Disappearing Toolstrips

[Jeff Gaines]

I am working on a program using VS2008 and C#.

One of the forms has a Tab Control with 3 Tab Pages and a Toolstrip at the
bottom of each page. At least there should be a Toolstrip but they keep
disappearing!
If I select them in the properties window they re-appear then when I focus
elsewhere they've gone :-(
They appear in the design file but they don't appear at run time.

I know Tab Controls can be a bit odd but this is frustrating.

I have closed VS ands re-started, I even re-booted the machine (a rare
treat).

Any thoughts on how to get these monkeys back?

 

[Jeff Johnson]

I am working on a program using VS2008 and C#.

One of the forms has a Tab Control with 3 Tab Pages and a Toolstrip at the
bottom of each page. At least there should be a Toolstrip but they keep
disappearing!
If I select them in the properties window they re-appear then when I focus
elsewhere they've gone :-(
They appear in the design file but they don't appear at run time.

I know Tab Controls can be a bit odd but this is frustrating.

I have closed VS ands re-started, I even re-booted the machine (a rare
treat).

Any thoughts on how to get these monkeys back?

Just a thought: in the designer, select the tool strip and then run the Send
to Back command on it. Run the program. If that doesn't work, try Bring to
Front.

If neither of these works, that's Windows telling you that a toolstrip at
the bottom of a tab page is a terrible, terrible thing! (Really, I'm having
difficulty picturing any app that behaves like this, unless this is just a
simple pager-like thing like the buttons that help you navigate workbook
tabs in Excel.)

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Just a thought: in the designer, select the tool strip and then run the
Send to Back command on it. Run the program. If that doesn't work, try
Bring to Front.

Tried that - then discovered the Visible flag was set to false, should
have checked the obvious first :-(
I must have caught it while changing something else.

If neither of these works, that's Windows telling you that a toolstrip at
the bottom of a tab page is a terrible, terrible thing! (Really, I'm
having difficulty picturing any app that behaves like this, unless this is
just a simple pager-like thing like the buttons that help you navigate
workbook tabs in Excel.)

The Tab control is on a form used to prepare different reports. Different
actions are required for each hence Toolstrip for each.

 

[Jeff Johnson]

The Tab control is on a form used to prepare different reports. Different
actions are required for each hence Toolstrip for each.

Understandable, but at the bottom???

 

[Jeff Gaines]

Understandable, but at the bottom???

Yes - work down through the various entries and then on to the buttons,
saves having to go up to the top again.