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Fuliggine Dialogs
By Zeppaman

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Introduction

How many times have you used the istruction: MessageBox.Show();? Well,in this article is explained how we can expand this feature of the framework for an immediare use of this function.

The Namespace

First of all I divide the main namespace in three parts:

Fuliggine.Dialogs.Embedded;	Embedded Dialogs like zoom form or find form
Fuliggine.Dialogs.Static;	Static dialogs like message box
Fuliggine.Dialogs.Dinamic;	Costumizable dialogs (not yet implemented)

HOW TO USE

Firs of all add the using reference:

using Fuliggine;
using Fuliggine.Dialogs.Static;
using Fuliggine.Dialogs.Embedded;

To Call a static dialog you need:

//Do a question

FuliggineBox.ShowQuestion("Sei Allergico al Gatto?");
//notify error
FuliggineBox.ShowError("Sei Allergico al Gatto.","ATTENTO");
//Show integer
int i= 15;
FuliggineBox.ShowValue(i);
//Show an object or somelese unknown
FuliggineBox.ShowObject("Comments to print",this);

To see alla the way to call thoose methods look at the code source.
To Call a embedded dialog You need to:

            ZoomForm zf = new ZoomForm();
            
            zf.Zoom=28;
            
            if(zf.ShowDialog()==DialogResult.OK)
            {
            
                FuliggineBox.ShowError(zf.Zoom.ToString());
            }

Source Code

For the FuliggineBox I declare a static class where i call the method MessageBox.Show.Whit this escamotage we can use custom message calling FuliggineBox.ShowQuestion("???"); instead of
MessageBox.Show( Text ,"Question",MessageBoxButtons.YesNo, MessageBoxIcon.Question,MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1);

    
public class FuliggineBox
{
    

//
//Fuliggine Question
//
public static DialogResult ShowQuestion(string Text)
{
return
MessageBox.Show( Text ,"Question",MessageBoxButtons.YesNo,
MessageBoxIcon.Question,MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1);
}
//...

For the embedded Dialogs I use a Form that's equiped with all the needed controls,and properties.For example I show the code for the propertyDialog: 1.I make a class derived from a Form 2.I put the propertycontrol in the "form" 3.I add a property called "Selectedobject"

namespace Fuliggine.Dialogs.Embedded
{
    public class ControlPropertyForm : System.Windows.Forms.Form
    {
        private System.Windows.Forms.PropertyGrid propertyGrid1;
        //this property must be set before call(...to show somethings)
        public object Selectedobject
        {
            get{return this.propertyGrid1.SelectedObject;}
            set{this.propertyGrid1.SelectedObject=value;}
        
        }
        public ControlPropertyForm()
        {
            //

            // The InitializeComponent() call is required for Windows Forms designer support.
            //
            InitializeComponent();
        
        }
        
        
        #region Windows Forms Designer generated code
        
    
    }
}

And we eill call this dialogs As:

            pf.Selectedobject=this;//Or Someelse...

            pf.Show();//Or ShowDialog

At the End...

In the future ,I will exand the number of embedded dialogs adding -Font Dialog -Color Dialog -And every dialogs you need And I will add the left class Fuliggine.Dialogs.Dinamics .

Framework Problematics

This code is written under sharpdevelop with framework2. If you use a different compilator/version of framework , you only need to add the files in your solution and rebuild all.