Using A Control Name As Property To Another Control?
Apr 2, 2010
I Use a picturebox with a series of concentric circles and radial lines to move other controls on the form depending on the direction and distance from the center. I call it navigator and I would like to create a custom control inheriting from picturebox. How do I use the other control name or object as a property for my control? My code is very simple, but creating a control with the picture and center defined already would be easy to drop on any form.
This is it:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub PictureBox1_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.MouseDown
[Code].....
In this case PictureBox2 is the control I want to move, but I would like to be able to move other controls with changing the control(or object) property of PictureBox1(Navigator1.Control).
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Here is the class code:
Imports System.ComponentModel Public Class mypanel Inherits Windows.Forms.Panel Private panelcaption As String
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