I have a TabControl in my application but I want to allow the user to create a new tab, but when the new tab is created it contains some default form controls. All new tabs created will contain the same basic form controls per tab (think NotePad++ where each new tab has a text editor within it).
Is there some sort of design pattern or template I can use so that when a new tab is created it will contain the necessary form controls required by my application?
Just to convey some meaning a little more:
User clicks "New Tab"
New tab is loaded with a text editor and a tree view
User clicks "New Tab" again
New tab is loaded with a text editor and a tree view
... and the processes repeats for any number of tabs that the user requires.
Like the comments suggest you should create a UserControl, lets say you call it TextEditorControl. Then you can add tab pages on a button click using the following method
private void AddTabPage()
{
// Add new tab page and dock fill.
TabPage tab = new TabPage(Path.GetFileName(fullPath));
TextEditorControl editor = new TextEditorControl();
editor.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
// Add the new tab to the tab control.
tab.Controls.Add(editor);
fileTabs.Controls.Add(tab);
fileTabs.SelectedTab = tab;
}
I hope this helps.
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I created one emulator for one device, so each time the user clicks on the button I am creating one new form, and each form represents new devices.
now I am looking for another option by which inside my main form I can create multiple tabs (instead of multiple forms) which has controls like button, dropdown, text box, grid view.
and the user can navigate between tabs, create a new tab dynamically, use controls inside of the tab.
any suggestion ??
Just use the TabControl on my 'main form'. and added tab pages at runtime.
tabControl1.TabPages.Add("New Tab");
placed an entire form inside a tab control ...this code will create a new instance of a form and place it in the last tab of a tab control:
frmDevice dev = new frmDevice();
dev.TopLevel = false;
dev.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
dev.Parent = tabControl1.TabPages[tabControl1.TabCount - 1];
dev.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
dev.Show();
Reference :https://www.codeproject.com/Answers/5246227/Create-dynamic-tabs-and-use-control-of-tabs-in-csh#answer1
so I have a Homepage on one of the TabPages on winform TabControl. I have a button, that adds a new tab using this Tabs.TabPages.Add("Homepage");
But TabPages.Add() just adds a new blank page, how would i clone my HomePage on the new tab? For instance, if my homepage has a button "Click me", when i open a new tab, I want it to have the same button "Click me" linked to the same event "ClickMe_click". Like a Chrome Tab control. I couldn't find any event or method built in for TabControl on msdn, unless i missed it.
Any help or hint or suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks.
You can't clone a tabpage so easily. One can try but the recommended way is:
Create a UserControl and add all the controls you want on your page. Make it Dock=Fill and add any code that connects the controls. You can layout as freely as you would in a form or a tabpage..
Whenever you want another page of this type, add a new tabpage and add an instance of the UserControl to its Controls collection.
Note: All controls on your UserControl by default are private. This is not really different from placing them on the tabpage directly. But now they are private members of the UC class, so your form and its code can't access them.
Looks like a problem when you're new to it. But if you look at it right, it is a good oportunity to create a leaner & cleaner interface.
Solution 1: Change the control modifiers to public as needed
Solution 2: Add properties to expose those data you really want to expose.
Also note: You can do all layout but can do so only in the UC designer. After adding to a form or tabpage there will be no embedded designer..
I have a TabControl which contains some tabs. each tab includes a Word component control which loads Microsoft office word. Every time User opens a new tab, a new Word component control has to be add to it which takes a little time.
Is there a way to move the current Word component control to the new tab programmatically when adding new tabs, so it doesn't have to create a new component class?
Something like this (But Tabs[1] has no Controls)
stcWordTab.Tabs[1].Controls.Add(stcWordTab.Tabs[0].Controls[0])
EDIT
I'm using DotNetBar's SuperTabItem control.
While Tab itself does not has Controls property, it has TabItem.AttachedControl property which is TabControlPanel connected to the tab and this panel hosts your controls.
So your code could looks like
(stcWordTab.Tabs[1].AttachedControl as TabControlPanel).Controls
.Add((stcWordTab.Tabs[0].AttachedControl as TabControlPanel).Controls[0]);
See knowledge base for reference.
I have a tab control with tabs on it in a windows application. I have already created some pages. Can I make these pages display on tabs of the tab control?
Thanks in advance.
Make Usercontrols of your pages and add them as TabPages
edit:
To add forms to a TabControl, you will first want to set a Panel inside of a page in the TabControl. Then, do the following in the constructor of the form with the TabControl:
FormToLoad formToLoad = new FormToLoad();
formToLoad.TopLevel = false;
panelInTabPage.Controls.Add(formToLoad);
formToLoad.Show();
You may also want to individually style your forms so that they don't show window chrome.
TabPage newpage = new TabPage();
Tabs.TabPages.Add(newpage);
newpage.Controls.Add(this.tableLayoutPanel41);
newpage.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(4, 26);
newpage.Name = "AddMaintAgreement" + offset;
newpage.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(736, 523);
newpage.TabIndex = 10;
newpage.Text = "Add Maintenance Agreement";
newpage.UseVisualStyleBackColor = true;
offset++;
Basically thats what i have at the moment, I added the offset in there because i thought it might affect my problem.
Basically, this code here works okay for adding one "addmaintagreement" tab. After that only the latest tab has any controls on it!
Basically I'm stumped. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I think short example should stay here:
TextBox tmpLog = new TextBox(); // create new control of textbox type
tmpLog.Text = "some text here";
TabPage tb = new TabPage("my brand new tab"); //create tab
tabControl.TabPages.Add(tb); // add tab to existed TabControl
tb.Controls.Add(tmpLog); // add textBox to new tab
tabControl.SelectedTab = tb; // activate tab
Derive from TabPage and add the controls you want in that derived class. Then use your derived class instead of TabPage.
Controls can only be parented to one control, but it looks like you are trying to parent your tableLayoutPanel41 in every TabPage instance. You need to create new copies of the controls for each instance of the tab. There are various ways to fix this.
Programmatically create your tab page and its contents multiple times.
Have the contents of your TabPage implemented as a user control that you dock fill on a tab page. Then recreate one of those for each page duplicate your require.
Create a class derived from TabPage that implements your tab page and create new instances of that for each use.