If you have a Control contained within another Control and the Child Control has the default Anchoring (Top + Left) AND AutoSize=False (Assuming the control has that Property) changing the Parent Control's Top or Left Padding will not offset the Child Control.If you change the Anchoring of the Child Control to anything other than the default values OR set AutoSize=True, the Control is correctly offset when the Parent Control's Padding values are changed.
I'm trying to anchor to a MDI child that is docked (fill) in the parent.I know this is odd, but the anchoring I did for the form, will work if I maximize it, or if I manually stretch it, but if it is set to .dock = fill to the main form the anchors don't work at all.
In my form I hace a Groupbox1, within Groupbox1 have a Groupbox2, within Groupbox2 have a Textbox1..how to call the Texbox1 from another form? When I use Dim newControl As Control = Form1.Controls(Textbox1.Name) I get nothing value?if I use Form1.Controls(Groupbox1.Name) it can get the Groupbox1
I'm using VB2008 Express. And I've been working on a "popup" to select a date range. The DateTimePicker isn't ideal because the purpose is to pick a date range, which will always be one full week, from Sunday through Saturday. The control works just fine and I'm pretty proud of it. My problem has to do with the border added when using ToolstripControlHost for this. I've included a screenshot and my code.
In the code below, assume there exists a button named "btnTimePeriod", below which I desire to show a panel, which contains a few custom items, and the panel's name is "pnlDateRangePicker".IT WORKS... but it doesn't look right. The panel itself is 147 x 326 pixels, but notice in the attached graphic that it's adding a border around the panel which I don't want. There's a border on the top, bottom, and left... but for some reason the border on the right one is especially large. Although my code doesn't expressly set it, AutoSize = true so I would have expected it to shrink around the panel.
As required, my code already does set ShowCheckMargin and ShowImageMargin false. I haven't included the code for the DrawDateCalander Sub because it's not relevant. I believe even a blank panel would yield the same result. I have no idea where this margin is coming from.
Private Sub btnTimePeriod_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnTimePeriod.Click Call DrawDateCalendar(DatePart(DateInterval.Month, FirstDisplayedSunday), DatePart(DateInterval.Year, FirstDisplayedSunday)) Call ShowControlBelow(btnTimePeriod, pnlDateRangePicker) End Sub
In your opinion what API use Spy++ to get the "Rectangle" and "Restored Rect" data of a child control of an external window?I don't think it uses GetWindowPlacement because if I use this API for the main window I obtain the same values of Spy++, but if I use the GetWindowPlacement API to find the position of a control of the window itself, known it Hwnd, I obtain different results as to Spy++ (that are ALWAYS the same results also if I shift the Main window... so I think that are relative data and not absolute data... but they are wrong )
One example: Spy++ : (620, 473)-(792, 505) GetWindowPlacement: (615, 450)-(787, 482) same dimensions... but different pos... and the right pos is the Spy++ pos.
I need to determine the child control with focus - I've got lots of controls in panels and other container controls so the ActiveControl is simply coming back as the TOP LEVEL panel I was trying something like this:
1. How to get 0 padding/inner margin in the cells? I want just the border as a colored line at the next close pixel to the control in the cell. Or if border set to none, I want the controls with no gap.
2. How do I actually add/remove rows& columns? I thought this was by setting the .ColumnCount property, but if I set it to 3, and then try to access the third column, it gives exception, so it's obviously just two columns, although it also looks like 3 on the form. ? I created it in designer with 2 columns though. But I don't understand how this hangs together..
Dim z0, z1, z2 As New ZedGraphControl z0.Dock = DockStyle.Fill z1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
I am writing a kiosk type application, in winforms (I know WPF would be better, this is just to be a rough and ready solution until I've learnt WPF), using VB.Net (VS2008).I have a label on my form with the font set to Segoe UI, and at 120pt size (yes it's large, it's designed to be read from a distance on a 42" screen).The problem I have is that the automatic internal padding is pushing my text 60 pixels from the top of the control to the top of the text and 40 pixels from the left of the control to the left of the text - the label1.padding property is all at 0, so this is the default spacing of the control - it seems to be particularly bad with this font (but it's the font I want to use) and if I increase the font size, this issue gets even worse.
I want my text to fit tightly into the boundaries of my control top, bottom and left (I want the right to expand depending on the length of the string in it, though). How can I achieve this (so that I can control all of the paddding myself using the label.padding property) and get rid of this automatic padding?
I have a UserControl that contains other controls that I would like to be able to rearrange or resize at design time. So I have a custom designer for the UserControl that inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner, and I call EnableDesignMode on the child controls from within the designer. That way, at design time, I can drag and drop the child controls to move them, or resize them. But I can also drag and drop the child controls somewhere else on the form that is outside of the original UserControl. Is there a way I can limit the child controls from being moved or resized outside the UserControl?
I am still messing around with Cntrl/Copy and Paste from a menustrip. Paste is working fine. The copy is working to a certain extent. It will copy the complete text field from one control to another. how do I determine what is the selected text only. My code below:
Private Sub CopyToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles CopyToolStripMenuItem.Click Dim activeChild As Form = Me.ActiveMdiChild ' Determine the active child form. Dim activeControl As Control = activeChild.ActiveControl
I am using Visual Basic .Net 2005 professional.From what I understand, I should be disposing of any object that is an unmanaged resource. I understand the best way to tell if a resource is unmanaged is if it has a Dispose method. ie: If I type a dot after my object, intellisense shows .Dispose() as one of the options. If it does, it's an unmanaged resource. Is that correct? In that case, pretty much every control is an unmanaged resource: buttons, forms, panels, etc.In the application I am working on I use an MDIparent container form, which contains MDI children forms, which themselves contain Panels, Menus, Groupboxes, etc, which in turn contain Buttons, Textboxes, Labels, Dropdowns, etc.Do I have to dispose of each button, textbox, label and dropdown within a panel before disposing of the panel?
Do I have to dispose of each panel, menu, and groupbox before disposing of the MDI child form?.Or can I just call the Dispose() method of the MDIchild form and the GarbageCollector will take care of all the controls and resources within the form?Watching the "mem usage" in Windows Task Manager seems to be an unreliable way to detect if I have a memory leak. The numbers just keep climbing and falling (mostly climbing) erratically and without any activity performed on the application. Is there some (relatively) easy way to detect leaks?
I have a UserControl named DataGridViewFilterAndSorter that I built using a SplitContainer. In each Panel of the SplitContainer contains a FlowLayoutPanel and in each FlowLayoutPanel contains a LinkLabel.
I have a procedure that accepts a reference to one of the FlowLayoutPanels in the UserControl. I want to get a reference to the UserControl (DataGridViewFilterAndSorter) using the FlowLayoutPanel reference. Currently, I have to use this[code]...
I'm trying to decrypt some data but I get this error: Padding is invalid and cannot be removed. It highlights the _streamWriter.Close() line. This is the code I'm using to decrypt a file:
vb.net Imports System.Security.CryptographyImports System.TextImports System.IO Public Class EncryptFile Private Shared Buffer(4096) As Byte Private Shared _Rijndael As New RijndaelManaged Private Shared _Hash As New SHA256Managed Private Shared _Encoding As New UTF8Encoding Private Shared IV As Byte() = {12, 4, 58, 74, 52, 33, 69, 87, 47, 8, 23, 69, 85, 47, 85, 21} Private
[code]....
When I encrypt a file it gives me no error, but when I decrypt a file it gives me this error: Padding is invalid and cannot be removed. In this line:
vb.net cStream.Close()
I don't understand why, because I'm using the same IV and the same key, I've even checked the generated hash, and to me, it seems the same.
Im working with MDI parent/child objects. when closing the child objects i need the child to check to see if it is the last child object before closing. i couldn't find anything on google, maybe im searching for the wrong thing.
I would like to try setting the doublebuffered property of a child control of a form (named Canv). However, it tells me it is protected and therefore I cannot change it, unless I override it.I have had experiences with overriding properties in the past, but only with entire classes. Is it possible to do the same with this particular instance of the Panel, instead of creating a whole new custom class and using that instead?What I am ultimately trying to achieve is to draw ~100 controls onto the panel without having them flicker singularly into view.
my program written by me can only perform properly if its in multiple of 8bits, but when it exceeds more than or less than 8 bits it doesnt perform the specified function. so i want to know how to do '0' padding if my file size is not in multiples of 8 bits.
I have got a project that i am currently creating that is a basic word processing application. There is the capability to have unlimited MDI child forms open however when you click on change font colour of something similar i only want it to do it in the currently active MDIChild. I have found the Me.activemdichild however i cant then access controls on that form.
I've created a control class that inherits a Panel control. This control then contains two other panels, one of which I would like to be an IContainerControl.I know how to turn the entire control into a IContainerControl but have been unable to do the same to a child control. I've tried in both C# and VB.Net and failed with both.
Does that make sense? I tried searching but didn't find anything that helped, hopefully someone here can get me on my way
I thought I'd embark on a little project, just making a registry editor as the one on WinXP is a little.. Plain and boring, so I thought I'd make my own.I'm having no problems loading the registry into my form, although I'm having difficulty loading the data into a ListBox control.. I can set parents, for example Local MachineDynamic DataPerformance Data..This is no trouble. I know it's possible, but I don't know how to create the following structure [code]Basically, I don't know how to add a child node to the ListBox control.
My application uses an MDI form, and there are instances where the end user will need multiple child windows open at a time. I need an easy way for the user to switch between windows, which made me think of using tabs kinda like Firefox, or like the tabs in the Visual Studio IDE up at the top where you can switch between open forms and code files.
I'm curious if there is a control in .NET that will already do this? I would rather not re-invent the wheel if I can help it. Google has failed me thus far.
[Code] I have a panel as the base of my custom control and I am adding other panels to it, along with a flow layout panel(myInnerContainer). I know the code above isn't going to work because when I try to add the regular panels to the main control, they will attempt to be added to the flow layout panel myInnerContainer, and cause a circular error. [Code] but intellisense doesn't display anything which leads me in the correct direction for adding only the buttons to the flow layout panel (myInnerContainer).
I've created a tab control and on one of the pages I added a button, but I cannot move the button around with the mouse!? I can change the buttons position within the tab control page using the property Location and I can size the button using the mouse and the button is NOT locked. I even tried creating a new project with just the tab control and it still does the same thing. I can, tho, move the button using the keyboard arrows!
I'm using VS2010 V10.0.30319.1 RTMREL on WinXP SP3.
Well I'm not sure how to describe it so i uploaded an image that has 2 different control box positions.
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The one on top is set up as Render Mode=System while the other image is set up as Render Mode= ManagerRenderMode
Both applications were developed in VB using VS2005.
Each one has its MDI container and their MainMenuStrip set up..
What property/reason would be causing this? I just created a test program simulating the same case (MDI container with child forms) and everytime i maximized the control boxes appear in the correct position.
I have a bunch of dynamically created controls by the user which I'm storing as a control collection in the session state so I can display them on every postback. Each control that the user generates is a div with other controls inside it. I have a button on each control that will allow the user to either delete the control or duplicate it.
I need a solution to move a child control with in the bounds of a parent control means I had a panel with 300*300 pixels and I had to move a textbox within the panel how?
Using MDI in .net, how do you reference a control on a parent form from a child? Like, if on the parent I have a textbox called txtBox1, what could I do from the child form to read the contents? I've been googling unsuccessfully all day. The closest I've found is
Parent!ControlName.Property
I don't know what the ! is supposed to mean, but I get an error here: Class 'System.Windows.Forms.Control' cannot be indexed because it has no default property.
We have a main form which opens an MDI child form. What we want is to set the focus on a particular control in the child form, namely a telerik textbox. When the form is opened for the first time, the focus is set to the textbox control which has a tabIndex = 1 as expected. If the winodw is closed (and disposed) and then reopened via a button on the tool bar that calls the same code that opens the window when the application starts, no control has focus. We have added lines such as Me.rtxtPatientId.Focus() in the Paint event, load event, and activated event handlers but still cannot get the focus to the control. The code is quite extensive so posting it is difficult. However, here is the section that opens the child window:
if PatientSearchForm Is Nothing Then PatientSearchForm = New frmPatientLookup End If PatientSearchForm.MdiParent = Me PatientSearchForm.Show() If PatientSearchForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized Then PatientSearchForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal End If PatientSearchForm.Activate() PatientSearchForm.rtxtPatientID.Focus()
I need a tool window to act like a mdi child over a chart control. I can't use mdi because I'm using the krypton control ribbon component and they pretty much use all the mdi code in the background. Anything I do mucks it up. So I need a window to float over another control and be bounded by the real estate of that control.
If a user enters less than the maximum limit of characters set for a textbox, how do u pad the textbox with xxxx when the user leaves the textbox. I've tried using the padright function but I can't seem to get it to work.
