I use a devexpress LayoutControl. the LayoutControlGroup.LayoutMode is Table.
I have two rows. And I set the Size Type to autosize. In each row i have a panel with a dynamic height. the panels have dockstyle fill.
But when I run the row proportions are always like in the designer. And not at all autosizing. What am i missing? Can anyone please help??!?
Dock and AutoSize properties are opposite as you thinking. If your control parent has dock property set to true then you can dock child to the parent control but If parent control is going to be resize according to the content( means child controls) then you have to set size of the child controls.
Let your panels in the row has dynamic with then handle ReSize event of panels and set size of the panel according to the width of the controls then the AutoSize property work well on the rows otherwise it is hard to get desired layout with the current settings.
Refer these for more information:
AutoSize Behavior in the TableLayoutPanel Control
In TableLayoutPanel if Dock = Fill and AutoSize = true then last column/row occupy all remaining space
TableLayoutPanel sizing
Hope this help..
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I created a Form with fixed size, containing a fixed sized TableLayoutPanel. Controls are anchored to the TableLayoutPanel using the Anchor property. However controls are cropped after moving from Desktop to laptop.
I have tried setting MinimumSize, AutoSize and AutoSacling in Form and TableLayoutPanel, but controls are still cropped.
Suggestions?
You should try using Dock property of TableLayoutPanel.
Change its value to fill (Dock = Fill), this way your TableLayoutPanel will be drawn within the form border.
Another suggestion is, you should divide your main tablelayouttable like a grid and put one control inside its individual cell. Set their Dock property to Fill and you will see the result.
Hope it helps. Good Luck.
I have a few Button controls in a FlowLayoutPanel, and I want to set them precisely at middle bottom of Form.
In the image below I set the Button precisely at middle by setting the FlowLayoutPanel padding manually by 400 to left.
But when I try to resize or restore down the buttons wont at middle anymore because of manually set of padding.
Is there anything that I can do to set the buttons in middle of FlowLayoutPanel whenever I try to resize it. I'm following the answer base on
this post to add and remove buttons dynamically.
Using a single cell TableLayoutPanel which is suitable for centering the content and an auto-size FlowLayoutPanel you can achieve what you are looking for:
Perform these settings on the controls:
Add your images to a FlowLayoutPanel
Set AutoSize of FlowLayoutPanel to true
Set AutoSizeMode of FlowLayoutPanel to GrowAndShrink
Set Anchor property of FlowLayoutPanel to Top, Bottom
Use a TableLayoutPanel for hosting the FlowLayoutPanel
Use a single Column and a single Row in TableLayoutPanel.
Set Dock property of TableLayoutPanel to Bottom.
This way, when you add or remove images dynamically, all images will be shown at bottom center of the form.
I have a WinForm project with a tab control container and several tabs. On 1 tab, I have 2 grids, one on top of the other. The grids stretch all the way across the form when fully maximized or when floating (minimized but not hidden). That part works exactly how I want it to.
However, I want the grids to size proportionally on the vertical axis. I cant find a way to set a % for the height of the grid. Is there some other trick to achieving this? Any tips on what property or combination that I might need to set or investigate? Sorry, I know not much to go on, but any help would be appreciated.
Follow below steps, it will work fine.
Place tablelayoutpanel control in tabcontrol.
Set rows and columns for tablelayoutpanel using the "Edit Rows/Columns"
If you have 2 datagridviews only in this tabcontrol, then set row count 1,column count 1.
Set column1 with Percentage 100 ,row1 with 50%, row2 with 50%
Set tablelayoutpanel dock property to fill.
drag and drop datagridview1 to tablelayoutpanel row1 and set the dock property to fill.
drag and drop datagridview2 to tablelayoutpanel row2 and set the dock property to fill.
Context:
I'm trying to build a form using Microsoft Prism guidelines.
I have two user controls that get injected into a form.
The form contains two panels that represent the containers which will hold the user controls.
The user controls get inject at run time via DI (I'm using the MVP pattern which is similar to MVVM but tweaked for Winforms).
The form has a default minimum size but the maximum size was not specified. The only way to resize the form is to make it fullscreen. It has the AutoSize property set to TRUE and the AutoSizeMode set to GrowAndShrink
Both user controls have the AutoSize set to TRUE.
All the containers inside the user controls have the AutoSize property set to TRUE, DOCK set to FILL and AutoSizeMode=GrowAndShrink. The maximum size for a control is not set.
The panels inside the the form are stacked one under another and have the Anchor property set to: TOP, LEFT,RIGHT, respectively: BOTTOM, LEFT, RIGHT.
Problem:
When resizing the form to fullscreen, I would expect that the user control to expand to fill the entire screen.
That is not happening.
The user controls do not change in size and I can't figure out a reason for it.
Thanks.
UPDATE
If I change the DOCK property of the panels inside the form to TOP, respectively
FILL, the panel will get resized, but the user controls inside the panels remain unchanged.
Forget about setting Dock and AutoSizeMode on your controls—just use Anchor and you will find it works just fine.
I never use AutoSize = true. I always have it at false (as a matter of fact I had to check some of my forms to verify that the AutoSize and AutoSizeMode properties even existed on controls on my forms).
In the scenario you describe, I would have the Anchor set to Top, Left, Bottom, Right, both for the panels and the controls contained within.
Set the Dock of the control in the panel also to Fill.
I've create a c# winforms form,
It has a bunch of labels positioned and a flowlayoutpanel.
on certain occasions i set one of the labels and the flowlayoutpanel to visible =false.
As a result i want all labels beneath them to be pushed up - at the moment there is a gap where they were.
Also, I'd like the flowlayoutpanel to grow and shrink depending on the number of items it has.
at the moment it is just the size i set it to be in the designer.
please can you help with these 2 issues.
Thanks
If I got you correctly, I would suggest using a TableLayoutPane with two rows. The top row will contain a docked panel with all the controls that may be hidden. The bottom row will contain a docked panel with all the rest.
Set the top row's SizeType to AutoSize and the bottom row's to 100%.
When you want to hide the controls, set the top panel's Visible property to false. Now, because the top row is AutoSized it will shrink to nothing, causing the bottom row to "jump" up.
The TableLayoutPanel does the pushing. Maybe you can use that if there is no better answer in next time.
First problem:
You may use some simple panels to divide your form, give them the dock.fill property. when you'll hide a panel programmatically, the other panels will fill the empty space left.
Second problem:
You have to set the Autosize property to true.