form design question

Simon Pardoe

Hi,

I am new to designing with Visual C# so I hope this doesn't sound like a stupid question.
I would like to design a single form with numerous buttons, like a keypad, the format of this keypad dynamically changes on the form depending on a radio button selected. There are 4 keypads.
When I use the visual designer however, all these buttons clutter up the form making it difficult to see what's going on.
Is there a way to simplify this or split it into multiple designs? Am I missing something with form design?

Thanks and regards,
Simon

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Simon Pardoe20y ago
Hi Adnan,

Thank you for your help. I wanted to avoid Tab controls if I could since I had the radio buttons.
In the end I decided to use a UserControl for each keyboard. This way I could load the appropriate kepad at runtime and I would have a separate design window for each UserControl.

Cheers,
Simon
Adnan Hasan20y ago
My suggestion is to use TAB control when you are having these types of application.
if you use Tab control you can go to different tabs when user presess different radio button. Along wiht this you can manage and build your application very well.