Question

I’m writing a plastic card printing program in VB.NET. The main form is to design the card.

I create labels at runtime into a Panel control, the user can move, edit, resize etc. while it is the active control. When a few labels are created I can’t change the selected label to edit.

I’ve tried adding a combobox with a list of the controls as they are created and use a for loop to find the control and make it the active control but this is not really user friendly.

Is there a cleverer way to use the mouse to select another label in the Panel?

Thanks,
Bruce

Answer 1

Add a panel to a form and try this:

Public Class Form1

  Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
    For i As Integer = 0 To 4
      Dim lbl As New Label
      AddHandler lbl.Click, AddressOf lbl_Click
      Panel1.Controls.Add(lbl)
      lbl.Top = 30 * i
      lbl.Text = "Hello!"
    Next
  End Sub

  Private Sub lbl_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs)
    Dim lbl As Label = DirectCast(sender, Label)
    lbl.Font = New Font(System.Drawing.FontFamily.GenericMonospace, 12)
  End Sub
End Class

Clicking on a label should change the appearance of the label.