I have been playing about with the WM_SYSCOMMAND Message and more specifically with the SC_SCREENSAVE parameter which is a cool way to pick up when the screen saver is activated as seen below:[code] What I can't seem to find is if there is a way to detect when the screen saver comes off.
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View 1 RepliesI want to show system ideal time in WPF window (like screen saver). I can able to get system ideal time. But how to set my application property to screen saver property. My application was sent back, if windows screen saver activated and if user lock the system (ctr+alt+l) my application went hidden. I dont want to install my application into screen saver (convert .exe to .src). Is there any possible, my application act as a screen saver?
View 1 Repliesi am trying to make screen saver in vb.net i m using picturebox and timer (for separation of time), but i cannot attach multiple pictuers in a single picturebox.
View 2 RepliesCan anyone shoot me a zip file for the RSS Screensaver Starter Kit for Visual Basic .NET Express
Microsoft's web site claims it is part of of the Visual Basic .NET Express download. I downloaded it but when I click on file / new project, RSS Screensaver Starter Kit is not there.
I want a video to pop up over my form acting like a screen saver. I can get a video to play, like a windows media file but I dont want the windows media player to be visible. The video should start if the mouse hasnt moved in say a minute or
View 2 Replieshow can i enable/disable screen saver by vb.net?i have found only samples to do this with vb6 with a api but in vb.net there is some way to call the same api?
View 1 RepliesI have an application than disables the screen saver temporarily in order to run a slide show. I use this to turn it on or off:
i = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, active, Nothing, SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE)
This works fine in XP. In Windows 7, it disables the screen saver properly. However, when it is enabled again, at the normal time for the screen saver to come on, the system asks for a password instead of showing the screen saver.From this time on until the screen saver settings are adjusted in the control panel, the password screen is displayed in place of the screen saver.Is there something else I should be doing for Windows 7? I understand that SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE is not supported in Windows 7, but SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE is supposed to be.
I am trying to allow the user to launch the Windows Screen Saver by clicking on a button. I have the following code:
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Option Explicit On
Public Class Form1
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd
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How can i enable/disable screen saver by vb.net?i have found only samples to do this with vb6 with a api but in vb.net
View 1 RepliesI have an application than disables the screen saver temporarily in order to run a slide show. I use this to turn it on or off:
i = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, active, Nothing, SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE) This works fine in XP. In Windows 7, it disables the screen saver properly. However, when it is enabled again, at the normal time for the screen saver to come on, the system asks for a password instead of showing the screen saver.
Is there something else I should be doing for Windows 7? I understand that SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE is not supported in Windows 7, but SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE is supposed to be.
I have a very long running syncronization task that cannot be interrupted by the screen saver or aggressive power saving modes. I want to make a single api call to stop power save mode and then restore it once the task is done.The following code is peaced together from various other posts but it has no effect on XP's power management settings.[code]
View 3 RepliesOur program works fine, until someone locks the computer or the screen-saver pops up (but not ctrl+alt+delete). Once the computer is unlocked/the screen saver is closed, the application stops drawing everything except the title bar, and stops responding to input - it displays a mostly-white window which can't be moved or closed.(Example of application freezing - the mountains are from my desktop background)If we let it sit for about 5~10 minutes, it comes back to life, and doesn't hang again (even after locking the computer/screen saver popup) until the application is restarted.
View 9 Replieshow to do a simple screen saver using VB.NET when the user do not use my application? DO i need to use API programming in order to do it?I just need a simple screen saver that will load my flash file (swf) into my webbrowser on my WinForm if the user no longer use my application.Note that this is a Window-base application, NOT web-based.
View 4 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.
Can someone please help me create a very very simplistic sample page as the chat page included is too coomplete. something as simple as detecting a change in the database and displaying the word "change" on screen in realtime for any client connected.and I tried creating a global.asax file into which I added in the line mentioned in the link above, but it does not seem to like the word "Setup" in the line [code]
View 2 RepliesI send a message a while ago and no one answerd, how can I draw directly on the screen (not on a specific window) just on the screen, neither if it's on the desktop or anything else.Is there is any option to bring up the switch between applications window (Alt + Tab), I don't want to use sendkeys because the user need to keep the key down and I just want the user to select the application with his mouse.
View 3 RepliesI have a button btnRegEx that when pressed shows a ContextMenuStrip, similar to the '>' button in the Find/Replace dialog in Visual Studio when you are using Regular Expressions. I have a ContextMenuStrip cms which I show using its Show(x,y) method.
At first I was simply setting x and y (the location of the ContextMenuStrip) to some point next to the button, but I noticed that when the button is close to the edge of the screen it goes off screen. I wanted to prevent that so I built some logic into the x-y calculation. When the ContextMenuStrip width is larger than the 'remaining space left' I simply show it more to the left. Same for its Height of course. I am using the Screen.GetWorkingArea(point) method to determine the 'remaining space left'. As I understand it, it returns the working area closest to the point you specify (to which I pass the button's location).
As long as I stay on my first monitor, it is all working perfectly fine. The problem occurs when I move the form to my second monitor. The contextmenustrip is still showing on the first monitor for some reason...
Here is the code I am using:
vb.net Private Sub btnRegEx_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnRegEx.Click
Dim p As Point = PointToScreen(New Point(btnRegEx.Left, btnRegEx.Top))
Dim x, y As Integer
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I have noticed that when I click the button when the form is on the second monitor, the buttons location (p) is calculated with the first monitor's top-left corner as (0,0), even though it is on the second monitor. This way, the GetWorkingArea function returns something like 1280, while the buttons x-location is something like 1700... So, how do I get the buttons coordinate relative to the actual screen it is on, rather than the entire dual monitor screens as a whole?
Is there any way to invert the screen. For example, making upside down or having mirror effect?
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I have recently written a program that detects installed programs in the same way that Add/Remove Programs does but the problem with this is that even Add/Remove Programs does not seem to show the .NET framework on all PCs that have got it installed (like my home PC for example, definitely has .NET 3.5 installed but its not in the Add/Remove Programs list).
I want to create an If End statement like so...
If (webBrowser is finished loading) then
do some stuff
End If
and it needs be within Private Sub tags so it can't be
Private Sub webbrowser1_documentcompleted
I need to know a way to detect if the mouse has been clicked anywhere on the screen. So as long the program I am making is open when the user clicks my program needs to do something. Please let me know as soon as possible if this is possible and how you do it.
View 5 RepliesI have a program that parses INI files (yes yes, I know, but I'm stuck with using them, not my own request), and it downloads external images (if the INI contains the path) to the program and cache's them.
Recently, I've run into a snag with the system. Most of the images use Imageshack for storage, but one of them has suddenly 404'd, and whenever I set it to the picturebox to the downloaded image, I get an out of memory error rather quickly (and the file itself is 1kb).
I guess I need to implement a checking system offline to find out if the image is actually an image or just a '404' text...but is there a way to not have to implement this clientside, and have it be checked when I download it?
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how can i detect mouseclick outside the form (for example desktop)
View 5 RepliesI've come across involving a PictureBox.I am trying to create a quick Paint-like application, but I want something to happen in it. I want it so that when you draw or have drawn in a certain area of the PictureBox, you trigger events to happen (but they must only trigger once. This doesn't mean only one event can happen, it's just that each event can only happen once). How would this be possible to implement in my code I have now?[code]
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I do I detect that the CANCEL button was pressed, so I can abort my PrintPage event before the current page is completely rendered?
how make simple Screan saver screan saver contain videos and images
View 5 RepliesUsing .NET connector: [URL] A field is set in MySQL as:
decimal(6) zerofill not null
How can the "zerofill" flag be detected in VB?