{"id":455,"date":"2010-12-21T21:04:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T21:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/?p=455"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T08:25:28","slug":"table-layout-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibex.tech\/visualcpp\/table-layout-panel\/table-layout-panel","title":{"rendered":"Table Layout Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Use to make tables and grids which may have any control in each of their cells.<\/p>\n

Making Table Properly Resize On Change Of Contents<\/h4>\n

There seems to be an issue with reducing the number of columsn and rows but the TLP scroll bars remaining at the previous
\nlarger size. A way to get round this is to simply re-create the whole panel.<\/p>\n

Making a dynamic run time text box based table layout panel<\/h4>\n

The following example will work fine as long as you don’t have too many cells. Once you start having a large number (10’s x 10’s) the
\nre-creation of the grid can be slow. If you want lots x lots forget it as its painfully slow and if you get to more than 10000 individual cells you get a “Error creating window handle” as windows can only create so many individual window controls.<\/p>\n

At class level define the array of text boxes that will fill the table grid<\/h5>\n
\r\n\tprivate: array<System::Windows::Forms::TextBox^, 2>  ^txtGridBoxes;\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
This function creates a grid full of the text boxes<\/h5>\n
\r\nprivate: void ReDrawGrid (int NumOfColumns, int NumOfRows)\r\n{\r\n\tint Count;\r\n\tint Column;\r\n\tint Row;\r\n\r\n\t\/\/Stop redrawing while we update contents\r\n\tthis->SuspendLayout();\r\n\tTable1->Visible = false;\r\n\tTable1->SuspendLayout();\t\t\/\/Stop painting of the ListBox as items are added\r\n\r\n\t\/\/--------------------------------------------\r\n\t\/\/----- REMOVE THE EXISTING CONTROLS ---------\r\n\t\/\/--------------------------------------------\r\n\tTable1->Controls->Clear();\r\n\r\n\t\/\/-----------------------------\r\n\t\/\/----- RE-SIZE THE TABLE -----\r\n\t\/\/-----------------------------\r\n\tTable1->ColumnStyles->Clear();\r\n\tTable1->RowStyles->Clear();\r\n\r\n\tTable1->ColumnCount = NumOfColumns;\r\n\tTable1->RowCount = NumOfRows;\r\n\r\n\tfor (Count = 0; Count < NumOfColumns; Count++)\r\n\t\tTable1->ColumnStyles->Add(gcnew System::Windows::Forms::ColumnStyle(System::Windows::Forms::SizeType::Absolute, 100));\t\/\/Set the width\r\n\r\n\tfor (Count = 0; Count < NumOfRows; Count++)\r\n\t\tTable1->RowStyles->Add(gcnew System::Windows::Forms::RowStyle(System::Windows::Forms::SizeType::Absolute, 20));\t\t\t\/\/Set the height\r\n\r\n\t\/\/----------------------------\r\n\t\/\/----- ADD THE CONTROLS -----\r\n\t\/\/----------------------------\r\n\ttxtGridBoxes = gcnew array<System::Windows::Forms::TextBox^, 2>(NumOfColumns, NumOfRows);\r\n\r\n\tfor (Column = 0; Column < NumOfColumns; Column++)\r\n\t{\r\n\t\tfor (Row = 0; Row < NumOfRows; Row++)\r\n\t\t{\r\n\t\t\ttxtGridBoxes[Column, Row] = (gcnew System::Windows::Forms::TextBox());\r\n\t\t\ttxtGridBoxes[Column, Row]->Margin = System::Windows::Forms::Padding(0, 0, 0, 0);\r\n\t\t\ttxtGridBoxes[Column, Row]->BorderStyle = System::Windows::Forms::BorderStyle::FixedSingle;\r\n\t\t\ttxtGridBoxes[Column, Row]->Dock = System::Windows::Forms::DockStyle::Fill;\r\n\t\t\ttxtGridBoxes[Column, Row]->ReadOnly = true;\r\n\t\t\tTable1->Controls->Add(txtGridBoxes[Column, Row], Column, Row);\r\n\t\t}\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\tTable1->Visible = true;\r\n\tTable1->ResumeLayout();\r\n\tthis->ResumeLayout();\r\n}\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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