Making a menu for a program

gibs ray

I want to do a cryptography project for school, in which I'll have 3 options (encrypt+decrypt text file, image file, another options). I want to do this project using C# windows forms even though I don't really know it well, so what's the best way to make a menu for my project? use multiple panels or use multiple forms? I tried panels and it's not very convenient but how do I make a form for each option in the menu?

Also it would be very helpful is someone could share a good guide/tutorial on windows forms (especially on multiple forms and how to control them)

thanks

2 Replies

Know the answer? Post it — somebody with the same question will find it here.

gibs ray14y ago
That's what I meant: When you launch the program there's a form with a few buttons: "Start", "Help", "Exit". and if you click on the first 2 buttons an appropriate new form will open (I tried that with panels and it wasn't convenient). So that's what I needed, thanks for the answer.
0
Scott Lysle14y ago
I'm a little confused. In Win forms projects you have a menu control in the default toolbox and if you want a menu that would generally be the way to go. However, you are talking about panels so I am wondering if what you really want is a tab control. What I think you want is to open additional windows in response to clicking a menu option. That is generally what most win forms application do.

To get there, create a new form for each set of controls you want to launch from the menu. For example, create Form2 and Form3. Form1 can be your main application. If you drop a menu control on form1 and create menu options "Open Form2" and "Open Form3", and then double click each of the menu options the IDE will create a click event handler for each and open the code window so that you can write the code to open your other forms. The code for that is pretty trivial.

Form2 f = new Form2();
f.Show();

or f.ShowDialog();

Show Dialog will open the form modally.
0