Know If The Windows Run Key Pressed - Application Active
Jul 14, 2009
I want to know if the Windows Run key pressed. How can it be possible? What's the constant or ascii code for this key? The second: How can I know if the program, I wanted to use, is activated? What's the correct func. for this?
I have a small Windows Application that displays a .chm Help File when F1 is pressed. What I would like to do is to close the Help Display programatically for example when a Reset Button is clicked and the Form is 'Reset'.
I 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() [Code] .....
I have a standard Visual Studio 2008 VB.Net WinForm application, running on Vista Business. One of the forms has a timer that passes Me.Handle to FlashWindowEx. This works as intended as long as none of the windows that belong to this application are the Foreground window. If this program is running and another application's window is the Foreground window, then it flashes as intended. If, however, any of this application's windows are the Foreground window, then it doesn't flash.
I am in need of a small application, that will allways be topmost and will send keystrokes to the last active application (typically notepad or an explorer window). My problem is retrieving the current active form (or application), when my application is started up. Every search seems to return old and rather complex solutions using Win32 library functions, but I was kinda hoping, that .Net allowed for a neater and more simple solution.I need a code example or link on how to retrieve the currently active application window from another application just starting up.
I would like my application to be able to listen for when the Esc key is pressed, then close the application. I have been searching Google but all I am getting is when in texboxes and thing of that nature, not a global key press.
How can I set a button, so that when it is pressed, it stays in the pressed down graphic state. Then when pressed again it returns to the normal not-pressed visual.Make a button stay like this until pressed again: url....
I have a TextBox and set the MiltiLine property to true and AcceptsTab property to false.When the TextBox has focus and i press Tab it works fine and the next control get the focus, but when i press Ctrl+Tab it works as if AcceptsTab property is set to true and makes a tab character into the TextBox.The reason i press Ctrl+Tab.. when switching between forms in my MDI application.Now how to make a Ctrl+Tab when pressed works like Tab when pressed in a MultiLine TextBox?
how to set either a focus window or active window or something, but still able to move around in other windows with out my SendKeys function sending keys to any other window. This is the code I have to set the active window to the window I need to sendkeys to:
Dim targetWnd As Long = FindWindow("ncrwgst1.wal-mart.com - PuTTY", vbNullString) SetActiveWindow(targetWnd) Timer1.Start()
Now anytime I have like notepad or even my Remedy window up, it sends the keys to that window. how to set it where it JUST sends to the targethWnd I have defined and still move around in my other windows?
I have this gamepad: [URL]I want to write a small application that is able to read what button is pressed on the gamepad.I've seen this thread:[URL]but this does not read the input of the controller, it only initialize it.[URL]
When I call the save dialog object to prompt the user for a new file name, sometimes it does not appear as the active window, it is occasionally popping under all the open windows, and you have to minimize all of them back to the desktop to find it. What sort of problem would cause this, and is there a way to force it to the front?
64-bit Windows 7 Profesinoal running a project I have done vb2005. Reporting as a tool I'm using active reports 2.0. Normal data base connection is very slow. The first problem this.The second problem, none of my reports does not work. gives the following error:is not a valid Win32 application.
Im currently working on a taskbar, in which you can totally control:
* Processes * Services * This feature I want to add: Windows, that are currently being runned like in the taskbar. or e.g. when you open your taskmanager under applications.
How I can run handler from one application to another, for example: In application one I have form1 and button. In application two I have also form1 and button. Now how I can run handler for button on form1 in first application from application two?
I 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?
How do I minimize all active forms in my application with a single button click?I have multiple forms visible at a time, and I want all my active forms to minimize when I click on a single button on one of the forms.
I have created a program which should perform a certain action whenever a certain group of keys is pressed at the same time. The program must be able to run in the background, or in the system tray or something. Essentially, this should work like the KeyDown event on a form, except the form in this case is everything.
I'm not certain if there is a way to do this directly from within the .net API, but if there is I certainly have not found it.
I've tried everything to set my window as active after I've been working on another external App... I have my system on auto and need to send some keystrokes to the program using sendkeys, so I need that app active. I've tried almost everything I can think of, bringtofront, setfocus, windowstate, setactivewindow, setforegroundwindow (For the last 2, hwnd doesnt work - I'm using VB 2008 Express) but none of them seem to be working.
I have a project with several forms. I need some of them to be in a modal window. How do you set this to be true? Also, when some of the forms are shown I need one of the buttons on the previous screen to be active.
I have tried:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Form.ShowDialog() Button.Select() End Sub
How do you make an event when the small "s" key is pressed on a Windows form?
I now have the following code:
Private Sub Form1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyPress If e.KeyChar = Convert.ToChar(Keys.S) Then End If End Sub
I'm having troubles with terminating an application. When I close the main form everything disappears but the process remains active. I think I know the cause, a certain activeX component will not release properly. As soon as I create one, I can't close normally...
dim someActiveXcomponent = new X() ... <formClosing> someActiveXcomponent = nothing GC.Collect() GC.WaitForPendingFinalizers ' here it hangs
Probably a bug in that component, but the problem is that I don't have much of a choice, I'll have to use that component for now.
Calling System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComO bject( myObject ) will kill the reference and now the application closes properly.
I 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]...