Adding panel to base Form? Cannot see controls.

[Doc John]

I have a windows Form that inherits from Base_form. In Base_form I added a
panel that covers the whole Form (panel1.Dock = Fill). The problem is that
all the controls in the Form that inherit from Base_form are "under" this
panel, which means they're not visible..
Is it possible to make these controls visible again without having to make
major changes in the Form?

Thanks.

VS2005

[Peter Duniho]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:33:04 -0700, Doc John <no <"email>"wrote:

[...] The problem is that
all the controls in the Form that inherit from Base_form are "under" this
panel, which means they're not visible..
Is it possible to make these controls visible again without having to
make
major changes in the Form?

There may be something you can do in the designer so that the control
starts out in the right place.

However, one thing you can definitely do is in your constructor, call
SendToBack() on the panel that's covering everything else up.

Pete

[Linda Liu [MSFT]]

Hi Doc,

It seems that you have set the Modifiers property of Panel in the Base_Form
to private.

When a control's Modifiers property is set to private on a base form, we
couldn't access the control in the inherited form. If you select the
control on the inherited form, you should see that all the properties of
the control are readonly in the Properties window.

In your scenario, when you're attempting to add a control onto the Panel in
the derived form, the designer would like to generate code to add the
control into the Panel. However, the problem is that the Panel could not be
accessed in the inherited form, so that the control can not be added to the
Panel at all.

To make the Panel available in the inherited form, change the Panel's
Modifiers property to protected or public and then build the project.
Reopen the Form that inherits from the Base_Form and you should be able to
add controls onto the Panel in the inherited form.

Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Linda Liu [MSFT]]

Hi Doc,

How about the problem now?

If the problem is still not solved, please feel free to let me know.

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Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support