I am building a visual studio application and have designed it using visual studio windows form. I am using the siticone library for the GUI but when i lay widgets out on the designer and then run the application all the widgets move. The buttons do not but the labs on them do. Also i have added a user control page that moves aswell. Please Help.
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Make sure that your Winform Font style and size match with all child controls including all Siticone controls.
Verify that you have anchored your controls accordingly on your form or panel control.
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I need to create a shoebox-style native Windows app in C++. A good example of such a UI would be CleanMyPC:
I've tried the various options of the MFC App wizard in Visual Studio 2019 to see what that would give, but it's either document-based (SDI), or too limited (dialog-style). The closest was an empty Win32 app, which just displays a menu bar and a blank window beneath it. At least it matches the Windows style. But that would mean using bare Win32 API, which doesn't seem like a good idea.
Can a UI like in the screenshot be created with MFC? If so, would that be a reasonable approach? Can MFC be effectively used in a non-document-style, non-dialog-style UI like this?
I understand that there's heavy customization of the controls going on in the screenshot; the question is can it be done with MFC?
It looks like the left sidebar and the right details areas could be made of customized list controls. I'll be looking into how a dialog-based sample app arranges the window, so that no document stuff is involved, but without immediate termination on a button click.
i was wondering if there was any way that you could hide certain GUI components in the GUI editor, in rad studio. not actually hiding the component on run with .hide() function, i mean just so that i can work on the other components and design. for example if i have a panel that pops up that is reused over and over again with certain elements but that covers my screen i cant work on the other components. is the only solution to create the components dynamically?
I am supporting a large existing windows forms application. It makes use of panels that sit over the other content on forms. The panels have their visible property to false in the designer. At runtime, visible is set to true when appropriate to display the panel.
This system works fine. However, it's hard to maintain the forms that have these panels because the designer shows them even when they should be invisible. Here is an example:
The Panel_archive has Visible set to False. However, it's still showing in the designer. This makes it hard to edit the fields that it hides.
Is it possible to hide this panel (and all its child controls) so that I can edit the stuff behind it? I assume there is a way to do this (at least, in earlier versions of the Visual Studio IDE) as the original developers created the forms like this. However, I can't find a way.
Can anyone tell me how I can change the color of my checkmark for a checkbox in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 development?
I see some references on the web for changing a template but that is more for WPF or SilverLight apps, not WP7.
Right now I have a white background on my stackpanel and my background for my checkboxes are black. It would be sweet to make the checkmark white.
Any ideas?
UPDATE:
I should mention that I'm creating these checkboxes in the code behind (via a loop), and I'm using VS 2010 for my phone app development.
The Answer:
Thanks to Mick who lead me down the right path. I had to fiddle with it a little but I used MS Blend to create my own style and then I copied the XAML from there and put that style XAML in the App.xaml in between the tags.
Then I applied it in my code behind like this:
chk.Style = (Style)Application.Current.Resources["CheckBoxStyle1"];
You can access this by retemplating the control in Blend.
Target the check box.
Right click
Edit Template
Edit a Copy
Drill down to the CheckMark path
Change it's colour
My Win32 Application displays Menus as shown when running on Win 7:
This is the Default for the themes Windows 7 as well as Windows 7 Aqua.
Please note that the selected menu entry is only slightly different from the other entries. I think it is much too less highlighted and therefore i am looking for a way to give the selected entry a different color. But unfortunately all possibilities to modify menu colors disappeared in Windows 7. The settings made in the window color dialog are non effective for menus.
But amazingly Microsoft's own applications look different. I.e. Paint has different color and appearance of menus:
This has good contrast and is much better than the default for a Win32 application.
Also Visual Studio 2010 looks different:
I know that VS 2010 is build on WPF. I don't know if and how the ribbon, used in paint influences the menu appearance. My menus are set up dynamically using SetMenu();
My Question: Is there any way to change the appearance of my applications menu using a API or maybe a manifest or resource?
Or is there a way to modify the color of the selected menu entry in Windows 7 through settings?
You can make your own user drawn menus. For an example, take a look at this CodeProject.com article: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/menus/newmenuxpstyle.aspx
Also, VS 2010 is not entirely built on WPF - only the code editor.