resizing controls

[visualizor]

I couldn't find a property for controls that allow them to be resized as their containers resize. Something similar to this in winforms
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.forms.autosizemode?view=windowsdesktop-8.0
Let me know if I simply missed it. Otherwise a good feature to have for the controls, I think.

[cwensley]

Hey @visualizor,

If you want the Form/Dialog to automatically change size based on the contents, you can set the Window.AutoSize property to true.

All other controls already auto size to their contents, it is not like in WinForms where you set a specific size then tell it to grow. If you want a control to autosize, simply don't set its size.

Hope this helps,
Curtis.

[visualizor]

when i resize, the textboxes are clipped off. anyway to make them shorten as window(Form) gets smaller?
this is 2 TextBox in a DynamicLayout in an Expander, which is the Content of the Form

[cwensley]

When you add the controls to the DynamicLayout, set the xscale = true. E.g.

var layout = new DynamicLayout();
layout.Add(new TextBox(), xscale: true);
layout.Add(new TextBox(), xscale: true);

[visualizor]

Turned out that I added them with AddAutoSized()
Regular Add() would have done it, even without the xscale arg
My fault...

[visualizor]

On this note, what's your recommendation for proportionally scaling multiple columns/rows of controls during resizing? DynamicLayout seems to stretch the last column and bottom row only.

[cwensley]

The DynamicLayout (and TableLayout, which DynamicLayout uses), will scale any row/column with the corresponding xscale/yscale property set to true. So if you want only the middle column to expand, but not the first/last, it'd be something like:

var layout = new DynamicLayout();
layout.BeginHorizontal();
layout.Add("Before");
layout.Add(new TextBox(), xscale: true);
layout.Add("After");
layout.EndHorizontal();

If no column/row has explicitly set xscale/yscale, then the last will be scaled, which is what you're seeing.

Hope this helps.

[visualizor]

problem solved by using the proper add method on DynamicLayout