VS 2008 Best Way To Create An Options Menu?
Mar 31, 2010
i have various options in my app, some complex some not, these 2 save on application exit and reload on application start themes, and layouts. There selected via a comobox each.So onto the question, how does everyone create options menus? With out using a menustrip/toolstrip?
The method i was using , was to have a picture box show a panel when it was clicked on, the panel had all the various options etc on it. This idea worked great, but meant working in design mode was a pain because the panel and everything on it had to be moved round to see the items under it on the form.
So today i decided to see what other ways i can implement a menu, and i changed it so the picturebox/button now opens a dialog, and all the options etc are on that dialog, this works great except options such as the combobox 1 and combobox2 last used setting (text data binding) doesn't load when the application is started, they only load when you go into the options. Which defeats the point, if a users going into the options just to load the settings its useless them been saved.
The time to initialize the dialog (for it to appear and be click able) is 5 - 15 seconds, not alot i know but the 1st method of using a panel it initializes instantly, but then its never really closed just made hidden, so i uses more system resources.So how does every one else implement there options menu?
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Feb 28, 2010
Problem: Your task is to take input from the user in string and give the following options to the user in a menu.
1- Find a String
2- Create sub-string
3- Erase a portion of a sting
4- Replace a word in the string
5- Count number of words and characters in the string without spaces.
6- Capitalize first character of each new sentence and convert the rest
of the characters to lower case.
7- Sort all the words in alphabetical order. (Use Bubble sort algorithm to perform sorting).
To perform all the above mentioned tasks you can only use pointers. Create a function to perform every task.
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Nov 26, 2010
As i'm learning more and more about developing ive just got my head around creating classes and modules, i started wondering about something to do with configuration of applications where deployment is in a more diverse environment say in a company where different branches dont need access to all parts of a program, so i thought id throw the question out there in a basic sense and get some feedback. so i can go off and do some more reading and learning.
So the scenario in my head is like this.
So we have for arguments sake FrmConfig which is the master configuration form, then we have FrmMain which is the root menu our application general user interfaces with. So here based on what options are checked as enabled in FrmConfig effects what controls (like buttons/menu options) are enabled in FrmMain.
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Aug 26, 2010
I want to learn how to add the menu options that appear when you click your right mouse button.So far I have a normal menu strip control, rich text box control and I have added a ContextMenuStrip control.
I have not got a clue on how to set the properties for the contextmenustrip on the richtextbox control, so when the user clicks the right mouse button the contextmenustrip appears.
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Mar 29, 2010
I would like to have threads created and perform selected operations for a menu. Basically there are 3 options and for each option, a thread should go ahead and perform that operation whilst the option is available to select other options if the operation is running and not interactive. I have tried it and after correcting a lot of compiler errors its not running correctly with one thread hanging and not giving the option to select another process.
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Mar 31, 2011
The user right clicks on my picturebox object. Good.When that happens, some code of mine executes and will generate a list of options.Then a menu appears where the mouse right-clicked, made up of these options.When the user clicks on one of these options, the menu is deleted and some code is run given the option index as parameter.How can I tell when the user right clicks? I can see an event handler for "click", but that includes left clicks.How do I create one of these menus? I mean, go ahead and right click something. That's the kind of menu I'm looking for.
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Mar 29, 2010
I have an app that has a console menu with 2/3 selections. One process involves uploading a file and performing a lengthy search process on its contents, whilst another process involves SQL queries and is an interactive process with the user. I wish to use threads to allow one process to run and the menu to offer the option for the second process to run.However you cannot run the first process twice.
main...
Dim tm As Thread = New Thread(AddressOf loadFile)
Dim ts As Thread = New Thread(AddressOf reports)
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Oct 13, 2011
My latest project is to write an app that has a drop-down menu where I can choose different office locations. Once a choice is made I want a handful of different buttons which would vary between location choice. When a button is clicked it will install a printer. I've got the button and install part down but don't know where to start with the dropdown and showing different options upon choice.
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Jun 9, 2011
My app has a nice menu strip, with two tool strips, one containing file options, and other contanining options options (oO)The bad part is... the options toolstip has two subitems that should be excluse. Like: I click one, other gets unclicked and become not functional.I've tried it, but with no sucess.
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Dec 16, 2010
I have a text box field for which I want to use a couple of custom commands accessible via a context menu. I can add my custom context menu to my text box, but then I lose the standard windows ones (i.e. Undo, copy, paste, etc).
What I really want is a context menu with both my custom options and the standard windows options. I want that to take place only within my application (i.e. not like a shell extension).
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Jan 19, 2012
As you can see from the screen shot I have managed to get MDI Parents / Child forms working, and managed there to be a menu option on the Parent form that displays all the Child forms opened at the time. What I was wondering, and as of yet through research haven't discovered, is there a way when the list of windows is created, if a user highlights any child in the list it opens a sub-menu from its name (eg. Rename Window, Center Window, etc).
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Jun 23, 2012
MDI Child Form List / Sub-Menu Options
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Aug 31, 2010
If you right click a item.. it brings up the menu of things to do with it. How do I add something to that?
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Oct 24, 2010
I have this code below that I called a Conversion Wizard Because it converts temperature, weight and currency. It works so far but I am stuck. I don't know how to apply the correct loops to it. For example, Do While and Do Until. I want it to be able to work out a conversion then loop back to the Menu-options. So that you can do as many conversions as you like and end when option 4 is selected.
Option Explicit On
Module ConversionWizard
Sub Main()
Dim userOption As Integer
Dim farenHeight As Integer
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Mar 14, 2009
I'm using the code from the following site to create a file manager within my app: [url]Which, I think is great. When I first started programming, I wanted to use this code, but I couldn't understand it. I love how now, I understand most of it and know how to implement it. Which, I owe much of my progress to some of you at this site Well, back to what I was saying. I want to be able to make a right click menu and have it access options like copy, paste, etc. I'm sure I can figure that out, but I can't seem to figure out how to make a right click menu.I thought I could manipulate a menustrip, but I wasn't sure how.
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Aug 23, 2011
I am wanting to create a menu based on items in my MS SQL database i have 3 tables
FormTbl
FormID - Int Eg (1)
FormName - nvarchar(50) Eg (Form1)
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I can get the form names to be populated in to the menu and can open it my question is how do i set where the menu items will be placed. Eg File with FormHierarch 0 will be the very first one. Exit with FormHierarch 0.1 will be the very first one under File
Private Sub Main_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim menu As New MenuStrip()
Dim dst As DataTable = User.MenuItems(Me.ToolStripStatusLabel1.Text)
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Aug 12, 2009
I am creating a VBA application using Excel 2007 and would like to make virtually all of the standard Office and Excel menus invisible to the user and present to the user only my custom menu controls. I have been successful in doing this for all objects on the Ribbon as well as those on the Microsoft Office Button Menu, with the exception of the "recently opened files list" box, that also has the "Excel Options" and "Exit Excel" buttons on it. Can anyone tell me the name of the object for this control so that I can make it invisible?
Here is the relevant snipit of XML code that is in my CustomUI.xml file:
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Mar 27, 2010
I have created a new user control (ctlMyBox) with a bunch of labels, textboxes, and a picturebox. I learned how to add simple custom properties (strings, integers..etc) to it using the "Public Property..etc" method.
However, as an example, I also want to add a "Theme" property with only three options (Light, Dark, and Colorful). Depending on the theme chosen for the control, the colors of the different labels will change.My current (primitive) solution to this is making the Theme property as a String, like so:
Code:
Private strTheme As String = "Colorful"
Public Property Theme() As String
Get
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This would require the user to know the exact names of the available themes. What I want is that when someone is coding to change the theme, a list of options would appear after writing ctlMyBox1.Theme = . The user would then select one of the three options, similar to when you select the checked state property of a checkbox for example. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this?
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Jun 13, 2012
To avoid juggling with PHP for web apps and VB.Net for desktop aps, I'd like to investigate writing web apps in VB.Net.
What are my options? For instance, do I have to use Windows as the OS, .Net as the framework, and VS as the development tool, or is it OK to use Linux + Mono + some other IDE?
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Oct 15, 2009
I want to create my own custom MessageBox.
The default message box from VB contains a few options (as a parameter) like:
MessageBoxButtons.OK
MessageBoxButtons.RetryCancel
MessageBoxButtons.YesNo
MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel
etc...
How can I create a sub that also has a list of options the user can choose from??
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Aug 20, 2011
I am in need of a form that shows various options, exactly like the Options in Visual Studio. Since there are so many options I too want them categorized, with a TreeView to the left taking care of showing the right category.The usual 'easy' approach here would be to just place a TreeView control on the form, add some nodes, and give those nodes a tag or key that corresponds to a panel or UserControl with the options for that category.Since there will be a lot of options however, this is not really feasible design-wise; the form would be cluttered with possibly 50 panels, all of which I would need to select and bring to front from time to time to add controls to them that represent the options.
So I decided to create a custom control that does exactly that. The control is very similar to my Wizard usercontrol, users can add OptionsPanels at design time, which inherit Panel and simply represent one panel of options. When they do, the panel is added to a container panel, and at the same time a TreeNode is added to a TreeView. The control uses a custom ControlDesigner to handle design-time clicks in the Treeview, selecting a different node would select and bring to front the corresponding panel, allowing the user to add the controls he wants.
Due to the design time support the problem of having 50 panels is no longer present, only one panel will be visible at a time and selecting the right panel is as simple as selecting the corresponding TreeNode, just as during run-time. Anyway, I got all this working, but only for a single 'level' of categories. As you can see in the Visual Studio options, there can be multiple levels of categories. For example, the Environment node has a bunch of children, where each child represents one 'options panel'. There can even be deeper nesting, see the Text Editor node for example.Let me begin by drawing out the basics of how my control works so far.
The main control is an OptionsView control, which contains a SplitContainer with a TreeView to the left and a OptionsPanelContainer to the right. The OptionsPanelContainer is merely a Panel to which only OptionsPanel controls can be added, and which raises events when this happens, as well as when OptionsPanels are removed from it. An OptionsPanel also inherits Panel, and these are the actual panels the users will see in the control, one for each option category.For now, each OptionsPanel has exactly one corresponding TreeNode (and vice versa). In the Visual Studio options, each 'parent' category usually has a 'General' node as the first child, and the parent and this General node show the same option panel, but I am ignoring that for the moment.
The OptionsView control has a property Panels that returns the ControlCollection (Controls property) of the OptionsPanelContainer (in other words: it returns a collection of OptionsPanels that are in this container panel).
vb.net
<Editor(GetType(Designers.OptionsPanelCollectionEditor), GetType(UITypeEditor))> _ <DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Content)> _ Public ReadOnly Property Panels As Control.ControlCollection Get Return Me.PanelContainer.Controls End Get End Property
A custom CollectionEditor for this property takes care of the designer: even though the property type is ControlCollection, the CollectionEditor knows it should create instances of the OptionsPanel control instead of just Controls.When it does this, a corresponding TreeNode is also created and its Tag property is set to the OptionsPanel. Vice versa, the Node property of the OptionsPanel is set to the node. Hence the node and panel both know their corresponding object.
vb.net
Public Class OptionsPanelCollectionEditor Inherits System.ComponentModel.Design.CollectionEditor Public Sub New(type As Type) MyBase.New(type) End Sub Protected Overrides Function CreateCollectionItemType() As System.Type
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So far so good, this all works fine. I can add Panels via the designer and when I do a new TreeNode appears in the TreeView. I can select this node and the panel becomes visible (comes to the front).Now, I am a little stuck. How do I implement child option panels? And more importantly: how do I let the user add child panels?The most logical choice I think is to let each OptionsPanel have a property (ChildPanels or something) that returns the child OptionsPanels for that panel. Once the user selects an OptionsPanel then, he can look in the property grid to find its ChildPanels property and add child panels to that.
There is a problem though: what would this property return? It must return a ControlCollection of some container (this is, I think, a requirement for the designer features to work, otherwise panels are not added to the Form.Designer.vb file). But there is no container. I cannot add them to the OptionsPanel itself, that would make no sense because the parent OptionsPanel has its own set of controls (the options itself...), there cannot be another (fully docked) Panel on top of those obviously.The container of the main OptionsView then? That is not an option either, its Controls collection holds ALL OptionsPanels, not just the children of the selected panel. I cannot 'select' only the right panels either, that would require me to return a new instance of ControlCollection, it would be impossible to return the actual ControlsCollection that holds merely a small selection of its controls.
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Sep 13, 2011
I am currently in the process of improving my options dialog for a winforms application. At the moment I am using a tab control. I would like to create a form/dialog for settings that is similar to Visual Studio's. How is this done? I can see a treeview like control on the left hand side but what control are they using to display each of the options pages, it doesn't appear to be a tab control. I would like to be able to build the controls for each of the settings at design time.
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Feb 28, 2010
With the following piece of code
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The Or keyword is confusing me. So in the above example which variable gets set. Does options = options or does it set RegexOptions.none.
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Jul 9, 2010
I have this program I'm writing that needs to print for instance what date it is a 100 days from now or 30 days from now. Is there a function in VB.NET that lets me do something like this?
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Dec 7, 2010
1. i have a panel on a windows form with picture boxes in.I wish to click on one and open a specific directory on my pc , much like clicking on one in explorer.
2. is it possible to run executables with options? i.e wmplayer.exe" /prefetch:1 if i use shell it throws an error obviously.
3. is it possible to open windowsa control panel items from within my program,like network and sharing. I am using win7 and VB2008
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Aug 8, 2009
I was woundering if there is anyway via VB.net to have only two option on vista's shutdown menu. I only need "Logoff" and "Hibernate". just woundering if there was anyway possible to have these two options.
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Oct 21, 2010
im new to programing infact this is my second day... im unsure of where to ask this question and i know this is probably not the hardest thing to do lol, i am making a "launcher" to launch a few games, a webbrowser and a few other things, however to do this i have a "set path" in the code, i want to know if anyone can help me make a "setup page" so the user of the launcher can set the path [eg]- to launch firefox i have If IO.File.Exists("C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe") Then Process.Start("C:Program FilesMozilla Firefoxfirefox.exe")not everyone has firefox installed to that exact location , so i need to make a settings page to set the paths, each file is launched buy a single button, in the future i may even make another program much the same for people who dont know how to use a pc nd just want to check emails and browse to a webpage.
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Feb 4, 2011
We have become disenfranchised with our med records scanning package and are doing in house development to create our own. With most of the interface built out, the monster of calling the Fujitsu Twain driver and pre-setting scan options is what I am looking for. Fujitsu does not have an SDK available on their web for this.
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Mar 2, 2009
i am now creating a Sql server Database and i will connect it to my App using ado.net. the program & the db will be in the host computer. and each client in my network will have access to the App via a specific Username & Password. the user will choose an options to his interface( themes & colors & fonts & language etc....) via an option form. how to make each user have his own settings and when the user access the App in another time the settings to him will be the what he chose in the last time?
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Feb 18, 2011
I have currently changed the color of background Menustrip using this code
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How do i change the Hover color of menu items and dropdown menu items to orange including the background color which holds icons in menustrip dropdown.....
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