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Anton Gogolev
Anton Gogolev

Reputation: 115751

Autosizing WinForms Dialog to fit inner content

I'm writing a kind of "generic container dialog", which will ensure that all modal dialogs in an app will have the exact same "chrome" (namely, buttons, icons, etc.). I came up with the following:

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The containerPanel is just a System.Windows.Forms.Panel.

Now what I want is as follows: for each dialog in an app, I want to create a separate UserControl (not a full-blown Form) and then "host" it inside this generic dialog. To do so, I need to somehow make this dialog self-adjustable so that it would shrink or grow depending on the size of a control hosted inside it.

How can I do that? Do I need some kind of layout control, or is there some special magical property to do this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 5576

Answers (2)

Daniel Mošmondor
Daniel Mošmondor

Reputation: 19956

You can iterate through Controls collection and look for lower-bottom corner of every control that is enumerated, find maximum x and maximum y, and set form (container) Width and Height appropriately.

Upvotes: 1

Ashwini Dhekane
Ashwini Dhekane

Reputation: 2290

There is an boolean autosize property for windows.form.control . When true it allows the control to autosize automatically to fit its contents

Upvotes: 6

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