Make A Program Stay Above Task Bar Even When It Loses Focus
Mar 3, 2010How can i make a program stay above the task bar even when it loses focus with visual basic 2008?
View 1 RepliesHow can i make a program stay above the task bar even when it loses focus with visual basic 2008?
View 1 RepliesWell, in IE at the bottom right, the gray 5 fot looking things help you resize it down there, and stay there even after you maximize the window. When I make a form on VB and all, then maximize the window, it disappears on mine, but stays there every other time, except for while maximized, IE does it, so how do I make my program do it so it will stay there even when maximized? I have tried lengthy work-arounds and such, cause if its at correct size and location, and you maximize it stays, but I cant seem to find out when u maximize to over-ride it, so it'll work right.
View 1 RepliesI have a form which contains a progressbar and a Listbox which update as the code runs through and performs some sometimes time-consuming calculations.
At one point in the code, it breaks to ask the user to enter a number using :
Usedefault = MsgBox("Do you want to use the default value of " & Default_No & "?", vbYesNo)
If Usedefault = vbNo Then
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this works fine but I find that once the data entry is complete, and the code continues to run, the form loses focus and the progressbar and the Listbox updates cannot be seen until the code finished its calculations.
I have a form with a "print" toolstrip button. When I click that button I run the code shown below. The print dialog box appears. The title is dark blue seeming to indicate it has focus. The main form is lighter blue indicating it does not have focus. But hovering over the "Print" button (or the cancel button) does not cause it to change color. If you click on the print button, then the color changes and the second click causes the appropriate action. Same with the cancel button. If you click on the dialog label or on the main form the only thing that happens is the print button will then become "active" and a click there then works. If you click on the main form once, nothing happens, but if you click on it a second time you get the "bonk" sound indicating you ae clicking on the wron modal. As if this isn't strange enough, this action just started recently. I made a few unrelated (as far as I can tell) changes, and discovered this action.[code]....
View 15 RepliesMy application is an Touch Screen HMI to operate some machinery using VB.net 2008. I am trying to get a button to activate code while touched then other code when released. I have experienced HMI's where when a button is pressed then slide finger out of focus the button stays down. This is what I am looking for.
View 5 RepliesI have a listbox on a form and when the user selects a value and the listbox loses focus I want to validate the value the user chose. How do I call my function once the listbox loses focus?
I tried using a custom validator but it gives me an object is missing error.
Mike
when clicking on the start button in the code below, the form seems to lose focus and I need to click the stop button twice to stop the count. (First click to activate the form, second to click the button) Can someone please explain this behavior or offer a better alternative?
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I have a richtextbox, when I leave it for example to go to another panel where I want to manipulate the selected text I can no longer see the selected text. Is there a way to make it still show the highlight?
View 1 RepliesI have made a program with a main Form and several auxilary forms. Is it possible to modify the auxilary form in a way like a msgbox. It stays always in focus, and you cannot interact with the main form. What I did find was the Form.enabled (True or False) method, but then the main form completely greys out, but I don't like the way it looks.
View 1 RepliesI'm making a loginsystem and I want the form that I'm making it in will keep focus so if the "user" try click on another program there is running my form will take focus again, so the user cant get into the other programs there is running.
View 3 RepliesI have the following gridview that is inside an updatepanel:
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="UpdatePanel1" runat="server">
<ContentTemplate>
<asp:Button ID="ButtonAdd" runat="server" OnClick="ButtonAdd_Click" Text="Novo Artigo" />
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i have a checkbox, when checked, contextmenu shows and remains visible until unchecked.. then i ran into a problem.. if i click any other control on my form, the context menu disappears and the checkbox remains checked. i have tried placing
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I'm trying to have a Textfield lose it's leading zeroes when the user leaves the field. I made the following "Leave" event but it's not working. It works for the first half however to set it back to 1 if it's blank or if a user entered 0. I tried following the advice on this answer, but it didn't work:
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I have my form set up to be able to be kept on top if the user so chooses. When it is set to be kept on top, I want the opacity to be reduced when the form loses focus. When I set opacity on init, it works fine. When I use this code, it doesn't work:
Private Sub Form1_LostFocus(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.LostFocus
Me.Opacity = 0.2
End Sub
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Maybe I misunderstand how LostFocus and GotFocus work, but according to MSDN this appeared to be what I wanted.
I have a question regarding waiting for closing a window or changing focus back to my app. What i have is an app that creates a few tables, that then puts the tables into a temp file that wordpad opens for the user to check they are correct, this is where i need help, i would like to now wordpad is open wait until the user closes wordpad or changes the focus away from wordpad until i open the next form which is responsible for using the tables and converting them into xml.
Which event should i look at using that fires when a program is exited or gets focus?
I have a program for school project that has input fields for Name, Address, City, State and Zip. I need to error check so that the fields are not empty.I have used If statements that check to see if the fields are empty and shows a message box if they are but if I leave the whole form empty and click the button that activates it, all the if statements go- one by one instead of pausing for the user to input the required data.How do I check for data and make the program stay there until the data is input? I have tried TRY/CATCH but it won't catch this type of error.
this is the
'This program computes customer's bills at the pizza shop for all combinations of
'crusts, toppings, sizes and discounts
Option Strict On
Public Class PizzaForm
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Make program which task manager can't close him.
When user click on end process like system process message box show and user cant close that.
I'm trying to create an application in VB.net that can come to the front once a certain condition occurs (in this case, a file being created). I've tried the following code, but it just results in the taskbar button blinking on Windows 7:
Me.Activate()
I understand the reason for this, and I completely understand why people don't want any random application to steal focus (I hate it too). This is an extremely limited use application (only 3 computers will actually be using it), and the users in this case would want the application to popup in front (there will be an option to turn it off too).
Any ideas if this is still possible to do on Windows 7?
Is there anyway to detect if the vb app I am developing loses focus, ie, if a user switches to another task. Maybe is there a way to detect which process in windows is active ?
View 6 Repliesim looking for code that will let me keep a form on top with in my application, Like form2.vb will stay on top of my form1.vb, How can i do this i searched the forum and could not find what i was looking for.
View 1 RepliesMost of my experience in Visual Basic programming is in VBA. I'm currently trying to build a VB.NET Windows application that basically consists of a form that has one button and one label. When the button is clicked, the label should serve as a "counter" that counts from 0 to infinity until the user closes the window with the "x" button. I do this by putting a loop with a sleep statement in the onclick sub. The loop iterates the integer that is displayed in the label and does a "Me.Refresh".The problem is when the window loses focus. When it loses focus (when I click off of it), the counter stops. Even when I click back on it, the counter doesn't resume.
View 19 RepliesHow can I make a button once i click it to stay latched and if i click it again it will drop then if i cleck it again it will latch and so on?
View 2 RepliesHo can you make a dynamic label stay right justified, so that when the label.text is filled the text starts at the right edge of the label and fills to the left? Currently the text fills to the right from the left edge of the labels location and tends to run off the form.
View 1 RepliesHow can I make a form stay above a game? Something like a D3D/OpenGL game
View 12 RepliesI'm planning to create a standalone problem that triggered by scheduler.When the program is triggered, I would like the program to stay on top all the time, even though user clicks on other programs.
View 4 RepliesThis may be a common problem but I'm struggling to find a solution that will fix it
I have a modal popup I am displaying with jQuery, this popup contains a list of Checkboxes and a Button, the code looks like:
<div id="dialog" title="Notify Users" >
<div style="width:100%; height:500px; overflow:auto;">
<asp:CheckBoxList ID="chkNotify"
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I have tried moving the CheckBoxList to just inside the form tag so that no other styles can be applied and nothing should affect it however I still get the same issue.
When I tried to resize the form, the textboxes and buttons stayed on the top left. I would like to know if there is a way to make them stay in the center whenever the form is resized or maximized? I have tried using anchor but the buttons and textboxes ended up getting stretched.
ps: the area highlighted in green represents the size of the original form. Red arrow represents how I resized the form.
who do i make the second Column on the list view box to all ways stay right
my code
ListView1.Columns.Add("The Path Of The File", 800, HorizontalAlignment.Left)
ListView1.Columns.Add("Size", 80, HorizontalAlignment.Left)
My picture box is in a panel. How to prevent lines created using graphics tool from getting erase when moving the picture box around? Sometimes when I minimize my form, the lines goes missing also.. How do I make the lines stay on the picture box?
Example shown below in a gif...
have you of any ideas in why does my software in vb 2010 still exist in the task manager (process tab), after i closed the program? i noticed it when i want to delete the .exe file.
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