I want to show the list of items in a combo box when the user selects the text. I have a touch screen application and it's very difficult to hit the dropdown arrow so I figure I'd show the menu when the text is selected which is often what gets touched. I'm using VS 2008. and suggestions for a touch friendly numeric up down solution in VS2008?
You could use the ComboBox.Click event handler and the ComboBox.DroppedDown property and do something like this:
private void ComboBox1_Click(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
ComboBox1.DroppedDown = true;
}
You could also use the same event handler for a numericUpDown and use the mouseposition as well as the position and height of the NumericUpDown to get whether or not the click was above or below the halfway-line of the control by doing something like this (not sure if my math here is perfect, but it worked when I tested it):
if ((MousePosition.Y - this.PointToScreen(NumericUpDown1.Location).Y < NumericUpDown1.Height / 2))
{
NumericUpDown1.Value += 1;
}
else
{
NumericUpDown1.Value -= 1;
}
HTH
I was working on a similar situation. We wanted to make the text area behave the same as the button on the right. (IE the user clicks and gets the drop down box)
davidsbro is similar to what I ended up doing, but we wanted it to close if they clicked again, so the value became dropDown.DroppedDown = !dropDown.DroppedDown;.
The issue with this is that if the user clicks the right button of the drop down box, the dialog box opens, then calls the onClick event.
I solved this situation by tracking the original state via the onmouseover event. If the value has changed, we have to assume that the button on the select box handled the click already.
private bool cbDropDownState = false;
private void dropDown_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
cbDropDownState = dropDown.DroppedDown;
}
private void dropDown_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (dropDown.DroppedDown == cbDropDownState )
dropDown.DroppedDown = !dropDown.DroppedDown;
}
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I am tired of trying to deactivate the button highlight when it's activated with "istab" set to true.
Basically, I want to deactivate the back highlight of a button (if it's activated) when I click on the picture box. The method partially works. The istab deactivation works when I click on the picture box and the highlight goes away. But I made a method so that when the mouse hovers over the button, "istab" automatically reactivates. But it doesn't seem to work. The "istab" remains deactivated.
Here is what I have tried so far.
private void LogoImage_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (btnEssentialRules.IsTab == true)
btnEssentialRules.IsTab = false;
}
private void btnEssentialRules_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (btnEssentialRules.IsTab == false)
btnEssentialRules.IsTab = true;
}
Where the btnEssentialRules is the button name.
If you have another solution or a fix to my code. please help me.
I have 10 buttons, 0-9 (button0, button1, button2...). When I click any of these buttons, I would like to perform the same routine on them. I would like to know how to, upon clicking of any of these buttons, direct them to the routine below.
private void button0_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
int newValue;
newValue = Convert.ToInt32(Button.text);
}
I have already gone into the properties of each button, then events, and changed the click event to button0_Click (I would have thought this would add "handles button1.click, button2.click, etc." after "private void button0_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)" but if it does that in the background, that's ok as long as it works.)
I also need to know how to identify the button that has been pressed, which is where I'm at with "Convert.ToInt32(Button.text)" (e.g. button2.text = "2").
You can select the same event handler for all the buttons in the designer (in the event tab of the properties window, select the event and there'll be a drop down with all your defined event handlers).
To get which button has been clicked on, cast the sender argument to a Button and you'll have it.
Button button = (Button)sender;
int value = int.Parse( button.Text );
Edit: Also, the "Handles control.event" syntax only exists in Visual Basic.
Edit: Check out the generated code (Form1.Designer.cs, for example) to see how the events are hooked up.
The C# language doesn't use handles to bind events (as VB does). The code for the actual binding is in the generated code for the form, i.e. in the background as you put it.
The sender property is a reference to the control where the event happened. You just need to cast it to the actual type of the control:
private void button0_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button button = (Button)sender;
int newValue = Convert.ToInt32(button.text);
}
As an alternative to using the text of the button (for example if you want to translate the application to different languages, or simply don't want to rely on the text), you can put whatever you like in the Tag property of each button, and retrieve it in the event handler.
You could wire them all up to the same event handler an extract the button from sender e.g.
private void button0_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var button = sender as Button
if (button != null)
{
int newValue = Convert.ToInt32(Button.text);
}
}
I've got a combobox that opens a new form window with a datagridview, and I want the users to choose the items through that datagridview rather than through the combobox. I've got this code to achieve that:
private void comboBox1_DropDown(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
valSel.incBox = (ComboBox)sender;
valSel.Show();
if (this.comboBox1.DroppedDown)
{
MessageBox.Show("test");
SendMessage(this.comboBox1.Handle, CB_SHOWDROPDOWN, 0, 0);
}
}
As you see I'm also trying to hide the dropdown of the combobox but it isn't working. I assume it's because the combobox hasn't actually "dropped down" yet, so that part of the code is never run.
Is there an event or something I can cell when the combobox has fully "dropped down" so i can send the message to close it again?
You should be able to simply set the height of the ComboBox to something really small. Last time I looked at it, this determined the height of the popup part (the actual height of the control is determined by the UI/font size).
The more elegant way, however, would be using a custom control that just mimics the appearance of dropdown boxes (I'm rather sure that can be done some easy way).
In comboBox1.Enter set the focus to a different control if condition is met.
private void comboBox1_Enter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (comboBox1.Items.Count < 1)
{
comboBox1.DroppedDown = false;
comboBox2.Focus();
MessageBox.Show("Select a list first");
comboBox2.DroppedDown = true;
}
}
1) create a KeyPress event on ComboBox from the properties.
2) write code
private void cmbClientId_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
((ComboBox)sender).DroppedDown = false;
}
I am trying to make the save button visible when text is entered into the text box by using the following code:
if (tbName.TextModified == true)
{
btnCTimetablesOk.Visible = true;
}
else
{
btnCTimetablesOk.Visible = false;
}
but it gives error at tbname.textmodified
is there any other way to visible the button when we enter the text in text box
this is error i am getting "the event textbox.textmodified can only appear on the left hand side of += or -="
Try using the textbox's Enter and Leave events to show/hide your button:
private void textBox1_Enter(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
btnCTimetablesOk.Visible = true;
}
private void textBox1_Leave(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
btnCTimetablesOk.Visible = false;
}
Then modify your textbox to use these new methods.
If I'm reading your text correctly, you want the save button to be visible when the textbox has text in it and invisible when the text box is blank. If that's the case, you can use the Leave event (which occurs when the textbox loses focus) and a simple if statement:
private void textBox1_Leave(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
if(textBox1.Text != "")
btnCTimetablesOk.Visible = true;
else
btnCTimetablesOk.Visible = false;
}
You can also put this conditional block in any other methods kicked off by events that change the text of the box.
Also, you might want to consider using Enabled instead of Visible, it'll leave the button on the form but will gray out the text and clicking will do nothing.
I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and assume that the button is related to the textbox and you probably want someone to be able to type something in the textbox then click the button. You probably don't want the user to have to type something, then tab out or click somewhere else to make the button visible then click the button.
tbName_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
btnCTimetablesOk.Visible = !String.IsNullOrEmpty(tbName.Text)
}
Btw you're getting that error because TextModified isn't a boolean property, it's an event, like TextChanged or Leave or Enter. You can assign an event handler to it but you can't just check it like that.
As an aside I personally hate systems hungarian for winforms controls. I'd much rather have a timetablesOkButton than a btnCTimeablesOK button. That way if you also have a timetablesNameTextBox you can see at a glance that the button and the textbox match. Of course it may not be up to you.
I currently determine what page of a tabcontrol was clicked on via the SelectedIndexChanged event.
I would like to detect before the selected index actually changes, for validation purposes. For example, a user clicks a tab page other than the one they are viewing. A dialog is presented if form data is unsaved and asks if it's ok to proceed. If the user clicks no, the user should remain on the current tab.
Currently I have to remember the previous tab page and switch back to it after an answer of 'no.'
I considered MouseDown (and the assorted calculation logic), but I doubt that's the best way.
Add such an event to the tabControl when form_load:
tabControl1.Selecting += new TabControlCancelEventHandler(tabControl1_Selecting);
void tabControl1_Selecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
TabPage current = (sender as TabControl).SelectedTab;
// Validate the current page. To cancel the select, use:
e.Cancel = true;
}
I've actually tried all of the events including the suggestions here and none of the mentioned events occur at the right time to actually trap moving from the tab.
Even the tab page validation event fires when entering the tab rather than leaving it - either that or there's something peculiar going on with my machine or .NET 4. On the other hand, in .NET 4 there is the Deselecting event which fires at the right time for my purposes.
private void tab_Deselecting(object sender, TabControlCancelEventArgs e)
{
}
The TabControl has a collection of TabPages, each of which you can enforce validation on, e.g.:
public partial class MyForm : Form
{
public MyForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
foreach (var page in _tabControl.TabPages.Cast<TabPage>())
{
page.CausesValidation = true;
page.Validating += new CancelEventHandler(OnTabPageValidating);
}
}
void OnTabPageValidating(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
{
TabPage page = sender as TabPage;
if (page == null)
return;
if (/* some validation fails */)
e.Cancel = true;
}
}