Tools creating

[Dagnarus]

Hee All,
My first Topic .
Oh I hoped that my first here would be a fix or an Release, but it isn't .
I am creating an editor and I wanted to ask a question. I took the EFT File Format data from here http://enzeru-ro.com/rose/?fid=3&t=2. I copied it and now my question:
How can I know how to load it properly. I know there is an Load function in it, but how do I know in which items it should be loaded.
Like STB/STL/LTB goes into a datagridview:

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1. this.dataGridView1.SuspendLayout();
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3.                 STBData.LoadSTBDataKorea(ref m_STBData, this.openFileDialogSTB.FileName);
4.                 m_strFileName = this.openFileDialogSTB.FileName;
5.                
6.                 this.dataGridView1.DataSource = m_STBData.DataTable;
7.  
8.                 for (int l_iIndex = 0; l_iIndex < m_STBData.ColumnsWidth.Length; l_iIndex++)
9.                     this.dataGridView1.Columns[l_iIndex].Width = m_STBData.ColumnsWidth[l_iIndex];
10.  
11.                 for (int l_iIndex = 0; l_iIndex < m_STBData.ColumnsHeaderText.Length; l_iIndex++)
12.                     this.dataGridView1.Columns[l_iIndex].HeaderText = m_STBData.ColumnsHeaderText[l_iIndex];
13.  
14.                 string l_strStructName = m_STBData.StructName == string.Empty ? "NULL" : m_STBData.StructName;
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17.                 this.dataGridView1.ResumeLayout();

But what to do with the EFT data. And How can I know that?

[Arnold]

maybe you can put it in a tree view?

[Dagnarus]

Thank you for you reply,
But how would I know? Is there no way to find out?

[Raven0123]

Thank you for you reply,
But how would I know? Is there no way to find out?

What exactly is your question?

[Dagnarus]

When you were creating a tool for the first time,
How did you know what tools to load the information in (like a datagrid or a treeview or a listview)?
Do you just guess and hope for the best or is there another way to figure it out?

[Arnold]

you look at how the data is ordered, when its always the same amount of sub data for each root data its a data-grid, when the root data contains multiple sub-data and/or the sub-data it self has sub-data its better viewed in a tree-view(like a trunk with branches which have leaves).

[Dagnarus]

Oke Thanks I understand now.
I'll continue creating then

[Juan]

you should use propertyGrid. The most powerfull tool for creating editors in C#.