Workflow - Component - Developer Guide - WindowsForm

In this Article I'm going to explain how to add a Form to your Plugin to allow user interaction.

Table of Contents

• List
• Setup
• Simple Plugin
• Deploy
• Advanced Plugin
• Inspecting
• WindowsForm (this)

Right Click | Add | Windows Form

Give it a name "xForm"

Change some Properties

Add some labels and textboxes.

Set the Textboxes

Add some buttons to copy the values to the clipboard.

Add a 'StatusStrip' and add a 'StatusLabel' to the Form, we've already set the properties on the Form.

Add an PictureBox to display the Project Type.

Final Form

We will need a key from the Registry.

It's a  String Value

Software\Wow6432Node\TransparentLogic.com\LogicBase Shared

Which returns

[Install Drive]:\Program Files\Symantec\Workflow\Shared\

We need to add the following folders to the path.

\logicbaselib\ProjectTypes\

To get the image

Full path

E:\Program Files\Symantec\Workflow\Shared\logicbaselib\ProjectTypes\WebForm_48.png

Monitoring.xml
...<OldProjectType>Metronome</OldProjectType>

As we are displaying information about the Project in the Form we need to pass the Project as an input.

public ProtirusForm(AbstractOrchestrationProject project)
{
    InitializeComponent();
    _project = project;
}

Code

using System.Windows.Forms;
using LogicBase.Core;

private AbstractOrchestrationProject _project;
private string imagePath = @"E:\Program Files\Symantec\Workflow\Shared\logicbaselib\ProjectTypes\";

public ProtirusForm(AbstractOrchestrationProject project)
{
    InitializeComponent();
    _project = project;
}

private void ProtirusForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string filePath = string.Format(@"{0}{1}", imagePath, _project.ProjectSetupData.ProjectType.ImageFileName);
    pbProjectImage.Image = Image.FromFile(filePath);
    txtProjectName.Text = _project.MainFile.FullName;
    txtProjectDirectory.Text = _project.MainFile.DirectoryName;
}

#region <Button Clicks>

private void btnCopyProjectName_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Clipboard.SetText(txtProjectName.Text);
    //Clipboard.SetDataObject(txtProjectName.Text, true);
    toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = @"Copied 'Project Name' to Clipboard.";
}

private void btnCopyProjectDirectory_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Clipboard.SetText(txtProjectDirectory.Text);
    //Clipboard.SetDataObject(txtProjectDirectory.Text, true);
    toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = @"Copied 'Project Directory' to Clipboard.";
}

#endregion <Button Clicks>

To show the Form from the Plugins menu update the PerformAction method:

public void PerformAction(AbstractOrchestrationProject project)
{
    ProtirusForm pF = new ProtirusForm(project);
    pF.Show();
}

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