Cody's tutorials - by Cody

All my tutorials Compiled into 1 post. I might think of writing more so if you need a tut on something tell me.

Contents:
-MP3 Player
-Simple WebBrowser Functions
-Taking a screenshot of just the project/client
-do something if a key is pressed
-Random background colors

MP3 Player
ok for this tut we will need the windows media player componet
project>componets>windows media player


ok now after u have that simple add it to ur form name it "WindowsMediaPlayer1"


also ull need the common dialog componet
project>componets>microsoft common dialog 6.0
make it on ur form and call it "Common"

ok now for the browse button make a command button.
put this code

Code:

Dim fnum As Integer
Common.CancelError = True
Common.FileName = ""
Common.InitDir = "C:\"
Common.Flags = cdlOFNFileMustExist
Common.Filter = "Mp3|*.mp3|All|*.*"
' comdia.Flags = &H4
Common.ShowOpen
WindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = Common.FileName
Text1.Text = Common.FileName
Exit Sub

ok now for an added effect i put Text1.Text = Common.FileName so in text1 people will know wut song there playing
so make sure u add Text1 were ever u want

ok now u can either use the Windows media player to control the playing stop and pause or u can make it visible to false and add a play and stop button

for these codes u can use

to play

Code:

WindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = Text1.Text

and to stop

Code:

WindowsMediaPlayer1.URL = ""

there is other methods but u can experiment


umm heres the source code:
http://www.ezupload.org/?w=download&id=8964&name=Mp3_Player.rar

Simple WebBrowser Functions

well this is VERY basic but heres for noobs..

to stop a browser (also used in mute loading music)

Code:

WebBrowser1.stop

to go refresh

Code:

WebBrowser1.refresh

to go to your set search engine

Code:

Webbrowser1.gosearch

to go forward

Code:

WebBrowser1.GoForward

to go back

Code:

WebBrowser1.Goback

to go to Home (site you set in IE)

Code:

WebBrowser1.GoHome

easy huh?

ok now if you want a text box at the bottom of the screen that says what site you are currently on add this

Code:

Private Sub WebBrowser1_StatusTextChange(ByVal Text As String)
Text2.Text = (WebBrowser1.LocationURL)
End Sub

Text2.Text will show wut site ur on

ok now to make a URL imput
add a textbox called Text1.Text
then add a command button called Command1

now add this

Code:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
WebBrowser1.Navigate Text1.Text

o wow that was cool

fully working webbrowser

ok heres some more stuff

say i want to make a google search bar

add a text box called Text3.Text and also a command2 button
ok now for my command button code

Code:

WebBrowser1.Navigate "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=" & Text3.Text & "&btnG=Google+Search

now when u click command2 it will search google to what ever is in text3

heres some more if you wanna use multiple or more search engins
Yahoo

Code:

WebBrowser1.Navigate "http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=" & Text3.Text & "&sm=Yahoo%21+Search&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8"

InfoSeek

Code:

WebBrowser1.Navigate "http://infoseek.go.com/Titles?qt=" & Text3.Text & "&col=WW&sv=IS&lk=noframes&svx=home_searchbox"

AltaVista

Code:

WebBrowser1.Navigate "http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=" & Text3.Text & "&kgs=1&kls=0"

Lycos

Code:

WebBrowser1.Navigate "http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?loc=searchbox&tab=web&query=" & Text3.Text & "&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=image

ok now for resizing (so when maximize your browser also goes bigger)
ok so just add this

Code:

WebBrowser1.Move 0, 840, ScaleWidth, ScaleHeight - 840

you should know were to put that..


also to remove errors on moving back and refreshing and shit you can add

Code:

On Error Resume Next

before your code

Screenshot of Just the client

ok this is taken from r-legit so give props to whom made it
but ill explain how to add it


make a timer and call it "scrshot"

now add this code
(make the timer interval 1000)

Code:

Private Sub scrshot_Timer()
  If GetAsyncKeyState(vbKeyF12) Then
    CopyToClipboard
    Screenshot.Picture = Clipboard.GetData
    SavePicture Screenshot.Picture, App.Path & "\Screenshot - " & scrnum & ".bmp"
scrnum = scrnum + 1
  End If
  DoEvents
End Sub

ok this will save it in the folder with the program now also it saves the screenshot with a nubmer so lets declare "scrnum"

at the top of the code add

Code:

Private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vkey As Long) As Integer
dim scrnum as integer

now
add a modul and put this in there

Code:

Public Declare Function MapVirtualKey Lib "user32" Alias "MapVirtualKeyA" (ByVal wCode As Long, ByVal wMapType As Long) As Long
Public Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)

Public Function CopyToClipboard()
  Dim alt_scan_code As Long
  alt_scan_code = MapVirtualKey(&H12, 0)
  keybd_event &H12, alt_scan_code, 0, 0
  DoEvents
  keybd_event &H2C, 0, 0, 0
  DoEvents
  keybd_event &H12, alt_scan_code, &H2, 0
  DoEvents
End Function

opps forgot this add this into your form


ok now make an image and call it "Screenshot" and make it visible to false..doesnt mater how big the picture is..


hope i didnt forget anything

Code:

Private Sub Form_Load()
scrnum = 0
End Sub

Do something if a key is pressed

ok say your makign a webbrowser and you want to be able to type in a site and push enter and it goes to that site

simple use this code

Code:

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    If KeyAscii = vbKeyReturn Then
        command1_Click
    End If
End Sub

clicks command1 if enter is pressed in Text1

Random BG Colors

ok say your makign a webbrowser and you want to be able to type in a site and push enter and it goes to that site

simple use this code

Code:

Private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
    If KeyAscii = vbKeyReturn Then
        command1_Click
    End If
End Sub

clicks command1 if enter is pressed in Text1