controls, resolution, and screens

[steve]

i've got a form that i'm adding controls to dynamically. i'm doing
development on a laptop and testing different resolutions. the screens look
fine at each res. being tested. however, when i install the app on a
different pc (desktop), the controls are out of alignment, some are even off
the screen.

what gives?

tia,

steve

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

i've got a form that i'm adding controls to dynamically. i'm doing
development on a laptop and testing different resolutions. the screens look
fine at each res. being tested. however, when i install the app on a
different pc (desktop), the controls are out of alignment, some are even off
the screen.

Did you play around with the form's 'AutoScale' property?

 

[Armin Zingler]

i've got a form that i'm adding controls to dynamically. i'm doing
development on a laptop and testing different resolutions. the
screens look fine at each res. being tested. however, when i install
the app on a different pc (desktop), the controls are out of
alignment, some are even off the screen.

autoscale = false


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[steve]

thanks all.

i'll give the form's autoscale property a shot.


| i've got a form that i'm adding controls to dynamically. i'm doing
| development on a laptop and testing different resolutions. the screens
look
| fine at each res. being tested. however, when i install the app on a
| different pc (desktop), the controls are out of alignment, some are even
off
| the screen.
|
| what gives?
|
| tia,
|
| steve
|
|

 

[steve]

thanks...that did do the trick.


| thanks all.
|
| i'll give the form's autoscale property a shot.
|
|
| | | i've got a form that i'm adding controls to dynamically. i'm doing
| | development on a laptop and testing different resolutions. the screens
| look
| | fine at each res. being tested. however, when i install the app on a
| | different pc (desktop), the controls are out of alignment, some are even
| off
| | the screen.
| |
| | what gives?
| |
| | tia,
| |
| | steve
| |
| |
|
|

 

[AlexS]

Check if display settings are same.
When you calculate positions of controls you must use system settings (like
border3d size, caption height etc.). They could be modified by users in any
way they want. See display/appearance tab. And related SystemInformation
class in .Net.

HTH
Alex