Resizing splitter panels

[Ray Mitchell]

Hello,

VS2005 Pro: I have a GUI application that contains text boxes within split
panels within split panels. It is arranged so that the outer edges of these
boxes and panels are very close together. During GUI development I need to
be able to drag the edges of these various controls around just to get
everything aligned and pretty. The problem comes when I try to select a
particular control for resizing. I have tried for up to 10 minutes sometimes
trying to carefully click in just the right place to select the correct
control, but there doesn't seem to be any ryhme or reason to what gets
selected since the edges are so close together. Is there a better.
Sometimes I'm forced to go into the designer file it self and manually play
with the dimensions.

Thanks,
Ray

 

[Peter Duniho]

[...] I have tried for up to 10 minutes sometimes
trying to carefully click in just the right place to select the correct
control, but there doesn't seem to be any ryhme or reason to what gets
selected since the edges are so close together. Is there a better.

Select any control on the form, then use Tab and Shift-Tab to change which
control is actually selected.

 

[Ray Mitchell]

[...] I have tried for up to 10 minutes sometimes
trying to carefully click in just the right place to select the correct
control, but there doesn't seem to be any ryhme or reason to what gets
selected since the edges are so close together. Is there a better.

Select any control on the form, then use Tab and Shift-Tab to change which
control is actually selected.

Thanks Peter,

This trivial bit of information that I should have already known just made
life much easier!

Ray

 

[Cnu]

Hello,

VS2005 Pro:  I have a GUI application that contains text boxes within split
panels within split panels.  It is arranged so that the outer edges of these
boxes and panels are very close together.  During GUI development I need to
be able to drag the edges of these various controls around just to get
everything aligned and pretty.  The problem comes when I try to select a
particular control for resizing.  I have tried for up to 10 minutes sometimes
trying to carefully click in just the right place to select the correct
control, but there doesn't seem to be any ryhme or reason to what gets
selected since the edges are so close together.  Is there a better.  
Sometimes I'm forced to go into the designer file it self and manually play
with the dimensions.

Thanks,
Ray

I think, other better option would be select the control from
properties pane drop down, you can select what ever the control that
you want directly...

-Cnu

 

[Pasan Indeewara]

Hi,
I would suggest you to set the ANCHOR property, so that you will no
longer need to set change the dimensions, etc. manually. when you change
split edges, they'll be automatically arranged.

Have a look at,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.anchor.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.control.anchor(VS.80).aspx

Note you can simply set it using the property window.

 

[Jeff Johnson]

VS2005 Pro: I have a GUI application that contains text boxes within
split
panels within split panels. It is arranged so that the outer edges of
these
boxes and panels are very close together. During GUI development I need
to
be able to drag the edges of these various controls around just to get
everything aligned and pretty. The problem comes when I try to select a
particular control for resizing. I have tried for up to 10 minutes
sometimes
trying to carefully click in just the right place to select the correct
control, but there doesn't seem to be any ryhme or reason to what gets
selected since the edges are so close together. Is there a better.
Sometimes I'm forced to go into the designer file it self and manually
play
with the dimensions.

Right-click somewhere over the control you want. On the context menu you'll
get a list of all the controls at that point and you can select the one you
want.