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WinForms Volume Slider/Trackbar User Control

Hi All, I'm looking for a trackbar-like user/custom control to use in my .NET 2.0 WinForms app. Note: I'm NOT asking how to control the volume in a WinForms app. Anyone knows of a nice looking custom painted slider/trackbar control that could be used in my app to let user set the volume? (such as the ones used in multimedia apps) Id...

Trackbar Background in a TabControl

I have a TrackBar control on a TabPage inside a TabControl. The background of the TrackBar is being drawn in grey while the TabPage is being drawn as white. There is no way to set the BackColor property of the TrackBar to transparent, and I can't override the drawing because there is no DrawMode property for the TrackBar. What options do...

How do you make a Winform track bar (slider) behave sensibly on a touch-screen monitor

What's the easiest way to modify a Winforms track bar so that when a user clicks on it the track bar jumps to the location of the mouse? By default the track bar moves to half way between it's current location and where the mouse was clicked. Update: I'm trying to do this so that I can use the track bar on a touch-screen. With a touch-...

C# /windows forms: linking trackbar and textfield with a factor

hello, linking a trackbar and a textfield is very easy in windows forms. it is like this: textBox.DataBindings.Add("Text", trackBar, "Value"); the problem is, that trackbars only allow for integer values but i want to have floating point values. so i usually just divide the value by 100, since on the trackbar the value is not directly ...

How to set custom ticks on a TTrackBar in Delphi 2010?

I tried to set the tick style to tsManual, the min and max position to 1 and 100 respectively and add ticks at 9, 19, 79 and 89 and no ticks are shown at all except the detault first and last which the control automatically shows. I tried other values and none are ever shown. My code is: TrackBar1.TickStyle := tsManual; TrackBar1.Min :=...

How do I get the trackbar value?

I feel a little silly asking this, seems pretty simple but I can't find the solution anywhere. I have a trackbar made in visual studio 2008 and I want to use it to adjust an image threshold but I can't find the code to retrieve the sliders/markers position. Any help would be much appreciated and I am using C++ ...

How can I bind a winforms Opacity to a TrackBar (slider)

I've got a winform with a BindingSource that has an int property named Opacity in its DataSource. I also have a TrackBar on the winform that I want to use to control the Opacity of the winform. I've bound the Value property on the TrackBar to the Opacity and that functions just fine, sliding the TrackBar will change the variable from ...

Question about WinForms TrackBar control in .Net

Does anyone know the millisecond interval, used by the framework trackbar, between calling the ValueChanged event when moving the grip with a mouse? I've implemented my own trackbar and I'd like the behaviour to be consistent with what the user expects. I've had a look in reflector but it's one of those controls where most of the imple...

System.Windows.Forms.Trackbar - how to prevent user from dragging the slider?

Is there some way to (temporarily) prevent user from changing the value of TrackBar by dragging the slider? Only way I found is to set Enabled property to false but it also greys out the trackbar. Edit: Since I´m getting more answers about why shouldn't I do it rather than how it's possible to do it, I decided to explain why I would li...

Trigger event on trackbar ValueChanged, but not in code

I want to be able to modify the value property of a trackbar in code without triggering my event handler. I wish to trigger the event only when the control is changed by the user by dragging the slider or moving it with the keyboard. What's the simplest way of achieving this? I have 6 trackbars and I want to change the value of 3 of th...

binding textbox with trackbar and with field in class

Hi I have problem with binding textbox with trackbar and with a property in class. I bind a textbox.text property to field `Progress` in my object. Next I managed to bound property Value from trackbar to TextBox Text property. If I change value in trackbar the textbox Text property also changes. However if I change textbox.text prope...

how do I read data from a control array in C#

I have the following trackbar controls which I have added to a tabpage 'tab1': TrackBar[] tbs = new TrackBar[nooftbsneeded]; // Add TrackBars TrackBar tbx = new TrackBar(); tbx.Location = new Point(28, 150 + (i * 200)); tbx.Size = new Size(686, 45); ...