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.
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So I'm having troubles making my FlowLayoutPanel work the way I want.
When adding multiple controls to it so that vertical scroll appears and when scrolled to bottom I don't want controls to be touching the bottom border of FlowLayoutPanel.
Padding works properly for all but the bottom side, controls are properly spaced away from the edges of the FlowLayoutPanel, I don't know why bottom is special.
I need a solution that does not include adding invisible/transparent controls to it.
The closest I got to what I want was lowering the clientsize by some amount, but then in that area control doesn't repaint so it shows parts of added controls forever.
Kind of fixed with with larger margins on child controls, so I'm closing this.
I have 2 panels on windows form and both occupied the equal portion on form (i.e. 50%- 50%). Once i run the application, I want to resize the panel size by dragging form with mouse (i.e. 25%-75%). The portion given is not fixed it can be in any size. I just want to resize the panel by dragging/streching mouse.
Please help to resolve the issue.
Thanks,
Soorajbhan kuntal
I think you want to use a SplitContainer control on your form. Put the Panel controls into the two different containers of the SplitContainer, and set their Dock property to Fill. You can set the SplitContainer to Dock.Fill too or set the Anchor properties such that the SplitContainer stretches along with the form.
I've set my main form as a container but whenever i open a child form, the buttons inside the container stays on top. How can i get around with this? Thank you so much! I've attached a snip shot of my problem. Thank you again.
http://s26.postimg.org/7l3mdyli1/image.png
You can use Panel from toolbox and populate the Panel with your controls/buttons.
The good thing about panel is, the x,y of your button controls within panel will be relative to the panel (e.g the 0,0 of your button left,top will be always be on the left top of your panel) this has significant advantage for positioning, rather than calculating the position of a button using your form coordinate.
Hope this help.
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 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.