Is there a way to add a Header to the popup menu? I don't find a property for this.
You could also simulate a header on the context menu by putting the information you want to display in the header as the first item in the context menu. Put a separator (or perhaps two) underneath it and put no code behind it.
That visually separates the item and users will learn pretty quick that clicking the first item doesn't do anything.
This may not work in your situation, but whenever I needed to show a context menu off of a grid row that wasn't the current/highlighted row, I made that row the current row first, then showed the menu. That would eliminate the need for a header on the menu. I assume you're showing the context menu if the user right clicks on the row. Well before showing the context menu, make sure that row is current and highlighted.
Do as Corin says, but disable the first item as well. If you disable it, that should remove confusion entirely.
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Is there a way to add a new button to ALL PAGES in CRM?
I have tried different ways but in some views, the new button is shown at the end. Im trying to found a way to create a button and place it as first button, to any view, entity and page in CRM. Is this accomplisable?
I'm afraid that out-of-the-box buttons will often take precedence over custom buttons, and the only way to change that would be to hide the out-of-the-box buttons.
I'm assuming you are adding the button via the Application Ribbon, correct? (not every single form and grid)
You can add items to the "Jewel", (the dropdown from "File" in the top left). It's not exactly the same as putting it in the ribbon because you have to make an extra click, but it should show up globally.
Basically (excuse the really bad pun) i want to bring forward a menu bar (not docked) so it is on top of a picutebox (docked on top of form) however i cant seem to achieve this.e.g. and as you can see i cant get the menu to appear on top.
In code you can use the .BringToFront method to change the Z order of controls. In the designer you can use the Format menu. Select the control and use Format->Order (rough translation from german) to change the Z-order.
There should also be icons in your toolbar:
I've got two forms, one being frmMain and the other being frmDatasets. The idea is that frmDatasets is used to manage the application's datasets (it's a program for comparing sorting algorithms).
I have a MenuStrip on frmDatasets with a few items. I just decided to change the Add Dataset item to a drop-down menu with options for loading one from file, or generating one according to certain parameters. All well and good; just add the items, swap some icons around, and change the event handler's signature to handle the right Click event.
Except when I run the program, clicking on the Add Datasets top-level item for the first time sends frmDatasets to the back, displaying an inactive frmMain. Clicking the item again shows the dropdown menu as usual.
If I instead click another top-level menu item, that works just fine. But then simply hovering my mouse over the Add Dataset item causes the 'send to back' thing to happen.
I say "send to back", but it's really just putting it behind frmMain. It remains in front of other windows like Visual Studio and Firefox.
Anyone know what on Earth is going on with this form?
EDIT: If I show frmDatasets as a modal dialog, it stops the whole "sending to back" thing, but I still have to click the menu item twice before it shows the list.
EDIT2: Overriding the onClick event to call mnuAddDatasetDropDown.ShowDropDown removes the double-click issue, but it's only a solution if I keep the form as a modal dialog. Still gets sent to back. Overriding mouseEnter doesn't do anything to solve it.
Setting the TopMost property of frmDatasets from its Design view to 'true' fixed all of the problems I was having. No insight as to what was going on, unfortunately, but if anyone else is having this problem then hopefully it'll work for them too.
I am trying to edit a specific control part within a custom TabItem Template. In this case, it's the TemplateBottomSelected control part.
I'm having an issue where I cannot seem to view or edit any control parts within the template editor except the default TemplateTopSelected. Here's a screenshot of what I'm talking about:
Even though I'm selecting the "TemplateBottomSelected" grid, the only thing I can see is the template for the TemplateTopSelected item.
How the heck do I edit the other control parts within the template using the editor?
Thanks!
that's because these templates are either collapsed or the opacity of them is set to 0. :)
you can use the eye toggle button to only show the one you want to modify at design time, set the visibility to visible, do your changes, and reset it to collapsed.
please let me know if you need more info.
I have a tab control with two tabs. Both tabs have controls which are unique to them, but there is one control which I would like to always appear on whichever tab is currently active.
I figure I just need to add some code to TabControl1_SelectedIndexChanged().
I tried
MyControl.Parent = TabControl1.TabPages(
TabControl1.TabPages.IndexOf(TabControl1.SelectedTab))
MyControl.Parent.Update() ' is this necessary?
and I also tried
TabControl1.TabPages(
TabControl1.TabPages.IndexOf(TabControl1.SelectedTab)).Controls.Add(SeMyControl)
but neither worked (the control moved once, but when I went back to the original tab, the control did not appear there.
googling found someone suggesting
TabControl1.TabPages(TabControl1.TabIndex).Controls.Add(MyControl)
but that looks dodgy as the control is never removed from the old tab, so repeated switching would probably add the control multiple times.
I feel that I am close, but not quite ... how do I do it?
No, that works fine since Controls.Add() changes the Parent property. Which automatically removes it from the tab page it was on before. A control instance can only have one parent.
The more straight-forward approach is to simply not put the control on a tab page but leave it parented to the form which a lower Z-order so it is always on top of the tab control. The only problem with that is that the designer will hassle you. It automatically sucks the control into the tab page when you move it on top of the tab control. One trick to fix that is to leave it off the tab control and change its Location property in the form constructor.
Using your second code snippet that you are concerned about because it doesn't remove it from the original tab, why not just remove it from the original tab before you add it to the new tab?
Maybe something like: TabControl1.TabPages(TabControl1.TabIndex).Controls.Remove(MyControl)