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FYI: This may be a duplicate posting. It appears my previous posts have

failed.



I have a form that displays nothing on it except a few buttons. When the

form is loaded it is dynamically displays additional buttons. Each customer

who has an open order has a button created for them. The buttons are created

during the Form_Load event.



The problem Iâ??m having is that all of my existing buttons disappear when the

form loads. Being frustrated with this behavior I came up with a solution. My

solution was to just go ahead and dynamically create my regular buttons such

as btnExit, btnOpen and btnPrint dynamically just like the other buttons were

created. During my first test everything was working great. I used the

following code to create the buttons.



Dim btn1 As New Button

' Create the Exit Button.

btn1.Location = New System.Drawing.Point(888, 603)

btn1.Margin = New System.Windows.Forms.Padding(2)

btn1.Name = "btnExit"

btn1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(117, 66)

btn1.TabIndex = 5

btn1.Text = "Exit"

Controls.Add(btn1)

AddHandler btn1.Click, AddressOf btnExit_Click



The code created the buttons just as I wanted. But, when I ran my test I

realized I forgot to set one property and that was the anchor property

because when I resized the form the button did not stay anchored as I need it

to. So, I added the following line of code to anchor the buttons to the lower

right corner of the form.



btn1.Anchor = CType((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom Or

System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right), System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)



Now, all of the sudden my buttons are not showing up again. After further

testing I discovered that if I have an existing or a dynamic button with the

anchor properties set they will not appear on the form at all.



My assumption is the buttons are being created except they are not being

displayed on the form.



Why is this happening and if theres are reason for this what must I do to

resolve the problem?



Thanks


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Your previous posts have not 'failed'. This must be the fourth or

fifth one I have seen.



On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:39:01 -0700, Greg

<AccessVBAnet@newsgroups.nospam>wrote:

My aplogies for that. It appeared on my side as though the posts did not go

through.



"Jack Jackson" wrote:

Hi Greg,



Then, can you create a little sample project to demonstrate this behavior?

I have never heard of such behaviors before, so we need a local reproduce

for investigation.



Note: you'd better get rid of the database dependency for the sample

project. Thanks.



Best regards,

Jeffrey Tan

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I should be able to send you a sample next week.



""Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi Greg,



Thanks for your feedback.



Ok, if you managed to create a sample for this problem, please feel free to

attach in newsgroup or send it to me at: jetan@online.microsoft.com(remove

"online."). Thanks.



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Jeffrey Tan

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Hi Greg,



Have you managed to create a sample project? If you still need any help,

please feel free to tell me, thanks.



Best regards,

Jeffrey Tan

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