Results for "Author: mrbobo"
Browse for Folders Dialog with 'Create New Folder' button and 'Include Subfolders' checkbox. CommonDialog with image previews. Both these controls are updated versions of functionality included in some of my previous submissions. Now Win 2K compliant. Please vote if you like it.
Another example for Beginners from MrBobo. This example program shows how to communicate between instances of your application. Lets say your application is assosiated to a filetype. The user clicks on such a file and an instance of your application is launched. But what if you want to load the file in the existing instance - not the new one ? There are many examples of how to achieve similar results on PSC. This method is designed for reliability and ease of use with a minimum of code to implement.
More examples for Beginners by MrBobo. This little demo demostrates the use of Drive boxes, Dir boxes and Filelistboxes. To give the example some purpose it allows you to safely bulk change the extensions of files in a selected directory. To do this safely you need to quickly parse filepaths and include error handling to avoid overwriting. The demo includes an example of a 'Desktop' and 'Up one level' button in its' browse function, get special folders, enumerating all filetypes from the registry and a simple auto-complete function for comboboxes. Includes an interesting function - Safesave - which appends a number to a filename if the file is found to already exist.
Advanced Find/Replace. Unlimited Undo/Redo. UPDATED - some minor bugs removed. Demonstrates getting file properties, obtaining document statistics, page setup, printing, file association, create shortcuts, date format, advanced selection options, wordwrap, using commondialog without MS control, controlling RichTextBox scrolling. Can open/save .rtf, .doc and any plain text. Includes a heavily modified version of Undo/Redo classes by Sebastian Thomschke - fully optimized for speed when handling large files. There are many examples of plain text editors here on PSC. I would not have submitted this upload unless I thought it was a significant improvement upon existing submissions. This one is definately better than Notepad. Having submitted Bobo RegEdit(RegEdit.exe replacement), and Bobo Image Workshop(more than a Paint replacement), I thought I might as well upload this. Behaves just like Notepad without filesize restrictions (Rich Text Box) but edits entirely in plain text format. Thankyou all for reporting the bugs you found - zip file updated minus those bugs.
Adds a touch of professionalism to your project. Just like VB IDE. One tab has the common dialog, the other tab shows recent files, their path and their icon in a listview. Can obviously be adapted to show images, provide different settings and options to the user as to how they wish to open a file. Included : Standard EXE project, UserControl Project and test project, OCX Project and a test project for the OCX. Demonstrates saving/loading listview to registry, getting file icons for use in a listview, how to build your own commondialog controls, controlling other apps windows.
This submission is prompted by a question in Ask a Pro. Allows you to change some readonly properties at runtime.
Even if your own code is very tidy, when you download other peoples code it can sometimes be nearly unreadable because of the formatting or an overuse of comments. The aim of this project is to quickly provide standard indenting, remove blank lines and optionally comments from VB source code. I hope you find it useful.
Are you addicted to PSC? Does visiting PSC actually get in the way of your coding? This may help. It checks for new submissions and new votes on your submissions. Now updated to include new comments notification and viewing all comments. It also provides links to the most common pages you use, all in a popup menu in the system tray. Demonstrates downloading using API, disabling right-click menu in web browsers, string parsing, system tray management, internet connection state, handing multiple settings using the registry. UPDATE: The original version of this PSC Monitor used API to download the source code of a selected PSC web page and parsed this source code for specific data. It did this job well, but the application was unresponsive whilst downloading was taking place. To overcome this problem it now uses a separate tiny exe file (BBdowner.exe - source code included) to download the data in a separate thread, thus allowing for multiple tasks being carried out simultaneously and allowing the app to be reponsive even during downloading. I hope you appreciate the increased stability and speed. Before running PSC Monitor, compile BBdowner.exe and place in the same folder as PSCMonitor.exe, thats all - easy!
API for beginners made easy. Yet another submission for beginners. The API is sometimes avoided when first starting VB programming because it seems too difficult. In fact it's quite easy, just experiment. I've tried to split the code up to into various modules to make it clearer to undertand. Vb controls sometimes lack some properties we as programmers need. The API can be used to return those properties to us. In addition API gives us access to built in dialogs and other functions not otherwise available through VB. This demo covers only a few of the more common API functions, there are hundreds and hundreds of others! Modify VB Controls: Listview Flat Column headers, Treeview no tooltips, Progress bar change back/forecolor, Textbox - lower/uppercase and numbers only, Command button - thick edge, flat, hover. Dialogs: Open, Save, Browse for Folder, Printer, PageSetup, Color, Font, Add to Favorites, Organize Favorites, Import/Export Favorites, About. Functions: GUID Generator, Unique Temp filename, IE Version, Keycode giver, Hard Disk info, Common Paths, Long filename, Short filename, FileExists, Binary open/save String Parsing: Pathonly, Fileonly, ExtensionOnly, ChangeExtension, Unique filename, File size, Trim null characters. I recommend you visit www.allapi.net for excellent downloads regarding the API - but be quick, I understand the site is closing soon.
If you've ever tried to use the standard Toolbar customise feature then you will know it doesn't work. This is a documented bug - visit MS and do a search. They offer some solutions, but these only partially rectify the problems. The problems involve an inabilty to reliably save the configuration of the Toolbar and a failure to display unused items in the left hand selection Listview. My fix Scrap the feature entirely - uncheck AllowCustimize checkbox in properties Replace the dialog with a clone form Power the function with a simple class
A reasonably complete clone of Regedit.exe with a few added extras. All coders should be familiar with the layout and usage of the Registry If you're not then here it is on a plate !
A scientific calculator. Written as Usercontrol, very lightweight, very easy to call. Demonstrates trigonometrical and logarithmic functions, each with just a line or 2 of code. Great to learn from.
If your sick of typing in the same old menus over and over then try this out. Extracts menu data from VB Forms and Usercontrols and allows inserting these menus into other VB Forms/Usercontrols or saving as a template for later use. Whilst its a useful little programming tool in itself, it was written to demonstrate string parsing and filetype creation and association including, Explorer context menus.
The name says it all. No need to vote. This is in response to a question in the "Ask A Pro" section. Added Hide/Show as requested.
Mixer API demo. A clone of the Windows Mixer(sndvol32.exe). Volume/Balance/Mute controls fully responsive to external changes via callbacks from winmm.dll. The Mixer API causes problems for VB coders everywhere. The tangled web Microsoft created turns what should be simple into a nightmare. In this demo I try to untangle some of this mess by cloning the Windows Mixer(sndvol32.exe) as an example of how to write your own Volume/Balance/Mute controls. As an App it's pretty useless as sndvol32.exe exists on all Windows platforms, but for all those Audio/MP3 coders out there, it should make life a little easier. Update: As requested an "Administrator" version(Included as a separate zip) Added: 1. The ability to lock Volume,Balance and Mute for each control 2. Save settings as presets 3. Run hidden - simple code - not 100% hidden, but good enough to keep the average user out. The save settings demonstrates writing settings to a binary file, something not often seen here on PSC. What it will do: If a control is locked, not even sndvol32.exe can make changes. The given control cannot be altered. Security is low - I'll leave it up to you to bump up the security level. What it wont do: If a 3rd party App communicates directly with the soundcard(WinAmp for example) it can effect changes. Screenshot shows "Administrator" version
This is a simple demo of using the API to manage files. It demonstrates the use of SHFileOperation. It is by no means a 'File Manager'. It was put together in order to answer questions from many coders new to 'VB in the Discussion Forum. I hope it is of some help to those folks.
Demonstrates how to get the selected text from another application - Notepad for example. Yet another submission in response to questions in the Discussion Forum. Hope you find this useful.
Demonstrates how to link the scrolling of 2 RichTextBoxes, so they scroll simultaneously without any lag time. This is in response to a question in the discussion forum.
File Association can be tricky and there are some rather blunt instruments being applied in some examples of Association both on this site and elsewhere on the web. This demo shows how to Associate your App to a file extension and safely return Association to the previously Associated program if desired. Lots of comments, easy to call, with the absolute minimum of code required to do the job. Prompted by more than one question in the Discussion Forum.
This is in response to many requests for "removing duplicates in a listbox" in the discussion forum. Using the API is almost always faster than using VB. I'm unaware of any examples here on PSC of using the API for removing dupes - I may be wrong. Either way this is a very efficient way of accomplishing this task. No need to vote - code couldn't be much simpler than this! Feel free to improve upon the code yourself. As usual all bugs come entirely free of charge.