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JoseMarchi
JoseMarchi

Reputation: 13

Display multiple groupboxes on winforms

So, in my WinForms application, I need to display several "pages" (that are groupboxes holding textbox, buttons, maskedbox and etc) on one main page on my application. Firstly I tried to use a "user controller", but it didn't work out because the name of the controllers didn't match the names that I passed to my database connection for example. So I tried to place these groupboxes one on top of another one via the "location property". All working just fine, but now I have a significant problem when I decide to make a few changes to these groupboxes controllers. It's very hard to access them and I wonder if there's another way to do so because it looks very amateur approach... How do I achieve this kind of functionality without placing groupboxes on top of another one? And I also wonder, is it correct to do it with groupbox or should I use panel?

An example of the approach:

 private void btnCadastrarBeneficiario_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        groupBoxUsuarioCadastro.Visible = false;
        groupBoxClienteCadastro.Visible = false;
        groupBoxHospitalCadastro.Visible = false;
        GroupBoxMonitoramento.Visible = false;
        groupBoxBeneficiarioCadastro.Visible = true;

    }

I use the visibility property so I can show (or not) the groupbox and make them behave like an actual page.

---EDIT---- In order to make myself clear I created a minimal version of what I'm trying to show here:

namespace WinFormsApp1
    {
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        groupBox2.Visible = false;
        groupBox3.Visible = false;  
        groupBox1.Visible = true;
    }

    private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        groupBox1.Visible = false;
        groupBox3.Visible = false;
        groupBox2.Visible = true;
    }

    private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        groupBox1.Visible = false;
        groupBox2.Visible = false;
        groupBox3.Visible = true;
    }
}

}

This is the code of a minimal application similar to what I'm doing. It works just fine, but I wonder if there's another way to do it, a more efficient, organized, and sophisticated way.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 359

Answers (1)

jmcilhinney
jmcilhinney

Reputation: 54417

I would tend to do something like this:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    HideAllBut(groupBox1);
}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    HideAllBut(groupBox2);
}

private void HideAllBut(GroupBox groupToShow)
{
    var groups = new[] {groupBox1, groupBox2};

    foreach(var gb in groups)
    {
        gb.Visible = (gb == groupToShow);
    }
}

You can obviously extend that to as many controls of whatever kind you like.

Upvotes: 2

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