Dynamic Button automatic arrangement

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Hi Friends,

I am beginner in C# programming.

I want to draw button dynamically and arrange it automatically using Windows Forms Application.

For example:

I have 6 button and i show only 4 button in my client machine, and 5 button for another client machine.

How i can manage this type of situation.

Please help me.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 24-May-11 18:43pm

Tiwari A K

Updated 24-May-11 21:54pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-May-11 0:48am

Good idea, my 4. Now tag it! WPF or Forms, or what?
--SA

Tiwari A K 25-May-11 2:54am

Thank you SA
i want it in win form application with client-server approach. there are a server and 2 client. i want to show/hide buttons with my choice to client machine.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-May-11 4:06am

Thanks for tagging. It's for your benefit -- you want experts to see the class of your problem before they open the file.
What you want looks simple. What's the problem?
--SA

Tiwari A K 25-May-11 4:24am

I want to access control on my application for client machine. clients saw only what I want.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-May-11 4:07am

Did you get satisfactory answers? If not, I'll think how to answer...
--SA

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-May-11 0:49am

What's so wrong in this question?! If OP tags the UI library, I'll re-vote by 5.
--SA

Sandeep Mewara 25-May-11 1:04am

SA you wanted to post this comment here? Or something, I am missing?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-May-11 3:45am

I only wanted to say I disagree with down-vote on this question, but I requested OP adds the tags, then I would up-vote.
--SA

Sandeep Mewara 25-May-11 4:41am

I asked as you said "What's so wrong in this answer" and there was no answer then. :)

All good. :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 28-May-11 0:30am

Oh, now I see, thank you. I mistyped; wanted to say "what's so wrong in this question?".
--SA

Tiwari A K 28-May-11 0:58am

its all right thank you very much Sir

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-24T18:56:00

Sure. You have some data, it can change. Populate it. Do something like this:

C#

Button button = new Button();

//...

button.Location = //.. from data
button.Text = //.. from data, calculate parent size, arrangement
parent.Controls.Add(button); // some parent Control; at this moment button appears on screen
button.Click += (sender, eventArgs) => { /* whatever you need on click... */ }

//...

All this you can do dynamically, when UI is already shown or not.

This is just the idea, because you did not tag what UI library you want to use. It would look pretty much like that anyway.

—SA

parmar_punit · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-24T19:55:00

This may useful to you...

//here we assum that there is 5 element... you have to create an array with number of button
string[] ButtonText = {"FirstValue", "SecondValue", "ThirdValue", "FourthValue", "FifthValue" };
//after creating an array of ButtonName call the below function from where you want to generate your dynamic buttons...
CreateButtonDynamic(5,ButtonText);//call of function

//function to create dynamic buttons
private void CreateButtonDynamic(int numberOfButton, string[] ButtonText)
{
   for (int i = 0; i < numberOfButton; i++)
   {
      Button temp = new Button();
      temp.Name = "button"+(i+1).ToString();
      temp.Text = ButtonText[i];
      temp.AutoSize = true;
      temp.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(100, 100 + (25 * i));//please adjust location as per your need
      temp.Tag = i;
      temp.Click += new EventHandler(OnButtonClick); 
      this.Controls.Add(temp);//this will add the control to form if you have panel or some other container then you have to specify the name of that container like...
      //this.panel1.Controls.Add(temp);
   }
}
private void OnButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   Button temp = (Button)sender;
   MessageBox.Show("You have clicked on  : " + temp.Text);
}

Steven.Pinto2000 · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-24T19:02:00

For windows application
just specify this

C#

this.demotextbox.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(139, 127);

or

create all the buttons and check which for the user and then make the button visible accordingly
and in case of web application create a table at run time and add the controls to it
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