Question Controls Disappeared

[Gerira]

Hello, I'm new here. I hope this is in the right section. I managed to get one thing working, I return to the main form to add some changes and there's nothing. Just a blank form with a theme attached to it. I've been looking through the designer file and nothing seems odd. All the controls are still there, but not visible, wtf really :S I haven't changed anything on the main form in days...


I tried reopending it, re-saving it, rebuilded and recompiled it about 50 times, even restarted my PC. Nothing... :S


This is how it looks

 

[jmcilhinney]

Start by opening the Document Outline window and selecting control from there. It may be that the z-order is such that all your controls are hidden or it may be that the controls have been shifted out of the visible are of the form.

 

[Gerira]

Thanks for the help, I managed to fix it by using Ctrl+A to select all controls, then I cut them out and pasted again. Fixed the problem. Anyways, I learned that it's best to keep regular backups.

Thanks for your help!

 

[jmcilhinney]

Did you have any event handlers for those controls? If so the Handles clause will have been removed from all of them, so you'll have to add it back again.

 

[Gerira]

Yeah, I had to edit the button and timer events, but it took me like 5-10 minutes, just copy-pasting the old code.

 

[jmcilhinney]

There should be no need to copy and paste anything. Select a control, open the Properties window, click the Events button and then you can select an existing handler for an event from the corresponding drop-down or create a new handler by double-clicking.

 

[Gerira]

Yeah, I know that, but when I double click on a copied control, the event looks something like this:

Button1_Click_1

But it's fixed now, it's not really an issue as I afraid it would be. Took me five minutes to fix everything.

 

[JohnH]

You don't doubleclick the control to generate a new event handler in such situation, you just assign the existing event handler like jmcilhinney explained.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Yeah, I know that, but when I double click on a copied control, the event looks something like this:

Button1_Click_1

But it's fixed now, it's not really an issue as I afraid it would be. Took me five minutes to fix everything.

If you know that then why did you double-click? Why didn't you select the existing event handler from the drop-down? I'd say that you didn't know that and you didn't read my previous post properly either.