set label position based on neighbor label

Question

supposing that I have two labels with variables text.

For example:

label1.Text = "foo";
label2.Text = "baa"; 

Form output:

________________
|               |    
|foo baa        | 
|______________ |

other example:

label1.Text = "fooooo";
label2.Text = "baaaa"; 

Form output:

    ________________
    |               |    
    |fooooo baaaa   | 
    |______________ |

I tried it:

  label2.Location = new Point
            {
                X = label1.Location.X + label2.Location.X,
                Y = label1.Location.Y
            };

I imagined that the space was sufficient. But label2 hide label1 if the text is larger.

Solution 1

You need to use label1.Right instead:

label2.Location = new Point(label1.Right, label2.Top);

Solution 2

You can use a FlowLayoutPanel which automatically positions its child controls next to each other.

+-------------------------------------------+
|FlowLayoutPanel                            |
| +------+ +------+                         |
| |Label1| |Label2|                         |
| +------+ +------+                         |
+-------------------------------------------+

 

+-------------------------------------------+
|FlowLayoutPanel                            |
| +--------------------+ +------+           |
| |LabelWithLotsOfText1| |Label2|           |
| +--------------------+ +------+           |
+-------------------------------------------+