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.
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I'm working on a windows form application and I have a parent form I call the user controls through it, the problem is when the parent form is maximized the user control appears well
but when I minimize the parent form I see that a part of the user control becomes hidden.
although I show the user control inside the panel and I set the dock for this panel to Fill.
and I use the following code to show that user control inside the panel:
xUc.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
this.PnlView.Controls.Clear();
this.PnlView.Controls.Add(xUc);
xUc.BringToFront();
Updtae1:
I used the TableLayoutPanel in the user control and I faced the same problem:
Minimized Form:
Maxmized Form:
The screenshots denote the two panels are not hosted by the same parent. You can verify that by checking what do you have in the PnlView.Controls collection or by checking the Parent property of the left and right panels. So, xUc.Dock = DockStyle.Fill; does not give you the expected dock layout, it fills the free space of the PnlView.
To get the expected layout, make sure to host the two panels by the same parent, if that is not an option (for example, the right panel is some sort of floating panels) then handle the relevant events (i.e. Parent.SizeChanged, RightPanel.VisibleChanged...etc) to set the bounds (mainly the width) of the left panel.
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.
Environment: Visual studio VB or C#
I have some problem about layer of control. My user control has a panel it's set color to be transparent. In main form I create new instant of user control .But a panel of user control is not transparent.
Ok,a background of user control change to same a background of a main form.
but when I use Ctrl.bringToFront()
a panel of user control will cover all of existing control on the form.
Below image, I add user control to main form. MainForm has green panel. all of them is cover by user control.
I try to use a label control. it has a same problem.
According to third image a label should be blue and red color.
What should i do? if my user control is not rectangle. In my user control,I must use panel for combine many control.it' easy for move or resize.
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.
How can we position the auto scroll of a winform at the top? Currently it is automatically scrolling to bottom of the form.
this.AutoScrollPosition = new Point(0,0);
Where 'this' is the form.
Set Focus to a control at the top.
Winforms scrolls to the control that has focus
In my case I wanted to scroll to a certain control and in the Form that contains mycontrol I did:
mycontrol.Focus();
wich scrolls to the Control
If your form has a panel controls click "View" -> "Tab Order" and click the panel first. The tab's Tab Order will change to 0. This will automatically focus the first panel in the form.