Re: making elements of a window form resizable

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From: "Bruce Wood" <brucewood@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 Apr 2005 13:05:04 -0700

You want to look into the following things in WinForms:

Anchoring
Docking
Panels
Splitters

Basically, you put a group of controls within a panel, and either dock
them or anchor them so that when the Panel changes size, the controls
within it do intelligent things.

Then you put panels within other panels, and dock them so that when the
higher-level panel resizes, the inner panels do intelligent things.

You will want to give the user direct control over some panel sizing,
and for this you add a Splitter.

Then arrange the highest-level panels and splitters within the Form,
dock them appropriately, and you're done.

It's sort of hard to describe without seeing it in action. :)

.

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