Get The Text Of The Active Form?
Apr 6, 2010I need to build a program that can get the form's name of whatever window/application that is currently active/in focus. How do I do that?
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Write Text From A Parent Form To The Active Mdi Child Form VB 2010
Jan 28, 2012It has to be a simple line of code but I do not know how to construct it. Using VB 2010 Express, I have a MDI parent form and many child forms. I want the parent form to determine what child form is active and load data into the RichTextBox1 on the child form. Each Child form has a RichTextBox1. The parent form gets its data by loading a file.
I am close to a solution but just can't get there. You will see in the code below, if I make a direct reference to a specific child form, it works great. What I want to do is to use the Active Form function to determine which form to write to. I have looked at the MS tutorial which gets me close.
Private
Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender
As System.Object,
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VS 2005 Get The Active Control Of The Active Form?
Mar 30, 2009I want to get the active control (control which has the focus or where the cursor is on) each time the cursor moves to another control or each time a control receives a focus.
View 5 RepliesBring A Form To The Front As Active Form
Jul 14, 2009I am trying to have any only one form type eg Countries, Projects, or Vendors etc. open at the same time. So, if a user has the Country form open and goes to open it again from the menu I would like the applaication to bring the form to the Front of the MDI container. I have tried a number of things like BringToFront, ActivateMdiChild, etc.
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Can Zoom Form While It Is Active
Mar 20, 2012i want to know is there any way i can zoom my form in vb.net. i could resize the form and byanchoring all controls to left top right bottom i can make it look like zoom. but it is not actually zooming. it is resizing. while font size and other formats are still as same.
View 1 RepliesDetermine Active Form Name?
Apr 20, 2010When debugging in VB6 it was easy to find the name of the active form because it was automatically highlighted in the Project Explorer.
How do I find the name of the active form in VS2010?
Get Active Control Of Form?
Mar 30, 2009I want to get the active control (control which has the focus or where the cursor is on) each time the cursor moves to another control or each time a control receives a focus.
View 1 RepliesHow To Put An Active Login Form
Jul 30, 2010I would like to put an active login form where by if one fails toput the correct password after 3 trials the program exits
View 1 RepliesMDI Application - How To Get Active Form
Mar 11, 2010I have a mdi application. When some childforms are open (but only one is active) and the user press a button, I want to know, what form is open, because depending on this, an event will fire up. I imagine this so: at first I determine the active form with a separate function. And then with a select case statement the event will be fired up. How can I make this?
View 2 RepliesSend The Text To The Active Window?
Mar 23, 2010Want to send the text from my current vb application to the Active Window and that text should be displayed in the text area of the active window.
View 1 RepliesRead From An Active Text File
Mar 3, 2011I have a program that is spitting times out to a text file.I would like my vb program to read the data as it is being written.I am currently using an infinite loop to read the file but I cannot close it using Me.close then....
View 16 RepliesActive Directory Groups In Form
Sep 18, 2008I am writing an application where active directory validation is required before accessing the main form. There are 2 forms. Form 2 is the login form and form 1 is the main form. The main form would have a simple look, with about 10 checkboxes.I have managed to get the authentication working great but what now need to do is validate groups. Say if "user A" is in "groups A,B and C" and "user B" is in "groups B and C" i would like for them to use my login form, once they log in, the groups that they are members of would appear in a listbox on either form, (whichever is easiest) and is hidden from the user ... if they are in group A, then the main form would show only the first 3 checkboxes, if they are in group B, then it would show the 4th and 5th checkboxes, if in both groups then show the first 5 checkboxes etc.It is a simple idea, but is complicated to explain.As i said, the login form is working with the active directory... here is the code for the login form:[code]Form1 in the code is my main form, and wish for it to change according to which groups the user is in.
View 9 RepliesActive Form In Windows Application?
Oct 7, 2009I am developing a Windows Forms application. I have four forms which is inherited from Baseform in another project. In all four forms I am using a label to show some transaction count based on network status. I have implemented a thread which gets the active form of application and setting up the text. The code works fine if application screen is active. If I minimize and open any other application, I am getting an null error exception.
How do I get the active form of an application?
Private Sub StartThread()
pollThread =New Thread(AddressOf PollfileStatus)
pollThread.IsBackground =True
running =True
pollThread.Start()
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Forms :: Detecting If Form Is Active
Jun 2, 2011I am new to vb.net and what I want to do is change the bg color if my form is active.
I have tried searches and try and fail but I cant figure it out
Forms :: Set The Form As The Active Window?
Mar 4, 2011I was wondering if there's a method to set the form as the active window (not topmost obviously), if it's currently not the active window (meaning another window is currently the active one). By active I mean "selected".
View 1 RepliesGet Active Form Caption Color?
Aug 3, 2009How can i get the color of the caption of the active form in winforms?
View 1 RepliesGet The Contents Of The Active Child MDI Form?
Jul 20, 2010I want to get the contents of the active child MDI form, how do you do that? Here's what I did to create a child form.
childForm += 1
If childForm > UBound(childForms) Then
ReDim childForms(childForm)
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So say I want to get the text from an active form. How can I get the active form id so I can just do this?
childforms(childform).textbox1.text
How To Close An Active MDI Child Form
May 31, 2011I just starting to use MDI form. I can show the child MDI form, without any problem. My problem is that I want to close the child form also from the parent menu bar. This is my code:
Private Sub CloseToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CloseToolStripMenuItem.Click
Dim frmActive As Form = Me.ActivateMdiChild
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How To Find Name Of Active Control On Form
Mar 12, 2009I'm an old Access developer and know VBA quite well, but now I'm working at learning VB.net. I'm trying to find the equivilent of the following Access VBA code using VB.net:
Function EvalField()
Dim x As Integer, ctl As Control
Set ctl = Screen.ActiveControl
x = Val(Mid(ctl.Name, 5))
Screen.ActiveForm.Controls("Formula" & x) = ctl
ctl = Eval(ctl)
UpdateTotal
End Function
This code sets a control variable to the currently active control, then copies the text from that control into it's matching "Formula" field for reference by the user), then turns the string of math into the answer. For example, if the user enters 5 + 4, that will be copied to the Formula textbox, then it will be evaluated and the answer will replace the 5 + 4. And lastly, the UpdateTotal sub will execute which will add this answer to the existing Total field.
Resize Active Main Form?
Dec 25, 2009The form my application starts with is called Form1.
now if i have another form called form2 and call
form2.width=500
when you press a button on form1 then form2 is resized to 500
BUT if I call
form1.width=500
from the same button Form1 is NOT resized why is this?
Alternative To The C++ Command Of Set Active Window.text ?
Apr 17, 2009Is there are VB.net alternative to the C++ command of set active window.text ? (its something like that) baisicly this command renames the active window to what ever you want, is VB.net powerful enough to do this?
View 3 RepliesDisplaying Active Date And Time On Form
Mar 11, 2010I've got a module for my program thats displays the active time and date, on a form. For some reason my code is incorrect and nothing happens when I run the form. Heres the code I have in the module:
Module ModDateAndTime
'Declares tmrdat as a timer with events
Public WithEvents tmrdat As Timer
'declares lbldat as a label
Public lbldat As Label
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And the code in the form's:
'declares lbldat as lbldateandtime
lbldat = lblDateandTime
The relevant label in the form is named lblDateandTime
Embed Form In Titlebar Of An Active Window?
Oct 7, 2009I have created a form containing a text box and a button. i would like to know if it is possible to embed this form in the title bar of the current active window that is opened eg: ie,notepad,word this is so that i can enter a word in the text box and use text to speech to say it or highlight a word in the active window and it will be placed in the text box of my form. i can position the form in the top right location but then the form position is stagnant.
View 3 RepliesExit Application When Parent Form Active?
Jun 9, 2012I have created an application which has a parent form and various child forms, when all child forms are closed and only the parent form is viewable would it be possible to exit the application?[code]...
View 3 RepliesForms :: Get All The Active MDI Child Form In An Application?
May 28, 2011how to get all the active mdi child in an application..it is possible to work? me.ActiveMdiChild.Name
View 1 RepliesForms :: WebBrowser Still 'active' When Form Is Closed
May 18, 2010On a dynamic form a WebBrowser control connects to a Media Player on one of our servers.After the form is closed the audio is still running even though the FormClosed event is handled.[code]
View 4 RepliesHow To Make Window/form Become Active Foreground
Apr 21, 2010I'm using Visual Basic 2010 Express.I have a form that can be minimized.There's also a tray icon.I've coded it so that if you double-click on the tray icon, the form's FormWindowState becomes set to Normal; this restores the form to where was before it became minimized, but the form does not become the active window on my desktop.
How can I make the form become the active most foreground window? I've tried various functions that I can think of but no luck yet. Tried searching with various queries to try and find the right wording but no luck.I'm new to Visual Basic - only started a couple hours ago.Probably something simple but I can't seem to find the correct function or anything.I have the form/window open, and then I overlap said form with a window of another application. When I double-click my app's tray icon, I want my window to become the active window, bringing it to the front, but can't figure out how
Keep Form Window Active While Running A Batch Cmd?
Feb 17, 2012my vb net program runs an external batch file for some operations for 2 min,but when it starts to runmain form become unreadable and emptyalthough it has information
my code
RichTextBox1.AppendText( "cmd is running, can take up to 2 min to complete...")
RichTextBox1.Refresh()
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Make The Active MDI Child Form Stand Out More?
Jul 8, 2009When I have two MDI Child forms opened, it is difficult to visually see the active form versus the non-active form.I would like to have the Active Form stand out more, say a yellow border.
View 3 RepliesManipulating Data On An Active Form With Objects
Sep 10, 2011this is not really a code issue, more of an events issue with objects. I want to be able to generate an output as the user inputs into each text box under the "further invoice details" section. For example, if the user inputs a value to amountrequired text box. Then a gross total is auto generated without the need to click a button.
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