Resize windows form dynamically

It defines the position for the control on the form. When designing a form that can be resized at run-time, the controls on the form should resize and reposition accordingly. To do this we take the advantage of the Anchor property. Let us design a form that can be resized at run-time and get to understand the Anchor property of controls. Here we have set the button1 button control's Anchor property to the bottom-right corner of the form. Programmatically Setting Anchor Property The Anchor property is set programmatically with a bitwise combination of Anchor Style values.

The default is Top and Left. Bottom AnchorStyles. Right ; The combination of AnchorStyles. Right anchors the button to the bottom right corner of the form. Now let us look at how it works!! Set the button1 Anchor property to "Bottom, Right" from the properties Window. Member First Prev Next thanx mosab mmt Dec Mugsys RapSheet Oct Member Sep Member Jul Member Apr Member 7-Dec GenSmarty Mar Member Mar Member 9-Mar Benny C.

Member Oct Vyas Darshan 3-Aug Bartholomew Ho Aug Member Feb Ta Rek Apr Go to top. Layout: fixed fluid. United States. First Prev Next. Mugsys RapSheet. Please add a "Reset" method than be called from a button. Code works like a charm. Big thanks. Any way to adjust for that? ArgumentException in mscorlib. Dear thanks for the great methods. But I get an error while using Resizer class.

How can I solve the problem? Regards Tariq. Updating this code - ideas Member Jul When I originally wrote this, it was to serve a specific need that I had in a project, so I did not account for every general possibility. My time is limited, so I would like to turn this into a collaborative effort.

There are many excellent coders in this forum, and different users have different ideas and needs. So, I welcome coded and tested improvements that I can incorporate into the code. Please include the suggested changes with comments. Let's make this a collaborative effort to make this code as complete and general-purpose as possible. Thanks all! Running from Citrix - not getting parent size properly Member Apr Running local it works fine however when I try to run from Citrix it does not get the parent size properly Hey there However I found that any controls that are not visible are not effected by the code.

For example, only the controls on a tab page of a tabcontrol that is visible is adjusted. I am working on fixing that for myself. Thanks for your code. Re: Tab Control Member 7-Dec Hello I have the same problem , i also have tabs Have you being able to adapt the code and would you be able to sent it? Thank you best regards Patrick. GyResizer Class quastion Member Mar Thank you.

Hi l found that this class is more accurate Copy Code Resize form relatively ' modify size of controls on form ' change location of controls dynamically as width or height ' changes on the form ' class designed by MathLover, free to be used by anybody ' if you need explanations about anything ' please feel free to contact me at ' mathlover47 hotmail. Controls i. Width, f1. X, f1. Size If IsContainer f1. Controls a1. Name, fontContainer i, 0 , ControlSizeLocation i, 1 , f1.

Controls i ' f1. Remove f1. Controls 0 If IsContainer f1. Count - 1 f1. Controls m. It work for me Member 9-Mar Although you may scale a user control using one mode for example, DPI and place it on a form using another mode Font with no issues, but mixing a base form in one mode and a derived form in another can lead to unexpected results. At run time, the actual resolution is stored in the CurrentAutoScaleDimensions property.

The AutoScaleFactor property dynamically calculates the ratio between the run-time and design-time scaling resolution. When the form loads, if the values of CurrentAutoScaleDimensions and AutoScaleDimensions are different, then the PerformAutoScale method is called to scale the control and its children. This method suspends layout and calls the Scale method to perform the actual scaling. Afterwards, the value of AutoScaleDimensions is updated to avoid progressive scaling. PerformAutoScale is also automatically invoked in the following situations:.

In response to the OnFontChanged event if the scaling mode is Font. When the layout of the container control resumes and a change is detected in the AutoScaleDimensions or AutoScaleMode properties. As implied above, when a parent ContainerControl is being scaled. Each container control is responsible for scaling its children using its own scaling factors and not the one from its parent container.

The ScaleChildren property can be overridden to determine if their child controls should be scaled or not. The GetScaledBounds method can be overridden to adjust the bounds that the control is scaled to, but not the scaling logic. The ScaleControl method can be overridden to change the scaling logic for the current control.

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