forcing form to resize upon load

[Guest]

Hi! I am experiencing a peculiar problem with some old Active X control I am using in my C# winform. Once the form
loads, the control layout position withing the form is incorrect. As soon as I manually resize the form, the control's layout becomes as intended. I need to either fix the control (I am not sure if possible) or force the form to resize just a bit upon load. Is it possible
If yes, what can I do to do that?

Any ideas are greatly appreciated

Thank you in advance

--Sam D..

 

[AlexS]

Hi, Sam D.

You can do that in form load event. E.g. you can set initial width and
height, location etc.
See if it works

HTH
Alex

Hi! I am experiencing a peculiar problem with some old Active X control I

am using in my C# winform. Once the form

loads, the control layout position withing the form is incorrect. As soon

as I manually resize the form, the control's layout becomes as intended. I
need to either fix the control (I am not sure if possible) or force the form
to resize just a bit upon load. Is it possible?

 

[AlexS]

Sam,

thanks for thanks. If it doesn't work, you can try other events, however,
it's like guessing game - no guaranteed results, right?

afair, your component reacts on manual resize. So one of next tries could be
to invoke resize event handler manually - maybe even in form.Load?

I don't remember now exact sequence of events in form life - you will have
to find out event which causes initial placement of control and do resize in
some event after that.

HTH
Alex

 

[Mark Broadbent]

you could create a private form class var e.g.
private bool firedResizeOnce = false;

and within the Activate event do something similar (it will only fire once a
instanciation)

if (!firedResizeOnce) {

//never resize again on this instance

firedResizeOnce = true;

int formWidth = this.Height * 2;

int formHeight = this.Width * 2;

System.Drawing.Size s = new Size(formWidth, formHeight);

//resize form to new size

this.Size = s;

}


Obviously there will be a very (milli secs or so) momentary visible change
but it really shouldnt be a problem.
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Br,
Mark Broadbent
mcdba , mcse+i
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