I'm trying to hook the keyboard to make some action when I'm running a DirectX application. I want to press some keys like "F2" or "pagedown" when I'm running dx app and see msgbox appears. Can anyone show me the code?
View 1 RepliesI am not very familiar with VB.NET so I don't know if this is possible.Some code I am working on is setting the properties of a very large class. In the setter of each property an event is raised to indicate that the class data has changed. An event handler then serializes the instance of the class to a database.Obviously I do not want this to happen after each property is set, so I need to either have a delay before saving, or something else.I am keeping a large list of instances in a cache implementation already, so one option would be to only process the cache every now and then and save all unsaved instances in cache to the database.So I tried to see if I could derive a class from Application (and override DoEvents), but it is NotInheritable, so no luck there.
View 3 RepliesI am creating a application for a touch screen computer/till of course, this means that I have to make a keyboard in my application so you don't have to mess around getting the keyboard out. I have multiple textbox's on my application and would like to know how to make the keys type into the textbox that is focused.[code]At the moment I was using this but this only puts the letters into the NameTextbox and also the NameTextbox doesn't appear to be focused.How would I get the keys to type into the textbox that is focused?
View 12 RepliesIm coding an application that will remotly control the mouse and the keyboard.For the mouse i found this and converted it to vb.net:[code]
View 4 RepliesI have been trying to build an application for which I need to set low-level keyboard hooks. I thing I am trying to accomplish is that when I press the key "a" I want windows to think I have pressed the key "b". But the problem I am facing is that when I press key "a" it produces "ab". I am providing my code below.Also I would like to know how to detect double and triple key presses (e.g. shift + a and ctrl + alt + b). [code]
View 2 RepliesHow to filter inputs from keyboard in all windows applications while our written code is running and lives in notification area
it's like: user opens our application, now when typing in for example MS Word, when he types "s" it is said in our code to filter "s" and change it to "M" so if he press "s" on keyboard, "M" is typed in MS Word document.
to get keyboard presskey values out of the application in vb.net 2005. I try form keydown event that is working in Application Active.
View 2 RepliesI amtrying to send ALT + 1 Key to the active application but the problem i am having is when i use SendKeys.SendWait("%1") the program ignores the alt key and jsut enters the 1. is there a way i can get this done?
View 11 RepliesI want to make a simple program like On-Screen keyboard to send a certain text - www.google.com - to any application like address bar in IE or Run window or any textbox in registration form .I searched the forum here and all answers about using the API window name function . or using the Timer control and that doesn't help .
View 2 RepliesI am trying to develop an application for POS.I have designed a on screen keyboard.I am trying to make this keyboard more like real keyboard, I mean keys to be more 3d like real keyboard but I find limitations in VB .Net button control.
View 3 RepliesIs there Any way to handle the crtl + Alt + Del Key combination. Take for instance in a quiz application (Win Forms ), the user should not be able to switch to other windows till the test is over.
I'm able to capture the ctrl and alt key strokes individually, using c# standard properties. but once they user hits the del key . The control goes out of my appliation and windows handles it.
Ok, so I'm writing a basic windows form application in VB.net as you do and need to be able to raise keyboard events based on data received from the serial port. I'm able to receive the characters that I want (lets say a lower case c) and display them. Its also easy enough for me to find the keycode. What I want to do though is tell windows that key "c" has been pressed. The application is paired to a bluetooth terminal, I wanted to have the experience of writing the code behind this myself rather than using another library although it seems I've failed already. How would I go about doing this?
View 1 RepliesI am using VB code in VS2008.Net3.5 and Windows Mobile SDK6 to develop my Device application. For each form, I can see a deafult keyboard on my Handheld application screen. Its situated at the bottom of the tool bar.Is there anyway to hide this keyboard to replace it with a customized keyboard. This is called SIP(Soft Input Pannel).
View 2 RepliesI'm wondering if anyone knows how to disable a keyboard key. This is because I am working on a space invaders game. In the game I have ammo. So after the ammo = 0 I want to make sure that the player cannot continue to keep shooting (using the keyboard) even though there is no ammo left.
View 1 RepliesSo what I've been trying to learn how to do is create a command console program so when I open it up it will execute a series of keystrokes, i.e I want to create a program that when I open it a cmd will open and automatically open up itunes and press podcasts the ctrl u to update them. How would I could that?
View 1 RepliesI am building an image processing program. As part of this, I have a picturebox, set to AutoSize.
When I load an image larger than the size of the picturebox's container the box automatically expands and shows scroll bars. This is what I want. I can scroll the picturebox using the mouse to click on these, but I would like to be able to scroll the image using the arrow keys. This poses a couple of problems:
1) finding what properties to change or events to raise when a key is pressed. It is a property of the picturbox, or a property of the container?
2) dealing with repeated scrolling while the arrow keys are held. I know I can use keydown to detect that an arrow key has been pressed, but how do I continue to scroll as long as the key is held down?
How do I change the keyboard inputs when a button's held down.Example: When SpaceBar is held down, if letter Q is typed P will the input instead.
I've tried KeyDown / KeyPress but that doesn't seem to be working
I want to press for ex: "F12" and will show for ex: "msgbox".I know how to that with keydown but I can't use this outsite my application..
View 6 RepliesI want to know how to hook a tcp connection of another program and listen them. I dont need to manipulate the packets though.I just want to record for example chat messages.
View 1 RepliesI'm working on a tool that requires overlays ala X-Fire. I'm hoping to do it in C# or VB.NET rather than resorting to C++, but the only solutions i've found for .NET cause a large performance hit (~20FPS in games). Take a look here: [URL]
View 1 RepliesI have been working on a project for some time now and I am stuck. I am trying to sense when a navigation software speaks so i can mute the volume of everything else on the computer.
my problem is that i cant properly sense the audio of the software. i am using windows 7 and vb.net. i have done a good amount of research, but i have not come up with an answer.
i am almost positive that i need to intercept the win32api call of the software to trigger the mute that i will use. i dont know how to do this, all the information i can find that is even close to this subject is for 98, nt and 2k.
does anyone know of any books (or websites) that contain information on this subject?
how to do basic keyboard movement in VB 2010 express. i'm making a very small, simple game (as this is my usual method to self-teach a language) and i'm still getting a grasp of events. if someone could direct me to some place i could learn about this (and preferably not a "paste this code in your form") something simple as moving a picture box or what have you across a form would be great.
View 3 RepliesI'm new in the programming area and I'm having trouble making a calculator. My question is: How do I make the calculator work using only the keyboard, without the need of mouse.
I tried this:
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Me.KeyPreview = True
End Sub
Private Sub FlowLayoutPanel1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e
As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles RESULTADO.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.NumPad0 Then
[Code] .....
It only works on the text box called Result. I want to know how do I make work in the whole Class, and if it is possible, to make it work on two different Classes without writing twice the same code.
So I had this idea to make a virtual drum set and my school book doesn't have the answer for me and I haven't been able to successfully google this. The only things I need to know is how to add a sound to a picture box that will activate when clicked and how to assign a key on the keyboard to activate the sound as well.
View 14 RepliesI'm currently trying to write a program that will clone input from one program and broadcast it to 4 other windows (Mouse and keyboard, with the exception of the enter key). This is for a World of Warcraft and it is legal. I thought that I would use setWindowsHookEx, but I can't figure out how to set it up that it only takes the input from one window and not globally.Can anyone recommend the best way of cloning keyboard and mouse messages ? or give me an example of how to set a windows hook for only one program ?
View 1 RepliesI want to know if i click button1 then it's auto press keys.Tab and then keys.Enter.
View 5 RepliesHow can I disable Alt-F4 and Ctrl-Alt-Del?Can I lock all combinations of a key with the Alt key? I got a sample from the internet, it only can disable Alt+Tab, Alt+Esc, Ctrl+Esc, Windows Key
Select Case wParam
Case 256, 257, 260, 261
'Alt+Tab, Alt+Esc, Ctrl+Esc, Windows Key
blnEat = ((lParam.vkCode = 9) AndAlso (lParam.flags = 32)) Or _
[code]....
Where can I see the button code list in lParam.vkCode = ?How can I make it able to disable Alt-F4 and Ctrl-Alt-Del or disable all combinations of a key with the Alt key?
Is there a way in vb.net to subclass/hooking in to any controls scroll bar and change it is colours etc (I saw this once in C++ but lost it). It�s ok for MS giving us user owner drawn controls, or at the very least allowing us to draw the controls information but it looks dam write awful if the scroll bar does not fit into the GUI.
View 8 RepliesI want to show and hide the OSK keyboard (docked at the bottom) for my touch screen application best methods? (I want to make sure when I show that I try to run, in case someone closed it while using the app)
View 6 RepliesI play a midi file using this simple win32 api call:
MidiMsg = "open " & c_midiFile & " type sequencer alias mid1 notify"
ret = mciSendString(MidiMsg, "", 0, Form1.Handle)
MidiMsg = "play mid1"
ret = mciSendString("play mid1", "", 0, Form1.Handle)
Callback message MM_MCINOTIFY has a value of &H3B9 (found it using "spy++")I have to know when this message (MM_MCINOTIFY) is fired and read his parameters. In an old version of code I've written years ago in VB6 i had to use CallWindowProc and SetWindowLong win32 api, but now in VS2005 i cannot get it to work.Still I have to try with unmanaged code or are there any other ways to do this in vb .net?