Viv,

Have you tried the OnCreateControl event?

~~Bonnie



>Hi,
>
>I have a class derived from the Panel control that is used on several forms. Currently this class creates its own Toolstrip in its constructor.
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>Now there is a requirement for the toolstrip content to vary (slightly) depending on which form it is sited on so I've added a couple of public properties to the panel to control the toolstrip creation (intending to set these at design time in each form)
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>Obviously the toolstrip creation can now longer be handled by the constructor but I can find no other obvious panel event to use. I thought ParentChanged() might work but this fires when the control is added to the form and the auto-generated code does this before initializing the properties.
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>Any suggestions on how to do this (I really don't want to have to explicitly call a panel function from the containing form)
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>TIA,
>Viv