How to assign existing Controls to Different Parents

If I understand you, your problem is Y becomes inside X.

Ok, create a form, add panel X. Now add panel Y.

As you know, as soon as you move it over, it goes inside.

You can break them apart with cut and paste,

select Y.
Cut.
Click on Form.
Paste.

To move them over each other, you can just change the location prop, you could use code todo this.

Or, the code way.

this.x = new System.Windows.Forms.Panel();
this.y = new System.Windows.Forms.Panel();
this.x.SuspendLayout();
this.SuspendLayout();
//
// x
//
this.x.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.FixedSingle;
this.x.Controls.Add(this.y);
this.x.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(40, 48);
this.x.Name = "x";
this.x.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(200, 100);
this.x.TabIndex = 0;
//
// y
//
this.y.BorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.BorderStyle.Fixed3D;
this.y.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(-1, -1);
this.y.Name = "y";
this.y.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(200, 100);
this.y.TabIndex = 2;
//
// Form1
//
this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);
this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(340, 305);
this.Controls.Add(this.x);
this.Name = "Form1";
this.Text = "Form1";
this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Load);
this.x.ResumeLayout(false);
this.ResumeLayout(false);

Remove the YELLOW code to just after GREEN code add

this.Controls.Add(this.y);

So you have

this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F);
this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font;
this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(340, 305);
this.Controls.Add(this.x);
this.Controls.Add(this.y);
this.Name = "Form1";
this.Text = "Form1";
this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.Form1_Load);
this.x.ResumeLayout(false);
this.ResumeLayout(false);

Then change the location of y to match the location of x.

Why do you need todo this? there maybe better ways off doing what you want.

Steve.Drake at 2007-9-4 >