Does anyone know how i would go about adding a control (a button) to the windows title bar area?Sort of like firefox does.
I'm doing this so i can remove the Toolstrip Menubar at the top of my application to give it my "working area".
Ok my form is titlebarless but i want the user to be able to click and drag it to whereever on screen. i found this in VB6 can anyone convert it or do you have another solution??
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "User32" _
Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal wMsg As Long, _
[Code].....
The main form in my application is a small form without a titlebar. I accomplished this by setting these properties:
- ControlBox = False
- MinimizeBox = False
- MaximizeBox = False
- Text = "" (empty)
As long as the Text (title text) remains empty, the form has no title bar. Note that it still has a border so it can be resized (FormBorderStyle = Sizable, as usual, not None!)Now, because I have to keep the Text property empty, the taskbar button never shows any text... But I want to show text in the taskbar button!
As far as I know, the only way to set the text on the taskbar button is using the forms Text property, but I cannot set that because the form will have a titlebar if I do...
I was wonder how do I get a button on title bar using vb.net
View 3 RepliesI have created a form containing a text box and a button. i would like to know if it is possible to embed this form in the title bar of the current active window that is opened eg: ie,notepad,word this is so that i can enter a word in the text box and use text to speech to say it or highlight a word in the active window and it will be placed in the text box of my form. i can position the form in the top right location but then the form position is stagnant.
View 3 RepliesI cannot begin to explain how often I have tried to remove the Maximize button from the top of my form window.. I know that it can be disabled via properties, also that it can be removed if I disable both the maximize and minimize buttons, BUT I need the minimize button, just not the maximize button
View 10 RepliesFor my own personal use, I'd like to code an app that disables the icon on the upper left of the window titlebars and in the taskbar of ms windows. This is how it should look when it's done: [URL] (this little autohotkey script is broken in win 7). Is this is feasable in vb? If yes, how do I communicate with the win os? Maybe get a list of active windows and redraw them and the taskbar after replacing their icon by a blank one in memory?
View 6 RepliesMy form having the TitleBar , buttons are Minimize, Maximize, Close. I run the application if i click the Close button the window was closing. But i need not only for closing window i want to close the Database connection also. B`se if i close this window the debugging is not closing. The database is not close properly.
View 4 RepliesI have a form that I want to keep the border on, but no titlebar.An example is a form with FormBorderStyle set to FixedSingle, then set the Form's Text to nothing. This is what I'm after, however, I want to maintain the "Blue" styling of Windows XP. When doing this, it currently makes the form gray like it stops using visual styles.is there any way to get the blue "Single" border around my form without the Titlebar?
View 10 RepliesWhen I am trying to add a QTabControl to my form, I get this error:
Type universe cannot resolve assembly: System.Design, Version=1.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral,PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
I wrote a simple application to help me with my work the interface looks like this:i use a button to add a new custom control every time by the following code :
Private Sub btnAdd_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnAdd.Click
Dim NewGard As New GardControl
NewGard.Left = x
NewGard.Top = y
[code]....
but after the form's lower end is reached, the added controls appear like this:spaced greatly & exponentially from each other despite the y coordinate is accurately increased every time by 41?
[url] How is this done? Is it a control of that form? Or is it a splashscreen or something like that?. I've tried by doing that with another form instead, but the first form will get unfocused, and i want the main form to be always focused.
View 6 RepliesI have a form with four chart controls on it and i would like to count them at runtime but i'm hitting a snag.
For Each ctrl As Control In Me.Controls
If TypeOf ctrl Is System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.Chart Then
Label1.Text = ctrl.Controls.Count
End If
Next
the count is returning zero when it should be returning 4 - what am i missing?
I've created a form that has a timer control. When this form loads it counts down before running a procedure. Simple.
Now I want to subclass this form in a new VB.NET project to so that another form inherits this form (an it's timer functionality) and runs a different procedure on this new form.My problem is that when I create the form in my new project the timer from the parent form seems to be running and when it's time is up it runs and code and crashes the VS environment.
I've searched high and low but have only found references to making sure the timer is disabled at design time. I've done this on the parent form but in this parent form's Load event the timer is enabled.... the purpose of the form. So when the child form loads it is enabling the timer. How can I work around this? Can I enable the timer from the child form? Timer is not visible when the child form loads so how do I manipulate it?
I have a form that I want to have a control box so you can close it at any time but I don't want it to be movable from its origainal position. It opens maximized and I want it to stay maximized. I've tried all the different FromBorderStyle options in properties and I've tried all the SizeGripStyle properties though I can't say I've tried all the combinations possible between those two but whatever I've tried I can always click on the border at the top and then the form breaks free from its starting position and when it does the vertical scroll bar disappears.
How can I have this form stay in place with the vertical scroll bar and the control box and not break free from its starting position if someone clicks on the border at the top? If I try FromBorderStyle None then I don't have control box to close it. I was looking at the form events list and I noticed when I break the form free by clicking on the border that that is a ClientSizeChanged event.
After getting the current mdi active child form, how can I get it's control collection so I can access their data?
View 8 Repliesi am using vb2008 express edition and i was just wondering if it was possible to put the tabs in the titlebar of your form like in google chrome?
View 6 RepliesHaving opened cmd.exe by using a process, how can I now open it without a Titlebar or borders?
hrivate Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim p As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
p.FileName = "cmd"
proc.StartInfo = p
proc.Start()
End Sub
The title of our forms is Company Name - Application Name - Form Name This makes selecting the form you want on the TaskBar a bit difficult since the Form Name is not shown. We would like the TaskBar caption to be Form Name - Application Name - Company Name or simple Form Name From my searches, this CANNOT be done except by using an invisible form that displays on the TaskBar which calls the visible form that does not display on the TaskBar.
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I want to make my vb.net windows application titlebar trasparent as like vista's windows titlebar. if i code me.opacity than it will make whole form trasparant but i want to make only titlebar transparent.
View 3 RepliesWe are running on a Windows Client Platform (generally WinXP) in niche industry program that runs in a 640x480 window back to an AS/400 server. To reduce errors I want to watch for when the title bar of the program changes. Then I need to capture the keyboard entries to validate. I'll then make sure each of the entries is valid since the archaic program does no validation. I'll can then do a pop-up then warning the end-user if errors occur and to reduce/eliminate the exception reports.how can I capture the event of the application title bar change = 'string' that I need? API call? Aiming to do this in VB unless another would be notable cleaner.
View 2 RepliesI was wonder if anyone knows how to add additional buttons to the title bar. Please, Don't go to too much trouble, Just if you know a link to this or know how to do it. I did find This. But, I would like to have something like shown in this Image:
View 9 RepliesI have been playing with the Windows API.A Windows application typically has a TitleBar (with a caption on it), underneath is a MenuStrip, under that a ToolStrip (with the tool icons on it), and under that the main application area.I want to be able to strip everything off, except for the main application area.I have found how to hide the TitleBar, using:
GetWindowLong (and passing to it the handle of the form, and GW_STYLE to get the current windows style)SetWindowLong (and passing to it the handle of the form, the InitialStyle, and ORing with it WS_DLGFRAME) how to remove the MenuStrip and ToolStrip to leave just the main application area?
Code so far:
Public Class Form1
Private Const WM_SYSCOMMAND As Integer = 274
Private Const SC_MAXIMIZE As Integer = 61488
[code]....
I was wondering if it is possible to add a button to the title bar in vb.net - I found a way to do this in one or the other but is it possible to do it on both?Here is the code that works if Aero is disabled (imports System.RunTime.InteropServices):
[Code]...
How can I disable the form maximizing when double clicking the titlebar?
View 4 RepliesI am putting two questions in one thread. I am using VS2008 Pro.
1- Why my application stops running when I 'Click and hold the left mouse button' and resume after releasing the mouse button on Titlebar? i.e. why this happens when I grab the title bar? How can I avoid this so that my application run regardless if the form is moving or title bar is grabbed with mouse while debugging?
2- I want to make one button to pause the whole application then restart the application from the point where it stopped.
I found this question on StackOverflow. Basically, the user wanted to draw custom buttons on the titlebar. I tried the code and realised it works in vista/7 only when Aero is disabled. My question is, is there any way to draw custom buttons on the titlebar while aero is enabled? Any way of reading information from the current theme so I can style my buttons to match the already existing ones.
Here is a screenshot from my computer demonstrating the above concept. I got the additional titlebar buttons after installing DisplayFusion. And I know DisplayFusion is a .NET program because it opens in .NET Reflector. The down side is that the program is obfuscated. Not like I wanted to decompile the program or anything; I just want to add a button to my titlebar to do something else (like minimise to the system tray for instance).
Below is the screenshot, proving the program is a .NET app.
When I double click on a form control while in the design view in a Web Application project within Visual Studio 2010, say a 'button' or a 'submit' for example, it inserts a javascript function into my .aspx file. When I do this at work it automatically creates an event handler for the control in the code-behind.How do I change this to that setting?I don't want to type those event handler subroutines every time!
View 1 Repliesi'm trying to implement my own custom titlebar using a picturebox. can anyone tell me why my right click won't open the system menu?here's my code:
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Public Class Form2
<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Public Shared Function ReleaseCapture() As Boolean[code]......
The title pretty much precisely asks the question, but I shall repeat;
When I double click on a form control while in the design view in a Web Application project within Visual Studio 2010, say a 'button' or a 'submit' for example, it inserts a javascript function into my .aspx file. When I do this at work it automatically creates an event handler for the control in the code-behind.How do I change this to that setting? I have used '/resetsettings' already, and other answers to similar questions do not solve my problem. I have reinstalled, gone through every menu I can find (though I may have missed something)I don't want to type those event handler subroutines every time!
