how to get the current Style of the Windows Xp programmatically. At the program startup I need to get if Windows is running in XP Style or in Windows Classic Style, so I will set my buttons Flatstyle property to flat or standard.
View 6 RepliesI Trying to make my own fast steam client but I wonder how I turn of the windows style so it looks like the real steam window
View 7 RepliesOk i am making a game in visual basic where its 1998 and you have windows 95 and you find time travel software and travel to different time periods with different operating systems...so far i have coded windows 95 and partly windows 98 into the game and have a good time travel sequence... (this will be a completely free game in the future)
View 9 RepliesOk i am making a game in visual basic where its 1998 and you have windows 95 and you find time travel software and travel to different time periods with different operating systems...so far i have coded windows 95 and partly windows 98 into the game and have a good time travel sequence... (this will be a completely free game in the future)
Theres just one major problem i have. Whatever operating system you are using for your current computer (windows 7 in my case) the buttons and tabs and everything else (apart from the windows border... or whatever you all it which i made myself) everything has the modern buttons on it.Hes an in game screen shot :As you can see it looks totally horrible... even the start menu has the windows 7 blue glow effect...I recently found another application (universe Sandbox) and it has the classic buttons even though i am using windows 7.how can i actually make my buttons classic? (without making picture boxes of each button)
How I can get current Windows visual style (classic, Windows XP, etc)?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to implement a used disk space "Progress Bar" on a form similar to the Computer view in VistaWindows 7.The closest I've come is the progress bar but this is rather restricted for example the colour cannot be changed.
View 1 RepliesI'm using the standard code for form drop shadows that creates an effect identical to that of XP's, but you will notice in Windows 7 that the shadows are much larger, are not visible only on the right & bottom sides of the form (example: [URL])
Here's the code I'm currently using:
Private Const CS_DROPSHADOW As Integer = &H20000
Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams
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Is there a way to expand the shadow to resemble Windows 7 more?
Currently I'm using the standard code for form drop shadows that creates an effect identical to that of XP's, but you will notice in Windows 7 that the shadows are much larger, are not visible only on the right & bottom sides of the form (example: [URL]Here's the code I'm currently using:
Private Const CS_DROPSHADOW As Integer = &H20000
Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams
Get
Dim cp As CreateParams = MyBase.CreateParams
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Is there a way to expand the shadow to resemble Windows 7 more?
I am using Visual Studio 2008, Vb .Net 3.5.I have looked at lot of posts on the web, tried few and still can not get this sorted.First of all, I can not use any existing third-party tool for enabling XP like Visual style.making all my Windows forms look like XP.So far I have tried Application.EnableVisualStyle Set flat style property of controls?
View 12 Repliesi set my forms FormBorderStyle to None in vb.net i want to assign a border line in different colour which is not inside the form.how can i do it?
View 4 RepliesI always liked the WindowsShade utility on the Mac. Is there some sample code on how to do the same thing in VB.Net or C#.Net for Windows.
I have implemented it myself for a single app, but I would like to have it work for any window..
I set my forms FormBorderStyle to None in vb.net. i want to assign a border line in different colour which is not inside the form.
View 1 Repliesi set my forms FormBorderStyle to None in vb.net.i want to assign a border line in different colour which is not inside the form.
View 1 RepliesI am creating a Windows Application in VB.Net 2.0. The application is an FTP transfer application, where I need to display 2 panes. On the first pane, I need to display the client folder structure and on the other pane, I need to display the remote FTP server. Most of the functionality is complete, but I am stuck on 2 places.
1. I need to display a combo box on top, similar to the one we have for Windows Explorer Address bar (where we can see My Computer, Desktop, Network Places, Drives, etc.). I have searched a lot but could not find something matching my requirement other than a few 3rd party controls which I need to purchase (I am looking for something open-source).
2. I am using ListView Control to display the files list. I need to show icons for "My Computer", Network Places and desktop on the List View, which I am not able to do. Is there any way I can display these Icons and make them work exactly the way Windows Explorer does?
I'm working with a ListView. I wanna make listview like Windows Explorer style.
View 3 Replieshow I can change the style of my windows form ?[size=6][i][b][font=Comic Sans Ms]
View 3 RepliesI wish to add a toolbar that looks like the one in windows explorer to my windows application in my visual basic 2005 application. Although I have currently deployed the default 'toolstrip' that is avilable among the controls but I don't understand how should i change the appearance of the toolstrip from office 2003 to the one present in windows explorer.Please provide a solution to the above problem.
View 4 Replieshow i can change the native scrollbar style in my application to my custom style. I can adopt a custom scrollbar to attain this purpose but this will not serve my purpose because i want this attribute in entire application. Like it the text in textbox gets longer than its bounds than the scrollbar appers are my custom bar not the formal ones
View 12 RepliesI set the cell style progromatically on a condition.. but when that condition is no longer met I want to go back to the grids.cell original (default) style property
if x=y then
row.Cells(column.Name.ToString).Style.ApplyStyle(mystyle)
else
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I am trying to make a style that only gets applied if the parent element of the element that the style refers to, has another specific style. Kind of like in CSS where you can do ".class1 .class2" to specify that the "class2" theme only applies if it is within an element with the class "class1". I do not wish to use any form of external DLLs or libraries for this task. I want to know if it's possible to implement on my own.
I've tried using MultiTriggers with no luck. I have a style that applies to all TextBlocks. I want the textblock to do the following: If the font-size of the textblock is 11 and the parent element's style is "PinnedSuggestion", set the foreground color to "#FF505050". If the font-size of the textblock is 11 and the parent element's style is "Suggestion", set the foreground color to "#FFCCCCCC". The conditions that I have tried to write to make this work, are as follows (the font-size condition is true, but the other one is not). The conditions are inside a style that applies to all textblocks in general.
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I am creating an application and am very new to VB. I have 4 buttons on my form which is like my applications main menu. I would like that each of the buttons behaves in the following way when there is a mouse rollover: The Button back color is changed from the default to Red The Button text is changed to Blue, Bold, and increases in font size I would also like all the buttons to go back to their initial state when the mouse leaves.
Another thing, instead of me writing code for each of the buttons event handlers (Mouse Hovers, and Mouse Leaves) is there a way I can write this code once, maybe as a function and then always call it for any button that I create from here on so that any new buttons take on this behaviour.
Using visual studio 2008 environment, i would like to change a classic windows application design, so i'm wondering if there is an idea a bout this. i've find some skins like irriskins ( www.sunisoft.com ), but i'ts not what i'm looking for.
View 1 RepliesI have seen this happen before but am not sure how I resolved it in the past. On runtime the controls of my form change from the windows 7/vista format to an older version format as shown in the attached image.
How to display the controls in the format on the left (new windows format)
I am building a Setup project for a Web system using Visual Studio 2008. I upgraded my development machine from Windows Xp to Windows 7. The problem started with Windows 7. Whenever I try to build I get the above error. I ve tried several solutions given online but I ve failed to get a solution. When I transfer the system to a machine running Windows Xp or Windows 2003 Server it builds successfuly.
View 4 RepliesI have one webbrowser and it isn't loading the .css of the page.. I set it to formload the index.html and inside the index.html I have entered the css inside the <style type="text/css">....</style> tags but then the browser only displays the html not the html formated by the style.
View 7 RepliesHow to create web style forms in visual basic 2008
View 1 RepliesI wanted to create a combo box loaded with installed regular fonts and painted with its own font's style. I was able to load the font's name but not the painting of the font's style. [code].........
View 2 RepliesJust placed out first Windows 7 PC in to a production environment and noticed that system.file.io gives errors about file not existing when using mapped drives to a network server. I can access the file through Explorer on the PC. When I chnaged the path to UNC using the IP and drive name instead of the mapped drive letter all works fine. Strange thing is for a few days during the testing period the application ran on Win 7 using the mapped drives in the file.io path. Not sure why it stopped working or how it worked in the first place. Question is on Windows 7 it seems like it doesn't like mapped drives in system.file namespace. Is tis true or are there more steps I need to do in addition to this This works as is, but when I change \172....vol1 to r: it bails, hence the thinking Win 7 is stopping the access to mapped drives.
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How can I make the Marquee style progress bar go faster.
View 2 RepliesHow do i change the font of the entire form/application by having a box to pop up for user to choose what font size, style he/she wants. I've got a toolstrip labeled Font already but i cant find any tutorial teaching me what code to place inside.
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