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Mocco
Mocco

Reputation: 1223

How do I set the size of the visible area of a form, minus heading and borders?

I would like to set my form to be exactly 300*300 excluding heading and borders.

If I use Size property, it does include these values.

Is there any way how to do it?

Upvotes: 21

Views: 31578

Answers (3)

Yetti
Yetti

Reputation: 1710

You have two options, as follows:

  • To remove heading and borders from a Form, disable the Form's FormBorderStyle property.

  • Set the interior of the form with the ClientSize property, as follows:

    this.ClientSize = new Size(300, 300);

Upvotes: 31

Marek Kijo
Marek Kijo

Reputation: 317

There is workaround to set proper Size by designer tool: 1. Set FormBorderSize to "None". 2. Set prefered Size (e.g. "300; 300"). 3. Set FormBorderSize to prefered border (additional needed space will be added to Size property automaticly).

Upvotes: 6

dandan78
dandan78

Reputation: 13864

Why not just factor in the size of the border and the title bar?

int BorderWidth = (this.Width – this.ClientSize.Width) /2;
int TitlebarHeight = this.Height – this.ClientSize.Height – 2 * BorderWidth;

I found the formulas here.

Upvotes: 9

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