Hi,

I am working on version 2 of my application now. I am designing interfaces now and am running into a little trouble. Maybe some kind person can answer this question please.

I am using Visual Studio 2005 Professional and started my project as a Windows Form application. My application requires LOTS of different screens. I discovered the Panel form of grouping controls together and started designing each page I required on individual panels which I could then make visible/invisible as and when I needed to as the user selected various parts of the application. The only problem I am facing now is every time I go to edit the tab order, all the tab ordersfrom previously designed panels in the background are becoming visible and it is very messy to sort out what tab orders I am editing.

How can I overcome this problem so I see only the tab orders for the panel I am working with? When I design a new panel, I have just been overlaying the new panels on top, bring them to the front and edit the controls there, but maybe this is the wrong way to go about this.

Kind regards,

Sean

Hi Sean,

On the top of PropertyGrid, you can see a ComboBox control, you can select the very panel object for edit.

Actually, you can use TabControl to group the controls. At design time, we can layout the controls with visual clues of the TabHeader. At run time, we can easily hide the tabHeaders, and display the current selected tabpage. As for how to achieve it, you can refer to our FAQ.

If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Bruce Zhou

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Hi Sean,

On the top of PropertyGrid, you can see a ComboBox control, you can select the very panel object for edit.

Actually, you can use TabControl to group the controls. At design time, we can layout the controls with visual clues of the TabHeader. At run time, we can easily hide the tabHeaders, and display the current selected tabpage. As for how to achieve it, you can refer to our FAQ.

If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Bruce Zhou

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Hi Bruce,

Thanks for your answer. I have used tab controls before so am a little familiar with them. I didn't think about this as I haven't hidden the tabs before, though I've played about with orders, removing and adding tabs and changing their text properties too.

I think I'll re-design the interface to use these instead.

Kind regards,

Sean