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.
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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 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.
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...
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...
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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
I have an application I have been working on for a while in VS2008 developing in Windows XP and it has some panels placed in specific spots so the borders line up and look nice and pretty. Now that I have switched to developing in 7, as far as I can tell everything else is in the same place but it moves both panels over a little bit and one up and one down and messes up my nice borders. Since it still works correctly in XP I'm assuming this is a 7 problem or a VS problem with 7. Anyone have an idea whats going on or if its fixable?
So I figured it out. Turns out the client area wasn't narrower, however the titlebar which is part of the dialog box border was two different sizes in XP and 7. Since the panels were in an mdi child, where the border was not shown because it was underneath the parent, the size of the titlebar part of the border was making a difference in the location my panels were shown relative to the parent. To solve this I set FormBorderStyle to none on the child and re-positioned the panels to be in the correct spot without that titlebar. It now looks the same in XP and 7 since that variable bar size is gone.
Windows in Windows 7 have wider borders.
Your form probably has a fixed size that is based on a Windows XP border width.
Therefore, in Windows 7, the form's client area will be narrower.
If this is in fact the problem, you can solve it by setting the form's ClientSize property in the constructor the the value it currently has in XP.
If this is not the problem, please post more details.
Do you need to have your panels pixel-positioned? .NET 2.0 introduced the FlowLayoutPanel and TableLayoutPanel for resizeable positioning of elements.
The TableLayoutPanel is the more useful of the two. You create rows and columns, which can autosize or size proportionally to each other. You dock the TableLayoutPanel in your form or anchor it to all four sides. Then the user can resize your form and everything resizes with it.
Even if your panels are of a specific size, you can anchor them to a side or a corner so that they stick to the side even if the user resizes the form.