Toolbar Scrolls with Window

13 Jun 2006 2:44 AM

bern11

I have a main form with autoscroll and a menu docked top & left. When I
scroll to the right or down, the menu moves off-screen. How do I keep
that from happening? (Do I have to set the location of the menu with
each scroll-bar move???).

13 Jun 2006 1:50 PM

Göran_Andersson

Place the menu and a panel in the form, make the panel scrollable
instead of the form, and place the other controls on the panel.

bern11 wrote:
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> I have a main form with autoscroll and a menu docked top & left. When I
> scroll to the right or down, the menu moves off-screen. How do I keep
> that from happening? (Do I have to set the location of the menu with
> each scroll-bar move???).

14 Jun 2006 1:44 AM

bern11

Thanks for the advice. It works great. I'm a bit surprised though that
you have to do that. I thought for sure there must be a 'dock to the
visible boundaries' settings somewhere....

Göran Andersson wrote:
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> Place the menu and a panel in the form, make the panel scrollable
> instead of the form, and place the other controls on the panel.
>
> bern11 wrote:
>
>> I have a main form with autoscroll and a menu docked top & left. When
>> I scroll to the right or down, the menu moves off-screen. How do I
>> keep that from happening? (Do I have to set the location of the menu
>> with each scroll-bar move???).

14 Jun 2006 8:01 AM

Göran_Andersson

That would require that the control would be excluded from the normal
positioning of child controls and instead be placed outside the actual
parent control, changing the size of the scrolling area. That would in
turn mean that the parent control would need three sets of coordinates,
one for the original position of the control, one for the scrolling area
that is left when the docked childen has been placed, and one for the
virtual area that is shown in the scrolling area.

It think that it's more straight forward to actually place the control
outside the area that should scroll. :)

bern11 wrote:
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> Thanks for the advice. It works great. I'm a bit surprised though that
> you have to do that. I thought for sure there must be a 'dock to the
> visible boundaries' settings somewhere....
>
>
> Göran Andersson wrote:
>> Place the menu and a panel in the form, make the panel scrollable
>> instead of the form, and place the other controls on the panel.
>>
>> bern11 wrote:
>>
>>> I have a main form with autoscroll and a menu docked top & left.
>>> When I scroll to the right or down, the menu moves off-screen. How
>>> do I keep that from happening? (Do I have to set the location of the
>>> menu with each scroll-bar move???).

14 Jun 2006 9:08 PM

bern11

Those three sets of positions already exist:
    Form.Location and Form.Size contain the visible bounds
    Form.AutoScrollPosition.X and Form.AutoScrollPosition.Y indicate the
virtual area offset
    Control.Position indicate where the control is. I could've made it
work by adding the AutoScrollPosition.X & Y to the control position to
move them every time scrolling occurred. I was expecting some type of
native method to accomplish the same (by docking the control to the
form.position). You're suggestion is easier than capturing scrollbar
events, so I'll go with that.

Göran Andersson wrote:
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> That would require that the control would be excluded from the normal
> positioning of child controls and instead be placed outside the actual
> parent control, changing the size of the scrolling area. That would in
> turn mean that the parent control would need three sets of coordinates,
> one for the original position of the control, one for the scrolling area
> that is left when the docked childen has been placed, and one for the
> virtual area that is shown in the scrolling area.
>
> It think that it's more straight forward to actually place the control
> outside the area that should scroll. :)
>
> bern11 wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the advice. It works great. I'm a bit surprised though
>> that you have to do that. I thought for sure there must be a 'dock to
>> the visible boundaries' settings somewhere....
>>
>>
>> Göran Andersson wrote:
>>
>>> Place the menu and a panel in the form, make the panel scrollable
>>> instead of the form, and place the other controls on the panel.
>>>
>>> bern11 wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a main form with autoscroll and a menu docked top & left.
>>>> When I scroll to the right or down, the menu moves off-screen. How
>>>> do I keep that from happening? (Do I have to set the location of
>>>> the menu with each scroll-bar move???).

13 Jun 2006 1:57 PM

Gabriele G. Ponti

Instead of using the AutoScroll property of the form, dock a MenuStrip on
the top of your form and add a Panel docked to fill the remaining portion of
the form.

Set the AutoScroll property of the Panel control to True, and add your
controls to this panel.

Gabriele

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>I have a main form with autoscroll and a menu docked top & left. When I
>scroll to the right or down, the menu moves off-screen. How do I keep that
>from happening? (Do I have to set the location of the menu with each
>scroll-bar move???).