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This site is not for troubleshooting consumer issues. This site (and especially this forum) is meant to assist in programming issues. If you are a programmer and you are having issues regarding this in your own code then the forum might be able to help, otherwise don't post here.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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I'm looking for a solution using VB 2003, 2005, or even 20008 to prevent other applications from taking control of my mouse. Do you understand know what I am looking for now?
This has nothing to do with troubleshooting or repairing a consumer application such as IE7. It is about using an appliction development tool such as VB.net to prevent other applications from taking control or disabling functions "of a mouse in particular".
And by the way, I am still in the process of learning VB. I own VB 2005,and 2008.
Now, if you can't answer my question properly then maybe you should not post here.
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This is what I was under the impression of your original message(as well as other members based on what I have been reading):
Some random consumer who is getting really frustrated with their computer suddenly stumbles upon a programming website and expects the computer nerds to answer the frustrating question without the said consumer paying attention to any of the rules of this site.
Now that you have mentioned VB and it can inferred that you are actually trying to create a solution accordingly, here is my answer: the interaction of flash and web web browsers cannot be tamed through any programming solutions. Flash advertisements have a mind of their own and the only way to prevent these annoyances is to speak with the website that has those advertisements (not the CodeProject). The other option would be to write your own web browser and handle everything yourself with regards to these said interactions.
Dennis Lokken wrote: Now, if you can't answer my question properly then maybe you should not post here.
Just because you are a new member and this is your first forum thread, does not give you the right to disrespect any members who have been here much longer than you have. Learn proper netiquette and people will be more willing to help you.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Thank you for the information. I apologize for the rather negative comments earlier, but another poster kind of set me off and put me in a rather bad mood this morning.
I must say that I am rather suprised that there not a way in VB to intercept "browser commands,flash, or whatever the culprit is,etc."
My earlier thoughts were that VB could monitor any calls to the mouse functions in the BIOS and if the calls were by programmatic control rather than an by actual hardware"mouse" call that VB could possibly prevent or intercept the attempted access. Of course, I was also assuming that the VB program would probably have to run as a service in the background. Now that I know this is not possible I will try and think of another VB project to work and learn on...hopefully simpler too.
Thanks again for your response.
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First off, assuming the other poster you speak of was still in this thread: nothing they said was out of line, and either way do not let anything said in the forums go to your head unless you are really trying to abuse the system (which, I must admit, was my initial impression of your first few posts).
Second, you seem to have a few things mixed up with VB.
1)None of the languages are really meant to target the bios. Languages are meant to extend the operating system.
2)Through Windows API you can create listeners for events similar to what you are speaking of, but VB is not the best language to do this. C++ would be more better language for this task. However, since you are a beginning programmer I would not tackle API listening this soon.
3)VB programs can run as a service or background program, but you need look into it more. It is possible, but I would still suggest you look into a simpler program to start your programming off.
Regards,
Thomas Stockwell
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Thomas Stockwell wrote: nothing they said was out of line
Very true.
Thomas Stockwell wrote: trying to abuse the system (which, I must admit, was my initial impression of your first few posts).
That was my initial thought as well, so that's why he got the replies he did from me.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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What does this have to do with VB.NET? You sound like you are totally in the wrong forum.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Hey jerk, why don't you get a life? If you can't answer a question then don't reply. Can even you understand this?
Whats it got to do with it? It's seems elementary, I want a VB solution that prevents any other application such as IE7 or IE6 or Firefox from taking control of my mouse.
Do you get it know? Or should I type slower just for you?
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Dennis Lokken wrote: Can even you understand this?
I would have if you would have had the brains to mention wanting a VB solution in the first place 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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I would think it should have been obvious even to people with limited intellegence that I wanted a VB solution being as I posted in a VB forum. That should have been your first clue.
Now, lets move on. I want a solution, not retorical nonsense.
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Dennis,
Calling Paul a jerk is really not nice. He's a really cool guy and since you did not say aything at all about looking for a solution in VB in your original post, how was anyone supposed to know?
Jeff
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I respect your opinion. However, I don't think his original reponse was appropriate nor were his favorite quotes.
And persoally, I think he owes me an apology.
I have been programming for over 30 years and I have never treated anyone with the disrepect, Paul, has shown me.
Also, I have been a member on this site for well over a year and I have never seen any such disrespect and untasteful comments posted by other forum members.
Also, It doesn't require a "rocket scientist" to figure out that if somebody is posting in a VB.net forum then he/she is most likely "and it should be quite obvious and should be readily assumed" looking for a VB solution rather than jumping to some other conclusion.
Or should one waste time and put (VB) in every sentence of a vb.net posting. I can do that if that is what is expected. I can even put (VB) every other word if neccessary.
And I will be happy to argue my point until the end of time.
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Dennis Lokken wrote: appropriate nor were his favorite quotes.
I could really careless if you don't like my sigs. Each to his own.
Dennis Lokken wrote: have never treated anyone with the disrepect
Sure, calling me a jerk, it just goes to show.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Dennis,
I don't feel that Paul did disrepect you. I have talked with him and he's a pretty alright guy. Maybe you should get off of his case. You should just let this go, because this kind of behavior you are exhibiting will not get you far in these forums acting like this.
Jeff
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csciwizard wrote: don't feel that Paul did disrespect you
Thanks, Jeff. I wasn't trying to disrespect the guy at all. Just his OP was off or subtle or whatever. The real disrespect is calling me a jerk in the other post. Again, don't let it bother you.
PJC
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Dennis Lokken wrote: I have been programming for over 30 years
Using what, with 30yrs experience I would have thought you would have gained a deeper knowledge of what an OS and development platform can do, unless of course you have spent that time on a non windows platform!
Dennis Lokken wrote: Or should one waste time and put (VB)in every sentence
Now see if you answered some of the questions in the forums (as Paul does) you would come to expect what sounds like an idiot question, they turn up daily. This is the 3rd I can recall this week where someone wants to manage the OS with VB, always newbies, so the response you got was reasonable.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: with 30yrs experience I would have thought you would have gained a deeper knowledge of what an OS and development platform can do
You would think so. I've got 27 years to my credit 
Mycroft Holmes wrote: if you answered some of the questions in the forums (as Paul does) you would come to expect what sounds like an idiot question
Good point.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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I really am curious what "programming" he has done for last 30 yrs.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Well, look at the latest post from him about COFF. I do have a solution to the problem, but I'll just withhold it due the lashing out I got from him.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Thanks, Jeff. Seems some people have issues, don't let it bother you.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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I have a media plyer on my form and a pictuer box on it
i wanna set the picturebox transparent but when i do it the picturebox shows the form's backcolor but i wanna when i set it transparent the music file which is playing in media player should show behind the picturebox
How can i do this
Thanks with anticipations
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Transparency doesn't work the way to think it does. What you've seen is the correct functionality. Controls are not transparent to other controls. Setting a control's background to Color.Transparent makes the control take on the background properties of it's parent container, most likely the Form it's on. You cannot see a control behind another control. Transparent is anything but...
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Hi
How can i set the richtextbox height according to the text height
when i don't know the font size i have only rtf text
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Hi,
The scrollbars maximum position value changes with the amount of text in the control. Therefore if we could get the value of that we could adjust our height accordingly. So here is a little function that I did up. I haven't tested it extensively yet but as far as I can tell it works just fine for me. It uses the API function GetScrollRange and constant SB_VERT. These should be available in the API Viewer but if not they are in the winuser.h file. Also the scrollbars property may have to be set vertical. Please refer to the below mentioned code:
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Public Sub AdjustHeight(ByVal rtfRichEdit As RichTextLib.RichTextBox, ByVal lpMinHeight As Long)<br />
Dim lpMax As Long ' Max scroll position<br />
Dim lpMin As Long ' Min scroll position<br />
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' get the scroll range<br />
GetScrollRange rtfRichEdit.hwnd, SB_VERT, lpMin, lpMax<br />
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' It may not be necessary to subtract the lpMin value from lpMax because I can't think of anytime that lpMin would be anything but 0... but just in case....<br />
If ((lpMax - lpMin) * Screen.TwipsPerPixelY < lpMinHeight) Then<br />
' This allows you to set a minimum height for your control<br />
rtfRichEdit.Height = lpMinHeight<br />
Else<br />
' Else the control height should be equal to the text height - the max scroll value.<br />
rtfRichEdit.Height = (lpMax - lpMin) * Screen.TwipsPerPixelY<br />
End If<br />
End Sub<br />
I hope this would be helpful.
John Adams
ComponentOne LLC.
www.componentone.com
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Thanks for your response
How can i call the Api function GetScrollRange
and can i also set width using this function???
if yes then how??
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