custom-controls

use custom control directly in Visual Studio project

i want to use the listview flicker"less" control found here http://geekswithblogs.net/CPound/archive/2006/02/27/70834.aspx directly in my c# Project. i dont want to make a custom user control project, build it to dll and then import it in my project. i just want this all in my c# Programm i am making. i think i have to add in my projec...

Disabling Button with custom Content in Silverlight?

Hi there, What is the easiest way to create a Silverlight Button with custom Content which knows how to 'look' disabled? I.e. if you set IsEnabled="False" it will look greyed out. The custom Content will be dead simple, text and an image. I have done this before in a WPF application quite easily by setting the Content to a StackPanel ...

Asp.net Custom user control button. How to stop multiple clicks by user.

I am trying to modify an open source Forum called YetAnotherForum.net in the project they have a custom user control called Yaf:ThemeButton. Now its rendered as an anchor with an onclick method in this code ThemeButton.cs using System; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; namespace YAF.Controls { /// <summary> ...

Android Custom View to Activity communication

I have a custom control/view that observes the direction of a gesture within its bounds. I would like to send a different message back to the Activity hosting the View depending on the direction of the gesture. I'm having a hard time determine what the right way to do this is. I would think I could raise a custom event in the control and...

WPF Custom Control with Image problem

Hi all, I am quite new to WPF/XAML and I am currently facing a problem. I have a solution with two projects in it, the first project is a Custom Control Library with a custom Window form control inside. The second project is a WPF application using my custom window form. All work fine except for the form Icon. In the WPF application p...

WPF CustomControl and Image binding

Hi all, I am really getting mad since 2 days with a stupid problem. I already have asked the question here but seem like my question in lost where nobody will see it again. So here is my simple problem : I have a project containing a CustomControl (a library project), this custom control code is inherited from the Window control. So it...

Accessing global variables of custom controls in ASP.NET

Hi, I have built lots of custom asp.net controls which work really well separately but I want to somehow allow global access to all their variables from anywhere on the page. I have a central control called the ContentManager which I can use to store these variables. The problem I have is that all the controls are bound at different time...

WPF Writing custom Control

I wanted to write a Custom Control that would show a family tree... so i looked on FamilyShow.... So their control inherits FrameworkElement but then every thing gets super complex... are there any easy tutorials out there that show how to implement a custom FrameworkElement with children and so on? Basically what i fail to do is this,...

Can a custom WPF control implement the IsDefault property

I have a custom button control that does not derive from Button. Is it possible for me to implement the equivalent of IsDefault so that the command associated with my control will be invoked. I was hoping that this was an attached property that I could add to any control but as far as I can tell it doesn't seem to be. Am I out of luck if...

Custom Checkbox style for WPF

I would like to skin a wpf default checkbox to something custom. Since it does not really make sense to start off a entirely new control, i'd like to override the Windows Chrome template binding for the Bulletchrome sub component of the checkbox. However I cannot do this like I can with checkboxes for example. tried using something like...

how to create Custom Server control for GridView using .net

I want to created a Custom Server Control (Inherited from GridView). On the page, the GridView is DataBound to a DataSet, so I do not know at design time what columns will be present in my GridView. Now, what I want to do is, to add a textbox in every Cell for the GridView Header row, and those textboxes will control column filtering....

How to assign Image Uri in a custom Control.

Hi, I want to place an image inside my custom control , so my generic.xaml looks like below: <Style TargetType="local:generic"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter.Value> <ControlTemplate TargetType="local:generic"> <Grid Background="{TemplateBinding Background}">...

Add Custom Control to DataGridViewCell

Hello, I create a custom control inherited from Windows.System.Forms.Controls. This is my code of this control: public partial class MonthEventComponent : Control { private Color couleur; private Label labelEvenement; public MonthEventComponent(Color couleur_c, String labelEvenement_c ) { ...

Is it bad practice to handle the showing of the open file dialog, and other dialogs, from within a custom textbox control?

I am making a custom textbox control and am thinking about adding keybindings in the constructor that execute commands to open and save files. I am also thinking about handling the find and replace dialog from within my textbox control. Is there a reason I shouldn't do this? --Edit-- I am planning on only using this control in my curr...

BlackBerry - Custom menu toolbar

Hi I'm a beginner in BlackBerry programming, I need to replace in my application the default menu (when you press the menu button) by a custom menu, horizontal. The best to describe is I want the same result as the WeatherEye application for BlackBerry... I know how to create the default menu, but this one I have no idea! Thank you,...

Extending a DropDownList control

I have a rather large application that has literally a hundred DDLs with Yes / No ListItems. In an attempt to save myself some time, I created a custom control that extends the standard DDL. It all seems to work fine but I am having some issues when assigning the SelectedValue property in code where the selected value does not seem to h...

Blackberry - Custom EditField Cursor

Hi, I am new to Blackberry Development.This is my first Question for you people. I am creating a search box for my project. But it looks like blackberry doesn't have an internal api for creating single line Edit field. I have created a Custom Field by extending BasciEditField overriding methods like layout, paint. In paint i am drawing a...

.NET (C#) passing messages from a custom control to main application

A custom windows form control named 'tweet' is in a dll. The custom control has couple of basic controls to display a tweet. I add this custom control to my main application. This custom control has a button named "retweet", when some user clicks this "retweet" button, i need to send some message to the main application. Unfortunately th...

Wpf- Is there a way to cause an UI element to loose focus without changing the focus to something else?

I would like to add an IsFocused property to a custom textbox that I am working on, is there any way to do this? ...

How to include other controls in a scrollbar?

I want to create a scrollview with a zooming control and a button next to the scrollbar. Sort of like the "tile window" button in XCode (top right corner of the editor), it should be in the same box that usually is used by the scrollbar only. Do you have an idea of how to approach this? I was thinking to use an NSScrollView and set the...