Create a scrollable button list panel in Windows Form C# application

Question

I'm trying to add a scrollable list of buttons inside a panel from C# scripting inside Visual Studio.

I can make the scrollbar and attach it to a panel and manually add buttons inside the panel from the UI but I want to code for the entire panel along with scrollbar and create buttons inside that newly created panel.

Can anyone help me with this?

In Unity I can use the OnGUI function and use the GUI class to add these features but I dont know how to do that in Winform application.

Ravi Kanth · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-10 06:39:23Z

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if you are trying to achieve somethings like this then just create a flowLayout pannel and Just add buttons to the flowlayout pannel and set the Autoscroll property of the flowlayout to true.

for (int i = 0; i < 19; i++)
{
  Button b = new Button();
  b.Text = "b" + i;
  flowLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(b);
}

and set the autoscroll property for the flowlayoutpannel.

flowLayoutPanel1.AutoScroll = true;

answered Mar 10, 2017 at 6:39

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Mark Jackson Over a year ago

yh thats exactly what im looking for. just one more questions: do i have to declare and initialize the flowLayoutPanel1 property outside of the for loop first? Cause it looks like you set the autoscroll property outside of the for loop.

Mark Jackson Over a year ago

thanks yu made it very simple and easy to understand. However I'm now thinking about the response function for each newly created button. From the script, how would I check which newly button is clicked and create a response function that would respond to that click only? Sorry for all this trouble

Ravi Kanth Over a year ago

Then you have all your button object in the flowlayoutpannel and from there u can list to the button click event's

Ravi Kanth Over a year ago

@MarkJackson has it worked for you if its worked then mark it as answer and do a upvote so that it will be helpful for other users

Mark Jackson Over a year ago

oh sorry it worked. I'm new to this statckoverflow system so I didn't know that lol

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