Audio editor tips in c#

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How can a windows form call itself ?
Basically I'm not looking for a tool strip menu bar, what I want is for example if I click "home" from the menu bar I want it to display some functions on the window, if I click "file" from the menu bar I want it to display other different options in the same window.
Thanks hope you understand what I tried to explain.

Posted 23-Oct-10 5:38am

Chirry

Updated 23-Oct-10 16:40pm

Henry Minute

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Henry Minute 23-Oct-10 22:41pm

What does "display some functions on the window" mean? You should edit your question to make this clearer or, I'm afraid, you are unlikely to get any answers.

Chirry 24-Oct-10 6:37am

What im trying to do is to do an audio editor, this application will have a menu but i dont want it as a tool strip menu bar to display the available options what i want instead is that when u click on one option of the menu bar it provides the user with different buttons according to the option from the menu bar clicked. (im taking as an example the Music editor free audio editor)
when i try to do it im using differentt forms to get what i want, istead i want it all to happen in the same form
I hope i made it clear now. thank u so much for ur patient and time

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Toli Cuturicu · Answer 1 · 2010-10-24T09:02:00

Solution 1

You are describing a TabControl. So, you may either use one or, if you don't like its appearance, you may fake it using z-axis stacked panels. Then, if a panel is needed, you can simply call the Panel.BringToFront() method.
If you need further explanation, feel free to ask. Good luck!

Posted 24-Oct-10 9:02am

Toli Cuturicu

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Chirry 25-Oct-10 1:45am

yess that is exaclty what i need thank youu.
Would you mind explaining me how can i use the panels,im just learning c# im not an expert on it, been learning for two months and now i got to do a project on in and its really worrying me.
God bless for ur help

Toli Cuturicu · Answer 2 · 2010-10-25T01:41:00

Solution 2

Well...
1. Place the MainMenu on your Form.
2. Create the MenuItems.
3. Create the first Panel.
4. Set its Dock property to DockStyle.Fill.
5. Place whatever Controls you want on it.
6. Repeat steps 3 to 5 for all the other Panels.
Note: There is an issue. Since the Panels are all on the same Form and all have Dock = DockStyle.Fill, only the uppermost one will be visible in the designer. But that's exactly what you want it to be, right? Ok, but you want to add some Controls on the invisible ones. So, right-click on the visible one and click Send To Back. The Panel below will now be visible. And so on.
7. Create Click event handlers for your MenuItems, for example:

private void menuHome_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    this.panelHome.BringToFront();
}

That's all!

Posted 25-Oct-10 1:41am

Toli Cuturicu

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Chirry 25-Oct-10 8:53am

woooooww !!! i will do that right now.. i doo really appreciate ur help i doo!! thanks a lott
thank u for ur time an patient with me as well..
can i sak u one more thing, can i call a class from the click of a button. for example. i got a class call recording, when the button REC is clicked i want it to call the class to performe the action instead of putting the whole code behin the buttons.
Im sorry if they are stupid questions but im just trying to get the philosophy of c# and a clear understanding of it. im just confuse because apparently there are code all around i mean there are code behin buttons in the classes here there, so im just confusing myself over it.
Thanks again i feel dumb but hope u understand me

Chirry 25-Oct-10 12:06pm

i tried to implement what u said but when i try to run it it wont work. this is what i wrote

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace GUI_application
{
public partial class Frm_audioeditor : Form
{
public Frm_audioeditor()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void homeToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.panel1.BringToFront();

}

private void fileToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.panel2.BringToFront();
}

private void editToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.panel3.BringToFront();
}

private void effectsToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.panel4.BringToFront();
}

}
}

Toli Cuturicu 25-Oct-10 16:32pm

How exactly does it NOT work? What happens?
And why do you need using System.Data; using System.Text; using System.Linq;? Do you actually use anything from these namespaces in your class?

Toli Cuturicu 25-Oct-10 16:33pm

Make sure you added the panels to your form and you set their Dock property to DockStyle.Fill.

Toli Cuturicu 25-Oct-10 16:34pm

You can't call a class! This has no meaning at all. You can call a public static method of a class, or create an instance of that class and call a public method of it.

Chirry 26-Oct-10 9:22am

i add already the Dock = DockStyle.Fill; to each panel, and in part it works, when i did it for first time it was doing exactly what i wanted, but when i moved the panels around to start putting some code behin the buttons it wouldnt work anymore, the bar menu options are not calling the functionalities that are meant to call, (I did NoT touch the code that i have at first, i only move the panels around)
and the use of using System.Data; using System.Text; using System.Linq to be honest with u im not sure how to deal with them yet, they just were on my screen when i start coding on them.
thanks againg

Chirry 26-Oct-10 12:44pm

i try to sort it, it is working now apart of one of the options, why would it happen, it works once didnt touch the code and it doesnt want to work again