I’m attempting to use EmbedWithinPanel to embed a container control within a TabPanel. This is the definition from the docs:
[quote]ContainerControl.EmbedWithinPanel(ContainingPanel as PagePanel, Page as Integer, [left as Integer], [top as Integer], [width as Integer], [height as Integer])
Embeds the ContainerControl on a page in the passed PagePanel or TabPanel.[/quote]
The example given is…
[code]MainTab.AddPanel(“New Tab”)
Var tabNum As Integer
tabNum = MainTab.PanelCount - 1
Var cc As New MyContainer
cc.EmbedWithinPanel(MainTab, tabNum)[/code]
But what if you don’t know the name of the ContainingPanel? In the example, the TabPanel is called, ‘MainTab’ but what if you’re creating a custom control that will be placed on a TabPanel that you don’t yet know the name of?
I created a ContainerControl called, ‘myProgressWheel’. I put a ProgressWheel into it.
I sub-classed PopupMenu and called it myPopupMenu. I added a property…
Public Property Wheel as myProgressWheelAnd I added an event to place the container with the progress wheel in it just to the right of the menu…
Sub Open() Handles Open
Wheel = New myProgressWheel
Wheel.EmbedWithinPanel(Me.Parent, Me.PanelIndex, Me.Left+Me.Width+12, Me.Top, Me.Height, Me.Height)
End Sub
I dragged a TabPanel into Window1 and it created TabPanel1.
I dragged a myPopupMenu into TabPanel1 to create myPopupMenu1.
Since Me.Parent.Name returns “TabPanel1”, I expected Me.Parent to equate to the containing control as a TabPanel that I could use in EmbedWithinPanel but instead, it returns a RectControl.
How do I get the TabPanel?