'Deck of cards' tab-like functionality
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I'm looking to design a windows form application. My idea for the interface is to have a tree view on the left of my form as a menu structure to navigate between functions and the rest of the form to display the different 'screens'. Basically what I'm imagining is something that resembles a deck - a vertical stack of screens where only one is visible at a time, similar to a TabControl but without the actual tabs. My first attempt involved using Panels, but I couldn't switch between the panels in the design view. Is this sort of functionality possible? if so, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm looking to design a windows form application. My idea for the interface is to have a tree view on the left of my form as a menu structure to navigate between functions and the rest of the form to display the different 'screens'. Basically what I'm imagining is something that resembles a deck - a vertical stack of screens where only one is visible at a time, similar to a TabControl but without the actual tabs. My first attempt involved using Panels, but I couldn't switch between the panels in the design view. Is this sort of functionality possible? if so, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Extend a TabControl. Call it say CustomTabControl. The idea is to remove the tabs. So, you get the functionality you want. There are many articles here on how to have custom tab controls. You basically need to tweak following properties. ItemSize = (0, 1) SizeMode = TabSizeMode.Fixed Appearance = TabAppearance.Buttons
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Extend a TabControl. Call it say CustomTabControl. The idea is to remove the tabs. So, you get the functionality you want. There are many articles here on how to have custom tab controls. You basically need to tweak following properties. ItemSize = (0, 1) SizeMode = TabSizeMode.Fixed Appearance = TabAppearance.Buttons