Hi,

this is quite a beginner question but I would like some advise on how to correctly/nicely perform the following:
1) I have an explorer taskpane on the left of my main form, let's call it "Menu" ;)
2) I have the left over zone, the "Main" zone

How can I easily design my forms and add it dynamically to the Main zone when clicking on the smarttask items of the Menu?
For the moment, I would use a panel filling the whole Main zone, and adding a usercontrol into this panel on menu items click.

I hope I'm clear, and I'm waiting for your advices (or code samples).

Thanks
Eric

Can you confirm that you are indeed using the ActiveX version of SmartUI in Viusal Basic 6? We do not have a ExplorerTaskPane in this version however, you maybe created your own.

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Mathieu Drimonakos
-Technical Designer-

Oups... sorry I picked up the "Smart UI forum" but didn't pay enough attention to the parent forum "ActiveX".
This post should be in the "other winforms .Net" section.

I will detail my solution so far:
1) an explorertaskpane as "menu"
2) a panel filling the whole space left as "main"
3) on "itemtask" click in the menu, I do the following:
private void loadMain(Control control, String title)
{
this.pnlMain.Visible = false;
this.pnlMain.Controls.Clear();
this.pnlMain.Controls.Add(control);
control.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
this.Text = title;
this.pnlMain.Visible = true;
}

The "control" is simply a personal UserControl containing the gui part. This way I can easily design each usercontrol.
What do you think ?

ps: thanks if you can move the topic ;)

This is not really related to SmartUI. You are probably looking more for an MDI environment. You can look at the FolderExplorer sample, it demonstrates something like you want.

Under XP :

C:\Program Files\Xceed Components\Xceed SmartUI for .NET <version>\Samples\CSharp\Advanced\FolderExplorer

Under Vista :

C:\Xceed Component Samples\Xceed SmartUI for .NET <version>\Samples\CSharp\Advanced\FolderExplorer

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André
Software Developer and Tech Support
Xceed Software Inc.

Hello,

yes it's more related on how people use smart explorer. It's cool to have a nice menu but you still need a way to handle the content part.

anyway, I already had checked the sample. But I must confess I'm not a big fan of MDI env. It's not far from I look for, but I don't want a lot of children forms "lost" in the content part.
That's why I'm actually using this "content panel" and clearing it each time a menu entry is chosen.

Yet I will take another look the the MDI sample.

Thanks for your advices.