How to adjust screen of win form application According to System Resolution

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Hello,

I am working on a win form application.

I'm focusing more on User interface and I am facing some problems.

One big problem is of screen resolutions.
While devloping the project my computer's screen resolution in 1024 * 768.
When I change the screen resolution either minimum or maximum my win form application screens designs are getting disturbed.

I am trying to adjust win form screens according to screen resolutions.

How to do this?

Please help

Posted 28-Mar-11 20:28pm

Yatin Bhagat

Updated 29-Mar-11 6:59am

Dalek Dave

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Dalek Dave 29-Mar-11 12:59pm

Edited for Grammar and Readability.

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Solution 4

Put a TableLayoutPanel on your Form. Then put your controls in the cells of the TableLayoutPanel. Combine with control's Dock property.

Posted 28-Mar-11 22:36pm

lukeer

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Dalek Dave 29-Mar-11 13:01pm

Agreed.

Solution 5

You need to do you layout resolution-tolerant.

Please see my recommendations here:
Zom Out malfunctions when Screen resolution changes[^]

Some more general ideas:
GUI Apperance - C#.Net[^]

—SA

Posted 29-Mar-11 5:37am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Solution 6

You can set your anchors on the controls, and make it fairly resilient, but you MUST decided on a minimum width/height for the form. I think 1024x768 is a more-than-acceptable minimum.

Posted 29-Mar-11 5:48am

#realJSOP

Solution 7

You can set your anchors on the controls, and make it fairly resilient, but you MUST

Posted 22-Aug-13 14:42pm

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[no name] 22-Aug-13 21:00pm

Copying someone else's answer to pass it off as your own is so not cool. And we won't even talk about being so lazy as to not even bother copying the entire answer.

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Theingi Win · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-28T21:09:00

Solution 3

You can adjust your control's Dock properties, this properties can adjust probably most of controls(eg DataGridView,Panel,Label(use as Header)).But this properties can't adjust all of controls.

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Posted 28-Mar-11 21:09pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Mar-11 11:38am

This is just one of the aspect. Please see my Answer as well.
--SA

Dalek Dave 29-Mar-11 13:01pm

This is true

OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-28T21:01:00

Solution 1

This is very difficult, if not impossible to do in WinForms: easy in WPF.

You can use the Anchor property to expand and contract controls, but except in simple forms that isn't going to help much. The only way to do it "nicely" is to use edge located frames around a single inner core, in the same way as Visual Studio does - and probably for just that reason!

Sorry, but them's the breaks!

Posted 28-Mar-11 21:01pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 29-Mar-11 11:35am

Anchor is bad, but all can be done with docking. "Very difficlut, if not impossible" compared to WPF is the exaggeration. I'm sure everything you can do of WPF about flexible layout I can reproduce with Forms.
--SA

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willempipi · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-28T21:08:00

Make a eventhandler to the resize event (properties window > events or this.Resize += new EventHandler(somefunction);) then resize/reposition all controls on your form using the new dimentions found in this.ClientRectangle.

example:

C#

private void PersonalizeColumnsForm_Resize(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    listColumns.Top = 10;
    listColumns.Left = 10;
    listColumns.Height = this.ClientRectangle.Height - 20;
    listColumns.Width = this.ClientRectangle.Width - 30 - btnClose.Width;

    btnClose.Left = 10 + listColumns.Width + 10;
    btnClose.Top = 10;

    btnCheckAll.Left = btnClose.Left;
    btnCheckAll.Top = btnClose.Bottom + 10;

    btnUncheckAll.Left = btnClose.Left;
    btnUncheckAll.Top = btnCheckAll.Bottom + 10;

    btnTop.Left = btnClose.Left;
    btnTop.Top = 20 + (listColumns.Height / 2) - 35 - btnUp.Height;

    btnUp.Left = btnClose.Left;
    btnUp.Top = 20 + (listColumns.Height / 2) - 5 - btnUp.Height;

    btnDown.Left = btnClose.Left;
    btnDown.Top = 20 + (listColumns.Height / 2) + 5 + btnDown.Height;

    btnBottom.Left = btnClose.Left;
    btnBottom.Top = 20 + (listColumns.Height / 2) + 35 + btnDown.Height;

    btnReset.Left = btnClose.Left;
    btnReset.Top = listColumns.Bottom - btnReset.Height;
}

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