Showing and hiding of panels

[ToniMontana]

Hi all,

 

I have a form with 3 areas, which are 3 panels:

leftPanel, centerPanel and rightPanel.

 

The app creates userControls which are then

placed onto the panels with the call

this.centerPanel.Controls.Add(userControl)

for example.

 

Then I can call Show or Hide for each

userControl. So far it works fine.

 

BUT: Now I want to have overlapping panels.

But I don't know how to bring a userControl

to front, userControl.BringToFront() does

not work. Show() does not work either.

I tried both, but it doesnt work....

 

Any idea?

[ToniMontana]

Ok, I found the answer by myself:

 

The method bringToFront does only work

for the panel, because it contains the userControl.

 

For showing a particular userControl I must first

get the containing Panel and then...

 

Control panel = userControl.Parent;

panel.BringToFront();

userControl.Show();