VB 6.0 To .Net Conversion - Form Activated Event
Jul 9, 2010
We are converting a Visual Basic 6.0 application to vb.net 2008 and are having an issue, while executing the code under form activated event. There is a difference in behavior between form.activate in Visual Basic 6.0 and form.activated in vb.net. In Visual Basic 6.0, the Activate event was raised only when switching between forms in the application; in Visual Basic .NET, the Activated event also is raised in case of showing messagebox and when switching from other applications.(by msdn)
In vb6 application the purpose to use form activate event is, to execute some code when forms become active. In our application forms are loaded, hide and show in different flows. So whenever this form is shown from hide state or any of its child form return focus to it, we need to reflect different changes in the application to the specific form controls.
* For example user changes its application preferred language. * As the application is huge, so shifting logic to other place with respect to the current scenario might solve the problem for the current form but then I have to re think it for all other forms (which is very hectic and more or less not feasible). In the migration process it is required to make as little changes in the existing code execution hierarchy. So we need a similar behavior like form.activate in vb6.0 with some other event or restrict some functionality of Activated event in vb.net.
View 6 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Sep 8, 2009
I have to two forms. Form one has several check boxes and when a button is pressed, a second form is opened and certain functions are ran based on which check boxes are selected.The problem is that the second form doesn't show until all of the functions are done.I decided to use the Form's Activated event, which works fine. However, the event fires every time the form comes into focus.Is there anyway to override the event and make it only fire once?
View 1 Replies
Jun 2, 2010
Hello, everyone! I'm having problems with the Activated Event in Visual Basic. When trying to click my btnNext, IF THE DATA ON THE PAGE IS NOT SAVED YET, then a message box is to appear and alert the user that the data is not saved yet. When clicking the OK button on the MessageBox, it is supposed to return control back over to the main form. HOWEVER, I can't get past the Activated Event on the main form. It crashes the program. I've tried global flags, but it still does not want to work! Can anyone please help? Any thought in the right direction will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance, y'all!
View 2 Replies
Jan 19, 2010
I'm having problem to get the Form.Activated (and .Deactivated for that matter) events to trigger for a Form with Form.TopLevel=False.
The reason why the form is TopLevel=False is because I need to put it in a tabcontrol.
Is there any other ways to detect when the Form is entered/activated?
View 2 Replies
Jun 8, 2011
How do I do code a notice to Facebook. If it came a new message is activated. A particular event. I can use webbrowser?
View 2 Replies
Dec 4, 2009
I have a MDi project , I want to raise the activated(Sender, eventArgs) event of activeMdi Form
View 5 Replies
Feb 4, 2011
I had issues in refreshing a form that is bound to different tables in a database. Various forms allow the user to change and add and update information on the form via the database. I had created a public sub in that form that the other forms could call, after saving the data, that was supposed to refresh the data on the main form. This was not working so I researched the problem. I came across this page which pertains to Form.Activated: [url]
I placed all of the table adapter fills into this event, instead of in Form_Load, and it seems to work now, when the form first loads, and when other forms update data. My question is does anyone have experience using this and what are the consequences, if any, in using this to reload/refresh the data showing on the form?
View 4 Replies
Jun 30, 2010
I am trying to migrate a vb6.0 application to vb.net. I have a major issue while executing the code under form.activated and form.deactivate. There is a difference in behaviour between form.activate in vb6.0 and form.activated in vb.net. How can I simulate the behaviour of vb version in vb.net.
I have read that the form.activated fires even when the control goes to a different application and comes back.
View 5 Replies
Jul 8, 2009
I am working on supplier maintenance file. From mainmenu, opening first form shows records on datagridview through databinding. Clicking add new record, i fired a second form as my data entry with detail view through databinding, minus navigational buttons. I left the delete and save button only. Once through data entry, i save it on server. My problem is, how can i reflect the added record on the first form while i am on my second form? I prefer the new record be added only to the first form. I don't want the idea of retrieving the records again from my server.
View 3 Replies
Apr 3, 2011
This is a non-MDI windows application. I have a home form containing a panel named Panel1 and two buttons btnForm1 and btnForm2. Clicking btnForm1 and btnForm2 opens up Form1 and Form2 respectively in Panel1. Before a form is opened in Panel1, all opened forms in Panel1 are cleared. The code follows:[code...]
In which events should the above lines be written? In MDI apps this could have been accomplished by including them in Form_Activated and Form_Deactivate events respectively.
But here neither Activated nor Deactivate events fire when you open forms in frmHome.Panel1. Instead of Activated and Deactivate you can use Form_Load an Form_FormClosed events but they will only merge/unmerge menus if existing forms are closed before opening a new form in the panel.
But as I sometimes need forms to be opened and closed keeping existing forms opened, using these events won't fulfill the task. Even the GotFocus and LostFocus events won't work. So I want Activated and Deactivate events to be fired or some other means by which the menus and toolstrips can be merged/unmerged when the form gains/looses focus respectively.
View 1 Replies
Jun 5, 2012
I'm trying to make it where you can click make a dialogbox lose focus until you input the requested information. I'm trying to create an effect where if you try clicking on the parent form, it flashes and won't let you activate it. You can see this effect in Windows sometimes when an error box pops up and you have to click 'OK' to continue. How would I go about doing this in VB.NET?
View 3 Replies
Nov 8, 2011
I'm trying to make it where you can click make a dialogbox lose focus until you input the requested information. I'm trying to create an effect where if you try clicking on the parent form, it flashes and won't let you activate it. You can see this effect in Windows sometimes when an error box pops up and you have to click 'OK' to continue. How would I go about doing this in VB.NET?
View 2 Replies
Feb 24, 2012
I am currently converting a 90s VB6 application to VB.NET. While testing I came across something curious.A Modal form by definition will prevent users accessing any other form in the application.This I discovered is not always true as I have a Modal form displayed which allowed me to access its owner form's Menu.Searching MSDN I could find no mention of this feature. So I thought I would share it:Click Button 1 on Form2 and Form1 comes back to life!
View 12 Replies
Jun 20, 2009
Porting an application from C# (1.1 framework) to VB.NET (3.5 framework), and I have this one last event based issue I cannot get my head around.
[Code]...
The SpecialLogWriter constructor is expecting a SpecialEventHandler, but the Me.SpecialEvent in the constructor of SpecialLogWriter gives me the error message that this is an event and cannot be called directly.
Am I missing another delegate, or is this just one of this declaration issues between the languages?
View 2 Replies
Mar 11, 2010
We are converting a Visual Basic 6.0 application to vb.net 2008 and are having an issue, while executing the code under "form activated event". There is a difference in behavior between form.activate in Visual Basic 6.0 and form.activated in vb.net. In Visual Basic 6.0, the Activate event was raised only when switching between forms in the application; in Visual Basic .NET, the Activated event also is raised in case of showing messagebox and when switching from other applications.(by msdn)In vb6 application the purpose to use form activate event is, to execute some code when forms become active. In our application forms are loaded, hide and show in different flows. So whenever this form is shown from hide state or any of its child form return focus to it, we need to reflect different changes in the application to the specific form controls.
* For example user changes its application preferred language.
* As the application is huge, so shifting logic to other place with respect to the current scenario might solve the problem for the current form but then I have to re think it for all other forms (which is very hectic and more or less not feasible).
In the migration process it is required to make as little changes in the existing code execution hierarchy. So we need a similar behavior like form.activate in vb6.0 with some other event or restrict some functionality of Activated event in vb.net.
View 2 Replies
Mar 20, 2012
Visual Studio 2010 I am trying to learn Caliburn Micro. The sample project is presented in C# only (and runs OK) I have tried several on-line C# to VB converters, without success. Well the conveersion runs without error - - - but the Visual Studio editor chokes on the results. The principal problem seems to be with (what looks to me like) a Lambda. Advanced code conversions are really tough in any case, - but when you do not know C# nearly impossible.
[Code]...
View 10 Replies
Mar 30, 2009
I am using VB.NET for Windows applications. What is the difference between Load event,Activate event and Enter event in the Form and in which order the above event is executed.
View 2 Replies
Nov 24, 2009
Ran into this while converting a VB.NET interface to C#; the VB version defines an event which doesn't conform to the typical (object sender, EventArgs e) signature:
[Code]...
View 1 Replies
Nov 16, 2010
I'm trying to execute different code depending on the button clicked (button 4 or 5) on Form1, but when I click on button5 to activitae the code on the Form2's Load event everything is Ok, but when I click the back button to return to Form 1 and click on the Button4 to activate the code on the Form2's Load event again, it doesn't active the Form's Load event, is there a way to form the form load event every time I access it from Form1? [code]
View 7 Replies
May 31, 2006
I recently upgraded an application from VB 6.0 to VB.NET. This application contains a timer in its form (only one form is there). But after upgrading, the timer is not getting activated. Form is using DefInstance as follows: frmMain.DefInstance.Show()
[Code]...
View 8 Replies
Jul 21, 2011
I need to create a program that when it is opened, Focus will be always in that program until someone with any way will close it. I've tried to add Me.GetFocus() in the LostFocus event but nothing happens, I've tried to add Me.activate() when the Deactivate() event raises and when I debugged the program worked but when I run the biulded .exe file nothing happens again! how I can manage this Function?
View 6 Replies
Dec 23, 2009
As you noticed, in the code bellow, the event argument for the form click event has the type "TimedEventArgument".When the event is raised, e.Time holds the time where the form was clicked.Add the missing code in the class Form1 to make this work.You will not change anything to the methods "Form1_Click" or "Form1.Load".You will not use Option Strict On. HOWEVER, you will not do any narrowing or late binding that wouldn't have been allowed if Option Strict was on.You cannot create any new Class, Structure or Module.You cannot cast the EventArgs to TimedEventArg in any way
[code]...
View 10 Replies
May 11, 2009
I just want to know if there any equivalent event (ADO. NET VS 2008) event as in MS ACCESS Form's OnCurrent Event.
The reason is I like to make some calculations based on some data bound controls with current datarow data when user clicked a row in DataGridView (or by using bindingNavigator). I've tried with DatagridView's RowEnter event. But some Data bound controls are not yet reflect the data of current datarow when that evet was fired.
In MSDN Help File: It says "RowEnter Event: Occurs when a row receives input focus but before it becomes the current row. "
View 4 Replies
Dec 6, 2011
How should I go about getting my mouse position over multiple controls, and such. I can't use the form_mouse move event, or any other control event nor can I use them all at the same time cause that would conflict with the actual position I need for an object.
View 10 Replies
Sep 21, 2011
I have a combobox and a rich text box. When I select different items in the combo box, I want some text to appear in the rtb next to it. Such as, selecting "Dog" in the combobox puts "Golden retriever, lab" and etc in the rtb.
1) I don't know what kind of event handler would trigger the combobox. I tried a click event but it's crashing so I want to know if there's a different way
2) How do I find what the user selected in the combobox, so it can display stuff in the rtb accordingly? I thought it was .Items.IndexOf but nothing seems to be working so.
View 1 Replies
Jul 9, 2010
I am trying to switch from a SingleCall Remoting infrastructue to a client activated object infrastructure. But can't get it to work. Probbaly a setting. On the hosting server (a console application) I have:
[Code]....
View 7 Replies
Apr 20, 2009
When we use Client-Activated Objects in remoting ? can any one provide an example on Client-Activated Objects
View 3 Replies
May 4, 2009
I'm trying to make a easy hot key cheat system for a game. I have a timer that checks to see if the game is activated if not then it says game not running in a label box. If so then it says it's running. It detects it running so that's good. I want it to check to see if the numberic key was pressed like 1 and it will type in the cheat code. here's the source.
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
Me.Focus()
[Code]......
View 11 Replies
Feb 24, 2011
I have 2 FormsOne is my mainform, one is a "child" form.The childform has no control box.he mainform has a toggle button to show and hide the childform.
Private Sub ButtonShowHideChildForm_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonShowHideChildForm.Click
If ChildForm.TopMost Then
[code]....
View 1 Replies
Mar 17, 2009
I'm drawing my own charts based on values from a db. I'm drawing "directly" on the forms, so to speak. The thing is everytime the application is deactivated or if someting comes in front of the charts, the drawing dissappears. For instance, I have a contextmenu in one chart and whenever I use it there is a "hole" in the chart afterwards where the menu has been. Now I can see the reason for it, but how do I get around it?
View 2 Replies
