I've searched but cannot find an answer to this question, and maybe that means there is a better way to do what I'm attempting.
In a WPF application, using MVVM design pattern: I've created a UserControl that is a box. This popup box has two options (buttons) on it, "Okay" and "Cancel". This user control has it's own view model to supply it's message data. Creating and showing this popup is simple enough. My trouble is I would like to wait for the users choice. Something similar to a DialogReponse? Ideally I would like to do something like this:
if (MyPopup.Show())
{
//do something
}
else
{
//do something else
}
Maybe there is a better approach to what I'm trying to do. I don't want to use a message box as I have the custom popup I've made. But maybe popup is the wrong control? Thanks ahead of time for any help.
If you want to have the functionality of a Window, why not use one?
new MyCustomDialogWindow().ShowDialog();
Use ShowDialog() method. For more information read MSDN
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I am trying to write a tooltip which is clickable. Currently i am thinking about a usercontrol which derives from IButtonControl and ToolTip.
public partial class JLToolTip : ToolTip, IButtonControl
As far as I can see it does everything a normal tooltip should do but if I click it
, the window loses shortly the focus until it gets it after a half second or so back.
The first thing i am trying to accomplish is this.
public void PerformClick()
{
MessageBox.Show("CLICK");
}
I know it looks dead simple but I can't find the proper solution or why it won't work
I hope anybody of you does have an answer.
If all you want is clickable and composable tooltip control, I recomment Simple Popup Control. You can easily extend it and adopt it to your needs.
I don't fully understand your question, but I think this is what you are looking for.
I want to fill an updatepanel with new dynamic controls in response to a button click.
However, I also want to be able to access the values of these dynamic controls in response to an event in one of the controls.
Specifically, I want the button to bring up two dropdownmenus. One of the menus (or both if need be) is in another update panel. I want the first menu in the update panel to change its data in response to a value getting selected in the other menu.
I think my problem is that when I cause a postback with one dropdownmenu I lose the other dropdownmenu because I created it in the button_click handler.
I know I should create dynamic controls in the Page_Init method (or so ive heard) but I only want the controls to show up if the button is clicked. There are other buttons on the page which need to create a different set of dynamic controls.
Thanks.
There are a lot of ways you can handle this, and which approach to take really depends on your project's requirements and your available resources.
The smoothest way to do it that would generally provide the best user experience would be to use a Javascript technique to hide and show controls as the page required them. JQuery is the library I would recommend for this. On the most basic level, you simply wire the control's activation (such as a button_click event) and hide or show a div containing the dynamic content as necessary, like so:
$("#control").show();
// and
$("#control").hide();
Alternatively, you can do this in C# by using the Visible property on many of the normal web controls for ASP.NET. The usual code-behind approach would look something like this:
private void btnControl_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var dynamicControl1 = FindControl("dynamicControl1");
dynamicControl.Visible = false; // or true, as the case may be
}
This particular approach is mostly attached to code-behinds, though, which I would encourage you to avoid if possible. They are practically impossible to test and will make projects a pain to work in. You can use a similar approach in the MVC3 framework, of course, it will just be a little different how you send and receive the control you are setting to not be visible. The other benefit this has that is kind of nice is that if something is set to not be visible, it tends not to even be displayed in the HTML generated by the templating engine (YMMV depending on the engine, but I know this is true in Razor). So someone viewing the source of your webpage won't be able to see inactive controls, which may or may not be something that appeals to you.
EDIT: I see the problem is less to do with how to display these things, and more with how to create and read them back given on-the-fly input.
I'm sure there's a way to do this with Javascript (which would more than probably be the cleanest and best way to do this), but I'm not good enough with JS to know the answer to that one. The way you would handle this in ASP.NET is make the div you're going to add controls to server-side (by using runat='server', then add what you need there. Again, the trivial code-behind approach would be something like:
private void btnControl_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
foreach(var checkBoxChecked in chkBoxes.Where(x => x.Checked))
{
div.Controls.Add(new WebControl()) // or whatever the heck else it is you need.
}
}
This presumes that you have an IEnumerable<CheckBox> to iterate over, of course. You may also want an IList<WebControl> to keep track of all the junk you're adding. You will also need to make sure the CSS is applied properly to the div for the controls you're adding. And again, code-behinds are pretty awful and I use the example only because it'd be easy to spin up in a project to test for yourself.
Not much to add to this. Have an example?
No. There are two options though. The simplest is to just use the click event of the balloon to trigger the event you require. The more complicated one is to create a custom balloon within which you can present a link.
See http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/taskbarnotifier.aspx for an example of how this could be accomplished.
I am using Windows Form application. I want to open a small textbox on a window to enter user's name or Email in Starting for the program.
How can I achieve this?
Write one, 'tis almost trivial (creating the form and adding label, textbox and buttons) and using the VB one is perputating something that was only put in to appease the baying mob.
Key method is ShowDialog() which is a method on a Form.
On the form make sure you set the flags for the Ok and Cancel buttons correctly and provide a property (ideally) to allow you to read (and write if necessary) the text box
You can then do something along the lines of the following:
using(MyInputForm mif = new MyInputForm)
{
if (mif.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
dataFromDialog = mif.InputData;
}
else
{
// logic to deal with cancel
}
}
You can do something similar in WPF, don't have an example to hand though.
Maybe the answer to this question will help:
What is the C# version of VB.net’s InputDialog?
I've seen two threads here about TDI & C#. Both of them didn't really answer the questions I have ...
Since TDIs are pretty much like a standard nowadays, I can hardly imagine, that I have to buy a special control (like AvalonDock or SandDock).
This must be possible with built in the tab-control(?) somehow! I don't need special features like dock- and draggable tabitems. Just open every form in a new tab. Thats it.
Like putting every forms content controls into user controls and by request (button, menu click ...) add a new tab and put the corresponding user control on it ... something like this.
How would you do it? This can't be THAT complicated (even for me) or am I missing something?!
thanks a lot!
Maybe Josh Smith's article on MVVM can give you an idea how to design such user interface. Example being built there is kinda tabbed document interface so you can use it as a starting block.
It's not that hard. It seems hard because there are a lot of different ways to do it.
Try this:
<TabControl x:Name="documentArea"/>
Handler for AddForm button:
private void AddFormClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
object form = GetNewForm();
documentArea.Items.Add(form);
}
That's it. You have to implement GetNewForm() in one of two ways. Have it return a user control that displays the form.
OR better yet, have it return your document that you want to display. Use a DataTemplate to select the controls to use for displaying this document. This method is going to be more complex to set up.