I want to use e.KeyCode while form is minimized, I'm working on a screenshot-taker if you know what I mean. So Form1 is minimized > User presses F9 (Let's say the key is F9) > An event happens.
View 4 RepliesImports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Imports System.Diagnostics
Private Const SW_HIDE As Integer = 0
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The program is in foreground on click, but fails to maximize/restore.
In the main form the user can choose to download information from a device.Since this request takes time, when "download information" is pressed I open new form in a separate thread: Private Sub RunDownload()
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I have various input textboxes on my form. And based on entries made in each of the input textboxes, I update the display textbox. However, using AppendText message of textbox. I have my input textboxes set to accept only numeric values. So for each character inputted correctly, I update the display Textbox. Problem I have is when user selects Key.Back or Key.Delete, what I would like to do is do a Delete of last character in the display textbox, but I am yet to get this right. How do I delete the last character in the string that is contained in a TextBox using AppendText()
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what keycode is the dot(decimal) ? i found Keys.Decimal but thats the one on the numpad, what is the one near the question mark on ur keyboard?
View 6 RepliesI wrote this:
Private Sub TextBox2_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles TextBox2.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Tab Then
MsgBox("Tab")
End If
End Sub
Why it doesn't work when I press tab on my keyboard?
Does anyone know the global keycode for the windows key? I know that alt =1, control =2, and shift = 4. Also if you know the answer can you tell me where I can find the global keycodes?
View 2 RepliesI'm just trying to learn alot of the tricks and such so I'm making small programs and games to just get the swing of things.I'm having abit of trouble with this one, currently. I'm tying to create a form with two buttons. Now, I want to be able to press two keys on the keyboard and have one of the two buttons activate So, instead of clicking Button1, I pressed Control + C and it will say "Comment" and instead of clicking Button2, I press Control + U and it will say "Uncomment".
Public Class Form1
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The problem I keep running into is that the only way for the buttons to actually work is if they are already selected (Or, the last one clicked will work but the other will not). Then the keycode will work for them. How do I make this work without having to click on the button prior.
How to load a form that will restrict the form itself to be minimized?
View 11 Repliesi wanted to transfer control to a different form when one form is minimized..,how do i achieve this?
View 4 RepliesI have this code
If e.KeyCode = Keys.D0 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D1 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D2 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D3 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D4 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D5 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D6 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D7 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D8 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.D9 Or e.KeyCode = Keys.Oemplus Then
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The output WILL be 189 when I press the - sign. But when I check "Keys.OemMinus" it stands for 189 and when I replace "Keys.OemMinus" with 189 it won't work either!
I checked the Resources file and it's correct. The picture just doesnt change, only shows the last pressed button...
I have small application which shows an alert in every 45 mins....( to take a break from work :) )..... It is a normal windows form with a timer in it and in every 45 mins I am invoking a message box. I am able to make it work but the problem is that when the application is minimized, the message box is not popping up, it stays with in the parent form (minimized). How can I bring it up to the user focus?
View 4 RepliesI have a 2nd form that is minimized to the taskbar, I can click on the tab and the form opens and shows all of the data fine, but
From the main form, I am maximizing the second form and trying to pass a value to a toolstrip textbox on the second form then press a button on the toolstrip from the second form, I can get this to work fine, but where I am having a problem is
The button searches through a treeview, when I step through my code, I can see the value that I am passing, my code does execute, but the treeview is showing no nodes(but they are really there). At the begining of the code, I put a message box to give me a count of the nodes in the treeview, it shows 0, but I can see all 10000+ nodes. What the textbox is on the toolstrip is a search box. When the form is maximized, I can enter whatever and it finds it with no problems, but if I pass a value it doesnt find anything because the treeview is saying there are no nodes when there is.
I've got this little 'Sticky Notes' type of application and the form I have is a borderless, taskbarless form and for Windows 2000 compatability I'm using VS 2008 and targeting the 2.0 framework. One of the hurdles I have is that in XP, Vista & 7 when you click the Show Desktop button all of my note's windows get minimized and without a taskbar icon, it's not easy to get them back (at least not for a normal user) & I'm looking for a way to either right after the windows minimize I just have them all show again or if I can skip the minimizing message in the wndproc altogether
I've put together a test app that'll show the messages in a listbox for the form, but I'm not sure how to go about skipping sending the message to the form's base class. Here's a snippet, listMessages is the listbox on the form[code]...
I've got this little 'Sticky Notes' type of application and the form I have is a borderless, taskbarless form and for Windows 2000 compatability I'm using VS 2008 and targeting the 2.0 framework. One of the hurdles I have is that in XP, Vista & 7 when you click the Show Desktop button all of my note's windows get minimized and without a taskbar icon, it's not easy to get them back (at least not for a normal user) & I'm looking for a way to either right after the windows minimize I just have them all show again or if I can skip the minimizing message in the wndproc altogether that'd be great.
I've put together a test app that'll show the messages in a listbox for the form, but I'm not sure how to go about skipping sending the message to the form's base class. Here's a snippet, listMessages is the listbox on the form:
Private Const WmSize As Integer = 5
Private Const SizeRestored As Integer = 0
Private Const SizeMinimized As Integer = 1
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I have made a drawing program. It draws a line when you click in the form, but if the form is minimized or another window is on top of it, the lines disappear partially.
Here is the
Dim FormMiddleX As Integer
Dim FormMiddleY As Integer
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I was wondering if it is possible to perform a "mouse"-click without being in the form, like I got this program clicking on certain locations and I would like to use the computer to other stuff in the same time but the mouse keeps going to the location on the screen. I need way to perform a click without using the mouse cursor.
View 6 RepliesI am in the process of creating an all-in-one application for my own purposes. This application has panels with different "Mini-apps" inside of each. Timer, Notepad, Calculator, etc... The top of the application is a drop down menu and each of the drop downs has "Minimize" and "Maximize" for the appropriate application. When the minimize function for a "mini-app" is clicked, then that application is not visible. When maximize is clicked, the the application reappears.What I am attempting to accomplish is that when, for example, the two lower panels are minimized then the form resizes to only show the top two application.Basically, its like rows. If the two bottom are not visible, then the application should resize to fit nicer. An example of this type of application would be Windows Calculator (found in Windows 7 systems and probably other OS).[code]
View 2 RepliesA program cant be exited thu Alt+F4
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Edit2: I want it to be in the form so that the form cant be closed unless they press button with Close() command or task manager ends the process
Is there a way to control the size of a minimized MDI form. When I minimize a child form, it apprears at the bottom with the form buttons (minimize, restore and maximize) and just about 2 or 3 characters of the Title Text. I would like to have more of the title text showing so the user can figure out what window he wants to restore if he has a couple of them minimized. If not that, is there a way to have a "tooltip" popup when I move the mouse over the minimized form.
View 2 RepliesI have made a small program that reads the input of a joystick/GamePad and passes it on to a serial port. It works great I can see all the buttons pressed ect ( in a textbox). But When I minimize the form and press some buttons they are no longer passed on to the serial port and not shown into the textbox?
View 2 RepliesI have two forms, one called TTB_Main and the other TTB_BuildTasks. TTB_Main is the parent form and uses:[code]I am trying to get both forms to minimise when i click the minimise button on TTB_BuildTasks but at present, TTB_Main stays even though it is inaccessable.
View 1 RepliesI want the form to hide when I click on the minimize button, then the notify icon will show up on the system tray. I have this piece of code:
(ntfLibSMS is the name of my notify icon)
Private Sub LibSMS_Resize(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Resize
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I have an application with a DataGridView and WebBrowser controls. In the DataGridView I load a DataTable using BindingSource. DataTable is just a list of URLs. I use SelectionChanged event on the DataGridView to load a selected URL in the WebBrowser control. The problem I have is that when I minimize form to the tray, it for some reason triggers SelectionChange event multiple times. What's really weird is that if I minimize to the taskbar SelectionChange event doesn't get triggered. It also doesn't get triggered if I load URLs directly to the DataGridView. What triggers SelectionChange and how to get rid of it?
Public Class Form1
Dim URLTable As DataTable = New DataTable("URLs")
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim URLColumn As DataColumn = URLTable.Columns.Add("URL", GetType(String))
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I have designed a windows form(to act as a messagebox) with Label and OK, Cancel buttons. I'm on form1 and call this messagebox form in the closing event. If I debug the showdialog of the messagebox form the custom text is displayed on the Label, however if the application is minimized and when i right click on the application in taskbar and select close window then the messagebox form is poped up however the label doesn't show the custom text.
View 2 RepliesI'm having problems with my Startup Form appearing minimized in the taskbar on some machines (i.e. it does not popup on the screen as a normal window).The WindowState property is set to normal on the form.I'm programming in VB.NET 2008.
View 4 Repliessometimes (not everytimes), when I call the Me.Hide() in a form, which I called with .ShowDialog(), the main form, which called this dialog minimized.
View 2 RepliesI have created an app which has a timer control which, when activated and meets a certain criteria, launches a second form with an alert for the user to review and action. this works just fine. Except.... when the main app is minimised and has lost focus, instead of launching the second form to a normal windows state it opens and sits in a minimized state itself and just flashes. How can I get the the second form to restore to a normal windows state?I have tried form2.focus and tried the windowsstate=normal etc but I'm still barking up the wrong tree.
View 2 RepliesI'm making a program that should have a function that detects all minimized programs and can put them back on top..
View 2 RepliesWhy wont this work , when i minimize my program im trying to get the hotkey to work, but it wont. I also have the "KeyPreview" set to "True"
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