I got Panel 1 and Panel 2 using splitContainer in the Windows form. I want to keep the original size of the Panel 1 . I just want to maximize the size of the Panel 2 from the original starting point when I maximize the form in the interface.
I tried to change the setting in the splitContainer properties dock but i couldn't succeed....
How can I maximize the Panel 2 alone ????
When I checked this link, there is no solution for my problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953934
Set the SplitContainer.FixedPanel property to whichever panel you want to keep fixed, or use simple panels and anchor them properly to your needs.
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I have a C# 4.0 Winform app, the main form of which is visually divided in half: a TreeView on the left (for navigation of data) and a FlowLayoutPanel on the right. The contents of the FlowLayoutPanel changes based on user interaction (mainly with the TreeView).
The content to be shown in the FlowLayoutPanel is comparmentalized into a number of "blocks" - some are UserControls whilst others (I'm embarrassed to say) are Panels containing various Controls.
My issue is that the number of "blocks" is now too many to see in the Visual Studio form designer, and I can't make the form large enough to see them all; this makes it hard to verify how the UI will look without running it.
How can I manage the contents of the FlowLayoutPanel so that I can see all of the controls, or am I going about it wrong?
While in the designer, make sure you have AutoScroll property set to true, which will enable you to scroll the FlowLayoutPanel child controls while in the designer view.
My form is divided up into left and right panes, and the right pane is split into upper and lower panes:
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There's a menu-strip at the top, below the title-bar and a status bar at the bottom:
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Now I would like to add a toolStrip below the menuStrip. But when I do so, the toolStrip obscures the topmost content of the panes created using the splitContainer control. The Dock for the toolStrip = Top.
What am I doing wrong that the toolStrip doesn't simply get inserted between the menuStrip and the splitContainer control, pushing the splitContainer control down, so to speak?
You have to play with the BringToFront and SendToBack context menu items of those controls in the designer.
Drop the toolstrip container onto the form, then open the Document Outline window to re-arrange the controls into the correct hierarchy.
There are 2 simple ways of doing that:
Method 1
Open Document Outline window: View\Other windows\Document outline. Use buttons to place your control in the correct place
Method 2
Notice, that the current control in designer form is marked with some kind of focus rectangle.
You can easily navigate through current control parents using Esc key: once pressed, it can be used to go exactly one parent up in hierarchy.
Knowing the above just place your control in any place, cut it and then past it in the correct container. Repeat the step for any other control which is not in a good position
When you need to change the order of control in the same container use Bring To Front and Bring To Back from context menu
You have to set the splitcontainer's dock to none and instead use its anchor settings
I have 4 Panels that should be shown/hidden based on 4 radio buttons being checked.
only a single panel will be shown at a time.
all 4 panels need to be shown in the same position (within the same grid cell)
The problem is, once all 4 panels are put in the same grid cell, the panels are overlapped and
difficult to do changes to any specific panel in design mode.
Is there any way that we can hide the panels in design mode so that i can work on a single panel at a time?
Thanks.
Your best option is to create a UserControl for each panel, and display the UserControl instead of the Panel. You can then edit each UserControl by independently.
There is a pretty straightforward tutorial here - http://www.longhorncorner.com/UploadFile/raj1979/WPFUserControl09012008000033AM/WPFUserControl.aspx.
I'm converting an app from ASP.NET WebForms to WinForms. There is one asp.net page which contains a ListView/Repeater that contains several custom controls, which in turn contain a ListView with other custom controls. Basically the layout looks like a TreeView, but on each node/leaf there are few controls like comboboxes, etc.
When this is in ASP.NET, the page automatically lays itself out, so it is several screens tall - if I add 20 buttons into a Panel, it will grow and the browser will get scrollbars.
I'd like to do the same thing in a WinForms application - so I'll have a user control that will contain a lot of controls in a some variation of Panel (Flow, Table layout), and the controls might have another controls inside them, etc.
The problem is, that when I make winforms app, each control has specific height in the design time. I'd like some user controls to be able to grow with their contents - so they'll add up. In the main Form, there should be a vertical scrollbar, just like in the web browser when the generated page is taller than the screen.
I'd just like to get some general pointers in the right direction. Thanks.
Use Anchor and Dock container properties.
Yes, to expound on Anchor and Dock...try this
-Place a Panel on an empty form, and set its dock property to Top
-place a textbox in the panel, and Dock it to Full...it should fill the whole top panel
-Place a splitter on the form, and if not already docked correctly, set its dock to top
-place another panel below the splitter, and set its Dock to Fill
-place another textbox inside the lower panel and fill it as as well
Now you have a form with two resiable textboxes and will resize when the form does.
*you may have to set the textbox MultiLine property to true but not sure.
Hope this helps.
Anchor the controls to the parent. Anchoring all four sides will cause it to stretch.
If the Anchoring and Docking answers don't work for you, there is another option. It's not pretty, but you can access a control's properties and change them dynamically during runtime. You'd do something like: if(listBox.Items.Count > [yourVal]) listBox.height = [yourFormula] or something.
It's been a while since I've done a Win Form (and I don't have my IDE fired up at the moment) but I'm pretty sure there's even a ScrollPanel or other scrolling control that you can set on your form.
That said, when you're working with WinForms, the less scrolling you can make your users do, the better.
I have a Windows Forms form in C#.
It is just like a regular Windows GUI application. However I am facing problems making the different components on the form resize themselves according to the window size. I mean I do not exactly know which property of the component is to be changed.
I have a tabPage in the form. The tabPage contains a splitcontainer which has 2 panels in it.
The left panel contains a treeView and the right panel has components like radio buttons, textboxes, comboBox and buttons,etc
When I run my application and resize the window (either by dragging a corner of the window or by hitting the maximize button on top right corner) the Windows Forms form and the tabPage expand but the split container doesn't. It stays where it was. Also I want to anchor the split container so that if I shrink my window, the split cointainer still remain on top left. I am sorry I cannot put screenshots here.
Just set the Anchor property of the SplitContainer to Top, Left, Right, Bottom. Or experiment setting the Dock property to Fill.
Have you tried using a TableLayoutPanel? Windows Forms doesn't have great layout support (compared with, say, Java and WPF) but TLP works reasonably well - until you find a situation where it doesn't do what you want, and then it's a pain :)