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mik · 2012-02-10

Hi,
I try to build a simple Add-in like http://www.excellent.se/en/solutions/add-ons/drag-and-drop.html.

I found some add-in examples and those are working fine. My problem is. I have no idea how i can build an add-in where I have a panel/picturebox or something like that which looks like the example in the link above.
Can someone show me an example how I can do this.
The second question is how should my factbox look like? On which element will I have to link my add-in?

I am only searching for examples.
No textbox examples on a Card Page where I have to override an other control. I tried those examples and everything worked fine.

I hope someone already did "the trick"

greetings mik

Troelsh · 2012-02-10

Hi,

these are good starting points :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd983826.aspx
and
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nav/archive/tags/add_2d00_ins/

have fun

deV.ch · 2012-02-10

If you managed to do the examples you should know how you can do something like this

You just need to return the Object you would like to display in the CreateControl() method.

Like i always return a panel, call it main_Panel or whatever you like, then i add the controls i need to this panel.
But my base is always such a panel.

Here's a simple example of a Panel with a label in it:

public class C_TitleAddin : StringControlAddInBase
    {
        private Panel m_Panel;
        private Label m_Label;
        protected override Control CreateControl()
        {
            m_Panel = new Panel();
            m_Label = new Label();
            m_Panel.Controls.Add(m_Label);

            // Label Properties
            m_Label.Dock = DockStyle.Top;
            m_Panel.Padding = new Padding(0, 15, 0, 5);
            m_Label.Font = new Font(m_Label.Font, FontStyle.Bold);

            // Panel Properties
            m_Panel.BackColor = Color.White;
            m_Panel.MinimumSize = new Size(300, 35);
            m_Panel.MaximumSize = new Size(750, 35);

            return m_Panel;
        }

        public override string Value
        {
            get
            {
                return string.Empty;
            }
            set
            {
                m_Label.Text = value;
            }
        }
    }

Of course you're addin need more logic, you need to call the on addin event, when droping, you need to handle the drop event, pass the droped data (base64?), etc etc.

mik · 2012-02-10

Hi,

thx Dev.ch. I already built the application als windows form project.
Everything I want works fine. I wasn't able to implement the same as client add-in.

I will try your solution.

Thanks

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