Is there any documentation of how thick a border of a regular form is?
The goal:
I've created a userControl with a width of 800px. I want to raise a popup (normal form in general) with a new instance of it at full resolution (800px - everything visible).
My Problem:
Setting the form to Form.Size.Width = 800
wont do it. It looks like the border of the form is included in the width-property of the form. I need to subtract that border.
I should be something like: 2px + 800px + 2px
If you would like to see some code tell me, but I think its unnecessary in here.
EDIT:
After popping the control up:
Code for popup:
private void buttonPopup_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Form MyPopup = new Form();
customControl MyUserControl = new customControl();
MyUserControl.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
Rectangle rc = MyUserControl.RectangleToScreen(MyUserControl.ClientRectangle);
//int thickness = SystemInformation.Border3DSize.Width;
//MyPopup.MaximumSize = new Size(MyUserControl.Size.Width + (thickness*2), 1500);
MyPopup.Controls.Add(MyUserControl);
MyPopup.MaximumSize = new Size(rc.Width, rc.Height);
MyPopup.Show();
}
I mean your code looks logical to me. But still the result is the same. The userControl
is displayed a tiny bit smaller. I know I've used dock = fill
where my button isnt placed professionally inside the layout. But away from this there has to be a solution to just set the right size.
It seems that your are looking for
int thickness = SystemInformation.Border3DSize;
another (and, INHO, a better one) possiblity is to use ClientRectangle
of the control. For instance:
// Client rectangle in screen coordinates
Rectangle rc = MyControl.RectangleToScreen(MyControl.ClientRectangle);
// Let's align context menu (its width) to bottom of the control
MyContextMenuStrip.AutoSize = false;
// Depending on actual dropdown control you may want align either via
// Width = rc.Width;
// Or
// ClientSize = new Size(rc.Width, someHeight);
MyContextMenuStrip.Width = rc.Width;
// Let's show context menu at the bottom of the control
MyContextMenuStrip.Show(new Point(rc.Left, rc.Bottom));