how moving a secondary form

[Wilfried Mestdagh]

Hi,

I'm trying to move a secondary form to the main form's center. But this does
not work with the code I try. Can someone explain ?

Form1 is my seond form. And this is menu item click from main form:

private void aboutToolStripM enuItem_Click(o bject sender, EventArgs e)
{
Point loc = new Point();
Form1 about = new Form1();
loc.X = Location.X + (Size.Width - about.Size.Widt h) / 2;
loc.Y = Location.Y + (Size.Height - about.Size.Heig ht) / 2;
about.Location = loc;
//about.Show(this );
about.ShowDialo g();
}

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rgds, Wilfried
http://www.mestdagh.biz

[Tom Porterfield]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:23:02 -0800, Wilfried Mestdagh wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to move a secondary form to the main form's center. But this does
not work with the code I try. Can someone explain ?

<snip>code to try to manually center the form</snip>

Why not just set the StartPosition on your secondary form to CenterParent?
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Tom Porterfield

[Wilfried Mestdagh]

Hi Tom,

Thank you. That works as a glance, But still Im wondering wy the other did
not work. In some applications I will put a form for example on a known or
preivious place (eg position / size saved in config file) ?

rgds, Wilfried

[Tom Porterfield]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:41:02 -0800, Wilfried Mestdagh wrote:

Hi Tom,

Thank you. That works as a glance, But still Im wondering wy the other did
not work. In some applications I will put a form for example on a known or
preivious place (eg position / size saved in config file) ?

rgds, Wilfried

If you want to manually set the start position on your form, then you need
to set the StartPosition property on the form to Manual. It should then
use the Location you specify.
--
Tom Porterfield