RPG Maker and WinForms question Options

[TheScholar]

(Sorry in advance because I really didn't know in which part of the forum to post my question... admins, feel free to move in the right section)

Well, I recently got into into WinForms programming and I started to build a small application similar to RPG Maker. While doing so I was wondering what kind of winforms is used for the event commands listing. See the section marked in green on the image below:



Anyone have an idea?

[ZarroTsu]

If anyone on the forum knows, I would honestly be amazed.

More specifically, I don't think this is the correct subforum for this question.

This post has been edited by ZarroTsu: Nov 30 2012, 05:48 PM

[amerk]

EB keeps their source code a highly guarded secret, so without breaking the EULA, I don't think anybody can tell you how theirs is set up. In any case, this is more related to a general engine forum since you indicated you're trying to design your own program, versus an Ace question.

I'm moving it there now. Maybe somebody there can give you an idea of how to do something similar without having to peak at the actual code that EB uses.

[chronodekar]

What language are you using? If this is in .NET (C# or VB), then I think I remember an advertisement I once saw on another site. Don't quite remember if its what you are asking for and will take me some time to hunt it down.


-chronodekar

Edit

Did a bit of searching. I think you can duplicate that functionality with some kind of modified (or VERY limited) grid control. Have a look here,

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/23746/...ew-with-Columns

The third picture there - it has that alternate color you want. Just limit it to a single column and print out only text into it. Might work.

There there is this,
http://cleancode.sourceforge.net/api/cshar...RichTextBox.htm

It's some kind of rich-text box with, get this, intellisense !

Obviously, I haven't tried any of these out. Perhaps you could ask the question on stackoverflow? (please link it back here if you do - I want to know how to do this as well)

-chronodekar

This post has been edited by kayden997: Dec 1 2012, 09:49 AM

[TheScholar]

Hey Chronodekar thanks a lot for the reply, it should help very much!

Yeah, my first impression was that it was a rich text box, but I didn't know what the intelisense.

[Legacy]

It's a custom Listbox.

It has custom draw methods to produce a lot of the stuff in there. But if you go down the route of creating your own WinForm's controls I'm sure you'll be able to come up with something similar, it'll just take some time.

[Rukiri]

I haven't touched winforms in awhile (hasn't it been replaced?) Anyway think of items and how you want them displayed.

It's a custom grid/list view but not at all difficult to replicate.

[Legacy]

There are other solutions like qt. But WinForms wont be getting replaced any time soon.