I'm looking for solution for my problem. I want to change location for tabcontrol's TabButtons or add control assigned to tabpage but outside TabControl. TabPages are added dynamically. Example:
Form1___________ _ [] X
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Some TabPage content
Tab1 | Tab2 | Tab3 | < >
TextBox assigned to Tab's
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So if I change tabs by clicking on Tab1,Tab2,Tab3 TabPage + TextBox content should change depending on Tab. The first idea was to put TabButtons on bottom and add ArrayList what contains TextBox content, catch TabControl change tab event and change TextBox content, but there was an issue with editing and adding that content. In few words: I wan't to put TabButtons between 2 controls(for example between two textboxes).Do you have any ideas?
If I understand what you're asking for... You want when you click on a tab, it controls two different things? Like two different text boxes?
If that is true, you should be able to do it like this.
foreach (thing in your ArrayList)
{
TabPage tabPage = new TabPage("Name of tab"); // Add a new tab page
RichTextBox rtb = new System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox();//RTF box
TextBox tb = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox(); //Text box
//Set up size, position and properties
rtb.LoadFile("some/Path/to/a/file");
//set up size, position of properties
tb.Text = "Some text I want to display";
tabPage.Controls.Add(rtb); //Add both boxes to that tab
tabPage.Controls.Add(tb);
tabControl1.TabPages.Add(tabPage); //Add that page to the tab control
}
Only thing you should have to mess around with is the layout. And make sure to have the tabControl added with the designer.
you can create your own textbox class which inherits from textbox class :
class MyOwnTextBox:TextBox
{
public int parent_tab;
}
So you can add your textbox by assigning a parent_tab id to them . so in tab button click event , you can do something like that :
foreach(MyOwnTextBox txt in this.Controls)
{
if(txt.parent_tab==1) txt.visible=false;
}
You could also place the tabs on the left or the right side of your tab control. That is not perfect, but would come closer to your idea than placing them above or below the tab control.
You can add a new tab page dynamically like this
tabControl1.TabPages.Add("My new Tab");
I'm not sure I understand exactly what your trying to do. If you want to change the tab from another object, just use:
TabController.SelectTab(0);
If you want to remove a TabPage and add it to another, use:
TabController.Controls.Remove(TabPage1);
TabController2.Controls.Add(TabPage1);
Edit: From further read, I think you want something like this:
this.TabController.ControlAdded += AddLinksToBottomOfTabs;
public void mainSettingsTabController_ControlAdded(object sender, ControlEventArgs e)
{
//Create label with e.Control.Name as the title and
//add it to wherever you want it added.
}
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I need this page to be very easily maintained, so I need most of the stuff to be programmatically generated. I need to create checkboxes next to normal Labels, without touching the .aspx file. right now I generate a list with all labels on my page called labels. Each label on my site has an ID beginning with lbl_, but the ones that are supposed to have a checkbox begin with lblx_. I then want to use something like this to create said checkboxes:
foreach (Label label in labels)
{
if (label.ID.Contains("lblx_"))
{
CheckBox cb = new CheckBox();
cb.ID = "cb_statistikname_" + label.ID;
label.Controls.AddAt(0, cb);
}
}
Right now this code replaces the labels, the same happens when I use label.Control.Add(cb)
You can use Page.Controls.AddAt() with combination of page.Page.Controls.IndexOf()
if(label.Parent != null && label.Parent.Controls.IndexOf(label) >= 0)
label.Parent.Controls.AddAt(label.Parent.Controls.IndexOf(label) + 1, cb);
Note :This should be done in Page PreInit events.
If you set the Text property in your Label control, basically all child controls get wiped out. See this answer: asp:label doesn't render children
I have a custom Tabs Control I created. It works as a coloured Label for the tab itself and as a Panel to hold the contents. My application reads UI parameters from config files. Take this line as an example from the controls config:
RTFBOX=(ID - rtf1) (BOUNDS - 0,0,100,100) (MULTILINE - enable) (FILE - email_rules.rtf)
This line tells the application to create an instance of my custom RichTextBoxPlus class and the important thing to take from this is that it is set up to read rich text from the FILE parameter. If I don't add this RichTextBoxPlus to another Control it shows it's rich text formatting absolutely fine.
I have another config that reads actions at runtime, this can be simple stuff like telling a Button created with the controls config that when it is clicked, it should fire off an email using content from a TextBox control. I have an action that pairs controls to each tab in the Tabs custom control. For example:
ADDTOTABS=(OBJECT - tabsControl1) (CONTROLS - panel1, panel2)
This finds tabsControl1 and adds panel1 to the 1st tab and panel2 to the 2nd tab. In this example, Panels are being added to each tab instead of individual controls as the Panels could hold multiple controls, handled at runtime through the ADDTOPANEL action.
ADDTOPANEL=(OBJECT - rtf1) (TARGET - panel1) (TRIGGER - onload)
So the rtf1 instance of RichTextBoxPlus is added to panel1 which is then added to the respective Panel of the Tabs control's 1st tab.
What I have found is rtf1 displays with rich text formatting absolutely fine if added to panel1 but not adding panel1 to Tabs.
The ADDTOTABS action executes this method:
private void TabContents_Action(Tabs tabpanel, string[] ctrls)
{
string[] tabs = tabpanel.GetTabNames();
for(int i = 0; i < tabs.Length; i++)
{
Control control = this.Controls.Find(ctrls[i], true).FirstOrDefault();
tabpanel.SetTaggedObject(control, tabs[i]);
}
tabpanel.SetTabActive(tabs[0]);
}
The SetTaggedObject method of the Tabs class finds the Panel control that corresponds with the tab name provided:
public void SetTaggedObject(Control ctrl, string tab)
{
Control container = this.Controls.Find(tab, false).FirstOrDefault();
container.Controls.Add(ctrl);
}
Doesn't seem to be anything untoward about this method.
The SetTabActive method of the Tabs class has a little more bulk. This handles changing the appearance of all tabs so that inactive tabs look different to the active tab. It is also hides and shows the panels for each tab based on whether the tab is active.
public void SetTabActive(string tab)
{
LabelPlus activeTab = this.tabs.Find(x => x.Name.Equals(tab));
List<LabelPlus> inactiveTabs = new List<LabelPlus>(this.tabs.FindAll(x => !x.Name.Equals(tab)));
activeTab.BackColor = this.ActiveColor;
activeTab.ForeColor = this.ActiveForeColor;
string panelName = tab.Remove(tab.Length - this.tabSuffix.Length);
Panel activeTabPanel = (Panel)this.Controls.Find(panelName, true).FirstOrDefault();
activeTabPanel.Bounds = new Rectangle(
new Point(this.tabStart, this.originalLocation.Y + this.TabTotalHeight), this.Size);
ControlCollection activeTabCtrls = activeTabPanel.Controls;
foreach(LabelPlus inactiveTab in inactiveTabs)
{
inactiveTab.BackColor = this.InactiveColor;
inactiveTab.ForeColor = this.InactiveForeColor;
string inactivePanelName = inactiveTab.Name.Remove(inactiveTab.Name.Length - this.tabSuffix.Length);
Panel inactiveTabPanel = (Panel)this.Controls.Find(inactivePanelName, true).FirstOrDefault();//
inactiveTabPanel.Bounds = new Rectangle(
new Point(this.tabStart, this.originalLocation.Y + this.TabTotalHeight), this.Size);
ControlCollection inactiveTabControls = inactiveTabPanel.Controls
foreach (Control ctrl in inactiveTabControls) { ctrl.Location = new Point(0, ctrl.Location.Y); ctrl.Hide(); }
}
foreach (Control ctrl in activeTabCtrls)
{ ctrl.Location = new Point(0, ctrl.Location.Y); ctrl.Show(); }
}
Not sure but I'd say the issue must be in this method. Any thoughts?
I'm a newbie in c# and probably going to ask a very easy question, but I've not been able to find anything on the web to help.
I have a tabControl with a TabPage which is containing a TextBox object; this object, when the event "Text changed" is invoked, will perform the change of the parent tabPage's name.
The textbox where I typed "text changed by me" has a method which is managing changing the name of the tabPage:
private void textBox1_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (this.textBox1.Text != "")
this.tabControl2.SelectedTab.Text = this.textBox1.Text;
else
this.tabControl2.SelectedTab.Text = "(no name)";
}
Into the current page menu is contained a control to add a new page, which runs this method when the user click on it:
private void addNewPageToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int numPagine;
string strPagine;
numPagine = this.tabControl2.TabCount;
strPagine = numPagine.ToString();
this.tabControl2.TabPages.Add("new page" + strPagine);
}
...and here is the output, which is expected since I'm just asking to add a new empty tabPage:
So, my question is: how can I make possible that when the user is clicking on "Add new page", rather than creating an empty new tabPage the program is rather creating a page like the first one (i.e. containing a textbox into the same position which has a method to change the text of the parent tabPage that I have just created?
Here is an example.
//..
// create the new page
TabPage tpNew = new TabPage("new page..");
// add it to the tab
this.tabControl2.TabPages.Add(tpNew);
// create one labe with text and location like label1
Label lbl = new Label();
lbl.Text = label1.Text;
lbl.Location = label1.Location;
// create a new textbox..
TextBox tbx = new TextBox();
tbx.Location = textBox1.Location;
tpNew.Controls.Add(lbl);
tpNew.Controls.Add(tbx);
// add code to the new textbox via lambda code:
tbx.TextChanged += ( (sender2, evArgs) =>
{
if (tbx.Text != "")
this.tabControl2.SelectedTab.Text = tbx.Text;
else
this.tabControl2.SelectedTab.Text = "(no name)";
} );
For more complicated layout you may want to consider creating a user control..
You also may want to create the first page with this code; the, of course with real values for text and positions!
For creating a UserControl you go to the project tag and right click Add-UserControl-UserControl and name it, maybe myTagPageUC. Then you can do layout on it like on a form. A rather good example is right here on MSDN
The problem is that is has no connection to the form, meaning you'll have to code all sorts of references to make it work..
I'm not really sure if you may not be better off writing a complete clonePage method instead. It could work like the code above, but would loop over the Controls of the template page and check on the various types to add the right controls..
It really depends on what is more complicated: the Layout or the ties between the pages and the form and its other controls..
For my C# Windows Form Application, I have created a flowlayoutpanel that contains several panels. Inside the panel, I have a button "Clear" for each and every single panel.
How do I write the event handler for the code for the button "Clear" such that once I have click the button, the panel would sort of be "Removed" from the flowlayoutpanel.
This is a short part of the code of the adding of panels to the flowlayoutpanel.
nFlowPanel.Controls.Add(createNotificationPanel());
nFlowPanel.Controls.Add(createNotificationPanel());
nFlowPanel.Controls.Add(createNotificationPanel());
nFlowPanel.Controls.Add(createNotificationPanelImpt());
nFlowPanel.Controls.Add(createNotificationPanelImpt());
and this is the code for the button "Clear"
Button btnClear = new Button
{
Text = "Clear",
Name = "btnClear",
Location = new Point(416, 17)
};
p.Controls.Add(btnClear);
btnClear.Click += new EventHandler(buttonClear_Click);
So what should i write in the following method to have the effect of removing e.g. the second panel that was added in the first part of code I have written?
void buttonClear_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
EDIT
the code for creating my panel is
var p = new Panel
{
BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle ,
Size = new Size(506,100),
Name = "notifyPanel"
};
and the code for creating my FlowLayoutPanel is
var nFlowPanel = new FlowLayoutPanel
{
FlowDirection = FlowDirection.TopDown,
WrapContents = false,
AutoScroll = true,
Size = new Size(530, 377),
Location = new Point(13, 145)
};
and the code for my button clear is
void buttonClear_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var button = (Control)sender;
var panel = button.Parent.Controls["notifyPanel"];
panel.Dispose();
}
however it gives the error
Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
on the panel.Dispose() line.
anyone can help?
The Controls.Remove() method is very dangerous, it doesn't dispose the control. Which will live on, moved to the so-called parking window, using up both Windows and managed resources. After a bit less than 10,000 times doing this it crashes your program when Windows is no longer willing to let you create any more windows.
Call the control's Dispose() method instead. That also automatically removes the control from its container.
void buttonClear_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var panel = nFlowPanel.Controls["notifyPanel"];
panel.Dispose();
}
You can do it like this:
nFlowPanel.Controls.Remove((sender as Button).Parent);
I will suggest you to use List for this. Before adding Panels in the FlowLayoutpanel, add them in the List. Then just remove the indexed panel from the flowlayoutpanel.
Panel pnlTemp = (panel)list[index];
nFlowPanel.Controls.Remove(pnlTemp);
To get the index of the button you have to add your buttons also to your list and after clicking any button, search the button in the list and get the index of the button where it is saved in the list. If my code is unclear, let me know. but I feel your task is that complex. I am not sure but this link may be of some help.
Hope it helps.
I want to create a kind of 4 x 3 matrix with textboxes and checkboxes. Whether the element is checkbox or textbox depends upon the values in database.I want it to be dynamic. What is the best way to start?
// something like this but I need to fill in each elements of the matrix...
private void CreateSpecificControl(string requestedType)
{
if (requestedType == "CheckBox")
{
CheckBox control1 = new CheckBox();
control1.Click += new EventHandler(chk_CheckedChanged);
//TableLayout panel
layout.ColumnStyles.Add(new ColumnStyle(SizeType.Percent, 25));
layout.Controls.Add(control1);
}
else
{
Label control1 = new Label();
control1.Text = "Not a checkbox";
layout.ColumnStyles.Add(new ColumnStyle(SizeType.Percent, 25));
layout.Controls.Add(control1);
}
}
Use a usercontrol. See this tutorial.
At run time you can change the contents of the User control. There's a Controls collection in each user control that you can add or remove elements from. For example if you want to add check boxes just do somethign like this:
myUserControl.Controls.Add(new CheckBox());
Similarly elements can be removed from this collection, thus achieving a dynamic behaviour.