Creating a Panel from with in a class
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I have a project where I have a lot of panels on my form. It gets to be a hassel moving them front/back to edit them. Is there a way to encase the panel in a class, so I can just make it visible or invisible from class calls and not have to have it cluttering up my form during normal editing. For example, I have a color picker panel which includes a listbox of all the color names and a picture box that I use to display the color and its name (using graphics). I can see where I could use this in several projects and don't want to have to recreate it everytime. Gary Strunk
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I have a project where I have a lot of panels on my form. It gets to be a hassel moving them front/back to edit them. Is there a way to encase the panel in a class, so I can just make it visible or invisible from class calls and not have to have it cluttering up my form during normal editing. For example, I have a color picker panel which includes a listbox of all the color names and a picture box that I use to display the color and its name (using graphics). I can see where I could use this in several projects and don't want to have to recreate it everytime. Gary Strunk
Hi, you could create a class as in
public class MyPanel : Panel {...}by creatind a code file; such Control would, after one build, be available for use by Visual Designer through the Toolbox, without residing in a separate DLL file. or you could create a UserControl in a separate DLL file, as inpublic class MyPanel : UserControl {...}; that way you can include the same DLL in other projects, and you can set its properties through Visual Designer when including it in say another Form. :)Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles]
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I have a project where I have a lot of panels on my form. It gets to be a hassel moving them front/back to edit them. Is there a way to encase the panel in a class, so I can just make it visible or invisible from class calls and not have to have it cluttering up my form during normal editing. For example, I have a color picker panel which includes a listbox of all the color names and a picture box that I use to display the color and its name (using graphics). I can see where I could use this in several projects and don't want to have to recreate it everytime. Gary Strunk
Hi you create a Usercontrol & insert all the panel u need. So that U can use it anywhere without recreating it.