Scalemode???

[Peter Swinkels]

I searched the MSDN library and got so badly drowned in results, I soon gave up and searched the Visual Basic.net forum. Found no useful information...

And now my question:
I have a text box in a form that needs to be adjusted in size when the form is resized. In Visual Basic 5 (or 6) I would simply read the form's Width and Height properties and usually I would have the Scalemode property set to measure in characters for convenience. My code would normally look like this for example:

Private Sub Form_Resize()
Text1.Width = Form1.ScaleWidth - 2
Text1.Height = Form1.ScaleHeight - 2
End Sub

How can I do the same in Vb.net?

Note:
I'm beginning to think that one of Microsoft's design goals for Vb.net was to drive every programmer who tries to make the switch from Visual Basic 6 (or older versions) insane...

[LITHIA]

Either I'm missing something in your post, or your problem can be solved easily with anchors. Do a search on those, or experiment.

Anchoring an object to a side of the form will make it resize with the form in that direction. It's also handy, and sometimes not, because it does it in design time too, so you can resize your form and have the objects automatically keep the layout. This is also an easy way to find out any problems with your anchors.

I think it's very easy, so you should easily get the hang of them. Have a go!

Hope that helped.

Edit: I re-read your post about 5 times and I'm beginning to think that your problem may not have been covered. I hope I'm wrong as I can't help you if it hasn't.

[Peter Swinkels]

I thought anchoring was to help keep objects in place, not to help resize them? I'll have a look tomorrow. If any one has any other suggestions, I would like to hear them.

[gigemboy]

This sets the width and height of a multiline textbox on the form, resizes it on form resize event.. so its always a third of the height and width of the form...

Private Sub Form1_Resize(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Resize
        TextBox1.Width = Me.Width \ 3
        TextBox1.Height = Me.Height \ 3
End Sub

[Peter Swinkels]

LITHIA,

Anchors solved my problem. They can not only be used to keep objects in place but, also to maintain their size relative to the parent object. Thanks for helping.