Thanks Peter.
A good try. On ControllAdd event I "move" the control to the panel. But
unfortunatelly it works only in code. In design mode I got error "'child' is
not a child control of this parent."
:(
Stano.
>What about handling the ControlAdded event and modifying the Parent and/or
>Container properties of the Control being added?
>
>-- Peter
>
>>Well. Thanks for answers, but it seems, I did not express clearly.
>>
>>
>>Note: You can create your own control in MS Visual Studio .NET (2003) by:
>>"File -> Add New Item... -> User Control" in your project.
>>
>>
>>My own control named MiniInfo (based on System.Windows.Forms.UserControl) is
>>control I can use in another projects. It contains label (for a caption),
>>some buttons (together with handlers to control MiniInfo) etc. When built, I
>>have a small dll.
>>
>>In another projects, I can add it into my ToolBox and use it as all the
>>other controls (buttons, labels, text boxes, panels...). I can drop it on a
>>form, set size and so on. It still has that buttons and a label I created it
>>with, but I cannot select them anymore independently (and I dont need to),
>>because now it acts as a ONE control.
>>
>>Because it is declared as
>>
>><DesignerAttribute("System.Windows.Forms.Design.ParentControlDesigner")>
>>
>>it is similar to for example GroupBox or Panel, so once it is on a form, I
>>can drop another controls on MiniInfo and they belong to it (move with it
>>etc.). MiniInfo is a parent of controls dropped on it.
>>
>>
>>But now, I would like to do this. When designing the control itself, I put a
>>Panel on in and when using in in another projects, when I drop a button or
>>anything on MiniInfo, I want it to be added into THIS panel's controls list
>>(Panel will be parent of dropped controls). I can't select panel, because it
>>is not independent. It is a part of MiniInfo. When I drop something on
>>MiniInfo, it is behind that panel and the parent of dropped item is MiniInfo
>>as a whole.
>>
>>
>>I cannot simply in a code do somethig like panel.SendToBack(). I really need
>>(or it would be great for further progress) to really somehow make it to be
>>tha panel a parent of dropped controls.
>>
>>
>>Any ideas how to do this? :)
>
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