Hi all

I must be missing something obvious here but I can't find the answer.

When I'm designing a complex form, sometimes I want a control to be on top of another but I don't want one to be a child of the other. ie, I don't want the generated code to put one control into the Controls collection of the other. That's what the designer insists on doing as soon as I drag a control over something that can act as a container.

Is there a magic key combination to avoid this? The only way I've managed to do it is to first put the second control directly on the form away from the other control and then move it by setting its Location.X and Y values manually in the property sheet until its in the right place and still a direct child of the form.

Thanks
Ross