is there any code to know when "a" key is pressed in the keyboard
exp. i want to show Msgbox to the user when he press "a" key in the keyboard ,how i can do that
also i need it to work when i minimize the form
I installed my VB 2008 0n my new laptop with Windows 7. New when i edit a project, i am having a problem with my keybaord. I need to press two of my keys twice to show. The keys are ' and ` This is only happening in VB, My Office and other programs is affected by this. I try the keyboard mapping in Windows.
View 1 RepliesI want to have a msgbox when user press 'backspace' in the textbox.
I wrote this:
Private Sub TextBox2_KeyPress(ByVal KeyAscii As Integer)
If KeyAscii = 8 Then
MsgBox("backspace")
End If
End Sub
Why it doesn't work?
If NewEntryName.Text = "" And OpenFileDialog1.FileName = Nothing Then MsgBox("Please choose a name for your game.", vbExclamation) MsgBox("Please find your game.", vbExclamation) Else Button1.Text = NewEntryName.Text game1 = True Panel1.Visible = False End If
I want it to show the first MsgBox if the NewEntryName.text = "" and I want it to show the second MsgBox if openfiledialog1 = nothing... how do I do it?
if its possible to have a msgbox cleared without having the user do it manually? what would be my best option here?
View 8 Replieshow can i make it so if i press f1 a msgbox will pop up?
View 7 Repliesin my problems, i want to use event keyboard press 'Enter' on textbox, i'm very confuse because in event property from textbox there was Enter, but after I double click and read statement in that, after i test my program, there was nothing ,
View 2 Repliesbeen given a key ID, say 76.I need my application to be able to press the button on the keyboard that has that ID, in this case "L".How can I do this?I have tried around with another function that returned really weird results.
View 6 RepliesI am trying to assign some letters to some buttons using visual basic 2008 or 2010 beta.What code would be used to do this: if the button 'a' is pressed the lets say button21 clicks.Sorry if this was allready in the forums, but i tryed allready like 4 methods and dont unterstand how these work.I know how to program in c++ and i am trying to move to vb.
View 6 RepliesThis was Just an idea.Could serve useful.Anyone know how you could code that?
View 4 RepliesI am making this little tool for this online game i play (league of legends some of you might know it) Basically I made a small program which consists of 4 buttons and when you click button it starts timer and beeps once it reaches 0. Thats fine. Problem is I have to go out of game to click the button to start the countdown.My question is. While the program is running in background is there a way to press the button by assigning specific key on keyboard ? for example if I press F5 it will start the Bluebtn when i press F6 it will start Redbtn while I am in game.
View 1 RepliesI am totally new to VB and I'd like to know, for example, when a user clicks on "Print" in the menu strip on the keyboard should automatically press "Ctrl+P", because the original print dialog, and the WebBorwser print dialog is toootaly different.
View 11 RepliesIs there anyway to suspend a for next loop until a textbox has been filled in and the keyboard enter has been press
Dim playersname(7) As String
Dim players As Integer = 7
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I am using vb.net. i am having datagrid on my form. Now i want that when i enter datagrid and i press insert key from keyboard, new form should get open.
View 1 RepliesI want to execute this code Msgbox"Ok" when I press on Enter button of keyboard.
View 5 RepliesI have the following code Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick Dim mesaj As New Integer
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The timer interval is set to 5000(5 seconds), but every time when the timer is ticking the msgbox appears on screen but the in the file msg.txt is writting once. So, The timer check if that unic is different from unic1, and if is different shows up a msg box, and it's writting the new line in msg.txt, but on next timer tick, even if the unic and unic1 are equals the msgbox shows up anyway, but it's more interesting because it doesn't write again in file, only shows up the msgbox. I don't understand this.
How can I show the value of Cells of DGV in MsgBox vb
MsgBox( & Me.DataGridView1.Rows(0).Cells(1).Value & )
I made a program but i want,
When i press "x" key program sends a msgbox(i know msgbox part)
I Just need binding keys.
Somebody told me TextBox_KeyPress or KeyDown but i want it differently.
For example I'm working on my Word file and i pressed "ESC" key program send a msgbox(You Pressed ESC Key).
And 1 More Question too.Can take send keys value from Textbox ?
Is there any difference between the two:
msgbox()
messagebox.show()
Some tutorials use msgbox() some use the other messagebox.show()---I see that both can have an editable style but I was wondering why there are two.
Is it to accommodate for older programmers (who have learnt on an older version of visual basic).
So in that case which one should I use on VB 2010 (VS 2010)
I've a really nice fullscreen code I found on the internet, the only problem I found was that you can't make msgbox show or open another form! Which is really bothering me making panels.visible = true/false to make a cheap way of "Forms"orm1.
Private Sub TryToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Call normalScreen()
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My converter shows the answer using the message box. i want to have a icon on the message box and a title at this top bar. my code is this: MessageBox.Show((number * multiplier), vbInformation, "Answer").ToString()
i used that because it was stated in a vb.net tutorial website. but when i check it again, it states that MSGBOX not MESSAGEBOX.show. what's the difference within the two? i cannot used msgbox for showing the answer and i don't know why. what's the code for the messagebox.show to have a icon or a sign?
I want a MsgBox to popup right after Form.Load. I can't seem to get my program to accomplish this with the program code I have tried so far.How do I tell my program to load a MsgBox right after it loads the Form??? Here is the code I have after several attempts:[code]....
View 8 RepliesLet's say I have the this statment If textbox1.text <> textbox2.text Then
Now I want the msgbox to show me both values at the same time. I know if I want it to show me the value of one of the textbox i just have to use & val(textbox1 or 2.text) &. How do I make it show me both of them at the same time.
How do I show a defined string in a msgbox, I have the following example:
MsgBox("Nice try! The correct answer is" input)
I'm getting a "a valid expression continuation expected" error
I have a form reading from an Access file now everything seems fine until i go to add record if i then press the first Btn or pre Btn without entering any data then it gives me the error Column 'Membership ID' does not allow nulls. [code] i have been trying to get it to show a msgbox saying the box cannot be left empty but so far no luck.
View 4 RepliesI am making a picture viewer in vb.net. When I click a button to show images from a listview it does not work without the msgbox! I included code
Sub shows()
Dim k, s As String
Dim i, j, m As Integer
''' When I use this, it doesnt work!!!
'Dim cbz As New Thread(AddressOf shows)
'cbz.Start()
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I wanted to display a title on my message box i tried this code MsgBox('Cannot Conncet to the db',"Conncetion Error!") but it gives me a error, so i read on some blog they included 1 as an addtional parameter inside the msgBox MsgBox('Cannot Conncet to the db',1,"Conncetion Error!") . why that addtional parameter is needed.
View 2 Repliesi would like to click on any of the taskbar options that are loaded and have a msgbox show with the app name and app directory . maybe even what file is loaded in that app.
View 4 Repliesi want to show Listview click Name in MsgBox. here is my Code
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This is a code in event lostFocus:
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The code shows the msgbox all the times when the combo lostfocus...
