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How to access GradientFormHeader properties?

Edhy Rijo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:24:13 GMT

When you create a new instance of a form which has a GradientFormHeader I have found no way to access the GradientFormHeader properties like Title and DetailText pretty much like we can do with a BrowserDialog.HeaderTitle, I would like to be able to do this:

[codesnippet]

Dim f As New ReportViewerDialog()

f.rptViewer.HeaderTitle = "My nice header title"

f.rptViewer.DetailText = "My nice detail text sample"

[/codesnippet]

Can this be done now, or will this fall into an Enhancement Request?

Thanks!

RE: How to access GradientFormHeader properties?

Edhy Rijo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:24:13 GMT

Thank you Trent, got it!

RE: How to access GradientFormHeader properties?

Trent L. Taylor — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:19:35 GMT

This will work, but I might suggest creating properties to expose the title, etc. instead of just exposing the object. Technically this violates encapsulation and if you were to rename the gradient form header, all of your programs would break. But if you had a property on your base form called Title, or HeaderImage, then it would only be a matter of changing this in the base form versus every program in your app that has referenced this object. Just a thought and recommendation.

RE: How to access GradientFormHeader properties?

Greg McGuffey — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:38:01 GMT

Glad it worked. My preference in a situation like this would be the custom properties too....but I like choice :D

RE: How to access GradientFormHeader properties?

Edhy Rijo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:30:51 GMT

Thanks Greg,

That is exactly what I needed, they both work fine. I choose to create the custom properties since that will make more sense to set at the form level like f.Title instead of f.GradientFormHeader.Title.

RE: How to access GradientFormHeader properties?

Greg McGuffey — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:17:29 GMT

What I've done is just expose those properties via public properties of the form:

[codesnippet]Public Property Title As String
  Get
    Return Me.GradientHeader1.Title
  End Get
  Set(value As String)
    Me.GradientHeader1.Title = value
  End Set
End Property[/codesnippet]

The other option would be to make the gradient header public, using the Modifier property:

[img]http://www.gregmcguffey.org/SF_Posts/PublicModifier-20081009/ControlModifier.png[/img]

Then you could use code like:

[codesnippet]MyForm.GradientHeader1.Title = "My Title"[/codesnippet]

I don't see any way for SF to know how you'd compose your forms to automatically provide this sort of functionality though. Fortunately it's not hard to get working though! :D