I am coding an invoicing application. The user should be able to add a new line to the billing section of the invoice by selecting a product from a ComboBox, which subsequently fills out various other fields (price, description, etc) based on the selected product.
My problem is this: When the user adds a product, I would like the program to automatically generate a new line for the next product. It seems like the only way to accomplish this would be to create a new set of controls with an incremented name, i.e. Product1, Price1, Desc1 for the first product, Product2, Price2, Desc2 for the second product, etc. Is this possible, or am I going about it all wrong?
I had to do something like this at one point and what I did was create a custome user control, in your case it would consist of a combo box, that is filled with products on load, and all the related controls, which would be filled out on the selectedindexchanged event of the combo box. On your main form where you want to display this info place a panel and add your custom user control to the panels.controls collection.
since all the functionality will basically be contained in the usercontrol itself you shouldn't run into naming issues.
As for adding the user control when the user makes a selection, you could dim the control withevents and attach a custom event to the user control and handle it in the main form. since the controls would be added at run time you would need to attach the event handlers using the AddHandler call.
So to break it down you would need:
A Custom user control with all the controls you want for each product and an ID in the code behind
An event on your custom user control to tell the main form that the combo box has a selected value
A panel on your main form to hold the custom user controls
An event handler to add a new customer user control to the panel when a selection is made in the combo box.
if you want to interact with a certain product with the same button you can attach an ID in the code behind of the user control and set that everytime a new user control is added. this is not as hard it I think I make it sound, you can actually run linq on the panels control collection and get all the panels where any condition you designate is met and then do what you want from there.
As for your second question, I would assume your user control is pulling a bogus connection string from somewhere. I would try to track down where that is happening and go from there. Anything beyond that would just be a WAG and that doesn't really help you.
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I have a custom user form in Excel where the number of option buttons is dynamic, depending on what a user selects from a combo box. I have written a script that will add and format those option buttons with appropriate captions, groupname, etc. However, I would like it so that after those buttons are added dynamically, if a user clicks a button from a group just added, then more code will be executed. I am aware that one can create a custom class so that multiple userform controls are handled with one event handler, but I can't figure out how to get this to work with controls that were added dynamically to a form, after the form initialized. I am hoping this question makes sense. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I am creating a program that for simplicity's sake records the name of a staff member that receives a phone call. This program is designed to show old entries along with creating new ones.
The problem is that I want a user to only be able to select a listed name from the drop box when creating a new entry. But this list will only show current employees. Yet, when viewing older calls this combobox field also needs to display former employees that took a call that may no longer be in this list.
As far as I can tell with the Microsoft control and properties there is only 2 options that relate to this matter.
DropDownStyle as DropDown or DropDownList.
When using DropDown the user can submit any name (which is not wanted).
With DropDownList the user can only submit names on the list, but when browsing through old entries any names that are no longer on that list will not appear on their respective calls (which is also not wanted).
I'm aware I could end up having to implement my own combobox class but I wanted to see if anyone knew of a more elegant fix that combined both of these functionalities. Thanks!
It seems to me you have two modes. Add mode adds a new call record, while view mode displays old records.
Use the drop down list to restrict the user to what you load. When in Add mode, load the control with only current employees. When the form is in view mode, load with all employees.
Use DropDown. In the Validating event, set e.Cancel = True and instruct an ErrorProvider control to put up a warning with its SetError method if SelectedItem Is Nothing, but clear the error (by passing Nothing to SetError) otherwise. Then, in the combo box's SelectionChangeCommitted event, call the form's Validate method.
Let say that I'm creating thousands of custom controls, each control has own data assigned to it (like name, id, etc.), now I would like to add
click event for each of these custom controls
access from software any of these dynamically created controls
So I would like to show MsgBox if user click control #452, which will be returning values assigned to object in custom control class (passed during creation of new control on user form)
Second thing is that I would like to access at any time any of these objects and read values assigned to object in control....
How to do it ? Each control has name assigned like "Example1", "Example2", "Example3" but I don't know how to access it from code as any of these exists during writing...
Also I were trying to find how to create and rise events but it seems that all solutions are for statically created controls and I need to rise events for dynamically crated custom controls....
Thanks in advance for any tips/help how to solve it.
I'm using VB.NET
Ok I figured it out !
It is very simple actually.
If any one will be looking for an answer :
To access dynamically created control first we are going to name it :
Dim Control as new CustomControl
Control.Name = "Name" & Counter
Next after we've created new controls we are going to access it using:
Dim _Control as new CustomControl
_Control = Ctype(Me.Panel1.Controls("Name1"), CustomControl)
MsgBox(_Control.Name.ToString)
Viola
I still not sure about custom events for all controls on custom control (so where ever user click, there should be override event which returns something back, now I can only either click panel container (not labels/pictureboxes) from code inside user class, or event per control on custom control (but issue is that I want to pass data from custom control to user class).
I've created one user control which have textBox & DatabGridView etc. When any user start typing in textbox then the filter is applied in DatabGridView. Now I want to add following features in this control how can I add these?
I want to use same control for supplier, customer, vendors on a single form, so I've placed it 3 times from toolbar. But for each control I want to fill different data from database. So what will be the best way to bind the control?
As we knew each table (customer,supplier & vendor) can have different columns, so I also need properties to set them. I've added property to my control but how can I ensure user has assign value in it? I.e. if user run the form and X property is not assigned to control then it should show message.
Note: I've tried it on control load event but didn't get any success because control's load event is occurred prior to form load and I'm assigning property on form load.
Please help....
I am writing a Windows Forms application in VB.NET. I have three forms: the main form, which shows a list of accounts, the account form which allows the user to view/edit the information for a specific account, and the policy form which allows the user to view/edit the information on a specific policy for that account. I want the forms to appear as if they are all the same window. Example: when the application starts, the user clicks an account name in the list box on the main form and clicks "edit". What I want to happen is that the window stays in the exact same place and stays the same exact size, only the content of the main form appears to be replaced with the content of the account form. Same thing if the user then chooses to edit a policy from the account form. When the user finishes and clicks "save", the main form comes back up. Through this entire use case, it would appear to the user as if they were viewing the same window the entire time, with the content of that window changing.
How can I do this? I have tried something like:
Dim newForm as New AcctForm
newForm.Location = Me.Location
newForm.Show()
Me.Close()
The problem is that if the user moves the original window, the new window appears where the parent form originally appeared, not where it ended up.
I see this is already in the comments, but what I have done in this case in the past is build each "form" in the application as a custom control. Then I have one actual form, and navigation works by changing which custom control is currently loaded on the parent form. To move from one screen/view to another, you remove the current custom control from the form's controls collection and add the new custom control.
I believe this is superior to manually setting the startup position and size, because you can use the form's .SuspendLayout()/.ResumeLayout() methods to hide the interim state, where there is no control loaded, from the user. This is harder to do when you want one form to be completely replaced by another.
This also makes it easy to set certain form properties in one place and have them be consistent for the application. You can even have an area on the form with controls that will now show in every view.
When using this pattern, I typically have each of my custom controls inherit from a common base. You may not have anything specific you will do with that base at the outset, but it almost always comes in handy later.
Finally, switching to use this scheme is easier than you think. Just go to the code for the each of your current forms, and you will find that each class currently inherits from System.Windows.Forms.Form. Most of the time, all you really need to do is change them to inherit from System.Windows.Forms.Panel and you're most of the way there.
As others have said, it may be better to redesign your application using custom controls or panels etc.
However, to answer your question regarding the seemingly random location of your forms, the first thing to check is that each form has it's StartPosition property set to Manual.
If your main form is resizable, then I would also add code to adjust newForm to the same size too.
I hope that helps with your immediate issues; so that you can move on to redesigning the application!
good morning there is another way . set property for second form to (top most) and use also
from2.show();
that make you switch between forms and keep form2 top other
Thanks
try using ShowDialog()
Dim newForm as New AcctForm
newForm.Location = Me.Location
newForm.ShowDialog()
Me.Close() <-- removed this