I need to overlay a small bar along the top of the screen over a fullscreen DirectX game. I have searched for a while but I have not found any code examples for VB.NET 2008 (I've never used any previous version). How can I do this? Would this involve learning DirectX programming?
View 2 RepliesI have a wonderful program which needs to be overlay-ed over my full screen directX game, the only problem is I can't seem to find any way of doing this with .net coding
things that don't work are, these are not overlays and will not work over a full screen directX game. I posted this so hopefully no one gives me that answer by mistake.
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timer1.interval = 1
if timer1.enabled = true then
me.topmost = true
end if
the only thing I can seem to find is this example and source C# overlay maker however it's pretty old and it's for C# but maybe someone could convert it somehow to .net or something, I really need to find a way to do the overlaying tho been trying for months now...
Now my question is, is it possible to use Hotkeys and ScreenCapture in a Fullscreen game?If so, how?What im acutaly trying to do is a program to take a screenshot ingame (for some reason, this game doesnt have an option to take screenshots ingame.. Bad Company 2)
View 7 RepliesBasically I want to Position a line from The middle of my screen to the bottom right of my screen. But I need to draw over the game to do this. I dont mind if it flickers as long as its there is all i want. Like this VV
View 4 RepliesI've already coded the IRC Client, but what would be the code to make the app overlay in the fullscreen DirectX game ? And i've already tried to the TopMost function.
View 37 Replies how to make a form to show in a game, Sort of like the program steam does.
Or is this even pausbile?
creating an interactive overlay over a game (such as the way xfire lets you chat with people ingame).
View 1 RepliesI have a bit of an issue here. I made a "Colour picker" dialog in my program with which you can pick the colour at the mouse. It is a simple topmost form with an OnPaint handler used to draw a coloured border around the cursor:
It uses a transparency key to make the non-drawn parts of the form transparent.
It uses the following code to prevent the mouse from clicking through the screen:
Window.FromControl(Me).ExStyle(Window.ExStyles.Layered) = True
Window.FromControl(Me).ExStyle(Window.ExStyles.Transparent) = False
It sets Layered to True and Transparent to False. This works in Windows 7, but on a XP machine it fails. When moving the mouse the event does not go to the forms' event handler and you can just click through. For a screen region selector I simply made a screenshot, but I want the Colour Picker to remain updated. (just in case you want to get the colour of an animated control)
How can I get this to work on a Windows XP machine?
make a openGL overlay so for an examplei play a game and when i click shift + tab then the game will fade and my application will be seen but without minimizing the game
View 3 RepliesI am still trying to learn as much as possible about using visual basic 2008 to create card games, more precisely, video poker games. I am really looking for either a video tutorial or a book that focuses mainly on the steps needed to begin creating the game and leads me all the way to the end completion. The game can be very basic like a jacks or better game. Does anyone know of any tutorials, videos, or books that can help me? I have a few books that provide a slot machine style game and some other good examples, but really need something more with cards.
View 1 Repliescreating half-transparent not classic form window which could be shown in any fullscreen program, game or somethingi couldnt find how to do that (it would look like rectangular box with some text and buttons in it)
View 10 RepliesIn games such as Warcraft III, you can play against players on LAN, and it can show a list of games being hosted by people on LAN. There is no central server that holds the entire list, so how does it get the list of games? And also, how would I code something that creates a game on LAN, like a bot?
View 6 RepliesHow to make autopatch in games
View 9 RepliesI'm using Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 64-bit and latest DirectX SDK (August 2009). When I run program, window looks like this . The code is from site . Windows Vista 64-bit has the same problem. My graphic cart is Gigabyte GeForce 9400 GT
View 4 RepliesI need to make a small programm for ticketing on a parking for a small hotel.So i have 2 Printers pariking In (for delivery of the tickets) and 2 Readers PArking Out.Both Printers and REaders are working Serial.So i need to poll the serial ports of the printers and readers every second.The data is stored on a SQL database so i need to read and write in the database.Can i do this with 1 PC and 1 programm or 1 PC and 4 programms that are runnning at the same time ?
View 2 RepliesManaging a Music Collection Using Visual Basic Express and SQL Server Express.Just what I wanted. The Database setup was very straight forward. However, when it came to the Visual Basic coding I got completely lost The example references Microsoft.DirectX.AudioVideoPlayback.dll But I do not understand how to reference this from within the Visual Basic express coding. Within the example there is a line Private withEvents mp3 As Audio = Nothing.When trying to build the example Visual Basic 2008 Express alway reports the following error for this line.Type 'Audio' is not defined.I have installed the DirectX 9c SDK software and from within Visual Basic Express 2008 selected the following,[code]How do I play and MP3 File from within my Visual Basic express 2008 Application?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to learn how to use directX on VB.net. I found this tutorial:[URl]..and followed what Jenner wrote there but VB errors when I try running it.I installed the latest directX SDK package microsoft had and still the code errors when I run it.Anyone knows why that is? or has got some other tutorial that I could check out? I am running on windows 7 if it matters.
View 1 RepliesHow do I draw lines using DirectX? (on my form)
View 1 RepliesOn form 1 , i have a number of buttons that open up different websites.What i want to do is when i click a button on form 1 , i want forum 2 to show ( Form2.show() ) , Form 2 will have a list (Buttons) of internet browsers.
View 4 RepliesIn windows when you drag from explorer there is a custom "picture" when the items are dragged ... how can i do this in vb.net?
I know how to do drag drop but not with the picture...
also note: I DO NOT just want to change the cursor icon ... in explorer the drag picture can be bigger than 32x32 and i need it to be in my project also
I have already incorporated DirectX into a program and set the owner to a picturebox which so far works great, but all it does is set the place/dimensions of the directx window to the picturebox... it doesn't actually USE the picturebox for the video so if i pause the video or set a timeframe I can't use the picturebox frame/image to pull information from. So what I want to do is when i pause the video at a certain frame I want to be able to actually take a snapshot and populate the picturebox with that image and then be able to save/manipulate it like a normal picture. I have read some examples and coding on screen snapshots using DirectX.3D, but not audiovideo. Not sure if its the same or what. I know normally you would start out with CODE, but in this case I have NO IDEA exactly where or how to start it.. I tried Bitmap options with the screen area/location, etc... but was getting errors and exceptions..
View 2 Repliesin Directx Full Screen Game GetPixel Function Not Working (#000000)
View 2 RepliesHow would I take a small bitmap using this code
Dim img As New Bitmap(, )
I want the bitmap to be basically 100x100 and a screen of the center screen.
I have a picturebox in a Windows VB.NET form (not web based). I will be placing images into it from an image control. (Not a problem) I need to paint graphically a tiny solid circle (a colored circle) in a location (varies) on top of this picturebox. I am not finding how to do this in your indexes. I would some instruction on how to do this.
View 1 RepliesReally small and quick question:When i have a listview, with detail view mode. Say i have like 5 columns.
When i select one item in one column, it only selects that item in that specific column i clicked, like a cell
Am looking at making a small application that will list printers on two file servers at two separate sites, from this app they can add the printer/s to there local computer.
I have found a small application on the web but there are a few improvements it could do with.
They are; Show all local printers without having to click on a check box. Show sites printers without having to click on a check box. Show comments about the printer�s location other then just the site.
If it is possible I would like to update this one, but if there are any other examples where I could download something similar, or even some help with how to begin to create a new application.
Here are some screen shots, of the application form and the xml which holds the folder structure for the sites.
I have an instance where I have a logo image as part of some artwork..If a user uploads a new logo I have a form field which is larger than the default logo.I then use that form field to position the new image.
The problem is I need to set the background colour of that form field to white so that it covers the old logo in the event that the new image is smaller than the old logo..
what I have done is:foreach (var imageField in imageReplacements)
{
fields.SetFieldProperty(imageField.Key, "bgcolor", iTextSharp.text.Color.WHITE, null);
fields.RegenerateField(imageField.Key);
PdfContentByte overContent = stamper.GetOverContent(imageField.Value.PageNumber);
float[] logoArea = fields.GetFieldPositions(imageField.Key);
[Code]...
The problem with this is that the background colour of the field is set to white and the image then doesn't appear.. i remove the SetFieldProperty and RegenerateField commands and the image replacement works fine.is there a way to set a stacking order on layers?
I have a form with some text boxes bound to a dataset using the binding source component I'd like to change one of the unbound fields in the current record programmatically before posting any changes from the bound controls
View 13 RepliesIs a way to get the same in VB.net?I've tryed with DrawImage but it doesn't work.
View 1 RepliesI have connected a serial tilt sensor to the PC,The sensor returns angle of tilt ,i need to represent the angle of tilt pictorially,When i move sensor the corresponding movement should be represented in a graph (Like a clock minute hand)For this i started with Picture box with back ground image,But when i draw the line according to tilt ,the line is not getting displayed on top of Picturebox,
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