C# - set autoscrolls of a panel to the autoscroll of the panel within?

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Hey Codeproject,

I currently have a panel within a panel, the panel inside the other one (named TilePanel), can change its size and therefore gets its own scrollbars (AutoScroll property set to true). I've put it inside another panel (Alignment Panel) so I could center it properly without messing up any of the drawing code or other events.

Now my question is, is it possible for me to remove the auto scrolls from the TilePanel, and instead, put those auto scrolls in the bigger panel that encompasses it?

Here's an example I made in paint.

For what it's worth I've also published the AlignmentPanel on pastebin.

Best Regards,
- Eds

What I have tried:

I've tried setting the tilepanel autoscroll to false, then I created a new horizontal scrollbar and a vertical scrollbar, and added those to the alignment panel. Then when those are scrolled I set the autoscroll values of the tilepanel to the new scrollbars values - however, it seems to bug and spazz out doing this, maybe I'm missing something, not sure.

Posted 18-May-17 7:00am

It's Eddie!

Updated 18-May-17 7:16am

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RickZeeland · Answer 1 · 2017-05-18T07:14:00

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These articles might be of interest to you: Designing Nested Controls[^]

.net - How to make scrollbars appear in a resizable panel when the contained control is too big for it? - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 18-May-17 7:14am

RickZeeland

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It's Eddie! 18-May-17 13:19pm

Thanks for the links Rick. The problem is that these assume that the contained control is too big - however, my TilePanel is always smaller than the containment panel. The reason the TilePanel can autoscroll is because it contains a button that's always on the edge of the size (it's a TileControl, so it has a really big grid inside of it.)

It looks pretty ugly with the tiny scroll bars inside of it, so that's why I'm trying to get a way to put new scroll bars on the containing panel instead of the TilePanel (think of it like in photoshop, where the scroll bars are on the side, as opposed to on the picturebox/image/editing field.)