Hi Guys

I need some help urgently. . . . I have my main form :Frmtest, now i went and added a class. What i want to do with that class is to add a groupbox on my form when i click on a button.

The problem that i have is that I cannot add the control in the class?

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

As a general rule, I don't write classes that do any graphical or user interface (UI) work. The reason is because that limits the usefulness of the class because you've now hard-wired the name of some interface object to the code.

As a work-around, ask yourself if you really need the class to add a groupbox to a form. Chances are, you don't. For example, could you write a method in the class that toggles the groupbox's Visibility property from False to True? This means, of course, that the groupbox is always on the form...only its visibility changes. You could pass the Groupbox ID into the class and have the method set it there. This makes the class more flexible since you don't have to hard-code the name of the Groupbox into the class.

It's pretty hard for me to think of a good example where I need a class to do some kind of direct interface work. As a general rule, I try to keep all UI stuff outside of my classes, leaving the UI code as part of the form itself.

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Jack Purdum, Ph.D.
Author: Beginning C# 3.0: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (and 14 other programming texts)

Yes I understand but what i want to do is to create a groupbox with controls on and when a user selects a option the class generates a groupbox with the details on for that option.

I still don't see why you can't have several invisible groupboxes on the form and make the one they select visible from within the class.

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Jack Purdum, Ph.D.
Author: Beginning C# 3.0: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (and 14 other programming texts)