Panels and Splitters

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Hello,

I'm using .NET Framework 2.0. I'm creating several panels, one above
the other, with splitters between them. I'm using Splitter and not
SplitContainer, because the latter is such a big mess when you need to
put splitters between more than two windows.

To be more specific, my splitters and panels are like that:
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Where the rectangles are the panels and the underscores are the
splitters. When I drag a splitter up, it can go up as much as I want.
Even make the top panel very small. But when I want to drag them down,
it lets me drag only to a specific point, so I cannot make the lower
panel small.

Anyway, here is my code:

private void InitPanel()
{
panel = new Panel();
panel.Tag = this;
panel.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.Fixed3D;
panel.Dock = DockStyle.Top;
panel.AllowDrop = true;
panel.DragEnter += new DragEventHandler(panel_DragEnter);
panel.DragDrop += new DragEventHandler(panel_DragDrop);
panel.MouseUp += new
MouseEventHandler(chart.Panel_MouseUp);
chart.PanesPanel.Controls.Add(panel);
panel.BringToFront();
}

private void CreateSplitContainer()
{
splitter = new Splitter();
splitters.Add(splitter);
splitter.MinExtra = splitter.MinSize = 0;
splitter.Dock = DockStyle.Top;
splitter.SplitterMoved += new
SplitterEventHandler(chart.SplitContainer_Move);
splitter.MinSize = 15;
chart.PanesPanel.Controls.Add(splitter);
splitter.BringToFront();
}

The problem is that when, using the splitters, I'm trying to make the
panels smaller, they have a limit of how small it can go, and it's
about 100-150 pixels (quite much). I need a possibility to use the
splitters to make the panels much smaller, such as 15 pixels.

How can I do that?

Thanks!

.

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