I am trying to create keyboard in windows form in vb.net, but I am unable to show "\"(backslash) on button.
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I am trying to design my own message box or dialog box.
While real message box displays, if we try to skip the messagebox by clicking the form, message box will blink thrice and shows us like we cant skip message box.
how to achieve this action in our own dialog or message box.shared screen shot as gif
Note: I am using visual studio 2017, windows application through vb .net.
I have desgined my own message or dialog box as windows form.
I have tried me.toplevel = true or me.bringfront= true
Use form.ShowDialog it prevents user interaction with the form in the back
I have a textbox which has an autocomplete selection populated with a database query (names of individuals). I have created a keyboard using buttons as this will be a touch screen application (without using the system on-screen keyboard of Windows).
When I change or append the textbox.text value programatically (in response to my "keyboard" buttons being pressed) the autocomplete doesn't work. However using my physical keyboard it does.
How can I make the textbox start to autocomplete when the .text value is changed?
I wrote application for my client and now it turns out that this application will be running on computer with touch screen and has no physical keyboard plugged in. Everything is working fine instead textbox control which is used to enter some text as search box. How to make that if user use this textbox to enter something to show him virtual keyboard?
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I have a problem with the combo boxes of my application (written in C, built in Visual Studio 2012) running in Windows 8.
If I click on the little black arrow of the combo box the list shows up, but closes immediately when I release the mouse button. So the list is open as long I hold the mouse button down. This means it is not possible to click on (and so select) an item in the list!
It only happens when the combo box is in a modal window. In a not-modal window the combo box works fine, but I need it in a modal window as well.
In Windows 7 the exactly same application works fine. The combo box stays open (after clicking on the arrow and release the mouse button) until I clicked on one of the items in the list.
Running the application in Windows 7 compatibility mode, does not solve the issue on a Windows 8 machine.
When I compare Windows messages after clicking on the arrow to open the list, I see in Windows 8 the message WM_COMMAND with notification code CBN_SELENDOK, after WM_CAPTURECHANGED. This could explain why the list closes, but why do I get this message form Windows?
Or does anyone has another idea how to solve the issue?
I'm developing a VB.net windows application and I have some issues with the keyboard input.
My application has different forms and I'm showing and hidding them with the user interaction. One of the inputs comes from the keyboard, and here is where I have a problem.
When I hide a form and show the next one, most of the times the new-shown form does not receive the keyboard input until I click somewhere on it.
I assume that the problem is that the new form I'm showing is not the "selected application" for windows until the user interacts with it by clicking on it, but I don't know how to set this "property" by code.
I tried with focus and select on the whole form (Me.select/focus) and in some form's control (me.lbl_xxx.select/focus), but I did not get any result.
Can anyone explain me how to control which application/form gets the keyboard input on windows?
Thanks
David
You can't really interact with a label so the input focus won't be set properly.
Focussing a specific textbox on your form on the other hand should just work fine.