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 Jun 22 2009, 10:46 AM
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 I !<3 malware  Group: HJT Senior Classmen Posts: 1,835 Joined: 8-June 08 From: Ontario Member No.: 214,918  |
Two questions regarding VB .Net:
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Jun 22 2009, 11:23 AM
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 Look buddy -- I'm an Engineer Group: HJT Team Coach Posts: 8,510 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
Hello, aommaster[
 QUOTE(aommaster @ Jun 22 2009, 11:46 AM)  1.I have an MDI parent window. Is it possible to set the standard grey background to transparent without changing the opacity of the form (I don't want to change that because all the controls on the form become transparent)? So far, I've managed to change the colour of the background, but I was wondering whether I could take it one step further and transparent-ify it  I don't believe so.  Wouldn't this confuse your users anyway? They'd try to drag one of the children outside of the parent because they look just like regular windows and it wouldn't work..... QUOTE 2. Relating to the same MDI program above, I have a number of different child windows that pop up. I wanted to know how easy/difficult it would be to create:
I'm unsure what a "click through" window is.... The second one is not possible. If you want that, just don't use MDI. Change the code that opens the child windows to just not set the MDIParent property. When you call show() on those forms, they're show up as full-fledged forms outside of MDI. You shouldn't have to rewrite all that much unless the children reference members in the parent (Which they shouldn't if the app is well designed :whsitle:) Hope that helps, Billy3 This post has been edited by Billy O'Neal: Jun 22 2009, 11:23 AM -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jun 22 2009, 11:26 AM
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Look buddy -- I'm an Engineer Group: HJT Team Coach Posts: 8,510 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
Oh... sorry for double post -- make sure you turn off the "MDIParent" property on the parent form.
Billy3 -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jun 22 2009, 11:27 AM
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I !<3 malware Group: HJT Senior Classmen Posts: 1,835 Joined: 8-June 08 From: Ontario Member No.: 214,918 |
Hi Billy!
Thanks for your reply I was just poking around with VB .Net (because it's fun ). I think I'll abandon that search then. By the way: A click-through window allows clicks to go through them. I've never really looked into designing one because it gets a little messy and a little irritating that there's nothing to catch your clicks if you miss (so to speak) and you start running other applications on your desktop or opening random links from the page behind you.Edit: In relation to this post: QUOTE make sure you turn off the "MDIParent" property on the parent form .I learnt that the hard way after I couldn't change the parent window's background colour. Had me stumped for a good 30 minutes Thanks again Billy! This post has been edited by aommaster: Jun 22 2009, 11:28 AM -------------------- My website: http://www.aommaster.com
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Jun 22 2009, 11:34 AM
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Look buddy -- I'm an Engineer Group: HJT Team Coach Posts: 8,510 Joined: 17-January 08 From: Northfield, Ohio Member No.: 184,215 |
This wouldn't be for a um... mutual project of ours would it?
Billy3 -------------------- The forum is always a busy place. In the event I fail to reply within twenty-four hours, feel free to send me a PM.
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Jun 22 2009, 11:37 AM
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I !<3 malware Group: HJT Senior Classmen Posts: 1,835 Joined: 8-June 08 From: Ontario Member No.: 214,918 |
Perhaps ...
 Currently, I don't think of it as mutual, since most of the coding is yours. I've just poked around, trying to get the hang of what VB .Net is all about, since I hate to see code that's taken a long time to develop go to waste. Currently, that program now has a timer function that allows you to reset a person's timer, so you don't need to check the topic date, as well as a post preview function that parses BBCode into HTML syntax and shows that to you (this function still needs testing though. I've put it through a decent amount, and it seems to work). PM me if you'd like more info on this project
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