I just feel awkward when making these Layout as shown (Preview Link)
I have 4-panels.
Red Panel is the outer. I use a FlowLayout.
Black Panel is the inner Panel i use normal panel.
Then, I have Green Panel which is actually a new container for Blue Panel.
Now, my questions are....
What are the solutions if, I want to make Panel-4 Grow (to
stretch) until the edge (right) of the screen.
If I use a TableLayout Panel as a base Panel for Panel-4 &
Panel-3 is that appropriate? BUt If I apply Dock : FIll for that
TableLayout, it seems only stretching the vertical size only,
instead of all (V & H) size.
I would remove the outer red panel, Have one panel dock left, then do a split panel that fills the right and then modify the settings on how the upper panel (panel 1 property of the split panel) grows. You would basically say that the bottom panel (panel 2 of the split panel) is the fixed panel.
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How would i go about removing the thin border around the edges of the Progress-bar tool? There doesn't seem to be any properties to change the style. It looks like the default 3d border.
It is not the best solution from a programmatically correct point of view, but it works and is an easy solution.
You create a Panel control
You put the BorderStyle property of the Panel to None
You moove your Progress Bar inside the Panel control
You rezise the Panel and the Progress Bar so that dimension of the Progress Bar is a few pixels larger than the dimension of the Panel control. This way, when the controls are drawn, the borders of the Progress Bar do not show because they are outside of Panel control
You set the Anchors property of the Progress Bar to Left, Right, Top and Bottom so that when you rezise the Panel control, the Progress Bar inside resizes well.
You resize and place your Panel where you need it (and the Progress Bar will resize well into it)
And your done. As I said, it is not a nice solution from a programmation point of view, but overall it works well and allow you to do what you want without spending too much time.
I am running Visual Studio 2010 Professional (10.0.40219.1 SP1Rel) with no updates showing in Windows Update. When I drop a TextBox control into a Split Container panel, make it Multiline, then Dock in Parent = Fill, it shrinks down to 1 pixel wide and disappears. Of course, at runtime it is invisible.
Is this a bug? Is there a fix? I actually don't need text input - what I want is to display text in a resizable panel, with scroll bars. I could perhaps put code on the events (SizeChanged, SplitterMoved, SplitterMoving...) but that's an ugly solution. Is that the only one?
Apparently I didn't realize I had put a Flow Layout container inside the Split Container panel. This was preventing it from filling the panel.
I seem to have a lot of trouble getting a SplitContainer adjusted the way I like it. I have the following form called frmMain:
In the form Load code I have to following code:
With MainContainer
.IsSplitterFixed = True
.Dock = DockStyle.Fill
.SplitterDistance = 200
.FixedPanel = FixedPanel.Panel1
.Panel1.BackgroundImage = Resources.My.Resources.ResourceFile._001
.Panel2.BackColor = Color.White
.Panel2.AutoScroll = True
End With
When I run the code I get the following:
I want to remove the gray splitter since there is no use to it. Is this a common beauty
bug and is it possible to remove it?
My second problem with the SplitContainer is if I resize my window, the backgroundImage in Panel1 and the white color in Panel2 don't adjust with the window. I searched high and low to the Resize code but I can't find it. The Panel2 has User Controls, eg. Dashboard and are loaded this way: MainContainer.Panel2.Controls.Add(Dashboard).
Is it also possible that Panel2 automatically adjusts to the weidht of the window so thay you only have a hortizontal scrollbar?
Thank you for reading my question and hopefully you can help me solve my problems with the SplitContainer. Have a nice day.
I want to remove the gray splitter since there is no use to it. Is this a common beauty bug and is it possible to remove it?
If you don't want the user to see or move the splitter, why use a split container? As an alternative, consider using a TableLayoutPanel configured with 1 row and 2 columns. The first column would be an absolute 200 px wide while the second column would be set to 100% wide. In each of the two cells, you could place a panel which is docked and set to have a margin of 0,0,0,0.
My second problem with the SplitContainer is if I resize my window, the backgroundImage in Panel1 and the white color in Panel2 don't adjust with the window. ... Is it also possible that Panel2 automatically adjusts to the weidht of the window so thay you only have a hortizontal scrollbar?
While I did not mock up your current solution, I was not able to replicate these problems with a quick mock up of the solution I proposed above. With regards to auto-scrolling, the only reason that scroll bars should appear would be if a control is off the edge of the screen or the available screen space is less than the minimum size of the panel.
You have 2 options:
Use TableLayoutPanel (as #erdomke suggests)
Use 2 Panel controls
For 2 panel controls, dock panel1 to Left, and dock panel2 to Fill. To fill panel2 with a UserControl that resizes, set it's Dock property also to Fill.
I have a form. It has a panel docked to the top and a panel docked to the bottom. The remainder of the form is a panel in the middle. I want it to expand to fill the remainder of my form so I set the dockstyle to FILL for this center panel. When I do this visually nothing jumps around but my resizing adorners move upward/downward behind my top and bottom docked panels. Now my resize adorners are the same size as the base form.
What am I doing wrong? My middle panel acts like it does not understand there is a boundary that is established by the top and bottom docked panels on the form. It just extends right past where I believe it should stop.
Try clicking on the middle panel that is getting overlapped by the other panels to select it, then right-click it and select Bring To Front from the context menu to fix the issue.
I recommend that you use a TableLayoutPanel, with one column and three rows. Set the Anchor property for all your panels to LEFT+RIGHT+TOP+BOTTOM, then set the row heights as you want. Fixed for the top and bottom, and "100%" for the middle.
I'm trying to display a white square in the upper part of a form but I have not the slightest idea how.
Like This:
Do this:
Drag a Panel control onto your form from the Containers section in your designer toolbox
Set the Dock property to Top
Resize it so it's as high as you want it
Set the backgorund color property to White
This is just one of a number of different ways that this can be accomplished. What do you plan on doing with this white area of the form?