A Nice Menu/List Control?
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This isn't actually a programming question, more of a development question, so sorry if I have got the wrong board. Im developing a small chat application, and I wish to display a nice list/menu of users currently online. I have searched and searched, and I have gone through many articles on this site but I just cant find anything that works well. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any nice controls that they may have seen or used in the past? I really liked the, Vista Style Menu[^] But in use, it doesnt scroll when i have more list items then the forms height, and it doesn't dock to fill. Andy
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This isn't actually a programming question, more of a development question, so sorry if I have got the wrong board. Im developing a small chat application, and I wish to display a nice list/menu of users currently online. I have searched and searched, and I have gone through many articles on this site but I just cant find anything that works well. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any nice controls that they may have seen or used in the past? I really liked the, Vista Style Menu[^] But in use, it doesnt scroll when i have more list items then the forms height, and it doesn't dock to fill. Andy
I've used infragistics[^] in the past. They are pretty good, and very flexible, although can be quite complex in some areas. (But their forums are pretty good too if you need support). If your looking for free/open source stuff, you do have to be prepared to modify the code and make some changes to it. That's just life, the open source controls tend to be a bit less customisable, you have to customise it by modifying the code yourself. If that vista style menu is what you are looking for, read the code and work out how to make it scroll and dock. That sounds like it shouldn't be too hard. (DevExpress do some free controls, but I've never used them)
Simon
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This isn't actually a programming question, more of a development question, so sorry if I have got the wrong board. Im developing a small chat application, and I wish to display a nice list/menu of users currently online. I have searched and searched, and I have gone through many articles on this site but I just cant find anything that works well. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any nice controls that they may have seen or used in the past? I really liked the, Vista Style Menu[^] But in use, it doesnt scroll when i have more list items then the forms height, and it doesn't dock to fill. Andy
The Krypton Toolkit from Component Factory[^] is a free library. You might find there what you're looking for.
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This isn't actually a programming question, more of a development question, so sorry if I have got the wrong board. Im developing a small chat application, and I wish to display a nice list/menu of users currently online. I have searched and searched, and I have gone through many articles on this site but I just cant find anything that works well. I was wondering if anyone could recommend any nice controls that they may have seen or used in the past? I really liked the, Vista Style Menu[^] But in use, it doesnt scroll when i have more list items then the forms height, and it doesn't dock to fill. Andy
Hey guys Thanks, Ill check out http://www.infragistics.com/[^]. I already do use the Krypton Toolkit, and it does have a customized listbox, but its just the normal listbox with their own themes applied.