How can I enable the cool vista aero effects within my vb.net application? I wish to make portions of the form, or prehaps even the whole form, have the transparent glass effect.
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According to this article, to clone a secondaryBuffer you need to disable the EffectCaps.
"Initially, the duplicate buffer will have the same parameters as the original buffer. However, the application can change the parameters of each buffer independently, and each can be played or stopped without affecting the other."
How can i re-enable the EffectCaps on the cloned SecondaryBuffer?
how to get working aero in Visual Basic 2008.I am making this media player and got everything I need for that. But what I really wanted is aero since Windows Vista got a nice interface and a few lucky people got it.But the tutorials I got worked great on Windows 7! However, I couldn't get aero because of a transparency key. (I swear I use a color picker to see if background color and transparency key are the same color.)I can't get it to work any piece of code I give.But the good part is that aero WILL work on any 7 or Vista without any form change, but the text is white with blue specks and that is not what I want.
EDIT:i found how to do it now! you need to use the property UseCompatibleTextRendring and put it to True. Now the problem is how do i do the same for the rest? (microsoft was to lazy to edit the controls)
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.
Have you ever seen the whitish glow around the titlebar text in Vista? You know, the feathering around the text that makes it stand out from the Aero glass? Well if you haven't, look at the picture in the attachment. Does anyone have an idea as to how I may reproduce it, specifically draw it around some text on the Aero glass? I already know that the Aero glass can be implemented using some APIs in dwmapi.dll. Are APIs for the glow also in that dll? I'm unable to find any info on how to do this in the official documentation.
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View 8 RepliesCan a form be Created that has Aero Glass when in Vista/Win7 and when running in XP or 98 use a regular border? If so can I have a link to the infromation or a code sample?
View 8 RepliesI need connect remote registry in xp to vista system in vb.net code.
View 2 RepliesI'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 RepliesI can set the global (windows) aero color from my application but would like to change only the application aero color, I have tried a few things but non seem to work E.g.
WM_DWMCOLORIZATIONCOLORCHANGED
But it only changes windows as well as my app.
I'm trying to make a simple game, and as the title suggests, I'd like to know how to add music to it.
View 5 Repliesi compile my form with the below code when i run it on vista work fine without any problem but when i try to run in on XP cant run... that happened with any XP machine.[code]when i run my exe to other Vista machines work fine... but on xp NO.
View 1 RepliesI am writing an application that puts a computer in hibernation mode (Application.SetSuspendState). I have noticed that there exists a specific option that needs to be enabled for the machine to hibernate correctly and that is found in Control Panel--> Power Options --> Hibernate Tab (if this option is not checked then the machine goes into stand by mode rather than hibernate) Is there a way to programmatically check the status of the "Enable Hibernation" check box and check/uncheck it?
View 2 Repliesi made an application for serial communication. for this application i need to set delay time. during this delay time i m doing some other task. So for those task i need to take back control from delay function, for this purpose i am unsing Doevents() function.Its work fine On other OS (XP, Windows7 32/64-bit). But Application.DoEvents() function halt and crash in windows vista.
Private Sub TimeDelay(ByVal DT As Integer)
Dim StartTick As Integer
StartTick = Environment.TickCount()
[Code].....
I'm trying to enable the screensaver from within my application I found this code on the internet:
Declare Auto Function SendMessage Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal Msg As UInt32, ByVal wParam As UInt32, ByVal lParam As UInt32) As Int32
Const WM_SYSCOMMAND As UInt32 = &h212
[Code]....
But it's giving me an error "Expression expected" on the three Const lines right at the & character.
I need to add barcode reading feature to my application. I donot know how to enable my application to read barcodes. I mean a scanner should read the barcode and having matched the article no. in database, info should be displayed on the screen.
View 2 RepliesThe Enable Application Framework Check Box seems pretty well defined in a number oprevious postings, but leaves one question in my mind. The default is unchecked and the sub-topic Check boxes are:
Enable XP Visual Styles - - Checked
Make Single Instance Appllication - - Not Checked
Save My.Settings On Shutdown - -Checked
There are also 3 Combo Boxes:
Authentication Mode - - "Windows"
Shutdown Mode - - "When startup form closes"
Splash Screen - - (None)
When I un check the Enable Application Framework Check Box all items under it are grayed out. However, if I have changed one of the Comb Boxes my selection is also grayed out...My question is, have I lost the use of those function: Specifically I am mos interested in starting my application from a Sub Main and closing the application when all forms close.My underlying question is . . . are the greyed out selections still valid?
How do I go about enabling web features in my application? I'm wanting to put in a title in my application send it to imbd.com and scrape the site for the results to display in my application. Can anyone direct me to a tutorial or simply tell me how to go about implementing this type of feature?
View 2 RepliesHow can i costumize my buttons so that they look cool??? (i dont want to put images into them, i want to change their shape)
View 3 RepliesI have developed an application which used gridview to display 1 images, description, price, and other details.
I have to give a professional look to my gridview.
Where can i download some free gridview styles to use in my application.
There are multiple rows and many pages will occur for my gridview.
Trying to find out how to make the tabs in the tabcontrol look completely different like the tabs that have slanted sides
View 3 Repliesi want to know about cool web browser addons
View 2 RepliesI have recently developed an aplication in XP that it works on XP nice but in vista or seven don't work at all. It gives a message when I try to enter the application like " The program cannot run.."
View 9 RepliesI am using Windows XP and Visual Studio 2008. Now, i am writing an application which under testing runs fine under XP but when i try to run it under Vista, when i click on the program i keep getting an error saying:System File Intergrator has stopped working.How do i get my application to run on Vista as well as XP?
View 11 RepliesI though vista came with .net framework 3.0 right? how come a vista user can't run an application i made with:
Imports System.Net
Imports System.IO
Imports Microsoft.Win32
these are all .net imports right? what's wrong?
What it is the option Enable application framework that I found in Visual Studio under VB.NET WPF projects Application settings?I found it enabled by default and the "Shutdown mode" configured as "On last windows close". But for me is not really clear what does it mean that setting and also the other settings listed in that combo box.
View 1 RepliesI am writing a desktop application using vb.net. In that application one screen needs the web information.We need to get the info from webpage - display as it is on web. whenever the page refreshed or changed the content that should reflect on desktop application also.
View 2 RepliesI was wondering if there was a function in user32 that could enable a hwnd control if it is disabled (grayed out) If I know the handle then can I do this? Also, if it is a menuitem, can it be done too?
View 1 Repliesi going to create setup.exe to install my project using vb.netfor the same i want some COOL/professional setup images that i can put on my screen
View 1 RepliesI just started using vb.net express 2008 about 2 months ago.I wanted to design a gui application and the controls for 2008 express look a little plain.
1. What software can I use to design cool looking windows and gui?
2. Does the full version of vb.net come with a better gui designer?3. What do people use to design gui, if you want to have something nice that people would buy?
