I am trying to add controls to a collection runtime(toolstripmenus to a menustrip) However, when I try to loop through the collection, it says something like: "Collection has been edited. Listing function cannot be done" (it's a free translation since i have a finnish VB)
View 2 RepliesI have a Combobox in DropDown mode. I have the code for handling the selected list item in the Validating event of the Combobox If the user highlights the text in the Combobox and presses the Delete key, the text is deleted The user then clicks the MenuStrip and the dropdown menu appears.
View 2 RepliesI accidentally pressed the insert standard items, then I removed the items that I added by accident but there are still remaining items
Such:
CopyToolStripMenuItem
UndoToolStripMenuItem
And I can't figure out how to remove these items as I already deleted the parent items.I tried deleting it from the properties menu by pressing delete on it but it doesn't work.
How do I Display controls in a Mdi panel or menuStrip when a certain form is active?
View 4 RepliesI have an ASP.NET app with lots of textboxes all over the page that need updating at various points through program execution. These textboxes actually belong to a certain class, so for easy updating I thought I could create a Dictionary(Of string, object) and add the control.ID and the control to it and then for updating do something like this:
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I'm using VS2008, writing an app in VB.Net (3.5 framework), and I have a custom control which recieves a collection (each item in the collection has an image, and 2 text fields).When populating this at design time, it's nice and easy to do either in code, or even better through the very useful "Collection Editor" (in terms of user friendliness, at least).What I'd like to do is give my end users a similar Collection Editor interface, on my main form, to be able to add to and remove from this collection in a similar way to how it's done in the IDE. This is new territory for me, and I really don't know how to achieve this
View 3 RepliesBuilding a MP3 player fairly large but will upload the zip file if needed. It almost compelted. I am stuck on one thing I want to be able to create a playlist collection based on the name the user enters into a textbox and name the collection with that name if the user enters mysongs as the name the collection would be named mysongs. I know how do declare a new collection but there is no way to change the name to mysongs I am not limited to collections it could be an array or a list of strings my thought here is to save the list of mysongs to a collection to find the list if it already exists and open the list if found to a listbox I know how to go through the list and put results in a listbox. Maybe a collection of collections is not the right way to handle this?
View 3 RepliesI'm a bit confused here. I'm copying all the controls from one form to a panel on the main form and for some reason only about half of them copy.
Private Sub switchComponent()
Dim selection As String = TreeView1.SelectedNode.Text
Panel1.Controls.Clear()[code]....
When stepping through the code, serverDic(selection).Controls has 12 elements, but only 6 of them get copied. Next time this gets called, only 3 get copied. Does Panel1.Controls.clear() somehow kill the references?
EDIT: Just to show that there are infact 12 elements in the collection:
Im trying to loop through a collection of controls see code:
Private Sub addZeros()
For Each ctrl As Control In Me.Controls
If TypeOf ctrl Is GroupBox Then
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I often see code snippets for handling each control of a certain type on a form or panel, etc.They always start with For Each ctrl and the do a test for control type.Many .NET users are not aware, as I was not until I tried it recently, that we can LINQ on the controls collection.Below is a simple sub I created for resetting every checkbox on a panel I use as a validator.
Private Sub ResetCheckBoxes(ByRef pnl As Panel)
Dim ctrls as System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable(Of Object)
ctrls = From c In pnl.Controls Where TypeOf (c) Is CheckBox
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Does anyone know how I can access the FontDialog's controls collection? I would like to disable the Font Style ListBox, set the Font Style's TextBox to readonly and disable the UnderLine and StrikeOut CheckBoxes.
View 3 RepliesMaybe if I knew the right termanology, I could find the answer myself.. I am going to run a fairly long list of "If"s that will determine if certain controls appear on the form or not. In it's simplest form would be:
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How to get the last instance of label control in List (of Control) using linq?
View 4 RepliesI am writing a simple control translation function that reads an XML file containing control names and their localized text. Within the application, each time a form is loaded, it iterates through every control and tests to see if that control is defined in the XML file. If it is, it then sets the control text to whatever localized text is defined in the XML file.
There are some tests and additional requirements (i.e. nested loops) for TabControl and MenuStrip etc., but the control that is giving me the most trouble is the ContextMenuStrip.[code]...
I am trying to dynamically add some css and js elements into an ASP.Net page at runtime, but because this code is used in mutliple controls I need to ensure that the relevant links are only injected once.
Currently I have the folowing code in the OnPreRender event.
Dim head As HtmlControls.HtmlHead = Me.Parent.Page.Header
If Not _useCustomStyles Then
Dim litCustomCss As New LiteralControl("<link rel=" & Chr(34) & "stylesheet" &
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Does .Contains look for this instance of an object (which I assume is why this is failing)?
Is there a way to check the controls collection for a specific id? Or am I going to have to write a sub to loop through the existing controls in the collection checking for the id.
I have a small piece of code that iterates through the controls collection on a panel (below) Everything works fine until I want to focus on a control that doesn't support the selectall method i.e. a datetimepicker. Is there any way of determining the type of control and not call the selectall method when the type is datetimepicker. All my other controls support it so that's the only one I need to exclude.
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I need a function to be performed on the page load, which uses a stored session variable. I have added the following to my <body> tag.
<body onload="doSomething(event,'<%= Session("StartTime") %>')>
This does work. However, it is causing a problem elsewhere, when I try to add a control to my controls collection:
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Does anyone know how I can access the FontDialog's controls collection? I would like to disable the Font Style ListBox, set the Font Style's TextBox to readonly and disable the UnderLine and StrikeOut CheckBoxes.
View 3 RepliesI want a menu with just two dropdown lists, the menustrip puts a strip right across the form, is there any way to change the width of the strip? Changing in properties does not work. Is there a different type of menu I can use?
View 12 RepliesI'm trying to make a collection class for buttons to address them as a whole, only I want to design the buttons at design time, and not add/set their properties programatically at runtime. Each button has its own image, so it doesn't seem right to add a bunch of lines of code which assign the properties when they're always going to be the same thing.Is it possible to create the controls at design time and then add them to an array at runtime? I did this, iterating through the buttons on the form and adding each of them to the class below.The problem is that once they're added they seem to be a different instance because changing their positions has no effect on the design-buttons on the form. Essentially i wanted the collection to be a reference to the items belonging to the form.Is that possible or should I be doing this a different way?[code]
View 2 RepliesHow can I find a List or Collection of User Controls available within the development enviroment and dynamically add them to a combox by their Name Property. I am looking for something along the lines of:
View 4 RepliesI am trying to make a collection of controls that I can loop through. So I have this code in my form... Dim WizardFrameCollection As New Control.ControlCollection(Nothing)
I then try to add controls to the collection by I get a error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." WizardFrameCollection.Add(Me.GroupBox1) I am not sure why I am getting this error. Groupbox1 is a groupbox that is on the form.
at some points, I need to call the same method on those controls (ex. user presses the clear button on the big control, I want to call the clear f(x) on each of the controls)I thought to toss the controls in a collection, and then be able to handle them something like this:
nextturns out, and I should have realized, methods and properties of controls are not exposed when treated this way. The only thing that can be seen is the stuff that the base class (control, I guess) has.
"add controls at runtime" how to add code to the controls. kinda useless with no code, ehh? all results only told me how to add the control, that's it. well, this result is different. i will teach you firstly how to add controls at runtime, then how to apply code to them at runtime
Firstly, add the controls:
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Now run it. do you have a button on the form? if yes, excellent. if not, you made a mistake. try again now how to add code? you may have noticed that when you double click on any control, it says private sub button1_click(blah, blah, blah) Handles button1.click where it says handles button1.click is what determines when the code executes under what event for what control (in this case the click event for the button1). this won't work when adding code at runtime. did you notice in the above example i added a with event, and addHandler? this is what creates the handler (same as Handles button1.click)
Now we add the code for the runtime control
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Above, the addressOf button1_click tells the program to execute the sub button1_click when the button is clicked on (as determined by .click) but i know what you're thinking! your thinking "why would we even BOTHER doing this at runtime? isn't it easier to do it at design-time in the first place?" yes it is, providing your not writing a plugin. plugins are code based, not GUI (also reffered to as WYSIWYG). to update existing forms using plugins, you need to use this method.
I have created a form Dynamically at run time using this below code but how can i add controls to it.
Dim NewFm as Form
NewFm.ShowDialog()
how can i add treeview to this form and populate with data during runtime?
is there a tutorial (i looked, couldn't find) on adding controls at runtime?
View 8 RepliesI've created a code that will add a control on runtime.
Sub Button_AddNewGradeEquivalent_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_AddNewGradeEquivalent.Click
Dim newGradeRepresentation As New TextBox
Dim newGradeCondition As New ComboBox
Dim newGradePercentage As New TextBox
TextBoxItems += 1
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I did something that when I now load my program(VB 2008), my controls; combo boxes, buttons, progress bar, etc. look like they are from VB 2005 or like VBA buttons, not the rounded edge buttons of 2008.
They look like vb 2008 controls while I am in design view, but then they change their style when I run the program..
I have a situation where i'm populating records in datagridview from a table where first column is the ParameterName, Second Column is ParameterValue and third column is ParameterType.When i click on second column in any row as per the records, it should show the control type in this cell as per the third column parameterType.[code]
View 4 RepliesI want to create controls in runtime and attach them to an already connected database..
the controls must vary e.g.Array of Strings can be used.
how to place these controls on a panel in a orderly fashion.