Adding number and letters on a form like a phone.

[robUK2]

Hello,

VS 2008

Adding number and letters on buttons.

I have a form that looks like a phone with buttons. I am wondering how to put number and letters on the buttons.

i.e.
1 2 3
abc def ghi

Just another question. I have wired up all the buttons for one click event. And display the numbers in the text box display.

private void DialerKeyPress_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) 
        {
            this.txtDisplay.Text += ((Button)sender).Text;    
        }

How would it be possible to display something like a 'c' or 'e' etc. The user would have to click 4 times for a 'c', and twice for a 'e'.

How is this normally implemented in a normal phone application.

Many thanks for any advice,

Steve

 

[jmeckley]

if this is a web app, then js would be a better option to determine which letter to display. 3 postbacks to print a "c" is terrible.

if this is a desktop app, then your fine with button clicks.

as for the text. something like this might work

Button1.Text = "1\nabc";
//or
Button2.Text = string.Format("2{0}def", Environment.NewLine);
//or
Button3.Text = "3\r\nghi";
...

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[JurkMonkey]

Your buttons can have the image property set with ImageAlign top and TextAlign bottom.

The other option would be to put your labels on a custom control and then treat the custom control like a button.


As for clicking on buttons and having the text show up - that really depends on the type of "phone" you wish to create.

Most phone vendors make you click number 2 twice to get b and 3 times to get c. After a second of no input it can accept the same button again while adding a new letter. Otherwise pressing the button would keep changing the previous letter.

Does this help?

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

[chiph]

Create an image that looks like phone buttons, and assign it to regular Windows.Forms (or their Web equivalents) with the border turned off.

If you want keyboad handling, you'll have to do that at the form level with KeyPress.

Chip H.


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