Rotated form?

[Jamie Border]

Odd question:

I have some Forms that I have to display rotated 90 degrees clockwise (don't
ask!

Right now I'm doing it by hiding the Form offscreen, grabbing the DC,
rotating it and blitting it onto another Form's DC (well actually a
PictureBox).

Currently I have to handle all event forwarding myself.

Is there a better way to approach this?

Jamie

 

[Miha Markic [MVP C#]]

Hi Jamie,

Perhaps you might consider WPF aka Avalon if you don't need it right now.

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Unfortunately the way you're doing it is the best method. Usually the
orientation of the form is a function of the low-level driver software. This
can be controlled on Tablet PC systems for example but not for other types
of systems unless you can get a custom driver.


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[Jamie Border]

Unfortunately the way you're doing it is the best method. Usually the
orientation of the form is a function of the low-level driver software. This
can be controlled on Tablet PC systems for example but not for other types
of systems unless you can get a custom driver.

Unfortunately I am tied to one particular driver, so no custom rotation
in driver code for me, otherwise I would be merrily re-writing the
graphics driver.

I should have mentioned - these Forms are "fullscreen", that is:

* They are (design-time) 768x1024 and (rotated) 1024x768
* No non-client stuff (no frame, no title bar etc.)

The problem is that the (original) Form is created at 768x768 (square).

This means that after I rotate it I am left with a blank area 'outside'
the Form.

The form is built offscreen, but I can't seem to tell it that being
bigger than PrimaryScreen.Bounds is what I want.


I've tried sending the Form WM_SIZE et al, but to no avail - it seems
the Control gets a WM_SIZING or some such and changes my "768x1024" to
"768x768".

Is there a way to override this somewhere? I feel that I am fighting
the system somewhat.

Jamie

 

[Jamie Border]

Would definitely like to do this, but unfortunately, is needed
yesterday.