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Changing Button properties in every form?
Hi,
First thank you for clicking and showing an interest.
We have an application with over 150 forms with an average of 10+ buttons on each form. Yes 1500 buttons approx!!
We have realised that we want to change five properties for each button to chnage the visual style of the button to the user.
Could do this by using the GUI interface, but that equates to going into 7500 thousand buttons properties and changing accordingly.
Is there any software out there that'll do this for you, or does anybdy know of a more automated way??
many thanks
First thank you for clicking and showing an interest.
We have an application with over 150 forms with an average of 10+ buttons on each form. Yes 1500 buttons approx!!
We have realised that we want to change five properties for each button to chnage the visual style of the button to the user.
Could do this by using the GUI interface, but that equates to going into 7500 thousand buttons properties and changing accordingly.
Is there any software out there that'll do this for you, or does anybdy know of a more automated way??
many thanks
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Can't you just "replace all" on the particular properties. Which properties do you want to change.
@RonaldBiemans:
Ronald, I thought of that too, but if it happens to be a property that is default, there won't be any text in the form to define that.
Bob
Ronald, I thought of that too, but if it happens to be a property that is default, there won't be any text in the form to define that.
Bob
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Hi Guys,
Guess 3rd party software is what I was looking for. i.e. all the work has already been done. What buzz words could I use to search on the net for some??
Biggest problem with "replace all" Ronald is that in the InitialComponents function that defines the properties, I'm trying to change a property that has a default value and is not show in the code with a value that would be set in the InitialComponents function. e.g. BackColor
To be perfectly honest, I have tried to keep it simple by saying "Button" it's actually an 3rd party button that has properties
these are them
UseThemes
VisualStyles
HotFormatStyles.BackColor
HotFormatStyles.BackColorG
HotFormatStyles.BackColorG
I really need some software that changes paragraphs rather than lines like Serach and Replace does in the vb.net IDE
Guess 3rd party software is what I was looking for. i.e. all the work has already been done. What buzz words could I use to search on the net for some??
Biggest problem with "replace all" Ronald is that in the InitialComponents function that defines the properties, I'm trying to change a property that has a default value and is not show in the code with a value that would be set in the InitialComponents function. e.g. BackColor
To be perfectly honest, I have tried to keep it simple by saying "Button" it's actually an 3rd party button that has properties
these are them
UseThemes
VisualStyles
HotFormatStyles.BackColor
HotFormatStyles.BackColorG
HotFormatStyles.BackColorG
I really need some software that changes paragraphs rather than lines like Serach and Replace does in the vb.net IDE
How about, do a search on
System.Windows.Forms.TextB
and replace with
YourApp.YourTextBox
YourTextBox inherits from TextBox and does what it needs to default the properties as you need. I could see situations where this might cause a different set of problems, but hopefully these will be fewer than 1,500 and easy to identify and fix.
-- Craig Yellick
System.Windows.Forms.TextB
and replace with
YourApp.YourTextBox
YourTextBox inherits from TextBox and does what it needs to default the properties as you need. I could see situations where this might cause a different set of problems, but hopefully these will be fewer than 1,500 and easy to identify and fix.
-- Craig Yellick
ASKER
Hi Guys,
Found this 3rd party software that adds directly into the VS.NET IDE
It's at http://www.axtools.com/products/cs2k3net_screenshots.htm#T3-2
Also check out the other superb features
Mulitline Extended Find and Replace
AutoText
Code Flow Explorer
Quick Properties
WorkBench
Comment spellchecker
SmartComplete
AutoBrackets
Extended clipboard
TabOrdering
Code Stats etc. etc.
And it's only $250
Thanks to all that had the the principle to answer, and leading me down this path.
Found this 3rd party software that adds directly into the VS.NET IDE
It's at http://www.axtools.com/products/cs2k3net_screenshots.htm#T3-2
Also check out the other superb features
Mulitline Extended Find and Replace
AutoText
Code Flow Explorer
Quick Properties
WorkBench
Comment spellchecker
SmartComplete
AutoBrackets
Extended clipboard
TabOrdering
Code Stats etc. etc.
And it's only $250
Thanks to all that had the the principle to answer, and leading me down this path.