I was wondering if it was possible to add more than one item into single tableLayoutPanel?
Currently, I can only insert ONE item, it won't accept anything else. I would like to have for example a richtextBox with label and button inside it. Is is possible? Thanks! I'm not asking for code, I just need to know if it's possible to manually drag and drop these items into single cell in tableLayoutPanel.
It appears you are only allowed one control per cell, if that is what you mean. You can always add a container control such as a panel with it's Dock property set to Fill you can then add your additional controls to it. Or add another tablePanelLayout Control to the Cell and set the row / columns how you need and then add your controls to that. Or as LarTech mentioned in the comments a UserControl would work also.
You Can also add a Panel Control and then add all other stuff to the Panal
Add a container such as a GroupBox or Panel, and set it to fill all available space in the table cell, and that could override the TableLayoutPanel's "one per box" rule so you should be able to add as many controls as you wish
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I made a simple Form with a TableLayoutPanel and a button below it.
Is it possible to create another TableLayoutPanel below the one I already have on each button click?
And how can i fill it with data?
I searched for many hours but didn't find anything.
Here is a screenshot of my form, if it helps you:
I want the other tables to appear on the lower half of the split.
Thanks in advance, Jan
Of course you can. You may want to consider adding the TableLayoutPanels to a FlowLayoutPanel so that they will wrap and scroll automatically.
Just create the control, setup the columns and rows, then add it to some container:
TableLayoutPanel tlp = new TableLayoutPanel();
// setup "tlp" with your desired properties
tlp.XXX = YYY
// ...
flowLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(tlp);
I want to display something like the following :-
Each row is about a process (information like PID, Parent etc.). User can check the checkbox and click Launch button to get some dynamic details about that process.
The problem is that CheckedListBox control doesn't allow more than one columns and other controls like ListView (which allow multiple columns) don't allow controls like checkbox to be embedded in a columns.
I want to know if there is a control which will allow me to have a list of custom controls where each custom control contains a checkbox, Some Text and Some Dynamic Text.
How can this be achieved in Windows Forms? Thanks in advance.
You can use either of these options:
DataGridView (Example)
You can use DataGridView to show multiple columns of different types, including TextBox, Label, CheckBox, ComboBox, Image, Button, Link. You also can customize appearance of the grid by custom painting or adding new custom column types.
UserControl
You can create a composite control or UserControl containing any other controls which you need and use it as a row template, then you can show all rows by hosting multiple instance of that user control in a Panel or FlowLayoutPanel.
TableLayoutPanel (Example)
You can use a TableLayoutPanel containing multiple columns and rows. Each cell of TableLayoutPanel can host a control.
DataRepeater
You can use a DataRepeater control to create a row template and show a list of rows using that template.
Example 1 - DatGridView
If you want to use data binding and show specific controls including TextBox, Label, CheckBox, ComboBox, Image, Button, Link a row, DataGridView is great. It's customize-able and you can add some other different column types or customize painting of the grid or benefit from wide range of useful events for validating and so on.
In following image you can see a DataGridView with RowHeaderVisible and ColumnHeaderVisible set to false to act like a List of fields without header:
Example 2 - UserControl
If you need custom control to host more complicated controls or having more control on components or show them in a different layout than columns, you can create a UserControl hosting your components, then:
If you only want top-down flow, Use a Panel and add your user control to it with Dock property of control set to Top.
If you may want flows other than top-down Use a FlowLayoutPanel to add instances of your control to it.
Create a UserControl
Add instances of it to your Panel or FlowLayoutPanel
You could use the TableLayoutPanel container.
I want to know if there is a control which will allow me to have a
list of custom controls where each custom control contains a checkbox,
Some Text and Some Dynamic Text.
One option could be that you create the following as a separate user control,
...and as container control use container like FlowLayoutPanel and keep adding the user control into the FlowLayoutPanel.
Make sure that the direction of FlowLayoutPanel is set TopDown
this.FlowLayoutPanel1.FlowDirection = FlowDirection.TopDown;
In the picture below I have defined a 6-row table layout and placed controls inside its cells, in one cell goes the Label, the other cell for the control its self (a text box for example )
The problem is caused by that field options radio box, it will make the cell so big so then the text box that is under "Preview Data Value" label, goes way below...
How do you suggest fixing this issue?
From my prior experience, I would not use the table layout at all. Instead I would set the anchors on each control to dynamically change with resize.
But if you insist on using the table layout, perhaps you should change the RowSpan attribute of the Preview Data Value cell, and have the label at the top with the text box underneath.
Another option would be to use a container like a GroupBox with a title Attribute that you can set to "Preview Data Value", put the text box in that container and set the "Dock" Attribute to "Fill". Then from the looks of it, you don't even need the last Row.
See this article on MSDN if you want to go totally nuts and implement your own drawing.
Make a seventh row and have the option group span two rows.
I have a table of about 450 rows that I would like to display in a graphical list for users to view or modify the line items. The users would be selection options from comboboxes and selecting check boxes etc.
I have found a listview class that extends the basic listview to allow for embeding objects but it seems kind of slugish when I load all the rows into it.
I have used a datagridview in the past for comboboxes and checkboxes, but there was a lot of time invested in getting that up and running...not a big fav of mine.
I am looking for sugestions how I can do this with minimal overhead.
thanks
c#, vs2008, .net 2.0, system.windows.forms
If you have a complicated set of controls for each row, this is the simplest way to do it. However, it won't act like a listbox; you won't be able to highlight your rows or navigate with the keyboard.
Create a usercontrol with public property to point to your row
Draw a panel on your form - you will add instances of your 'row' usercontrol at runtime to this panel.
Set the panel to autoscroll (also set property to make the active control scroll into view)
Set the panel's Anchor property so it sizes w/ the window
You can set the form's max/min size properties so the full usercontrol row always shows (have to do to prevent horiz. scroll bar in panel)
Have a routine to add the rows
In a loop, create new usercontrols, set their properties, including the row in the datatable
Also, set the .Top property to the panel's .controls(pnl.controls.count-1) for all but the first one you add
Very simple, allows complicated 'rows', gets the job done. There are better ways to do this if you want listbox-like functionality without coding it yourself, but you may not need that.
I want to create my own custom control that is basically a TableLayoutPanel with 3 rows and 1 column. The top and bottom rows will contain labels (banners) and the middle row is where I will add other controls. The problem is that when I try to build other forms/controls from this control, the designer doesn't recognize the middle panel. How do I get it to? If I drag a textbox to the middle and set Dock=Fill, it will cover the entrie form/control. Also, is there any way to get the designer to reject dragging of controls to the top and bottom (banner) rows? I've tried the steps in the following link but haven't had any luck (http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B813450&x=21&y=15).
I figured it out. The trick was to create my own designer that inherits from ParentControlDesigner and overrides the Initialize method and calls EnableDesignMode for the inner content panel. On top of this, I needed to set the Designer attribute of my user control to this new designer. The details are shown here.
One problem, though. I can drag controls to the content panel I created and everything looks fine. But, once I recompile, the controls disappear. They are still there, I just think they're getting drawn before the banner panel. I will create a separate thread for this problem.