Re: How to make a attractive user interface. - C# Discussion Boards

Erdinc2711-Oct-10 1:26

Erdinc27

11-Oct-10 1:26

hey friend..thanks for your reply..i want to ask one more question
it works if i have one panel but what about if i have more than one..i mean one panle and a textbox in it..and one more panle and textbox inside and so on..

Pete O'Hanlon11-Oct-10 1:48

11-Oct-10 1:48

Off the top of my head, this should clear the value of all the text boxes in a form:

private void ClearTextboxes(Form parentForm)
{
  foreach (Control childControl in parentForm.Controls)
  {
    ClearTextboxes(childControl);
  }
}
private void ClearTextboxes(Control control)
{
  foreach(Control childControl in control.Controls)
  {
    ClearTextboxes(childControl );
  }
  TextBox textBox = control as TextBox;
  if (textBox != null)
  {
    textBox.Text = string.Empty;
  }
}

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Erdinc2711-Oct-10 2:08

Erdinc27

11-Oct-10 2:08

thanks freind for your help..it works now as i wish.

Pete O'Hanlon11-Oct-10 2:40

11-Oct-10 2:40

You're welcome. You could boil it down to one generic method if you liked, but this should work as is.

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How to make a attractive user interface.

Luc Pattyn11-Oct-10 1:55

Luc Pattyn

11-Oct-10 1:55

A Form can be a hierarchy of Controls, as some Controls may contain other Controls (see Control.Controls property). The general solution is using a recursion, much the same you would use when looking for all .doc files on your disk.

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R.DileepKumar10-Oct-10 23:26

R.DileepKumar

10-Oct-10 23:26

Making an userinterface like a media player GUI without using WPF. Can any one help me how to create it.. or else just give the some examples...

Pete O'Hanlon11-Oct-10 0:03

11-Oct-10 0:03

What you are looking to do is skin a .NET form. You can find more information by following the links[^] in Google.

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R.DileepKumar11-Oct-10 18:43

R.DileepKumar

11-Oct-10 18:43

yah thanks yar....

Nish Nishant12-Oct-10 9:05

Nish Nishant

12-Oct-10 9:05

5!
This was the only reply that addressed the OP's poorly worded question. Thanks Pete.

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Pete O'Hanlon12-Oct-10 9:22

12-Oct-10 9:22

My pleasure mate.

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#realJSOP11-Oct-10 2:36

#realJSOP

11-Oct-10 2:36

"Atractive" is subjective (beauty is in the eye of the beholder). I'd be more worried about maintaining a standard (and more importantly, consistent) interface.

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My Vote of 1

Keith Barrow11-Oct-10 2:46

Keith Barrow

11-Oct-10 2:46

dileepkumar1244 wrote:
Making an userinterface like a media player GUI without using WPF

If you can't use WPF, you pretty much have to use Winforms, use a browser or abandon .net

dileepkumar1244 wrote:
Can any one help me how to create it.. or else just give the some examples

This is why I voted 1:

Beauty is subjective and [partially or mostly???] cultural.

Open some apps you like the look of, figure out what makes them nice, replicate the ideas. Not hard to figure out
There isn't really a programming question there
You ask for examples without having tried anything.

My vote of 1

OriginalGriff11-Oct-10 8:06

OriginalGriff

11-Oct-10 8:06

I have to agree with Keith - his four reason cover nearly all of mine. But I would add this:
"Attractive" is going to depend on what you are producing. An app to rip MP3's, mash 'em together and scratch the result is going to have a vastly different audience view to the monitoring software for a nuclear power station. The latter is not going to want hexagonal text boxes and see-though buttons so the background image is easily visible. But it is going to want a clear display of the core temperature, and output megawatts.

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PIEBALDconsult11-Oct-10 15:47

PIEBALDconsult

11-Oct-10 15:47

You'll need buttons that the user wants to lick.

How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

annathor12-Oct-10 0:36

annathor

12-Oct-10 0:36

GUI design is trade in it self that requers much experience,
Amazone'd it for ya'

when it comes to the technical side of implementing a nice GUI in C# you could a) create your own custom controls using GDI+ or b) by a set of 3rd party controls like telerik WinForms.

Enobong Adahada10-Oct-10 22:30

Enobong Adahada

10-Oct-10 22:30

pls i want to implement a private method on an interface,
and i get the Error:
Class cannot implement an interface member because it is not public.
I am creating a COM Object in c# and the mthods of my calss must be protected.
Pls is there another way of doing this.
Thanks.

Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

DaveyM6910-Oct-10 22:44

DaveyM69

10-Oct-10 22:44

You can't. If you think about it, it makes sense. The method wouldn't be accessible to consumers of the interface so it would be pointless.

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Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

Keith Barrow11-Oct-10 2:36

Keith Barrow

11-Oct-10 2:36

You can't it is against the language syntax because, as DaveyMnn said, it wouldn't make sense. Interfaces are there to define members that are publically available in the class.

If you want to protect code from external use it cannot be part of the Interface. You can however call private or protected methods (which cannot be in the Interface) from your public ones (which can).

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Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

PIEBALDconsult11-Oct-10 3:05

PIEBALDconsult

11-Oct-10 3:05

Perhaps you should sit back and reflect on the word "interface".

Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

Luc Pattyn11-Oct-10 3:09

Luc Pattyn

11-Oct-10 3:09

it shares 5 letters with private, and only 2 with public.

Confused | :confused:

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Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

Pete O'Hanlon11-Oct-10 3:17

11-Oct-10 3:17

And yet is shares 6 with in-your-face.

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Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

Luc Pattyn11-Oct-10 3:34

Luc Pattyn

11-Oct-10 3:34

I'd say 7, but you're trying to change the subject here.

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Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

Keith Barrow11-Oct-10 3:34

Keith Barrow

11-Oct-10 3:34

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
reflect on the word "interface".

ecafretni? I doubt that'll help him much Smile | :)

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Re: How to Implement Private methods in an Interface

Pete O'Hanlon11-Oct-10 3:42

11-Oct-10 3:42

That's ancient Sumatran - it means only public methods. It comes from a time when sacrifices were common place and there was a need to appease the gods by performing the sacrifice in public. They tried it in private for a while, but the populace started to suspect that all the pigs they were bringing to be sacrificed were just ending up as a really great luau.

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