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Martin Delille
Martin Delille

Reputation: 11770

Docking a form to another form panel

Is it possible to dock a form1 to a panel contained in another form2? I'm launching form1 with ShowDialog from a form2 event.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3022

Answers (3)

ileon
ileon

Reputation: 1508

Consider using the COMPLETELY FREE docking library to develop Visual Studio .Net style applications provided by this link. Believe me, it's a commercial quality and bug-free code!

Upvotes: 1

John Rudy
John Rudy

Reputation: 37850

Consider extracting the controls out of form1 into a UserControl. Use that UserControl on form1 (assuming you need it as a form as well as the docked control), then dock the UserControl on form2 to implement the desired functionality.

Upvotes: 1

Adam Robinson
Adam Robinson

Reputation: 185593

Not with ShowDialog (or even Show), no. A form that has already been displayed as a top-level form cannot later be added as a subcontrol of any other control. You can try to keep the form within a particular set of screen bounds by monitoring the LocationChanged event, but that will appear jerky on the screen.

Upvotes: 1

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