Best way to create UI elements

[ghost]

Hey guys,

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out what the best way to create child UI elements is, other than using the constructor. I'm hoping to avoid the constructor so that I can take advantage of properties set in the object initializer on instantiation. To do this, I tried using OnLoad() and OnPreLoad(), but neither of them seems to work properly - the callback is called on my MainForm, but not on the child UI elements (that are created in the MainForm callback). Anyone know how to properly do this the correct way (create UI automatically after the constructor)?

[cwensley]

OnLoad/PreLoad are only called when the control is added to a window that is shown. They should theoretically work though as this where StackLayout and DynamicLayout creates their content. If you have a concrete example of what you're trying to do maybe I can help further.

[ghost]

Haha my apologies, I realised where I had gone wrong. I was putting the call to base.OnXXX() (which recurses the event to child controls) before I added the child controls. Essentially, I updated the children before there were any, so the call went nowhere. Bit of an annoying thing to debug but it wasn't anything from you guys!