How does one specify that a button centers itself in a container without having to specify a Location? Is it even possible?
The goal is to be able to center multiple buttons in a panel without having to perform calculations on their placement.
I know it is possible to center some controls on a form, not sure about a panel though. Anyway:
Disable the Left and Right anchors of your control if you want your controls to stay centered horizontally, and the Top and Bottom anchors if you want your controls to stay centered vertically,
In the designer window, select your control,
In the VS 'Format' menu, hit 'Center in form', then 'Horizontally' and/or 'Vertically'.
If you want to center several controls side to side, select them all and execute the above steps.
Controls will then stay centered in the form when the user resizes the window.
I'm not 100% sure of what you are asking, but try using a TableLayoutPanel, and drop one button in each cell of the table. If you anchor the TableLayoutPanel to the Top, Left, Bottom& Right, the Table will grow and shrink with the form, but each button will "float" relative to the top-left corner of it's containing cell.
Disabling all anchoring will keep the TableLayoutPanel at it's relative location within your form, but your buttons will remain spaced out evenly amongst one another.
Between standard control anchoring and/or the the TableLayoutPanel you should be able to find the correct type of anchoring that you desire.
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I place a panel with dock type left and place 2 panels with dock type top in the parent panel. But I want to place a gap between these 2 panels because the margin is not working on that panels. How to do that in C# winform? Please help...
I don't think you can when docking. What you could do is dock one Panel as container and then put another Panel inside that, leaving a margin as required and then anchoring to all four sides. The inner Panel is then used for your other controls rather than the outer.
Alternatively, you could use Anchor instead of Dock, which would allow you to explicitly position each Panel. The correct combination of anchored edges would simulate docking, i.e. top, left and bottom for the left Panel and top, left and right for the top Panels.
I guess the other alternative would be to introduce additional Panels to act specifically as separators between those you intend to use as containers.
I am designing a form with WinForms, a partial screenshot of which is shown below:
The two buttons on the bottom are in a tableLayoutPanel, each one in its own cell. The "Add new baseline" button is anchored to the bottom and left, the "Delete Selected Baseline" button is anchored to the bottom and right. This partially does what I need it to do. That is, when the form is compressed horizontally, the buttons are also compressed, so that one doesn't overlap the other, for example.
They also need to stay in their exact positions as shown in the screenshot, when the form is resized vertically. At the moment, they are moving below and beyond the bottom edge of the form, or upwards and over the other button and the listView above. By the way, the listView is anchored to all sides.
I have tried several combinations of anchors for the tableLayoutPanel, and could not achieve the desired behaviour.
How do I make it when the window is resized none of the controls are on one corner or just shrug away but become bigger or smaller to correspond with the window In Windows forms?
You need to Anchor your control(s) on the window.
Basically u (always) anchor your control on Top & Left (that's default anyway).
If you want to stretch your Control horizontal add Right.
For vertical stretching add Bottom.
[Properties] (rightclick the control you want to anchor and select properties)
Use Anchor property of each control to achieve the effect.
For example, if you set it to "Right, Bottom" on a control, it will keep its right and bottom side anchored (set to fixed distance) against the right and bottom edge of the form.
This is sufficient for basic sizing. For advanced sizing, you have to size your controls manually on window resize event.
You might also want to set MinimumSize property of your form to prevent its window to shrink under that size. This way you can prevent unwanted layout distortions like controls clipped or completely hidden behind right or bottom edge of the window.
On my form I have a Panel control that contains a PictureBox control and a Label control.
The panel is not visible in the image above but it's basically the area around these two controls.
I have set the Anchor property of all these three controls to Top, Bottom, Left, Right so that they follow their parent container's re-sizing behavior.
The L abel control (postbagfolderempty) works properly but the PictureBox (EMPTY!) does not seem to be moving from its original position.
Is there an additional property I need to set?
Update: I changed my PictureBox's AutoSize property to None. It has started to move, but as I try to enlarge my form, it starts sinking into a white area (image below).
Make sure your PictureBox doesn't have SizeMode set to AutoSize.
Anchoring changes the size, if it's autosized it won't change anything
Also, make 100% sure your PictureBox is actually a child of the panel. It's easy to check: select it on the designer and press Esc, it should select the panel.
Update
As per the comments, seems the problem is that you are anchoring to all the sides (thus producing the scaling of the control).
If you want a panel that scales with the form, and controls within the panel that are centered but not scaled along, then anchor that panel to all sides, place the controls inside the panel centered in the designer, and set their anchors to None, that way they won't scale, and since they are not anchored, they will move along when the panel scales (but they won't scale with it, which -seems- it's what you are aiming at)
I have been looking around for a solution to this but fail to find it anywhere.
I am currently making a management program for an organization which handles kids with special needs. They need to keep track of a lot of data, etc.
I have placed the data in a GroupBox with TableLayout using Drag N' Drop. However the elements do not align. The left side seems to be docked in the upper left corner of a cell while the right side seems to be docked in the lower right corner of a cell.
How would I solve this so they are both centered in their respective cell?
The alignment of controls placed in a TableLayout cell can be influenced by the anchor setting of these controls.
You can align your controls Middle-Center by setting the Anchor property of your Labels and TextBoxes to None.