Ok now to the next question.
I have been playing with VB2005 for awhile ,coming from VB6, it has been a learning curve but I figgured it would be. All the new controls are great..
I am now building an option dialog for the user to set program options.. In VB6 it allways seemed that the tab and picture controls were what to use.
But now I see MS has pretty much changed to a tree view style options dialog which I do like the look and feel of.
The question I have is on creating a work alike. What controls would work 'best' for the picturebox side of the dialog. We now have a Panel, GroupBox, and the PictureBox. Maybe some others I have yet to consider...
Any suggestions Is this just a programmer preferance or is one better equiped for this than the other
Thanks
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User options Dialog boxes
timheuer
I wouldnt say there was a right or wrong way to do this stuff.
using Tab controls with Panels/Groupboxes will work just fine. The chnaging to the treeview style is something which MS have done but its probably more because a lot of these applications have so many damn options to change - the tab's may take up a lot of space. A treeview allows a scrolling list to be implemented and can be quite efficient for a lot of different pages.
I think if you are happy with tab's this will work fine and users are happy and familiar with the concept that its not going to appear strange to them and it should be easy for you to implement quickly.
Mauricio Castillo E
I have received much help here in the past... strange there seems to be NO opinion on this... or help/hints...