COP4226, Assignment 2

Due Tuesday, February 13, at 11:59 PM.

Zip your entire project and upload it on the web. Exclude all of the Debug and Release directories.
Submitting Homework Online.

Create a windows forms application.

• Add the DLL for the control library from Homework 1 to your application.
  • Add a reference to your control library.
• Add the Oath from HW1 to this application.
• Add a main menu to the application.
  • Add a Help menu.
    • Add an Oath item. Open the oath dialog.
    • Add an About item. Add an about dialog that explains the homework.
    • Do not change the namespace from Homework 1 for the Oath dialog. It should use a different namespace than the one for the current assignment.
• Add a panel to the form.
  • Dock the panel to the top of the form.
  • Add two buttons to the panel.
    • One button will open the input dialog (explained below) modally.
      • When the dialog closes, display the data from the dialog in a mulitline label in the panel.
    • One button will open the input dialog modelessly.
      • When the dialog closes, display the data from the dialog in a mulitline label in the panel.
      • When the dialog sends a message that the data has changed, read the data from the dialog and display the data from the dialog in a mulitline label.
  • Add a splitter to the form. Dock it to the top. Change its color.
  • Add another panel to the form. Dock it to the left.
    • When the user clicks a point in this panel, save the point in a generic list of points and redraw the panel.
    • If there is more than one point in the collection, draw curves between all the points, in the order that they were added to the collection.
      • Use a pen with a width greater than 4.
    • If there is only one point, then draw a small circle whose diameter is the width of the pen used to draw the lines.
    • Add a context menu to this panel with one option named Clear Points. When clicked, it will clear the list of points.
  • Add another splitter to the form. Dock it to the left. Change its color.
  • Add another panel to the form. Have it fill the remaining form area.
    • Add a radio group to this panel to set the tension of the curve for the neighboring panel.
      • Anchor this group to the bottom right corner.
      • Choose three different tension values.
      • When an option is clicked, change the tension value used to draw the curve in the neighboring panel and redraw that panel.
    • Add another radio group to this panel to set the dash pattern for the pen in the neighboring panel.
      • Anchor this group to the bottom right corner.
      • Choose three different dash patterns.
      • When an option is clicked, change the dash pattern of the pen used to draw the curve in the neighboring panel and redraw that panel.
• Create a new dialog form for data input.
  • Enable help for the dialog. Make the question mark appear in the control bar.
  • Add tooltips and help information for all the controls, including the buttons.
  • If the dialog is opened modally, do the following.
    • Paint the background with a linear gradient brush that has three colors. Make the dimensions of the brush no more than a few inches wide and a few inches high.
    • Hide and disable the Apply button.
    • Be sure that the brush is replecated and paints the entire panel.
  • If the dialog is opened modelessly, do the following.
    • Paint the background with a path gradient brush that has three colors and a center color. Make the dimensions of the brush equal to the client rectangle
    • Set the ControlStyle for ResizeRedraw to true for this dialog.
    • Change the focus of the brush to something other than the default.
    • When the form is deactivated, change the background to a hatching pattern. When the form is activated, redraw with the path gradient brush.
  • Add three text boxes to the form.
    • Make up appropriate labels for the text boxes. Be creative, do not use names like string, int, double.
    • One text box will contain only letters and spaces. There must be at least two words in the string.
    • One text box will contain an integer within a range.
      • Pick a minimum value for the range.
      • Pick a maximum value for the range.
      • The number must be an integer and must be in the range.
    • One text box will contain a double within a range.
      • Pick a minimum value for the range.
      • Pick a maximum value for the range.
      • The number must be a double and must be in the range.
  • Add three buttons to the dialog: OK, Cancel, Apply.
    • OK and Cancel have their normal functions.
    • Apply is used to send a message that the data in the dialog has changed. Do not close the dialog when this button is clicked.
    • When OK and Apply are clicked, validate that the text boxes meet the given requirements.
      • Display an icon next to each control that is invalid. The icon should have a tooltip that explains what the error is.
      • If all of the boxes are invalid, then all three should have an icon.
      • Only perform the action of the button if all the boxes are valid.