is dynamic dialogs possible?

[Domtar]

Hi all,

Since I have no wish to lose my time, before I put too much effort into this, I thought about asking this question.

I'm building a GUI where one of the options is to select the SCCM Distribution Points where to replicate the packages we create. That DPs list changes from time to time whenever we open a new location. Seeing that, I'm looking for a way to dynamically create the controls I need.

My question is: is it possible to loop thru a list and dynamically create a control for each item in the list? I tried it for like an hour and I am not near a solution.

Maybe what I want cannot be done?

Thanks!

[rslaav]

excellent issue, i'd like to know as well

note: I think we need to write lambda expressions in this situation, from what I gathered earlier. I am looking at similar problems, but not with gui issues.

[jvierra]

Yes. There are many ways to do this. I have used a FlowLayoutPanel to generate and position controls. Another way is to use a TabControl to create collections of controls.

I would first start by rethinking what you need to do as ListBoxes and DataGrids can usually perform the same tasks and actually are controls that auto-generate other controls.

What you are asking is a co0mmion thing in Forms. If you search you will find many examples of "Programmatically created controls".

Here is an example of a form that generates all of its controls of of any arbitrary data row object.

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$bindingSource = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.BindingSource
$bindingSource.DataSource = $customer

$form1_Load={
	
	$Customer.DataView.DataViewManager.DataSet.Tables[0].Columns | 
		ForEach{
			$tb = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.TextBox
			$tb.Width = 300
			$lb = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
			$lb.Text = $_.ColumnName
			$lb.Width = 150
			$lb.Dock = 'Fill'
			$lb.Textalign = 'MiddleRight'
			$tablelayoutpanel1.Controls.Add($lb,0, $row)
			$tablelayoutpanel1.Controls.Add($tb,1, $row)		
			$tb.DataBindings.Add('Text', $bindingSource, $_.ColumnName)
			$row++
    	}
}


$buttonSave_Click={
	$Customer.EndEdit()
}

$form1_FormClosing=[System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventHandler]{
	if($form1.DialogResult -eq 'Cancel'){
		$Customer.CancelEdit()
    }
}

[Domtar]

i will study your piece of code.

thanks for the help!