Inserting a control between existing controls at runtime

Question

Hi there,

I want to know how to insert a control at runtime in between existing controls on my form. In other words, how do I proceed to push down the controls that should be appearing after my newly inserted control?

Thanks!
Emmi

Scott Lysle · Answer

You will have to get the locations on the controls that are going to be moved, make up a location for the inserted control and then add the control after setting its location. If you have five textboxes on a form and you want to put a new one it between the forth and the fifth textboxes, you could do something like this: // get the current location of // textbox 5 (this is the one to displace) Point loc5 = textBox5.Location; // move the new location of textbox5 // down 26 - make a hole for the // new textbox at the same spacing used // on the other textboxes Point newLoc = new Point (loc5.X, (loc5.Y+26)); textBox5.Location = newLoc; // id them textBox1.Text = "One" ; textBox2.Text = "Two" ; textBox3.Text = "Three" ; textBox4.Text = "Four" ; textBox5.Text = "Five" ; // Insert new textbox at the old location // of textbox5 System.Windows.Forms. TextBox tRex = new TextBox (); tRex.Text = "T-REX" ; tRex.Location = loc5; this .Controls.Add(tRex);

Inserting a control between existing controls at runtime

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