Re: Windows Forms layout - how to do it?

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:58:39 -0400

Hi,
I use a text editor rather than Visual Studio for .NET development, so was hoping that someone else might have a solution to the problem you experienced compiling with Homer.NET. As its author, I would like to work with you to resolve the problem. If possible, please try the following and report yur results.
I think there is a way that VS hosts a program that is under development, rather than launching that program to run independently. I am not sure, but think that is where the problem is arising. Can you compile the code and run it without this hosting scenario? For example, I vaguely recall that Control+F5 compiles, whereas F5 runs a program in a hosted mode. If compiling is successful, then try running the program outside of VS, or look for menu options on a project or build menu that allow you to run the program independently (not hosted for debugging, etc.).
If that does not work, try compiling from the command line with the C# compiler, csc.exe. There is a VS Start Menu option for opening a console mode environment that sets appropriate paths to the command line compilers. You will need to reference assemblies as appropriate when calling the compiler. the batch files distributed with Homer.NET illustrate how this may be done.
I realize that you may prefer to use VS for everything rather than a command-line compiler for some tasks. This would help us identify where the problem lies. 

Jamal

On 8/5/2011 6:14 AM, Bue Vester-Andersen wrote:

        Hi,

I am wondering how you guys make a Windows forms user interface with a
decent layout. I am congenitally blind, and I have always found it a great
pain to make a layout that would work at all.

- which controlls should be where on the form, and where should they be
docked?

- What should be aligned with what? For instance, a text label and a text
box have different hights, so do you align to top bottom or middle?

How do you ensure that each controll has room enough for its text - at any
time? What when you translate the text into another language? What when the
dialog is resized?

Should I just switch to something completely different? WPF is not terribly
accessible, at least not with JAWS for Windows., which doesn't support UI
automation very well.

I could continue until next christmas. Do you all have sighted persons to
scrutinize your forms layout when you change a single byte of code?

I had hoped that I could use Layout by Code but no luck so far. The thread
about that seems to have dissolved into a discussion about to IDE or not to
IDE.

Do any of you know about a layout engine that can solve at least some of the
problems? If not, can you point me to a tutorial on how to make a good
layout? The .net documentation is excelent if you know what you want to
achieve, but I guess that is part of the problem. I don't know what my form
is really supposed to look like, and I don't know when to dock the controlls
left right or center.

Hope someone can help me.

Best regards
Bue

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