Grippy Problem

[Tom]

Well,

This one's kind of embarrassing. I have inherited a Windows for application
in VS2008 C# that has a status bar with a sizing grip in the lower right
hand corner. However, the sizing grip doesn't work (it will not let me grab
it if I place the mouse over it). Anyway, the form is resizable, and the
status bar has 2 panels associated in the collection. I have no idea why
the grippy isn't working. I can take it out with the SizingGrip = false
property, but that seems like the cheesy way out.

Anybody have any ideas why the grippy isn't working?

Thanks.

 

[Rory Becker]

Hello Tom,

Anybody have any ideas why the grippy isn't working?

Sorry I have no solution to offer.

However I would like to ask if in future you could post a single message
to multiple newsgroups at the same time (called multipost I believe) rather
than posting different messages to each newsgroup.

This will result in the messages in each group being understood, by various
newsreaders, as being the same message. People from different groups will
be able to see the replies made by each other and so not answer messages
which have already been answered.

Also when a message is marked as read in 1 group it is similarly marked as
read in all other groups.

It just helps to keep the noise down

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gregg Walker]

Anyway, the form is resizable ...

What exactly do you mean by resizable?

What is the FormBorderStyle property set to?

 

[Family Tree Mike]

Answered also in dotnet.framework:

Are the forms minimum and maximum size constraining the form to the set size?

 

[Tom]

Thanks Gregg,

By resizable, I mean the I can make the length and width larger or smaller
by grabbing either the top, bottom, or one of the sides of the form and
adjust the form. The FormBorderStyle property is set to Sizable.

Any ideas?

 

[Tom]

The MaximumSize property is set to 0, 0.

The MinimumSize property is set to 0, 0.

 

[Gregg Walker]

Tom,

By resizable, I mean the I can make the length and width larger or smaller
by grabbing either the top, bottom, or one of the sides of the form and
adjust the form. The FormBorderStyle property is set to Sizable.

Thanks for clarifying.

I can't think of anything off hand.

Is it possible the designer code (InitializeComponent()) is hosed. You
might try changing some statusbar and form properties and then changing back
to force the designer to recreate its code. Have you tried removing the
statusbar and recreating it?

Which OS are you running the application on?

Sorry but you've got me stumped as well.

 

[Tom]

Thanks Gregg. Sorry it's been a while, I've been out sick. I tried
recreating everything like you said, but it's still unhappy. I'm running on
Vista32 and working with VS2008.

 

[Gregg Walker]

Hi Tom,

Thanks Gregg. Sorry it's been a while, I've been out sick. I tried
recreating everything like you said, but it's still unhappy. I'm running
on Vista32 and working with VS2008.

I'm running Win XP SP2 with VS2008.

I don't have any Vista machines yet so I can't replicate at this point. I
wonder if anyone else running Vista has experienced this same behavior and
could be of assistance.

I wish I could be of more help.

Good luck!