Prevent A Modeless Form From Losing Its Focus?

Jan 16, 2012

Is is possible to prevent a modeless form from losing its focus? I would like to force users to click the exit button of an addin form shown modeless before they wander into the main application. I need to show an user form of an addin modeless, in order to be able to interact with the document of main application. However, I would like to force them to exit this form before going into the main application.

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VS 2010 How To Prevent Form From Losing Focus

Sep 12, 2010

I want to prevent my application from losing focus, untill I close it. (so that I can not click on ANYTHING else, untill I'm done with it. period.)I've tried using Me.Focus() on a timer, but that doesn't do s***...I've also tried countless API's out there, but I seriously can't get any of them to work.. my form simply does NOT want to stay in focus! It's driving me crazy! What the hell am I doing wrong?

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VS 2008 Prevent St From Losing Focus?

Jun 14, 2009

I have 2 window forms, form1 has a button, which will send a msgbox when I click on, and form2 closes when it's deactivate-event raised. If I have form2 focused, and I click on the button of the form1, form2 will get focus and then close, but no msgbox showed from form1, what should I do to get the msgbox in that case?

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Control - Prevent Another Application From Losing Focus

Nov 23, 2011

I'm creating some software to keep my students on task. I've set it up so that I can control certain aspects of their computer from my computer. Problem is, I'm not sure how to control other applications from my application. I mostly just want to prevent it from being minimized. Some students like to switch screens quickly when I walk by. I would just like to make sure that it is always on top until I specify otherwise. I'm using VB.net, I'm using the 3.5 .net framework for compatibility reasons.

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Forms :: Form Losing Focus - Keeps Loosing Focus ?

Nov 26, 2009

I have two forms in an application. One is he background and then I show another keypad form called with the show() method (not showDialog) because I need to perform some validations on btn click.

The kepad has 10 buttons and an Enter Button. The problem is that the form keeps loosing focus (I checked this with a messagebox which keeps poping up once for focus=true and again for focus=false, it continuously keeps losing and gaining focus) so it does not process any keypress events untill i click somewhere on the form. I tried using me.focus() in form load event but to no avail. The forms TopMost property is also set to true.

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Save On Form Losing Focus?

Nov 30, 2009

I have three forms frmStudent, frmClass and frmMain. I want to add code so that if the user focuses on another form without saving a message box will appear to prompt the user to save. This is necessary because If the user starts entering data on another, related formand assumes that the changes from the first form were saved, then there could be integrity issues.

I have tried formating the deactivate event, but when I hit yes it just deletes the record entered.

Private Sub frmStudent_Deactivate(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Deactivate
If GradebookDataSet.HasChanges Then

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Show Form Without Losing Focus?

Aug 23, 2010

I've created a small form that acts like the office notifications (fades inout above the notification icon tray)I'm having problems showing this form, I want to display it without the focus being taken from my main application (or any other form), I've managed to get the attached code doing roughly this, (using Me.Activate to take back focus) But this isn't great - focus switches for an instant plus I want to show the form from various areas in my application...

Dim frm2 As New frmNotification()
frm2.TopMost = True
frm2.Show()
Me.Activate()

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.net - Prevent Form From Stealing Focus?

Mar 10, 2009

When I run my VB.NET Winforms app I do not want it to steal the focus from the other open apps. FYI, my app is started from the command line but that shouldn't make a difference. I've seen question 577076 but that doesn't seem to work.

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Prevent Form Focus When Click The Buttons On It?

Oct 20, 2010

I am writing an on screen keyboard in VB.NET for a touchscreen. My problem is; how do I keep my keyboard form from getting focus when someone clicks the buttons on it? I have it on top using Me.TopMost That part is working great but I want to leave the current app have focus, not my keyboard. I'm guessing I need to use Windows API functions to accomplish this, however, I have not found any good examples in VB.NET.

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Prevent Popup Toolbox Form From Stealing Parent's Focus?

Aug 4, 2011

how to prevent a popup toolbox window (Form) from stealing the parent Form's focus?I've been told to override CreateParams and use WS_EX_NOACTIVATE (0x08000000) but that does not seem to work (see the code segment shown below). I'm using Show() and not ShowDialog().

Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As System.Windows.Forms.CreateParams
Get
Dim cp As CreateParams = MyBase.CreateParams

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Losing Focus On Other Applications?

Nov 18, 2010

I've written a short application that consists of a form, listviewbox and a timer, the program sits in the taskbar with the form invisible, the timer is set for 40 seconds and basically it queries a database held on an SQL 2000 server, when a certain change happens within the database my form pops up and shows some data in the listview, this happens well, the problem I have is when the check is going on (every 40 seconds) the user loses focus on what ever they're working on. Is there a way I can stop this?

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New Processes And Losing Focus?

Apr 19, 2009

I need to start multiple processes, with minimized windows - and I don't want whatever the current process is to lose focus.Something like this should be simple enough:

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However, whatever application is running will lose focus when this code is executed. I've looked high and low, and there doesn't seem to be any relatively simple way to do this. I had some ideas about capturing whatever application has focus (I don't want to assume my program has focus), then running the above code, and then restoring focus. However, I'm fairly certain this will require win32 API calls, and I'm not sure how to do that.

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Why Does The Msgbox Keep Losing Focus

Jan 23, 2011

code...

Dim sqlConn As New SqlConnection("server=.SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=true; Database=memberlist;")
sqlConn.Open()
Dim sqlComm As New SqlCommand("SELECT * FROM memberlist", sqlConn)

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when i do this the first msgbox pops up, i click ok, it then loses focus, i think its actually minimizing. I then have to click it in the task bar several times to get it to come back up. from then it will sometimes give each msgbox over and over just fine, sometimes it will minimizes random ones. the first one seems to be a constant.

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DataGridViewCell Background Color Change Without Losing Focus?

Sep 16, 2009

In VB .Net 3.5, is it possible to change the color of a DataGridViewCell (unbound) to a different color and have the cell visibly change before losing focus or leaving the cell? I have a timer that's running that queries with the data present and I'd like for the colors to change immediately instead of after the user leaves the cell.

I've tried DataGridView.Refresh and Me.Refresh and don't get results.

What am I doing wrong? (Below is the code I use to change the background)

''' <summary>
''' Sets or clears the passed cells background to Red
''' </summary>

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VS 2008 AxDataGrid: Cells Clear Out Upon Losing Focus?

Jan 10, 2011

On a .Net app, I got an AxDataGrid on a form. The DataSource of the grid is a RecordSet,created by parsing a comma-delimited text file.rom the UI, I add a new column with a defined size to the text file and then reload the data grid with a routine that creates a new ResultSet and binds it to the grid. Things are fine and the new column is shown.

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C# - Setting ShowInTaskBar = False Causes Flicker When Closing Modeless Form In .net, Winforms?

Nov 24, 2009

To recreate this behaviour, you need to create a pop-up form with the following properties:

(1) ShowInTaskBar = False

(2) Display the form with the Show method and loop until the form is not Visible.

(3) In order to close the form when the mouse is clicked out of it, override OnDeactivate, and set visible to False.

Next, create another form that will display the pop-up when a button is clicked:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As Syste
Using pop As New PopUp
pop.Visible = True

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it also puts a black border around the form. (You'll have to set FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None to see this.)what this style does apart from putting the black border round the form?

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Prevent A Datagridview Cell From Getting Focus?

Jan 3, 2010

vs 2005 sql 2005 developer/I have a datagridview with 4 columns .I want the user to be able to use the arrow keys to move through the rows and just two of the columns.I want the other two rows to behave like a label that cannot get the focus. Nor be selected.I have been messing arround with the "cell enter" event but the language wont let me set the selected cell from within that routine.

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Prevent A Datagridview From Loosing Focus?

Jan 11, 2010

I have a datagridview. If the user adds a new row, and then clicks away from the grid. How can i stop them from doing this?

I want them to finish the row add first or cancel it. I want to then update the table adapter in the grid's leave event.

If the row validation fails, i want to display a message and re-focus to the cell in question.

The first problem i am running into is that the focus continues to go to the control that the user clicked on to move away from the grid.

How do i cancel that event?

As an example, if the grid is on a tab page and the user clicks on another tab page, i want to prevent that page from displaying if there is an error on the row that is being added to the grid.

I was hopeing for a cancel option in the lost focus event of the grid.

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Prevent Automatic Selection On Textbox Focus

Apr 16, 2010

When you use a tab key to select a textbox, all text in it is automatically selected. What's the easiest way to prevent this from happening? (Setting the selection to none in Enter or GotFocus events doesn't work)

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Prevent Container To Auto-scroll When A Partially-visible Child Control Got Focus?

Dec 17, 2011

A panel with enabled scrollbars has many buttons. If I push the tabulation key, focus navigates between buttons.When a partially visible button has focus, the panel scrolls itself in order to completely show the button.

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Re-run The Whole Form Again Without Losing The Values Stored As It Run?

Jan 11, 2010

How do i re-run the whole form again without losing the values stored as it run?

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But they don't seem to work. Once the form reaches the end (after the user press enter), it just display a blank screen. But what i want is for the form to start all over again without losing the values. Is there a way to do that?

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Reload/refresh The Same Form Again Without Losing The Data?

Jan 10, 2010

How can i reload/refresh the same form again without losing the data stored along with the form?

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CA2000: Dispose Objects Before Losing Scope And Form.Show()

May 18, 2012

I'm trying to fix all my project warning according to Microsoft code analysis (CA:XXXXX) One of the warning is "CA2000: Dispose objects before losing scope" My Code is:

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Custom Control Losing Size Around Edge When Added To Form

Dec 7, 2011

Having some issues with creating a simple control in vb.net.

I create a control with a single label in, I don't change anything except the colour of the control and the label and also making the label anchor to the edges ( with a small border around the edge)

When i then build it and add this control to a form. Some of the edges are cut off and it isn't anchored the way it was in the control.[url]...

as you can see in the second image the control has lost its white border at the right and bottom.

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Displaying Graphform Fm Another Form Buttonclick Event Wo Losing Data?

Apr 1, 2010

Problem displaying a graphics form from another forms button click event without losing the XY data plot.

If the Startup form is the GraphWindow form the Graphlib.vb calls create a XY data plot.
Code outline (not everything included):
(Sub GraphWindow_Paint(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Sys�PaintEventArgs) _ Handles Me.Paint)
Call Graphscale(xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax)
Call DrawAxis(10,10)

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Me.Focus - Return Focus To The Form

Oct 25, 2011

After I did a sendkeys to another program from my form, i wanted to return focus to the form. i tried me.focus = true but that doesn't work.

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Launch A Modeless Dialog?

Jun 9, 2011

Is there a way to launch a Modeless Dialog that stays active even when a Modal Dialog is launched? Can I put the Modeless Dialog in a seperate Thread or something like that?

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VS 2008 Modeless Progress Bar

Oct 26, 2009

im just been browsing the internet for modeless prograss bar like the one in my documents (See Photo)i want to create my progress bar like that through a combobox search for my application

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C# - Wait For Modeless Dialog To Close?

Apr 19, 2012

In form I have one button which has functionality to pick up some data from (by mouse click) Parent application.

I have handle for parent application handle, but even if i tried to bring it on top i am not able to do selection because form is modal.

Requirement here is open modeless dialog and wait till it close. other wise it goes further and executes functionality below.

Another option can be open form as modal and at runtime change it to modaless.

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VS 2008 - Simple Modeless Dialog Box That Show A Progress Bar

Oct 22, 2011

I've created simple modeless dialog box that show a progress bar, plus an ok button. It works, except that the "OK" button doesn't display until the progress bar is filled. My dialog is name frmProgress and I'm using:

CODE:

Is there a way around this?

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