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The FlowLayoutPanel control is a container control where child controls are added, then dynamically repositioned to flow in a particular direction. The FlowLayoutPanel automatically positions all child controls in the direction indicated by the value of the FlowDirection property.
Useful properties
AutoScroll
This property when set to true, allows scroll bars to be displayed.
BackColor
The background color of the Panel is defaulted to System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control, but this can be set to any color you like.
BackgroundImage
Instead of a single color, an image can be displayed as the background.
BorderStyle
This property determines if the panel is outlined with no visible border (None), a plain line (FixedSingle), or a shadowed line (Fixed3D).
Controls
Gets the collection of controls contained within the control.
Enabled
If this property is set to false, the controls contained within the Panel will also be disabled.
FlowDirection
Gets or sets a value indicating the flow direction of the FlowLayoutPanel control. This property takes a value from the FlowDirection enumeration, the default value is LeftToRight :
BottomUp :Elements flow from the bottom of the design surface to the top.
LeftToRight :Elements flow from the left edge of the design surface to the right.
RightToLeft : Elements flow from the right edge of the design surface to the left.
TopDown :Elements flow from the top of the design surface to the bottom.
TabIndex
Gets or sets the tab order of the control within its container.
TabStop
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the user can give the focus to this control using the TAB key.
WrapContents
Gets or sets a value indicating whether the FlowLayoutPanel control should wrap its contents or let the contents be clipped.
Useful methods
GetFlowBreak
Returns a value that represents the flow-break setting of the FlowLayoutPanel control.
SetFlowBreak
Sets the value that represents the flow-break setting of the FlowLayoutPanel control.
Example
First drag and drop FloyLayout Panel and add controls like- label->textbox->label->textbox->button. You will see that your controls are adding from left to right because by default Flawlayout Panel Property i.e.. FlowDirection is left to right. So for understanding this i have taken one checkbox to make wrapping controls in Flow layout panel. By default it is false in Flow layout panel.
Code for check box event for wrapping control
Private Sub CheckBox1_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBox1.CheckedChanged
flowLayoutPanel1.WrapContents = True
End Sub
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