VB prank help.

[Big W Powah!]

Hey. working with Visual Studio.NET 2k3 here, using their Visual Basic editor (classes, yay~)

Anyway, my teacher decided to play a prank on me, so I'm going to play one on her, and I need a bit of help with my code.

Looking for the code which will make the button move when moused over. (I know to use mousehover in the sub, but theres a single line of code that you put inside of the sub to make it move to a random spot on the form, so that you can't click on it)...The code to make it auto-unselect would be nice too, so you can't tab->enter to close the program.

Thanks in advance.

[Kallian]

    Dim myRandom As New Random

    Private Sub Button1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Button1.MouseMove

        Button1.Left = myRandom.Next(Button1.Width, Me.Width - Button1.Width)
        Button1.Top = myRandom.Next(Button1.Height, Me.Height - Button1.Height)

    End Sub

MouseMove works better than MouseEnter.

Oh, and for the Tab issue, set the button's TabStop property to False.

Also, I have realized that it can go behind controls that are larger than it. Just right click on the button and click, "Bring To Front", after you are done adding controls.

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Kallian

    Dim myRandom As New Random

    Private Sub Button1_MouseMove(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles Button1.MouseMove

        Button1.Left = myRandom.Next(Button1.Width, Me.Width - Button1.Width)
        Button1.Top = myRandom.Next(Button1.Height, Me.Height - Button1.Height)

    End Sub

MouseMove works better than MouseEnter.

Oh, and for the Tab issue, set the button's TabStop property to False.

Also, I have realized that it can go behind controls that are larger than it. Just right click on the button and click, "Bring To Front", after you are done adding controls.

Thank you. Though I don't think vb 6.0 (what .net2k3 uses) has seperate move/enter on mouse. I think they combined it into mousehover. I'll play around with it and see. Thank you. =)

EDIT: Also, does the variable need to be a class level variable? Going to be putting it in a program I'm going to be turning into her (extra credit for that kinda thing, she finds it hilarious. button1.visible=false was an amusing one. =P), but anyway, yeah, Does it matter if its class-level or control-level? Just curious, want to hide it the best I can.


EDIT: Yeah, mousemove is still there.

[Kallian]

VB 6? I thought you were working with .NET 03?

The variable can either be an instance variable or a local variable. You're not really worried about any kind of performance in this case so it doesn't matter.

Instance variable would be nice because you could get a random number in any function within that class without having to allocate memory (again, if you cared about these types of things).

[Bralkan]

Kallian is my programming sugar daddy.

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Kallian

VB 6? I thought you were working with .NET 03?

The variable can either be an instance variable or a local variable. You're not really worried about any kind of performance in this case so it doesn't matter.

Instance variable would be nice because you could get a random number in any function within that class without having to allocate memory (again, if you cared about these types of things).

Eh. My book/teacher are teaching VB6, but I am using .NET2003 for my editor. I guess I just assumed that it and VB6 were the same thing.

Anyway, thank you again for the help. and yeah, so far I've not made a program bigger than that would fit on a floppy. Simple things like calculations and input validation. Then again, it is intro to programming. I'm a network major, so its not like its -that- important, heh. Just need to know a bit of programming to be able to make an auto-updater and stuff.

I will say knowing how programs work has helped a lot when it comes to understanding what happens when you click on a button.

[Kallian]

Where are you obtaining a degree strictly in networking?

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Kallian

Where are you obtaining a degree strictly in networking?

ITT Tech. Computer Sciences Degree with a specailization in Networking.

[Kallian]

Originally Posted by Big W Powah!

ITT Tech. Computer Sciences Degree with a specailization in Networking.

Good luck to you sir.

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Kallian

Good luck to you sir.

Thank you. To you as well sir.

(I feel pretty good about it, considering the ammount of companies we have in and out of our building hiring about-to-graduate students.)

[Zippygoose]

It's good that you aren't using the fully integrated 2k3 (or even moreso 2k5) versions of VB/C# for an intro class. You'll learn a whole lot more writing all of the code vs. dragging and dropping controls via the toolbox. It's a godsend though when you start writing custom event handlers, validation and a DAL.

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Zippygoose

It's good that you aren't using the fully integrated 2k3 (or even moreso 2k5) versions of VB/C# for an intro class. You'll learn a whole lot more writing all of the code vs. dragging and dropping controls via the toolbox. It's a godsend though when you start writing custom event handlers, validation and a DAL.

Actually, intro uses the toolbox, advanced VB teaches hand-writing subs.

[Kallian]

Originally Posted by Big W Powah!

Actually, intro uses the toolbox, advanced VB teaches hand-writing subs.

The way it should be. Intro students shouldn't be forced to write handlers for controls.

[Zippygoose]

IMO it's important for beginners to understand at the very least what the native handlers are doing, even if they aren't using them in any way. Otherwise they are just these mysterious "things" being passed into your event methods that VS is generating for you.

Writing your own subs/methods is also helpful in understanding how everything is tied together. While it's nice to double click a button in your designer view and be taken to an auto-generated onclick event method, there is some value in knowing everything that went into the process (like wiring up those events).

You are talking to a pure software guy though, perhaps you are right in regards to a basic programming class intended for network admins/hardware guys /shrug

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Zippygoose

IMO it's important for beginners to understand at the very least what the native handlers are doing, even if they aren't using them in any way. Otherwise they are just these mysterious "things" being passed into your event methods that VS is generating for you.

Writing your own subs/methods is also helpful in understanding how everything is tied together. While it's nice to double click a button in your designer view and be taken to an auto-generated onclick event method, there is some value in knowing everything that went into the process (like wiring up those events).

You are talking to a pure software guy though, perhaps you are right in regards to a basic programming class intended for network admins/hardware guys /shrug

The intro class is shared among Programming and Network Students...We have however, covered what those double-click auto-generated subs do. Thats all in lecture/note taking though.