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whytheq
whytheq

Reputation: 35557

Winforms to start center (in terms of height) but to the left of the screen

I'm trying to adapt @HansPasant's code from vb.net to c#. Also I want to adapt it so the winForms starts centered in terms of top-to-bottom but to the far left of the screen in terms of left-to-right:

vb.net from here How to set winform start position at top right? :

Public Class Form1
    Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        Dim scr = Screen.FromPoint(Me.Location)
        Me.Location = New Point(scr.WorkingArea.Right - Me.Width, scr.WorkingArea.Top)
        MyBase.OnLoad(e)
    End Sub
End Class

My current (bad) attempt:

private void scriptSurfer_Load(object sender,EventArgs e)
{
    var scr = Screen.FromPoint(this.Location);
    this.Location = New Point(scr.WorkingArea.Left - this.Width, scr.WorkingArea.Top);
    this.OnLoad(e);
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 112

Answers (1)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 216293

If I have understood your question you need 

The LeftMost position of the Screen = 0
Vertical Centering = (Screen.Height - form.Height) / 2

this.Location = new Point(0, (scr.WorkingArea.Height - this.Height) / 2);

and do not forget 

Form.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual

As noted below in comments, the best point in which execute this code is inside the override of the OnLoad method albeit a Load event should work just fine in 99% of the situations. Also using the Screen.WorkingArea.Left property to position the form on the left side of the screen could be better instead of a fixed leftmost position. This could avoid edge cases where the leftmost available position is not at zero coordinates.

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
{
    var scr = Screen.PrimaryScreen;
    this.Location = new Point(scr.WorkingArea.Left, 
                             (scr.WorkingArea.Height - this.Height) / 2);
    base.OnLoad(e);
}

Upvotes: 3

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