How can we set a background picture for a Form? When my form is loaded, I want to display a background picture and on closing, I need to release that from memory (free it).[code]
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I've been trying to make an image viewer that keeps top most while I do other things (like typing, etc), so I don't have to hop windows, or sacrifice screen real estate.I made a main form, and a configuration form (opened by pressing o), with options to set the main form's opacity (working), the picture displayed (as the form's backgound picture, not working), and if the main form stays top most or not (working).
Instead, the form just keeps displaying the image I set in the IDE.I first used a picture box to display the picture, which did not work, and decided I didnt need to have a picture box if I set the picture as the form's background picture.I tried looking at what could be going wrong, but couldnt find out much more than the path is being delivered to the main form.I'm working on Vista Home Premium 32bit SP2, VS2003, and here's the code.PS The code links to a D:ath-fin.jpg that I used as the default background picture, and the code is for 2 seperate forms.
Public Class Form1 Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
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How can I programmatically reset my form background from a picture to a solid color. I have no trouble changing it to a picture or even changing it to another picture, but when I try to change it back to a solid color, it won't work.
me.backcolor=color.red 'OK
me.backgroundimage=my.resources.dog 'OK
me.backgroundimage=(none) 'error
me.backgroundimage=my.resources.none 'error
How do I reset it back to a color? It's stuck in a picture mode.
I'm trying to embed a background picture into an Excel file. Assuming I have an Excel report (see f.csv) below, I open it as an Excel, embed the picture and then save.I found the following code in one of the websites. It's working but still there is a problem that it always ask me to confirm the overwriting of the file. I want to save it automatically without asking the user about it, but can't find if that's possible. See below I tried "SaveAs" and "Save" but it always ask me to confirm overwriting.
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As Excel.Workbook
Dim xlWorkSheet As Excel.Worksheet
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I'm making a program and in which the user can select a background image from their computer, but I have not found a way to save the picture to my.settings or my.resources
View 3 RepliesI'm using this code to set the MDI Form background base on the picture of the picturebox,
Me.BackgroundImage = PictureBox1.Image But the error is "Out of Memory" what should I do about this?
Im just changing the background picture, and it is acting really stupid.Here is the troublesome
CharacterSprite.BackgroundImage = ShootinGuys.My.Resources.Resources.char_standing_r)The bold underlined character (the ")") is giving me the error:Error1End of statement expected.C:Users***documentsvisual studio 2010ProjectsShootinGuysShootinGuysForm1.vb12101ShootinGuys
Background of form: black
background of char, bombs and shrooms: transparent
picbox behind char, bombs and shrooms is regular (marioland)
How can i fix it so the transparent parts dont see form as background but marioland as background?
I have two forms -form1 and -form2When from the form1 window, i call to open the form2 window, i want the form1 window to lose its focus-not to be accessible.
View 2 Repliesi am currently trying to improve my skills regarding simple graphics. currently i have a form with a background image. on top of that there is a movable image drawn during Form_Repaint. the image is a character that is animated. you click and the character moves to the new point. that all works great atm. i am even able to add new "AI Chars". they just randomly walk through the form and every time they stop, there is a 10% chance every 15s that they move somewhere else (random point). as is said, that works great. but now i am kinda stuck. since my "engine" (lets say so) is in isometric perspective, i need the ability to scroll.
View 4 RepliesI have a program that I was trying to do where you could change the background image in it by using openfiledialog and I just cant seem how to get the background to change. Currently I have
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How to change the desktop background picture using vb.net"? ie , i want to change my desktop background through my vb.net code?
View 2 RepliesI made a simple RPG game for my project. I used windows form application. I set the background image of my form1 to a picture that is already a map. I used picture box for the MainCharacter and set it to transparent and I also put transparent background gif images whenever the keyevents.But my problem is, sometimes when I move the picture box using the keyevents, when the picture box passes through the background that has different color, you can see the boundery of the picturebox, and sometimes it is lag and cannot display the image in the picturebox. Im gonna work hard for this because the deadline of this project is next week. I am just a newbie and not good in graphics.
View 2 Repliesputting a blurred background on my form in Visual Basic 2008. I know how to make a transparrent one, but i needed to make it blurry. I have searched for: "making background blurry visual basic 2008" but nothing useful came up.
View 1 Repliesi have made a sql query that gets a users profile picture it comes out ok and the outcome of the it is the same names as the resources and i want to get the users picture from the resource using vb but it dont work so i have this so far..
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I'm trying to embed a background picture into an Excel file. Assuming I have an Excel report (see f.csv) below, I open it as an Excel, embed the picture and then save.I found the following code in one of the websites. It's working but still there is a problem that it always ask me to confirm the overwriting of the file. I want to save it automatically without asking the user about it, but can't find if that's possible. below I tried "SaveAs" and "Save" but it always ask me to confirm overwriting.
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Is it possible to embed a picture into a form? Because when I use the picturebox, I dont like to use a website, cuse if the pic is viewed a lot of times, it gets deleted from the hosting site. So is thier anyway I can Put the pic in without using a directory from my computer (other users cant see it) and without loading from site (might run out of bandwidth)?
View 3 RepliesI'm making a tileset creator and everything is working fine so far except previewing a tile. The way it works now is it gets the image from a picturebox and calls the following code when scrolling the mousewheel. It functions fine but there is a border appearing between the tiles and I can't figure out why. The source image is 32x32 in size. Most likely it is the graphics class not measuring in pixels or something.
Public Sub ResizePreview(ByVal dSize As Drawing.Size)
Dim bm As New Bitmap(TileImage.Image)
Dim pTile As New Bitmap(dSize.Width, dSize.Height,
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Is it possible to give an image inside of a picture box a transparent background? Like, for example say i have a red circle on a white background, is it possible to make the white transparent?
View 6 RepliesI want to show (display) a form or even maybe a panel while the user is hovering over a PictureBox.How would these events work?
View 3 Repliesi'm using VB 2010 and i'm trying to make a transparent images but without success .i draw 2 GIF pictures in Photoshop and save it as transparent.i put that GIF's in 2 pictureboxes on the form and the background of the pictures is really transparent, but when i try to put one picture in the top of the other one, the first picture cover the second one with the background color (and becuase it's transparent it's like the form color)
View 2 RepliesIt detects the color fine and the picture background changes to the color my mouse is pointing at, but when it changes to one of the colors its ment to send me a msg it doesn't..[code]
View 2 RepliesIt detects the color fine and the picture background changes to the color my mouse is pointing at, but when it changes to one of the colors its ment to send me a msg it doesn't
Public Class Form1
Dim color As Integer
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
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I have a Visual Basic (Windows Application) Form in my project containing the results of my calculations.What I need is to Save/Export that Exact form in a pdf file or picture. Can I do this using Visual Basic 2008 ?
In Other Words, I need to show that form (Without the Toolbars) in a pdf file or picture that can be printed but not edited.
I have a form with a web browser on it.
The web browser has a captcha on it.
I want the captcha to be shown on the form iteself.
Maybe in a picturebox or something. But it needs to be the current picture on the web browser.
I have looked around and I couldn't find anything that could achieve this.
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Or if this is possible, could I add the image "captchaSF_Image" to the clipboard and then paste it in the picturebox1.image? If so how could this be done?
Private Sub LMouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As MouseEventArgs) Handles MyBase.MouseDown
If allowMouseCoordinate = False Then Exit Sub
Dim xPos As Integer
Dim yPos As Integer
If e.Button = MouseButtons.Left Then
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But this only works if I press on form. But I have a tile based map covering the entire screen.How can I make it so, that It would check if I clicked on a picture box (or simply anything)?
I want to add a .ico to a notifyicon, but i get this message:Argument 'picture' must be a picture that can be used as a Icon?What is the problem? It is a .ico file..
View 8 RepliesI want the background of my form to be the same color as the window frame color that the user selects, even if that changes. I selected System->WindowFrame as my background color, but it always remains a dark grey, regardless of what I have my window color set to. How else would I achieve what I want? I assumed I was doing it the correct way. Do I actually need code that gets the system window color and then apply it?
View 4 RepliesI have a few problems i need to solve. Firstly, I am looking for a piece of code i can use to display a picture from a bank of pictures. It will work on the basis of generating a random number and loading a picture that corresponds to that number.
i.e. Dim RandNumber As Integer
Dim RandClass As New Random
RandNumber = RandClass.next(1, 10)
If RandNumber = 1 Then
Picturebox1.image = picture1
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Secondly, can I then use subsequent picture boxes to display pictures from the same bank of images, without displaying the same image? Finally, I then need to be able to click the picture or a button beneath the picture to select it as an answer to a question and then the whole process starts again.
I am trying to load a pictue into a picture box by using code but it keeps saying it cannot find the picture. This is what I have
PictureBox1.ImageLocation = "E:100_2838"
PictureBox1.Load()
I go and find the picture on my computer right click on it and find its location and copy and paste it into the .imagelocation adding a and the picture name and every time it says picture cannot be found? I have tried loading it from C: or from my jump drive E:
