How to make a tab's name editable in C#? - c#

So I have a few tabs in the form, and i want it to work like that:
When you click on the tab's name, it becomes editable, and when i stop editing it remains with the new name.
How would i do that with C# and winforms?

You can dynamically create a text box and place it over the tab area to make the user think they are editing the tab directly. When the text box loses focus you can then put the typed in value into the tabs property.

I agree with Eric, regarding how you could do this with the standard TabControl. You could also provide a dialog to do the name change (a slight variation on Eric's suggestion).
However, I would also recommend that you consider rolling your own tabbed control. They're not difficult to create and by rolling your own, you will be able to put in the exact functionality you need in a robust way rather than trying to piece it together from existing components that may not play nicely together.

There's no standard Windows control that does this, so you'll either need to look for a third-party control with this functionality (iffy) or write your own control which draws the appropriate edit box on the tab, etc.

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Get new Messagebox style - WPF

I am currently working on a Windows Presentation Foundation app and I need to make use of Message boxes. I want to get few information from user inside Message Box popup.
But they appear always like this:
But I think the actual look of it should be like that:
Does anybody know, why this is, and how to solve it? I tried all everything listed
here
, but nothing worked.
I agree with Keithernet, build your own. Its more of an Input Dialog box. You may want to plan it to create a window, create it with ex: 4 parameters which you could override so you can apply them in the form including
The title,
The prompt you want the user to fill in
optional default button 1 text
optional default button 2 text.
have the input value stored into a public property in the window for the text to be bound to during entry.
If the user clicks the cancel button (or similar), clear the text entry and close the window. If ok button, just close the window.
Then, when you call it with a YourWindow.ShowDialog(), upon return, you can look at the public property for that input text value.
You could even do with a property / flag if the user cancelled directly or not. I have done similar in a couple of my WPF apps.
MessageBox is very limited. Based on your screenshot, you should just create your own child Window with your own XAML so you can get the user input.
You can find sample service implementations/NuGets for this on GitHub. Here is one I've created sometime ago: https://github.com/Dirkster99/MsgBox
Just create your own is an oversimplifying statement in my opinion because this is usually a dialog that you want to show in different parts of the application. Therefore, you have to settle for a software design pattern (I chose a service implementation as suggested here).
Likewise, there are other design decisions that should be taken. I have for instance made sure that the API has a compatible subset of Show API calls with the standard .Net MessageBox to make its application as flexible as possible. I also settled for light and dark themes hoping this will make its application easy in any other theme...

Removing Plugin from Autogenerated form

I have a WinForm project that I used DevExpress buttons and labels to create. It turns out that not all devs have a license for DevExpress, so I need to change all references to it to the standard WinForm buttons and labels. The problem is that this is a complex form with over fifty elements on numerous (DevExpress) tabs.
It would be nice an easy to go in and change the DevExpress to the correct Windows buttons, labels and tabs except editing auto generated code just gives VS something to change back to what it wants. However, it sounded like changing Form.Designer.cs may be possible from one of the answers here.
My question is, can I make permanent changes to Form.Designer.cs, or will they be overwritten at some point by VS. If they will be overwritten, is there a simple way to swap out buttons and labels, if I want everything to stay the same except using the WinForm button rather than DevExpress button. Replacing them could work, but I have the tab controls to worry about.
Is my best bet to start a new WinForm, copy the code I wrote, and recreate the design?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Contextual Text Editor in WPF

We are currently looking to create a text-editor in WPF (.NET 4.0) which will allow writers within our team to create movie scripts. In short, the functionality should ressemble that of FinalDraft or Adobe Story (i.e.: contextual positioning of text depending on the cursor's position and user intentions)
We are currently looking at two different solutions design-wise:
One WPF control which will act as the container, and multiple small text-editing controls which will represent rows within the script. This will allow us to position the controls using their margin, while also making binding easy. The challenge here would be the handling of multi-line selections. I was thinking of using a Listbox as the container, and each listbox item would be a custom control containing a textbox. This would require the instantiation of controls depending on the user's action. Everything would be skinned to give the impression that the user is working on a blank page.
One big textbox capable of displaying custom XML data. The challenge here would be to determine where exactly the cursor is located (i.e.: is the cursor on top of an actor's name, etc.) and positioning the text appropriately (i.e.: actor names are centered and in caps, etc.)
I recently tried implementing the first solution, but having to re-implement the whole selection behavior that is built-in in basic text boxes is non-trivial and requires a lot of work. As for the second solution, binding to my business objects will be much harder than simply instantiating multiple controls with different bindings.
Do you have any other solution in mind ?
I needed a text editor for a application once. We had a big xml file for settings and the user should be able edit those.
Turns out , if your file is large enough (+ 10000 lines) the rich text box is getting pritty slow.
As for building a gui mask : only if your user wirtes some short options like text. But is i understand you want your useres to write creativ text. This "mask" gui - "lot of small places" will make them feel like they are in the 80ties.
I suggest: Dont write the Programm , only write a Plugin to an exitings editor. Some are free like:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/42490/Using-AvalonEdit-WPF-Text-Editor
or an add in for word - people love Word and know Word
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8837/Writing-a-Word-Add-in-Part-I
And for binding data and the like: Once the text is written, the user just need to press the save button and you can parse the input for information. I would not do it on the fly as it can get pretty slow. Also you say that the information is linked so only if all the data is written you can make use of it.

C# custom GUI, better implementation?

I'm making a custom GUI for my application. Basically my application has multiple 'tabs'. Each tab has a panel control binded to it, to display tabs contents. Whenever any of the tabs are clicked, appropriate panel control becomes visible (that displays contents) and the rest of the panels become invisible.
The problem is that when I design them in Visual Studio, it's hard to work, ether panels are stacked up on each other or I put them in different coordinates, and when panel becomes active, it's location is updated.
Is there I way I could design all the panels, like on separate 'form' or something like the same way I have separate classes? if that makes sense. Thanks!
EDIT:
I can't use the standard tab control, because my application has custom GUI, all buttons and everything is designed in image processing app. Tab control doesn't allow me to use my own graphics.
I'm going to take a look at UserControl, thanks everybody!
You can create each tab content in a separate UserControl. Use that each UserControl as the only content on each tab.
You should be able to design each "panel" as a separate UserControl.
Your main Form can just be composed from those UserControls, instead of having the entire UI built into one class.
First I would suggest you stick with the standard .NET controls in most cases. Particularly in this case the standard TabControl seems to be a good fit.
That said, you can place all the panels on the form in their final location (being sure not to place a panel within the other panel). You can then use the drop down in the Properties dialog to select the Panel you wish to work with. Next go to the Format menu and choose Order->Bring to Front. This will bring the wanted panel to the front so you may use the designer on it. You can then continue to hide or show the appropriate panels at runtime.

How to change controls on a Windows form without changing the form itself

What I am trying to remember is the name of a windows form control which allows with an ID change allows programmer to move between its states, which are different panels with different controls on them. There is a control that does exactly this - but I can't remember its name at all. Do you know anything similar to this in C#?
edit: basically, I have a windows form. It has a panel. I want to, by changing panel's a specific property, I want to switch between its states, every state containing another set of windows form controls. I cannot, however, remember the name of this control. Any ideas? Sorry if my first wording is confusing.
It sounds like you mean something like a wizard? In asp.net webforms has a wizard control buy afaik the closest in windows forms is TabControl. But no matter; it is trivial to simply hide and show some Panel controls. It can be trickier to use the designer, of course - but you can lay them out next to each other and move then at runtime as needed.
Looks like there are a few wizards available for WinForms too
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/195255/best-wizard-control-for-net-windows-forms
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/WizardDemo.aspx
And, well, plenty of others

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