I have been working on an image capturing tool for a long time now & I was wondering how some of those programs are able to make an aero capture of a form.I know you can capture a window if you have it's handle by using the BitBlt, but that doesn't keep the transparancy of the aero form.Let me give you an example:I did a lot of research on google but I never found anything close to something that explains how to do it.
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How can I get the handle of the window that is below (or behind, whatever you call it) the foreground window?
View 2 RepliesI have a VB.NET application that uses Managed DirectSound to capture audio.Everything works just fine until (a) the application is minimized or (b) the application is completey obstructed (covered) by another window.
The thing is that the CaptureBufferDescription structure does not include a GlobalFocus property so I don't know what to do to let my application continue capturing when the main window is hidden.
Here's the basic initialization code I'm using:
' Create a buffer description object
bufCapDesc = New CaptureBufferDescription()
With bufCapDesc
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WebBrowser Handle new window: How I can open it in a new window
View 7 RepliesI have inserted the following code depicting a procedure that can place the cursor at a particular location within a Rich textbox. However, I am unable to get the Hwnd handle to run without an error.
Would someone advise if the SendMessage arguments are correct and how do I access the RichTexBox Hwnd window handle for this procedure.
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I want to make a screenshot of a specific window of which I know the handle. I know there is a BitBlt function but I can't get that to work with the handle, I prefer it to work even if the window is not active but I'm not sure if this is possible at all.
View 1 RepliesPrivate Sub Form1_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs) Handles Me.Paint
' Create a GraphicsPath.
Dim graphics_path As New Drawing2D.GraphicsPath
' Add some text to the path.
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Is what I tried after researching how to get clean text on an aero window, but it is still not nice looking.
Is there a way to remove the border/frame (the Aero bit) of another application's window (say notepad) from a VB.NET program?
View 1 RepliesI stumbled upon an excellent article about taking screenshots of specific windows in .NET, and doing something with black and white color rectangles behind those windows in order to preserve the aero effect when saving a screenshot to a PNG.Well, I can't find that article anymore, mainly because crap sites and other stuff not at all associated with taking screenshots SEO'd their way into Google's results.Does anyone know how I can take a screenshot of a specific window while preserving the aero effect?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to find the handle of the child window for the Yes button in the User Account Control window so i can click it. This window has a structure with a few child windows with the same name.
Dim hwnd As IntPtr = FindWindow(Nothing, "User Account Control")
Dim hwnd2 As IntPtr = FindWindowEx(hwnd, 0, "DirectUIHWND", vbNullString)
Dim hwnd3 As IntPtr = FindWindowEx(hwnd2, 0, "CtrlNotifySink", vbNullString)
Dim hwnd4 As IntPtr = FindWindowEx(hwnd3, 0, "Button", "&Yes")
There are multiple CtrNotifySink with its own Button child window or other child windows. How do i search thru the different CtrNotifySink window to find the one that contain the Yes button so i can send a click to it? I do need to find it before i can send a click, right? because i try just sending it to the main window with sendmessage and nothing happen.I even try sending it directly to the handle found by spy++ of the yes button with bm click but nothing happen?
I'm having trouble getting an naero glass code which works properly. I hav ecome across many in which anything black becomes aero aswell. Is it possible to have the black text unaffected by the aero like, change it so that another colour becomes aero instead?Also this is just an extra but can you change the colour of the aero you have? Like default is blue change you change it to like yellow, or black or another colour?
View 4 Repliesvisual basic 2010 code or tutorial video on how to add the aero effect to my form for Windows Xp environment? What is the code of adding an aero effect to VB form in Visual basic 2010 for Windows XP environment?
View 6 RepliesI am trying to get the handle of a window to get it's title text. I tried the WindowFromPoint, but it will get any control, not just a window. How do I get the window that the mouse is over?
View 9 RepliesIf you open several FullTilt games table, you can see that when on a table is required action it jumps automatically in foreground, BUT WITHOUT TO BE ACTIVATED, so that it title bar is grey and not blue. The window is the top window for my eyes, but it is not active.Now the question is: how to get the Hwnd of the topt VISIBLE desktop window (the window that is over all the other windows), also if it is not the active window?I can't use the GetForegroundWindow Api, becouse it gives the Hwnd of the top ACTIVE window...
View 9 RepliesI have a handle to a window using the FindWindowA() function in the User32.dll (Windows API) and I would to get focus on that window at a later time in my program. how to do that with either a .NET function or User32.dll function? Is there a totally .NET way to get the window handle and focus?
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Private Shared Function SetActiveWindow(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr) As IntPtr
End Function
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I'm trying to make use of some functionality from an external app in my program.
My problem is this:
My program manages to start the external app correctly and I can even get the WinHandle correctly if I don't use "ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized" when starting the app.
If I start the app minimized, WinHandle = ProcID.MainWindowHandle returns a 0 and as I understand it, it's
because the app is hidden in the system tray.
How can I start the app minimized and then get the window's handle once it has been minimized?
I've tried various functions like FindWindow and BringWindowToTop but none of them seem to work.
I am following some instructions that apparently work with vb6, but as i have downloaded the lastest version of visual studio i think its up to version 10.
The code i am trying to make work is,[code..]
I searched a bit for an equivalent.
I am following some instructions that apparently work with vb6, but as i have downloaded the lastest version of visual studio i think its up to version 10.[code]The error is that hWnd is not a member of windowsapplication1.form1.
View 3 RepliesI'm using a third party dll for my project and one of the function that is provided by the dll use form handle as one of the argument. But when i call the function, I'm not using any window form and it's just called from another class. So what value i should put for that argument?Here's the example of that function:
AVS_Measure (device_handle, form_handle, no_measurement)
After this function has been called, it will send message to the form_handle argument whether the measurement data is available and valid.I called this function from another class just for triggering start measurement and i have another function to retrieve the data. I do not have any form associate to it, what value i should put for this argument?
I'm writing a DLL library that interfaces to a USB device using winusb in VB.NET.
Since it's a DLL, I have no window, and it's possible that users of my library will also not have a window (command line apps, for instance).
The examples I've seen that detect device attach and detach all use RegisterDeviceNotification which requires a window handle to receive the attach/detach messages at.
How do I receive these messages directly into a function without a window to get a handle from?
I have the below code. When I execute this code, the handle is different between the Load event and the Shown event. I thought the handle was static for an instance of a window. What could cause the handle to change? The only other thing the form is doing is setting itself to invisible and setting the ShowInTaskbar = False in the Activated event.
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I am trying to capture a stream from a website into my vb.net application. I was able to do it before, but the site is now updated and I cannot play the file again!!!ere is the link:I tried using several methods. looked at the source, flash capture programs, even fiddler to check the requests, but it didn't work at all
View 1 RepliesThere are three forms on this application and they are a MDI Frame(frmMain) and two child forms (frmSearchEmp, frmEmpDetail).
What I am trying to do is opening a "frmEmpDetail" by executing "CallEmpDetail()" on "frmSearchEmp".[code]....
how can i get the window handle for the Word editor window? [code]
View 2 RepliesI'm looking to make a program that would capture your whole screen, then have the picture display on the screen (simulating a frozen screen) to where the person handling the program could select a partial segment of the screen with their mouse and then save to a folder.
1. I have no idea how to go by doing this
2. My form is constantly minimized, so I have to do it without MouseDown on the form and whatnot.
How would I go by doing this?
I need to capture when a user keydowns the ALT key and then by code, releasing the key.
I have sent keys before with the help of keybd_event but I need to know if there is another (easier) way of releasing a key by code...
I wrote a gui for a console app, wanted to captaure console app standarderror and standardoutput in the same time. I write a code, but it's not executed in the same time. I searched msdn and found that using DataReceivedEventHandler can be asynchronously collect the redirected StandardOutput or StandardError stream output of a proces. But I dont know how to apply it to my code. please help me. i wanted to collect standardoutput and standarderror and append it to a textbox. here is my code,As far as I understand, I have to read one stream synchronously and one asynchronously to avoid deadlock situations.But now it's not output in the same time. having delay issue for standarderror.
Dim start As New ProcessStartInfo("C:WindowsSystem32java.exe")
start.Arguments = "-jar" + " " + "args"
start.CreateNoWindow = True
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I've a little program that has got tabControl with 2 tabs - "results" and "log". My idea was that when an error occurs the tab will switch automatically on tbLog to show what the problem was. Most arguably the problem is in threading. This is the code that..I use:
Dim thread As New Thread(AddressOf ExecuteQuery)
thread.Start()
ExecuteQuery executes the query and I'm making an error deliberately to see if I'll be automatically switched to the log tab which is in Try-EndTry procedure:
tbGrid.SelectedTab = tbGrid.TabPages(1)
The program indeed switches to tabLog (which is number 1) but I don't see any controls on it (txtLog), then when I'm trying to switch tabs a couple of times I get "Error creating window handle in a thread". I read other forum threads about it where people as how many controls do they have in their programs but my program does not exceed 70 controls on a form.
I made a program that is started and running in memory and minimized to the system tray.
When it is first launched it registers global hot keys in windows.These hot keys are used for resizing the current focused window. I'm trying to use it so you can hotkey windows to resize to half the screen, a third of the screen, etc... For instance, if I have two notepads open and notepad 1 is focused and I hit Ctrl+Shift+LeftArrow it will resize notepad1 to the left and half the size of the screen. I have notepad 2 focused and Hit Ctrl+Shift+RightArrow and resize notepad2 to the right side of the screen. So, I can easily see both windows at once.Now, I can successfully get the focused window handle when the hot key is pressed. I'm stuck at this point.
I can use the Windows API call:
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I have a window that I need to activate and the window name does not work in AppActivate("WindowName") because this does not work with partial captions etc... and the window name will be different depending on user. That being said I am able to use "GetwindowhandlefromPartialCaption" to retrieve the # value of the window name or handle. Is there a way to convert this or extract the name from the handle ID to use with AppActivate?
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