Problem with screen resolution

Question

Allright i made a program in 1280 x 800 and when i run it on a lower res like 800 x 600 it dosn't display right... do i have to resize all my buttons/things on the form to display right or is there a easy way to change it??? And if not is there a way to make sure on my next project to display everything right no matter what resolution im at. dynamically change the size of everything according to the resolution?

Kirtan Patel · Answer

you need to Use Anchor and dock Properties of Controls . that can well manage your Form Layout though Visual Studio have limited layouts like Flow layout and Table layout but if you can afford you can use better layout managers than what Visual Studio have like link below http://www.rapidlayout.net/Features/Screen_Shots/screen_shots.html Happy Coding :)

Danatas Gervi · Answer

You also may work with relative coordinates of controls Here is example: namespace WindowsApplication1 { public partial class Form1 : Form { int dX dY; private Dictionary AllFormControls; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); AllFormControls = new Dictionary (); foreach (Control CurrC in this.Controls) { if (CurrC.Name != Field) { GuiViewOfControl GuiV = new GuiViewOfControl(this CurrC); AllFormControls.Add(CurrC GuiV); CurrC.MouseMove += new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(this.Form1_MouseMove); } } } private void Form1_MouseMove(object sender MouseEventArgs e) { Control CurrentC = (Control)sender; if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left) { if (dX == 0 || dY == 0) { dX = e.X; dY = e.Y; } CurrentC.Left += e.X - dX; CurrentC.Top += e.Y - dY; ThisIsOwerOther(CurrentC); return; } AllFormControls[CurrentC].RefreshLocation(this CurrentC); dX = 0; dY = 0; } private void ThisIsOwerOther(Control sender) { foreach (Control cn in this.Controls) { if (sender == cn) { continue; } Rectangle thisContr = new Rectangle(sender.Left sender.Top sender.Width sender.Height); Rectangle otherContr = new Rectangle(cn.Left cn.Top cn.Width cn.Height); if (thisContr.IntersectsWith(otherContr)) { cn.Refresh(); sender.Refresh(); } } } private void Form1_ResizeEnd(object sender EventArgs e) { foreach (Control CurrC in this.Controls) { double T = AllFormControls[CurrC].Top * this.Height; double L = AllFormControls[CurrC].Left * this.Width; double H = AllFormControls[CurrC].Height * this.Height; double W = AllFormControls[CurrC].Width * this.Width; float FontHeight = (float)(AllFormControls[CurrC].Font * H); CurrC.Top = (int)T;//AllFormControls[count].Top * this.Height; CurrC.Left = (int)L;//AllFormControls[count].Left * this.Width; CurrC.Height = (int)H;//AllFormControls[count].Height * this.Height; CurrC.Width = (int)W;//AllFormControls[count].Width * this.Width; CurrC.Font = new Font(CurrC.Font.FontFamily.Name FontHeight); } } } public class GuiViewOfControl { private double SHARP = 0.001; public double Top; public double Left; public double Height; public double Width; public float Font; public GuiViewOfControl(Control Main Control Current) { Top = (double)Current.Top / (double)Main.Height; Left = (double)Current.Left / (double)Main.Width; Height = (double)Current.Height / (double)Main.Height; Width = (double)Current.Width / (double)Main.Width; Font = (float)Current.Font.Size / (float)Current.Height; if ((Height + SHARP) > 1) { Height = 1; } if ((Width + SHARP) > 1) { Width = 1; } } public void RefreshLocation(Control Main Control Current) { Top = (double)Current.Top / (double)Main.Height; Left = (double)Current.Left / (double)Main.Width; } } } You can place any control on this form and it will always on same place. (but you can move it in runtime - not nessesary but funny. ;-) )