I've got a very simple screen saver program that displays alot of stuff in pictureboxes and labels...dynamic display. I want to end the program on any keystroke or mouse movement. I've placed the statement "me.close()" in Public Sub Form1_KeyDown routine (Form1/Events). Nothing happens when I type though. I've seached the forums.....keypreview is true....
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My computer is set for lets say a 15 minute begore the screensaver and passwork have to be re-entered.Is there a way using VB to simulate a keypress or mouse movement if no key was pressed or mouse moved within the 15 minutes?
View 5 RepliesI recently developed a software called MouseMe, which basically records mouse movement and mouse press events. The software itself is in BETA, and I am looking for some testers to have a go at my program.
View 3 Replieshow to get VB to detect mouse movement, clicks and keyboard presses. I am creating a screensaver program that does not intergrate with the windows screensaver.
The reason I am doing this is because I am trying to invent a screensaver that people can use their custome pictures to see with password protection for their PC when the screensaver facility has been disabled on a domain.
I have a picturebox (X=1200,Y=800) and there is an area in the picturebox starting at (X=32,Y=32 and is 256x256 in size). I want to keep the mouse pointer in that area for awhile.
Is there a command in vb that lets you do this? If not, can you restrict the mouse to one control?
i need the code for tracking the mouse movement in VB 2008. my program needs to make a pop-up window when the mouse have moven an inch ( ex.)
View 12 Repliesif its possible to have mouse events like mouse movements, mouse clicks and so on in a specific window only. I'm not sure if you understand this so ill give you an example.
Okay lets say i want this program to only click within a window like Firefox or windows media player only. So that means if i minimize the window it will still click inside that window while its minimized, and i could continue doing other things while its clicking inside that window.
The code I have is meant to be used during possible rapid mouse movement by the user. It is supposed to get the current location (works), move to specified location (works), mouse down(works), mouse up (works), then return the mouse to the old position. I added the delay because it seemed that it was having trouble registering the click if done too quickly. The problem I am having is that if the user is moving their mouse during the time the code is activated, their movement can throw the location of the mouse down or mouse up events off even with the added check routine I added.
'Get current mouse position
Dim MousePosX As Integer = Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.X
Dim MousePosY As Integer = Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.Y
Q = True
'Move mouse to Q Location and click
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i want to save location of Form Where mouse Move or Hover and its save in Two Listboxes like :
Listbox1 contain Width
&
Listbox2 contain Height
Basicaly i want to record mouse Moving. i m using Listboxes to save location
Mouse coordinates in Internet Explorer? Also, how do I use HEX code in VB for mouse movement or do you HAVE to use coordinates only?
View 2 RepliesI am want to play a prank on my friend by reversing the movement of the mouse. Like if the user moves the mouse, on the monitor, it will go in the opposite direction.
User - - -Monitor
UP------Down
Left-----Right
Right-----Left
Down-----Up
how to create a Auto repeated Mouse movement.I wanna create a Form, with a button "start 01" and "start 02",so if I click on "start 01" button, and i open my other applications, and once I hit the F1 button (on my keyboard) the mouse will auto move from point A to B, and it will keep on repeat until I hit the F12 button, then it will stop auto moving.and if I click on the "start 02" button, and II open my other applications, and once I hit F1 button (on my keyboard) the mouse will now move from D to E, and it will keep on repeating it until I hit the F12 button, then it will stop auto moving.
View 8 Repliesi am trying to make a program that will recored basicly everything that you do with your mouse and play it back. I already have it to where it will record mouse positions but i want it to record clicks as well as movement.
View 2 RepliesThe code I have is meant to be used during possible rapid mouse movement by the user. It is supposed to get the current location (works), move to specified location (works), mouse down(works), mouse up (works), then return the mouse to the old position.I added the delay because it seemed that it was having trouble registering the click if done too quickly.
The problem I am having is that if the user is moving their mouse during the time the code is activated, their movement can throw the location of the mouse down or mouse up events off even with the added check routine I added.
'Get current mouse position
Dim MousePosX As Integer = Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.X
Dim MousePosY As Integer = Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position.Y
Q = True
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So I have been working on some code that is a supplement to a video game that I play (doesn't really give me an advantage, I'm against cheating) as recreational programming to get me to learn more things which apparently is working immensely.The video game is called DoTA which is a custom map in Warcraft 3.
What I am trying to do is to make a program that can manually click the skills when the user presses the key they bound to that skill. This allows for more precise skill usage as keybindings in the game change randomly which causes chaos.
I first tried using mouse_event to move, click down, click up, return back to original location. This worked, but I ran into a problem that occurred if mouse movement by the user was happening while the code was being ran. The problem mainly would cause the mouse to move off the skill before clicking or even after the mouse down event.
So then I looked into SendMessage and PostMessage but it took a while before I could fully grasp everything about the functions mostly due to many examples posted online being different from one another as far as the declarations.
I now have matched the output that happens according to Spy++ when I actually click the mouse myself with various PostMessage and SendMessages, but am still having an odd problem:
I provide the coordinates to click on say Button 1. Spy++ tells me it is clicking it properly, but I do not actually get a click. However, if I manually move my mouse over that button, even on the very corners of it, and then press the key, it clicks it (although it also seems to work on one other button in the game.) Other than that, it will not click any other button besides the one that the coordinates are over.The game does not have any child windows so it doesn't seem like I can get the handle of the actual buttons themselves.Here is what I have as test coding to figure this all out (the sleep time in between mdown and mup is because the game doesn't register if clicked too fast):
Option Explicit On
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices 'MarshalAs, Marshal
'Imports System.Reflection 'assembly
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I was thinking that if there was a way to maybe pause control from being able to move the mouse that I could just revert back to the original mouse_event code as well, but I haven't found anything that can take away control like that (actually, I wouldn't even want that posted TBH as it could be used for malicious stuff).
EDIT:The code at the bottom is just stuff I was using to match what happens when I actually click according to Spy++.
I had a post about how to disable monitors, but someone suggested just making it not possible to leave the primary screen. This was obviously a good suggestion, but im not sure how i would accomplish this.
I need to prevent the user from entering the ctrl, alt, delete, escape, and windows key. I also need to prevent the mouse from leaving the primary screen.
My program is a security login system. It requires a username and password to close, and i want to make sure that it cannot close unless the user supplies the correct username and password.
what I would like to do is create a program that runs in the task bar next to the time. What I want this to do is listen for the key stroke combo of CTRL-ALT-T no matter what program they are in. When they hit this key stroke I want the program to do is hide the task bar on the bottom of the screen. you know how you can change the hight to two rows one row and so on but you can also drag it down so it has no rows and can't see it. Then when they hit CTRL-ALT-T it will then display the task bar with what ever the hight wa set to. Just don't know what direction to go to do this.
View 3 Repliesthe code that send keystroke to another app by vb.net
View 8 RepliesThe feature I'm trying to implement allows the user to press the down-arrow key and "tab" through different features on the form. Is there a way to use the keyPressEventArgs or something similar to catch that? Is it necessary to delve into hooks and processes? And if so, does anyone know a good resource for a beginner?
View 3 RepliesI'm having problem with keystroke detection, I want to detect only "enter" and "I" keystroke.If you press "enter", it will automatically close the form the datagridview located and send data to other form, I'm using keydown function, but I don't know how to detect only "enter" and "I" keystroke, usually I'm browsing datagrid with tab button, but when I press tab, it also closed down.
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I need to stop the keystroke event when I pressed a particular key. E.g.: If press alt+tab key then that keys should not perform that operation, that should operation should be stopped. I captured that particular keystroke, but I want to know how to stop that particular operation.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to send a keystroke to a window (of an external executable) but am having problems.
If I launch the exe with a window I can successfully send it a "q" (in order to make it exit) using the follow:
1) AppActivate and SendKeys
2) SendMessage API using WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP
3) AppActivate and keybd_event or SetForegroundWindow and keybd_event
However, if I launch it without a window, obviously method 1) does not work as SendKeys only work on applications with visible windows, but I thought that method 2) would work. However, it doesn't. Also, using method 3) with SetForegroundWindow as this seems to only work with visible windows, which is not really a surprise I guess, given the name.
Another method I have tried, which won't work is using the RedirectStandardInput - I have this working correctly, but the application is looking for keyboard events, not writes to its StandardInput stream, so this doesn't have any effect.
Finally, I have tried using SendMessage and FindWindowEx, and TranslateMessage, to find any child windows or controls that should be receiving the messages, rather than the main window. However, no child windows or controls are found, and I wouldn't have thought this would be the solution given that, if the window is present, the main window receives the message as it should.
So, I have confirmed that the messages are going to the correct window, as they arrive as they should when the application is launched with a window, but I cannot get the application to receive the message when it is window-less. The solution doesn't have to involve messages, or even be particularly robust, but this is what I have tried so far (all the obvious stuff!)
is there something wrong with this? its not sending the key
Dim inputEvents As New USER32.INPUT
inputEvents.ki.wVk = Convert.ToInt16(key)
inputEvents.ki.wScan = 0
inputEvents.ki.time = 0
inputEvents.ki.dwExtraInfo = IntPtr.Zero
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Problem: Form hasn't fully initialize but shortcut keys can be usedDetails: Launch an mdi child with database access retrieving data, and user is already using the shortcut keys while the data is still been retrieve which results to error since object hasn't fully initialize yet.
Goal: Hinder user from using shortcut keys by disabling the keys at initialization then enabling it after all objects are good to go.
Another Situation is:A form with a gridview and a button.I got a hotkey that when press, handles a gridview getfocus event.
The problem is that the gridview is still making its instance and when press the hotkey, it activates the getfocus property of that gridview(which is still creating its instance).
I'm trying to send a single keystroke to an application that has no window (because I have launched it with StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = True) and therefore I can't use SendKeys. I had a look at SendMessage but this doesn't seem to be quite right as the programme I'm sending it to doesn't process message queues.I would usually use the StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput property and send it via a StreamWriter but this doesn't not work as the application it is being sent to is looking for actual keyboard keystrokes, rather than pulling info from StandardInput (an old C++ programme using getch). Anyone have any ideas how to send a keystoke to an application with no window (FYI I don't need anything back from it, I don't need to wait until it's processed, and I only need to send one letter and no carriage returns or linefeeds, though these wouldn't hurt)
View 1 Repliesi am trying to send keystroke using sendinput but it doesnt seem to be sending. I have sendInput declared in user32 class with the input type
dim key as Keys = Keys.A
Dim inputEvents As New USER32.INPUT
inputEvents.ki.wVk = Convert.ToInt16(key)
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am i setting the flags wrong to send a key? not 0 then a 2?
I was curious if there is an easy way, besides making a new custom DataGridViewColumn, that on each keystroke validation is done (while the D.G.V.TextBoxCell is being edited), instead of when focus is lost off the cell.Or in a different senerio, if there is a way to restrict user keystrokes while a D.G.V.TextBox Cell is being edited, while not relying on making a new custom DataGridViewColumn. I would go through the work of implementing this new Column, except the customer for the job I am working at wants small, managable code. And even if this is a useful feature, they would want to avoid having an extra class being made.
View 2 RepliesI am fairly new to programming and I am completing the Step by Step by Microsoft for Visual Basic 2008, but I am not finding anything in the book about binding keystrokes for a program. I want to add the Number Pad into my Calculator Program so that every keystroke on it would correspond to a button in my program but I am unsure how to do this take.
View 1 RepliesI have an issue regarding Sendkeys Class, as i want to use this class in order to send some keystroke to the active application. As a first step i want to test the {Enter} keystroke, so in order to achieve that i made a simple application in vb.net 2010
Public Class Form1
Public Shared data As String
Private Sub SendintText(command As String)
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By the way in order to use double quotes in a parameter you need "test"...(i have spent 15 min to find out) so it might be usefull...
I want to create application that will keylog keystroke and if specific word or key stroke is typed than it will change typed word to somestring.
Example :- (kinda like flowchart)
1. User types "something" in word, firefox, etc.. ( doesn't matter it should be able to capture value from any app )
2. Application captures keystroke and check if keystroke is "something"
3. If keystoke is "something" then it will transfer or take away "something"
4. Instead of something it will type or write "I just wrote something."
