What is a multi selection panel and how is it used in GUI design?

[MartinJH]

Hi,
I'm developing an application and I allow a user to select 'things' they want enabled and others they do not. I had a solution coded but discovered a new solution. While I can 'hard' code this new solution, featured below, I was wondering if C# (the language I'm using) has the following control available;
(essentially moving one 'thing' from the left hand column to the right with provided buttons)

Indeed, failing that, and the purpose of this question, does this method of allowing a user to select certain 'thing' from a list have a name?
(please ignore the title of the window and other text, this is just an image I found to help explain my question)

Many thanks

 

[phinds]

As far as I know, the language used is irrelevant. The controls come from system calls that can be made from any language. There is no control that inherently moves an item from one list box (or text box if that's what you have) to another. You have to code that, but it's awfully simple.

Since you are using the C# language, you must be using C#.NET as your IDE, in which case the selection of an item is called "item select". There are numerous system calls associated with items, such as adding an item, geting the index of a selected item, getting a selected item, setting the selection index in an item list, etc.

 

[Filip Larsen]

If you are looking for a more compact design of allowing a user to view and make "persistent" selections in a list, then you may consider using only a single ListView and then associate a checkbox with each item in the list. I believe that should be possible in Windows Forms by using the ListView.CheckBoxes property [1] and in WPF by using a template with a checkbox [2] or similar.

If the selection is very short term (e.g. the selection is cleared each time the user is presented with the dialog) then Forms ListView.MultiSelect [3] or WPF ListView.SelectionMode [4] may be suitable instead, but since multiselection is not indicated the capability may easily remain undiscovered by the user.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.checkboxes(v=vs.110).aspx
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms754143(v=vs.110).aspx
[3] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.listview.multiselect(v=vs.110).aspx
[4] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/li...controls.listbox.selectionmode(v=vs.110).aspx

 

[jedishrfu]

Ive some folks call this a multi selection panel but couldn't find a reference. Its advantage over checkboxes becomes more evident when the source list is too large to display and must be scrolled.

I think you have to handcraft it with listboxes, buttons and logic as its not a basic gui control and not that commonly used.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mul...AUICSgD&biw=414&bih=660#imgrc=mxNzTHhrqyE6FM: