Hello,
I am want to Resize my form and form controls based on the users resolution.
For example :- i am making this application in 1024x768. it obviously works and looks well too me but when my user runs this application on his pc it looks horrible and wierd because his Resolution is 800x600.
I found a snippet on this forum to resize the window but that just isn't what i'm looking for - i want the controls and form both to resize depending on the user resolution. Like if the user has a 800x600 and the app was made with 1024x768 it should automatically resize the form and its form controls to fit on the screen.
Could some one help me with this i am really lost :( in this form i also saw some one saying to use % sign to assign size to form and its elements but i tried this and it doesn't work :s it says its invalid.
I am using VB.net - Visual Studio 2005 - PLZ Help :(
Thank you,
Regards,
Sep 23 '08
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The anchor property "anchors" your widget to the selected edge (top, bottom, left, right)
So if you put a widget 10px from the top and 3px from the left and have it sized to be 3px from the right, if you set it to anchor to left,top,right. No matter how you resize the form, it will always be that amount of px from those edges.
Just play with it and you'll see.
Hi,
Thanks for all the help and support guys :)
Thanks for the code jg007, really appreciate it. - i can't seem to get it to work in my app.
I also can't understand Anchor property :( it just says left / top / right / bottom.
I have 1 TAB, 2 Buttons, 2 Panel, 2 Picture Box, 1 MultiLine Textbox, 1 Progressbar :(
the code was more of an example and should work if you create a new application with 3x buttons then just drop the code into one of them or the form load
I 'think' that resize code will be something like that and will just require some playing to get the maths right, at the moment my code just splits 3 buttons between the screen height making them each 33% of it and 50% the width but you could have a set of variables with the Value for 1% of the prefered size then just resize all the controls to this scaled to the current screen
sorry if that is a bit unclear and if I can I will work out some code then post it .
Thanks for all the support :)
I will try to do more inDepth into Anchors, Platter :) thanks for pointing that out by reading it it seems very cool and just what i need but as you said i will have to play around with it for awhile.
i also came across a third-party library from Softgroup .NET Form Resizer
i'm thinking of using that too, not exactly sure yet though (it seems to be alittle slow - its not exactly how all the other normal applications resize).
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