Question

I have a question about forms and controls. I want to add the ability to sort of make a part of my form only show when something is clicked. For example I have form1 and on the form i have a button and when that button is clicked the form grows or extends (slides out?) to show other controls that werent there before the button was clicked. I have no idea what this is called so I don’t know what to look for but Ive seen it used in many other applications. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You’d probably have to roll your own animation, increasing the size dimensions of your form (or panel, or whatever) on a timer, thereby exposing the previously hidden controls.

        Timer T = new Timer();
        T.Interval = 10;
        T.Tick += (s, e) =>
        {
            myForm.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(myForm.Width + 10, myForm.Height);
            if (myForm.Size.Width >= FormWidthThreashold)
                T.Stop();
        };
        T.Start();

At the risk of stating the obvious, I don’t suppose there’s any way to switch the WPF? This stuff is built in, and quite easy for WPF. If not though, something like this should get you started.