Creating a control with a Panel on it.

[Jay1b]

Hi

I'm trying to create a user control with a panel component on it. I can create a control which inherits from a panel, this allows me to drag on other controls during design time. But if i set them to fill they consume the whole control. Where I want sections of the control which the user can and cant drag other components onto at design time.

Thanks.

 

[Sorwen]

Yes, if you set everything to fill it will do that. The last control on there will fill the whole area. I don't know what it is actually called in vb.net, but I call it order of precedence. Every control is given a default order on whatever you place it on (in this case a panel) from the first one to the last one placed. If you tell the first one to fill then it will fill, but the last one will fill as well hiding everything. Lets say you were placing two panels on there what you would want to do is tell the first one to dock left, right, up, or down and the second to fill. If you are doing 50 controls the last one is the one that has to fill because the other 49 have precedence over it and will do what they need to do first.

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