Re: VS 2008, forms, and controls
- From: "RicksPlace" <ofbgmail@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:39:43 -0500
Hi: I'm not sure about the Fruit Basket program but you can put any number of
pixels between controls, either left, right, top or bottom of any given
control. To have a sighted person see some intervening space between 2 controls
you might consider 5 or a few more pixels. You can judge how many total pixels
to use vertically or horizontally by calculating the height or width of the
controls in a column or row on the screen and then add in the seperator pixels
and compare the total to the screen resolution in pixels to determine how the
control layout will "fit" on the display screen.
You can set the position of each control's upper left corner pixel in the
properties page for the form in question and also the height and width. Then
you can calculate the total height and width of the control from the starting
position and add a few pixels either to the right or the bottom position to add
some blank space between controls. For groups of related controls like the day,
month and year of a date you might want only a few pixels seperating them but
for space between groups of controls you might want more space. For example:
You might put 3 pixels between a date's month, day and year. Then put 25 pixels
between the end of the year, to the right of it, and then start another group
of fields like perhaps Price, Quantity and Total - again all seperated by a few
pixels. If you have a Form with a width of say 1,000 pixels set up to fill
pretty much an entire screen and centered you could put the Date Fields on the
left upper quadrant and perhaps the other fields in the upper right quadrant by
putting the date group between the horzontal pixels 0 and 500 and putting the
setting the horzontal pixels of the other fields between 500 and 1,000 taking
into consideration margins where necessary. You would set the vertical position
to less than half the height of the form height to put the fields in the upper
quadrants. There is a write up with some specific examples of laying out forms
using pixels and other methods floating around out there somplace. I think they
are on either Inthane's Grabag or perhaps it has been taken over by one of the
other guys but they are out there. As for MDI, I have not yused it but I would
guess you would just drop controls into the MDI control and then position them
in the Properties for the MDI Windowas you might for a table of controls so
that the positioning would be relative to the MDI control rather than the
screen or form itself. If you can't find the tutorials on positioning controls
on a form let me know and I will see if I can dig them up and send them to you
if I still have them floating around my machine.
Rick USA
----- Original Message -----
From: Darko Pogačić
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 5:19 PM
Subject: VS 2008, forms, and controls
Hi there!
How I started to use VS 2008, I need some help when drawing a controls on a
form.
I've seen the Fruit basket example, and I know how to make the design of a
form, but I want to know more details about controls, how many picsels one
control needs to be right, or bottom from another, and how to know the best
control position on a form.
How to know this, if I want to have more then given number of controls in the
Fruit basket program on my form?
Also, I found property for an mdi form, it's IsMDIContainer, but what's
property for a child window, which belongs to an mdi form?
Best regards.
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