In my form I put three charts. I want to fill all available space, and tried to set dock fill, but in this case the charts overlaps each other. I want, instead, to have every chart next to others.
How can I fill all the space, without overlaps?
As mentioned in the comments you want to use a FlowLayoutPanel or TableLayoutPanel. Below are two examples of TableLayoutPanel which may be better because you can more easily control the desired layout.
The examples below use panels instead of grids but the idea is the same for whatever control you want to put inside the TableLayoutPanel.
In both examples, the Dock property of the TableLayoutPanel and all 3 components is set to Fill. This will cause everything to resize automatically as the form resized. Additionally, there is a Rows property and Columns property on the TableLayoutPanel which will allow you to set either pixels are percentages of the table a cell should consume.
Example 1: 3 panels side by side
Example 2: 2 panels above a third panel. In this case you set the ColumnSpan property to 2 on Panel 3
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I have a WinForm form that has two DataGridView controls paced on it such that they are stacked, one above the other against the right hand side of the form.
I would like a way of setting them so that when I expand the form, they expand height-wise with it, as well as width-wise. I managed width-wise by anchoring them to the left and right sides and anchoring the top one to the top and the bottom one to the bottom. However, from here I'm not sure how to get them to use up the space in the middle that appears when the form maximizes...Maybe an image will make my meaning clearer:
Normal Size:
Maxmized; I'd like the grids to expand to take up the full height of the form between the two of them as the red arrows show:
If this question is blindingly obvious I apologise and can only say I didn't really know how to phrase it properly and so found searching for it on Google unhelpful!
You have two options:
TableLayoutPanel or
SplitContainer
The former lets you create a table of many columns and/or rows with various sizing options from absolute and percent to autosize. This is very powerful for layout; but in other respects TLPs are somewhat restricted as the 'cells' are only virtual..
A SplitContainer offers only two panes but lets you treat each with all the things you can do to a container: add one or more controls, anchor or dock them, give each pane a BackColor and make use of its event model.
So if you need just two controls of equal size that adapt to the form size like you showed in the question, a SplitContainer is maybe the better option.
Set the splitter to fixed and make it smaller, anchor the SplitContainer to all sides and drop the DGVs into their panes and Dock them to Fill.
You could also make the splitter moveable to allow the user to resize the panes; if you do that do make the splitter width larger..
Also make sure that the FixedPanel is set to None so that height changes are shared.
Hint: If you want a few more panes to share the space you can nest several SplitContainers.. But for larger numbers do consider switching to TLP!
I am using c# and i am creating a simple design where i have a user control and some components inside it like treeviews and buttons. I am trying to fill a treeview with some nodes and drag-drop these nodes to other treeview and use the buttons to also copy nodes from side to another.
The problem i am having is that when i maximize the window containing this user control there is no effect on the inside components.
I have set the Dock property of the user control to Fill.
I have changed the anchor properties of the buttons and treeview inside the user control but the behavior wasn't as expected. For example i have tried to set the anchor property for the right treeview to be Top,Bottom,Left => and the result was a disaster
I have also done a lot of combinations for the anchor property of all the buttons but nothing gave me the right behavior. I just only need to maximize the window form and the controls will be maximized with the same proportion.
It sounds like you want a "3 column" interface where you have a TreeView on either side and Buttons in the middle to allow movement between the two. Assuming this is correct, you can accomplish your automatic resizing by using a TableLayout.
Essentially, it would be like this:
Add a TableLayout and edit the rows/columns such that there is a single row with 3 columns:
The first and last column would be sized at 50% (and would hold your TreeViews).
The middle would be an absolute size of (for example) 120. This would hold your Buttons.
Set the properties of this new TableLayout to Dock -> Fill the form. This will size the entire table to grow with your form.
Add your TreeView controls to the left/right columns and set them to Dock -> Fill the respective columns. Since these columns are dynamically sized, they will grow with the form.
In your middle column, add a Panel and set it to Dock -> Fill. We add a Panel here to hold the multiple Buttons you use for movement. This Panel will not grow in size because the middle column is sized absolutely.
Add your Buttons to the middle Panel.
Without a screenshot, I'm not completely sure what you are trying to achieve but I believe this is along the lines of it. The nice thing about this setup is there is zero code involved.
I have some TableLayoutPanel, where the first "layer" has 1 column and ten rows, some of this rows contain either a UserControl or another TableLayoutPanel with 2 or 3 columns and some rows. One or two of them contain another TableLayoutPanel, but that's it. So that's a maximum of 3 "levels" of nested TableLayoutPanels. Most of these are set to autosize, because some UserControls might change their size. When a form containing such a nested TableLayoutPanel, the UserControls "flicker", it looks like they are loading very slowly.
Do I use too much autosizing?
Or is my Panel too nested?
I don't think the flicker has to do anything with 'auto-sizing' or 'nested panels'.
Please refer another 'S-O' link : How to avoid flickering in TableLayoutPanel in c#.net
Suspend the layout until you've added all your controls on.
TableLayoutPanel panel = new TabelLayoutPanel();
panel.SuspendLayout();
// NOW add controls (including nested-controls) -- do autosizing etc
panel.ResumeLayout();
Also look at using Double Buffering. You'll have to create a sub-class of the TableLayoutPanel. See an example.
Hope this helps.
I want to auto resize my windows form controls on fullscreen. I use tableLayoutPanel and anchoring.
But it's not pleasing to the eyes. I used flowLayoutPanel, but it doesn't work. I have around 35 controlrs on one single form, including labels, textboxes, comboboxex, radiobuttons, datagridview and checkbox.
Is there any other method by which I can resize the controls? And if not, can anybody suggest me a way to use the tableLayoutPanel and anchoring more effectively?
It seems to me that what you want to use is the Dock property of all controls as well as using TableLayoutPanel. From the images you provided it looks like you want want the top half of the form to be a TableLayoutPanel, and to set the Dock Property to DockStyles.Fill. Then set the bottom ListView to DockStyles.Bottom.
You can either dock each control in a TableLayoutPanel cell or set the Anchor properties to AnchorStyles.None to make the controls automatically be centered in the cells.
Say I have a Winform with 3 adjacent Textboxes, all within a Panel that covers the majority of the form. How can I configure it so that when I resize the form, the controls also resize, but do not bleed into each other? I've tried the different anchoring options, however the textboxes always tend to run into each other?
It's probably something really simple that i've missed.
Thanks.
One easy way to accomplish this is to put the three textboxes into a TableLayoutPanel that has 1 row and three columns.
Settings:
Set the width of each column to 33%
Set the anchor properties of the TableLayoutPanel to Top, Left, Right (or similar).
Set the Dock property of each TextBox to Fill.
Have a look at the TableLayoutPanel - you should be able to get the sort of behaviour you want using one of those with 3 columns and a text box in each one.