Large forms with tabs and tons of controls...

[Jeff Johnson]

I've got a huge form with several tabs and lots of controls...

My question is... what's the best way to 'hide' stuff and only load it when
the user is looking at the tab.


(In Access, we'd use a 'subform' on top of the tab control and then the
tab click would load a new 'subform.')

I'd thought to programatically place the controls on as they are needed,
but then I'd loose the use of the forms designer.

What's the best way to handle this?

[Rune Bivrin]

Without having tried it in .NET, I'd create a Usercontrol for each tab, and
create it on demand.

Rune Bivrin

"Jeff Johnson" <jeff.johnson@nospam.electricexpress.com> wrote in
news:3d63ab11$1@10.1.10.29:

>
> I've got a huge form with several tabs and lots of controls...
>
> My question is... what's the best way to 'hide' stuff and only load it
> when the user is looking at the tab.
>
>
> (In Access, we'd use a 'subform' on top of the tab control and then
> the tab click would load a new 'subform.')
>
> I'd thought to programatically place the controls on as they are
> needed, but then I'd loose the use of the forms designer.
>
> What's the best way to handle this?
>

[Ian Lowe]

Hi, Jeff,

> My question is... what's the best way to 'hide' stuff and only load it
when
> the user is looking at the tab.

You can add the controls from a particular tab to a Panel control. All
controls in a Panel respect the Panel's settings, including Visible.
Therefore, set all Panels' Visible property to False and set the current
tab's Panel's Visible property to True.

Hope this helps,

Ian.