This is what i intend to do .
Form 1 is displayed , requesting some data .
Cliking the next button would display form 2 requesting some more data .
Back button will take it back to form 1 .
Finally at the last form on clicking a finish button , Id like to retrieve all the data and display it in one singe form . I would like to know what is the best design approach should I follow
Ie : Do i have all the controls in a single form and make them visible and invisible .. ?
or should i have multiple forms with global values to be accessed in the end?
I would recommend that you create user controls for each tab except maybe the last and encapsulate all the logic for that tab within the control. Add properties to the control to get the values entered on the form. Add all these user controls to a parent form which handles navigation.
I think you can achieve this by IUIs (Inductive User Interfaces)
Its just like as Dark Falcon has mentioned above.. you can create a parent form and add user controls which would inherit the navigation controls and tabs from the parent.
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I have a WPF Application with different user controls. Each of them can be accessed by clicking a button on the left side. My issue is, when I am in one of the user controls and filling out the data in textboxes, combo boxes etc, I may have to stop it mid way and click on another user control. While doing that, I need to keep the data in the previous user control intact so that when I return to the first user control, the data should be present in all the controls before I left it. How do I achieve this? Here's a sample picture of how my application looks like:
Picture Credit: https://rachel53461.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/navigation-with-mvvm-2/
From the picture, if I am in the Products Page, I might have several text boxes with data entered in there. For a variety of reasons, I may have to step away from this and click on Home Page or some other page , do some work there and return back to the Products page. When I return, I need the data to be present as is when I left it.
Thanks in Advance
You must have create a ViewModel to each diferent user control.
ViewModel remains in memory until you process that or make a diferent process.
For Example you hava a User control for your Main Page, that's mean you have a view (MainPageView) of your user control for your main page, that view belong to a ViewModelMainPage.
For Products you maybe have a ProductView, that's belong to ViewModelProducts.
You must create a ManagerViewModel to manage the view for diferents user control.
I am new to C# and I am using windows forms.
I don't know if the term "browse" is right to use in this case or not.
I have Form1 with 3 buttons ( buttonA , buttonB and buttonc) in it.
I linked buttonA with a user control which contains 20 buttons and each one of those 20 buttons is linked to a user control which contains 10 buttons each of which does an action which it is clicked, also same thing applies to buttonB and buttonC . Now I configured user controls visibility when button clicked . For example:
Click buttonA user control1 with 20 buttons show up, click one of those 20 buttons another user control show up with 10 buttons.
What I am trying to do is something like browsing windows folders but in this way I will end up having too many user controls and it is confusing and I feel this is not the correct way of doing it. Can anyone please help me if there is another way to do taht? Thank you
What I am trying to do is: I click on
Your scenario seems to be ideal to use TreeView control. This controls displays a hierarchy of items, in your case a hierarchy of products and subprodcuts. A user of your application will be able to expand/collapse nodes as he/she want just by clicking a node. It is much more intuitive and readable than pressing buttons.
For example you can easily achieve the following icons:
You can also associate icons with nodes, change their background or foreground etc.
I think ListView control may fit your needs. It can display a lot of items in different forms (for your task consider using View.LargeIcon or View.Tile for ListView.View property). It also supports groups that may be useful for building POS system.
I want to change my form 1 into form 2. I don't want it to open a new window but keep it in the same window and then be able to go back and forth when I press the Next key or back key. Is the only way to do this by Individually hiding each button and picture?
You might want to consider a different approach.
You can't change one type of form into a different type of form. The closest option would be to close or hide the first and show the second at the same location on the screen.
However, you could approach this differently. Instead of putting your buttons and logic into a form, you could place everything into two UserControl instances, and just change which user control is visible within a single form.
You can use panels, group boxes, TabControls, etc. to group common controls together. When you want to switch between different "screens", you can hide or show the group control by setting the visible property and calling BringToFront(), and it will hide/show all the controls on that group control.
I have a user control that consists of some textboxes and checkboxes. Once the user is finished filling the first one, they should be able to add one more form by clicking an "add another record" link button.
How can I repeat this usercontrol as the user clicks?
I am supposed to use C# only.
So, we are talking of UserControl where your fields are located (I mean, that this is a one class inherited from UserControl or Control. )
There are a lot of ways to do it. But, I think, to be mode 'code concise' is to use FlowLayoutPanel
a) Create this panel. (through visual designer i.e.)
b) When user clicks, create your control
c) add your control to layout panel.
var myControl = new MyControlWithForm();
flowLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(myControl);
One could use flowLayoutPanel1.Controls array to process all filled forms afterwards.
I need to simulate a form that is similar to the interface seen during installation of any software. There are next and back buttons and the all the information entered by the user is processed only when he/she clicks the finish button. When the user clicks the back button, the previous entered information is showed to him/her. When the user clicks the next button the next screen is show to him/her. All displayed information is shown in one form.
There are 3 section which I need to show the user.
Section 1 - pressing the next button will show section 2
Section 2 - pressing the back button will show section 1 and pressing the next button will show section 3
Section 3 - pressing the previous button will show section 2 and pressing the finish button will process all the information entered in section 1,2 and 3.
Currently planning to implement the solution listed below :
Create one form
Add all the element for section 1 and create a next button event that will hide all the element shown in section 1 including the button and show all the elements section 2.
Create button event for the back button for section 2 such that it hides all the elements in section 2 including the button and displays all the elements in section 1 and the next button to hide all the element in section 2 including the button and show all the element in section 3
Create similar button event for section 3
Are there any better solution than the one describe above. If yes, please describe the approach. Any help provided will be greatly appreciated.
One way to achieve this is using a tab control and hiding the tabs so that the user can't navigate between them and instead you control moving from one tab to the next programatically.
I use the KryptonNavigator control as it provides many different modes that make it simple to hide tabs so that only tab content is visible, etc. However, it should be possible to hide the tabs of the standard tab control.
KryptonNavigator
Sounds like you need a wizard control. Try one of these:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/ak_wizard.aspx
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/195255/best-wizard-control-for-net-windows-forms
You can use usercontrol structure to achieve this kind of behaviour. You can add a simple panel control and change the content of the panel according to the buttons pressed. You can simply change the content of the panel by using yourPanel.Controls.Add(your_user_control).
So different control sets can be implemented on a winform.
Thanks
You could create custom controls for the three different screens, then you could just add those 3 controls to the form, making it easier to hide/show the appropriate controls.
Or alternatively, you can create three separate forms, and then show your forms in order and perform the actions in the programs Main() function rather than using a form as your startup object. Like
static void Main()
{
Form1 f1 = new Form1();
if (f1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
// do actions
// show next form
// etc.
}
}
Yeah, like iain said, the wizard control is probably your best bet, but if that doesn't work, try looking for MultiView or Accordian controls. They make controls that are specifically for hiding/showing sections on a form, so you don't have to go from form to form, and thus you stay in the same scope the whole time. Makes keeping the fields populated a lot easier.