With winforms, you can set Transparency of a form via setting up the TransparencyKey and the Backcolor of the form into the same color in the properties window.
However, the tabpages in the TabControl doesn't have these properties.
How will I make it so that a tabpage will show the desktop's contents?
Also, is there a way for me to show the icons in my desktop on the tabpage? The icons must still function as normal(can be double clicked to open the file, single clicked to rename and can be dragged around inside my tabpage.)
I am using VB.NET 2005. Any direction is greatly appreciated.
Apparantly, the answer is quite simple.
Just set the TransparencyKey of a form to a color that you wish to appear as transparent, then set the backcolor of the tabpage to that color (the color you've set on your form).
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I am using Visual basic 2010 for coding. I have develop the code on desktop. Where I have adjusted form as per my desktop screen. I am going to run the application on Laptop. When I run the app the screen is not fitting to Laptop screen. SO I deciede to include vertical scroll. If moved up and down we can see all the parameter.
How can I do it?
I have added image for reference.
The scroll bar(s) should be inside the individual TabPages. You should set the Anchor and/or Dock properties of the TabControl so that it resizes with the form and set the AutoScroll property of each TabPage to True if you want it to display scroll bars if and when any of its child controls are outside its viewable area.
I have a form with an A4 image in the background (a standard questionaire). on that form i have textfields to fill. But if we scroll to the bottom of the form, the textfields scroll, but the background does not. How to fix the background to stick with the texfields ? VB.NET visual studio 2010.
Place a panel on the Form.
Place all your controls inside the panel.
Set the Background of the panel to your image.
Size your panel so that it is large enough to hold all the controls.
Place the panel at 0,0
Set the Form to AutoScroll
I am developing the application using VB.Net, in that i am using the menu. but the menu is not visible when the form is scrolled down. how can i fix it?
I think you are looking for the Dock property:
MyMenuControl.Dock = DockStyle.Top
"Gets or sets which control borders are docked to its parent control and determines how a control is resized with its parent."
Please excuse my lack of familiarity with vb.net. Just got thrown on a project with no vb.net experience.
I have to add some things to an application that was written by somebody who is no longer in the picture. I have to add more textboxes into a groupbox and when I do that it exceeds the size of the form. How can I make it so that I can scroll through the groupbox?
GroupBox, as it doesn't derive from ScrollableControl, so itself can't have scrolling functionality.
So...
Place the GroupBox inside a panel, and set the panel AutoScroll to true.
Guides:
Adding a panel control
Setting properties (of anything)
Moving content is just simply selecting all the elements you want to move, and click and drag them into the new place.
You could set the AutoSize property of the groupbox to true, and then set the AutoScroll of the form to true as well. This should resize the groupbox so that everything in it is visible, and then the form will have a scrollbar. If you don't want to make your form have a scrollbar for some reason, then you could use a panel and set it's AutoScroll to True so that just the panel has a scrollbar.
Add a Panel with no border inside the GroupBox to group your controls (put the controls inside). Then:
Panel1.ScrollBars = ScrollBars.Vertical
Or even ScrollBars.Auto.
GroupBox doesnt have scrolling functionality itself. Most likely most simple solution here is to just put a Panel inside the groupbox and add the textboxes to the panel instead.
I have a tabpage. And I have a combobox in it.
When I hover my mouse over it, my tabpage's paint function runs.
Why?
The Combobox has no functions handled. It is just a Combobox.
I move the combobox out of the tabpage, and now the tabpage won't paint when I hover my mouse over the combobox. Weird..
This isn't specific to a TabPage, the same thing happens when you put the combo on a form. It is affected by visual styles, the container paint requests stop when you turn that off. I'm guessing it has something to do with the rounded corners you get when the DropDown property is set to DropDownList, the combo glows on a mouse hover. With it probably asking the container control to draw the pixels in the corner. Explaining it for DropDown = DropDown is harder.
Same thing happens with a Button, the container control paint is documented in the Reference Source to support transparency effects. Even if the button doesn't have anything transparent. Visual styles is less than optimized like this, perhaps. It is otherwise very similar to what WPF does. Long story short, this is normal.