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.
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I have many buttons in winform. it's look like buttons in calculator.
When I open full screen, buttons stays on top left side (same size they were before) and on the right side there is empty background of form.
How can I make them get bigger and stay centered relatively when I open winform on full screen?
If you have 2 or less buttons per row/column, then you can use anchors.
However, if you have more than 2 buttons per row/column, you'll need to use a TableLayoutPanel (granted you don't have an external controls library like DevExpress or Telerik) which you can then dock/anchor accordingly.
You can dock your controls in the center. Try the following:
1) Select your controls through pressing right cursor of the mouse and hovering over your controls
2) Place your controls in the center
2) Go to 'Properties' panel and find 'Anchor' property
3) Deselect all the anchors (default anchors are top and right)
Try running and resizing your Windows Forms application.
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.
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
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 a Windows Form with a default size of 1100x400, and I have a DataGridView control on it anchored to Top, Left, Bottom, Right.
Resizing the form on a screen with resolution higher than 1100x400 works fine, and the anchoring works well, resizing the DataGridView control as expected.
When I launch the form on a screen with resolution 800x600, the form is cut off, and made to fit the 800x600. The DataGridView is cut off, and cannot be seen entirely - it bleeds off the form to the right, so it's not respecting the right anchor. Resizing the form in this situation doesn't respect the anchoring settings for some reason: the DataGridView control does not resize when the form is resized.
Is there a way programmatically (on a resize event or something) to force the child DataGridView control to anchor to the sides of the form?
I've already tried calling a PerformLayout and Refresh in the Form's resize event but it's rather redundant, isn't it?
I would recommend you to play with MinimumSize/MaximumSize of the form and controls
We usually set MinimumSize for the form and controls to the value, when we can see at least small part of each control. There is no use to allow resizing a form to the size, when you cannot do any usefull work with the controls on it
As for MaximumSize for the form - I'll recommend you to try setting this value on Form_Load to be less or equal current screen resolution or current working area (which is the screen area without taskbars, docked windows, etc.)
see
Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds
Screen.PrimaryScreen.WorkingArea