I have been playing around with VB today and was wondering on the concept of being able to load a webpage in this case radio 1 online player and but having no open browsers visible to the user even though there will be one hidden one in this case this one. Currently I have it set up to simply navigate to the site but was wondering if it was possible to do what was stated above.
Private Sub Button2_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Try
Dim QueryAddress As New StringBuilder()
QueryAddress.Append("http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_one")
Process.Start(QueryAddress.ToString())
Visible = False
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message.ToString(), "Unable to station")
End Try
End Sub
If you want to play a radio station you might be better using media player and connecting to the station's radio stream.
Drop windows media player onto your form.
Set its Visible property to False.
add a button with this code inside the button's click event
AxWindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = "http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/media/live/manifesto/audio/simulcast/hls/uk/sbr_med/llnw/bbc_radio_one.m3u8"
And of course your try..catch code as well.
Tada!
I got the url from this website by clicking on the link in the second colum and then right clicking on the data rate that I wanted and copying the linked addres. I then pasted it into the vb.net code that you see
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For a school project, I am developing software that requires the use of multiple forms.
At the moment, when a button is clicked to show a form and hide the current one, it opens in the default location that is set in the properties.
I would like it to know where the last form was hidden, so that it can open the new form in the same location. This is vital as all the forms are the same shape/size and it'll make for a better user experience if the software retains the position that it is moved into.
Thank you for any help! If you have anymore questions, please ask as this is my first time asking a question on here and don't know if I included all relevant information!
Current code for hiding, and showing the form,
This is opening the main form from another form when a button is pressed:
Private Sub btnHome_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnHome.Click
Dim Home As Form
Home = frmHome
Me.Hide()
Home.Show()
End Sub
This was fixed by using the line: frmHome.Location = Me.Location and changing the property of the StartPosition (of the form) to Manual
Thanks to this user!
https://stackoverflow.com/users/8967612/41686d6564
A very basic/simple question with I'm sure, an even simpler answer, but I just cannot figure it out. I have two forms that a user can switch between using the corresponding menu link on each form. I want to be able to keep the previous form visible on screen until the new form is displayed. In it's current state, the form disappears off screen for around 3/4 of a second before the new one is shown and from a UI/design perspective, I'd like this to stay on screen.
I'm currently using the below code to close and open the forms:
form1.Show()
Me.Close()
form2.Show()
Me.Close
I have tried experimenting with ShowDialog() which does seem to keep it on screen on first run, but clicking back into the form a second time says an error message:
System.InvalidOperationException: 'Form that is already visible cannot be displayed as a modal dialog box. Set the form's visible property to false before calling showDialog.'
Is there a simple line of code to achieve what I want here?
If there is some time consuming code in the Form.Load event (for example, if data is being retrieved from a database) then the following code might help.
Private Sub Form2_Shown(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Shown
'Assuming default instances
Form1.Close()
End Sub
Posting an answer incase there's an inherit reason this is not best practice or to avoid doing this, but using the below sped it up:
Private Sub menu1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles menu1.Click
form1.Show()
form1.Refresh()
Me.Close()
End Sub
This was inspired by adding in a Application.DoEvents working, so adjusted the code to avoid that dreaded line.
I have a web browser control in a custom task pane control (User Control) and I open it as a sidebar as soon as my Outlook opens (I have created it as an Outlook Addin using Visual Studio 2013). The web browser control has a login form inside it and I would like to place focus on an input control in my web browser control as soon as Outlook opens. I have tried several tricks like placing focus on the custom user control and then placing focus on the input control after the form has loaded but it doesn't place focus on it. Also I have been trying to allow the use of Tab and Delete keys to work inside the web browser control so that I can tab to other controls and play with it like we would do it on a normal browser window. Kindly let me know how I can achieve this as I am out of ideas.
Cheers.
Try to use the Excel WebBrowser Control instead of the System.Windows.Forms WebBrowser; it handles special key forwarding as TAB, DEL, CTRL+V, etc.
For that change the WebBrowser contructor from
new System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser();
to
new Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Controls.WebBrowser();
You would need to add references to your project:
Project/Add Referernce/Extensions select
Microsoft.Tools.Outlook & Microsoft.Tools.Outlook.v4.0.Utilities
Doc: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.tools.excel.controls.webbrowser.aspx
You can only do that if you install a Windows hook (SetWindowsHookExW(WH_GETMESSAGE, YourHookProc, 0, GetCurrentThreadId()) and in the hook proc detect that messages are supposed to go to your browser, and redirect them accordingly.
It works partially this way but not 100%. First I had to set the TabStop property to True for my webbrowser control and then just set the focus once the document was loaded and that was it. The tab, delete, backspace keys all ran properly.
Private Sub CustomTaskPane_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
TestWebBrowser.Size = New Drawing.Size(Me.Width, Me.Height)
Me.Focus()
TestWebBrowser.Navigate(url)
WaitForPageLoad()
TestWebBrowser.TabIndex = 0
TestWebBrowser.TabStop = True
End Sub
Private Sub TestWebBrowser_DocumentCompleted(sender As Object, e As Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles TestWebBrowser.DocumentCompleted
' Now set the focus on the Web Browser Control
TestWebBrowser.Focus()
End Sub
I am making a VB.Net web browser, and to make the whole thing look nice, when the user right clicks, I want a groupbox to show up where the mouse was right clicked. I am using the ChromeWebBrowser.Net project on SourceForge and when I add the following code:
Private Sub ChromeWebBrowser1_MouseUp(sender As Object, e As MouseEventArgs) Handles ChromeWebBrowser1.MouseUp
If e.Button = Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Right Then
GroupBox1.Location = (e.Location)
GroupBox1.Visible = True
Else
End If
End Sub
It should be working, but when I test it and right click on the web browser control, it does not show up. When I add the same code to the main forms code, it works fine, it just is not working on the browsing control. No errors or anything, it will just not show up. Is there something special I need to do, or can there be a workaround to this?
Thanks so much!
Honestly, this sounds more like you should be using a ContextMenuStrip. You can drop one onto your form(then add items to it), and finally after that you can set the webbrowser's contextmenustrip property to be the one you just designed.
My form is displayed as TopMost on my application. The problem I have is that whenever I minimize my application or it loses focus, the form remains displaying. I want to be able to minimize my application or move to another and also hide or close my form. Once the application regains the focus, then unhide or open the form again.
Here is what I worked out on the form's closing event:
Private Sub frmNavigation_FormClosing(sender As Object, e As FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
Static Minimize As Boolean
If Minimize = True Then
e.Cancel = True
Me.Hide()
End If
End Sub
I tried using the same code in the applications WindowDeactivate event but nothing happens.
You do not show how you create the instance of your frmNavigation. I am assuming that you are using the Show Method, so just use the version of Show that you pass in the top level window. That will assign the owner of the form, it will then stay on top of your Main Form and minimize and restore with it also. If this doesn't work please show how you are creating and showing your form.
frmNavigation.Show(Me)
I was able to find an answer to the question. MSDN had an article on this very issue.
it can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186908#appliesto