Many programs re-size their text boxes, labels, picture boxes, etc... when you change the the whole form's size. But when I drag a text box in my form and make the form smaller, it will overlap the text box and it'll be unusefull because I can't see everything which is written in there.
It's hard to explain so here are some photo's:
Check the property Anchor for your textbox.
It appears that you need to set to Top, Left, Right
If you set in this way, the textbox remains anchored to its container left, top and right borders.
Thus, when the form (the container) is resized, the textbox automatically grows or shrinks to maintain the original distance set in the designer.
Click Dock dropdown menu and select desired location
In WPF, the textbox will re-size automatically
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How do I make the widths and lengths of an object automatically resize?
What I mean by this is that I'm trying to make my design responsive. The problem is that when a user resizes my app, the objects don't fill the empty spaces that are created (E.g, a box has the same problem).. I'm using Visual Studio and I'm not sure if this is a property or a programming issue..
In winforms, controls have a property Dock. You can set it to Left, Right, Top, Bottom or Fill. If you set the Dock property for the various controls in your form, they will fill the available space whenever your form is resized.
Usually, the "main" control on your form will have a docking style of Fill, while the main menu toolbar will have Top, the status bar will have Bottom and so on. Play around with the Dock property until you get your form organized right.
You may also have controls that must keep a fixed size when their parent form is resized, but must align to one of the edges of the form. For this purpose, controls also have an Anchor property. Set it to Left, Right, Top or Bottom.
I have a navigation panel on the left hand side of my program and I'd like it to always stay where it is when scrolling the window content. Is there a way to do that?
I've thought about trying to do a get/set for its position but there's only a size property.
In the example above, the information in the top left is in a panel. Is there a way to keep it anchored there as the user scrolls down?
You currently appear to have the Autoscroll option enabled on the Form. Set that to false, then set up two panels, one for the toolbar/navigation and the other for the scrollable content.
Set the toolbar panel to be anchored to Top, Bottom, Left. Set the content panel to be anchored to all four sides. Set both panels to Autoscroll=True, then put the content in each panel. When each panel gets too small to contain their contents they will scroll - independently - which will in most cases mean that the toolbar/navigation will stay put while the content will be scrollable. If the toolbar panel also gets too small then it will be scrollable too:
I made a simple button based form for a particular resolution, say, 800*480.
I want the buttons to automatically resize themselves when used on a higher resolution.
I have six buttons of equal size placed as shown and I have used the following anchor properties
[TOP,LEFT] [TOP,RIGHT]
[LEFT] [RIGHT]
[BOTTOM,LEFT] [BOTTOM,RIGHT]
I want the buttons to increase their size as well. On the higher resolution, the screen looks empty as all the buttons shift toward the periphery of the screen
If I use the following config, the buttons overlap each other
[TOP,LEFT,RIGHT] [TOP,RIGHT,LEFT]
[LEFT,RIGHT] [RIGHT,LEFT]
[BOTTOM,LEFT,RIGHT] [BOTTOM,LEFT,RIGHT]
What should I do?
I am using Visual C#
Add a TableLayoutPanel to your form, with 3 rows and 2 columns.
Set Dock property to Fill
Put each of your buttons in a cell of the TableLayoutPanel and set their Dock property to Fill
You need to set all of your buttons' "Anchor" properties to Top, Bottom, Left, Right.
This keeps them in place, but also resizes them. Make sure the buttons' "AutoSize"-property is set to false.
May I know how do we fixed the size of the picture box? Because for now, everytime I drag to change the winform size, the size of the picture box on it will change too.
You have set your anchor property of your PictureBox to:
Top, Bottom, Left, Right
You may set it to
Top, Left
Look in the properties for the picture box, Currently it will be:
Check Anchor property of your PictureBox and make sure the Dock property is set to None;
Use the Anchor property to define how a control is automatically resized as its parent control is resized:
Control.Anchor: Gets or sets the edges of the container to which a control is bound and determines how a control is resized with its parent.
I'm new to Windows Forms in Visual Studio, and I am wondering how to automaticly resize controls to the window size.
Say, I have 2 controls in a panel, a List Box and a Button. I want the button to dock to the bottom, and I want the List Box to fit the rest of the space. when the window resizes, the button should be at the bottom (as expected with docking), and the list box should stretch down to the button.
Is there a way to do this without any code?
Thanks.
Dock is pretty easy to use, but I recommend using the Anchor properties instead. Resize your form to a reasonable size in the Designer. Then, place your controls to look the way you want. Then, decide which controls should resize with the form and set the Anchor property as follows:
If you want the control to resize with the form in width, set the Right anchor.
If you want to resize height, set the Bottom anchor.
If you want the control to stay right when the form resizes, unset the Left anchor.
If you want the control to stay bottom when the form resizes, unset the Top anchor.
The problem I have with Docks is that they sometimes act funny when controls are not declared in a specific order, and to get the effect you want, sometimes you have to create extraneous panels just to hold controls.
It really gets messy when you want to maintain the aspect ratio of each control. One way, which is not really up to the mark if you want to get into fixing the details, is to use TableLayoutPanel and use Dock and Anchor wisely to achieve what you want.
Use the dock and fill options on the controls. Look under properties for each object, and containers if they are in any.
You can use SplitContainer
Google for examples. Here is one
Try setting your ListBox's Dock property to Fill.
You'll need to watch for one thing though: by default the ListBox will size itself to display whole list items. If you resize the control so that it displays a partial item it will adjust itself so it will display a complete item. This can make the control appear to lose its 'Dock'ing behavior. The solution for this is to set the ListBox's IntegralHeight property to false, which specifies that the control not resize itself to fit complete items.