I have a splittercontainer (vertical) placed on form. In the right panel, I placed another splittercontainer (horizontal).
When I run the application, the topmost splittercontainer works fine, no issues. The problem is with the embedded splittercontainer.
The size of the embedded splittercontainer when resized is fine, however the panels show up as a smaller size. I did not even thing that was possible. I cannot seem to get the embedded panel to consistently show the proper dimensions.
I did a search, and turned up this article.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953934
I tried out the recommended solution, and quite usual for any Microsoft post, it does not work.
In fact, things worked better without the suggested solution. At least after the application showed, I was able to get the panels to size properly, just by adjusting the splitter container of either control.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Sarah
After suffering for quite some time, it seems that posting my question got my head to think of a solution.
The outer splittercontainer must be set for docking type fill. Embed the second splitter container directly inside Panel 2 and have that set to docking type fill.
In the resize event, do not add any Controls.Add() for the splitter container, as that is done in the designer. You should add a Controls.Add() for any forms that you want to show.
Do not size the splittercontainers. Allow Windows to do that. Do resize the forms. Make sure to set the TopLevel to false first and show the form after adding to the control of the panel.
I tried the docking type none and several other things. It was either setting to none or setting the manually setting the sizing or whatever that caused the problem.
I hope this post helps someone.
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I have this GUI for my Winform application with 2 FlowLayoutPanels Docked top and right respectively.
Right now I can only give them a fixed size which cannot be changed by user at run time but I want to make these panel Resizable while the application is running.
I've tried BorderStyle Property but only available options are Fixed3D and FixedSingle which are obviously cannot be resized due to their Fixed! behaviour.
I've already gone through the documentation at MSDN but couldn't find anything.
I want to know if I can make them resizable programmatically?
I have a Windows Form with 9 identical user controls that are directly adjacent to one another. On my screen the form looks fine, but when running a coworkers machine, the window gets resized and the user controls overlap. Does anyone know how i can prevent them from overlapping? I don't mind that the window is resizing on different machines, I just don't want any lost information or partially hidden elements.
Thank you in advance.
You could use a FlowLayoutPanel. It won't work in every situation, depending on what kind of controls you intend to place inside it. I'm not sure what your user control look like, but I just added a FlowLayoutPanel and added about a dozen buttons inside it, and it takes care of
adjusting the layout for me when the end-user resizes the form, maintaining padding around each button and avoiding overlapping.
If your user controls can flow around each other, and it doesn't matter if they are side by side or one over the other, you may want to check this out.
I am building an app that uses some built in and some 3rd party controls (DevExpress).
Inside the designer, everything looks OK, however while running the app, some controls are placed wrong.
Are there any easy ways to debug this issue?
More specifically, i have a container that holds 2 controls in it.
These controls should stack nicely together one on top of the other (indeed it looks like that in the Designer).
While running the app, one control is displayed on top of the other blocking it (see attached image).
Another weird thing is that some properties of the 2 controls that get overlapped are not updated with respect to their visual status.
this means that a control has a Location of (0, 300) but in fact appears to be in (0, 0).
As a workaround, you could place the two controls in the two panels of a SplitContainer and dock (fill) them there. This has also the advantage that the users can resize the controls.
Another alternative is the TableLayoutPanel.
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