Re: Strange z-order behavior

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Just to let now I found the answer, I forgot to set myusercontrol.visble =
false at the usercontrol leave event and apparently that was causing it.

Greetz Peter


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> Hi group I've got a usercontrol containing a textbox and alongside the
> textbox there's a combobox. I draw this control on top of a grid. So when
> the user clicks certain columns in the grid the control appears at the
right
> place. This all works just fine except the z-order, at the beginning my
> usercontrol contained 2 comboboxes and the z-order was ok. But as I said
> before now it's a textbox and a combobox and since I've changed one of the
> combo's to a textbox there are strange things happening. The first time
the
> control is drawn, everything is fine, when I click a next row in my grid
the
> textbox in my usercontrol seems to get a sendtoback and the combo stays
fine
> in front of the grid. If I then give an other app the focus and go back to
> my app the textbox is fine again. Now I've tried putting
> textbox.bringtofront at all kinds of places, I also changed the order at
> which the combo and textbox get added to my usercontrol:
> Me.Controls.Add(Me.cboCode)
> Me.Controls.Add(Me.txtCode)
> I also deleted and readded the textbox
> but no effect at all.
> I find it very strange because when my usercontrol is drawn on the grid i
> can see the gridline is drawn where the textbox should be drawn and it
stops
> where the combobox begins but there should be no gridline visible at all
> where my usercontrol is drawn because it's drawn over the gridline.
> Thanks in advance for any hints or tips
>
> Greetz Peter
>
>


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