Question

I am adding custom controls to a FlowLayoutPanel. Each control has a date property. I would like to sort the controls in the flowlayoutpanel based on the date property. I can’t presort the controls before I add them because it is possible for the user to add more.

My current thought is when the ControlAdded event for the FlowLayoutPanel is triggered I loop through the controls and use the BringToFront function to order the controls based on the date.

What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

I doubt this is the best but is what I have so far:

        SortedList<DateTime,Control> sl = new SortedList<DateTime,Control>();         foreach (Control i in mainContent.Controls)         {             if (i.GetType().BaseType == typeof(MyBaseType))             {                 MyBaseType iTyped = (MyBaseType)i;                 sl.Add(iTyped.Date, iTyped);             }         }           foreach (MyBaseType j in sl.Values)         {             j.SendToBack();         }