Panel Control covering my other controls... IDE BUG?

[gordingin]

I am trying to figure something out. I have a panel control that contain other controls (I think, I am looking at some one elses code) but for some reason, I can't see the other controls. I can go to the properties window (the dropdown) and select them but I can't see them on my screen (they won't even highlight if I select them in the property dropdown). I right clicked on the panel control, and menued the "send to back" but nothing happens. Also sometimes, just sometimes all the controls do appear and then for some reason (unknown at this time) the all..... disappear... Anyone? Ralph

[Heath Stewart]

If you really want to know if the Panel contains those other controls, quick looking at the designer and look at the code. Every Control has a Controls property that contains a collection of Controls that are children of thet parent Control. The other possibility is that there is some owner-drawing problem. Is this code overriding OnPaint or handling the Paint event on the Panel? Somewhere in the initialization code, is the code using SetStyle to set styles incorrectly or overriding CreateParams (if a derivative class)?

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