Change Form size [RESOLVED

Hi,

I was really surprised that such an easy problem as this was not covered in the forums. I looked, but couldn't find anything.

Now, I want to change the form size at runtime, when the user clicks a label the form size gets changed.

I have this code...

Me.Size.Width = 298

And i dunno wats wrong with that but i get this error:

Expression is a value and therefore cannot be the target of an assignment.

And with this...

Me.Size.Width(298)

I get

Property access must assign to the property or use its value.

So really, how the hell do you change it? I have no idea, surley that should work, I don't understand.

Thanks for the help, please keep this simple.

VB Code:

Me.Size=New Size(300,400)

I'm using memory (and I'm not too young.....:bigyello: ), so it's possible I fail, but I think that a code like Me.scale(2) or something similar, should be useful (If I well remember, it works also for the control contained in the form). I tried to change size of form and controls, to adapt them at a different resolution (800x600, 1024x768, ecc...), but I had some problems with text's font: the size is not auto-adapted and it's very difficult to obtain a font size with the same effect of the original, especially if you want to completely fill a textbox with a specified number of chars. I stopped my efforts in that directions, because, at that moment it was not very important to solve the problem (I tried a half a hour, about). Anyway I'm interested on changing form size, exactly as you lithya. If someone has solved problem.... :)

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Originally posted by Edneeis

VB Code:

Me.Size=New Size(300,400)

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thanks! knew it would be something simple like that.

sort of works okay, but i noticed its not very acurate in relation to changing it at design time. i had to put on about 6 extra pixels to get it set back to the original size.

strange :confused: maybe it has something to do with the grid locking, although i would have thought it would have been acurate considering...

n/m, it works fine! thanks Edneeis!

New Size(300,400) is certainly short cut but resetting trivial Width/Height will also work:

VB Code:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Me.Width = Me.Width * 1.5
        Me.Height = Me.Height * 1.5
    End Sub