WinForms Resizer Software/Plugin

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Does anybody know any software or visual studio plugin , when form maximize resize all controls (label,textbox,panel etc.). i mean, not like anchor or dock but something external from visual studio properties.
i cant use anchor or dock properties bcos many componets in form and i cant place tablelayoutpanel bcos it dont support copy/paste componets... i just want when the form maximize everything there to be bigger!

Posted 22-May-14 8:10am

Emin Kokalari

Updated 22-May-14 8:24am

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karthik Udhayakumar 22-May-14 14:21pm

Is there any concrete reason for going after a third party plugin for this requirement? or any blockage?Explain for better answers from the community:

Emin Kokalari 22-May-14 14:24pm

hello karthy Udhaykumar ... i cant use anchor or dock properties bcos many componets in form and i cant place tablelayoutpanel bcos it dont support copy/paste componets... i just want when the form maximize everything there to be bigger!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-May-14 14:33pm

Why?! Well, if the controls are windowed controls, you could relatively easily create such code, but why? If controls are not windowed, such as with WPF, there is virtually now a way...
I don't believe someone would seriously write and provide such code as a product, because — why anyone would do that? I even doubt that even you should go in for anything like that.
It would be much better to write you UI in humane manner...
—SA

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BillWoodruff · Answer 1 · 2014-05-22T18:36:00

Echoing other statements here, I'd say this is not the kind of thing you want to do in WinForms.

You haven't mentioned dynamically scaling Font-size: if you are thinking of that, I'd strongly suggest you forget it. Fonts in WinForms are only going to look good at certain distinct point-sizes.

I'd suggest you analyze if you have too many components on one Form, and adapt a strategy for organizing the components into functional groups, and then using something like a TabControl to display them by group. Or, consider using SplitContainers.

You can also try organizing the components into functional groups using Panels, and you can do a lot with anchoring, or docking, Panels.

If you really have to do this, you'll need to use recursion to handle Controls within Controls, and adjust their sizes using a ratio you calculate (the solution by Karthy above only adjusts the size of the top-level Controls on the Form).

Check out WeiFen Luo's DockPanelSuite: [^]; on SourceForge: [^].

karthik Udhayakumar · Answer 2 · 2014-05-22T08:33:00

Hello Emin,
Try this code and reference

C#

using Microsoft.VisualBasic;
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Data;
using System.Diagnostics;
 
public class Form1
{
 
		// Current Width
	int CW = this.Width;
		// Current Height
	int CH = this.Height;
		// Initial Width
	int IW = this.Width;
		// Initial Height
	int IH = this.Height;
 

	private void Form1_Resize(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
	{
		double RW =(double) (this.Width - CW) / CW;
		// Ratio change of width
		double RH = (double)(this.Height - CH) / CH;
		// Ratio change of height

		foreach (Control Ctrl in Controls) {
			Ctrl.Width += Convert.ToInt32(Ctrl.Width * RW);
			Ctrl.Height += Convert.ToInt32(Ctrl.Height * RH);
			Ctrl.Left += Convert.ToInt32(Ctrl.Left * RW);
			Ctrl.Top += Convert.ToInt32(Ctrl.Top * RH);
		}
 
		CW = this.Width;
		CH = this.Height;
 
	}
 

	private void Form1_Load(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e)
	{
		IW = this.Width;
		IH = this.Height;
 
	}
	public Form1()
	{
		Load += Form1_Load;
		Resize += Form1_Resize;
	}
 
}

Reference:Resizing Controls When Resizing Form[^]

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