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Creating a Windows.Form.Co ntrol class for runtime form generation

I have a Windows form which has multiple groups of the same window
controls.
I wanted to create a control class that has the standard controls in
one.

something like:

public class Sensor : System.Windows. Forms.Control
{
private System.Windows. Forms.TextBox Calculation;
private System.Windows. Forms.GroupBox Group;
private System.Windows. Forms.RadioButt on Displacement;
private System.Windows. Forms.RadioButt on Velocity;
private System.Windows. Forms.RadioButt on Acceleration;
private System.Windows. Forms.Label SensorName;
private System.Windows. Forms.Label CalculationName ;
..
..
..

Sensor inherites System.Windows. Forms.Control.
I have a location and size for the whole class passed through the
contructor. Then in the Init part of the class I initialize every
member of the class accordingly. When I create an instance of this
class in the Form1 class so that I can display it on the form it
doesn't work.

I tried adding the lines:

this.Controls.A dd(this.SensorN ame);
this.Controls.A dd(this.Calcula tionName);
..
..
..
in the Sensor class itself.

I'm not sure that this is even proper.

In my Form1 class I have the lines:

sensor = new Sensor(p,s,"Sen sor Name");
this.Controls.A ddRange(new Control[] {sensor});

but again it doesn't seem to add it to my form at run time.

I've seen examples of adding "standard" controls at runtime, so I
imagine that it is possible to do the same with user defined controls.

If anybody can give me a hand with this I would appriciate it very
much.

Thank you in advance.
~sinisa
Nov 15 '05 #1
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