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> On 2007-11-22 06:21:42 -0800, lars.molle***@nve.no said:
>
> > Sorry if I am posting in wrong group...
>
> > I am having a problem adding controls dynamically to this control
> > ( using tablelayoutpanel.add(col,row)).
>
> There's no TableLayoutPanel.Add() method.
>
> > I am doing this to a cell where there is an existing control. I
> > thought this would just move the existing control to the next
> > available cell and so on. (Growstyle is rows). The controls are added
> > in a strange way and the order of the added controls seems to be
> > dependent on what kind of control I am adding!?
>
> Perhaps you could be more specific.  What does the code you're using to
> add controls look like exactly?  What behavior did you expect?  What
> behavior did you get instead?
>
> Pete

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> On 2007-11-26 05:26:34 -0800, Larsemann <lars.molle***@nve.no> said:
>
> > [...] I add a control
> > into a cell allready inhabited by a control. I think the existing
> > control is suppose to float to the right. Growstyle is set to rows. I
> > have 7 cols thus after doing this 7 times I have inserted a row. But
> > the result is trange. The order of the inserted controls seem allmost
> > arbitrary and dependent of what kind og control I insert (textbox,
> > checkbox etc.). I am sure there must be a bug in the tablelayoutpanel
> > but will be happy for any ideas.
>
> Well, again you have failed to post the code you're using.  It's pretty
> much impossible to tell you what is going wrong without knowing what it
> is you're actually doing.
>
> For you to get any useful help, you need to put together and post a
> concise-but-complete example of code that reliably demonstrate the
> problem.  "Concise" mean you only include the bare minimum required to
> demonstrate the problem.  "Complete" means one doesn't have to add
> anything at all to get the code to compile and run (yes, for a
> forms-based application this means including the designer-created code
> too, unless you write something from scratch without the designer).
>
> As for there being a bug in TableLayoutPanel, that's extremely
> unlikely.  I wouldn't go so far as to say there are no bugs in .NET --
> any sufficiently complex piece of software will have bugs -- but they
> are extremely rare relative to the size of the framework, and I've
> never seen a bug in a part of the framework that's as commonly used as
> the TableLayoutPanel.
>
> It's not unusual for someone to post here that they think they've found
> a bug in .NET.  I can't recall a single instance of such a claim
> turning out to be correct.
>
> It's much more likely that you've made some assumption about the
> behavior of adding controls to the panel that's incorrect, and thus
> your expectations don't match the actual behavior.  But until you post
> something more explicit, there's no way to help explain the disparity.
>
> Pete

> On 2007-11-27 02:04:56 -0800, Larsemann <lars.molle***@nve.no> said:
>
> > I know that claiming a bug seems a bit far out but quite few of my
> > highly experienced collegues have looked into the solution and comes
> > up with the same response. There must be a bug!
>
> So you say.  I remain unconvinced.
>
> > You state that it is
> > a commonly used control. I am not sure that is correct, at least not
> > adding/manipulating it dynamically. I have searched the net
> > extensively and am not able to find much about the topic. You want me
> > to give you more code. I'll be happy to mail you the entire soulktion
> > if you want to.
>
> No, I do not want you to.  If you want the best answer, you need to
> post an appropriate sample of code here in this newsgroup.
>
> > For now I will give you the method adding the row, plz
> > let me know if there are some obvious mistakes or misunderstandings on
> > my behalf.
>
> Even the short example you posted fails both the "concise" and
> "complete" criteria.  It's not concise because there's apparently more
> in the example than is needed to reproduce the problem, and it's not
> complete because I can't just compile the whole thing without adding
> other stuff to get it to work.
>
> The fact that the code is not complete also means that we have no
> information on the state of the control prior to calling the method you
> posted.  How many controls have already been added?  Where where they
> added?  And why do you create a new CheckBox() control, only to replace
> it with an existing CheckBox() from your Kontroller array?  Do you
> understand that a control can only be in one cell at a time, so if you
> are calling Add() with a reference to a control that you've already
> placed in the TableLayoutPanel somewhere, it will be removed from its
> existing location and added where you tell it to?
>
> I will say one thing about the code you did post:  you should be using
> the "||" operator in your if() statements, and not the "|" operator. 
> Whatever "highly experience colleagues" you showed your code to should
> have told you the same thing.  Since == has higher precedence than |, I
> would guess this isn't causing a problem here.  But it certainly isn't
> a good way to write the code.
>
> And the million dollar question: have you stepped through the code in a
> debugger to ensure that it is in fact adding the controls you expect it
> to, when you expect it to?  There really is no substitute for watching
> the code executed, when trying to find out why when it executes it
> doesn't do what you expect it to.
>
> Pete