Question

Is it possible to have a System.Windows.Forms.TableLayoutPanel fill a column before moving to the next one? Regardless of how I set the RowCount, ColumnCount, and GrowStyle, the table is always populated like this:

1 2 3
4 5 6

and I want this:

1 3 5
2 4 6

Can a TableLayoutPanel not automatically do this?

Edit – To clarify, I am adding the controls programmatically.

Answer 1

Not much you can do about it. It’s just how TableLayoutControlCollection.Add is implemented internally. I see two options:

• Use TableLayoutControlCollection.Add(Control, column, row). But that’s quite a hassle, because you need to calculate the column/row values each time you add a control.
• Create a derived control that overrides Add and implement it as the overload above – but now internally.