Visual Basic

17-Jan-05 0:36

Hello there
I want to make right to left window and it should display cross,Maximize and minimize buttons on the left side instead of right. this can be done in message box.. check this code on any event
Dim msg As MessageBox
msg.Show("Right ", Me.Text, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Question, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1, MessageBoxOptions.RtlReading)
I need this type of right to left alignment on form

any solution ????

Rizwan Bashir

Re: right to left window

Dennis C. Dietrich17-Jan-05 7:47

17-Jan-05 7:47

Rizwan Bashir wrote:
I want to make right to left window and it should display cross,Maximize and minimize buttons on the left side instead of right.
[...]
I need this type of right to left alignment on form

I guess this is what you're looking for:
Creating Mirrored Windows Forms and Controls[^]

Best regards
Dennis

Re: right to left window

Rizwan Bashir17-Jan-05 20:14

17-Jan-05 20:14

Thanks Dennis it solved my all the problems including treeview,listview and offcourse the form

Best Regards
Rizwan Bashir

Rizwan Bashir

Re: Combobox in datagrid

Ritesh123416-Jan-05 21:59

Ritesh1234

16-Jan-05 21:59

Hi,
Check out this link......

http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/winforms/Files/datagridtextboxcombo_vb.zip[^]

I hope this will Help u..............:->

Regards,
Ritesh

lame_enc.dll

victor_ba8516-Jan-05 19:41

victor_ba85

16-Jan-05 19:41

Hi, the question i got is: how can i use the lame_enc.dll in a program i'm developing in vb.net, 'cause i cannot add it as a reference (because is not a COM component)???

If a have to call the dll using functions, could you please give me a little example about the way that i should do it?? or if there's another way (easier), well even better!!

Re: lame_enc.dll

Dennis C. Dietrich16-Jan-05 22:09

16-Jan-05 22:09

victor_ba85 wrote:
Hi, the question i got is: how can i use the lame_enc.dll in a program i'm developing in vb.net, 'cause i cannot add it as a reference (because is not a COM component)???

Take a look at this:
C Sharp MP3 Compressor[^]

Even if you don't know C# it could still be a starting point to figure out how to use the DLL. You could also just integrate the project in your own solution.

Best regards
Dennis

Array of controls

Yulianto.16-Jan-05 16:18

Yulianto.

16-Jan-05 16:18

How to create array of controls like labels or combobox at run time, so that when the user input an integer, it will create the controls dinamically. Can this be done? Thanks in advance.

<italic>Work hard and a bit of luck is the key to success.

You don`t need to be genius, to be rich.

Rizwan Bashir16-Jan-05 22:17

16-Jan-05 22:17

its party time...... do the steps

' Form Level declaration

Friend txt() As System.Windows.Forms.TextBox

'Form Load
redim txt(0)

' on specified event where you need to display do this
' I am displying ths stuff in for loop on a panel control just to keep
' the scroll bar if it exceed the displying limit
put your for loop around this..... where count if the loop counter.

Me.txt(Count) = New System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
Me.txt(Count).Location = New System.Drawing.Point(left, top)
Me.txt(Count).Size = New System.Drawing.Size(200, 20)
Me.txt(Count).Text = count
' the panel control
pnlControls.Controls.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.Control() {Me.txt(Count)})
top = top + 21
txt(Count).Visible = True
txt(Count).MaxLength = 10

' if you want to put the events also paste this
AddHandler txt(count).MouseDown, AddressOf FunctionName
AddHandler txt(count).MouseUp, AddressOf FunctionName2
' remember the Function should be defined like this

Private Sub FunctionName(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs)
Msgbox "I am a happy man"
End Sub

Rizwan

Yulianto.16-Jan-05 23:27

Yulianto.

16-Jan-05 23:27

Oops sorry Rizwan, I`m not using VB.NET. Could you tell me in VB6. Thanks

<italic>Work hard and a bit of luck is the key to success.

You don`t need to be genius, to be rich.

Dennis C. Dietrich17-Jan-05 7:06

17-Jan-05 7:06

goodmast3r wrote:
I'm not using VB.NET. Could you tell me in VB6.

Guess you're on your own with that one. Although it is possible in VB 6 it isn't nearly as elegant as in VB.NET. Anyway, maybe this will help to get started:
Introducing Visual Basic 6 [pdf][^] (page 6)

Best regards
Dennis

Dennis C. Dietrich16-Jan-05 22:39

16-Jan-05 22:39

goodmast3r wrote:
How to create array of controls like labels or combobox at run time, so that when the user input an integer, it will create the controls dinamically. Can this be done?

In addition to what Rizwan already wrote you might want to call Control.SuspendLayout()[^] and Control.ResumeLayout()[^] depending on how complex your operations are. I used two loops just to point out the two steps of the initial creation of the objects and a later manipulation.

Dim newLeft As Integer = 0
Dim newTop As Integer = 0
Dim counter As Integer = 0

Dim newButton As Button
Dim myButtons(4) As Button

Me.SuspendLayout()
For counter = 0 To myButtons.Length - 1
    newButton = New Button()
    newButton.Left = newLeft
    newButton.Top = newTop
    myButtons(counter) = newButton
    newLeft += 32
    newTop += 32
Next counter
Me.Controls.AddRange(myButtons)
Me.ResumeLayout()

For counter = 0 To myButtons.Length - 1
    myButtons(counter).Text = "Button #" & (counter + 1).ToString("d")
Next counter

Best regards
Dennis

Array of controls

Yulianto.16-Jan-05 16:06

Yulianto.

16-Jan-05 16:06

How to build array of controls like label or textbox at run time? When the user give an integer of 5 it will create array of labels, consist of 5 labels. Can this be done? Please help. Thanks in advance

<italic>Work hard and a bit of luck is the key to success.

You don`t need to be genius, to be rich.

Problem With Splash Screen

-Dr_X-20-Jan-05 14:03

-Dr_X-

20-Jan-05 14:03

I will assume you are working in VB as control arrays are not yet available in VB.Net.

To load a control without an existing control on the form do the following.

Set ctlTxtName = Me.Controls.Add("VB.TextBox", "txtName", Me)

To load a control to a control array, will need to already have an existing control array on the form. eg. Text1(0)

Dim x as integer

For x = 1 to 5
  Load Text1(x)
Next x

Michael

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kellydanielc16-Jan-05 13:56

kellydanielc

16-Jan-05 13:56

Im trying to implement a splash screen in VB.NET but am having problems acheiving the result I'm after.

Basically what I want is to start with a splash screen with a logo and at the bottom of that splash screen show the progress of the program loading. Eg Connecting to Database, Loading XYZ etc at the bottom of the splash screen.

My problem is I can get the splash screen to show OK but all the things being done (such as connecting to DB loading form etc) all seem to be done before the actual logo is painted on the screen. Therefore you just see a white box where the splash screen is and dont get to see the progress of the code. I originally was firing all the code on the load event of the splash screen but then i changed it to the paint event but i still cant get it to work.

Any help would be muchly appreciated.

Thanks,
Daniel.

Gavin Jeffrey17-Jan-05 0:43

Gavin Jeffrey

17-Jan-05 0:43

try using a thread to do your background work (db loading etc).

kellydanielc17-Jan-05 0:54

kellydanielc

17-Jan-05 0:54

Thanks for the reply. I havent used threads before. Should i initiate this thread on the form load event or on the paint event?

Any help would be appreciated.

Daniel.

Gavin Jeffrey17-Jan-05 1:10

Gavin Jeffrey

17-Jan-05 1:10

on the form load event. Something like this (it may be wrong since im so used to c#) -

<br />
dim mythread as new system.threading.thread(new system.threading.threadStart(doWork))<br />
mythread.isbackground = true<br />
mythread.start()<br />

then -

<br />
public sub doWork()<br />
  'do db background stuff here<br />
end sub<br />

Jodd19-Jan-05 14:55

Jodd

19-Jan-05 14:55

Start your application with a startup module

Module Mdl_StartUp
Public FrmSplash As New Frm_Splash()
Sub Main()
Splash_AantalStappen = 4
Splash_ToonScherm(True)
Dim FrmMain As New Frm_Main()
Application.Run(FrmMain) End Sub
End Module

Module Mdl_Slpash
Public Splash_AantalStappen As Int16 = 1
Dim StapNr As Int16 = 0

'Toont of verwijdert het splash screen
Public Sub Splash_ToonScherm(ByVal ShowIt As Boolean)
If ShowIt Then
FrmSplash.Show()
FrmSplash.Refresh()
Else
FrmSplash.Close()
End If
End Sub

Public Sub Splash_Init()
With FrmSplash
.L_CopyRight.Text = Proginfo.CopyRight
.L_ProgressText.Text = ""
.L_Versie.Text = "Versie : " & Proginfo.Major.ToString & "." & Proginfo.Minor.ToString & "." & Proginfo.Build.ToString
.L_CopyRight.Text = Proginfo.CopyRight
End With
End Sub

'Waarde van de progressbar in het splash screen
Public Sub Splash_ToonProgress(Optional ByVal Tekst As String = "NOTEKST")
StapNr += 1
If StapNr > Splash_AantalStappen Then
FrmSplash.Close()
Else
Dim ProgressWaarde As Int16 = StapNr * (100 / Splash_AantalStappen)
With FrmSplash
.PB.Value = ProgressWaarde
.PB.Refresh()
If Tekst <> "NOTEKST" Then
.L_ProgressText.Text = Tekst
.L_ProgressText.Refresh()
End If
End With
End If
End Sub
End Module

On the SplashScreen you create a progressbar (PB) and The Labels

In the load of FrmMain you can update the progressbar by calling Splash_ToonProgress

I hope this will help you

question2

Makniteasy16-Jan-05 10:04

Makniteasy

16-Jan-05 10:04

would it be hard for a beginner to write a program that would text message my phone when my computer is messed with. such as if i leave my house and my screen saver goes off because someone moves my mouse or if my computer is on stand by and someone causes it to return from standby mode the program will text my phone. or if my computer is off and someone turns it on then i need it to text me. any suggestions will be helpful I have no idea where to start.

Re: question2

Rizwan Bashir17-Jan-05 0:43