i am fighting with the layout of my windows store app. My problem is with the segoe ui font that I am using for the labels of some textboxes.
I have a borderless label above a textbox with a border like this:
LABEL
_____________
|__TEXTBOX___|
My problem is, that the font of the label does not align perfectly with the left border of the textbox.
First I though that it must be the label padding or something, maybe a padding or margin in the control template. But this is not the case. The true reason is the space around the glyphs within the font itself. Depending on the first letter or the size of the font the gap is bigger or smaller.
Is there a way to perfectly align the label text and the textbox independant of the first letter or the font size? Or do I really have to place every label in a different position to reduce this problem?
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I'm trying to make a RichTextBox have fixed size and blank space flexible (like Word, WordPad), I made this:
Set Dock to Fill
Set MaximumSize to 600,0 (0 is wildcard for sizes) (Width=600 and Height=0 -wildcard)
I got this: blank spaces are flexible and RichTextBox size is fixed, but RichTextBox is not positioned at center.
I have some options:
Set padding to auto (I suppose that it's not possible)
Set margin to auto (I suppose that it's not possible AND margins not works in winforms)
What do I have to do to position RichTextBox to center?
Use anchor instead of dock.
Dock is designed for Size, Anchor is designed for Location
Your problem is based on location, locate your box to center instead of make Dock margins.
I have a canvas that is within a page in XAML that contains some paths from an .ai document. I would like this to be responsive and have resize according to the proportions of the grid that it is contained on. How?
Okay I fixed it myself. Replaced the canvas with a grid, then enclosed that grid in a viewbox. All paths under the canvas now has horizontal and vertical alignment set to left and top respectively, and its Canvas.Left and Canvas.Top values are now replaced by a margin reflecting these values.
I like the AppBarButtonStyle idea of using font character as button icon because of its scaling abilities, but it is of no use if i cannot resize them properly.
Changing Width or Height of button does not work, because AppBarButtonStyle only resizes padding between button icon and button borders. Changing FontSize of button does not work either.
Is there any way of resizing buttons styled with AppBarButtonStyle in WinRT application? I dont mind if i have to override or modify AppBarButtonStyle, as long as it preserves the ability to use font character as button icon.
Any useful advices will be appreciated!
You can easily create your own custom button from AppBarButtonStyle from the original in the standardstyles.xaml .
I did so to create a custom smaller button with no text and the only hard part was aligning everything: you're not adding shapes, you're adding a character, so it may not be as aligned as you think. Default Buttons contain 3 charatctes: outline, fill and glyph.
If you want, I can share my simplified code for the control.
I'm using vb.net to make a screen saver.
I want my label where the text shows to always be centered no matter what screen size it is.
is there a way to get the screen resolution of the current monitor?
if i can get that then i can calculate the middle and set my label there.
Stretch the label to the whole width of the form and dock/anchor to left and right side within the label parameters. This will center your label whatever the size of the form.
For rich textbox in vb.net i want to have single border line. Fixed single and Fixed 3D are having some dimensional effect which i do not want. And i would also like to change the color of the border.
And same thing with the button, for them how to have single line border and specified color.
According to the documentation, the richtextbox doesn't support FixedSingle, so it defaults to Fixed3D. You could put the RTB into a panel and set the RTBs border to none and the panel's border to fixed single.