I tried to make a menu for my game, but when I placed the code into the form loading event, it wouldn't show. Then I placed a button and moved the code into the button click event and it worked. Thus, I know the code shouldn't be wrong. How can you make the graphics( as in lines, rectangle,etc) show up when it starts up?
View 5 RepliesI can't figure out why my messageboxs won't work when they encounter errors.Here is my
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I'm trying to show message "Loading..." when a user select an item in the dorp down list.
Mark up:
<asp:Label ID="lbl_LoadingMessage" runat="server" ></asp:Label>
<asp:DropDownList ID="ddl_Chapter" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True">
</asp:DropDownList>
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The method I'm using above is not working. When I select a new item from the drop down list, it works as expected except the message "Loading..." is not showing at all.
I'm using some VB.Net code to manipulate files on my system - the idea is that the code checks if a file exists, and based on a value read from a text file elsewhere the system decides what to do... For this I'm using a 'select... case' statement to decide on the action to take. However, when assigning a value to the variable, the code doesn't even find the option to go for... Here's the VB code:
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Is there a easy way to show some form of progress bar on your form in ASP.NET that the code is busy running in the background (meaning thinking)? Like the default I.E have the small little window on the top that moves when its thinking
I have done this before with Ajax but its alot of work and my site is not a Ajax enabled site.
In this code the program did not show me the screen and start loading.I see the Form when they has finished with the load of the file
Private Sub Main_Form_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
TotalRecords = 0
Call Find_Total_Records()
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I want the program FIRST show me the screen and after i see the form to start load the file I have try with the 'Application.DoEvents() and System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(200) without any effect?
i'm doing Advance search in my applications(vb.net,MS-Access) ,the results display form is quite heavy so i thought before loding the form i want to show some search icon
View 10 Replieswhat's the best way to stop a form from displaying in its Load event.I initialise a form using the following code:
Dim MyForm as new MyCustomForm
In the Load event of MyCustomForm, I ask the user to select a folder and use that to populate a listbox on the form.folder.If the user presses Cancel instead of selecting a folder, I don't want to display the form. Right now, I just call Me.Close in the Load event, but that still causes the form to briefly appear and disappear in the background. Also do I need to call Me.Dispose?
Why do Me.Hide() And me.visible do nothing under form loading event? Now the obvious answer to me was because how could you call a form to hide if it has not loaded. Make's sense to me. So i checked the documentation to see what options i had. If the form isn't loaded when the Hide method is invoked, the Hide method loads the form but doesn't display it. Interesting. So from what i gather here me.hide should still hide the form. Or have i misinterpreted the documentation? Because the form does still display. Neither also work under Public Sub New().
The only solution i found was under sub new was to change the forms opacity to nothing. Which works fine. But after reading the documentation on Opacity i am still left with another question regarding "Visible vs Hide Vs Opacity" Calling me.hide makes the forms visible property false, Calling opacity set to Nothing makes the form in visible. Both these methods do the required task but does one take up more memory or should be favored over the other? Just because some thing work's i have learned it is not always necessarily the best way to do something.
I have a form contains NumericUpDown1, TextBox1, TextBox2, at design time i set NumericUpDown1.Value to 4 and TextBox2.Text to 100, and i have this sub[code]...
View 13 RepliesI am trying to get a label to show briefly (3 seconds) when the form loads. The following code gives the 3 seconds, but the label doesn't show. The label is set to visible in the Designer properties.[code]
View 8 RepliesIs there a way to have a form within a program that doesn't dispose when you close it? I have a form in my project and a menu item to show it. When I declare the form globally and show in menuItem.click, then the click event breaks because the form no longer exists. When I declare the form within menuItem.click, then this creates a new form every time I click and that's not what I want.
View 1 RepliesFirst forms project. My textbook [wrox VB 2880 Programmer's Reference, Rod Stephens] gives snippet that starts with [which intnellisense completes, except for variable names, including trailing 'paint' which seems to be the problem]
Public Class Form1
Private Sub form1_paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutCellPaintEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Paint
End Sub
End Class
which generates error :
Error 1 Method 'Private Sub form1_paint(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutCellPaintEventArgs)' cannot handle event
'Public Event Paint(sender As Object,
e As System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs)' because they do not have a compatible signature
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Changing 'Private' to 'Public' does not fix the error.
Back in the VB6 days, I could count on frmWhatever_Resize() to be fired when a form is loaded. That doesn't still seem to be the case. Since my resize event is filled with all the code I want that adjusts the size and placement of things, I decided to just call it from the end of the form's load event. That has no affect. I'm guessing that the form isn't actually shown until form_load is finished?
is there some other event that is fired when a form is shown, so I can call my resize code there?
Running a graphics effect in the Paint event of a Form. I am thinking of something like a screensaver effect, not necessarily full-screen either. Would a background worker be better suited to this idea or using another thread? I wouldn't want something that is very demanding on a computer processor. In fact, what I was originally thinking, is it possible to put a Windows screensaver program inside a Form?
Installing VB6 on Windows 7
I have a window application develpoed in vs 2008, framework 3.5, in which i have put a button.. Now where i click that button the other text boxes are filled up with the data from database thru web service.. what i want is while all text boxes are being filled i want to show an animated loading gif image till data loading is completed in all the text boxes.. i have tried to use image picture box but while data is loading gif image is displyes but in static mode.. cant see animation... i think this is because data loading and animation both are done thru one UI thread..
View 8 RepliesI need to write a simple program that imports tab delimited x,y coordinates into a simple form, by clicking an "Import" button and navigating to the particular .txt file. On the button press I want to read the text file and display these in the shape of anything from a simple square to a slightly more complex closed polygon (maybe using a path function) in the main picture box to view the shape.
Then I would like to press an "Export" button and save the displayed shape coordinates/vertices back to a file location of my choice as a .txt file.
I was unable to see the code generated by vb for form initialization automatic code generated by vb how can i see it?
View 1 Repliesbelow is my code for copying an image from a form to send it to the printer.it works but it tends to be a little blurry. is there anyway to make it sharper?
Bmp = New Bitmap(Me.ClientSize.Width, Me.ClientSize.Height)
Bmp = New Bitmap(800, 500)
Dim G As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(Bmp)
G.CopyFromScreen(Me.PointToScreen(Me.ClientRectangle.Location), New Point(0, 0), Me.ClientSize)
I am struggling with this issue for serveral days now.My application needs to work like wsus (windows updates) does. On a certain event triggered by a windows service working under SYSTEM account it needs to show a (second) form under the user context.The IPC Remoting works fine so I think my issue is in the threading.When I use form2.Show() form2 appears but the form freezes.When I use form2.ShowDialog() the form appears but I cannot get the focus on it.
Service running under system account (in this example a simple console application)
Code:Imports ClassLibrary1Module Serv
Sub Main() Dim SDSIPC As Semaphore = CType(Activator.GetObject (GetType(ClientFromServer), "ipc://Client/SreeniRemoteObj"), Semaphore)
SDSIPC.DoSomething()
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how to Load graphics in a Box?
View 12 RepliesMy startup form displays a login box and then, upon successful login, displays a series of buttons. One of the buttons displays a form named Calculator using the following
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When stepping through the code after clicking the button that calls the above code, it gets Calculator.Show and then jumps to code on the Calculator form that fires when a checkbox on he Calculator form changes checked state, apparently bypassing the Calculator_Load procedure altogether.This eventually results in the following error:{"An error occurred creating the form. See Exception.InnerException for details. The error is: Conversion from string "" to type 'Double' is not valid."}With the IDE claiming the error is occurring on the Calculator.Show() line on the previous form. Clicking the button a second time causes the form to load as expected, with everything working corectly.The load procedure header is:Private Sub Calculator_Load(sender As System.Object , e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Am I missing something in here that would cause that not to fire first upon a Form.Show call?Possibly relevant is the fact that I renamed the Calculator form prior to the problem arising, but I've searched for the old name and there are no vestiges of code still referring to it by that name. I also tried renaming the form back to the old name, but that didn't fix the problem either. (Plus I seem to recall having ran the application several times after the name change before the error was encountered, so I don't think this is relevant but didn't want to leave it out, just in case.)
Whats a DLL's "form loading" event? For example, if one of my apps used this DLL, it would execute the code inside the DLL as soon as the EXE loads.
View 1 Repliesshow me small lines of code that the users are unable to move to form?
i already search on google and i found some code.. but it compose of many-many lines of code and i cant understand... i want a small lines of code..
I have a form that is built and loaded dynamically when File/open is selected.however I now want to use the same code to open a default file and populate the form using the Form load event to call:
Private Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles OpenToolStripMenuItem.Click how would I do this? Just incase this doesn't make sense, I want the same code to run during form load as if the user selected file/open but do not know the syntax of how to call OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click() from form load.
I need to detect shift + arrow key in blank form. But it's not working. I also tried overriding IsInputKey method but it only detects single key press (like arrow key) but when multiple key are pressed it simply doesn't work.
View 5 RepliesI have created a class which generates a form in code. I have hooked up the buttons and a text box so that they work. Now, I am trying to hook up the Resize event (and probably will need other events) for this form. How do I do that? If I can understand how to do it for the Resize event, I should be able to apply that to whatever other events I might want to use. I can't just put "Handles frmMyForm.Resize" or "Handles Me.Resize". I get the message "Handles clause requires a WithEvents variable defined in the containing type or one of its base types." This all has been a learning experience.
View 2 RepliesI am having a problem in Form_Load. When the following code executes the form pops up with out executing any further code: Me.TblAssetsTableAdapter.Fill(Me.ITP400_IP3_ADataSet.tblAssets).
I am trying to use Form_Load to populate values in a ListBox control from an Access database table.It appears the problem was in the Compile settings. It was the 'old' problem of using AnyCPU on an x64 machine. I changed the Compile setting to x86 and the problem disappeared.
my program reads settings from a file into an array. But i can't set the labels visibility's to false.
If Ins(2) = "NaN" Then
Label3.Visible = False
Label23.Visible = False
Else
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I've read thru Iceplug's tutorial on control arrays and got it working. I tried to add a new event by basically copying his click event code and calling it a doubleclick event. I used the proper addhandler and assigned the correct name to my sub. I have the click event changing the background color to blue and the doubleclick event changing the background color to green. The background color does not change to green. Why?
Heres the tutorial with my new code encased in asterisks ...
Code:
Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Class form1
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