Laying out a tournament in the GUI

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Hi.
I am creating a simple application that will be used to keep information about small gaming tournaments.
I have a Player class that has three prperties; name,race and id. Then I add players to a listbox.
Then I chose a tournament type from a combobox; Single-elimination, Double-elimination and Everyone playes everyone.

Now for the problem :)
First of all I want to get the single-elimination up. If you don't know how that kind of a tournament is then here is the structure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-elimination_tournament[^]. When I press the button "Create", I want it to layout all the players in a manner like on that wiki page. I'm not sure how I would go about doing that. I thought about creating a label for each player and then laying it out using some simple math but I want to have a textbox next to each player so I can record the wins and losses.
I am kinda clueless on how I can do this.

Does someone have an idea?
Any help greatly appreciated.

Posted 7-Nov-11 4:27am

sigsand

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Richard MacCutchan 7-Nov-11 10:48am

I would be surprised if there is not already a tool to do this for you. Try a Google search with some appropriate keywords, or even the CodeProject articles.

#realJSOP 7-Nov-11 10:55am

Sounds like a homework assignment to me...

sigsand 7-Nov-11 11:52am

Richard MacCutchan, I have tried to search google for something like this but without success. My searches: single elimination layout c#, tournament setup layout c#, and others.
John Simmons, it isn't a homework assignment. Even if it was, what would be the problem? Everyone looks to the internet for help.
Espen Harlinn, the DataGridView is not exactly wht I am looking for but i is better than nothing. I'm not sure how I could use it the way I want it to be. Could you give a short example on maybe how to layout two players and the winner of the two.
I will try to make something simple aswell using the DataGridView.
Thanks.

Richard MacCutchan 7-Nov-11 12:26pm

I had a Google search myself but could not find a sample; I'm surprised as I would have expected someone to have already faced this issue. Perhaps everyone just uses a DataGridView adapted to their own requirements.

sigsand 7-Nov-11 13:19pm

Here is what I have done so far. When I have added all the players to a listbox I press a button called Create and here is the code in the Click event:
int xpos = 10;
int ypos = 10;

int numberofplayers = listBoxPlayers.Items.Count;

foreach (Player player in listBoxPlayers.Items)
{
Label newLabel = new Label();
newLabel.Content = player.getName;
canvas1.Children.Add(newLabel);

TextBox newText = new TextBox();
newText.Width = 22;
canvas1.Children.Add(newText);

Canvas.SetLeft(newLabel, xpos);
Canvas.SetTop(newLabel, ypos);

Canvas.SetLeft(newText, xpos + 75);
Canvas.SetTop(newText, ypos);
ypos += 50;
}

sigsand 7-Nov-11 13:23pm

It's not supposed to be professional even though I always try to make it look good. But this method of mine seems to be working nice for laying out the players names. The textboxes behind each name are supposed to be filled in on the go. So if player1 beats player2 with 2-1 then 2 would be written in the textbox for player1 and 1 in the textbox for player2 and some logic would kick in to place player1 in the finals. I guess I need to add listeners to the textfields as I add them. :D

matej.mistrzu 11-Nov-12 12:24pm

Are you finished applications? I'd like to read the code, of course if it is possible?

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2011-11-07T05:08:00

Solution 1

I guess you are looking for something like the DataGridView Control[^]

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 7-Nov-11 5:08am

Espen Harlinn

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thatraja 8-Nov-11 9:45am

Probably he need more code to design this thing
5!

Espen Harlinn 8-Nov-11 10:16am

Thank you, thatraja!

thatraja · Answer 2 · 2011-11-07T06:19:00

Solution 2

Agree with Espen. Also TableLayoutPanel[^] & FlowLayoutPanel[^] are right choices(Like DataGridView) but you need to write lot of code for your requirement.

Posted 7-Nov-11 6:19am

thatraja

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Espen Harlinn 8-Nov-11 10:17am

Good ideas :)