I'm making a text editor, and it will have the ability to be resized. However when it is resized the close button along with a few other buttons at the top are kinda stuck in the middle. I would like to do something like this.
Ex.
private void Size_Change(object sender, EventArgs e) // Event after maximize or restore
{
Close_Button.Location = Width - (width of button);
}
what is a method of doing getting the width of a form and then subtracting from that width?
Just use anchor points on the button. Like Sani Singh Huttunen said. It's located in the properties of the button.
That way it will be resized or relocated with the form
you need change "Location" to "Left" property:
private void Size_Change(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Close_Button.Left = this.Width - Close_Button.Width;
}
or create new Point to Location property.
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i was trying to implemet an image button in winforms application as i can ...easy when using asp.net
the problem seem to be(i suspect) that when the mouse is over the image inside the picturebox
it is not responding or not triggering the mouseEnter event
it looks like if i had a picture that is smaller than the pictureBox Size it will accept the reason to trigger the event but over the image within the pictureBox it would Not ?
the trick was to set pictureBox to sizeMode=zoom. then do 2 things when the mouse is over the "imageButton" : change the size of PictureBox a little larger + change cursor to hand
so i will get a kind of mouse over effect as i could with asp.net
did anyone have that problem ?
at first i tried mouseHover, then i thought enter would do better as it only requiers the mouse to pass the borders of the picture box... both enter and hover events did not work for me ...
Edit :
the event does trigger , i can see that if i initially set sizemode to CenterImage and inside the event
i ask for sizemode=zoom, so the effect dose occur ..but cursor.current=Cursors.Hand will not change.
This should work
private void pictureBox1_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.StretchImage;
pictureBox1.Cursor = Cursors.Hand;
}
private void pictureBox1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pictureBox1.SizeMode = PictureBoxSizeMode.Zoom;
pictureBox1.Cursor = Cursors.Default;
}
seem like i should have known better how to use Cursors class .
cursor=Cursors.hand;
rather than
cursor.current=Cursors.hand;
that was embarrassing ..
only add MouseMove event on pictureBox and set a Cursor for this
private void pictureBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
pictureBox1.Cursor = Cursors.Hand;
}
I registered Hotkey: Ctrl + Space. Hotkey message is sent to:
private void Hotkey_press()
{
... // I want to show tooltip "Hello" at current mouse location.
}
Is there any way to show this tooltip even the mouse doesnt point to any control and it is outside my Window.Form1?
Edit: That ToolTip can show even the form lost focus or hide
You want something like
ToolTip tt = new ToolTip();
IWin32Window win = this;
tt.Show("String", win, mousePosition);
Where the MousePosition can be obtained from the MouseEventArgs via
private SomeMouseEventHandler(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
System.Drawing.Point mousePosition = e.Location;
...
}
or using
System.Drawing.Point mousePosition = Cursor.Position;
also, you may want to set a longer duration for which the ToolTip is displayed, well just use the overloads available for the Show method, tt.Show("String", win, mousePosition, 5000); will display the tool tip for 5 seconds.
I hope this helps.
Tooltip tip = new ToolTip();
tip.ShowAlways = true;
tip.Show("My tooltip",this,Cursor.Position.X,Cursor.Position.Y);
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.tooltip.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.tooltip.showalways.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.cursor.aspx
As this answer suggests, there is no managed way to accomplish this. If you want to show a tool tip control when your program is not in focus then the "right" way to do it is to PInvoke Win32 and use CreateWindowEx. The answer linked above given by gideon shows some pointers on how to do it, but nonetheless it is very complicated.
If you don't mind using thrid party libraries, AutoIt provides a way to create tool tips easily without having to deal with Win32 yourself.
Here is a very simple example demonstrating use:
//make sure AutoItX3.dll is referenced in your project
using AutoItX3Lib;
private AutoItX3 myAutoIt = new AutoItX3();
private async void ShowToolTipAtMouse(string message)
{
//default position is bottom right of mouse pointer,
//but you can set the x and y positions yourself
myAutoIt.ToolTip(message);
//call the function again with an empty argument to close
await Task.Delay(1000);
myAutoIt.ToolTip(String.Empty);
}
This will work as long as your program is running; doesn't matter if it is in/out of focus or even hidden. Downside is you don't get the regular fade out animation (it just vanishes). Also, if you need multiple tool tips at once you need to have multiple AutoItX3 objects.
You need Show/Hide it in the mouse events, also converting mouse location from Screen coordinate to your control coordinate. the little problem is if you put tooltip exactly on mous pointer location toolTip will catch mouseEnter event and unintended mouseLeave event on your control will be triggered so my solution was adding a little offset to final location.
private void pictureBox1_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
Point p = pictureBox3.PointToClient(Cursor.Position);
p.X += 5;
p.Y += 5;
toolTip1.Show("My tooltip" ,
pictureBox1, p);
}
private void pictureBox1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
toolTip1.ShowAlways = false;
Text = ("Leave");
}
private void pictureBox1_MouseEnter(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
toolTip1.ShowAlways = true;
Text=("Enter");
}
It is a shame Winforms does not have a position property for tooltips.
The easiest thing I found is to add your own mouse-over and mouse-leave handlers and then use the Show() function to set the location (x and y), in pixels, relative to the upper left corner of the second argument of the Show() function.
The second argument can be any control, but probably makes most sense to use the control containing the tooltip itself (this), the parent the control, or a child control inside the control.
You can use a Point instead of two arguments (x and y) for the position, but remember Show() will take the point's x coordinate and y coordinate and add them to the x and y coordinates of the upper left corner of the control you chose as the second argument.
private void UserControl1_MouseHover(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
toolTip1.Show("this text is so new", this, 10, 10);
}
private void UserControl1_MouseLeave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
toolTip1.Hide(this);
}
I have a winform application which contains a window resizable but one requirement is all UI items in the window should be resized according to size of the window. How can I achieve that?
Set the anchor properties on your controls. For example, if you set a control to anchor left and right, it's width will change as it's parent resizes. Same with top and bottom. Note, however, it will not resize, for example, the text inside a control.
I will give an example with a Winform named Simulator:
partial class Simulator
{
int oldWidth, oldWeight;
...
private void InitializeComponent()
{
... (generated initialization code)
this.ResizeBegin += new System.EventHandler(Simulator_ResizeBegin);
this.ResizeEnd += new System.EventHandler(Simulator_ResizeEnd);
}
void Simulator_ResizeEnd(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
this.oldWidth = this.Width;
this.oldHeight = this.Height;
}
void Simulator_ResizeBegin(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
int wider = this.Width - this.oldWidth;
int higher = this.Height - this.oldHeight;
// Change size of UI elements.
}
}
I'm maintaining a Windows app that has multiple forms in the one window (form1, form2, form3). I'm treating the other form2 and form3 as black boxes at the moment. In form1 I have a TreeView, and I'm implementing drag and drop functionality within that TreeView.
How can I prevent a drop outside of the form1 control?
I'm implementing 3 events handlers:
private void treeView_ItemDrag (...)
{
DoDragDrop(e.Item, DragDropEffects.Move);
}
private void treeView_DragEvent (...)
{
e.Effect = DragDropEffects.Move;
}
private void treeView_DragDrop (...)
{
//the node move logic here
}
form2 and form3 have a drag and drop relationship between them, so when I drag a node from form1 into form3 by default it allows the move (bad). I want to be able to prevent this from the form1 control code.
How can I prevent a drop outside of the form1 control? I've looked at the _DragLeave event, but I'm unsure how to control the operation without the DragEventArgs.
There is this little know property in the Cursor object that can restrict the mouse movement only to a certain rectangle.
this as a global variable for Form1
Rectangle _originalClip;
this goes in your Form1_Load event
_originalClip = Cursor.Clip;
this could be in your treeView.ItemDrag, forcing the cursor inside the form1 client area
Cursor.Clip = form1.RectangleToScreen(form1.ClientRectangle);
Now you need to restore the original clip area. A good place will be in the treeView.DragDrop. But to be on the safe side put also in your Form1_Closing event
Cursor.Clip = _originalClip;
You can check if mouse drag action is going outside the allowed area, and if so, cancel the drag action.
There's a nice sample in MSDN that uses the QueryContinueDrag event for that purpose. I think you can use that on the base of your solution.
Link: DragAction Enumeration
I know this is an old topic, but since I've never found a good answer to how to prevent dragging a control outside of a panel, I thought that I'd throw in the solution that I put together. I used some the tips from above and some work of my own.
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
_originalClip = Cursor.Clip;
}
private void pb_MouseMove(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
PictureBox pb = (PictureBox)sender;
if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left)
{
Size sz = new Size(panel1.RectangleToScreen(panel1.ClientRectangle).Width - (pb.Width), panel1.RectangleToScreen(panel1.ClientRectangle).Height - (pb.Height));
Point loc = new Point(panel1.RectangleToScreen(panel1.ClientRectangle).X + (pb.Width / 2), panel1.RectangleToScreen(panel1.ClientRectangle).Y + (pb.Height / 2));
Rectangle rct = new Rectangle(loc, sz);
Cursor.Clip = rct;
pb.Left += (e.X - x);
pb.Top += (e.Y - y);
}
}
private void pb_MouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
Cursor.Clip = _originalClip;
}
What this does is uses the Cursor.Clip method along with a Rectangle object with it's size set to be the size of the panel ("panel1" in the code) containing a bunch of Pictureboxes ("pb" in the code). The new rectangle's size is set to the parent panel minus the width and height of the Picturebox and it's location set to the location of panel1 minus half of the Picturebox's width and height. This gives you a rectangle which will constrain the Picturebox from being drug outside the panel.
OR - How To Shave A Koala To Stop It Looking Squashed. (But I didn't think that would make a suitably techy title)
The Problem: You have three preview images derived from a main image. The preview images are resized for standardised picture spaces on a company website, the main image can be any size image from anywhere.
Example: The main image is a hi-res image of a koala bear measuring 2000x2250. Your previews want to render the koala at 200x200, 200x50 and 250x150.
Your utility program resizes and stretches the original image to the size of your three "actual size" previews but obviously each preview looks a bit squashy and you know everyone hates to see a squashed koala.
To resolve this you add a little cropping method to your program which shaves five pixels from the preview on the desired side. This means you should be able to resize your image and unsquash your koala by shaving off the unnecessary parts of the image.
You add four buttons to each preview image picture box and create four generic methods for sending the correct shaving instructions to the crop method. You want to associate each specific button with a specific picturebox on the form, but you want to send all the click events to four generic functions.
How do you tell the generic function which of the three preview picturebox images you want it to shave in an elegant and wonderful way?
Example Code:
//cropPict=method for cropping the picture in the relevant picturebox.
//CropSide=a little enum which tells the method which side to crop.
private void btnT_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
cropPict(/*Reference to PictureBox Goes Here*/, CropSide.Top);
}
private void btnB_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
cropPict(/*Reference to PictureBox Goes Here*/, CropSide.Bottom);
}
private void btnR_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
cropPict(/*Reference to PictureBox Goes Here*/, CropSide.Right);
}
private void btnL_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
cropPict(/*Reference to PictureBox Goes Here*/, CropSide.Left);
}
EDIT: As it happens, inspired by Hans below, rather than just stuffing the PictureBox into the tag. Which was a great idea I actually put a KeyValuePair into the tag for each button like so:
btnCCB.Tag = new KeyValuePair<CropSide,PictureBox>(CropSide.Bottom,pbxKoala);
btnCCL.Tag = new KeyValuePair<CropSide, PictureBox>(CropSide.Left, pbxKoala);
btnCCR.Tag = new KeyValuePair<CropSide, PictureBox>(CropSide.Right, pbxKoala);
btnCCT.Tag = new KeyValuePair<CropSide, PictureBox>(CropSide.Top, pbxKoala);
Then I could just wire all the buttons up to a single event handler like so:
private void btnC_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Button btnSend = (Button)sender;
KeyValuePair<CropSide, PictureBox> kvCrop = (KeyValuePair<CropSide, PictureBox>)btnSend.Tag;
cropPict(kvCrop.Value,kvCrop.Key);
}
Of course, there's still plenty more to do but that pretty much sorted out my problem. Thanks Hans!
Use the Button.Tag property to store a reference to its associated PictureBox. Cast sender to Button:
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
button1.Tag = pictureBox1;
button1.Click += btnT_Click;
// etc..
}
private void btnT_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var btn = (Button)sender;
cropPict((PictureBox)btn.Tag, CropSide.Top);
}