I am having some trouble creating the template of my application :
I am making some dynamic parts of forms and I use a panel in which I include my User Control according to the choice of the user. The panel has the same size as the user control but it doesn't work at runtime. The panel in which the UC is included is inside another UC also.
I tried autoSize = true, fixed size and many things but I don't know why it goes like this. Any idea?
Some parts of my code to load the User Control :
UC_panel.Controls.Clear();
UC_ADDRESS uca = new UC_ADDRESS();
uca.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
uca.AutoSize = true;
UC_panel.Controls.Add(uca);
My UserControl for the address
At runtime it goes bigger
Since you set
uca.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
and also
uca.AutoSize = true;
(which is redundant)
it is possible that some other container has its AutoScaleMode set to Font and its font size is bigger.
Related
I want to build a form that has 100 label and 100 text box
what I did is:
add new form
add panel to that form using drag and drop
change the dock property of that panel to fill
change the AutoScroll property to True
start adding the labels and text boxes using drag and drop
The problem
I added like 40 labels and text boxes but I can't add any more because I can't expand the form nor the label vertically.
Note
I can minimize the size of the panel and a vertical scroll bar appears. (maybe this information helps you to help me).
A data entry window with that many text boxes is going to require scrolling. So set the Panel's AutoScrollMinSize property to, say, (1000, 1000) as a first guess. You'll see the scrollbars appear. They work at design time as well, allowing you to scroll the panel and place the controls. High odds you should be using a DataGridView btw.
Something that needs to be said: the odds that you can get a human to enter 100 data items without any mistake are very close to zero. A very frustrating job for the hapless user, it will take him 10 or more minutes only to arrive at failure. Create a user friendly UI, one that partitions the data entry job in small steps that can be successfully completed. Automatically solves this problem as well.
Set parent form's properties AutoSize and AutoScroll to true. Then disable docking for your panel. This way you can set any size to panel and scroll form contents to add new controls. When panel design is done, set docking to Fill again.
Or you can set position for newly added controls using Properties panel. This will move controls to appropriate position on the panel.
This is a sample method I've used to add an unknown number of controls to a form. The trick is a FlowLayoutPanel.
As has been said before: you don't want 100 manually added controls on your page.
private void AddMappingControls() {
HeaderFlowLayoutPanel.Controls.Clear();
MappingFlowLayoutPanel.Controls.Clear();
Label sourceHeaderLabel = new Label();
sourceHeaderLabel.Text = "Velden in Excel (bron)";
sourceHeaderLabel.Name = "BronLabel";
sourceHeaderLabel.Width = MappingFlowLayoutPanel.Width / 2 - 20;
HeaderFlowLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(sourceHeaderLabel);
Label destinationHeaderLabel = new Label();
destinationHeaderLabel.Text = "Velden in Word sjabloon (bestemming)";
destinationHeaderLabel.Name = "BestemmingLabel";
destinationHeaderLabel.Width = MappingFlowLayoutPanel.Width / 2 - 20;
HeaderFlowLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(destinationHeaderLabel);
foreach (string destination in this.destinationFields) {
ComboBox sourceFieldComboBox = new ComboBox();
sourceFieldComboBox.BindingContext = new System.Windows.Forms.BindingContext();
sourceFieldComboBox.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList;
//sourceFieldComboBox.AutoCompleteMode = AutoCompleteMode.SuggestAppend;
sourceFieldComboBox.Name = destination + "ComboBox";
sourceFieldComboBox.ValueMember = destination;
sourceFieldComboBox.DataSource = this.sourceFields;
sourceFieldComboBox.Width = MappingFlowLayoutPanel.Width / 2 - 20;
MappingFlowLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(sourceFieldComboBox);
Label nameLabel = new Label();
nameLabel.Text = destination;
nameLabel.Name = destination + "Label";
nameLabel.Width = MappingFlowLayoutPanel.Width / 2 - 20;
MappingFlowLayoutPanel.Controls.Add(nameLabel);
}
}
I meant exactly the same as MeanGreen but he was first. I have created sample solution: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share?s=i9N7raPPQPEjOdHPRn99uE
i'm using telerik control.
So i want to ask,
In winforms application ,Is it possible to add more than one panel in same location and display one at a time just like show/hide property.
Make sure you have placed all panel control in same container or form. then you can use Visible property to show and hide panel. BringFront and SendToBack function will be used to bring panel on top or send it to back. If you have placed any panel in another panel then that will be disappeared when you Hide parent panel. So, Make sure all panels' parent control must be same. To determine the parent control simply select that panel and press escape key to select their parent.
private void LoadPanels()
{
panel1.Location = new Point(10,10);
panel2.Location = new Point(10,10);
panel3.Location = new Point(10,10);
panel4.Location = new Point(10,10);
panel5.Location = new Point(10,10);
VisiblePanel("panel1");
}
private void VisiblePanel(string panelName)
{
string[] panels = new string[]{"panel1","panel2","panel3","panel4","panel5"};
for (int i=0;i<panels.Length;i++)
this.Controls[panels[i]].Visible = (panels[i] == panelName);
this.Controls[panelName].BringToFront(); //Not required you can remove this line.
}
Here's a slightly different approach you might want to consider...
Are you wanting to be able to programmatically select the contents of a rectangular area at runtime, selecting among various controls to display? If so, you could use a custom TabControl which has its tabs (not the pages) hidden.
Then you can select which page is displayed by programmatically changing its SelectedIndex property at runtime.
Doing it like this means that your form editor will show a normal tab control, which allows you to much more easily add the content to each page - but at runtime the tabs will be hidden from the user; they will just see the contents of the currently selected page.
See Hans Passant's answer here for how to create such a custom tab control.
(However, you might also want to override the OnKeyDown for the custom tab control in order to ignore Ctrl-Tab.)
I am designing an application in which i am using tab-control, and in one of the tab-page the information i want to display in bigger than the form size, the information is displayed in various text-boxes. i tried by adding following lines in designer code but it is still not working.
this.AutoScroll = true;
this.AutoScrollMargin = new System.Drawing.Size(20, 20);
this.AutoScrollMinSize = new System.Drawing.Size(this.Width, this.Height);
any help would be appreciated.
You have to set the AutoScroll on the TabPage, not the Form, you can do this at design time by selecting your tabpage first, then set the AutoScroll to true in the Properties window, or you can do by code like this:
tabPage1.AutoScroll = true;
//do the same for other tabPages
Notice that "this" refer to whole class (your form).
Increase the value like this:
tab.AutoScrollMinSize = new System.Drawing.Size(1000,1000);
Or you can add panel1 to your tab, then dock it into the tab:
panel1.dock = dockingSyle.Fill;
Now you can make panel1 scrollable.
I have a usercontrol that I'm adding as a control of a main form dynamically. The Mainform is basically empty, except it has a large status bar on bottom.
Problem is, when I set the Dockstyle.Fill option on my usercontrol, the size of the loaded usercontrol extends beyond the statusbar (It fills the entire main form as if the status bar wasn't there).
How do I prevent this behavior? This is an example of how I dynamically load my form
logicForm = new LogicForm();
this.Controls.Add(logicForm);
logicForm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
I think you need to set the DockStyle to None and use the Anchor property instead.
Set the anchor to Top,Bottom,Left,Right and size your control to fill all the space up to the status bar.
You should find when you run that the user control will then resize with the form.
I just found the solution
I need to bring the form to front in order to properly dock it if I already have some other controls on the main form:
logicForm.BringToFront();
Found here: http://dotnetref.blogspot.kr/2008/08/using-dock-fill-on-control-when-you.html
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I'm having a difficulty in sizing my form!
I dynamically create buttons on a form and need to know if they are all fully visible or if I need to grow the form and in what direction to make all the buttons fully visible.
I don't want to use the autosize property as I need to control the layout.
So how do I tell if a dynamically created controls bounds are within that of the form?
thanks
This a .Net 4 classic forms app.
When you add the button to the controls collection, to see if it is visible check the contains on the forms bounds - Form.Bounds.Contains(button.Bounds));. If that returns false then you need grow your form. Here is some basic code to do the form growing, it will not necessarily produce the prettiest output and is not necessarily the best way, just written to give you a quick idea of how it could be accomplished.
// Add the control
form.Controls.Add(button);
var formBounds = form.Bounds;
var controlBounds = button.Bounds;
if (!formBounds.Contains(controlBounds))
{
formBounds.Left = Math.Min(controlBounds.Left, formBounds.Left);
formBounds.Right = Math.Max(controlBounds.Right, formBounds.Right);
// Do similar for top and bottom this will ensure your button is visible
form.Bounds = formBounds;
}
Can you add the button, can't you compare the Width of the container vs the Left + Width properties of the newly added button?