Below is a short section of code from an application I am working on. What I am trying to do is to get a counter value to show when the application is minimized. When restored back to normal state, the name string is applied. It works, but it takes several minutes to change, and then never updates again. Not sure what the issue is.
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I also tried a direct string conversion in the "elseif" part. No difference.
How do I change the font of the Form's Title?
View 3 RepliesI have a dual monitor setup on my computer. My program has multiple forms. I've designed the program to check which monitor the main form is currently on and to open the secondary forms on the current monitor. When the main form is on the primary monitor the secondary forms open as FormWindowState.Normal which is the design-time setting for the secondary forms. If the main form is on the secondary monitor and I click to open a secondary form then the secondary form is to be displayed as FormWindowState.Maximised.
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So I moved the Form.Show line to after the Form.WindowState line. This works fine when the Form.Show process is very quick. The problem is that one of the secondary forms downloads some information from the internet so it takes about a second to finish the Form_Load process. When I had Form.Show first the form would not appear on screen until the Form_Load process is complete, so the delay was in the form appearing at all which is how I prefer it. With Form.Show last the form appears on screen immediately but appears mostly blank and unresponsive until the Form_Load process completes.
I would prefer that the form not appear at all until the Form_Load process is complete but I would like it to appear in an already Maximised state. Is this achieveable? It doesn't seem that complicated but I just can't figure it out.
I need to store the Location, Size and WindowState of my application when it is closed, so that it can be re-opened in the same state later. I thought I could use simple coding and the Settings to achieve this, but I noticed the PropertyBinding of the Form in a tutorial and decided to see if I could use it.
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I am trying to change every form title bar and border to green in my project. How do you change the all the forms title bar and border to green without changing other window applications title bar and border?
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I have an mdi form where the child forms need to maintain aspect ratio in normal state and have resize procedures that work well except with one form that appears to have a bug.
This form is the first child form opened, it is set as maximised in design and looks ok. If I then open another form on top, this maximised form, with a size of 1920x942, goes through my control resize code insisting it is in normal state and has a size of 1428x822. Obviously, when I close the other form the controls are wrongly resized/positioned.
I thought I might check the eventargs to test if the controlbox has actually been used and ignore otherwise but debug always reports that as empty. Lostfocus, deactivate etc don't trigger before resize so can't set a flag there.
why just this one form appears to be insane, or how I can distinguish between an intended resize and one just due to hiding by another form?
Well, I develop a web browser called "Telecom". Instead of using a tabbed browser control, I use multiple forms for tab switching, and most of the tab switches look like
View 2 RepliesHas anyone had any luck with having different window states with multiple open child forms?for example if you have a single child form opened and say it is maximized.then open a second child form as normal, the first form will then be set to normal.all the open child forms will mimic the newly opened forms state.and i believe they will mimic when making some changes to one forms state.the others will follow.i have not had luck keeping this from happening in most situations.
View 19 Replieshaving different window states with multiple open child forms? for example if you have a single child form opened and say it is maximized. then open a second child form as normal, the first form will then be set to normal. all the open child forms will mimic the newly opened forms state. and i believe they will mimic when making some changes to one forms state. the others will follow.
View 3 RepliesThe problem I am having now is, the form size is exactly the size of my screen resolution. This makes the bottom scrollbar cover up by the taskbar. If the taskbar is hidden then it could solve the problem but I cannot set all PC to hide the taskbar
View 9 RepliesI have a class that contains one function: "ShowDialog()" It creates a new openfiledialog and sets its title, but when it is run, the title of the openfiledialog is set to the current directory that is shown in the dialog. I would not like this behavior. Here is the code:
Public Class LoadSet
Public Shared Function ShowDialog() As System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult
Dim Dialog As New System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog
Dialog.DefaultExt = ".bsfci"
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Dim num As Process
For Each num In Process.GetProcessesByName(TextBox1.Text)
Next
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I'm trying to change a forms title at runtime where it = my textbox's text. But I can't even get it to change to "test". When I try to google it, it comes up with vb6's
.caption = "test".
When I try to search it on the forum, it gives me a error message saying:
"Error 502 Bad gateway"
I am using Windows 7 64-bit and Visual Studio 2010 (VB.Net)
I am trying to write a media player using the wmplib.dll for playback. Everything is working but I found a one problem I can't find an answer to. How do you find the songs duration before actually playing the song? the code I am using is below.
I get an error when I try to update the slider with the current position. The messagebox returns all zeros. (i.e. 0 - 0 -0 ).
' SET FILE NAME
Dim sFile As String = "D:MusicSongsArtistsEaston Corbin�1-Easton Corbin�4 - The Way Love Looks.mp3"
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I update a Form's Title from within the form, but it doesn't update. Any idea how to "Refresh" it so that the update displays?
View 2 RepliesI'm building a Visual Basic program to allow me to change my desktop background through VB. I've made it so the user can select a file and set it as the wallpaper but i'm wondering if there is a way to allow the user to decided on the position eg Stretch, tiled or centre.
View 1 RepliesI update a Form's Title from within the form, but it doesn't update. Any idea how to "Refresh" it so that the update displays?
View 5 RepliesHow do you change the colour of the title bar?
View 1 RepliesIf I disable the formborderstyle and set the WindowState to maximized it goes over the taskbar.how can I have to program to be maximized, but the taskbar remains?
View 3 RepliesDoes anyone know of a solution using the internal webbrowser, to grab a sites <title></title> tags?
As for now I have in my browser something like:
Me.Text = WebBrowser1.Url.ToString
Hence showing the URL in the forms text, but I would need to change that to a sites title
I want to change the form shape. like round corners.
using designed images as form but are transprant.. like this
This might be a stupid question but I cannot figure out how to do it. I am making an application used as a touch interface. What I want is to make a form in VB.net, ie buttons and a browser window and possibly some images. When I press a button such as next page etc. I would like it to be a new interface ie different buttons maybe a picture instead of the web browser etc, pretty generic. I can see how I can do using multiple forms but I am wanting it to be one application/one window.
Am I missing something as I thought this would be a pretty normal thing to do, ie having different UI's so when you click a button it takes you to the next page. Should I been using multiple forms and then get the form2 to replace form1 etc?
How do I change the Form's Border color?
View 1 RepliesI have a form which has a user control in it added dynamically. How can I change the values in that dynamically generated user control? All my functions are in a module and I will just call them in main form. So in module how can I find that user control and change its values? I tried writing a function in user control form. Like it has 10 txt box and I tried to pass a structure as argument in that user control form but I am unable to do so. when I tried to declare the structure outside function parameter in user control form it works well but not as function parameter..
View 6 RepliesMost applications will expand all components if the user change the size of the forms
View 2 Replieswhen i run following code it runs ok and problem is that during running code when i minimize the form and then restore again the form, it not display changing value into label1 and progressbar also the form looks like hang what is its solution?
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Basically I want to move my mouse to the coords that is received based on the location of a certain coloured pixel. I can get the coords of the pixel but when using them on mouse position, the mouse position is based on the entire screen rather than the form. How could I change the position coords based on the form rather than the entire screen. E.G. If a certain coloured pixel is 2,2 in a form and I put that as the mouse position, it would go outside the form but I dont want that. I want it to hover of the pixel coords
This is my
Dim bmp As Bitmap = DirectCast(PictureBox1.Image, Bitmap)
For x As Integer = 0 To bmp.Width - 1
For y As Integer = 0 To bmp.Height - 1
If bmp.GetPixel(x, y) = (Color.FromArgb(108, 90, 60)) Then
Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position =
End If
Next
Next
I need to be able to change my form's opacity without changing the opacity of the components.
I really only need to do this on one form in my entire app, so this is getting a little frustrating
I've been researching for about half an hour now, trying to figure out if it's possible, but I'm coming up short.
I've seen some WPF examples and if it really comes to that, I'm more than willing to change the app from a WinForms app to a WPF app. I've made a WPF app before, so I'm familiar with it. But, I don't want to have to remake my entire project for this one form.
On that note, does anyone know if I can make a WPF form how I need it and just import it into a WinForm app? It doesn't seem possible, but it's better to ask than not. I'll look into this more.
I've been trying to sort this issue out for a while now, dont really know how to move forward.What i've done in the meanwhile is to have a global variable ie "VBState As String" and then on the form resize call to make it change the Variable accordingly ie[code]....
View 6 RepliesI am trying to display a child form in a Mdi Form without the child Form's title bar showing. The title bar is showing with the default Icon, not even the icon of the child form. When the icon on this second title bar is clicked the popup menu (Restore/Move/etc.) shows.
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