Sorting buttons

[SG01]

How can I sort label names on buttons within a form.

Automatically sort the names and put into the correct place within the form.

A-Z order sort can be left to right. Want some sensibility to the form not all mixed up.

[adam_k]

Can you explain what you are doing and what the question is a bit?
I don't really understand the question.

[SG01]

I am using visual studio 2005 and vb.net.

I have a form called inspections with quite a few buttons, each button is named according to an inspection document that the button opens.

I want to sort the buttons left to right (A-Z order)then filling up the rest of the page. I would like it to happen automatically after adding a new button and putting the (text) documents name on the button.

It just becomes difficult to keep moving the buttons around in order for it to be alphabetically sorted.

[Luc001]

Hi,

If you need only to store inspection documents in a A-Z order and the possibility to open those documents again. Then I should propose a Listbox.

The ListBox control enables you to display a list of items to the user that the user can select by clicking. A ListBox control can provide single or multiple selections using the SelectionMode property. The ListBox also provides the MultiColumn property to enable the display of items in columns instead of a straight vertical list of items. With this, the control can display more visible items and the user no longer needs to scroll to an item.

For more information, look here.

[adam_k]

It is generally a bad idea to hard code your files or addresses or things like that in a program. It is always a pain to update your addresses and of course add new.

I suggest you follow Luc001's suggestion with a ListBox (Or a DataGridView if you like them better) and a datasource like an excel file or an access db. This way when you want to add a new document you can just add the title and the address to your datasource and be done with it, without changing your code or having to compile it again.