Question

I have two panels occupying the same space in one side of a splitviewcontainer.
I want to dynamically show or hide one panel or the other.

Approaches I’ve tried so far are:

if (treeView1.SelectedNode.Name.Contains("cat")) {
    menuItemPanel.SendToBack();
    foreach (Control control in menuItemPanel.Controls)
        control.SendToBack();
    menuItemPanel.Visible = false;
    categoryPanel.Hide();

    categoryPanel.Visible = true;
    categoryPanel.BringToFront();
    foreach (Control control in categoryPanel.Controls)
        control.BringToFront();
    categoryPanel.Show();

    // ...
}

and the converse for the else case.
None of these seem to work. That is the categoryPanel is shown when a category node is selected, but the screen shows blank space when a menuItem node is selected.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

The code doesn’t make much sense, re-ordering the controls in the panels is not what you want to do. Also sounds that the code in the else clause is failing, code you didn’t post. Do it like this instead (a guess):

bool categorySelected = treeView1.SelectedNode.Name.Contains("cat");
menuItemPanel.Visible = !categorySelected;
categoryPanel.Visible = categorySelected;