Moving/Resizing controls in designer view

[Simon Jefferies]

Hello,

I've put a number of controls around forms etc, (like combo box and checked
list boxes) and over time they move or change in size without me touching
them.

Why is this happening and is there anything I can do to stop them doing
this?

Regards
Simon Jefferies
Tools Programmer, Headfirst Productions
mailto:[email protected]
www.headfirst.co.uk www.callofcthulhu.com

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Hallo,

Are you sure they are not selected, the deselect in the current IDE is not
the nicest thing of it in my opinion.

Cor

 

[Simon Jefferies]

When I come back to the form after a day or so, I've found them moved.

Regards
Simon Jefferies
Tools Programmer, Headfirst Productions
mailto:[email protected]
www.headfirst.co.uk www.callofcthulhu.com
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[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Simon,

Do not become angry however my first thought was, can he not put a little
bit cheese before his computer with a fall, this sounds so weird.

Did you ever opened the designer part at the +.
The designer places only properties with values in the code.

And that is than changed without doing anything.

What you once can try maybe, is close the design part of the form, keep the
code open, save it, and than look what happens when you reopen it again.

I wished I could help you further however I do not know how?

Cor

 

[Simon Jefferies]

Sorry for getting a bit angry ;-) just its doing my head in!!

I did as you suggested, closed the design part and left the code open! It
asked me to save to the resx file, which I did.

When I opened up the form, the height of my checked list box has shrunk!!
Arghh....

Regards
Simon Jefferies
Tools Programmer, Headfirst Productions
mailto:[email protected]
www.headfirst.co.uk www.callofcthulhu.com
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[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Simon,

I did as you suggested, closed the design part and left the code open! It
asked me to save to the resx file, which I did.

That is not normal, are all the files on your own disk?

Cor

 

[Simon Jefferies]

Yes. Its not limited to one form it happens across other forms. Seems to be
specific controls as well.

Regards
Simon Jefferies
Tools Programmer, Headfirst Productions
mailto:[email protected]
www.headfirst.co.uk www.callofcthulhu.com
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[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Simon,

I do not want to go direct to the rough methode, did you already look at
your resx file if there are strange things in it.

You know that you can see it by clicking on the showall files in the
solution explorer?

Cor

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

I've put a number of controls around forms etc, (like combo box and checked
list boxes) and over time they move or change in size without me touching
them.

Are you using a main menu on the form?
Did you change the form's 'FormBorderStyle' property?
Does your form have a tool window border?
Did you edit the forms on machines with different # of DPI?