Comments by 7774tlas (Top 27 by date)

Thanks for the info. So the TLP is basically a grid for controls. I would need 168 controls, one for each color. Would that affect performance? If so, I believe I'm gonna use a button for the swatch and a combobox to list the colors - ( button.backcolor = combobox.text ). If not, I'd like to use a TLP for quick-select purposes. Using For Each I could just add a button to each cell, set it's dock property to fill, then add the color info to the button (backcolor & text), right? I hate to keep bothering you, but if you would be so gracious as to answer that question about the performance, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks again for your time and help!

Do the TableLayoutPanel's cells have a backcolor property? Would you give a short example of how to access a cell's properties/values? Also, can they be clicked, or do I have to write a click event?

I had not used functions or arrays before this, so not only have you solved my problem, but you also taught me a couple new tricks. Thank you very much for your time and knowledge.

Have patience w/ me, I'm horrible at math. This is what I've got so far, but what should I use in place of "max"? I keep getting an error.

Sub RGBtoCMYK()

Dim R As Double
Dim G As Double
Dim B As Double
Dim C As Double
Dim M As Double
Dim Y As Double
Dim K As Double

R = R / 255
G = G / 255
B = B / 255

K = 1 - max(R, G, B)
C = (1 - R - K) / (1 - K)
M = (1 - G - K) / (1 - K)
Y = (1 - B - K) / (1 - K)

End Sub

All of those seem to be the default system colors, I need to get the color values of the Metro/Modern Start Screen. This is the code that I used to get the primary color:

Dim aarrggbb = My.Computer.Registry.GetValue_("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM", "ColorizationColor", "00000000")
Dim argb = Convert.ToInt32(CLng(aarrggbb.ToString), 10)
Dim argbcol = System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(argb)
Dim USERCOLOR1 As Color
USERCOLOR1 = Color.FromArgb(argb)
This ^ changes the form's border to the same color as the taskbar.
I don't know which registry value is the secondary color though, and I've never worked with the registry so I'm nervous that I might mess something up. Any ideas?

I want to use them to color the form and controls, so that the app matches the user's theme (I'm using a borderless form). I've managed to set the form's backcolor to the "primary" color, but I need to know the "secondary" color so that I can set my buttons, etc., to it's shade.

What control are you using to display your shortcuts in? (listview, toolstrip, etc.)

Sorry du[DE], you're right. I've never worked w/ web controls(only windows forms), so I was unaware of these controls.

Are you talking about a CheckedListbox? I've never seen a "radiobuttonlist". If so, are you wanting to check all the items in the checkedlistbox when you press the selectall button?

Do you want to extract the icon from the shortcut(.lnk)?

I apologize, - Windows Form, VisualStudio2012

Thanks for the quick response, I tried that earlier, but got an exception that the file didn't exist when I tried to rename it back to the original. I must've done something wrong. At least now I know that it will work, just have to find where I screwed up (The directory and filename are coming from separate sources - cbo and txt, then I'm joining them to create the full path, so I probably typed a wrong name in a wrong place). Thanks for the help!

Sorry, I'm a novice and I'm still learning. I thought that the ListView would display the thumbnail image of a file if I added it to the ImageList, but apparently this is not the way to do that. (and you don't have to be condescending, I wouldn't be here asking questions if I were an expert)

It doesn't display the thumbnail of the .wmv file in the ListView, only the file name, etc. I need it to show the thumbnail/image of the file as it does in explorer, can you help?

OK, I changed the value Type to numeric, but I'm still getting the same results. I changed the DataValueType in the DataGridView Properties, is this the correct method, or do I need to do it in code?

Sorry for the confusion, but I'm the one who posted that original question. I was having some login problems, and was unable to comment, So I created a new account and asked again. The webmaster got it fixed though, and I posted a reply on that post.

Sorry for the late reply. Please forgive my ignorance, but most of this is still greek to me. I'm not sure how to implement this. My app plays an audio file, and when the "set" button is clicked, it adds the current position of the file in milliseconds along with other misc. info to the DataGridView programatically. I need the Sort list to update each time the "set" button is clicked and a new row of data is entered. I don't understand how or when I'm supposed to activate the Private Sub SortCompare. I understand that it compares the data in the cells, then sorts them, but what causes the SortCompare event?

Sorry for the late reply. Yes, the DataGridView is unbound, and I am adding the data programatically, so I believe your solution will work. Problem is, I'm a novice and have no idea how to set a data type to the cells in the first column.

Thank you for you help and knowledge, I used the System.IO.Directory.Copy and the user profile folder, and changed shell locations. Works fine now. Thanks again!

Thanks for the info. The reason that I wanted to copy to C: is because I have .exe subprogram that uses "cmd" like a batch file. As I'm not very good at navigating in the command window, I wanted to put it there for convenience. If I copied it the "documents" folder instead, would I have any UAC issues there?

The "DataGridView1.Rows.Add()" w/ the "(DataGridView1.NewRowIndex)" solved the issue of adding a new row in order. I was trying "DataGridView1.Rows.Insert()" (which wasn't working properly). Thanks to you and Raimis9 for keeping it simple and clean for novices like me. Your help and knowledge are greatly appreciated!

Thank You! This is the final step in a program that I've been working on for a while, and now I can finally use it. Your code really helps me understand the process as well, very nice. I figured the save file process would have been alot more complicated. Thanks again for sharing the knowledge!