I have a user control that contains multiple controls (CheckBox, Button, Label...).
I want to change the layout of this user control to support right to left languages but i can't find how to do it.
Currently i can change the controls alignement using the RightToLeft property. But how can i change their positions?
Thank you for your time.
Thank you guys for your answers but there is a better way to do it.
First we go to the user control properties and select the language property.
After changing it to another language a new resource file will be created for the user control.
After that, using the designer we can change the controls positions in the user control as we like.
The new values will be saved in the created resource file.
When the language has changed, the corresponding resource file will be loaded and the positions will be changed.
If the language is a right to left one, don't forget to specify the right to left property for the controls.
Hope this helps.
Use the layout controls with the RightToLeft property and follow the following links for implementation:
RightToLeft property in Form in C#
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.form.righttoleftlayout(vs.80).aspx:
Developing Arabic applications should be easy!
Implementing Mirror-Aware Controls for Windows Application with Visual Studio .NET
Try to use FlowLayoutPanel or TableLayoutPanel to hold your controls and change panels RightToLeft property
User control mirroring is not supported for user controls, see this connect article: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/121202/usercontrol-mirroring-is-not-inherited-from-the-form
Their suggested workaround is to use a table layout panel which will mirror the controls in right to left.
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I use DevExpress
I had difficulty managing. I have a GridControl and added cell navigation buttons. That's just the question, how can you implement this code?
There are 4 buttons, among which are: First entry (|<), Previous entry (<), Next entry (>), Last entry (>|). How can you programmatically write these cell movements?
An example of an Access screen, such as this navigation:
My suggestion would be to not write it yourself... use the Dev Express embedded navigator.
If you go to designer view on the grid, go to Feature Browser, Focus, Embedded Navigator and set the UseEmbeddedNavigator property to true.
You can, of course, also do this in the regular property window of your form.
Once you do that, your grid will have it:
I'm styling WPF's Calendar control and I've reached a point in XAML where there's a grid with no elements in it, just divided by rows and columns where the day numbers are.
I've snooped and decompiled (void PopulateGrids()) and have learned that in code-behind the Calendar is creating CalendarDayButton and feeding it to the grid.
I need to change the style/theme in-order to change the colors (of those CalendarDayButton) and I'm not sure how to do that.
I've tried applying a style to all CalendarDayButton in said grid, but that didn't work.
Any suggestions?
P.S. I'd rather stay away from code-behind because what I'm working on is a style in a resource-dictionary and not a user-control.
Go to the Microsoft page for Calendar Styles and Templates, copy the style code into your resources block and make changes as needed. If you need to create additional properties for settings etc then you can do so with an attached property, that way you don't need to create a new calandar control. If you're having difficulty figuring out which parts of the template correspond to things you're seeing on-screen then put a breakpoint in your code somewhere, add the calandar control variable name to your watch window and click on the little magnifying glass to bring up the WPF visualizer...that will let you traverse the visual tree and visually see which part of the control each section is rendering.
He I am a beginner to C# and I am working on a reaction manager plug-in for some bigger project. (Yes I am a intern)
Now I just can't find a way to create a view similar to this:
My full design:
How to realize this design? I cant find any default templates in the devexpress which are suitable for this. I come from php and in php I can use html. I am a beginner to C# and I don't have any clue on how t do this. Do I have to use canvas to literally draw this? OR is there a standard template I can use for this purpose.
You have many comment boxes that contain the same layout - a label comment text, author name, date, etc. There is no control that lays things out like that, you will have to make your own custom control (Project->Add User Control). This control will be a composite control - ie made up of other controls. Probably a label for each text field (comment, author, date, etc) laid out in the right places. Maybe call it CommentBox or something.
Then in the main form you now have available CommentBox controls which you can add to the form. Create a panel to put them in so you have many CommentBox controls in the panel, one for each comment (or maybe add them at runtime).
Now in WPF it's slightly easier because there is a StackPanel control that you can simply add controls to and it automatically arranges them vertically one beneath another in a stacked list. In fact your use case is exactly fitting what a StackPanel is for.
In WinForms there is no StackPanel, but you can use a normal Panel control*. It's just you'll have to position the CommentBox controls manually one beneath another. You will also need to set the AutoScroll property to true to turn on the vertical scroll bar if the content doesn't fit the view.
*or there's apparently an alternative How can I get a StackPanel-like layout in WinForms
What interests me is everything below the bar with buttons that determine how the properties are displayed. All I can figure out is there is a splitter and a status strip.
What I'm after is how there are 2 sections which I want to add the titles Property and Value, the sections can be resized with a splitter (I assume a splitter is used in this case), each property can be selected and the corresponding description appears on the status strip, and each value can either be text or a dropdown box.
The coding part I can probably do by myself, what I need to know is what controls the window is made up of and how it's put together.
You are referring to the PropertyGrid control. It's in the ToolBox.
See Getting the Most Out of the .NET Framework PropertyGrid Control
This is the PropertyGrid, and can be used directly. There is no need to reinvent the wheel here...
In our project, SharpWired, we're trying to create a download component similar to the download windows in Firefox or Safari. That is, one single top down list of downloads which are custom controls containing progress bars, buttons and what not.
The requirements are that there should be one single list, with one element on each row. Each element must be a custom control. The whole list should be dynamically re-sizable, so that when you make it longer / shorter the list adds a scroll bar when needed and when you make it thinner / wider the custom controls should resize to the width of the list.
We've tried using a FlowLayoutPanel but haven't gotten resizing to work the way we want to. Preferably we should only have to set anchoring of the custom controls to Left & Right. We've also thought about using a TableLayoutPanel but found adding rows dynamically to be a too big overhead so far.
This must be quite a common use case, and it seems a bit weird to me that the FlowLayoutPanel has no intuitive way of doing this. Has anyone done something similar or have tips or tricks to get us under way?
Cheers!
/Adam
If you don't want to use databinding (via the DataRepeater control, as mentioned above), you could use a regular Panel control and set its AutoScroll property to true (to enable scrollbars).
Then, you could manually add your custom controls, and set the Dock property of each one to Top.
.NET 3.5 SP1 introduced a DataRepeater Windows Forms control which sounds like it'd do what you want. Bind it to the list of "downloads" (or whatever your list represents) and customize each item panel to include the controls you need.