I have a vertical gridsplitter with a column width of 10 pixels. I've floated an icon over the top of it, and using a multibinding, this icon stays centred on the gridsplitter (so it follows the gridsplitter as it's dragged left and right).
Is there a way I can (a) allow the user to the drag the icon only left and right within the grid (I'm guessing by tracking the delta values?), and (b) bind the grid column widths to its position, so that the gridsplitter effectively follows it?
I can see a very rough solution in my head, but I'm wondering if I'm overcomplicating things - maybe there's a simple way to do this through binding?
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I am trying to do something a little bit specific, and I can't seem to find if it is even possible. So I thought I would lay down the question here.
What I'm looking for is a way to change the anchor point of the scrollviewer from the top to the bottom (however you look at it). I'll explain what I mean.
By default when the control contained in your scrollviewer gets taller, so will your vertical scrollbar scollableheight.
But what happens is, the vertical scrollbar will stay at the same scrolloffset from the top, while what I want is that the vertical scrollbar keeps it's position relative to the bottom. The reason I want this behaviour is because I am creating a list that the user can expand more of by scrolling to the top. but then when I add the new items it looks like the scrollviewer scrolls up to the newly added items. (although it is actually the content the is pushed down) So if the scrollviewer would have the vertical scrollbar anchored to the bottom, the visible part of the content would stays at the same position to the user because the distance from that part to the bottom didn't change.
I hope you can understand what I'm trying to do.
I allready found one way of doing this, but it is not the desired option to me.
Option 1) Apply a Scaletransform of -1 in the Y-axis to the scrollviewer to flip it upside down. Then apply another ScaleTransform of -1 in the Y-axis to the content of the scrollviewer to make the content right side up.
But the problem with this technique is that for one, when you scroll using your mousewheel the scrollviewer scrolls inverted as normal. And second, I'm using 2 scaletransformations just to change the behaviour of the scrollviewer, and not even for eye candy. So that seems a bit excessive to me.
Option 2) anyone?
I have two GroupBoxes on the left side of one of my TabControls, call them GroupBox A (top left), and GroupBox B (bottom left). The GroupBoxes do not resize like I would hope.
Example:
When I resize the main form that has the TabControls with my mouse, or maximize it, or move it to a screen with lower resolution, GroupBox B keeps its width / height. This causes GroupBox B to draw over GroupBox A, kind of like a 'always on top' effect.
Desired:
Would like both GroupBoxes to resize according to one another / proporitionally and fit the area they are given.
Ideas?
A tableLayoutPanel can help with this.
Add a tableLayoutPanel and size it to fit your needs.
Anchor the table to Top, Bottom, Left, and Right
Put GroupBoxA into the upper left cell of the table
Put GroupBoxB into the lower right cell of the table
For both GroupBox size them accordingly and anchor them to all 4 sides.
Now they will grow and shrink proportionately with the app.
Additionally you can add more of your controls to the table. If you need a control to span multiple rows or columns use the RowSpan/ColumnSpan property.
If your GroupBox is inside another control like a tab or something, then do as below:
In my case I had a GroupBox inside a tab and I called the below methods in the InitializeComponent() method to force the Groupbox to adjust to the tab size.
this.groupBox4.ResumeLayout(false);
this.groupBox4.PerformLayout();
this.tabPage2.ResumeLayout(false);
this.tabPage2.PerformLayout();
And If you have multiple GroupBoxes, you need set the anchoring accordingly.
I faced a similar problem, I just had used the split container for both GroupBoxes, anchored the split container at top, bottom, left an right of my main form, and both GroupBoxes too, at top, bottom, left and right of their containers.
Slightly off topic from the original question, but my issue was that my MaximumSize field of my Group Box was not set, or was too small so I could not resize the height!
Altought the question is pretty old, someone might still find it useful...
I had the same problem and found a working solution -> instead of changing the width/height of the GroupBox, change its minimum width/height in the Form's resize method
edit: fixed typo
private void Form1_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e) {
groupBox1.MinimumSize = new Size(this.Width /2, this.Height);
}
I'm a newbie. Designing a form that can be resized, and I want my textboxes, labels and buttons to resize with the form, can someone tell me how to do this?
It depends on the type of layout you need. The "basic tools" you have to do that are following properties: Anchor and Dock.
Anchor
With the Anchor property you "attach" a side of an element to a side of its container. For example if you place a button in the bottom-right corner of a window and you set "Bottom, Right" as Anchor then when you'll resize the form the button will keep its relative position to that corner.
Now imagine you place a multiline text-box in the form, resize as needed (for example 4 px from top, left and right border and 128 px height) and set the Anchor property to "Left, Top, Right". When you'll resize the form that control will keep its height but it'll resize to keep its margins (so if you'll make the form wider its width will be increased).
Dock
Dock is different. With docking you "say" to the Layout Manager to use all available space in one direction. For example if you set to Left then your control will keep its width but it'll use all the available height and its location will be most left as possible.
You may have more than one control docked in a container, imagine you have 5 textbox with Top docking inside a form. They'll be stacked to the top of the form using all the width (and resizing). Another example: a Top docked control (as a banner) and a "Fill" docked control (as main content). Remember that with docking the order of controls matters (if you first place the "Fill" control it'll use ALL the available space and the "Top" dock control will overlap).
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Moreover you have some layout controls too (tables and stacks). They're really easy to use and a 30 minutes of "experiments" will clarify much better than a long text.
I've a grid splitter before to the expander(which exists in the right side of a wpf window) and when i was running the app i need to use grid splitter to see more data from expander after its expanded, but the problem is when i was drag splitter i'm getting full view of my expander irrespective of original width but after click on expander to collapse it won't go to its original position by maintaining the splitter dragged width. So any one help me how can i send back expander to its original position.
Thanks,
#nagaraju.
Once you have used the splitter the grid column widths will no longer be 'auto'.
One solution is to respond to the collapsed event of the expander and reset the width of the first column to auto using column.Width=GridLength.Auto;
As you are resizing the contents of the Expander it may make more sense to place the GridSplitter inside the Expander, and on the outside you just have a normal Grid which makes the cell where the Expander is size to content.
I have a dialog with column down the right side filled with buttons. The dialog is built with Windows Forms. I have a mockup at the following link:original dialog
(I would have included it but apparently i'm not allowed to use image tags)
I would like for the buttons in the right column to resize themselves to fill the remaining vertical space when the dialog resizes. It doesn't particularly matter to me whether or not buttons simply increase in size or whether the buttons remain the same size while the gaps between them increase. I'm simply want the buttons to go from the top to the bottom. (I have a mockup for this as well but apparenlty i can only include one link)
I've tried hosting the buttons in a FlowLayoutPanel but they do not increase as the dialog stretches, I only get whitespace at the bottom after I run out of buttons. I also tried a TableLayoutPanel and had the same result but I may have misused it. Does anyone have any ideas how I could accomplish this?
Thanks in advance,
Jeremy
To get you started. Use the TableLayoutPanel, set its Anchor property to top, bottom, left, and right. Set the rows and columns to percentages as needed. I suggest each control have it own cell. Note that each control in a "cell" can have its Dock and Anchor property set as needed.
You can do this with a TableLayoutPanel. Create a column for the buttons, with each button having it's own row / cell in the column. Set each row to be an even percentage for height (if there are 10 buttons, each row would be 10%), and dock the TableLayoutPanel to the right side of the screen. Then, put the buttons into their rows and set them to full docking. Then, when the dialog expands, the TableLayoutPanel will expand to fill the entire right side of the screen, each row will adjust proportionally, and each button would expand to fit the new row size.
You may have to adjust this a bit to fit your needs, especially in how it relates to the other content in the window.