Make A Touchscreen Overlay For Our Crappy POS Software At Work?
Aug 25, 2010
I'm about to lose my mind. I'm trying to make a touchscreen overlay for our crappy POS software at work. It is a simple DOS program. I had built an autohotkey script and gui but I just didn't like the look and lack of advanced menus. All I want is to replicate the CONTROLSEND ability of autohotkey. I tried the autohotkey.dll but I have no idea how to add it to my project. I was hoping VB2010 had something built in that can send a string of keystrokes to the DOS program underneath. I have searched all sorts of forum posts for a SIMPLE snippet of code. Seems anyone seeking this is out for nefarious purposes though, and little help is offered. If you worry about this please PM me so I can prove to you my good intentions.
Let me repeat, all I want is a simple snippet of code that when a button is pushed, a specific string (characters and function keys) is sent to a specific out of focus dos box.
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Sep 28, 2011
make a openGL overlay so for an examplei play a game and when i click shift + tab then the game will fade and my application will be seen but without minimizing the game
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Feb 2, 2011
I have an application that requires data be entered, and after entering, a button is clicked to process that data. Clicking the button works just as it should--the data is processed properly. In constructing a test module, I provide a set of data values, followed by:
btnWhatever.PerformClick()
Nothing happens. I have used this syntax for years, and it has always worked flawlessly. I have triple checked everything else and isolated the problem to the failure of the PerformClick(). The PerformClick() is in a test subroutine that does nothing but fill textboxes and labels with default data, then calls the PerformClick() on the button to begin processing. Again, the button works fine, the data is entered as it should be, but the PerformClick() does not fire the click event.
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Aug 26, 2009
I am running a VB app that I developed in Visual Studio 2008. This app runs on an XP machine with a touch screen without a keyboard plugged in. I would like to add a popup numeric keypad for the user when a data field is touched. Can anyone tell me what is needed to create the keypad?
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Oct 22, 2010
I need to come up with a way for a user to select multiple non-consecutive rows of a DataGridView from a touchscreen. Using a mouse & keyboard I would just Ctrl-Click on the rows I want to select, but I dont have that option with a touchscreen.
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Jan 21, 2012
i am looking for a way to make a clone of 2 webbrowsers when i make a click in the first webbrowser it shows the same in the second webbrowser
detailed:i am making a program with a touchscreen and a hdtelevision setup as extended monitor at the touchscreen you can control what is happening on the tv now i want to control a webbrowser but the problem is i want a internetbrowser on the touchscreen where i can make changes and clicks on the websites
and then i want also to view the internetbrowser on the tv to see the website this is meaning i want a clone from the internetwebbrowser from the one on the touchscreen to a clone on the hdtelevision some sort of linked copy/clone of the webbrowsers
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Oct 30, 2010
I want to show and hide the OSK keyboard (docked at the bottom) for my touch screen application best methods? (I want to make sure when I show that I try to run, in case someone closed it while using the app)
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Jan 21, 2010
I'm developing a GUI for a touchscreen, so when user wants to scroll he/she uses their fingers. Now the thing is that the scrollbar width (with the vertical scrollbar) IS adjustable but the button stays the same height and isn't sufficient for a finger. So the question is : Are the buttons in the scrollbar allso adjustable in size/dimensions.
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Jun 30, 2010
I am writing a GUI application to run on a touchscreen device using VB.NET and WPF--it must be full screen at all times, like a kiosk app; the window must not be able to resize or move in any way. The window contains a ListBox that users can currently scroll through by dragging across the list. The problem I'm seeing is that when the user drags across the list, the whole window moves a bit, exposing the desktop underneath, then springs back into place once the user stops dragging. I have not been able to figure out how to keep the window stationary while still allowing users to drag across the ListBox to view all list items. Here is a somewhat simplified version of my code:
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Oct 22, 2010
This isn't really a VB specific question. It's .Net in general... if you have ideas in another .Net language, let me know... I know most of the .Net languages (I don't know that foxtrot or what not weird ones). Furthermore this isn't a 'I don't know the method on some class I should be using' kind of question, it's a design/problem solving kind of question.I'd like to know how you'd approach the problem with in the boundaries set.
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Apr 2, 2010
I have a picturebox in a Windows VB.NET form (not web based). I will be placing images into it from an image control. (Not a problem) I need to paint graphically a tiny solid circle (a colored circle) in a location (varies) on top of this picturebox. I am not finding how to do this in your indexes. I would some instruction on how to do this.
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Mar 15, 2011
I have an instance where I have a logo image as part of some artwork..If a user uploads a new logo I have a form field which is larger than the default logo.I then use that form field to position the new image.
The problem is I need to set the background colour of that form field to white so that it covers the old logo in the event that the new image is smaller than the old logo..
what I have done is:foreach (var imageField in imageReplacements)
{
fields.SetFieldProperty(imageField.Key, "bgcolor", iTextSharp.text.Color.WHITE, null);
fields.RegenerateField(imageField.Key);
PdfContentByte overContent = stamper.GetOverContent(imageField.Value.PageNumber);
float[] logoArea = fields.GetFieldPositions(imageField.Key);
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The problem with this is that the background colour of the field is set to white and the image then doesn't appear.. i remove the SetFieldProperty and RegenerateField commands and the image replacement works fine.is there a way to set a stacking order on layers?
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Jun 19, 2009
I have a form with some text boxes bound to a dataset using the binding source component I'd like to change one of the unbound fields in the current record programmatically before posting any changes from the bound controls
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Dec 4, 2009
Is a way to get the same in VB.net?I've tryed with DrawImage but it doesn't work.
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Jan 12, 2010
I have connected a serial tilt sensor to the PC,The sensor returns angle of tilt ,i need to represent the angle of tilt pictorially,When i move sensor the corresponding movement should be represented in a graph (Like a clock minute hand)For this i started with Picture box with back ground image,But when i draw the line according to tilt ,the line is not getting displayed on top of Picturebox,
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Dec 14, 2009
I need to overlay the word 'VOID' over a textbox but in a semi transparent way so the text in the textbox underneath 'VOID' can still be seen.
I have tried using various controls with no luck and there is no paint event for the textbox.
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Mar 17, 2011
I have a VB.Net PictureBox floorPlanImage on a form form1.
I load a picture into the picturebox[code]....
How can I modify my onclick function to correctly overlay the rectangle over my PictureBox?
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Jan 14, 2010
I'm working on a UserControl which has two PictureBoxes.One has the picture I want to display to the user and the other has a picture that I use as an overlay.The overlay PictureBox uses a PNG image with a transparent background. However, every time I run the UserControl, the overlay does not display the transparent parts of the PNG image as transparent (It appears white).
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Feb 3, 2012
When the dialog pops up, the screen dims down almost as if they overlapped the screen with a transparent black layer of some sort. This is easily accomplish able by creating a black form and having its opacity set to half and starting it maximized-which I'm already doing. The problem with this though is I need to do this within a form, so using a panel or anything is out of the questions since transparency really grabs the background image and not the actual controls underneath. Plus I feel if adding a form to another forms controls depletes it's ability to use it's opacity property.The form I need this in is my cash register. It is full screen but if my menu auto hides it still resizes. It has two parts, the order(panel to the left) and the payments(panel to the right). As you could imagine I want the payments portion blacked out until the order is capable of accepting payments(the payment due is greater than 0). Or I'm thinking it fallows the mouse, you mouse over the payments and the orders panel blacks out, and vice verse.
Plus I have tried googling this but no one seems to have the answer on other forums.. Everyone gets confused and the thread ends short with no solution. Apparently though experts-exchange has the answer, but wants me to pay... so no. Wish their site would stop showing up in my google results.But did have an idea of what I could do. My best guess was I could take a snap shot of just the panel I want to black out. Set it as the background image for that panel THEN use my overlay panel(back color sent to black) overlapping the appropriate section with it's transparency set to half.. But still I'm not sure how to take a snap shot of just a particular.control..
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Aug 10, 2010
Using Visual Studio 2008 and VB.NET ...
I've created a form (OpaqueForm), which is an intermediary form between other forms which I will open with ShowDialog. The idea is that when I want to show a form using .ShowDialog, this OpaqueForm, with an opacity other than 100%, sits in between the main form and the dialog form, effectively "greying out" the underlying main form.
The OpaqueForm has the FormBorderStyle property set to None, and accepts in the constructor a Form object on which it invokes .ShowDialog. The effect works fine, but there is one caveat. The task bar is also covered by the OpaqueForm; I am assuming because it has a FormBorderStyle of None and a WindowState of Maximized.
I don't want the OpaqueForm to cover the Task Bar, because it would be impolite to have my modal form lock out a user from switching between tasks. How could I go about preventing OpaqueForm from covering the Task Bar, too, while still using a FormBorderStyle of None?
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Feb 21, 2010
I have a wonderful program which needs to be overlay-ed over my full screen directX game, the only problem is I can't seem to find any way of doing this with .net coding
things that don't work are, these are not overlays and will not work over a full screen directX game. I posted this so hopefully no one gives me that answer by mistake.
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timer1.interval = 1
if timer1.enabled = true then
me.topmost = true
end if
the only thing I can seem to find is this example and source C# overlay maker however it's pretty old and it's for C# but maybe someone could convert it somehow to .net or something, I really need to find a way to do the overlaying tho been trying for months now...
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Jun 14, 2009
creating an interactive overlay over a game (such as the way xfire lets you chat with people ingame).
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Apr 9, 2011
I have a bit of an issue here. I made a "Colour picker" dialog in my program with which you can pick the colour at the mouse. It is a simple topmost form with an OnPaint handler used to draw a coloured border around the cursor:
It uses a transparency key to make the non-drawn parts of the form transparent.
It uses the following code to prevent the mouse from clicking through the screen:
Window.FromControl(Me).ExStyle(Window.ExStyles.Layered) = True
Window.FromControl(Me).ExStyle(Window.ExStyles.Transparent) = False
It sets Layered to True and Transparent to False. This works in Windows 7, but on a XP machine it fails. When moving the mouse the event does not go to the forms' event handler and you can just click through. For a screen region selector I simply made a screenshot, but I want the Colour Picker to remain updated. (just in case you want to get the colour of an animated control)
How can I get this to work on a Windows XP machine?
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May 2, 2011
Are there any datagridview controls from a 3rd party component companies, such as Telerik, that have a feature for merging cells or overlaying cells into one?
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Jan 14, 2009
I working on a distributed mediaplayer that uses the windows media player component.Now the customer asks me if its possible to have their logo overlayed on the media played instead of them having to render every movie with the logotype.I have google it and it seems like I can use a directshow filter to do this, but I havent found any good information on how to do it yet.If anyone here know If I can do this programatically, with a plugin, filter or some other way it would be nice to know. Its fine if its a plugin that costs money too. What I want is to be able to use a jpg/png as watermark/overlay to the running movie in Windows Media Player 11
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Feb 6, 2011
I need to overlay the text, a movie or bitmap over a video.It would be possible to use VMR9 filters, but at playing of a wide video, for limits of a black square, it is impossible to overlay in out of video square range.
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Jul 25, 2009
I need to overlay a small bar along the top of the screen over a fullscreen DirectX game. I have searched for a while but I have not found any code examples for VB.NET 2008 (I've never used any previous version). How can I do this? Would this involve learning DirectX programming?
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Jun 8, 2011
How to make my counter work. I keep feeling like I'm putting it, or maybe just part of it, in the wrong place so I've been moving it all over the place but haven't found anything that works yet. I'll paste my code below and it will be the code that seems to not stop when it reaches the end of my counter. Other ways I've tried it make it stop after one or two, depending on what I did to the code at them time.
Here's what I have at the moment:
Public Class mainForm
Dim guessCounter As Integer
Dim correctAccumulator As Integer
Dim totalAccumulator As Integer
Dim answer As Integer
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Jan 1, 2011
VB.NET While 1 = 1
Dim localRecv As New StreamReader(localClient.GetStream)
Dim aString As String = localRecv.ReadLine
localRecv.Peek()
MsgBox(aString)
End While
Basically "aString" will keep updating if new data arrives to the server. This way does work, and keeps MsgBoxing every time I get new data, but I don't wanna use While, I need something else, because It won't run any other code, just keeps looping that. :/
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Jan 24, 2012
I am using datagridw view control for input purpose but when the datagridviewcell in edit mode the it is no problem to move current column to next column but when it is not in edit mode then and pressing enter key then it is moving to next row and the same column. but how to take over this problem please give me dn idea.
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