I have an application designed in visual C# that is about a quarter of a normal computer screen. The reason its that small is because its easier to work with in Visual Studio. However, I would prefer if when I run it, it maximizes to the full screen. I tried this in my Main_Load:
this.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
This causes the window itself to maximize, but the application itself is still quarter of the screen. Is there a way to maximize the application itself, and not just the window?
I am guessing you have not docked or anchored any of the controls, meaning they will not move when the window is resized.
Have a look at docking here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.dock(v=vs.110).aspx
And have a look at anchoring controls here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.anchor(v=vs.110).aspx
Both pages should help you understand how to make controls resize with the window.
Either you change the size of your application window in the visual studio designer so it fits your personal screen (bad idea), or you make your application aware of window size and window size changes and actively scale parts of the GUI programmatically (better).
If WinForms, as others have stated, you need to Anchor and/or Dock your controls so they know how to resize in relation to the Form when the Form size changes. These will work for simple layouts.
For more complicated needs, however, check out the TableLayoutPanel and/or the FlowLayoutPanel.
A robust User Interface is probably going to be using all of these elements in one way or another...
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I have written a program in C# (Visual Studio) which makes use of multiple forms. The problem occurs whenever the program is run on a different computer which has a different screen resolution. The contents of the form do not fit into the form whenever the program is run on a computer with a smaller screen resolution. What can I do to make the CONTENTS of the form resize accordingly, depending on the screen resolution so that the contents of the form will always fit, irrelevant of the screen resolution/size of the computer on which it is being run?
Thanks a lot!
Assuming you are using WinForms, your best bet in this case is to make use of the various container controls included in the framework, like the FLowLayoutPanel and TableLayoutPanel.
If you want to avoid these, use the standard Panel control and make use of Dock property to ensure it fills the required areas correctly. Then use the Dock property on all your controls to make the layout more responsive to different resolutions, and more importantly different DPI settings in Windows.
For a while now I have attempted to get into UI design with WPF. My main goal is to create a good-looking application in a borderless window, like for example:
I made this example using the MetroUI framework. While this framework does the trick on borderless window functionality, it also does way too much for my tastes, custom controls, skins, animations, etc. I just want a borderless window and decide everything else myself.
I've searched stackoverflow a lot, and tried a fair amount of frameworks, but nothing seems to suit my needs.
Basically, I would like to have a borderless window with FULL windows functionality (drag to sides to pin, only show shadow if operating system settings has it on, etc etc).
Putting WindowStyle to None but keeping AllowsTransparency at False in order to preserve the original window chrome makes most if not all of the functionality I am seeking for work. However, the obvious problem here is: the window chrome is still there.
This looks like this:
To finally ask my question:
Can we keep all the current functionality that this window chrome provides, but somehow make it invisible (yet keep the dropshadow it provides) ? I can live without the dropshadow but it would be a nice bonus.
Or to ask a more broad question: is there any framework / pre-made project, that simply ONLY handles making a borderless window work properly and no other additional controls, skinning, ... ?
The more time I put into this the more it seems making borderless windows with WPF is simply incredibly clunky and I am getting rather unmotivated on my entire project because of this.
Thank you
See my answer on the following thread, it pretty much sums up all the window issues at once. Hope it helps!
WPF Borderless Window issues: Aero Snap & Maximizing
I made custom borders for my application, like the VisualStudio 2012
There is one central mainform and 4 smaller, dynamically positioned border forms.
In the mainform I have overidden the events OnMove, OnSizeChanged, OnActivate, OnDeactivate.
In those events I set the location, size and color of the borders.
It works quite nicely, but there is some awful artifacts!
Those are the same artifacts that appear when resizing ANY window.
I made a video with my application to show what kind of atrifacts I mean.
Those appear when moving or resizing the window.
Obviously this problem IS solveable, because VisualStudio2012 does it too (meaning that it doesn't have the problem. Just try it, resize the VS2012 window, it won't flicker)
In my implementation I used the same way that VS2012 uses: 4 layered windows that make up the border of the form.
In case someone doesn't the glitches I'm talking about. Here's the video:
http://youtu.be/kKiPke8ruaI
What I need is a way to "synchronously" set the location and size of the 4 border windows.
I've rewritten a toolbar that sits at the top of the user's screen. It works, but for some reason, though the app consists of just a form with a Fill-Docked ToolStrip, I cannot get it to stay at the size I specify. It's supposed to be the size of the Windows titlebar, as designed in Visual Studio, but as soon as I run it, it's grown in height by five or six pixels. Everything is set rigidly, the Form and ToolStrip are set to AutoSize=FALSE and I've specified the size in pixels the form should be. I cannot work out what is resizing the form at runtime; the ToolStrip is Docked on Fill mode so it should not cause the form to grow. It all looks perfect in the GUI builder, and I copied most of the configuration from the old VB.Net toolbar it will replace. Can anyone help?
Just a wild guess, but have you tried changing the AutoScaleMode property of the Form to something other than Font?
Haven't found an answer but I'll make sure this is closed. I turned the form transparent and it accomplished what I needed. Still unsure why the form expanded when run.
My C# Window Form size is 1364,835.It is shown perfectly in my PC.But while running with my Laptop(small screen size),only part of my form has shown in the visible area.How can able to fit this size issue among all systems.
do i need to add verticall scroll bar to my form?
Please Guide me to get out of this issue...
Saravanan.P
If you have not done much work on the windows application in that case you can think of using WPF, as WPF is more capable to handle this.
Still if you want to use Window application then make sure that your controls layout properly when their size changes. Use the Anchor and Dock properties. You can also use TableLayoutPanel in GrowAndShrink mode, but remember you might face some flickering issues if you use TableLayoutPanel in excess.
You can check MSDN for Auto Scaling here
you can set one property of form
WindowState = Maximized
just try this...
useanchoring, docking and etc.
look at microsoft outlook when you resize the window it changes looking another softwares can help you