How to move a control from a form to a panel by selecting the correct location

[cs_engineering]

Hi, I have set up a lot of controls directly on the windows form and now I need to create screens. Instead of using multiple forms, I want to use Panels. How do I point each of my controls (text boxes and buttons) to the new panel instead of the form directly using Powershell Studio GUI layout. When I copy paste, things break.

The code way would be something this and it is already being generated so I would prefer to configure this directly in the visual properties / controls

$Form.Control.Remove($button1)
$Panel.Control.Add($button1)

[davidc]

To add a control within a panel in the designer, you simply need to drag the control into the panel. If the panel appears over the control, then right-click on the panel and select "Send To Back":

Send To Back.png (31.29 KiB) Viewed 4947 times

[cs_engineering]

Hi David,

Thank you, however, this does not guarantee that the control is in the right place. I've been trying this as well as cut/paste and have been receiving back "spaghetti". I am looking for a way to point directly from a control and tell it that it is _now_ a child of another control (a panel in this case)

In the end I need to be left with 3 panels with a group of child objects so that when I do select a panel and send it back or front as you have illustrated, all the child object move with it.

[davidc]

Can you provide a screenshot as to what you are trying to accomplish?

[cs_engineering]

The first screen (1.png) is controls on a separate panel that was built from start. The 2nd screen is the form with mixed controls that need to be separated into individual screens each on it's own panel.

I need to be able to set a property or something in the designer to accomplish this because if I do that in the code, it will redundant and not visible in the designer until after execution.

[davidc]

You are overlapping panels. No wonder you are running into issues I highly recommend using a TabControl instead:

https://info.sapien.com/index.php/guis/ ... tabcontrol

[cs_engineering]

Thank you David,

I actually found a similar article today as well and have been trying to move the controls into Tabs as oppose to panels and I am still running into the same issue where I am forced to "copy/paste" the control and I am having trouble getting the control to "stick" to the tabpages. Hence I am still looking for a way to say somewhere in properties of the controls something like

ParentObject = tabpage1

To be able to force the Control association to tabpage and while building the form to be able to change TABS ion this case without leaving controls behind

[davidc]

If you move the control within the panel, it should set the parent container automatically.

[cs_engineering]

That's exactly what I have been reading. However there is no way to confirm that or force that and that is not what I am experiencing. Hence the reason I am looking for a way to set it explicitly.

[davidc]

Unfortunately, the designer has no explicit way of setting this. On our TODO list, is showing the controls in a tree structure for this very purpose, but I can't give you an ETA on that.