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maxfax
maxfax

Reputation: 4305

Delphi: suggests, ideas in a building of User Interface

I am building an user interface. My program will consist of 4 main parts:

1) Top Menu - TMainMenu. A top of a window

2) Main Menu - TTreeView. A left of a window. Each item of TreeView=corresponded TabSheet of TPageCotrol.

3) Work space - TPageControl. No tabs. An left space.

Each TabSheet has it's own ToolBar and other controls. It will be 5 menus (5 items in TreeView) = 5 TabSheets -> 5 ToolBars and other controls on each TabSheet.

It almost exactly looks like here (it could be: TreeView as Main Menu; MainMenu as Top Menu; Work Area - ToolBar and other controls): enter image description here

I would like to use an user interface like here: enter image description here Where the CoolBar are represented with the Top Menu and the ToolBar (it suits my purpose to use 5 ToolBars instead of 1 ToolBar on each TabSheet). But after a discussion here it seems impossible to copy this CoolBar with the MainMenu and the ToolBar.

My question: how to build an efficient user interface using as examples the UI of uTorrent and the UI of Windows Firewall?

Are there good alternatives, ideas of a building of the UI? How would you make your interface if you need those 4 parts as me?

Now I have something like this: enter image description here

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1500

Answers (2)

ain
ain

Reputation: 22749

Ian suggest panels, I would go with PageControl and set it's tabs TabVisible to false at runtime(*). The reason is that it is much more easy to manage at design time. When user select an item from treeview, activate corresponding TabSheet...

*) I actually haven't done this with stock TPageControl so I don't rememeber would it work this way, ie would it activate TabSheet which have it's TabVisible set to false. It might be that you have to set TabHeight to 0 or use some other trick to hide tabs at runtime.

Upvotes: 0

Ian Boyd
Ian Boyd

Reputation: 256581

You'll have to have 5 panels in your client area.

As you select a node in the treeview on the left you will need to call

pnlInboundRules.BringToFront;

The difficult thing is then how to update the single toolbar with the items that should appear on it based on what "tab" you've selected.

You would have to delete the toolbar buttons, and add new buttons for that "page".

Upvotes: 1

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