VS 2010 Keeping Track Of 'Active' Tabpage With Multiple TabControls?
Aug 11, 2010
I am building a sort of 'lightweight' Visual Studio, and I'm trying to implement the feature where you can drag tabs to different 'tab groups', viewing multiple tabs side by side.
I got nearly everything working, I show a ContextMenuStrip when you rightclick the tab headers, with the option of creating a new (horizontal or vertical) Tab Group. When that happens, a new TabControl is added dynamically and the selected tab is moved there. You can drag the tabs around inside a TabControl and even from one to another.
The problem now is keeping track of the 'active' tab. Since I have multiple TabControls (not just two, there can be as many as you want theoretically), their SelectedTab properties are basically useless. How am I to determine which TabControl the user is currently working in? Obviously I will always have multiple selected tabs, but only one active tab, in which the user is currently typing, editing, whatever.I need to know the active tab for obvious reasons: many menu and toolbar items act on the active tab for example. A short explanation of my controls:I have one TabGroupContainer control, which inherits UserControl. I have a TabGroup control, which inherits TabControl.I have a Tab control, which inherits TabPage.
The TabGroupContainer holds a collection of TabGroups (to which I dynamically add/remove TabGroups when required). Now I want the TabGroupContainer control to have the ActiveTab property which returns the one and only active tab (out of possibly many selected tabs).The only logical way is to keep track of the tab that was selected last, for every TabGroup.
At the moment, I am doing this:
- In the TabGroup (TabControl) class, I shadow the SelectedTab property (and return a Tab instead of a TabPage). More importantly, in the property setter, I raise a SelectedTabChanged event:
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Public Shadows Property SelectedTab As Tab
Get
Return DirectCast(MyBase.SelectedTab, Tab)
[code]....
However, it still doesn't work. I soon figured out why: I am checking that the previously SelectedTab is not the same as the new value in the property setter of the (shadowed) SelectedTab property. I don't raise the event when they were the same, and in this case they were the same (as there is only one tab in the TabGroup!).So, I took that check out, and now it seems to work when I click in the text editor.
So one problem remains: the active tab is not changed when you click on the tab header (and not on the text editor). I am clueless as to how I should handle this... I am once again sure there is a simple fix, but I cannot see it. I can click the tab header, and I'm sure behind the hood it responds to this click, but it never raises it SelectedIndexChanged event because the index didn't change but was set to the same value it already had. I cannot override the SelectedIndex property (so I could skip this check and raise the event anyway even if the value didn't change), and the OnSelectedIndexChanged method is not called, so I cannot use that either...
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I want to know if the user clicked on the Ellipse (just the line of nonfilled ellipse)? I don't care if the click inside of it,JUST the LINE. I made a copy of the orgianal rectangle info before drawing it. And then I tried .contains on the mouse click? and that allows me to click everywhere
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I can imagine how it could be done with squares or rectangles, but i dont know how to approach it with ellipses.
Im sure this has been asked before, but i've spent a good while searching around for something i can use and came up emptyhanded.
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I need to know how can:
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Private Sub Button1Push_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1Push.Click Dim Stack(4) As String
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Here's that code (this just sends from one textbox to another over the internet) Imports System.Net.Sockets Imports System.Net Imports System.Text Dim udpClient As New UdpClient(1024) Dim RemoteIpEndPoint As New IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 0) [Code] .....
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I would like to know how to deal with the following:
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I need to loop through a gridview to find records that match items in a different table (in SQL). Is the best method to loop through the gridview and call an SQL procedure on every loop to find matching records? Or should I pull the entire sql db into a datatable and query the dataset in my gridview loop?
'find source ID based on make/model/serial No combination. Dim cSource As New clsSource() Dim ds As DataSet = cSource.GetSources()
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For example: if I build Form1 with a public method called ChangeMyColor and a button to call that method. Then in the main app I set MyForm1 = New Form1 and MyForm2 = New Form1, then call MyForm1.ChangeMyColor, the color changes on the second instance. Even if I click that button on the first instance, the color still changes on the second.
I made an application that searches for an text file and copy it toc: est. But when is find multiple files i cant copy it because it will overwrite the file in c: est *.txt.Is there a way i can copy a file and Keep the origional file name?[code]...
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I can build the tabstrip fine and name it - that part is from what I can see the easy bit.What I want to do is select a tab then create a listbox on that tab, and then pupulate the list box with data. For this test I am using the event viewer.
The system loades the logs into memory, and then creates however many system logs there are ie application, system security etc etc.
But how the hell do I select one of these tabs then draw a listbox and then address the list box - Ideally the list boxes etc will be created at the time of the tab?[code]...
So here is the situation. I have a button on one of my extjs pages. This button opens a child window as a pop-up. This child window has a .method attribute as well as a .ref attribute, and also a .id. I need the functionality to open another window with the SAME template, everytime I click that button.I was thinking set the childwindow .method property to something like 'getWindow', and the .ref to something like 'newWindow' and then create a javascript function on the backend to look something like this:
var myArray = []; var count = 0; function getWindow() {
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I can then run the application without oven control. After running, lets say the user would like to re-run, this time with the oven. They go back to the input tab and re-select the Oven checkbox. However, the Oven tab doesn't re-appear. When stepping through the code, the is nothing stored in My.Settings for the oven tab page. Why not?
Also, I can open the application, and check, then uncheck the oven checkbox and the tab is hidden, then returns. I can do this all day. However, after running the tab will not return.
What happens here is when I click on anyone of the radio buttons the text box score sets the value to either 0,1,2,3,4 but when I go the next case it goes back to 0 instead of keeping the value. I tried many different techniques while going about this none seem to work.
Let's say I'm trying to have a program that will check for a version.txt file online, and enable the user to download a new version of my .exe.Here is an example of how i get the new version. I apologize for the old syntax, but i just got out of VB6 and am still learning FileStream, etc. Inetconnection is just a function similar to Webclient.DownloadData.
I've never really used the SecureString class before but I've got a requirement in an app to have a user enter a password that will be used later in the application, and I figure SecureString is the most secure way to do this.
I have created a little dialog form where the user will enter their username and password and have set the UseSystemPasswordChar property of the password textbox to True. As I need to keep the password in memory for use later though, I have created a property in my main form that is of type SecureString and when the user enters their password into the dialog window I copy the string from the password box to the SecureString property like so:
vb.net For i As Integer = 0 To LoginFrm.PasswordBox.TextLength - 1 Me.ConnectionPassword.AppendChar(LoginFrm.PasswordBox.Text(i)) Next
I figured out how to get the original string back when I need to (with only a slight hint from the documentation I might add ), which I do like this:
Dim OriginalString As String = Marshal.PtrToStringBSTR(Marshal.SecureStringToBSTR(Me.ConnectionPassword))
but the problem I have is that I want the user to have the option to edit the password they already entered if they want to. This is a problem because I want to avoid putting the real password back into the password box for security reasons, but then if I just put some random characters in there (just to show that their password has been remembered by the app) and then the user clicks OK on the login diaog form then it will update my ConnectionPassword property and set it to the random characters. One option would be to set the passwordbox text to something specific each time and then test to see if that is what the text is set to when they click Ok (and if it is then obviously dont update the ConnectionPassword property) but this seems pretty rubbish because its possible (however unlikely) that the user could actually select that word as a password.
Any better suggestions? Perhaps its not worth doing anything at all and just use a normal string as the SecureString is going to have to get converted back to a normal string at some point to be used.
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Private Function SomeFuction() as String ' indicate the function started StartTickCount("MyClass.SomeFunction") ' some logic that causes the function to end [Code] .....
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winforms .net 3.5 Ultrawingrid 9.2 In my subclass of Ultrawingrid.Ultragrid :
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This works fine. But when the grid is dropped on a TabControl tabpage, the ctrl-tab looks very different to the sub above. e.keycode is seen as controlkey {17} I realize that by default cntrl-Tab moves between tabpages. I need to override this behavior. My thought is I probably need a subclass of the tabControl which will pass the keycombo through just as the form does but I confess to being clueless as to how to accomplish that. I tried to override the onkeydown of a tabcontrol subclass and just issuing a return and not and base call to onkeydown if the ctrl-tab combo was pressed but it seemed to see the e.keycode as controlkey as well.
