Windows Controls

The RichTextBox control is the core of a full-blown word processor. It provides all the functionality of a TextBox control; it can handle multiple typefaces, sizes, and attributes, and offers precise control over the margins of the text (see Figure … [Read more...] about RichTextBox Control

The RichTextBox control provides properties for manipulating the selected text on the control. The names of these properties start with the Selection or Selected prefix, and the most commonly used ones are shown in Table 4.5. Some of these properties … [Read more...] about Text Manipulation and Formatting Properties of RichTextBox Control

Creating a functional — even fancy — word processor based on the RichTextBox control is unexpectedly simple. The challenge is to provide a convenient interface that lets the user select text, apply attributes and styles to it, and then set the … [Read more...] about The RichTextBoxPad Project – RichTextBox Control

Earlier in this chapter you learned how to use the ListBox control for displaying lists of strings and storing objects. The items of a ListBox control can be sorted, but they have no particular structure. I’m sure most of you wish that the ListBox … [Read more...] about ListView, TreeView, and ImageList Controls

The TreeView control implements a data structure known as a tree. A tree is the most appropriate structure for storing hierarchical information. The organizational chart of a company, for example, is a tree structure. Every person reports to another … [Read more...] about Tree and List Structures of TreeView Control

The ImageList is a simple control that stores images used by other controls at runtime. For example, a TreeView control can use icons to identify its nodes. The simplest and quickest method of preparing these images is to create an ImageList control … [Read more...] about ImageList Control

Let’s start our discussion of TreeView control with a few simple properties that you can set at design time. To experiment with the properties discussed in this section, open the TreeView Example project. The project’s main form is shown in Figure … [Read more...] about TreeView Control

Let’s look now at the process of populating the TreeView control. Adding an initial collection of nodes to a TreeView control at design time is trivial. Locate the Nodes property in the Properties window, and you’ll see that its value is Collection. … [Read more...] about Adding Nodes to a TreeView Control at Design Time

It’s time to demonstrate the members discussed so far with an example. The project you’ll build in this section is the TreeView Example project. The project’s main form is shown in Figure 4.27. Fifure 4.27 - TreeView Example Exercise The Add … [Read more...] about TreeView Example Exercise

You have seen how to scan the entire tree of the TreeView control by using a For Each. . .Next loop that iterates through the Nodes collection. This technique, however, requires that you know the structure of the tree, and you must write as many … [Read more...] about Scanning the TreeView Control

The ListView control is similar to the ListBox control except that it can display its items in many forms, along with any number of subitems for each item. To use the ListView control in your project, place an instance of the control on a form and … [Read more...] about ListView Control

As with the TreeView control, the ListView control can be populated either at design time or at runtime. To add items at design time, click the ellipsis button next to the ListItems property in the Properties window. When the ListViewItem Collection … [Read more...] about ListView Items and Subitems

Let's put together the members of the ListView control to create a sample application that populates the control and enumerates its items. The sample application of this section is the ListViewDemo project. The application's form, shown in Figure … [Read more...] about ListView Sample Project