Program Layout Ideas

Question

Any ideas on how I would easily manage 5+ different layouts/screens like this?

http://i.d.com.com/i/dl/media/dlimage/15/83/25/158325_large.jpeg
http://i.d.com.com/i/dl/media/dlimage/15/83/26/158326_large.jpeg


I like the layout but im not sure how to keep everything organized.  Any ideas on how to lay this one out?

Answer 1

Are u using some third party controls for building this type of GUI??

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Kavitesh Singh.

Answer 2

no just visual studio 2005.

im just looking for ideas on an easy way to manage all the controls.  instead of having a bunch of controls and setting their locations and visible propertys at run time.

Answer 3

Hi,

Just a quick question , you are developing a web based application or win form based application.With web based development its always recommended to use html "div" element to align and place elements in different regions of the web page.

In case of win form development , you can use preferably layout containers like dock panel , stack panel , grid container .All these I am mentioning with WPF as the development envoirnment.

Answer 4

its a windows form application

Answer 5

Hi,

Are you creating controls at runtime?
I'd suggest you create them at design time and record the postions then load them at runtime with the records.

I am afraid there no easy way to do it.

Harry

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Answer 6

i am doing it at design time.  I wish there was an easier way but i may just have to set the positions of all the contorls at form_load and when the user changes 'screens'

thanks for the help.  maybe they will incorperate something that will allow this to be easier at design time in future releases

Answer 7

Hi,

You might want to use anchor property for form resizing situation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.anchor(VS.71).aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984325(VS.71).aspx

Harry

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