Front End Buddy

[lingpanda]

Wanted to share this app I made. I made it to teach myself some Visual C++. Please try it out and tell me what I could add to it.

http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=...FEBUDDYv1.1.rar

For Whatever reason I can't attach it the the forum

[fRequEnCy]

Probably can't upload to forum due to it's size.

[headkaze]

Make the combobox DropDownStyle a DropDownList so you can't enter text into it.

[lingpanda]

Make the combobox DropDownStyle a DropDownList so you can't enter text into it.

Nice Find. Wasn't aware of that. I remembered to do it for the richtextbox. I was unable to alter the text correctly using just a texbox. I still don't understand why the snaps don't display right. I even changed the color depth for the image list.

[headkaze]

Yeah image lists can be funny like that. You could actually embed the images as resources and that would solve the problem.

Another thing to consider would be to use array's instead of a switch block because you can use the ComboBox's selected index to index into the array.

Another thing to consider is making a class where you could have all the properties of each frontend. So let's say you have a class called FrontEnd. You can have a Name, Picture, Text and Link properties. Then you have an array of FrontEnd objects.

Eg.

FrontEnd[] m_frontEnd = { new FrontEnd("GameEx", "GameEx.png", GameExText, "http://www.gameex.net"), ... };

Then when you recieve an item changed event in the combobox use the index of the selected item to say m_frontEnd[combobox1.SelectedIndex].Name etc.

[bkenobi]

Doesn't want to run on my system

WinXP 32-bit SP3

[headkaze]

Doesn't want to run on my system

WinXP 32-bit SP3

You probably need the Visual C++ 2008 Runtime Libraries

[bkenobi]

Probably