I have a VSTO Outlook add-in written in VB.net that has Windows Forms. Users with Font/text size scaling set to 100% has no issues in the Windows Form:
However if they change the font scale to something higher than 100%, things get messed up in the Windows form like below:
Do you know how can I make this form responds to font scaling settings and stay readable and viewable?
So what I have done so far to fix the issue:
Clear the font of the Windows form so that is resets back to the default font name and size
Set the ControlBox property of the Windows form to True
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I am developing an project in VB using .NET and One of my form is resizing it self at runtime. My other form are perfect but only my one page, which I made is a login page, gets resize at runtime.
My configuration
If you don't want the form to be resized, try setting the AutoSize form property to False.
If I run my program this is what I see
That's not the size of the form that I make. It seems that when I click run, windows set the size of the form as the size of any standard form that shows up.
The size of the form is similar to the size of a newly opened internet explorer.
If I set the form to be unresizeable the form is indeed unresizeable but it's initial size is determined by windows.
How do I set that the size of the form match the size of the form when I design the program?
You need to check a couple of properties of the form as a combination of these may affect the form size such as AutoScale, AutoSize, FormBorderStyle, WindowState. Also check for the DefaultSize, Size, Width, Height, MaximizedBounds and ClientSize properties.
You should also check the form events, particularly Load event, whether you are setting any of those properties in these events?
As another approach you can try fixing the form size in the Load event.
Assuming that you are using WinForms, try setting the form's StartPosition property to WindowsDefaultLocation, CenterScreen or Manual.
I have a WinForms application (VB.Net), where I have set ShowInTaskbar=False for all forms except the main form. This is because all other forms are dialog windows of some sort, and I did not want them to show up separately in the task bar.
What I see now is that when no dialog is open in my application and I use Alt+Tab keys to tab between currently open applications, I don't see a tile for my application. I do see a tile when there is a dialog open. This is very counter-intuitive to me.
As I said earlier, ShowInTaskbar property is true for my main form. What else is required? Thanks for your help!
After further research, I found that my problem was being caused due to having the form border as FixedToolWindow and ShowInTaskbar=False on the dialog windows. I changed the form border to FixedDialog, and set MaximizeButton=False, MinimizeButton=False. That fixed the issue.
Hi so I have just noticed something very strange and I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue and how to fix it.
Basically using visual studios 2010 on a windows 7 computer I have noticed that the locations of my controls on a form are out of sync with the form size itself.
For example: If I make a form and set its size to 500x500 and then place a control on the form like a button and set its size to the same and its location to 0,0 then the control is cut off by about 10 pixels or so. It happens on both my work and home computer so it isn't the computer and the values are the same at both runtime and design time. It seems as though the controls are being scaled differently than the form and I am not sure why.
Any ideas?
The form's size includes the border. Use the ClientSize property instead.
Lately I have been programming an application in Visual Basic 2008, and on one of my Windows Application forms I have several text box forms, and with my code the way it is, none of them can be enabled, and they must all be set to Read Only.
Now if I put a big block of text in one of the Text Box's that extends past the parameters of the box, the scroll bar appears but doesn't scroll because of making it's enabled false. So here's my question, is there any way I can make the Text Box's scroll bar functional but still leaving the enabled set to false?
You should be able to use textbox1.Readonly = true instead of textbox1.enabled = false. Then you can use the scrollbars.