I am coding in C# using Visual Studio and I am new to windows forms. I have just set a label. I'm trying to change the text size of the label but I can't find an option anywhere. Can someone tell me where I can find the option in the designer? If I can't do it in the designer where do I put the code when using the default set up?
I have been looking for about an hour and it appears as though I should use something like:
YourLabel.Font = new Font("Arial", 24,FontStyle.Bold);
Although, when I have modified the code to suit my needs, it doesn't seem to affect the windows form.
Here I have included a screenshot of my project layout.
Thanks!
Font size of a label can changed via properties window.
If you can not find the properties window, go to View > Properties window.
Highlight the label then go to properties box and Find the "Font" and expand it.
Under Font you can now find the "size" property.
Default font size size is 8.25 which you can change as per your requirements.
Open your form in design mode, then select label you want to customize and open Properties Window (you can open it by right clicking label and select properties / View > Properties Window / Ctrl+W, P) there you can see a property called Font expand it you will see other details too.
Refer following image,
You can right click on design view select properties and set whatever you want.
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I have a Label over the TextBox for which I deleted the Text Property. Now it is not visible. How to bring it back to visibility?
I want to move the label control. That's why I need to see the control. Please tell me how to make it visible in the form.
You can select the Label from the top of the Properties Window in ComboBox.
After you select it, You can change the Location value for move it.
Other way is select Label on Document Outline Window and move it manually.
But easiest way is fill the Text value and move it ,then clear the Text again!
there a buttons called bring to front and send to back,
here how u can get them
unable to find "bring to front" and "send to back" option in visual studio 2013
When you're unable to find or select a control in the designer, you can still find it in the "Document Outline" window. To access this window in Visual Studio, go to:
View -> Other Windows -> "Document Outline" Window
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Does anyone know how I can manipulate the objects in this form? I would really like to be able to edit some of the tabs. It's using DevExpress v14.1
To edit the tabs, just click the tab control and use the design time helper icon on the tab controls upper right corner. There, you can find a link called "Tab pages".
Alternatively you can just select the tab control by clicking and head over to the properties window (press F4) as you can do with every control. There, you find a property called TabPages.
If you want to edit the controls on the tabs, just do so by selecting them per mouse click and change the controls' properties on the properties window (press F4).
The issue was that DevExpress wasn't installed on my system and thus wouldn't let me modify the elements. Simply installing the right version fixed the issue.
I'm using the ErrorProvider class to display an error icon next to some text controls I have on a form. I see that it's possible to set the place where the error icon will show up using the SetIconAlignment method. But is it possible to specify the position of the error icon (relative to a control's position)?
I need to do this because I have text on the right of my control and a number on the left. I would like the error icon to show up either after the text or before the number and not between the number and the textbox or between the textbox and the text.
Use the SetPadding() method to adjust the space between the control and the icon.
Do note that it isn't very common to call this method directly, you can set it in the designer. Select the control that requires the tweak and change the "IconPadding on Xxx" property.
I have a user control that contains multiple controls (CheckBox, Button, Label...).
I want to change the layout of this user control to support right to left languages but i can't find how to do it.
Currently i can change the controls alignement using the RightToLeft property. But how can i change their positions?
Thank you for your time.
Thank you guys for your answers but there is a better way to do it.
First we go to the user control properties and select the language property.
After changing it to another language a new resource file will be created for the user control.
After that, using the designer we can change the controls positions in the user control as we like.
The new values will be saved in the created resource file.
When the language has changed, the corresponding resource file will be loaded and the positions will be changed.
If the language is a right to left one, don't forget to specify the right to left property for the controls.
Hope this helps.
Use the layout controls with the RightToLeft property and follow the following links for implementation:
RightToLeft property in Form in C#
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.form.righttoleftlayout(vs.80).aspx:
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Implementing Mirror-Aware Controls for Windows Application with Visual Studio .NET
Try to use FlowLayoutPanel or TableLayoutPanel to hold your controls and change panels RightToLeft property
User control mirroring is not supported for user controls, see this connect article: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/121202/usercontrol-mirroring-is-not-inherited-from-the-form
Their suggested workaround is to use a table layout panel which will mirror the controls in right to left.
I'm currently creating a WPF Exception Window, much in the style of the MessageBox (static show methods). In attempting to Style it similarly, I have created an ExceptionWindowOptions enum which contains the value, RightAlign.
When the RightAlign flag is tagged in the MessageBox class, the window title is aligned to the right (next to the control box (minimize, max, close)), so i'm attempting to emulate this behaviour.
I have investigated as much as possible and I cannot find a WPF solution.
I am familiar with interop with native methods as I am using GetWindowLong and SetWindowLong for the RtlReading option, but I haven't managed to find anything to change the location of the window title.
Any help is appreciated.
Take a look on FluidKit library from Pavan Podila. Particularly, you may be interested in GlassWindow. The main idea here is that you override window style from scratch. Sure, this requires you to customize style for different themes, but at least it's a solution, if you don't find anything else.
I believe that you want to set Window.FlowDirection. That will set it for all content in the window however, including buttons, text boxes, etc, so if you ONLY want to make the title bar RTL, you could then have the window contain a panel which would reset it to LTR (or whatever).
Ack- on testing this, maybe not. It looks like it RTL's ALL of the title bar, including the control box and the icon!