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Evan
Evan

Reputation: 4550

Changing the start up location of a WPF window

I'd like to have a WPF window open in the top right part of the screen.

Right now I can achieve that by opening the window and then moving it (via movewindow in user32.dll). However, this approach means the window opens in it's default location, fully loads, and then moves to the top right.

How could I do I change it so that I could specify the window's initial position and size?

Upvotes: 56

Views: 104212

Answers (6)

Reed Copsey
Reed Copsey

Reputation: 564323

Just set WindowStartupLocation, Height, Width, Left, and Top in XAML:

<Window x:Class="WpfApplication1.Window1" 
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" 
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" 
    Title="Window1" 
    Height="500" Width="500"
    WindowStartupLocation="Manual" 
    Left="0" Top="0">
</Window>

Upvotes: 120

Wappenull
Wappenull

Reputation: 1379

In my case I want my "Find" tool box to appear top-right corner of the RichTextBox control.

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It is done with this code:

    // Assumes variable: RichTextBox m_Box, Window m_FindWordDialog
    m_FindWordDialog.Show( ); // Let dialog show itself first

    // Note: I had to use ActualWidth because m_Box.Width somehow is (NaN) in my case
    // Not tested in different DPI.
    Point locationFromScreen = m_Box.PointToScreen( new Point(m_Box.ActualWidth, 0) );
    m_FindWordDialog.Left = locationFromScreen.X - m_FindWordDialog.Width;
    m_FindWordDialog.Top = locationFromScreen.Y;

My search window XAML has following properties.

WindowStartupLocation="Manual" Left="0" Top="0"

It will briefly appear on its initial location and jump a bit, but I can live with it. Actually any value is fine, WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner" also work, it just jump from center of parent. Or as dirty workaround, you could use manual mode and let it start in faraway position to not let user see jumping.

To make it appear relative on desktop position, acquire the screen workspace location, you can check: How to set the location of WPF window to the bottom right corner of desktop?

Upvotes: 0

Michael Webb
Michael Webb

Reputation: 1

This is what worked for me (with a different placement on screen):

<Window x:Class="BtnConfig.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        xmlns:local="clr-namespace:BtnConfig"
        mc:Ignorable="d"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="142.802" Width="448.089"
        Top="288" Left="0"> 
</Window>

Notice it does not contain:

WindowStartupLocation="Manual"

Upvotes: 0

Christian Larsson
Christian Larsson

Reputation: 151

For people who like me wanted to set the position of the window to the current mouse position, you can do it like this: 

myWindow.WindowStartupLocation = WindowStartupLocation.Manual;
myWindow.Left = PointToScreen(Mouse.GetPosition(null)).X;
myWindow.Top = PointToScreen(Mouse.GetPosition(null)).Y;

Upvotes: 8

Андрей Рыжов
Андрей Рыжов

Reputation: 21

There is a property for Window, called "WindowStartupLocation" You can find that in properties window. Simply just select Window in constructor, then go to properties list. Search for "Startup" or smth similar and you can find that property. Change it to "CenterScreen" and it will make the deal. NOTE! Make sure, that you did not select grid instead of window! Otherwise you`ll fail.

Or you just can done it via XAML editing as some guys wrote before.

Upvotes: 1

noelicus
noelicus

Reputation: 15055

I like to use WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner" (MSDN docs for it)

The caller needs to specify itself as owner for this to work though, such as:

new MyWindow() { Owner = this }.ShowDialog();

Then just define the window height and width, e.g:

<Window ...
     Height="400" Width="600"
     WindowStartupLocation="CenterOwner"
>
...

Upvotes: 10

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