Tab within Tabbed MDI

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

I have build a tabbed Mdi application.MdiParent contains a toolstrip which has buttons like inventory,production etc.When this buttons are clicked the forms open inside the tabpage of the tabcontrol present in the mdiparent.Its working.Now i have toolstrip in suppose inventory form which contains buttons like procurement,purchase.I have to open the procurement form inside the tabcontrol present in inventory form.how to do that...

Posted 26-Apr-11 2:02am

Kunal Singha Roy

Add a Solution

2 solutions

Solution 2

If you create a TabControl is a tab, it would be too confusing from the customer experience point of view (even though it's quite easy technically). You need two levels? Good. Make them visually different. One such design can be based on master-detail in the form of ListBox/Panel, for example.

Imagine you have a tab page; inside a tab page a ListBox with items and some Panel of right. When you change selection in a list box, use System.Windows.Forms.CheckedListBox.SelectedIndexChanged event to look at the item and show appropriate instance of Panel on right side.

—SA

Posted 26-Apr-11 11:04am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Nish Nishant · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26T02:06:00

Solution 1

Why don't you just drop a tab control in one of the tabs? The child of a tab page in a tab control can itself be a tab control.

Posted 26-Apr-11 2:06am

Nish Nishant

Comments

Kunal Singha Roy 26-Apr-11 8:10am

But i am creating the tab pages in the tabcontrol during the run time

Nish Nishant 26-Apr-11 8:13am

Yeah, and you can create and add a tab control at run time too.

Kunal Singha Roy 26-Apr-11 8:24am

I have a problem that when the mdi child activate event is called then i am calling a function opennewchildform() where i am putting the form inside the tabpage of the tabcontrol.Now when i am trying to open procurement form in inventory then the same opennewchildform() function gets called from mdichild activate event so tabpage gets added to the tabcontrol in the mdiparent.

Nish Nishant 26-Apr-11 8:26am

Set a flag to make sure that you only create the child control once. If the flag is true, then skip over the creation code.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Apr-11 17:04pm

Even if this is solved, the design will be ugly.
Please see my alternative.
--SA