The document provides an overview of using C# and Visual Studio to create Windows-based applications, focusing on controls like ComboBox and TreeView. It details properties, methods, and events associated with these controls, along with coding examples for practical implementation. The document serves as a guide for programming in C# with an emphasis on user interface design and functionality.
The document provides an overview of using C# and Visual Studio to create Windows-based applications, focusing on controls like ComboBox and TreeView. It details properties, methods, and events associated with these controls, along with coding examples for practical implementation. The document serves as a guide for programming in C# with an emphasis on user interface design and functionality.
The document provides an overview of using C# and Visual Studio to create Windows-based applications, focusing on controls like ComboBox and TreeView. It details properties, methods, and events associated with these controls, along with coding examples for practical implementation. The document serves as a guide for programming in C# with an emphasis on user interface design and functionality.
The document provides an overview of using C# and Visual Studio to create Windows-based applications, focusing on controls like ComboBox and TreeView. It details properties, methods, and events associated with these controls, along with coding examples for practical implementation. The document serves as a guide for programming in C# with an emphasis on user interface design and functionality.
3 Dr. Waleed Dahea 2024-2025 E-Mail: dahea.waleed@gmail.com
C# Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design 1
Chapter Objectives • Use C# and Visual Studio to create Windows-based applications.
• Add Control objects such as :-
• ComboBox
• TreeView,
• ListView, and
• ImageList ……to a form
• Work through a programming example that illustrates the
lecture’s concepts
2 ComboBox • ComboBox control is one of the most useful control in Windows Forms. It provides an interface to display the list of items, and allows to select the items. To save the space on Windows Form, it lists the items as a drop-down list. That means, initially the control displays a text box & a button. When click on the button, it displays the list of items and the selected item will be displayed in a text box.
• ComboBox control is a combination of text box,
button & list box controls.
3 4 Standard Controls
5 Properties • We need to add the entries to ComboBox control, in order to display them when needed. As mentioned above, ComboBox control displays it’s items in a list box. It holds the list of items in it’s Items collection, which is an important property of this control. That said, Items property is of collection type. To add or remove the items to & from the ComboBox control, we use this Items property. • When Sorted property is set to True , it’s items will be sorted. • Text property returns the text displayed in the text box. That means, it returns the selected item’s text. This is editable, but it will be disabled depends on the value set in DropDownStyle property. 6 Properties • DropDownStyle property controls the appearance and functionality of the ComboBox control. Depending on your program requirement, you can set this property to proper value. When set this property to; 1. Simple, it will display it’s items in the list box and a text box will be displayed to display the selected item from it’s list box. Text box is allowed to edit the text it displays.
7 Properties 2. DropDown, it displays a text box and a button control next to it. When click on the button control, it shows the list of items the control has and allows to select the item(s). The selected item will be displayed in the text box and it is editable.
8 Properties 3. DropDownList, it behaves like when we set this property to DropDown; except, the text box is NOT editable. That means, when we select the item from the ComboxBox control, it displays the selected item in the text box and but it doesn’t allow to edit the text. When set this; Text property will behave like read-only.
• Another useful property is, MaxDropDownItems
property. This allows to set the number of items to be visible at a time, when drop-down list is displayed. This you set to the proper value, depending on your application window size. 9 Methods • Adding and removing items to & from the ComboBox control can be done through the methods of Items property. Items.Add method will add an item to the ComboBox control. And, Items.Remove method will be used to remove an item from the ComboBox control. To remove the item from the specific position index, we can use Items.RemoveAt method.
• To remove all items from the ComboBox control, we can
use Items.Clear() method..
10 Events • SelectedIndexChanged event will be triggered whenever we select an item from the ComboBox control. Actually this will be triggered whenever SelectedIndex property value is changed.
• DropDown event will be raised when the drop-down
portion of the ComboBox control is visible. Usually this will be visible when we click on the button to select an item from the ComboBox control. Once the selection is done, the drop-down portion will be hidden. Then, DropDownClosed event will be triggered. These two events are very useful to place the code to update or reset 11 the changes for the ComboBox control. Example
12 if (comboBox1.Text.Length > 0) comboBox1.Items.Add(comboBox1.Text);
if (comboBox1.SelectedIndex != -1) comboBox1.Items.RemoveAt(comboBox1.SelectedIndex);
comboBox1.Items.Clear();
switch (comboBox1.DropDownStyle) { case ComboBoxStyle.Simple: comboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDown; break;
case ComboBoxStyle.DropDown: comboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList; break;
case ComboBoxStyle.DropDownList: comboBox1.DropDownStyle = ComboBoxStyle.Simple; comboBox1.Height = comboBox1.ItemHeight * 15; break; 13 } TreeView control • TreeView control in C# is used to display the items in hierarchical form. Each item in TreeView control is called a node. A node can have sub-nodes too; and each sub-node has it’s own nodes, and so on. All the nodes in the TreeView control are displayed in an hierarchical form, for better readability and control. • Add TreeView control to the Form • Create a C# Windows Forms Application in Visual Studio IDE. In Form’s design view, add the TreeView control from the Toolbox. Visual Studio automatically, creates a variable for this control and by using this we can use the features of the control.
• You can add the nodes to the control in design view also, by selecting Nodes property from the Properties dialog 14 15 Adding nodes to the TreeView control • A Treeview control is the collection of nodes; each node is in the same level or in different hierarchical position in the tree structure. These collection of nodes are managed through it’s Nodes property. • Nodes is of TreeNodeCollection type, that represents the collection of tree nodes assigned to the TreeView control. • TreeNodeCollection has Add() method, which allows to add a new tree node to the end of the Nodes collection. Add() method has number of variances; these are used to add a node with label text, with key, with image index etc,. • Usually, we use the simple Add() method variance to add a new tree node with labeled text. Here is the code in C#; • TreeNode node = ctrlTreeView.Nodes.Add("Parent Node"); • The above statement adds a new tree node, and returns the tree node that has added to the tree Nodes collection. The node is of TreeNode type. 16 Removing a node from TreeView control • We can also remove the node from tree nodes collection, if we have the reference to TreeNode. As we have the reference of “Sub Node” in sub_node variable, below statement can directly removes the node from the collection.
• node.Nodes.Remove(sub_node);
• These methods will remove the node which is in current nodes
collection.
• We can also remove the node by calling it’s Remove() method. This is possible, only when we have the node reference.
• sub_node.Remove(); 17 Find a node in TreeView control • To find a node by it’s key, we use TreeNodeCollection‘s Find() method. We need to specify the key value and whether to look into it’s sub-nodes also to search for the node.
• Find() method returns the list of nodes which matches the
given key value. Below is an example, which removes the first node which matches with the given key value.
• node.Nodes.Find("key-value", true)[0].Remove();
18 Example
19 Example private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { TreeNode node = treeViewControl.Nodes.Add("root", "Government Space Agencies");
sub_node.Nodes.Add("usa", "United States").Nodes.Add("nasa", "National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA)"); sub_node.Nodes.Add("chn", "China").Nodes.Add("cnsa", "China National Space Administration (CNSA)"); sub_node.Nodes.Add("jpn", "Japan").Nodes.Add("jaxa", "Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)"); sub_node.Nodes.Add("ind", "India").Nodes.Add("isro", "Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)"); sub_node.Nodes.Add("rus", "Russia").Nodes.Add("rfsa", "Russian Federal Space Agency (RFSA)");
