I have an interesting little problem. I'm using a one parent split container on the main form and multiple panels. I dropped three panels in the container. Two of them on the top (panel 1) and one on the bottom (panel 2). The problem I'm having is the two on the top in panel 1. Trying to work with the two panels on the top I'm using the properties to select them. Although the properties appears to select the panel, it does not bring it to the front in the designer so that I can work on it
Does anyone have an idea how to work with panels so that they can be selected and design?
Do I need to use a split container for each panel? I sure hope not. :-(
Thank you in advance.
It seems that the document viewer is the place to go. Under View, Other Windows, Document Outline (Ctrl+Alt+T). The Treeview may be expanded so just locate the split container and collapse the panels. Simply drag-and-drop the panel that you need to view directly under the split container panel (in my case splitContainer.panel1). Now the panel should be in focus and viewed. Oh, one more thing. Make sure the panels are docked.
That should do it... :)
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let's say I want to make program settings menu like:
Many tab options that change the layout of the rest of the window
My program is in C# and I'm making it in Visual Studio
I tried to do it 2 ways:
Make the window super large with all possible layouts in the Form designer and then just resizing it to fit one of them at the time but this method works for like 4 tabs when you can fit them all at 1 screen. If it's large you have to work with slide bars and that's really impractical, laggy and for many tabs you even have to search them
Not using Form designer at all and hand write all the declarations, positions, sizes, colors etc. But like this it takes pretty a while even just to set up 1 button and there is no way I can fast see how it looks like
So the question is: Is there a magic way I don't know about to do this? And how is this made professionally?
Simple solution for small number of views
You can use a TextBox and ListView docked in a Panel docked left.
And a ControlTab docked fill in a panel named for example PanelMain docked fill at right with visible at false.
You will create any tabpage as option. In each tabpage you will put a panel docked fill and dedicated content in. On the listview item click event or itemchange, you will set the tabpage panel parent to PanelMain.
The little problem can be about spacing and the code file can be large (regions can be used).
Advanced solution more clean for several views
You can use the standard multipage pattern with one form per option/view, and do the same thing as exposed previously.
You create one form per view and put a panel docked fill embedding controls.
When the user click on the menu, you set the form main panel parent to the option form or the main panel of the options form.
I hope I haven't written too badly in unverified English.
Feel free to open any new question centered on any atomic and code problem on this subject.
I'm in the process of developing a C# Winforms application. I have divided the form into table cells using a TableLayoutPanel. For a particular cell of the table layout, I want to insert multiple panels - one over another, so that I can switch between panels(for that cell only) using BringToFront().
I tried the same on a form which seemed to work. In the cell of table layout, I am only able to add one panel into it. When I try to add other panels in that cell, these get embedded into the first panel. This makes it difficult to switch between panels.
I also tried inserting all the required panels into an empty panel(placed in the cell). But then, I'm not able to figure out how to switch among it's child panels.
Note: The switching of the panels is to be triggered by a ComboBox selection in some other cell of the table.
If you want to switch between panels, thats will always go wrong, because the bottom panel will become the parent of the top one...
#Hans Passant give a solution in another topic and citing:
This can be worked around with View > (Other Windows) > Document Outline, drag the top panel back to the form. Still pretty painful, you typically have to edit the Location by hand and making any changes to the form in the designer later tends to slurp the panel back.
There are better ways to do this. Creating UserControls instead is highly recommended, they have their own design surface. Or use the RAD way and do this with a TabControl instead
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I can't believe I couldn't find the answer to this....
I no longer need to use a SplitContainer in my WinForms UI. But whenever I delete the SplitContainer, I lose all of my other controls too -- buttons, labels, textboxes, and charts. Anything that was in the SplitContainer is deleted as well. Very annoying.
What is the best way to remove a SplitContainer control but leave everything else in place?
Trivial Example:
Make room on your form and drag those controls into the empty space.
Alternatively, go to View - Other Windows - Document Outline and move the child controls out of the SplitContainer's hierarchy.
Do not cut and paste since that will sever your event handlers.
I have made a user control, which contains 7 controls(labels, dateTimePickers and Combobox), which are placed in a row. It looks like this:
Now i need to resize my usercontrol and i wanted to specify minimum width for each element(child control) and i also configured anchors, but when i resize the form, controls overlap each other. How can i configure this properly, or, maybe, i need to use some container for this?
I'll be gratefull for any help!
I'd place them all inside one of the WinForms layout containers, such as the TableLayoutPanel or FlowLayoutPanel (tutorials here and here).
You'll have to play around to see if they'll work for your situation, but they generally take care of keeping controls separated and prevent unintended overlapping.
try to use split container then dock your controls inside the split container
So I am working on a program that has several screens which causes it to have overlapping controls (Buttons and lists).
I put the controls in panels which works great and then do show/hide for the panels.
This also works well.
I am having a problem now that I am up to several panels where when I move one panel up it gets absorbed by another and I need them to stay separate.
Example: When I move panel2 into place over panel1, panel2 becomes part of panel1. Then when I do panel1.Hide() and panel2.Show(), panel2 is still hidden because it is part of panel1. is there a way for me to ungroup these or move panel2 into place without it automatically becoming part of panel1? (I know I can show hide the controls inside of the panels, but this will add a lot of complexity because I have a ton of controls)
Perhaps there is a better solution than using panels?
You can use the View + Other Windows + Document Outline tool window to get these panels separated again. Drag the inner panel back to the parent. You'll then also have to edit the Location property to get it back in the right position.
This is annoying of course and good odds that you'll have to do this repeatedly. There's a better way to go about it, a TabControl has good design-time support and also has the same "overlapping panel" metaphor. You just need to hide the tabs at runtime. That's pretty easy to do, check the StackPanel control in this answer.