So I am trying to make a space between an icon used for validation of a form and a textbox. Right now, I in Properties Window, I am setting ErrorProvider's IconPadding property (under ContainerControl section) to something like 5 but it doesn't make a difference. If matters, the icon I use is 48x48, so it doesn't have a preferred size, but I will change that later (to 16x16).
try this:
this.errorProvider.SetIconPadding(this.textBox, 5);
I'm using MessageBox.Show() in a console application for a purpose. But, the header text displayed in the MessageBox is trimmed as it displays ending characters as "...".
Can I set the MessageBox window width to handle this behavior.
Please help me in this regard.
Thanks in advance.
No, in the default MessageBox its not possible to change the size of it. But if you want it, you can create your own message box. Just create a new form, put some buttons inside, in icon if you wanto and some text. And when you want it to show, just simply call ut, like you open the form
See
here
C# formatting a MessageBox
It can't be done. You have to create your own Form mimicking that behavior.
You can try to use the Win32 call SetWindowPos As suggested here.
Any idea how to display textBox control in MessageBox.
I'm working on winforms projcet c#.
Thank you in advance.
You can't. MessageBox is a special container designed to only show a message and buttons. Instead, you can create your own Form with whatever controls you want, and use .ShowDialog() on it.
You can simply add an Input box from VB.NET into your C# project.
First add Microsoft.VisualBasic to your project References, then use the following code:
string UserAnswer = Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.InputBox("Your Message ", "Title", "Default Response");
And that should work properly.
It will be better to add a new Form in you application which you can customize the way you want.
and just call it from where ever required.
you could create a classic win form that looks like a message box and opening it as a modal form
perhaps using Form.ShowDialog
more info at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c7ykbedk.aspx
You cannot customise the MessageBox, its better you use a popup designed using Windows Form separately and use its instance to invoke.
customPopup popup = new customPopup();
popup.ShowDialog();
Place your controls on the popup form and set their access modifiers to public if you want to access the textboxes or labels etc in your previous form.
customPopup popup = new customPopup();
popup.msgLabel.Text= "Your message";
popup.ShowDialog();
As I know there is no way to do that.
You can create a winform change it's style to look like a MessageBox and add your own controls.
Yes, as krillgar mentioned,you should create your own form. And
1. Encapsulate the form in a static class or function, so you may just call MyMessageBox.Show().
2. The textbox should have readonly=true, so the end users won't be able to change the text displayed, while they could select text and copy to clipboard.
Regarding to item 2, I believe many Windows build applications and MS Office use such approach.
using Microsoft.VisualBasic;//add reference
var Password = Interaction.InputBox("Message", "Title" ,"information in textbox", -1,-1);
In the variable "password" it receives the information that is entered from the text box.
Remember to add the reference "Microsoft.VisualBasic" in the solution explorer
Solution in here, you can create windows form and design it, set form is dialog, when you call form, it is auto show. In form you design, you set value some parameter static where other class in project, but you should set when you close form design that, OK, come back form init call show dialog, you create interval call when have == null return call, when != null you stop call back and using parameter in class static it !
I want to make a form contained in another form. The problem is the application is already a MDI, and you can't nest MDI's.
If I do
childFrm.Parent = parentForm
some controls behave oddly. For example, if you click on the text in the textbox, usually the text cursor appears where you clicked, but it doesn't, it just goes to the end of the text.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Any particular reason why you can't host the content in a UserControl instead of a Form?
How about adding the child forms as owned forms to the MDI parent?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.form.addownedform.aspx
Look at SetWindowParent Windows API Call, and no you cannot use .Parent it won't work correctly as .NET itself doesn't support internally what you're wanting to do.
Or would I have to do something like create a windows form and host the xaml inside it? Trying to get as consistent a look and feel as I can. If I can only do the latter, how do I achieve that?
This should be what you want:
var window = new MyWindow();
var helper = new WindowInteropHelper(window);
helper.Owner = this.Handle;
window.ShowDialog();
This is the key to ensuring correct behaviour upon minimise/restore. See this blog post for more information about the method.
(If this isn't quite what you need, perhaps you could define "truly modal".)
You can create custom dialog boxes, and they're modal. You can host a WPF Window within it and define buttons as modal closing buttons. That seems to be the best way to do a modal window, IMO.