How to Set the Visibility of the GroupBox in C#?
In Windows Forms, GroupBox is a container which contains multiple controls in it and the controls are related to each other. Or in other words, GroupBox is a frame display around a group of controls with a suitable optional title. Or a GroupBox is used to categorize the related controls in a group. In GroupBox, you can set the visibility of the GroupBox in the form using Visible Property.
If the value of this property is set to true, then the GroupBox is visible on the screen, and if the value of this property is set to false, then the GroupBox does not visible on the screen. The default value of this property is true. You can set this property in two different ways:
1. Design-Time: It is the easiest way to set the visibility of the GroupBox as shown in the following steps:
- Step 1: Create a windows form as shown in the below image:
Visual Studio -> File -> New -> Project -> WindowsFormApp
- Step 2: Next, drag and drop the GroupBox control from the toolbox on the form as shown in the below image:
- Step 3: After drag and drop you will go to the properties of the GroupBox and set the visibility of the GroupBox as shown in the below image:
Output:
2. Run-Time: It is a little bit trickier than the above method. In this method, you can set the visibility of the GroupBox control programmatically with the help of given syntax:
public override string Text { get; set; }
The following steps show how to set the visibility of the GroupBox dynamically:
- Step 1: Create a GroupBox using the GroupBox() constructor is provided by the GroupBox class.
// Creating a GroupBox GroupBox gbox = new GroupBox();
- Step 2: After creating GroupBox, set the Visible property of the GroupBox provided by the GroupBox class.
// Setting visibility gbox.Visible = true;
- Step 3: And last add this GroupBox control to the form and also add other controls on the GroupBox using the following statements:
// Adding groupbox in the form this.Controls.Add(gbox); and // Adding this control // to the GroupBox gbox.Controls.Add(c2);
Example:
using
System;
using
System.Collections.Generic;
using
System.ComponentModel;
using
System.Data;
using
System.Drawing;
using
System.Linq;
using
System.Text;
using
System.Threading.Tasks;
using
System.Windows.Forms;
namespace
WindowsFormsApp46 {
public
partial
class
Form1 : Form {
public
Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private
void
Form1_Load(
object
sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Creating and setting
// properties of the GroupBox
GroupBox gbox =
new
GroupBox();
gbox.Location =
new
Point(179, 145);
gbox.Text =
"Select Gender"
;
gbox.Name =
"Mybox"
;
gbox.Font =
new
Font(
"Colonna MT"
, 12);
gbox.Visible =
true
;
gbox.AutoSize =
true
;
gbox.AutoSizeMode = AutoSizeMode.GrowAndShrink;
// Adding groupbox in the form
this
.Controls.Add(gbox);
// Creating and setting
// properties of the CheckBox
CheckBox c1 =
new
CheckBox();
c1.Location =
new
Point(40, 42);
c1.Size =
new
Size(69, 20);
c1.Text =
"Male"
;
// Adding this control
// to the GroupBox
gbox.Controls.Add(c1);
// Creating and setting
// properties of the CheckBox
CheckBox c2 =
new
CheckBox();
c2.Location =
new
Point(183, 39);
c2.Size =
new
Size(79, 20);
c2.Text =
"Female"
;
// Adding this control
// to the GroupBox
gbox.Controls.Add(c2);
}
}
}
Output:
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