"eBob.com" <eBob.com@totallyfakeisp.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Lee. That worked very nicely. I am new to this and hadn't
> noticed the Visible property before. And also didn't know that a
> centered unanchored control in a panel would remain centered as the
> panel was resized. Neat!
>
> Thanks again. Bob
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:47:44 -0400, "Lee" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>>Could you put the button IN the panel, center it, clear its Anchor
>>property
>>(uncheck the left, top, right and bottom) so it stays centered, and then
>>set
>>its Visible property to False? Then when you want the button to appear,
>>just set its Visible property to True.
>>
>>Would that work?
>>
>>-----
>>Lee
>>
>>"eBob.com" <eBob.com@totallyfakeisp.com> wrote in message
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>>>I have a panel on my form which is used for a scatter plot. Any one
>>> of several user interactions, including enlarging the form, can
>>> invalidate the graph. When the graph becomes invalid I fill the
>>> entire panel with a gray box. What I'd like to do now is put a button
>>> on top of the gray box which says "When You're Done Screwing Around
>>> Click Here to Cause the Graph to be recalculated and redrawn". When
>>> the button is clicked the graph is recalculated and redrawn and the
>>> button is removed.
>>>
>>> What's the BEST way to do this? Should I use the IDE and just drag a
>>> button onto the panel and then, in code, manipulate the z-order so
>>> that the button is in front of or behind the panel? If I want to keep
>>> the button centered in the panel where's the best place to do that?
>>> In the panel's Resize handler?
>>>
>>> I expect I could fumble around and eventually get this working, but
>>> I'd appreciate your help so that I do it RIGHT.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Bob
>>
>