form resizing

[Grant]

Hello,

Ive got a form with 3 textboxes - one under the other. When I set the anchor
to top, left, right, and bottom for each of them and resize the form at
runtime, they change size in relation to the bottom of the form. This means
the textbox on top stretches underneath the textbox below it... if you get
my drift.

Is there a webpage or something that shows how to correctly set up a form to
maximise? Can it be set through the IDE? I cant get the damn thing to resize
properly.

Thankd for any help.

[Morten Wennevik]

Hi Grant,

Don't know of any web pages, but you might want to put groups of controls in panels, and have the panels resize based on form change, and have the controls resize based on panel change.

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Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

[Shakir Hussain]

Grant,

I usually create a TestForm in design mode, and will place controls and set
achor as well as other properties. Then i will copy paste the generated code
inside "InitializeComponent".

Shak.
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Hello,

Ive got a form with 3 textboxes - one under the other. When I set the anchor to top, left, right, and bottom for each of them and resize the form at
runtime, they change size in relation to the bottom of the form. This means the textbox on top stretches underneath the textbox below it... if you get
my drift.

Is there a webpage or something that shows how to correctly set up a form to maximise? Can it be set through the IDE? I cant get the damn thing to resize properly.

Thankd for any help.

[Grant]

kewl so what are those other properties that you set? If I have two text
boxes on my form and set the top textbox anchor to left, right and top - and
the bottom text box anchor to bottom, left, right - they get this big gap in
the middle when the form maximises. How do I get it so the two text boxes
look proportinally the same size no matter what size the form?

Thanks for your suggestions. sorry for my slow uptake.

"Shakir Hussain" <sh**@nodomain.com> wrote in message
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Grant,

I usually create a TestForm in design mode, and will place controls and
set
achor as well as other properties. Then i will copy paste the generated
code
inside "InitializeComponent".

Shak.
"Grant" <gp*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

Ive got a form with 3 textboxes - one under the other. When I set the

anchor

to top, left, right, and bottom for each of them and resize the form at
runtime, they change size in relation to the bottom of the form. This

means

the textbox on top stretches underneath the textbox below it... if you
get
my drift.

Is there a webpage or something that shows how to correctly set up a form

to

maximise? Can it be set through the IDE? I cant get the damn thing to

resize

properly.

Thankd for any help.

[Shakir Hussain]

Ok...

textbox1, textbox2, textbox3 must have the same anchor properties
left,top,right. Place textbox1, textbox2 and textbox3 one under other.

Add textbox3.width = textbox2.width = textbox1.width, during form load.

Now if you maximize the form....both will perfectly align, with same width
and no gaps.

Shak.

"Grant" <gp*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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kewl so what are those other properties that you set? If I have two text
boxes on my form and set the top textbox anchor to left, right and top - and the bottom text box anchor to bottom, left, right - they get this big gap in the middle when the form maximises. How do I get it so the two text boxes
look proportinally the same size no matter what size the form?

Thanks for your suggestions. sorry for my slow uptake.

"Shakir Hussain" <sh**@nodomain.com> wrote in message
news:OW**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Grant,

I usually create a TestForm in design mode, and will place controls and
set
achor as well as other properties. Then i will copy paste the generated
code
inside "InitializeComponent".

Shak.
"Grant" <gp*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ut**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Hello,

Ive got a form with 3 textboxes - one under the other. When I set the

anchor

to top, left, right, and bottom for each of them and resize the form at
runtime, they change size in relation to the bottom of the form. This

means

the textbox on top stretches underneath the textbox below it... if you
get
my drift.

Is there a webpage or something that shows how to correctly set up a

form to

maximise? Can it be set through the IDE? I cant get the damn thing to

resize

properly.

Thankd for any help.

[Marcin Grzêbski]

Hi Grant,

Hello,

Ive got a form with 3 textboxes - one under the other. When I set the anchor
to top, left, right, and bottom for each of them and resize the form at
runtime, they change size in relation to the bottom of the form. This means
the textbox on top stretches underneath the textbox below it... if you get
my drift.

Is there a webpage or something that shows how to correctly set up a form to
maximise? Can it be set through the IDE? I cant get the damn thing to resize
properly.

Thankd for any help.

Did your form should look like below?

+--------+---------+
| text1 | text2 |
+--------+---------+
| text3 |
| |
+--------+---------+

If your answer is yes.... then i can propose you to set anchors:

text1.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left;
text2.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Right;
text3.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left
| AnchorStyles.Right | AnchorStyles.Bottom;

Give me feedback if "design" vision doesn't look like yours.

Regards

Marcin

[Grant]

Hey Marcini - this is what my form looks like:

The poroblem is the middle textbox.

+--------+---------+
| text1 |
+--------+---------+
| text2 |

+--------+---------+
| text3 |
+--------+---------+

cheers,
Grant
"Marcin Grzêbski" <mg*******@taxussi.no.com.spam.pl> wrote in message
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Hi Grant,

Hello,

Ive got a form with 3 textboxes - one under the other. When I set the
anchor to top, left, right, and bottom for each of them and resize the
form at runtime, they change size in relation to the bottom of the form.
This means the textbox on top stretches underneath the textbox below
it... if you get my drift.

Is there a webpage or something that shows how to correctly set up a form
to maximise? Can it be set through the IDE? I cant get the damn thing to
resize properly.

Thankd for any help.

Did your form should look like below?

+--------+---------+
| text1 | text2 |
+--------+---------+
| text3 |
| |
+--------+---------+

If your answer is yes.... then i can propose you to set anchors:

text1.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left;
text2.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Right;
text3.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left
| AnchorStyles.Right | AnchorStyles.Bottom;

Give me feedback if "design" vision doesn't look like yours.

Regards

Marcin

[Marcin Grzêbski]

Hi Grant,

<snip> :)

Hey Marcini - this is what my form looks like:

The poroblem is the middle textbox.

+--------+---------+
| text1 |
+--------+---------+
| text2 |

+--------+---------+
| text3 |
+--------+---------+

text1.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Right;
text3.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left
| AnchorStyles.Right | AnchorStyles.Bottom;
text2.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Bottom | AnchorStyles.Left
| AnchorStyles.Right;

Cheers!

Marcin

[Marcin Grzębski]

Hi Grant,

<snip> :)

Hey Marcini - this is what my form looks like:

The poroblem is the middle textbox.

+--------+---------+
| text1 |
+--------+---------+
| text2 |

+--------+---------+
| text3 |
+--------+---------+

text1.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Right;
text2.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Left
| AnchorStyles.Right | AnchorStyles.Bottom;
text3.Anchor=AnchorStyles.Bottom | AnchorStyles.Left
| AnchorStyles.Right;

(I replaced text2 with text3! - my fault!)

Cheers!

Marcin