Form In Panel Inherits Panel Font

Hi

If I put a panel1 on form1, set the font of the panel to size 16.

Add a button to the form1.

In the click event handler of the button add:

Code:

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        form2.TopLevel = False
        Panel1.Controls.Add(form2)
        form2.Show()

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Create a new form2, draw a button on it.

Run the project, click the button. Form 2 inherits the font from panel1 and so resizes things.

Solution at the moment is to set the panel1 to have the font of form2, then reset it when form2 is closed.

Is there a better way?

Cheers

What happens if, right after to do the Controls.Add(form2), manually set form2's font to the font of your choice and then Show() it?

So:

vb Code:

form2.TopLevel = False
Panel1.Controls.Add(form2)
form2.Font = New Font(...)
form2.Show()

Justin

Thanks. That works and is a better way as there's less code.

Sweet! Glad it worked out for you : ).

As always, read the documentation first:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by MSDN

The Font property is an ambient property. An ambient property is a control property that, if not set, is retrieved from the parent control. For example, a Button will have the same BackColor as its parent Form by default. For more information about ambient properties, see the AmbientProperties class or the Control class overview.

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Sounds rather like the logical thing to do is to set the Font property of the form immediately before adding it to the Panel. If the value is set explicitly then it won't be retrieved from the parent.

Thanks jmcilhinney. Agreed.

I admit to tunnel vision with this, my thinking being the controls on Form2 have the parent of Form2, I didn't go as far to think that the Form2 would inherit its font from the panel.

And so it took me a long time, and lots of shouting :), to even work why the controls were resizing themselves.