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How to change disabled background color of TextBox in WPF

August 5, 2023 by Tarik

Unfortunately for the TextBox control, it appears like it’s not as simple as just adding a trigger and changing the Background color when the trigger condition is true. You have to override the entire ControlTemplate to achieve this. Below is one example on how you might do this: <Window x:Class=”StackOverflow.MainWindow” xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation” xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml” Title=”MainWindow” Height=”350″ Width=”525″> … Read more

Working with version control on a Drupal/CMS project

August 3, 2023 by Tarik

You are correct that this is an issue for Drupal–version control works fine until you turn the site over to your client or open it up to users. Your question seems like a more specific version of this one, which touched on version control in the Drupal workflow. You may find some answers there that … Read more

Can Margin be enforced even with Dock property set?

July 26, 2023 by Tarik

Place each GroupBox in a Panel, Set Panel Dock Property to Top, Group Box Dock Property to Fill. Then set Padding on the panels.

Change the location of an object programmatically

July 22, 2023 by Tarik

The Location property has type Point which is a struct. Instead of trying to modify the existing Point, try assigning a new Point object: this.balancePanel.Location = new Point( this.optionsPanel.Location.X, this.balancePanel.Location.Y );

Control for displaying multiline text?

June 11, 2023 by Tarik

You can display multi-line read-only text in a Label. If the text has \n (newline) characters in it, then the label will wrap to a new line wherever the newline character is. If the label has wrapText set to true and there is not enough space to display a single line of text, then the … Read more

How to set which control gets the focus on application start

June 7, 2023 by Tarik

The one with the minimum tab index automatically gets the focus (assuming the TabStop property is set to true). Just set the tab indices appropriately. By the way, Visual Studio provides a way to easily set tab indices by just clicking on the controls in the order you want. You can activate this feature by … Read more

Is there a simple JavaScript slider? [closed]

June 4, 2023 by Tarik

hey i’ve just created my own JS slider because I had enough of the heavy Jquery UI one. Interested to hear people’s thoughts. Been on it for 5 hours, so really really early stages. jsfiddle_slider

How to access Winform textbox control from another class?

May 21, 2023 by Tarik

I would recommend that you don’t. Do you really want to have a class that is dependent on how the text editing is implemented in the form, or do you want a mechanism allowing you to get and set the text? I would suggest the latter. So in your form, create a property that wraps … Read more

what is hypermedia , hypermedia controls, hypermedia formats

May 20, 2023 by Tarik

There’s a lot of confusion about this, because most applications that call themselves REST don’t use hypermedia and aren’t REST at all. Hypermedia is a generalization of hypertext for content other than HTML. You can say hypertext is a subset of hypermedia. Hypermedia can be HTML in a browser, with all links, buttons and everything … Read more

Best way to access a control on another form in Windows Forms?

May 16, 2023 by Tarik

Instead of making the control public, you can create a property that controls its visibility: public bool ControlIsVisible { get { return control.Visible; } set { control.Visible = value; } } This creates a proper accessor to that control that won’t expose the control’s whole set of properties.