Dynamic Insertion of Textboxes

[saratogacoach]

Hi,

I've been trying to learn enough to develop the family tree diagram and making progress.

There is a nice drawing project at: http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_d...framework.html

It illustrates many of the drawing, saving, re-opening, editing, drag/drop features that the family tree diagram would need, and is a good starting point.

To adapt this for the project, after searching for snippets online, I've tried to add dynamic insertion of a label as a start (eventually, it should be a textbox that the user, in runtime, can enter text into, save, re-open, edit). But, I can't get this to work. No errors display, but I must be doing something wrong.

Here's the label code which I've so far appended at the end:

Dim counter As Integer = 1
Private Sub Button1_Click_1(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim lblTask As New Label
lblTask.Name = "Label" & counter
lblTask.Size = New Size(150, 20)
lblTask.Location = New Point(500, counter * 22)
lblTask.Text = "txtDescription.text"
Me.Controls.Add(lblTask)
counter += 1
End Sub
End Class

Unfortunately, as a beginner, I suspect it is conflicting with the other code.

I would appreciate any help to get dynamic insertion of textboxes (including saving, re-opening, editing) working.

Thanks very much for your help.

Regards,

[GremlinSA]

Firstly you've been around long enough to know to use CODE tags.... PLEASE USE THEM....

The first thing i noticed is that this line is wrong..

lblTask.Text = "txtDescription.text"

it should be

lblTask.Text = txtDescription.text

further i can say......

[DataMiser]

You need to set the visible property to true or it will not display.