I'm creating a new winforms application.
I want to simulate MDI functionality with a flowlayoutpanel that will host "many" panels that will have a form embedded into it.
So the workflow would work like this:
User click on navigation menu to open a module (the module is a winform that will be embedded into a panel and this panel will expand to fill its container)
The user will se the module filled in order to work but has option to minimize it so he can work on other module.
When the user click on the minimize icon "custom icon added to the panel", the panel will minimize like a title into the flowcontainerpanel.
The user then can click on other module or double click the existing current opened modules "tiles" to open it again.
Here are some images so I can explain it better.
Once the "tile" is double clicked the panel should expand and fill:
How can I do this?
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I'm developing an application in c# .net framework and I have a user control not developed by me that contains various buttons that when clicked show different kind of data and statistics (let's call it ucDataShow).
Such user control is in a different tab with respect to the main tab of my program (i'm talking about TabControl)
I'd like to create a button in my application that when clicked changes tab and shows the appropriate kind of data by simulating the click of the appropriate button of ucDataShow
Is there a way to do so?
you can change tabpage of tabcontrol like this:
tabControl1.SelectedTab = tabControl1.TabPages[n];
but i think it is not possible to raise click event of button which is on ucDataShow control.
I have a login form and then a master form which uses MDI. The master form inherits MetroForm. I have already set the icon in Window Style > Icon, ShowIcon as True, ShowInTaskbar as True for the master form. I have set the icon in MyApp > Properties > Application > Icon and manifest. Still it is not showing the icon in taskbar for the master form. Only the login form is showing the icon.
As you start your APP into the login form, then this is considered the "main" form so the APP icon shows for this form. Because you then open another form (your master form) then this will not use the APP icon but its own icon. This is because each form also has its own icon.
So you need to set the icon for the form individually.
To do this in the form designer select your form, go to the properties and under the section ""WindowStyle" you will find an "Icon". Open this and select the icon you want to use.
Case 1:
You need to give your form that icon as well. The application icon is the one that is embedded in the application and displayed in Explorer or on shortcuts. Each form can have its own icon, though.
Case 2:
Set the Form.Icon Property through code also consider the below suggestion from MSDN
A form's icon designates the picture that represents the form in the taskbar as well as the icon that is displayed for the control box of the form. This property will have no effect if FormBorderStyle is set to FixedDialog. In that case, the form will not display an icon.
I've been all up and down this tutorial.
I can't for the life of me figure out how when my app loads to have 1 screen, then when a menu item is clicked to show another screen. I get the idea of having multiple forms, but is that the solution I need here?
From what I've read I understand new forms to be essentially new windows. If that's right, that doesn't sound like what I need.
My users start off with a blank window other than a menu (I'm gonna fill it in later), but I want for File -> Settings to load a settings form. Ideally not in a new window.
Its a MDI window. They are window containers of other windows.
You create a parent form, and then you change which child form is the active form on the menu item click events. This requires you make a parent MDI form, and a child MDI form for each of the different views you want of your document. The menu items then switch which child MDI form is the active one.
I have a user control in my SplitContainer's right panel. A form opens below the user control. Now if i click a button in the user control, that current form should close and a new form should open. How to do this?
You can implement below logic in your app easily:
splitContainer.Panel2.Controls.Remove(myPanel);
splitContainer.Panel2.Controls.Add(myOtherPanel);
which will remove the existing panel from the container and place the other panel. You can extend the same logic to place forms, or separate controls on the container easily.
I couldn't find a right term to search about this in the feature.
I have a control that will load a very heavy data that embedding within a tab of of my MainWindow.
Test Case:
For testing I have a window, within this windows there are 2 tab. the first tab contain notthing. 2nd tab contain this user control.
In the 2nd tab I have a MessageBox.
Run this program and MessageBox popup right after the MainWindow was loaded.
How can I delay load this usercontrol/page until the tab is active?
Have you tried calling your load code only when the user control is visible?
The other suggestion would be to create you own tab control that only loads the content when the tab is visible. This would also allow you to create animations when a tab becomes hidden before the new tab is visible.