iv been making a automatic wallpaper changer useing the timer, listbox, and picturebox , it works, untill i minimize it then it stops changeing the background, but when i maximize it it has actually moved down the listbox of pictures each time so the timer must be working when minimized, just it doesnt change the wallpaper when its maximized it always works,
View 2 Replieshere a simple class to change the wallpaper in winxp and win7. i think it will work on every windows version.
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I have windows 7 background setup as a slideshow to change picture every 30 min. But when i use SystemParametersInfo in my program to set the wallpaper so i can see how it looks on screen, the wallpaper no long change like a slideshow. How can i display an image in the background but keep the current desktop background setting unchanged so that it will stay a slideshow on the location it was set?
View 1 Repliesim making a Desktop Wallpaper Changer, using a timer to change the wallpaper after a select interval. I have 13 images in my directory numbered 1-13.
But im getting an error when it reaches 13 , is there any way i can maybe loop it ? so that it select no.1 again and repeats the process?
I've created a desktop wallpaper changer and added some animation part to it.
View 2 RepliesI wish to make a wallpaper changer that can select a random wallpaper from a given directory and sub directories. I'm not asking for code at this point, I'd like a reality check to see how hard this could be. I'm still quite a newbie at VB so I just wanna check if what I'm thinking process wise would work.The basic thing I'd like to do is have it pick one picture out of a given dir and sub dirs. Then set it as the wallpaper. I'd like it to be resized if larger than the desktops resolution to fit inside it, no stretching cropping or stuff.
That's the simple things I'd like it to do. Unfortunately I have dual monitors so it'd have to pick two wallpapers, resize each one independently, stick them together, and then set the wallpaper. I'd also like to make a kind of simple database which would have the name of each pic and two values with it. I'd like a value to mark if it's been used already which would be reset when all pictures have been used. The second would be a simple tag. This way i could have all car wallpapers listed as tag 1 and all non-car wallpapers listed as tag 2. Then I could chose whether to use all or only tagged wallpapers.
This the code I used to minimized the form to the tray. It works perfectly using winXP but not in win7.Here's the screenshot:it must be minimized to tray. The code:
Private Sub NotifyIcon1_MouseDoubleClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles NotifyIcon1.MouseDoubleClick
Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal
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I'm trying to draw a semi-transparent layer over my entire form when certain events occur, with a prompt in front of this semi-transparent layer (similar to the effect in Windows Vista/7 with UAC enabled)At first I was trying to use a custom semi-transparent panel, but this didn't seem to work at all. As such I'm now trying to use a child form within the form using the opacity property on the form. However, when this semi-transparent form is added to the controls of the main form and displayed, it loses it's transparency.I've got a hacky work around at the moment where the semi-transparent layer isn't actually a component within the main form, and the transparency works then, but obviously this isn't ideal and could potentially cause various issues further down the line.
View 1 RepliesI want to make a simple screensaver but I looked at what others suggested on how to change screen resolutions and it seems a bit much. So I'm hoping their is a simple way to accomplish this task. Basicly I want the screen to fill reguarless of your screen resolution with the background image coded in the source code. I know the picture will look funny on large resultions but its a sample code Im making, so i'm not worried about streatching a image.My thought was do something to detect window bounds or something.
View 6 RepliesI have a Vista O.S., but I want my program to change the Ip address on mutiple O.S. with one click of a button or possibly on a timer to switch ip addresses every few minutes. How would I do this in VB 2008?
View 4 RepliesI'm on some project and i stuck. I wanna make a icon changer that builder include in it self. Not just you choose the the file to change a file and icon and it change but I mean builder include a icon changer.
View 3 Repliesim trying to make a cheat for minecraft(speed walk) but im having problems. every minuet i want the clock to go ahead by 2 minuets to speed walk. can someone correct my code? TimeOfDay.AddMinutes("2:00")
View 2 Repliesi want to do is start to make programs like a sreen logon changer for windows 7 i know already been done but i want to start to learn or a branding logo changer witch has been done also branding logo= windows 7 text at bottom of logon screen just want to edit some system files like that instead of doing it in resource hacker if you know wot i mean so wot i want is a bit of codeing to get me to system 32 folder and little bit of guidance on how to change a picture in a dll file via vb instead of using a resorce hacker..
View 1 RepliesI want my program to go to a site, fill in the data, click submit then once completed go to the next site.I know you can do this in webrequest but I can only get it to login but once Ive logged in I dont know how to make it click a button automatically, I only know how to do it semi-automatically by getting the ID.
View 11 Repliesand i am developing a software called logon screen changer xp but i get this error
View 6 RepliesHow do you get the current wallpaper? do you use SystemParametersInfo? what about the picture position setting?
View 1 RepliesI've made a program to change a computers wallpaper through VB which works perfectly UNLESS as your browsing for the picture you press the cancel button. The code on the browse button:
Dim dlg As OpenFileDialog = New OpenFileDialog
dlg.Filter = "Image Files (*.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg)|*.bmp;*.gif;*.jpg"
dlg.Title = "Select the image to load."
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Is there anything that can be added to the code so that the user is able to cancel looking for a picture without it crashing?
I am having in VB.NET 2010. I am writing an app to change the background wallpaper kinda a little project I am making for my wife's grandma. It is a multiple wallpaper changer to change the wallpaper based on a list of images she adds. Anyways! I have everything setup except the fact that it doesn't change the wallpaper...
This code here:
Public Declare Auto Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal uAction As Integer, _
ByVal uParam As Integer, _
ByVal lpvParam As String, _
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Will NOT change the wallpaper but the same code works in VB6 I tried it because I have made something like it before in VB6 but it was a game that changed the wallpaper. Anyways, using the above code in VB6 works(well with a change to the SystemParametersInfo declare to work within VB6. But it doesn't work in VB.NET. I have NO IDEA why everything gets set in the registry just fine from VB.NET but I just cannot seem to get it to update the wallpaper...
I am writing an app to change the background wallpaper kinda a little project I am making for my wife's grandma. It is a multiple wallpaper changer to change the wallpaper based on a list of images she adds. Anyways! I have everything setup except the fact that it doesn't change the wallpaper... This code here:
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Public Declare Auto Function SystemParametersInfo Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal uAction As Integer, _
ByVal lpvParam As String, _
ByVal fuWinIni As Integer) As Integer
SystemParametersInfo(20, 0, Application.StartupPath & "Wallpaper.bmp", 1)
will NOT change the wallpaper but the same code works in VB6 I tried it because I have made something like it before in VB6 but it was a game that changed the wallpaper. Anyways, using the above code in VB6 works(well with a change to the SystemParametersInfo declare to work within VB6. But it doesn't work in VB.NET. I have NO IDEA why everything gets set in the registry just fine from VB.NET but I just cannot seem to get it to update the wallpaper..
How can i get the current desktop wallpaper?I just want to save it somewhere thats all nothing complicated.
View 10 RepliesI'm writing a program in VB.NET that needs to get the path to the current user's wallpaper.
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to update my wallpaper with VB.NET and it's not working. Weird thing is, this same code works fine on my other machines (same OSes, Win XP Pro SP3). My code grabs a random picture then passes it to the SetWallpaper function:
<System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImportAttribute("user32.dll", EntryPoint:="SystemParametersInfoW")> _
Public Shared Function SystemParametersInfo(ByVal uiAction As UInteger, ByVal uiParam As UInteger, ByVal pvParam As System.IntPtr, ByVal fWinIni As UInteger) As <System.Runtime.InteropServices.MarshalAsAttribute(System.Runtime.InteropServices.UnmanagedType.Bool)> Boolean
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I just want to write a function which will set the Vista's wallpaper using the file name supplied.
View 2 RepliesShort I want to write an application that loads a swf file (or html file containing the swf), and uses it as desktop wallpaper.
First off, is this even possible? Second, how can I do something like this (If its possible)?
I have a logon script which changes the desktop brackground picture in the registry. The only problem is this change isn't applied until the user logs off and on again. I currently use a small program which uses SHChangeNotify(&H8000000, &H1000, 0, 0) but this will not refresh the wallpaper. I was also hoping this would refresh the Taskbar because I change a registry setting which removes a toolbar.
View 4 RepliesI am trying to create two semi transparent panel.When I click on panel 1, the color is semi-transparent red. Panel 2 will become semi-transparent green. When I click on panel 2, the color is semi-transparent red. Panel 1 will become semi-transparent green.
Using class below:
Public Class TransparentPanel
Inherits Panel
Private mIsActive As Boolean = False
Public WriteOnly Property IsActive() As Boolean
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When I click on panel 1, it is semi-red, when I click on panel 2, panel 1 become semi-green. When I click back on panel 1, it seems to draw the semi-red on top and make it not semi-red but more red. The more click I do, the transparent is gone. Is there a way to drop the graphics and repaint it with semi-red? OR, is there a way to restore the graphics to its original state in semi-red? OR, is there a way to clear the graphics and repaint it with semi-red?
I don't wanna to use webbrowser component because it's not so flexible! How can I optimize my webbrowser by loading special parts of the page? for example in IE you can load all page but images.
View 3 RepliesI am working currently on a watermark maker and I would like to know how to make a label see through. For example a form can have opacity out of a houndred, so I'm asking how can I do something simular to this in visual basic.
View 1 RepliesI am making a 2D sports game using XNA graphics. I would like to create a drop down menu from which the user can select various tactics. The menu will be a panel so that I can add in various sliders and check boxes, and it will drop down when the user clicks or hovers over a button.
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I need to convert the color as semi-transparent for the picturebox to see something behind the picturebox.... Here, I have a difficult situation. When I set the image color using with the code, none of them are works. So I got them rid it. ARG!!!! I need to find the fact semi-transparent for the picturebox.
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