I have a flowlayoutpanel, on which there are some UserControls, which are being dragged and dropped in flowlayoutpanel. I need my controls - userCOntrols to auto resize when resizing the window itself. I need that Usercontrols to be resized automatically when resizing the form.
What can you offer ?
You should use the Dock Property for that.
How to dock a control:
Select the control that you want to dock.
In the Properties window, click the arrow to the right of the Dock property.
An editor is displayed that shows a series of boxes representing the edges and the center of the form.
Click the button that represents the edge of the form where you want to dock the control. To fill the contents of the control's form or container control, click the center box. Click (none) to disable docking.
The control is automatically resized to fit the boundaries of the docked edge.
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I have a MDI parent form as the main window of my application. Within this Form I also have two other Control a Panel and a StatusStrip which are docked to the Right and Bottom respectively.
My issue is that the StatusStrip does not "fill" the entire bottom of the Form. It is stopped by the Panel on the right.
I would have figured by the DockStyle graphic in the properties window of Visual Studio that the Bottom docked Control would fill the entire bottom of the Form.
Is there a way to have the StatusStrip fill the entire bottom and have the Panel docked to the Right while still maintaining the MDI area? (undocked controls in the MDI area allow windows to be "hidden" behind them).
The order matters when the controls are placed on the form. To correct that, you can use the Bring-To-Front and Send-To-Back methods.
While in the designer, right mouse-click the StatusStrip control and select the Send-To-Back option, or alternatively, select the panel control, and select the Bring-To-Front option.
Question
How can I stop my datagridview from moving underneath the panel when the window is resized?
Example
What I have tried? And what I would like.
I have tried to dock the datagridview to the top on the window, but it just docks under the panel.
I have tried docking both to the top and docking one to the top and the other to the bottom, however they both just take half the screen up.
What I would like is if the datagridview docked to the bottom of the panel.
You have to modify the Anchor property on your controls. Based on what you've provided, the DataGridView control is probably anchored Bottom, Right, and you should anchor it Top, Left to match what the panel control's anchor is.
Also, if you do want the grid to be anchored to the bottom, right, you can set the MinimumSize property of your form accordingly so that it can never be resized such that the controls "collide".
It's not possible without third-party controls to dock one control to another control.
I have control containers tightly bound to the edge of user controls, evenly spaced on both sides of said user control (child controls are always centered within the parent). Using the designer, I am attempting to add these user controls which that spans all columns within a TableLayoutPanel. I am clicking on the control container and clicking the "Center Horizontally" button on the "Layout" Toolbar. The control will not center.
Why? How do easily center the control?
What I am experiencing does not align with the documentation How to: Align and Stretch a Control in a TableLayoutPanel Control
Problem Control is the 5 Buttons which should be centered among the 2 spanned columns shown:
Buttons are tightly bound to edge of control:
New image showing anchors properly set to "Left, Right" on suspect control
New image showing anchors set to "None"
Try setting the Anchor property to None:
dataMasterControl1.Anchor = AnchorStyles.None;
It should center itself from within the TableLayoutPanel cells that contains the control. You may have to adjust the size of the UserControl itself.
I know this is not a full answer but have you tried to adjust the row, column and cell sizes at all? It would be helpful if you would post a screen shot maybe?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.tablelayoutpanel(v=vs.80).aspx
I have a form that has several controls:
ProgressBar at the top of the form (docked)
A TabControl at the top of the form (also docked but underneath the progress bar)
Buttons, TextBoxes and labels inside TabPages of the TabControl
FlowLayoutPanel at the bottom of the screen (docked) with a few buttons in it
Label at the bottom of the form to act as separator (also docked, but above the FlowLayoutPanel)
I am trying to auto size the form to fit its content. What needs to happen is:
Tab pages wrap around its content
Tab control wraps around the largest tab page
The form wraps around the tab control, progress bar and buttons.
Here's an example of how the form looks without AutoSizeMode set to GrowAndShrink (just Grow):
alt text http://www.fusyion.net/images/Form%20no%20shrink.png
And this is how it looks with AutoSizeMode set to GrowAndShrink:
alt text http://www.fusyion.net/images/Form%20with%20shrink.png
Please advise.
To get this to work, you have to set the MinimumSize of all your controls to a value. This will be respected from the Shrink-Mode, thus leading to a well sized form.
Make sure the direct children of your form have anchors set exactly to Left and Top. You could set the Form.MinimumSize Property and Form.MaximumSize Property as a precaution.
I am unable to figure out how to make my user control react to the resize event of a form.
The usercontrol(s) exist in a tab control of my main form.
The usercontrol(s) are anchored to all sides of the tab control or is it tab page?
The tab control is anchored to all sides of the form.
When I resize my main form the tab control resizes correctly but the usercontrol does not.
[SUMMARY]
DataBoxUserControl
- A user control with a button and a textbox.
- The textbox has it's sides anchored to the usercontrol.
MainForm
- Has a tabcontrol that is anchored to all sides of the form.
- The tab controls have my DataBoxUserControl which has it's sides anchored to the tab control.
Resizing the MainForm resizes the tab control but not the user control.
[WHAT ELSE HAVE I TRIED]
1. I've tried placing a panel control in each tab page and anchoring the panel. Then I placed the user control in the panel and anchor it. Either I'm doing it wrong but that didn't work either.
2. I read somewhere to try register the resize event of the main form to the user control. But I don't really understand that and I can't seem to find where I saw that again.
I am using c# and .net 3.5
I believe you need to set the dock property of the user control to "fill" to have it auto resize to an area.