sticontainer vs stipanel

sw · Post by sw » Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:13 am

Could you please provide some information on sticontainer vs stipanel? Is there any best practice on when to use which?

On my computer, I was not able to turn on StiContainer in the designer, but report designer from before using StiContainer still works.

thank you.

sw

Brendan · Post by **Brendan** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:43 am

StiPanel is used for the Form Designer within a report. It acts as a wrapper around the standard winforms panel.

StiContainer is a component used on a page within a report. It behaves like a panel but is specific to report layout and gets rendered by the report engine.

Post by **Edward** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 3:31 am

Hi,

In the latest versions the StiContainer component was replaced with StiPanel component.

StiPanel now can have rendered columns and also has a CanBreak property. This is the main differences from the StiContainer component from previous versions.

Also please see "Containers" category in the Demo.exe sample application.

Thank you.