I am using Windows form in C# and i am trying to create one single form dialog that will be responsible displaying other dialogs within the boundary of it's dialog. To do that i tried Tab Control and it worked well and i can create different types of form in tab control easily without opening any separate forms.
but the problem is i don't want to use Tab control , I have some buttons on the main form at left side and clicking those buttons i want to display separate forms beside those buttons. I searched google but did not find any example like that nor i am able to find any control as this. My application is very simple one dialoge with left side buttons and on right side i want to show different forms based on those buttons... C# is not my native language but now i have to work on it and require help.
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Each page could be an instance of Panel, then show/hide the Panel instances according to which button is clicked....make them all the same size, shape, and position ;)
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I'm on Windows 10, maintaining a C# Desktop application using Visual Studio 2019, putting controls onto a Form (System.Windows.Forms.Form). I'm attempting to change an application; reworking where the controls go etc., so there is code and control design that I want to keep and put into different locations. I am using the visual designer and connecting to code using the control events (as opposed to creating the forms dynamically).
I have Document Outline visible on the left; I cut several groups of controls I intend to paste back later, so all that one particular TableLayoutPanel has in it now is two buttons. But I cannot find those buttons in the designer. I can see them in the Document Outline; they're in a TableLayoutPanel (in a group box in another TableLayoutPanel on a TabPage, etc.). When I click on a control in the Document Outline, the corresponding control is usually highlighted in the View; however, when I click on either of these buttons, nothing is highlighted in the view.
I tried resizing the Form (which determines the sizes of all these panels/tableLayoutPanels set to 'fill'); it's currently at 1367,850; one of the button locations shows as 664,752, but I don't know in what coordinate system that applies. I tried manually setting the location to 50,50 in the properties window, but it won't let me change that there.
These buttons appear at the bottom of the form; they've never appeared there, but I've noticed sometimes the designer has shown dotted-line outlines of them outside the form entirely. They appear in place when the application is run.
I've tried changing between the 100% scaling and the 125% scaling; that didn't help. For two buttons, I suppose I could delete them and recreate them, but there are many, many controls on this UI, and if there's some trick to making things appear I'd like to know about it.
Is there a trick to this that I'm missing?
hi I want to make a wpf c# application which shows every form(Ex:- user registration, reports , etc..)in one window in other words I want to make an application which have one window and every user control appears and closed there when I want just like games in some games like middle of honor warfighter they have one window and if we chose option option buttons appear in the same window and if we chose graphics that graphic page content appear in that same window.
and I want to know is there any frame work or special method is there which I should fallow other than putting wpf controls one over another and changing there visibility and isopen status.If there is any examples please give me a link
You can use ContentControl for holding any element. also PRISM is best approach.
You can use WPF Popup forms below are some links for more info:-
http://www.dzone.com/articles/understanding-wpf-popups
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Blogs/11700/
Take a look at this MDI Control. It helps you to show any kind of usercontrol in one container as window.
I am making a Multiple Choice test application using Windows Forms on Visual Studios. When a user answer one question, they will click next to proceed to the next question. Would I be able to use a single windows frame to display all my questions? When I do it on more then one windows form I had to do this.Hide() and then .Show() the other form. I don't have a problem with doing this but when it hide and shows the other windows form it isn't open on exact same position, it keeps moving.
You can create a UserControl that displays the question and the multiple choice answers. When the user clicks the Next button, you remove the UserControl from your form's Controls collection, create a new instance of your custom UserControl with the next question's details on it, and then add the new instance to your form's Controls collections. This structure will let you do the app on a single Form.
I would better suggest you to use Panel form the tool box for multiple forms. It would be better for the multiple choice questions.
Then for every panel use property visible set to either True or false depending on which panel you want to navigate.
See this to understand more in detail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDOXzz_0gYE&feature=related
You can use wizard.
Here you have two links:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18674/A-Simple-Wizard-Control-for-Net-2-0-with-Full-Desi
Add this library to Toolbox:
Right click on the Toolbox and select "Add Tab" from the context menu.
Specify name for the newly created tab, such as "Wizard".
Activate the tab, right click on it and select "Choose Items..." for the context menu.
Now browse to the folder where is assembly "WizardBase.dll" and select it.
http://winformswizard.codeplex.com/
The simpler the better.
The simplest way is to make a panel, (in one window), and then add labels with your question and all options of the answer in that panel. Then on the click on the NEXT button, change the texts of all the labels at once.
As far as your problem of opening different windows on the same position on the screen, change the DefaultPosition property of all the forms to CenterScreen or CenterParent.
I'm looking to create a setup form for my application - and I wanted to use a tab form to keep my logic on the one form since it's very simple rather than many of them. Is there a way to remove the tab navigation UI up top and allow me to only progress it programatically?
Look at user controls. They cover pretty much what you want.
Just create a user control for each view. It only consists of the controls you want to have on each tab page anyway. Then you can hide/show the user control you want and you do not have a full blown form for each view.
Look at this tutorial: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a6h7e207%28v=vs.71%29.aspx
For instance, I have an application that has a main window and then child windows inside of it.
http://screenshots.rd.to/sn/e3hek/sapienfullwindow.png
http://screenshots.rd.to/sn/e3hek/appscreen8.png
What i need is to grab each individual child window of that application, and display them as tabs in my application, or on a panel's handle.
I already have code to kidnap the application and put it into mine, and it works great.
MDI support is already present in the C#. So the first screenshot is using the MDI option.
The second screenshot is using tabbed windows. Now you have two options:
Use this opensource library DockPanelSuite which will let you have tabs in your application. something similar to visual studio interface. You can create forms and then tab it based on your needs. You can even dock them anywhere in the parent form by drag and drop. Just like in visual studio.
The second option is to create a form with tab control covering the whole windows. There you create tabs using the resource editor and hide/show based on the forms you want to display to the end user.
In my opinion, use the first option which gives you lot more customization. Also if you use the dockpanel, you can switch between the views shown in your first screenshot and second one. So user has better control as to how he wants to view. Dockpanel is free to use even in commerical apps and comes with source code. So you can either use the dll or directly incorporate the code in your application.