Controls

Text documents and pictures viewer

• Demonstration
• Functionality:
  • Static File menu
    • Add new... (Ctrl+O) - opening the documents into the viewer
      • default open file dialog
      • two file filters are defined
        • Images (*.jpe; *.jpeg; *.jpg; *.gif; *.bmp; *.png)
        • Documents (*.txt; *.rtf)
      • multiple selection has to be allowed
    • Exit - application closing
  • Dynamic Window menu
    • each opened file is visible in Window menu
    • only file name, without extension, is shown in menu
    • selecting the menu item activate a relevant tab
    • menu is invisible if no documents are opened
  • Dynamic toolbox
    • each opened file is visible in toolbox as a button
    • button's caption should be set to file name without extension
    • pushing the button makes a relevant tab the active one
    • toolbox is invisible if no documents are opened
  • Tab control
    • each opened file is visible in separate tab
    • picure's tab content
      • pictures are shown in original size with both vertical and horizontal scroll bar if needed
      • a picture fills whole possible area of a tab
    • text document's tab content
      • text documents are shown as read only text with both vertical and horizontal scroll bar if needed
      • text fills whole possible area of a tab, no word wrapping is allowed
    • tab's context menu
      • context menu contains one option named Remove XXX where XXX is the name of the file (without extension)
      • an option remove tab from tab control and relevant toolbar button and menu item from Window menu
    • tab control's context menu
      • that menu contains the options from all tab's context menus
  • Status bar
    • information about the number of the documents is visible in status bar
  • Keyboard actions
    • each key from 1 to 9 on alphanumeric keyborad makes nth tab the active one
• Hints:
  • OpenFileDialog control
  • ToolStripMenuItem class, ToolStripButton class
  • ContextMenuStrip control/class
  • TabControl control, TabPage class
  • Panel control, PictureBox control, RichTextBox control

• Approximate points:
  • static menu and open file dialog using [1.0]
  • adding the pictures [2.0]
  • adding the text documents [2.0]
  • dynamic menu [1.0]
  • dynamic toolbox [1.0]
  • tab's context menus [1.0]
  • tab control's context menus [1.0]
  • status bar [0.5]
  • keyboard action [0.5]

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