Q: Is there a Winforms "accordion" already?

Hi everyone. I'd like to have a "accordion" type effect in one of my
applications. You can see what I'm talking about here:

http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Accordion/Accordion.aspx

Just like that, except for Winforms desktop applications.

Googling doesn't show anything (one commerical product?), but maybe this
concept is called something different in the desktop world?

I'm guessing it won't be too hard to write a simple version myself, but no
point in reinventing the accordion if it's already out there under a
different name. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Matt

MortenWennevik
Mon Mar 17 08:19:01 CDT 2008

Hi Matt,

There is nothing in the basic framework that will do this. The closest
thing for WinForms is probably the ExplorerBar functionality seen in the left
menu in "My Computer". This is available commercially from third party
companies like Infragistics and Innovasys.

There are also free collapsible GroupBox implementations around that may
work, or you can create your own by drawing and handling the non client area
events in a UserControl.

--
Happy Coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]


"Matt" wrote:

> Hi everyone. I'd like to have a "accordion" type effect in one of my
> applications. You can see what I'm talking about here:
>
> http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Accordion/Accordion.aspx
>
> Just like that, except for Winforms desktop applications.
>
> Googling doesn't show anything (one commerical product?), but maybe this
> concept is called something different in the desktop world?
>
> I'm guessing it won't be too hard to write a simple version myself, but no
> point in reinventing the accordion if it's already out there under a
> different name. Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Matt
>

Jeff
Mon Mar 17 16:13:36 CDT 2008

"Matt" <usenet.junk.000@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A616399B372Eusenetjunk000gmailco@207.46.248.16...

> Hi everyone. I'd like to have a "accordion" type effect in one of my
> applications. You can see what I'm talking about here:
>
> http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Accordion/Accordion.aspx
>
> Just like that, except for Winforms desktop applications.
>
> Googling doesn't show anything (one commerical product?), but maybe this
> concept is called something different in the desktop world?
>
> I'm guessing it won't be too hard to write a simple version myself, but no
> point in reinventing the accordion if it's already out there under a
> different name. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Since this type of animation (I dislike the term Accordion for this, but oh
well) was quite common the Outlook Bar, and there are a gazillion
implementations of that out there, I recommend searching for one of them.

Jeff
Mon Mar 17 16:18:39 CDT 2008

"Matt" <usenet.junk.000@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A616399B372Eusenetjunk000gmailco@207.46.248.16...

> Hi everyone. I'd like to have a "accordion" type effect in one of my
> applications. You can see what I'm talking about here:
>
> http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Accordion/Accordion.aspx
>
> Just like that, except for Winforms desktop applications.
>
> Googling doesn't show anything (one commerical product?), but maybe this
> concept is called something different in the desktop world?
>
> I'm guessing it won't be too hard to write a simple version myself, but no
> point in reinventing the accordion if it's already out there under a
> different name. Any suggestions are appreciated.

There's animation in this:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/toolbox.aspx and in a derivative
project: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/yatoolbox.aspx

Ravi
Mon Mar 17 23:04:12 CDT 2008

I've always liked this one:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/XPTaskBar.aspx

/ravi

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"Matt" <usenet.junk.000@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A616399B372Eusenetjunk000gmailco@207.46.248.16...
> Hi everyone. I'd like to have a "accordion" type effect in one of my
> applications. You can see what I'm talking about here:
>
> http://www.asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Accordion/Accordion.aspx
>
> Just like that, except for Winforms desktop applications.
>
> Googling doesn't show anything (one commerical product?), but maybe this
> concept is called something different in the desktop world?
>
> I'm guessing it won't be too hard to write a simple version myself, but no
> point in reinventing the accordion if it's already out there under a
> different name. Any suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Matt

Matt
Fri Mar 21 19:51:38 CDT 2008



"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam> wrote in
news:13tto1fjlj40r1a@corp.supernews.com:

<snip my request for 'accordion' control>
>
> Since this type of animation (I dislike the term Accordion for this,
> but oh well) was quite common the Outlook Bar, and there are a
> gazillion implementations of that out there, I recommend searching for
> one of them.
>
>

Thanks Jeff, Ravi, and Morten. This gives me some options to explore.

Matt