So I have built an application in C# using Winforms and my application uses a few different buttons. I'd like to have a highlight on the button that has been clicked to show what 'tab' you're in.
I've tried doing the following;
// BUTTONS //
private void dashboard_btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Load Form
OpenChildForm(new FormDashboard());
dashboard_btn.FlatAppearance.BorderColor = Color.Red;
dashboard_btn.FlatAppearance.BorderSize = 1;
}
However, this of course doesn't work nicely since it adds a border around the button but when I click another button the border also stays around the previous button.
How would you implement a feature to add a border around the button that get's clicked but have the border disappear after you click another button?
Thank you for any feedback!
EDIT:
I've implemented Jimi's advice and used the Leave event to change the border around the button back to 0. However I'm not sure how to implement this in a global way so all my buttons are subscribed to this event.
My code now looks like this;
// BUTTONS //
private void dashboard_btn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Load Form
OpenChildForm(new FormDashboard());
// Button Highlight
dashboard_btn.FlatAppearance.BorderColor = Color.Red;
dashboard_btn.FlatAppearance.BorderSize = 1;
}
// BUTTON REMOVE HIGHLIGHT //
private void dashboard_btn_Leave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
dashboard_btn.FlatAppearance.BorderSize = 0;
}
EDIT 2:
I ended up using Jimi's example and this worked for me :)
This might lend itself to a RadioButton style functionality because clicking a different radio button in the same container will uncheck the others. So, to implement the "generalized approach" that you mention in your comment, you could make a simple custom RadioButtonEx class where the Appearance property is set to Button then change your border style when the Checked property changes. In this example, the Click event has been changed to static so that clicking on any button directs the event to the common onAnyClick method.
public partial class MainForm : Form
{
public MainForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
RadioButtonEx.Click += onAnyClick;
}
private void onAnyClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
label1.Text = ((RadioButtonEx)sender).Text;
}
}
public class RadioButtonEx : RadioButton
{
public static new event EventHandler Click;
public RadioButtonEx()
{
FlatAppearance.BorderColor = Color.Red;
FlatAppearance.BorderSize = 1;
Appearance = Appearance.Button;
}
protected override void OnCheckedChanged(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnCheckedChanged(e);
if(Checked)
{
FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Flat;
Click?.Invoke(this, EventArgs.Empty);
}
else
{
FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Standard;
}
}
}
please for a little help in displaying the panel at the click of a button, namely in my application I have a FormMenu in which the panelCentralForm is displayed when loading.
When I click on btnListOfActiveUser_Click I manage to open FormListStaff over panelCentralForm using this code:
private void btnListOfActiveUser_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
FormListStaff formListStaff = new FormListStaff();
AddFormToPanel(formListStaff);
}
private void AddFormToPanel(object form)
{
if (this.panelCentralForm.Controls.Count > 0)
this.panelCentralForm.Controls.RemoveAt(0);
Form fh = form as Form;
fh.TopLevel = false;
fh.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
fh.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
this.panelCentralForm.Controls.Add(fh);
this.panelCentralForm.Tag = fh;
fh.Show();
}
my question is how can I in a similar way that now when I click on buttonDashboard to return to me the first view, ie the view from the Central Form panel (panelCentralForm).
private void buttonDashboard_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
panelCentralForm.Visible = true; //something like this, p.s. this code doesn't just work as an example I wrote
}
the whole view belongs from FormMenu.cs
Thanks a lot to everyone for the help
my question is how can I in a similar way that now when I click on
buttonDashboard to return to me the first view
Just Clear() the panel, then add the label back in?
this.panelCentralForm.Controls.Clear();
this.panelCentralForm.Controls.Add(label1);
The label should still be accessible even though it was previously removed from the panel since it is declared at form level in your designer file.
Does anybody know how to click on a link in the WebBrowser control in a WinForms application and then have that link open in a new tab inside my TabControl?
I've been searching for months, seen many tutorials/articles/code samples but it seems as though nobody has ever tried this in C# before.
Any advice/samples are greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Based on your comments, I understand that you want to trap the "Open In New Window" action for the WebBrowser control, and override the default behavior to open in a new tab inside your application instead.
To accomplish this reliably, you need to get at the NewWindow2 event, which exposes ppDisp (a settable pointer to the WebBrowser control that should open the new window).
All of the other potential hacked together solutions (such as obtaining the last link selected by the user before the OpenWindow event) are not optimal and are bound to fail in corner cases.
Luckily, there is a (relatively) simple way of accomplishing this while still using the System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser control as a base. All you need to do is extend the WebBrowser and intercept the NewWindow2 event while providing public access to the ActiveX Instance (for passing into ppDisp in new tabs). This has been done before, and Mauricio Rojas has an excellent example with a complete working class "ExtendedWebBrowser":
http://blogs.artinsoft.net/mrojas/archive/2008/09/18/newwindow2-events-in-the-c-webbrowsercontrol.aspx
Once you have the ExtendedWebBrowser class, all you need to do is setup handlers for NewWindow2 and point ppDisp to a browser in a new tab. Here's an example that I put together:
private void InitializeBrowserEvents(ExtendedWebBrowser SourceBrowser)
{
SourceBrowser.NewWindow2 += new EventHandler<NewWindow2EventArgs>(SourceBrowser_NewWindow2);
}
void SourceBrowser_NewWindow2(object sender, NewWindow2EventArgs e)
{
TabPage NewTabPage = new TabPage()
{
Text = "Loading..."
};
ExtendedWebBrowser NewTabBrowser = new ExtendedWebBrowser()
{
Parent = NewTabPage,
Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
Tag = NewTabPage
};
e.PPDisp = NewTabBrowser.Application;
InitializeBrowserEvents(NewTabBrowser);
Tabs.TabPages.Add(NewTabPage);
Tabs.SelectedTab = NewTabPage;
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
InitializeBrowserEvents(InitialTabBrowser);
}
(Assumes TabControl named "Tabs" and initial tab containing child control docked ExtendedWebBrowser named "InitialWebBrowser")
Don't forget to unregister the events when the tabs are closed!
private Uri _MyUrl;
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser browser = new System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser();
browser.Navigating += new System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserNavigatingEventHandler(browser_Navigating);
void browser_Navigating(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowserNavigatingEventArgs e)
{
_MyUrl = e.Url;
e.Cancel;
}
The following code works, just follow the first reply for creating the ExtendedWebBrowser class.
I'm using this to open a new tab but it also works to open a new window using your browser and not IE.
Hope it helps.
private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
if (current_tab_count == 10) return;
TabPage tabPage = new TabPage("Loading...");
tabpages.Add(tabPage);
tabControl1.TabPages.Add(tabPage);
current_tab_count++;
ExtendedWebBrowser browser = new ExtendedWebBrowser();
InitializeBrowserEvents(browser);
webpages.Add(browser);
browser.Parent = tabPage;
browser.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
browser.DocumentCompleted += new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler(browser_DocumentCompleted);
browser.DocumentTitleChanged += new EventHandler(Browser_DocumentTitleChanged);
browser.Navigated += Browser_Navigated;
browser.IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = true;
public void InitializeBrowserEvents(ExtendedWebBrowser browser)
{
browser.NewWindow2 += new EventHandler<ExtendedWebBrowser.NewWindow2EventArgs>(Browser_NewWindow2);
}
void Browser_NewWindow2(object sender, ExtendedWebBrowser.NewWindow2EventArgs e)
{
if (current_tab_count == 10) return;
TabPage tabPage = new TabPage("Loading...");
tabpages.Add(tabPage);
tabControl1.TabPages.Add(tabPage);
current_tab_count++;
ExtendedWebBrowser browser = new ExtendedWebBrowser();
webpages.Add(browser);
browser.Parent = tabPage;
browser.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
browser.DocumentCompleted += new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler(browser_DocumentCompleted);
browser.DocumentTitleChanged += new EventHandler(Browser_DocumentTitleChanged);
browser.Navigated += Browser_Navigated;
tabControl1.SelectedTab = tabPage;
browser.Navigate(textBox.Text);
{
e.PPDisp = browser.Application;
InitializeBrowserEvents(browser);
}
I did a bit of research on this topic and one does not need to do all the COM plumbing that is present in the ExtendedWebBrowser class, as that code is already present in the generated Interop.SHDocVw. As such, I was able to use the more natural construct below to subscribe to the NewWindow2 event. In Visual Studio I had to add a reference to "Microsoft Internet Controls".
using SHDocVw;
...
internal WebBrowserSsoHost(System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser webBrowser,...)
{
ParameterHelper.ThrowOnNull(webBrowser, "webBrowser");
...
(webBrowser.ActiveXInstance as WebBrowser).NewWindow2 += OnNewWindow2;
}
private void OnNewWindow2(ref object ppDisp, ref bool Cancel)
{
MyTabPage tabPage = TabPageFactory.CreateNewTabPage();
tabPage.SetBrowserAsContent(out ppDisp);
}
Please read http://bit.ly/IDWm5A for more info. This is page #5 in the series, for a complete understanding I had to go back and read pages 3 -> 5.
You simply cancel the new window event and handle the navigation and tab stuff yourself.
Here is a fully working example. This assumes you have a tabcontrol and at least 1 tab page in place.
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace stackoverflow2
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.webBrowser1.NewWindow += WebBrowser1_NewWindow;
this.webBrowser1.Navigated += Wb_Navigated;
this.webBrowser1.DocumentText=
"<html>"+
"<head><title>Title</title></head>"+
"<body>"+
"<a href = 'http://www.google.com' target = 'abc' > test </a>"+
"</body>"+
"</html>";
}
private void WebBrowser1_NewWindow(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
{
e.Cancel = true; //stop normal new window activity
//get the url you were trying to navigate to
var url= webBrowser1.Document.ActiveElement.GetAttribute("href");
//set up the tabs
TabPage tp = new TabPage();
var wb = new WebBrowser();
wb.Navigated += Wb_Navigated;
wb.Size = this.webBrowser1.Size;
tp.Controls.Add(wb);
wb.Navigate(url);
this.tabControl1.Controls.Add(tp);
tabControl1.SelectedTab = tp;
}
private void Wb_Navigated(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs e)
{
tabControl1.SelectedTab.Text = (sender as WebBrowser).DocumentTitle;
}
}
}
There is no tabbing in the web browser control, therefor you need to handle the tabs yourself. Add a tab control above the web browser control and create new web browser controls when new tabs are being opened. Catch and cancel when the user opens new windows and open new tabs instead.
I'm making a windows forms application using C#. I add buttons and other controls programmatically at run time. I'd like to know how to handle those buttons' click events?
Try the following
Button b1 = CreateMyButton();
b1.Click += new EventHandler(this.MyButtonHandler);
...
void MyButtonHandler(object sender, EventArgs e) {
...
}
Use this code to handle several buttons' click events:
private int counter=0;
private void CreateButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Create new button.
Button button = new Button();
//Set name for a button to recognize it later.
button.Name = "Butt"+counter;
// you can added other attribute here.
button.Text = "New";
button.Location = new Point(70,70);
button.Size = new Size(100, 100);
// Increase counter for adding new button later.
counter++;
// add click event to the button.
button.Click += new EventHandler(NewButton_Click);
}
// In event method.
private void NewButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button btn = (Button) sender;
for (int i = 0; i < counter; i++)
{
if (btn.Name == ("Butt" + i))
{
// When find specific button do what do you want.
//Then exit from loop by break.
break;
}
}
}
If you want to see what button was clicked then you can do the following once you create and assign the buttons. Considering that you create the button IDs manually:
protected void btn_click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
Button btn = (Button)sender // if you're sure that the sender is button,
// otherwise check if it is null
if(btn.ID == "blablabla")
// then do whatever you want
}
You can also check them from giving a command argument to each button.
Check out this example How to create 5 buttons and assign individual click events dynamically in C#
seems like this works, while adding a tag with each element of the array
Button button = sender as Button;
do you know of a better way?
In regards to your comment saying you'd like to know which button was clicked, you could set the .Tag attribute of a button to whatever kind of identifying string you want as it's created and use
private void MyButtonHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string buttonClicked = (sender as Button).Tag;
}
Is there a way to disable a tab in a TabControl?
Cast your TabPage to a Control, then set the Enabled property to false.
((Control)this.tabPage).Enabled = false;
Therefore, the tabpage's header will still be enabled but its contents will be disabled.
The TabPage class hides the Enabled property. That was intentional as there is an awkward UI design problem with it. The basic issue is that disabling the page does not also disable the tab. And if try to work around that by disabling the tab with the Selecting event then it does not work when the TabControl has only one page.
If these usability problems do not concern you then keep in mind that the property still works, it is merely hidden from IntelliSense. If the FUD is uncomfortable then you can simply do this:
public static void EnableTab(TabPage page, bool enable) {
foreach (Control ctl in page.Controls) ctl.Enabled = enable;
}
You can simply use:
tabPage.Enabled = false;
This property is not shown, but it works without any problems.
You can program the Selecting event on TabControler to make it impossible to change to a non-editable tab:
private void tabControler_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
if (e.TabPageIndex < 0) return;
e.Cancel = !e.TabPage.Enabled;
}
You could register the "Selecting" event and cancel the navigation to the tab page:
private void tabControl1_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
if (e.TabPage == tabPage2)
e.Cancel = true;
}
Another idea is to put all the controls on the tabpage in a Panel control and disable the panel! Smiley
You could also remove the tabpage from the tabControl1.TabPages collection. That would hide the tabpage.
Credits go to littleguru # Channel 9.
Presumably, you want to see the tab in the tab control, but you want it to be "disabled" (i.e., greyed, and unselectable). There is no built-in support for this, but you can override the drawing mechanism to give the desired effect.
An example of how to do this is provided here.
The magic is in this snippet from the presented source, and in the DisableTab_DrawItem method:
this.tabControl1.DrawMode = TabDrawMode.OwnerDrawFixed;
this.tabControl1.DrawItem += new DrawItemEventHandler( DisableTab_DrawItem );
Extending upon Cédric Guillemette answer, after you disable the Control:
((Control)this.tabPage).Enabled = false;
...you may then handle the TabControl's Selecting event as:
private void tabControl_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
e.Cancel = !((Control)e.TabPage).Enabled;
}
This will remove the tab page, but you'll need to re-add it when you need it:
tabControl1.Controls.Remove(tabPage2);
If you are going to need it later, you might want to store it in a temporary tabpage before the remove and then re-add it when needed.
The only way is to catch the Selecting event and prevent a tab from being activated.
The most tricky way is to make its parent equals null (make the tab alone without parent):
tabPage.Parent = null;
And when you want to return it back (will return it back at the end of pages collection) :
tabPage.Parent = tabControl;
And if you want to return it back in a specific location among the pages you can use :
tabControl.TabPages.Insert(indexLocationYouWant, tabPage);
I had to handle this a while back. I removed the Tab from the TabPages collection (I think that's it) and added it back in when the conditions changed. But that was only in Winforms where I could keep the tab around until I needed it again.
I've removed tab pages in the past to prevent the user from clicking them. This probably isn't the best solution though because they may need to see that the tab page exists.
Using events, and the properties of the tab control you can enable/disable what you want when you want. I used one bool that is available to all methods in the mdi child form class where the tabControl is being used.
Remember the selecting event fires every time any tab is clicked. For large numbers of tabs a "CASE" might be easier to use than a bunch of ifs.
public partial class Form2 : Form
{
bool formComplete = false;
public Form2()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
formComplete = true;
tabControl1.SelectTab(1);
}
private void tabControl1_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
if (tabControl1.SelectedTab == tabControl1.TabPages[1])
{
tabControl1.Enabled = false;
if (formComplete)
{
MessageBox.Show("You will be taken to next tab");
tabControl1.SelectTab(1);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("Try completing form first");
tabControl1.SelectTab(0);
}
tabControl1.Enabled = true;
}
}
}
I've solved this problem like this:
I've got 3 tabs and I want to keep user at the first tab if he didnt log in,
so on the SelectingEvent of TabControl I wrote
if (condition) { TabControl.Deselect("2ndPage"); TabControl.Deselect("3dPage"); }
The user cannot click on tabs to navigate, but they can use the two buttons (Next and Back). The user cannot continue to the next if the //conditions are no met.
private int currentTab = 0;
private void frmOneTimeEntry_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
tabMenu.Selecting += new TabControlCancelEventHandler(tabMenu_Selecting);
}
private void tabMenu_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
tabMenu.SelectTab(currentTab);
}
private void btnNextStep_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
switch(tabMenu.SelectedIndex)
{
case 0:
//if conditions met GoTo
case 2:
//if conditions met GoTo
case n:
//if conditions met GoTo
{
CanLeaveTab:
currentTab++;
tabMenu.SelectTab(tabMenu.SelectedIndex + 1);
if (tabMenu.SelectedIndex == 3)
btnNextStep.Enabled = false;
if (btnBackStep.Enabled == false)
btnBackStep.Enabled = true;
CannotLeaveTab:
;
}
private void btnBackStep_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
currentTab--;
tabMenu.SelectTab(tabMenu.SelectedIndex - 1);
if (tabMenu.SelectedIndex == 0)
btnBackStep.Enabled = false;
if (btnNextStep.Enabled == false)
btnNextStep.Enabled = true;
}
tabControl.TabPages.Remove(tabPage1);
This is an old question, but someone may benefit from my addition. I needed a TabControl that would show hidden tabs successively (after an action was performed on the current tab). So, I made a quick class to inherit from and called HideSuccessive() on Load:
public class RevealingTabControl : TabControl
{
private Action _showNextRequested = delegate { };
public void HideSuccessive()
{
var tabPages = this.TabPages.Cast<TabPage>().Skip(1);
var queue = new ConcurrentQueue<TabPage>(tabPages);
tabPages.ToList().ForEach(t => t.Parent = null);
_showNextRequested = () =>
{
if (queue.TryDequeue(out TabPage tabPage))
tabPage.Parent = this;
};
}
public void ShowNext() => _showNextRequested();
}
There is the XtraTabPage.PageEnabled property allowing you to disable certain pages.
Here the solution that i implement:
private void switchTapPage(TabPage tabPage)
{
foreach(TabPage page in tabControl1.TabPages)
{
tabControl1.TabPages.Remove(page);
}
tabControl1.TabPages.Add(tabPage);
}
Basically, i just call this method sending the tabPage that i currently need to show, the method will remove all the tabPages on the tabControl and after that it will just add the one that i sent it.
So the rest of the tabHeaders will not shown and they will be inaccessible, because they dont even exists in the tabControl.
I took the idea from the #stormenet answer.
You can do it through the tabpages: tabPage1.Hide(), tabPage2.Show() etc.
In the form load event if we write this.tabpage.PageEnabled = false, the tabpage will be disabled.
Assume that you have these controls:
TabControl with name tcExemple.
TabPages with names tpEx1 and tpEx2.
Try it:
Set DrawMode of your TabPage to OwnerDrawFixed;
After InitializeComponent(), make sure that tpEx2 is not enable by adding this code:
((Control)tcExemple.TabPages["tpEx2").Enabled = false;
Add to Selection tcExemple event the code below:
private void tcExemple_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
if (!((Control)e.TabPage).Enabled)
{
e.Cancel = true;
}
}
Attach to DrawItem event of tcExemple this code:
private void tcExemple_DrawItem(object sender, DrawItemEventArgs e)
{
TabPage page = tcExemple.TabPages[e.Index];
if (!((Control)page).Enabled)
{
using (SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(SystemColors.GrayText))
{
e.Graphics.DrawString(page.Text, page.Font, brush, e.Bounds);
}
}
else
{
using (SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(page.ForeColor))
{
e.Graphics.DrawString(page.Text, page.Font, brush, e.Bounds);
}
}
}
It will make the second tab non-clickable.
I could not find an appropriate answer to the question. There looks to be no solution to disable the specific tab. What I did is to pass the specific tab to a variable and in SelectedIndexChanged event put it back to SelectedIndex:
//variable for your specific tab
int _TAB = 0;
//here you specify your tab that you want to expose
_TAB = 1;
tabHolder.SelectedIndex = _TAB;
private void tabHolder_SelectedIndexChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (_TAB != 0) tabHolder.SelectedIndex = _TAB;
}
So, you don't actually disable the tab, but when another tab is clicked it always returns you to the selected tab.
in C# 7.0, there is a new feature called Pattern Matching. You can disable all tabs via Type Pattern.
foreach (Control control in Controls)
{
// the is expression tests the variable and
// assigned it to a new appropriate variable type
if (control is TabControl tabs)
{
tabs.Enabled = false;
}
}
Use:
tabControl1.TabPages[1].Enabled = false;
By writing this code, the tab page won't be completely disabled (not being able to select), but its internal content will be disabled which I think satisfy your needs.
The solution is very simple.
Remove/comment this line
this.tabControl.Controls.Add(this.YourTabName);
in IntializeComponent() method in MainForm.cs
MyTabControl.SelectedTab.Enabled = false;