flowlayoutpanel

Reordering of controls within a flow layout panel

Good afternoon, I'm having trouble using the flowlayoutPanel in a C# winform application. What I basically have is a flow layout panel that has 3 sections. Section #1 is a set of 2 controls .. two dropdown controls, they are always in the same order, always visible in all instances Section #2 is a set of 5 different controls ... based...

How can I determine the top/left position of a label in WPF?

I have a WPF label contained in a FlowLayoutPanel and I want to determine the position of the label when clicked with the mouse. I am trying to position a pop-up control where near to the label and just need it's location. ...

dragging user controls from one flowlayoutpanel to another

how can i add drag and drop capability of a custom usercontrol from 2 flowlayoutpanels? Usercontrol keeps being null on the following line of code below private void flowLayoutPanel1_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e) { UserControl userControl = e.Data.GetData(typeof(UserControl)) as UserControl; ...

How do you support adding items to nested flowlayoutpanels?

I have a flowlayoutpanel (flowParent) on a form that hosts a list of flowlayoutpanels (flowchild1, flowchild2, etc). from the form level, how do i add an item to flowchild1. essentially, how do i reference the child flowlayoutpanel? ...

highlight selected item in flowlayoutpanel

how do i highlight the selected item (in my case, a custom user control) in a flowlayoutpanel ...

can i treat a flowlayoutpanel like a listbox

is there ways to have a selecteditem and detect when it changes. what is the recommended best practices for wanting to have listbox type behavior but i dont have strings, i have user controls that i want to list from top to bottom. is flowlayoutpanel the correct way to do this or is there any other way that gives me the listbox behavio...

FlowLayoutPanel in CF.NET

I'm writing an application in .NET 2.0 and I need the functionality of a FlowLayoutPanel from WinForms. This is the code I came up with that I'm using right now (mostly with labels): /// <summary> /// Flowable layout panel /// </summary> public partial class FlowLayoutPanel : Panel { public FlowLayoutPanel() { InitializeCom...

Clearing controls from FlowLayoutPanel not calling destructors?

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but I'm trying to clear the controls (a series of user controls) from a FlowLayoutPanel - (panelName).Controls.Clear();. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be calling the destructors for the objects on the panel - the User Objects column in the task manager just keeps going up and up, until it hits...

FlowLayoutPanel autowrapping doesn't work with autosize

Hi! .NET Framework / C# / Windows Forms I'd like the FlowLayoutPanel to automatically adjust its width or height depending on number of controls inside of it. It also should change the number of columns/rows if there is not enough space (wrap its content). The problem is that if I set autosize then the flowlayoutpanel doesn't wrap cont...

Cannnot resize Child Controls in a FlowLayoutPanel Control

Description I was trying to create a FlowLayoutPanel that can be extended, for instance in the horizontal way. FlowLayoutPanel and its sub component anchor has been set to Top-Left-Right FlowLayoutPanel direction has been set to TopDown. -> When rezising the FlowLayoutPanel, its sub- components are not resized accordinally. Step to r...

FlowLayoutPanel AutoSize height not working

I'm working on a UserControl that consists of a bunch of ComboBoxes arranged horizontally across the top of the control in a flowlayoutpanel, and a datagridview directly below the flowlayoutpanel that takes up all remaining space on the control. I need to be able to hide all the dropdowns easily, so I have a SplitContainer with Orientat...

WinForms UserControl Layout Autosize Problems

A while back, I posted this question about trying to get a flowlayoutpanel to autosize properly when docked to the top of a container. What I was trying accomplish was to setup a horizontal (left-to-right) flowlayoutpanel spanning across the top edge of a form, and a datagridview taking up the rest of the available space below the flowl...

Unexpected index change when adding a control to a FlowLayoutPanel

I have a place in my code where I am dynamically adding controls to a Top-Down arranged FlowLayoutPanel. I need the controls to appear in a certain order so what I am doing everytime is clearing the FlowLayoutPanel.Controls collection and then adding each child control in the order I want them to appear. My code does this: private void ...

How to scroll a flowlayoutpanel while dragging?

In my Windows Forms application, I'm using a FlowLayoutPanel control to display a list of items to users. I've been able to successfully implement reordering the items in the FlowLayoutPanel by having the user drag the control to the desired position within the FlowLayoutPanel. But I don't know how to scroll the FlowLayoutPanel when ...

Nested FlowLayoutPanels and UserControls hierarchical structure in WinForms in VB

I have a form with the following structure: Level 1: MainFlowLayoutPanel01 --------- Level 2 : SubMainFlowLayoutPanel_01 ------------ Level 3 : SubSubMainFlowLayoutPanel1 ------ UserControl 1 ------ UserControl 2 ...

Nested flowlayout panel not wrapping

I've got a FlowLayoutPanel with properties: Dock = Fill (in a usercontrol) FlowDirection = TopDown WrapContents = false I do it this way so that each item added to the panel gets added to the bottom. The items that I add to this panel are usercontrols which themselves have FlowLayoutPanels on them, however they have the standard beh...

What is the WPF equivilant for the FlowLayoutPanel?

I am working on a WPF application (a one note clone which is called "note your life") where you can dynamically assign Tags to an entry (just as in virtually any web 2.0 app these days). for this I had in my windows forms prototype a FlowLayoutPanel that did the job very well. I want to have the tags float to the next line if there isn't...

Flowlayout panel and autosizing child controls doesn't work

I am trying to get a very simple autosizing layout on a winform (C# .NET). I've tried TableLayoutPanels and FlowLayoutPanels but nothing works. I have a usercontrol which is a container for other usercontrols which are created at runtime - I've called it StackPanel as I want it to list the child controls vertically. I've tried this usin...

c# FlowLayoutPanel scroll, background distorts + flickers

I have a windows form application that has a background. Within it, I have a flowlayoutpanel with a transparent background. When I scroll, the following happens: http://imgur.com/5fmTh.png I also see some flickering. I've tried all the doublebuffered business, and it doesn't work. Any suggestions? ...

Groupbox with a flowlayout panel inside and autosize = true shrinks like it is empty.

I have a groupbox that holds a flowlayout panel and the flowlayout panel holds a bunch of controls. I set the flowlayout panel to dock with the parent. Since I don't know how many controls will be in the panel, I set the group box autosize to true and autosizemode to grow and shrink. When I do this the groupbox shrinks as if it is emp...