I am misunderstanding Flowlayout need some advice

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Bill Gower - 21 Jun 2007 19:06 GMT

I have a windows form that is using a FlowLayout Panel, top to bottom. I
want to place a panel on the Flowlayout that will be called contentPanel.
By default, contentPanel will fill the entire layout. If the user clicks
the find button on the toolbar I want to add a panel called findPanel to the
Flowlayout and have it appear above the contentPanel. When the user clicks
find again, I want the findPanel to disappear and have the contentpanel take
over the whole space again. How do I do this?

Bill

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Bob Powell [MVP] - 27 Jun 2007 20:00 GMT

FlowLayout will provide a left-right top-bottom layout so you can't be
absolutely sure if the components will be shown side-by-side or one on
top of the other.

To get over the uncertainty you can create your own layout engine to
force panels to the same width and place them one above the other.

To show and hide a particular panel, just use it's Visible property.

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> I have a windows form that is using a FlowLayout Panel, top to bottom. I
> want to place a panel on the Flowlayout that will be called contentPanel.
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> Bill

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I am misunderstanding Flowlayout need some advice

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