I want to have dynamic number of panels displayed on the screen. Its like creating listview of panels. I would like something that would allow me to use .add and .remove operators to add and remove panels from listview or some other control. Is there anything out there right now in vb.net?
It sounds like you are referring to the FlowLayoutPanel, which you can use to add any controls to it (in your case, more panels).
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I just have it in my mind. And I can't explain it so here it goes.
A system that only uses 1 form?
It have a two panel, left and right.
The left is consist of buttons
Then the right is associated on the buttons and will change whether what button will be clicked.
Any ideas?
My preference is to do this via custom controls, rather than panels... but panels can work too.
There are a number of ways to do this:
Keep all of the controls layered on top of each other, and then set the Visible property to false for controls/panels you don't care about and to true for the Control/Panel that you do
Move the controls you don't care about out of the visible area
Remove/Add the Controls/Panels from Form's controls collection entirely
I think you can also get a TabControl to put the tabs along the left side, with some formatting that looks more like buttons, such that what you want will be handled without needing to write any code to switch layouts
Any of those can work. Whichever option you use, I have two recommendation for controlling layout and making the transitions smooth.
Call SuspendLayout() before making any changes, and then call ResumeLayout() when you're done. This will help avoid stuttering or a partially rendered form.
Look at the TableLayoutPanel Control. This control will allow you to arrange your top-level panels so that they can be resized with proportion. If you also then dock your individual panels, you can quickly build your program so that it resizes correctly.
You can have several panels, one on top of another. Change their visibility, depending on which one you need at a given moment.
Option #2 would be using a vertical tab control (or a tab strip - see another answer there).
In the layout I'm writing, there's an area where a different control is shown, depending on various conditions.
Can I place all of these controls at design-time, or I must "re-attach" and "remove" each control at runtime?
You can host a panel inside a TableLayoutPanel cell. Or any other control container. In that you can put as many controls as you want.
For example, you could use a nested FlowLayoutPanel. So you may not need to manually perform layout management.
I was searching google for a way to size the form and the controls with it and came across something that mentioned Control.scale. How do I use the control.scale method to size everything down to the way I want it.
Also, is there a way I can zoom the form out in the designer. I want to create a 1280X800 form, but my screen is 1024X768. I want to be able to zoom out to see the entire form wile still having it's size be 1280X800.
You can use tablelayout panel in order to fit your form in all resolutions.similary a property called anchor, which is also need to be assigned for the controls inside tablelayout panel according to your requirement [top,bottom,left,right] to achieve the same.
By the way you have to use percentage for setting the column's width and row's height in that.
Simply, this way of designing is called as fluid designing.
Table layout panel
I'd like to get the effect visible on the picture:
I don't think it is. A GridView already has a ScrollViewer in itself, so multiple of them does not make sense. I would try to use a single GridView with GroupStyleSelector/ItemContainerStyleSelector/ItemTemplateSelector implementations and DataTemplates to define each item. A less dynamic version might just be a ScrollViewer with Style set to HorizontalScrollViewerStyle, a horizontal StackPanel and a few VariableSizedWrapGrids - if you bind the GridView to some groups or other panels to define the content.
This looks like a good sample based on the description (though the images seem to be missing for me).
I have pairs of controls: immagebox + textbox = one pair.
I want these to show up in a single column grid/tabular format. Each cell contains one image/text pair.
I want this grid to scroll because the number of pairs is dynamic depending on a user selection.
I suppose I will be adding these controls in code at runtime when the user makes his/her selection.
What is the best way to accomplish that in vb.net? TableLayoutPanel or better way?
One possible approach is the following.
Use a Panel as your container. Inside this Panel you can add a TableLayoutPanel that is defined to be AutoSize=True. Add two columns to your table layout and then add controls in rows as needed. The TableLayoutPanel will then size itself automaticlly depending on the contents.
Now make your Panel be AutoScroll=True and it will automatically add the correct scrollbars so the user can move around and see the contained set of controls.