ToolStripStatusLabels

ToolStripStatusLabels

• PugJ

  Ok.
  
  Thanks for all of your help!
  
  
  

• Theo du Toit

  Wouldn't that drain on the RAM and slow down the application (and even the entire computer)
  
  
  

• SerSanchus

  Right! Like I said, I'm pretty new to all of this and I'm just trying to get the fundamentals down and see the bigger picture of oop. I'm sure there's a simple trick to doing it. But it'll have to come from someone else. Be patient - I'm sure someone will come along and help ya.

  Good luck Mad,
  Mike

  
  
  

• aryasheel

  I think I get what you're saying. If I understood correctly, he wanted to Globally monitor the condition of the Caps Lock key, in the app, and use a label to emit it's status.

  If Caps Lock is on
  The label will display Caps Lock
  Else
  The label will display Caps Lock
  End if

  I, myself, don't know how to do it without putting the code in all of the keypress events of all controls on the form. Unless, maybe he didn't use any of the keypress events for anything else - maybe he could change the handles so only one of them would handle the keypress event for all of the controls That would probably be dumb though, if there were alot of controls, I guess.
  

  I'm new, and I'm just curious about this little issue, just for the sake of learning. I'm hoping he comes back to let me know how he made out and what he found - if anything.

  Thanks for your input Renee,
  Mike

  
  
  

• SmokeyPete

  Mike,

  I looked at several solutions to this. Apparently there is no asynch detection for the caps lock key and it seems in all the examples that I saw... they pole for that key with a timer.

  So ... here is a very unroket science solution ..but nonetheless is a typical solution to this problem. Good luck.... have fun.

  Imports System< xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

  Imports System.Windows.Forms

  Imports System.Drawing

   

  Public Class Form1

      Protected Friend WithEvents tmr As New Timer

   

      Private Sub cbGo_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cbGo.Click

          tmr.Interval = 500

          tmr.Enabled = True

          tmr.Start()

      End Sub

   

      Private Sub tmr_Tick(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles tmr.Tick

          If System.Console.CapsLock() Then

              lbCL.Text = "Caps Lock: On."

          Else

              lbCL.Text = ""

          End If

      End Sub

  End Class

   

   

  
  
  

• Ultrahead

  No..... not at all.

  I think that samples at 2/sec. I have one pixel sampling program that samples at 10 samples per second... and I can't even see the program running on the taskmanager real time graph when I start it an stop it.

  You samling rate is tiny and there's ony one timet and it doesn't demand more resources across time.

  
  
  

• Craig Roberts Minnesota

  Thanks for the code, Renee. I haven't worked with timers yet but it looks like a solution worth looking into.

  Mike

  
  
  

• SystemOfSystems

  Actually, that's it!
  
  Just use the KeyDown event of the...
  
  Uh oh.
  
  Which control's event
  
  
  

• Clifton G. Collins III

  I can only partially answer your question.
  My.Computer.KeyBoard.CapsLock is a boolean type property. It will tell you the status of the Caps Lock Key. But I can't tell you how you would constantly monitor for any changes made to it. As a newbie, first instincts would tell me to put an if then else in the KeyUp Event of the form that holds the StatusStrip. However, I believe this wouldn't work if, you would hit the Caps Lock Key while a TextBox or other control on your form had the actual focus. Maybe someone with Experience could help you out in that manner.
  Also, I haven't played with the StatusStrip yet. But I believe that if you set a Label's .Enabled property to false, it will give you greyed out text.

  Mike

  
  
  

• ODilbert

  Think of it like this...... UC is a boolean that you set when you want capslock for a givencontrol

  (Typed from memory)

  If UC then textbox1.text = textbox1.text.toUpper

  This would most likely be in Textbox1's keypress event.

  
  
  
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