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how would i go about making a tab system like that?
It looks like a panel docked to the left with a set of full width buttons that highlight when clicked.
In WinForms terms, if I remember correctly
That particular UI though...I would guess it was made with something other than WinForms. The controls don't look anything like WinForms uses
It might of been imgui c++
is it possible to make in c# winform?
Maybe, you have to change the background color and text color based on if the button is active or not
It looks like they are also changing the color of the icon, which would be hard to do in WinForms
Yeah i have the button that when pressed the color is changed
You need to change the color of the text too
just i don’t get how to make it so when i press a different button it swaps to a different tab
in the gui
They are doing an inversion
Ahh
Ok yeah i see that
Common approach in web
Are you going to do icons?
Using siticone
a nuget package or something
it lets me put a image and text
I am not familiar with that. It gives you access to icons?
Is it a component library?
Yes
Ok
They don't have a tab control?
They do but it is really bad and i’m not sure how i could@make it look like in the video
it’s old old looking
I don't remember WinForms very well, but I'm pretty sure there is a way to contain a form inside of another form, isn't there?
I believe so
I just found something
i am going to have to try when i get home from work
You need to have your tab panel docked to the left and the rest contains a form that you overwrite with a form when you click a tab button
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Depending on the contents of the forms, you might instantiate and load them hidden before attaching them to the child area
yeah the problem i had before was it would fill the entire gui when i pressed the button and the new form appeared i’m not sure how i am supposed to get it into a certain area
I don't remember how to do any of that though, been 15ish years
crazy
I started a little after generics came out 😉
I just started today at 3am
and my gui is already clean asf
like first ever time on visual studio
Chill on making the chat people angry though. Lots of them work at MS and are pretty solid community members, even if they are angsty
Might feel good to throw it back, but not worth it
i was just asking for help
I know. If you ask for help in a volunteer based area, you need to come with sufficient supplication or people see you as hauty
haughty? How do you spell that word?
naughty?
No, lol
Oh lmao
Haughty...like entitiled
Oh
yeah my last posts i think i’ve done 2 about this have either gotten no response or asking for details when i provided a video
and what i was asking for help about
i closed them all tho i believe
Like, pushing for an answer makes it seem like you are treating it like a support thing that can be escalated. These people see time as money and that they never have enough time. They pretty defensive about it
And you are asking about an older tech they don't want to talk about and most of them probably don't know a good answer off-the-cuff 😉
Its not complicated, just a question that doesn't have any good short answers
Like asking someone to describe how to draw an owl
Could the same be applied to questions on the "best" ways/ resources to learn something?
Absolutely
Its a very common theme in communities to get angry about those questions
Yup, probably such messages are spammed everyday
i spam those sometimes
i’ve already@gotten timed out for a week
wait
no 2 days
People learning are always trying to shortcut the learning. Not a bad idea, but some things you kinda have to experience to 'know'
left and rejoined
is chatgpt a viable source
for my needs
Are you a hobbyist or a professional @turb?
Or somewhere in between?
hobby
making stuff for games i play
“utilities”
not going to say wether they are unfair or not
so i don’t get timed out again
The people in chat? It was a bit of both from what I saw
I joined this like 2 weeks ago got timed for a week for asking how to do winapi then left and rejoined today
Or you mean the time-out? Couldn't comment on that, wasn't there I don't think
Most of the people who ask these questions just dont like to deal with the fact that there probably is no way of most optimal way to learn something. Just do it enjoy it and discover as you go. It kind of remembers me walking thru unknow forest, enjoying it is the best part, unless u r lucky to find a wizard whos gonna show you some secret paths. Anyway this might be a bad comparison, but point is somewhere there
like mute in chat
WinAPI? Yeah that is a bit odd
Autoclickers
in short
and it had
win api whatever
so i was asking about it
I think i wrote nonsense anyway
@marius6969 Its hard, some things can be shortcut with a mentor and many things can't. But a short session comment/chat format is not a stand in for a mentor
Totaly agree
Actually, I might have seen that @turbhan
most likely
i started flaming this one dude
then like micheal or daniel or some random admin guy came no idea what the name was
Did you ask something about a windows anti lach mechanic?
*latch
No
Ok, different guy then
Yeah
mr patrick timed me out in discord for a week on here
I did see someone banned after they asked a few questions about getting around an anti malware/virus mechanic of windows after they started arguing with some of the other devs
Yeah that wasn’t me
Professional devs aren't really used to being treated casually, from what I've experienced in my career. I'm not saying treat this place like a jobsite...but that some of the devs here might be treating it like that.
i was getting called stupid so i flamed him@and i gót timed out for troll
I hear ya. Focus on what you want and the strategy that gets it for you. You wanted help earlier. Don't be afraid to kiss butt. You won't think less of yourself later when you solved that problem in half the time
I'm sure there was at least one stodgey winforms expert in the chat channel that didn't speak up because they weren't interested enough in your plight
yeah
I wish I remembered more about WinForms
Well...not really, but if I did I'd share it
it’s super simple with the library
so easy for ui stuff
drag and drop
WinForms was always that way. I don't think anyone complains about its productivity or difficulty. The biggest complaints are that it has a questionable long term lifecycle, that its hard to make fully customized UIs from it (depends on a lot of native controls) and that it doesn't have any built in and well known coding paradigm patterns to guide dev decisions (like MVC, MVVM, or component architecture)
I wish i knew more about coding to understand most of that
like MVVM
MVC
Means different things depending on the framework that provides that pattern...which makes it hard to talk about
Oh
But in general they are different ways to separate out responsibilities in an app
LIke the M in MVC stands for Model
Its a representation of data. Usually a controller will load the model, then hand it to a view to do presentation
Model Controller View
Is it not allowed to post anything relating to cheats in this server
Ohhhh
I guess I should have put it in MVC order, hah
In ASP.NET Core in particular, you might have a controlle rthat exposes methods that represent routes. As a simplified contrived example, If you go to /customers, the CustomerController Get method fires, loads customers in a list, and the CustomerView.cshtml (a type of view template) is used to render that list of customers to HTML
In other frameworks and other languages MVC might be done in a slightly different way, but they'll still usually have classes or views that you implement to represent models, views, and controllers
I don't know for sure, but I'm guess if you hint you are doing anything illegal that they'll ban you. Less sure about implications that you are trying to violate a EULA
I know devs will avoid helping you if you are trying to cheat at a competitive game just out of disdain
Well, don't tell me that
Don't tell anyone that
Just say utilities
yeah
that’s why i blurred out stuff on the video also
I won't associate with projects to cheat at competitive games, but I won't avoid a dev asking general questions just because they won't talk about their project
yeah
lmao, people are definitely used to talking casually in here; but don't expect equal treatment if you are being evasive and/or developing questionable software
we see it as a waste of time to help people who want to develop unproductive tools
mines very productive
it would be
if i knew how to make tabs
😦
what is it
i cant sea becasue its againt somethin g but
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