Guys,

I am trying to add some additional buttons and move the buttons around on the maintenance form toolstrip control.

It appears to save, but after I run the winforms app they are all put back to default positions.

Any ideas?

Jason

So should we not use the "Edit Items..." option in the upper right menu of the control?

I was able to override the code manually to put things as they should be, but if I use the designer again it of course blows my changes...

Perhaps I should just use a standard toolstrip, but I sure like what you guys have done for speeding up building such a control set...

Thanks again for your help,

Jason

The "Edit Items..." option does move the buttons around within the collection, but since the order is already serialized within the MaintenanceFormToolstrip's InitializeComponent() method, it cannot add code within the Form's InitializeComponent() method that can change the order.  So, you would need a method like this:

private void ReOrderToolStrip()
{
//-- Establish locals
ToolStripButton loNew, loBrowse, loEdit, loDelete, loSave, loUndo;

//-- Save the buttons
loNew = this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items[0];
loBrowse = this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items[1];
loEdit = this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items[2];
loDelete = this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items[3];
loSave = this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items[4];
loUndo = this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items[5];

//-- Clear the buttons
this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items.Clear();

//-- Re-add the buttons in the order you want them
this.maintenanceFormToolStrip1.Items.AddRange(new ToolStripItem[]
{ loSave, loUndo, loNew, loEdit, loDelete, loBrowse });
}

You'll also need to add any ToolStripSeparators you want.

What I will do, is look into the possibility of adding properties that will allow you to set the order of the buttons.