Hi all,

Not sure whether this question maybe answered later in the book, or in the Professional version which I've also purchased...however..

I have just added a couple of toolbars to a windows form in the exercise in chapter 8 - marvellous - all working as it should...my question though - when you use the menu's that you've added to 'hide' the menus the app still leaves a big grey area for where they would appear if you turn them on. For example - if I was to turn them both off I would have an area about 1 inch thats just grey - and it looks odd.

In MS Word when you add more toolbars doesn't it shuffle the page down a bit? Also - the MS apps have the little 'handle' on the left where you can drag them around a bit - move them onto new lines - are we able to achieve this in VB.Net? It would be handy to have all of the other controls on the page shuffle up if nothing else when a toolbar is 'hidden' - perhaps this isn't the visible = false kinda thing - but is there any other way of achieving it?

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.



Regards

Rob

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Regards

Rob

The problem you describe can be solved by adding your menus, toolbars, and then your statusbar. Then add a Panel control and set its Dock property to Fill. Next, add all of your other controls to the Panel control and arrange them to your satisfaction. Now when you hide a toolbar, the Panel control will automatically use the extra space that was taken by your toolbar and when you show your toolbar again, the Panel control will use less room.

Hello Thearon,

Many thanks for the reply and the information - I shall give this ago - probably on the example code I think - save me some time :)

Cheers


Regards

Rob