I'm trying to build an application that when I press a keyboard shortcut, say CTRL + ~, if the window is minimized to the system tray it is displayed.
I have seen a few programs do this and have always wondered how to do this, but haven't had the opportunity to do learn it until now and I really don't know if its something simple or complex.
I have this code for my shortcut keys
Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
If e.Shift = True And e.KeyCode = Keys.F3 Then
'Do something
End If
But I also have a button to send my program to the System tray like so:
NotifyIcon1.Visible = True
Me.Visible = False
How can I get my shortcut key to work while my program is in the system tray?
It doesn't work while its a notify icon
I set a shortcut keys in my label...
example: Home
the underline is H but when i tried to test the programm it does not shown up an underlined?
I'm trying to create a shortcut which expands or collapses my treeview using the ctrl+alt+up-arrow or ctrl+alt+down-arrow:
If Keys.ControlKey And e.KeyCode = Keys.Alt And e.KeyCode = Keys.Down Then
mytreeview.ExpandAll()
End If
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my program has a tray icon and i want it to show up in the system tray. so i went into my windows notification area and set it to show icon for my app. But when my app update to a new version with clickonce, it will think its a new app and i have to set it again. Is there a way that it will treat all new version as the same program and i dont have to keep setting it?
View 3 RepliesAfter a System Restore, to just two days ago, VB 2008 Express Help is no longer available. I get the message "No Help topics have been saved." I downloaded the help file long ago but don't know where it resides.
View 2 RepliesI know how to minmize to systemtray using a button and by the use of a notifyIcon, but i want to minmize to system tray using the minimize button on the title bar of the form. I think it as something to do with the resize event but i dont know what.
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View 5 Repliesi want to write a program that runs ONLY in system tray, and when i click on it it shows a context menu.. everything i already know, but..
My program shows up in menu, when i click Alt + Tab, or Win + Tab.. A made it invisible, hidden, changed the transparency to 0, but still it shows up..
Notifyicon1.visible = True
NotifyIcon1.Icon = Me.Icon
Me.Hide
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A nice quick one I was wondering if anyone know the answer two (was shown a rough way to do this in vb6 but that was a long time ago)I have an application running in the system tray which I want as single instance (and currently have set as single instance)
However if someone double click on on the Desktop Icon or Startmenu Icon etc I want the main menu form to appear (frmMainMenu). Is it possible so that if opening the app when its already running triggers an invent in first instance rather than creating a new instance?
I want to make my Form's icon appear on System tray - as long as my application is running [not just when minimizing]. How do I do that?
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I've created one project where I want to start application directly minimize in system tray,it is there but I can see it also in taskbar. [code]
View 5 RepliesI've seen loads of programs that use an icon in the system tray to let you interact with a windows service that is running on your machine but I am curious as to how this works. As I understand it, unless a service marks itself as 'interactive' then it has no way to communicate with the user's desktop and doing so is discouraged by MS (and even causes an alternate desktop to appear temporarily in Server 2008 in some cases). So I want to try and avoid doing this but I cant think how else I would do it, and even if I marked my service as interactive I'm not too sure how I could actually get it to show a notification icon in the system tray.
I assume I would have to use Windows APIs, unless just using the windows forms NotifyIcon class would work. I considered just having the system tray icon in a totally separate application that just communicates with the service via named pipes or TCP etc but I'm pretty sure this isnt how other programs do it because with most of them if you just kill the process that the service is running in then the icon disappears so it must actually be directly running from the service.
I have a button that will Minimize the program to the system tray. How would it to look something like the picture on the bottom when the Notify Icon is clicked once or right clicked?
View 3 RepliesI want to run specific code through shortcuts defined for my specific program. For example if I click F1 or ctrl+C then I want my program to show customers list. I have tried form's keydown event with following code
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I was trying to create some shortcuts for my application and I read how to do it on MSDN
Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
If e.Control And e.KeyCode = Keys.S Then
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I have formA.vb and I added some shortcut keys using the key_up event handler. Before coding the handler I change the keypreview property of the form to true. I added this code :
Private Sub IntRMA_KeyUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyUp If e.KeyCode = Keys.ControlKey And e.KeyCode = Keys.C Then
modcustomer.Show()
ElseIf e.KeyCode = Keys.ControlKey And e.KeyCode = Keys.T Then
Me.Button6.PerformClick()
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I have an application which I am trying to implement shortcut keys in. The application contains a main window from which dialog popups can be opened. I am having difficulty implementing the shortcut key functionality on the popup windows. I have the following code in one of the popup windows, and even though the first three key entries are the exact same as on the main window (except for the actual button names), which works, the same code does not work on the popup.
Private Sub frmInduction_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Control + Keys.S Or e.KeyCode = Keys.F5 Then
btnAccept.PerformClick()
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I am opening the popup window with the following code- is there any way that the problem could be caused by how I am opening the popup?
Using frm As frmChangeValue = New frmChangeValue
frm.ShowDialog()
End Using
I try to use Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+X in datagridview. However, when I use keyDown, KeyUP events, both only return the ControlKey. How can I get the returned information including both keys such as Keys.C And Keys.ControlKey?
Public Class frm_SoilData
'........
Public Sub dgv_KeyUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) _
Handles DataGridView_SoilProfile.KeyUp
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I'm having a spot of trouble working out how menustrip yet again.I have an MDI project. A child form contains a menustrip that has shortcut keys defined... F1 through F4 at design time. At run-time the child form menustrips are merged into the MDI parent form menustrip.The Function keys do not cause the menu to drop down. *Frutz* I thought okay. I'll use the control's keypress event to trap the F1 key and cause the menu item to drop down Apparently the menu Item is not available in the child form since it was merged to the MDI parent menustrip...*Frippity Frutz* Okay... Call the MDI parent menustrip from the child form...."No menustrip object found".
View 4 RepliesHidden Features of Visual Studio (2005-2008)?
What are some shortcut keys you know of that make programming faster, easier, or all around more enjoyable?
So I've been trying to make a form in which a few of the buttons have keyboard shortcuts such as the F keys as well as the arrow buttons. Here's the code I've been using
Private Sub frmOrganizer_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
If obSelect = True Then
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Private Sub FavoritesToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles FavoritesToolStripMenuItem1.Click
FavoritesToolStripMenuItem1.Visible = False
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I have a VB 2008 form with about a dozen buttons that use ALT+key shortcuts, e.g. names beginning &S, &N, etc. I also have a menustrip with a couple of entries but I have not assigned shortcut keys to any of them. However, three of the entries on the menustrip begin with S, N, and E. The result is that the shortcut keys for those buttons don't work - instead the shortcut activates the menustrip item. For example, ALT+E brings up the Exit on the menustrip instead of activating the button with the &E... label. I even tried setting the shortcut for the menu item to something totally different, but it doesn't matter.Even though I have programmed something different, the menu strip takes precedence on the shortcut. is there any way to just disable shortcut keys on the menustrip? What I've done for now is alter the names of my menustrip items by numbering them, e.g. "5 Exit" instead of "Exit" so that ALT+5 does the exit and leaves ALT+E for the button I want it to be associated with.
View 3 RepliesI was wondering about how to get shortcut keys (like control C) to work
View 4 RepliesI have set shortcutkeys for buttons using properties. Now what i want to do is to underline the character which i have set as shortcut key,on the button text,which is possibe in VB ,(by setting as &Save, now underline will be below the 'S' character),In VB.Net, At runtime it is not displaying the underline for that character.
View 3 RepliesI've encountered another minor problem with using vs 2010...how do you assign shortcut keys? I've read you just click in the shortcut keys option then press the buttons you want to be your shortcuts- this however just acts like I'm pressing the shortcut keys for vs. for instance alt x, which I want to be exit, takes me to debug. Typing alt + x in manually gives me an error saying what I've put in is invalid.
View 8 RepliesWe have localized our application menubar(Ex: Spanish language).The menubar menuitems have few shortcut keys i.e CTRL + N along with the text. The shortcut key is diplaying in some dummy character.We want the menuitem (Ex: New File CTRL+ N) text in local language and CTRL+ N should display as English
cMenuBar.Font = New Font(Configfontname, Configfontsize)
strMenuText = rsManager.GetString("cbmNewFold")
cbmNewFold = New CommandBarButton(ilToolbar20.Images.Item(0), strMenuText, New
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I have a Window with Keybindings in InputBindings defined. They work the first time and when i set the focus on any control on the form.But when a Messagbox is shown and I press "OK" they shortcut keys don't work until I set the focus on a control in my window.
My InputBindings:
<Window.InputBindings>
<KeyBinding Gesture="Ctrl+N" Command="{x:Static local:MainWindow.NewMenuCommand}" />
<KeyBinding Gesture="Ctrl+O" Command="{x:Static local:MainWindow.OpenMenuCommand}" />
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the thing is i'm a .net programmer at varsity but i cant figure out how to program or insert shortcut/icon keys on the web browser application e.g back,refresh,stop,go. i'm only able to do this using command buttoms. so i want to use simple icons like those on some web browsers.
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