Dynamically Arranging Controls In .net?
Jun 21, 2010
I am looking for the best way to dynamically arrange the location of labels (or any control for that matter) during runtime in a Windows Forms application using VB.net or C# in VS2008.I have a control that displays messages created by users.This control has a panel docked at the top which holds the header information for each message, called pnlHeader There are 8 labels: 4 of them display static descriptions (e.g. "To", "From", "Created Date", "Completed Date")And the other 4 display the relevant data for those descriptions. (Passed in during runtime from a MS SQL 2005 DB).Static labels are named: lblCreatedDateLbl and dynamic ones: lblCreatedDate The application runs on monitors of various size and resolution, therefor I would like for all of the labels to arrange themselves with equal spacing in pnlHeader, based on the current width of the panel.
At first, I had simply created the labels in the Designer and used Anchors (half of the lables were set to (Top, Left) and the other half to (Top, Right)). This solution worked for most scenarios, but did not always provide a consistent solution, so I decided to add the controls in code instead.
I thought it would be easier to work with the labels by creating a panel for each corresponding pair. So pnlCreatedDate would hold lblCreatedDateLbl and lblCreatedDate I wrote 2 methods: 1 to define each label and add it to the relevant panel: Sub AddLabels
and another to determine the width of the panels and set the correct location: Sub SetLoc Currently, AddLabels runs in the constructor after InitializeComponent() and SetLoc is called after the data has been passed in from the database.
I've tried making minor changes and tweaks to the width and size parameters, enabling and disabling AutoSize, but nothing returns a consistent solution, instead either all the description labels are misplaced, or do not appear at all or completely whack locations come up.
Private Sub AddLabels()
'Label Created By:'
lblCreatedByLbl.Location = New Point(0, 0)
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Apr 29, 2011
I'm trying to add a "panel" with controls dynamicaly. Something like the code below, Clicking "Add" button, displays a "Panel" with the controls(which are within a table), the number of "Education" someone can enter is unlimited. I know how to capture the data, but i can't figure out how to implement/code this,
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Jan 15, 2010
I understand the page lifecycle and how i need to add the dynamic controls on page_init if I want to take advantage of viewstate. Also I know that I should try to avoid dynamic controls when possible. The dynamic controls are created depending on an object that is created from custom event arguments sent from a custom treeview. Problem is I need viewstate so I need to create them in page_init but I don't have the event args to create the object that tell me what controls to add until later in the lifecycle.
Private Function GetEventArgs() As npTreeViewEventArgs
Dim control As Control = Nothing
Dim e As npTreeViewEventArgs = Nothing
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I use this in page_init to create my object and controls.
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Jul 27, 2009
I've successfully been able to add controls (labels, images, buttons, etc) to a panel control (using VB/ASP). This panel control, I refer to it as "insertpanel". Then I add this panel to the main panel on my webpage which I made during design time. The problem I run into is that when I add multiple controls of any type to the panel, they are all added in line with each other. I tried giving my image some css-styling of[code]....
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Nov 19, 2010
I'm wondering, when I add dynamically controls in runtime in the form - is there a way to save this controls, and they appear the next time when you run the application?
I'm using VB9.
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Oct 1, 2011
I'm developing a website in visual studio 2008 using (asp.net/vb)I have to allow registered users to build pages and add controls that are already defined by the same userMy problem is how to build this page dynamically?In other words, I'd like to make like any CMS (e.g. Joomla). CMSs allow us to make new pages and add our controls then save them..
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Jun 10, 2011
I am working on a project for a handheld in Visual Studio 2008 where I need to add a group of labels to a panel that correspond to a record on the database. The record is a "Pass/Fail" Record. So, if the record is a "Fail", the failed items will be added below the main group of labels; therefore, many child groups of labels will be added below the main group, which is theoretically the header record. I am using a second panel to add the failed items. My issue is how to dynamically add, name, and position the failed item labels and panels. Below, I have included a sample of what I am trying to accomplish.
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Mar 1, 2012
What I am trying to do is dynamically create a bunch of dropdown lists and then I want to loop through them and update the database with those values, but the problem I am facing is that I create the dropdown lists, but then when I go back to loop through them they are no longer in the panel. I don't know why but when I am debugging I have a count of 50 controls in pnlTeacherSelect right up until I press the button that calls prcChoose.
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Aug 11, 2010
Using ASP.Net MVC1 and am dynamically creating the html in a model that is then dropped into the view and rendered at run time.
My view is a single page that looks like this:
<%@ Page Language="VB" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" %>
<%=(ViewData("Content"))%>
This dynamically created content is mostly dropdownlist boxes in the format of
<form method=post action="/questions/nextBatch">
<div id="text">What is your preferred drink?</div>
<select>
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Is it is possible to perform validation on the dropdowns lists to ensure that a value has been selected? If any of the dropdownlists that still have the default value (the "please make a selection" text) the page is then redisplayed with the font colour of the question or dropdownlist box changed to say red?
I'm from the Webforms world and have made the switch over to MVC (which I really like!) and I know there are some pretty slick validation tools out there but you seem to have to account for them within the view itself.
I cannot pass a HTML helper through the viewdata of the controller as it does not render unless it has been coded directly into the view itself.
Also, I'm looking for a pure asp.net solution as I cannot use javascript due to accessiblity concerns. I can access all the values of the dropdowns without any problems throug the formscollection object but from there I'm a bit stuck.
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Feb 26, 2009
like this i have n number of questions in my word document. so my need is i need to read the questions and fill it up in the datagridview with yes or know chek box. my datagridview appearance would be as follows. so the peson who is viewing the questions and can make yes or know option using the check box.if the person chooses no option he has to enter the reason the reason column. so i have to do this dynamically. means that binding datagridview with checkbox ,textbox, data dynamically. how to do this please because after the datas entered in the datagridview i have to loop through rows and i have populate into another word document. so please if there is any sample
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Feb 14, 2012
I have added Following HTML in the Form:
<asp:Table runat="server" ID="tblFlightDetails">
<asp:TableRow>
<asp:TableCell CssClass="ASPTableHeader">
<dx:ASPxLabel runat="server" ID="lblFrom" Text="From" CssClass="LabelFont"></dx:ASPxLabel>
</asp:TableCell>
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Now from Serverside code I have added 3 rows dynamically.. when ever page gets Postback.. all dynamically added rows get disappear.How can i get the dynamically added rows after postback??
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Feb 16, 2011
How would I dynamically enable/disable group boxes based on a radio button selection? I am trying to do it with two group boxes. The group boxes are called grpSelectChars and grpPWAutomatic. The radio buttons are called rdoChooseChars and rdoRandomlyGen. if rdoChooseChars is selected then I want grpSelectChars Enabled and grpPWAutomatic Disabled. in the load sub I have rdoChooseChars Checked
Private Sub PWGenerator_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
rdoChooseChars.Checked = True
If rdoChooseChars.Checked Then
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Jun 23, 2012
I have been set a project from school to design snake in VB.Net but i am struggling to dynamically add the user control which acts as one of the dots in the body of the snake. Every time i add a dot on to the snake the previous vanishes. I assume this is due to me overwriting the previous one by creating a new instance of the object but i cannot find a way of adding a new one in.[code]I have tried using body(i) and other ways of adding a new instance of the object but am stuck.The subroutine will be called up when a new control is needed.
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Feb 17, 2012
I am dynamically displaying some controls in a TableLayoutPanel. The problem I'm faced with is that I want the controls to be displayed in a specific order, instead of just filling the TableLayoutPanel from 0,0 till the end of the panel.
I have 5 columns and 5 rows.
1st row is for buttons only, 2nd row for combobox, 3rd row for radio button.
I want it to be displayed like this:
Button1 Button2 Button3
Combobox1 Combobox2
RadioButton1 RadioButton2 RadioButton3 RadioButton4 RadioButton5
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Jun 29, 2012
I have 4 textbox on my formviz. txtQuantity0, txtRate0, txtDiscount0, txtAmount0When User Press Enter Key on txtAmount0 a new row of textbox is created as follows
txtQuantity1, txtRate1, txtDiscount1, txtAmount1
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Oct 1, 2009
I have a code that dynamically generates some pictureBox-es. What I want to do is to save them so that they will aslo appear the next time the application is opened. Also i don't want to use an external configuration file so that the controls are generated on file-read.
Also I also have some controls that are generated by the designer
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Jan 9, 2012
In my application I'm dynamically generating multiple rows of dropdowns and populating it with the field names based on the selected table value. Based on the field name selected I want to display a tool tip containing the selected field data. how I can use the tool tip for dynamically generated columns.
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May 19, 2010
I am trying to create an app that adds tabpages into a tabcontrol which has a several controls on each tabpages. However how do I access those controls?lets say the controls I add are named label1 and label2. the tabpage is named infoTab1.
If I do inftoTab.infoTab1.label1.Text = "some text" I get an error saying infoTab is not a member of 'system.windows.forms.tabcontrols' cause in design time it isn't added yet.So how is this actually done? am I on the right track?Any tutorials are more then welcome, tried google but only get basic concept stuff comes out it or trying the wrong keywords.
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Feb 13, 2009
I'm having trouble trying to access a list of comboboxes created dynamically in one procedure from another. I believe I have to add in an event handler but I not sure how this is going to work. Or should I change the array scope?
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
'variables declared here.
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May 4, 2010
What I'm trying to do is build 16 forms dynamically at runtime (all will be identical). These 16 forms each will display a camera, which is using an ActiveX control made by a 3rd party. I am able to create the forms correctly and provide all necessary parameters for each control, but since I have to declare my own AddHandler event which checks if the camera connected, I need to somehow reference the ActiveX control at runtime, but I can't tell it which form it's on because it says it's not declared.[code]...
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Jun 22, 2009
I have a number of user control dynamically added to a page, and user interaction with these dynamically added user controls need to be handled by the control's parent. Is this what is referred to as "event bubbling"?How do I do that in VB?
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May 24, 2009
How can I create a toolstrip in code and Add controls to it as required?
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Jun 6, 2011
I'm having a lot of trouble trying to add a new control to a dynamically created TabPage at run time, I have viewed many threads with similar help requests and cant seem to make the codes work!
Here's what I've got:
Dim albumscount As Xml.XmlNodeList
albumscount = config_doc.SelectNodes("component/config/menu/album")
i = albumscount.Count - 1
Dim albumtitle As Xml.XmlNode
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Feb 27, 2012
I have a User Control which returns a table of data, which in some cases needs to be looped, displaying one on top of another. I am able to dynamically add a single instance of this by placing a fixed placeholder in the page. I am now trying to work out how to add more than one, given that I don't know how many might be needed I don't want to hard code the Placeholders. I've tried the following, but I am just getting one instance, presumably the first is being overwritten by the second
My HTML
<div id="showHere" runt="server"/>
VB
Dim thisPh As New PlaceHolder
thisPh.Controls.Add(showTable)
showHere.Controls.Add(thisPh)
Dim anotherPh As New PlaceHolder
anotherPh .Controls.Add(showTable)
showHere.Controls.Add(anotherPh)
How do I make it add repeated tables within the showHere div?
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Mar 4, 2012
I would like to ask a question with DataGridView event handling.The event I am going to handle is the double-clicking of a cell in a DataGridView:If the DataGridView's are statically drawn on the form at design time, then it is easy to assign to each of them an even handler by double clicking the corresponding event in the properties panel.
Private
SubDataGridView1_CellDoubleClick(sender
AsSystem.Object,
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So basically I have handle to all of the DataGridView's. Is there a way to create a common event handler on this basis?
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Aug 2, 2009
I'm not seeing anything about event handlers for dynamically created controls.. and I could have sworn I had once before. I did see one post about the topic, but it was just replied by asking for some posted code, so as in a preemptive move..
Private Sub buttonCreate()
Dim newbutton As New Button
newbutton.Height = 39
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Here's what I'm trying...
Private Sub newButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles newButton.Click
End Sub
Here's the errors I recieve...QuoteHandles clause requires a WithEvents variable defined in the containing type or one of its base types
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Aug 18, 2009
I have a problem in handling the events for dynamically created controlsI am creating a combobox and a textbox dynamically when i click a Button1 for each combobox there is one corresponding textboxso the number of times i click Button1 i will get that many number of comboboxes and textboxes.i have added an Event handler to handle the ComboBox_SelectedIndexChangedWhenever i click any of the combobox the above event is triggered.So far it is working fine.Now comes the problem i have to get the selected item for each combobox in the appropriate textbox
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
combobox1 = New ComboBox
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Jul 21, 2010
I'm trying to add a DataGridView to a Split Container Panel. I am able to add the control, but it just places it on top of the old one. What I want is to add it below the existing one. How to do it.
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Sep 26, 2010
I have a form containing two panels. In both panels there are two labels and textboxes. I set the 'Center In Form' property of the labels and textboxes to 'Horizontally' and 'Vertically' in design time respectively. But as the form is resizable, when the size of the form is increased or decreased at runtime the controls are no longer center aligned in the panels. How can I handle this problem (provided the main form needs to remain sizable)?
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Oct 5, 2011
I am adding user controls to a panel that is empty, but when i do that, the scroll of the panel goes down.
I tried to set the panel.verticalscrol.value to 0 but that does not do the trick, so..
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