappeared?
Private Declare Function LockWorkStation Lib "user32.dll" () As Long
Private Function LockComputer()
LockWorkStation()
End Function
I will call "LockComputer", after that what do I do to see if the Lock screen so called by this function (after say 2 minutes) has disappeared or is still there asking for the password from the user.
When I call PrintForm1.Print(Me, PowerPacks.Printing.PrintForm.PrintOption.Scrollable)Only the visible portion of the screen is printed.What else do I need to dobill
View 5 Repliesi have changed some of the properties of the form & it's controls but while runtime same is taking effect !
i am changing the form's default location....... "" ....... "".. controls ( Datagridview controls) some column properties but nothing is taking in to effect, but in design time every thing is normal
NOTE:- no code is acting upon this controls IN FORM load or any other event, so i can't suspect that thing
I have 5 forms after the first initial login form which i believe to be correct You are to enter customer details which so far i believe to correct(all fields must be filled) I then have a Service or repair screen whichever the user wants. on the repair screen i have a checkedlistbox with repair types in. anyway after all of this i have a calculate button on either service and repair screen and i want to know how to pass all customer details and repair or service onto an invoice displaying the cost of the service or repair Inlcuding VAT and Hourly rate
[Module Var
Public Title As String
Public Surname As String
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I need to capture a screen image of a region in my form. So to say it easily me.captureimage.region (X,Y,Width,hight). I need only to take a screen-shot of the region on my form. So i can set the X adn Y and Width , hight to for example my button. so it has to take an image of my button.
View 17 RepliesI am making a booking system. I am using same form for insertion and updation. How can I update by taking the values from the textboxes. For example if the user enters value for just 2 out of 8 fields then How can i update just 2 fields without affecting the rest of the record. I mean to say that if I use a single update query using all the fields then if some textbox is left empty then it will replace the database field value by null or something else.
View 2 RepliesI want to take the values from textboxes on a windows form and then update the values in the sql server database...I want to update only those fields for which a value has been entered by the user and leave the database fields as it is (no change or updation) for which the textboxes are left empty by the user.....I opted for sql command and then i couldn't find out How can I generate the query dynamically for such a situation??? Like I intialize the string by str= " Update Bookings set " and then how i can alter it by considering the textbox values that have been changed....I couldn't find the way...I need shortest and optimized code for this situation....
View 5 RepliesI want to take the values from textboxes on a windows form and then update the values in the sql server database...I want to update only those fields for which a value has been entered by the user and leave the fields for which the textboxes are left empty by the user.....How can I generate the query dynamically for such a situation???
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I haven't yet coded for the update option...Here is my insertion code and i wanted to implement the update feature the same way just couldn't figure out how i can generate the query dynamically....It's a Booking System application
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Requested were made by Businese Analyst to set the few Main FORMs VISIBLE PROPERTY TO FALSE when the POPUP FORM is loaded.
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When the MAIN FORM loads the POPUP FORM, on the FRMPOPUPCUSTOMER-FORMLOAD even, it has to set the MAIN FORM Visible to False.
When FRMPOPUPCUSTOMER FORM IS UNLOAD it has to set the MAIN FORM Visible = TRUE.
How to the coding is to ensure that different MAIN FORM when loaded FRMPOPUPCUSTOMER it will turn the MAIN FORM Visible to FALSE.
I'm new in .Net and I have an application with windows form "LOGIN" When users enter the user and password and click "ok", then if user passes validation then I have the code Show(MDIMainMenu) (I'm trying to open an mdi form), but I receive the following error: "Form that is already visible cannot be displayed as a modal dialog box. Set the form's visible property to false before calling Show. Error Number 5"
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Based on code that executes in Form.Load, is it possible to disable displaying that form after the handler for Form.Load is complete? I'd like to have a commandline switch that disables showing the form, but still runs the application. I've tried this, but it doesn't work:
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If InStr(Environment.CommandLine.ToLower, "/trayonly") Then
Me.Visible = False
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I need to capture image from WebCam in my .NET application which should work on both Win XP & Vista. While creating this thread, the forums suggested me 3 links that were helpful. I though I got the answer from one of them, but it worked spcifically on Win XP, not Vista.
I jus tneed to capture an image from the WebCam, rest all processing of the would be handled by my .NET code.
I'm trying to take a snapshot of a website and show the snap shot in my picturebox.
the only thing on my form would be the picture box and a button to take a snapshot.
I would like to be able to take a snapshot of an whole RTF document displayed on screen (and also whats not yet displayed below screen) and save it as a JPEG image, but I cannot work out code to do this in VB.NET.I can do it all manually by displaying the document on screen, highlighting all text displayed and copying it to the clipboard. Then I can paste it into 'Paint' and save it as a JPEG. But I would like to be able to do this programatically inside my program.
View 5 RepliesHow i can take snapshot of webbrowser and save it to C:file.png
View 4 RepliesBasically I need to be able to take a snapshot from a webcam.The webcam is known so I know what cam I am looking for and what I wish to connect to and it will be there but I can't find out how to take a snapshot from it and then be able to save it as a jpg?
View 2 RepliesI've got a panel - that's in a group box. All of this - with lots of other textboxes on labels - is in another panel (the big panel).I make the big panel visible and not visible based on selections made by the user.This small panel - that's in the group box. I cannot seem to make it appear.Even if I leave it VISIBLE at design time - the objects in it will not appear.Is there some kind of nesting problem that I'm not aware of!
View 9 RepliesI have five menu items that i have created as a user control and placed on the master page. Now i want one of the menu items to be visible only for particular user role and not visible for others. Here is what I did. Its not working though.
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I have a different kind of issue inside my code. I can not use my code as era. I have a simple code to make form drop from visible status but it is not working. I could not manage this problem.
//This is my code
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
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I have been using the VB2008 express edition following Bob Tabors's 18 course lesson in VB 'snapshot 5'. I was starting lesson 14 on the RSS reader. This lesson adds the .mdf for the first tome. The .mdf file was unable to be opened due to some message about code 603?. The final requst is that the database be recreated. What would you suggest. I was not expected to run into this problem so quickly in the learning process. so be it
View 3 RepliesI have a third party GIS tool that I'm using to view maps with. Occasionally we have to take a snapshot of a portion of the map and dump it to a bitmap. The third party tool has a function that will give me the upper left and lower right coordinates of the area selected on the map. These coordinates come out as system.drawing.point objects.
The two point objects are then used to generate a new system.drawing.size object that will give the height and width of the area selected. The height and width values are passed to the constructor for the system.drawing.bitmap.All this works fine most of the time. Sometimes, however, when the user selects a particularly large area, the bitmap constructor bombs with a 'parameter is not valid' error. There isn't any documentation on this error, but I'm assuming it means the height and width are too big.
So what I'm wondering is... is there some way to check my height and width values prior to creating the bitmap and make sure they are in acceptable bounds?
I am trying to take a snapshot, or a copy of a control, for a bitmap. I'm wanting to do this to a listbox, but part of the listbox may be hidden.On the mouse_down event I need to get the snapshot of the whole listbox (even though parts may be hidden behind other controls, I need the whole listbox) and draw it to the screen in the same location as the original listbox (but the hidden parts still stay hidden behind the other controls on the bitmap).
On the mouse_move event I need to move the snapshot up/down based on mouse movement. This also moves the listbox up/down and this code is done. I will just move the snapshot of the listbox the same way as the original listbox.On the mouse_up event, I will dispose the bitmap and display the original listbox again.
I am doing this because moving a listbox up/down is really messy. It's a custom drawn listbox and looks horrible moving, so I figured if I could snapshot it, move the bitmap while visible, and listbox behind the scenes, it will flow smoothly and no one would notice I am scrolling a bitmap instead.
Double buffering the form and listbox didn't help . I've done some graphics.drawstring before, but not much on other graphics.