VS 2005 Form Not Centering?
Nov 20, 2009
I was writing an application that draws a bunch of random lines on a form with the mouse move event. I set the windows start position property of the form to center screen, but no matter what I did the form would appear in the windows default position. After around 30 minutes of cutting code and trying to paste it into new projects, it still wouldn't center the form. I finally gave up trying to center the form by setting the form property, so I changed it to manual and wrote code that centered the form horizontally, and around 50 pixels from the top edge and the code worked. Has any one else had this experience with VS 2005 proffesional?It was really bugging me for some reason.
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Oct 1, 2009
I works fine with Vista, thats where I developed this app. My question in Vista all the forms are centered. but when I take it to XP they are more to the right. This is the code I used.
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Sep 3, 2011
For example I have Form 1 with 1 button, if I press that button a small form will pop out (This form is smaller than form 1, lets call it form 2). My problem is I want that if I press the button in form 1 it will show form 2 then adjusting the size of it and centering it.
I coded the Form 1 that it will send a string Extra_Background_Form.Label1.Text = "a" to form 2 then it will load form 2
totality of code in form 1:
Extra_Background_Form.Label1.Text = "a"
Extra_Background_Form.Show()
AdminForm.ShowDialog()
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May 4, 2009
I have a project that calls for just a ton of forms and I'd like them all centered on screen. Any way to call this in a module? Just trying to minimize the code necessary for each form. This is the basic centering I use now, only it's in each form_load.
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim xLoc As Integer = (Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width - Me.Width) 2
Dim yLoc As Integer = (Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height - Me.Height) 2
Me.Location = New Point(xLoc, yLoc)
End Sub
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Mar 13, 2011
I have a label the length of whose text can be changed by the user at runtime.I want it to be centred left/right whenever the text is changed.
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Jul 31, 2011
I am currently developing a simple menu application that has a control array of buttons and I am having a hard time with re-sizing the form and centering the buttons. These buttons are created at compile time (with parameters from an INI file) and my current centering algorithm seems to slightly set them to the right. I am using the "button.location = new Point(...,...)" method but after reading about this it says the values locate the buttons left upper corner rather than center, thus accounting for the slight offset to the right.
My two questions are this:
How can I perfectly center these buttons at compile time? I have tried accounting for the difference by subtracting half of the button's width but the button width and point properties seem to be incompatible and the button gets heavily offset.
And... my other goal for re-sizing the menu is to have the buttons perfectly expand and contract when being re-sized. It seems as though anchoring is ineffective when the buttons are created dynamically so I have been forced to write ratio algorithms... Is there a way to get anchoring to work?
Here's what I have in the load up :
MyControlArray(i).Location = New Point(CInt(((Width - ButtonWidth) / 2) +_
(ButtonWidth / 2)), CInt((Height - MyControlArray(i).Height) / 2))
I have already tried:
New Point(CInt(((Width - ButtonWidth) / 2)), CInt((Height - MyControlArray(i).Height)_
/ 2))
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Jan 3, 2012
When I call this Messagebox, is it possible to center the Messagebox on the parent form rather than centering it on the center of the screen?
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Jun 4, 2011
why can't I find a property for my richtextbox for centering its text? A textbox has a property named "TextAlign" while in richtextbox, there is none. How do I center the text in my richtextbox?
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Jan 25, 2010
how to turn a visual basic variable into a clickable hyperlink, and email and also center the text? Also, when I bold the first variable, everything else gets bolded. Can I turn bolding off after the first variable?
myMarker.Text =
"<b/>" & (irow("BarName") &
"<br/>" &
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Aug 26, 2006
How I have centering Form2 inside Form1. CenterToParent() doesn't work.
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Aug 20, 2010
I am trying to make my first program in vb.net 2010, and I have a question.ou know how when you have a button, the text centers itself within the frame of the button?I have a label in my application, that displays a different text (through the label) everyday.
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Apr 2, 2011
I am outputting a columnar table to a text file, 5 columns each 20 characters wide.he example below lets me align these columns either left or right.
Dim strfmt As String = "{0,-20}{1,-20}{2,-20}{3,-20}{4,-20}"
Dim strfmt As String = "{0,20}{1,20}{2,20}{3,20}{4,20}"
"Payment Date Amount Paid Principal Paid Interest Paid Principal
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Jun 2, 2011
Is there a way to enable a default pan behavior in the .Net scrollable control when you press down on the center scroll button, or Is that a behavior you have to implement yourself? You know like in some programs where you press down on the center button and it give you an arrow cursor that pans whichever direction you move the mouse?
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Oct 25, 2009
Basically, I have a program that uses up one Monitor (With maximize/minimize/etc options), and I'm going to develop another window that by default, you'll have to swap to. But, if there are two or more monitors detected, throw the 2nd form on the 2nd monitor.
I have found a way to detect multiple monitors (Using the SystemInformation Class to return the monitor count), but it's placing the form on the other monitor that's the problem.
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Dec 22, 2009
I created a custom control and I'm trying to insert it into a panel, but also center it.The control itself is larger than the panel, so I've set the AutoScroll property of the panel to True. I think that might be affecting it. Perhaps I should just offset the Y axis a bit.But, either way, this is what I'm trying:
VB .NET
'Create the control
Dim AutomationReport As New AutomationReportControl
[code]....
It works just fine with the X axis, but the control is out of bounds vertically. About 1-2 inches of the top is cut off.
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Sep 24, 2011
Basically, I have a ListBox with a list of items that correspond to pictures.I have it set up so that when you selected the first word on the list (index 0), then the image 0.png is displayed (index 1 = 1.png, etc) in the Picture Box and the Picture Box resizes to fit the Image.
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This^ works fine, but I want to center the picture in the group box that it is in each time a different image in selected.My solution was this:
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No compilation errors, but it^ doesn't center the image. As a matter of fact, there's no noticeable difference at all.
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Aug 29, 2009
I'm making a user control, and I manually draw the text string, but I can't seem to keep it centered. I need it to stay centered no matter what the font, or string length.
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Mar 13, 2009
I am using memorystream to get and store images into sqlserver 2005 table image field. This process is working and I am able to display image in picture box. I need to be able to store PDF files into the same field and be able to display in a picture box.
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Oct 12, 2009
I'm attempting to copy a rather complex form from one part of my project and use it (modified) within another part (ie, depending on whether it's maintenance or an outage, you'll get a slightly different email screen).
My first attempt failed miserably, as I had simply right-clicked and pasted the form within the project, assuming renaming the controls would work. nope, I didn't realise that there was stuff in the original form that was renamed as well, and that created a monstrous pile of errors.My second through fourth attempts also failed, generating errors in forms that (I thought) weren't related or connected. Once I deleted the copied form, all was fine.
So, short of trying to rebuild the form from scratch (using a different naming convention for my controls etc.), is there a simple way of doing this? This seems to be such a simple task, but alas I was wrong....(or, at least it's not easy with the information I have right now.
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Mar 11, 2010
i have a main menu on my program which has the option of registering. I have enter name and password ..and a button Confirm
i want to be able to store the added username and pasword to the login form so that it will work...
what must i do? also where would this data be stored...
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Oct 28, 2010
I have a VB. Net App where I want the user to open a modeless form which contains reference information about items in a select box. If the user double clicks the item selected in the list box a modal form is opened to edit the item.I want the previously opened reference form to remain active/enabled, that is, I want the user to be able to click on it, move it, etc.I was able to get the form to at least show up on the task bar by setting it's "ShowInTaskBar" property to true, however, when it comes to the front the user can still not move it to the side to view all of the Edit Forms information.
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Jan 18, 2011
I have been creating a call management application and I am having a problem with something that I have spent weeks on trying to get working and nothing I try is working for me. My application is an MDI application written in VB.NET 2005 Professional, using .NET Framework 2.0. It uses a back end database using Microsoft SQL Server 2005.When the MDI application launches, a form is displayed to the end user asking for phone number (MaskedTextBox) and a partner name. The partner names are within a ComboBox.
When the end user types in the phone number and selects a value from within the ComboBox, s/he clicks on the start button. This then opens a second form. The phone number from the MaskedTextBox is to default in a second MaskedTextBox (this I am able to get working without issue.) The partner name selected from the ComboBox is to default on the second ComboBox. This is the part where I have been working on it for weeks and not able to get it to function.
The second form has many ComboBoxes, all of which pull down items from a particular table within the database. Some of them are editable and some are not. The ones that are editable are also auto complete Suggest/Append on the ListItems.I wrote a sub to handle the population of these ComboBoxes and also to handle if they are editable or not. All of this is working. However, my main issue is that I can't get the value on the second form to default to what ever was selected on the first form. I do not get any errors but regardless of what I do, the second form always stays as the first item in the list regardless.
The code I am using is as follows:
<CLSCompliant(True)> Public Sub PopulateDropDownListFromDB(ByVal cboName As Elegant.Ui.ComboBox, _
ByVal TableName As String, ByVal ColumnName As String, _
ByVal UseAutoComplete As Boolean, _
ByVal UseSQLDistinct As Boolean)
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Apr 15, 2009
simple problem Basically in form1 i have a line of SQL code in a rich text box called rtb_select
what i would like..This code to run under a connection string called strSQLSelectQuery in form2
I have been told someting like strSQLselectQuery = rtb_select.text would work however because rtb_select is in a different form in the same project it does not recognise rtb_Select
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Oct 30, 2009
I'm making a game maker, and I just need to know how to put the buttons on the form. where to add the button code in the Form1.Designer.vb file? I just need to know what the syntax of InitializeComponent is.
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Dec 31, 2009
I have two forms. Form1 and Form2. The user is supposed to fill out some information in form2 which then will be used to compute some data in form1. However when I used the code, Form2.Show, within a function in form1, the form2 is diplayed but when the user fills the data and submits them using the ok button, the code does not return back to the function in Form1.
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Aug 25, 2010
aside from the difference mentioned below, what are other difference the two events might have and how will affect the application as a whole? What is more preferred to use and why?
Form Load:
*Do stuff*
Form shows up on monitor
Form Shown:
Form shows up on monitor
*Do stuff*
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Nov 24, 2009
how to pass a value from an Independent form to a Child form...
here whis is the data from..
the indenpendent data is selected from the datagridview by just double clicking the cell the selected data will pass into the combox of child form (Note: this is combobox not textbox)...
i'm done with textbox it work fine..
look:
Independent form when user duble click the datagridview
Private BoxToUpdate As TextBox
Public Sub Start(ByRef DescItem As TextBox)
' Me.Close()
[Code]....
how could i able the value into combobox from independent form into child form...
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Mar 2, 2009
My project has a single dataset with about 6 datatables. Each of those datatables has a TableAdapater and a Bindingsource on the main form (due to various databound controls).
Now, I want to have a second form for adding a new record. If I bind the controls to the datasource it creates new TableAdapaters and new Bindingsources on that form. I was wondering if it's possible to simply use the ones from the main form instead like this
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Jul 10, 2009
i took two forms named From1 and Form2....Then i added a button in form 1...When i click the button in Form1 then it will display the Form2....so i did the following:
in the code i added:
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the output i get:
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Also,I changed the StartPosition property of the form2 to center screen to get the Form2 at the center of the screen.but what should i do to get the Form2 at a desired co-ordinate according to my wish other than the options present in the StartPosition property such as centerscreen,centerparent,etc etc??????I tried the manual but its not for giving the desired co-ordinate of the Form2 display........
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Aug 11, 2010
I'm going mad about a simple (???) problem in my VB.NET application migrated from an old VB6 application.In the old one, this is how the MDI form is when there is no form opened:and this is how the MDI form is when there is the form openedThe 3 spot icon is the icon of the form.Then, this is the situation in my new VB.NET app (I've changed the main icon of the app):no form opened
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