So I am working on a browser using Visual Studio 2013 C# Windows Forms Application. I want to have 2 WebBrowser Object opened in the same time, in the same application, however if I try to anchor them they look like so:
The first one is anchored to left top bottom and the second one is right top bottom, if I anchor them on the other side too to cover the rest of the screen one WebBrowser goes above the other one so only one is visible now and fullscreen however I would like to have them together each one covering the other half of the screen.
Thanks for your time!
The most simple approach would be using a TableLayoutPanel control having two columns which width of them set to 50%. Then it's enough to put each WebBrowser control in a cell and set Dock property of browsers to Fill. This way each browser will occupy half of the form in any size. Also the Dock property of table layout panel should be set to fill the form.
For more information about TableLayoutPanel:
TableLayoutPanel Control Overview
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I'm having a lot of difficulty with WinForms and sizing of user controls. We've got a DataGrid, with some buttons underneath it, in a custom User Control.
Everything is anchored correctly. As in, when you resize the control, the buttons stay anchored to their proper sides, and the data grid fills the rest.
It even works when adding it to our main form:
Then, when we run the app, it gets cut off:
I've tried:
Docking
Anchoring
Changing the AutoSize property of the control, and the control as used in the main form
But nothing is getting it to act like it does in the designer.
Any help is really appreciated.
Use Split Container and put dataGridView on top and bottom insert your buttons and set Panel that is in bottom Fixed.
Another option is to use TableLayoutPanel
More information :
Designing the Layout of Windows Forms using a TableLayoutPanel, with auto-expand panels
There were obvious issues with the WinForms app, WRT scaling and fonts. We switched over to WPF and everything is working as expected.
I'm populating a self-made Windows Explorer which simulate the Microsoft Windows Explorer. This is the layout of my Windows Form:
What I want it to be is:
But when I maximized the windows, it looks like this:
The problem is that the treeView's width got increased, too. How to stop that ?
Any ideas? I've tried many ways but nothing works.
Try to add a second splitcontainer around the groupbox and the splitcontainer you already have. Then set the panel at the bottom as the fixed panel.
You can set the SplitContainer.FixedPanel property to disable automatic resizing of one of the panels. This way the specified panel will remain the same width/height even when the container itself is resized.
You could use Anchoring (each control will have that in the Properties menu), and select what you want it "anchored" to. That should allow your controls to stetch to fit the form.
It can be fiddly, so you have to anchor each control and think about how to wish to set it. EG to make a control extend if you increase the height of your form, click the top and bottom anchors.
If you imagine a win form with a line drawn vertically down the middle. On the left i have a graph, and when you click the graph certain forms open on the right in an mdi type panel.
I am trying to figure out how to logically get this to look like a proper application should but am failing!
The whole form loads in a maximised view. I first set the panel width to 0 then when i add a form i check if the panels width is less than the forms, if it is then change the panels width to that of the forms.
This doesn't look great tho tbh, resizing makes strange things happen and i see a lot of grey. Does anyone have any ideas?
Use a SplitContainer on your main form. Ensure it's Dock property is set to Fill
Put your graph stuff on the left panel, and your other stuff on the right side.
typically in java if you have a layout manager of somesort, when you resize the page then the components in that panel will resize accordingly. I think my app is missing some sort of layout manager to control resizing as at the moment everything is just static
Is there a way to make it resize on the changing of the form size? say the user makes the page bigger, then the componenets adjust and so on.
Thanks
.NET has layout managers as well.
Personally, I prefer the TableLayoutPanel for my WinForms apps.
Once you layout the Table (using a combination of static/dynamic sized rows/columns) you add your child controls to the table cells. Once you add your controls, you can dock or anchor the controls to the cell so that they are automatically adjusted when the window is re-sized.
Two main options:
Anchoring. Set your control to "anchor" to the sides of your form. This means that if the form resizes, the control will stay a constant distance from that side. So, if you anchor Top, Left and Right, then your control will stay in the same position, but resize horizontally with the width of the form. Play with it. It'll be obvious.
Docking. Set your control to "dock" to a side of the form, or the center. This is usually done with containers, and it will make the widget take up that entire portion of the form no matter how large it gets.
In Windows Forms you make use of the Control.Anchor property, which will cause the control to adjust accordingly when the window resizes.
To do this with windows forms you use the Anchor and Dock properties of the control
See this for a guide on how to use them
I have one form which size is (325,325) and on which one browser is there and the size of the browser is (321,298) means browser is in the middle of the form.And I want to maintain the size of the browser when form is resized like there should be the same difference of the size between form and browser as it was before resized.
Like the previous answers stated, you should Anchor the control.
You should set the Anchor property to Top, Left, Right, Bottom to let the browser grow/shrink when the form is resized, but maintaining the margins.
You should Anchor the control on the form.
Have a look at
Manage WinForm controls using the
Anchor and Dock properties
Control.Anchor Property
Manage WinForm controls using the
Anchor and Dock properties
Anchoring a control to its parent
ensures that the anchored edges remain
in the same position relative to the
edges of the parent container when the
parent container is resized.
Setting the WebBrowser's Dock property to Fill is the correct answer here. This completely eliminates the possibility that you'll have layout problems when you run your program on a machine that has a different system font size or a different video adapter DPI setting.
If you need room for some kind of gadget or toolbar, be sure to dock it as well (usually Top). Use Format + Order if the browser ends up underneath the gadget.
Use the control's Anchor property to anchor it to all 4 edges of the form. The control will automatically change it's size when the parent form resizes then.
The MSDN article explains the basics. Google finds quite a few interesting links as well.