VB.Net 2005 - Scrollbars On A Form

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Topic # 59937 15-Apr-2010 11:32

Hey all,

I have made a basic application using Visual Studio 2005 in VB.Net

I need to know how to make the form move with scrollbars.

I currently have a Vbar and Hbar docking in the right place when i load the form, however as i haven't coded yet, sliding the bar does nothing.

Can someone more experienced give me a hand here?

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Reply # 318720 15-Apr-2010 11:50

PS - Also happy to program the form just to be resizable and therefore scale its contents (thats probably more useful)

rassnor

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Reply # 318730 15-Apr-2010 12:03

I think all you need to do is set the AutoScroll property of the form control to true, then resize the form to the desired viewing area and scroll bars are created automatically.

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Reply # 318733 15-Apr-2010 12:19

Ok...let me get this write...have you just written yourself a spreadsheet?

Anyway, regardless of that, what exactly are you trying to achieve? What governs the scrolling, where are you scrolling to?

It seems you have just added scrollbar controls to the form - is that right? You may just want to make your form automatically show scrollbars when the content overflows the form. It's been a while since I've done .NET 2.0 in VS2005 - the property name escapes me at the moment.

Hope that makes sense?

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Reply # 318740 15-Apr-2010 12:27

Its not a spreadsheet, its a calculator for a game.

i can resize the form, but it wont shrink the controls inside it. Nor will it scale them up.

I want to resize the whole form, so the boxes etc inside scale with it. I don't know how to do this :(

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Reply # 318741 15-Apr-2010 12:31

Sorry...forgot to put a smiley...was just kidding about the spreadsheet thing :o)

Anyway, you have to "pin" various corners of the controls to the container to make it resize with the container. It's all in the Property panel for each control.

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Reply # 318742 15-Apr-2010 12:33

Sorry...not "Pin"...I think the word is "Anchor"

Use a combination of anchoring and docking to place and automatically size the controls. If you want various controls to respond differently to the form resizing then you can always group them in various containers, eg. Panel, GroupBox, etc.

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Reply # 318778 15-Apr-2010 13:15

i managed to get the scrolling working, unfortunately the process for scaling seems to out of it for me

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Reply # 318793 15-Apr-2010 13:51

It's not too convoluted a concept - if you google "winform anchor and dock" there are plenty of examples and tutorials out there.

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Reply # 320193 19-Apr-2010 12:17

I'm not efficient in VB however I am in C# and the process is the same. In visual Studios, in the properties sidebar there will be a propertie called "anchor" click on the ellipses (or arrow) next to it. It will show you some boxes. These boxes represent the sides of the form.
you want to anchor the controls to the top and left boxes to hold them in that place. If you anchor them to the right and bottom boxes they will expand and contract as the form does.
There are other ways of doing this, you could write a method that gets the forms size and adjusts the controls accordingly as the form is resized. However the anchor method is probably the best bet without any direct coding.

Hope this helps.