Controls disapear after pasting some code. WHY????

[Michael]

Hi Everyone.
I have been designing a form with about 100 or so controls and today I
pasted some code from another test project into this one and then all the
controls on the form disapeared from view. If I look at the
Region " Windows Form Designer generated code" section I can see the code
for the controls are there. Except for a few controls, like a tab control and
some labels (these controls are highlighted with errors). Why would this
happen, and how do I get the control back into view. This makes no since.
Thanks for any help.
Michael

[I Don't Like Spam]

Michael wrote:

Hi Everyone.
I have been designing a form with about 100 or so controls and today I
pasted some code from another test project into this one and then all the
controls on the form disapeared from view. If I look at the
Region " Windows Form Designer generated code" section I can see the code
for the controls are there. Except for a few controls, like a tab control and
some labels (these controls are highlighted with errors). Why would this
happen, and how do I get the control back into view. This makes no since.
Thanks for any help.
Michael

Are you sure the controls aren't there and are just hidden by another
control. There is a dropdown in the property view that shows all
controls on the form. Is your controls listed in there?

Chris

[Michel van den Berg]

Dear Michael,

Could you please tell us what code was pasted and what the errors are, you
are getting? If the controls on a form have some kind of error, these
controls will not show up. So you need to resolve these first and then (if
you are lucky) you would get the controls visible again (as now, they load
without errors).

Hope I helped you,

Michel van den Berg

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Hi Everyone.
I have been designing a form with about 100 or so controls and today I
pasted some code from another test project into this one and then all the
controls on the form disapeared from view. If I look at the
Region " Windows Form Designer generated code" section I can see the code
for the controls are there. Except for a few controls, like a tab control
and
some labels (these controls are highlighted with errors). Why would this
happen, and how do I get the control back into view. This makes no since.
Thanks for any help.
Michael

[Greg Burns]

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Are you sure the controls aren't there and are just hidden by another
control. There is a dropdown in the property view that shows all
controls on the form. Is your controls listed in there?

Chris

I like to use the Document Outline window for this (finding a control on a
form).

Ctrl-Alt-T

Greg

[Micky]

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Are you sure the controls aren't there and are just hidden by another control. There is a dropdown in the property
view that shows all
controls on the form. Is your controls listed in there?

Chris

I like to use the Document Outline window for this (finding a control on a form).

Ctrl-Alt-T

It's Ctrl-Alt-D in my IDE (VS.NET 2003)--but it
doesn't "find" any controls on any of my forms...

[Greg Burns]

"Micky" <mi***@n05pam.c om> wrote in message news:dlh2q2$nn7 >> I like to use
the Document Outline window for this (finding a control on a form).

Ctrl-Alt-T

It's Ctrl-Alt-D in my IDE (VS.NET 2003)--but it
doesn't "find" any controls on any of my forms...

Hmm. Actually being able to search would be nice wouldn't it?

It's Ctrl-Alt-T in both 2003 & 2005 on my machine, wth both [Default
Settings] and VB6 keyboard scheme...

[Michael]

Hi Chris,
THanks for the reply. I had a tabcontrol with about 5 tabpages on it. After
pasting the code into the editor the tabcontrol seemed to have been removed
some how, although 4 of the 5 tabpages where still there. Most of the
controls on the missing tabpage still seem to be listed. Yesterday I took
form into another project and added the Tabcontrol and I'm slowly trying to
rebuild the form by connecting the controls to the tabpages. I'm doing this
by adding the controls back into the tabpages and form with code like this
Me.TabControl1. Controls.Add(Me .TabPage1)
This code is in the "Form Designer generated code" section. Does this help
any.
Thanks again for the reply.
Michael
"I Don't Like Spam" wrote:

Michael wrote:

Hi Everyone.
I have been designing a form with about 100 or so controls and today I
pasted some code from another test project into this one and then all the
controls on the form disapeared from view. If I look at the
Region " Windows Form Designer generated code" section I can see the code
for the controls are there. Except for a few controls, like a tab control and
some labels (these controls are highlighted with errors). Why would this
happen, and how do I get the control back into view. This makes no since.
Thanks for any help.
Michael

Are you sure the controls aren't there and are just hidden by another
control. There is a dropdown in the property view that shows all
controls on the form. Is your controls listed in there?

Chris

[Michael]

Hi Michel,
I pasted the code right below the " Windows Form Designer generated code"
region, and the region was closed so it should not have overwriten any of
that code. Right After pasting the code, the tabcontrol disapeared from the
form without any error messages showing. After more investigation, I found 4
of the 5 tabpages in the code (in the region above). Somehow the tabcontrol
and 1 tabpage was totally removed from the form somehow. The form has no code
except for a few other control loading (conbos & flexgrid) functions. Here is
the code I pasted into the form.
Private Sub SetHeaders()
Dim i%
' initialize control
flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Norma l.WordWrap = True
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count = 6
flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows.Fixed = 2
flxFamilyHistor y1.AllowMerging = AllowMergingEnu m.FixedOnly
' create row headers
flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows(0).Allo wMerging = True
' four cells, will merge
Dim rng As CellRange = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 1, 0, 2)
rng.Data = "If Living"
' four cells, will merge
rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 3, 0, 4)
rng.Data = "If Deceased"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 1) = "Age"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 2) = "Health"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 3) = "Age of Death"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 4) = "Cause of Death"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 5) = "Who"
' create column header
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(0).Allo wMerging = True
' two cells, will merge
rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 0, 1, 0)
rng.Data = "Person"
' align and autozise the cells
flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Fixed .TextAlign = TextAlignEnum.C enterCenter
flxFamilyHistor y1.AutoSizeCols (1, flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count - 2,
10)
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(5).Widt h = 150
End Sub

Private Sub SetFixedColumn( )
flxFamilyHistor y1(2, 0) = "Father"
flxFamilyHistor y1(3, 0) = "Mother"
flxFamilyHistor y1(4, 0) = "Brothers"
flxFamilyHistor y1(9, 0) = "Sisters"
End Sub
The form will not load right now because the VB generated code still has
references to controls that where removed/lost saying that the control is not
a member of the form. Yet it still has the code like:
Me.Label4 = New System.Windows. Forms.Label
further down in the code:
Me.TabPage1.Con trols.Add(Me.La bel4)
further down in the code:
Me.Label4.Locat ion = New System.Drawing. Point(16, 339)
Me.Label4.Name = "Label4"
Me.Label4.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(176, 16)
Me.Label4.TabIn dex = 5
Me.Label4.Text = "Have you ever had a transfusion?"
Does any of this make since to anyone. Thanks for the reply and suggestions.
Michael

[Michel van den Berg]

Dear Michael,

I must admit it is very strange! To resolve this issue please tel me if I
correctly understand you:

- You had a form with many controls on it (question: are these only the
standard winform controls or 3rd party/inherited controls?)
- Next you pasted the code (as shown below = 2 subs).
- Now, suddenly, some controls are gone from your form (questions: Is your
form still drawn in the designer? Are there on this moment any errors? If
yes, then please state the errors)

Hopefully we/I can help you out (otherwise, contacting MS is suggested),

Michel van den Berg
"Michael" <Mi*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> schreef in bericht
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Hi Michel,
I pasted the code right below the " Windows Form Designer generated code"
region, and the region was closed so it should not have overwriten any of
that code. Right After pasting the code, the tabcontrol disapeared from
the
form without any error messages showing. After more investigation, I found
4
of the 5 tabpages in the code (in the region above). Somehow the
tabcontrol
and 1 tabpage was totally removed from the form somehow. The form has no
code
except for a few other control loading (conbos & flexgrid) functions. Here
is
the code I pasted into the form.
Private Sub SetHeaders()
Dim i%
' initialize control
flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Norma l.WordWrap = True
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count = 6
flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows.Fixed = 2
flxFamilyHistor y1.AllowMerging = AllowMergingEnu m.FixedOnly
' create row headers
flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows(0).Allo wMerging = True
' four cells, will merge
Dim rng As CellRange = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 1, 0, 2)
rng.Data = "If Living"
' four cells, will merge
rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 3, 0, 4)
rng.Data = "If Deceased"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 1) = "Age"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 2) = "Health"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 3) = "Age of Death"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 4) = "Cause of Death"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 5) = "Who"
' create column header
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(0).Allo wMerging = True
' two cells, will merge
rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 0, 1, 0)
rng.Data = "Person"
' align and autozise the cells
flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Fixed .TextAlign =
TextAlignEnum.C enterCenter
flxFamilyHistor y1.AutoSizeCols (1, flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count - 2,
10)
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(5).Widt h = 150
End Sub

Private Sub SetFixedColumn( )
flxFamilyHistor y1(2, 0) = "Father"
flxFamilyHistor y1(3, 0) = "Mother"
flxFamilyHistor y1(4, 0) = "Brothers"
flxFamilyHistor y1(9, 0) = "Sisters"
End Sub
The form will not load right now because the VB generated code still has
references to controls that where removed/lost saying that the control is
not
a member of the form. Yet it still has the code like:
Me.Label4 = New System.Windows. Forms.Label
further down in the code:
Me.TabPage1.Con trols.Add(Me.La bel4)
further down in the code:
Me.Label4.Locat ion = New System.Drawing. Point(16, 339)
Me.Label4.Name = "Label4"
Me.Label4.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(176, 16)
Me.Label4.TabIn dex = 5
Me.Label4.Text = "Have you ever had a transfusion?"
Does any of this make since to anyone. Thanks for the reply and
suggestions.
Michael

[Michael]

Hi Michel,
The form itself does show in the designer just fine (but no controls show).
I do have 2 Componentone Flaxgrids on the form. All other controls are
standard controls.
There are alot of " 'controlname' is not a member of FormName" errors, but
thats it. Did not have these before the code was pasted to the form.
I'm in the process of fixing it. I do have the tabcontrol back in a test
project. I had to add the control to the form, then I went into the Desiner
generated code and added/fixed the code that loads the tabcontrol and
tabpages. I'm hoping this does not happen again as this can be very time
consuming. This time it lost track of about 20 or so controls. Thanks again
for your time.
Michael

"Michel van den Berg" wrote:

Dear Michael,

I must admit it is very strange! To resolve this issue please tel me if I
correctly understand you:

- You had a form with many controls on it (question: are these only the
standard winform controls or 3rd party/inherited controls?)
- Next you pasted the code (as shown below = 2 subs).
- Now, suddenly, some controls are gone from your form (questions: Is your
form still drawn in the designer? Are there on this moment any errors? If
yes, then please state the errors)

Hopefully we/I can help you out (otherwise, contacting MS is suggested),

Michel van den Berg
"Michael" <Mi*****@discus sions.microsoft .com> schreef in bericht
news:B7******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...

Hi Michel,
I pasted the code right below the " Windows Form Designer generated code"
region, and the region was closed so it should not have overwriten any of
that code. Right After pasting the code, the tabcontrol disapeared from
the
form without any error messages showing. After more investigation, I found
4
of the 5 tabpages in the code (in the region above). Somehow the
tabcontrol
and 1 tabpage was totally removed from the form somehow. The form has no
code
except for a few other control loading (conbos & flexgrid) functions. Here
is
the code I pasted into the form.
Private Sub SetHeaders()
Dim i%
' initialize control
flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Norma l.WordWrap = True
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count = 6
flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows.Fixed = 2
flxFamilyHistor y1.AllowMerging = AllowMergingEnu m.FixedOnly
' create row headers
flxFamilyHistor y1.Rows(0).Allo wMerging = True
' four cells, will merge
Dim rng As CellRange = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 1, 0, 2)
rng.Data = "If Living"
' four cells, will merge
rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 3, 0, 4)
rng.Data = "If Deceased"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 1) = "Age"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 2) = "Health"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 3) = "Age of Death"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 4) = "Cause of Death"
flxFamilyHistor y1(1, 5) = "Who"
' create column header
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(0).Allo wMerging = True
' two cells, will merge
rng = flxFamilyHistor y1.GetCellRange (0, 0, 1, 0)
rng.Data = "Person"
' align and autozise the cells
flxFamilyHistor y1.Styles.Fixed .TextAlign =
TextAlignEnum.C enterCenter
flxFamilyHistor y1.AutoSizeCols (1, flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols.Count - 2,
10)
flxFamilyHistor y1.Cols(5).Widt h = 150
End Sub

Private Sub SetFixedColumn( )
flxFamilyHistor y1(2, 0) = "Father"
flxFamilyHistor y1(3, 0) = "Mother"
flxFamilyHistor y1(4, 0) = "Brothers"
flxFamilyHistor y1(9, 0) = "Sisters"
End Sub
The form will not load right now because the VB generated code still has
references to controls that where removed/lost saying that the control is
not
a member of the form. Yet it still has the code like:
Me.Label4 = New System.Windows. Forms.Label
further down in the code:
Me.TabPage1.Con trols.Add(Me.La bel4)
further down in the code:
Me.Label4.Locat ion = New System.Drawing. Point(16, 339)
Me.Label4.Name = "Label4"
Me.Label4.Size = New System.Drawing. Size(176, 16)
Me.Label4.TabIn dex = 5
Me.Label4.Text = "Have you ever had a transfusion?"
Does any of this make since to anyone. Thanks for the reply and
suggestions.
Michael