UserControl always shows controls at fixed position

Hi,

A user control is placed at different locations in a form, but this not
affect the location where the individual elements of the user control are
finally placed in the form's coordinates. This seems odd and counterintuitive
since moving the control at design time in the form should move the control
as displayed at run time.

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Thanks in advance,

Juan Dent, M.Sc.

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:17:03 -0700, Juan Dent <juandent@nospam.nospam>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A user control is placed at different locations in a form, but this not
>affect the location where the individual elements of the user control are
>finally placed in the form's coordinates. This seems odd and counterintuitive
>since moving the control at design time in the form should move the control
>as displayed at run time.

I am confused by your explanation.

Controls that are in a UserControl (ones that have been added to the
UserControl's Controls collection) are displayed within the
UserControl. Their Location property specifies a location relative to
the UserControl, not the form.

When you move the UserControl any child controls move with it.

Perhaps these other controls are not children of the UserControl.

Thanks Jack for your reply!

Hi Juan,

> A user control is placed at different locations in a form, but this not
affect the location where the individual elements of the user control are
finally placed in the form's coordinates.

Are the "individual elements" contained in the user control? If so, when
you move the user control on the form, the "individual elements" should
move with the user control.

You may have a try selecting the "individual elements" on the form. If you
can select them, it means that they are not containded in the user control.

To add controls in the user control, open the user control in designer.
Drag controls you want from Toolbox and drop them onto the user control.
Build the project.

Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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