MessageBox in the middel of the application form, not in the middle of the screen - .net 1.1 , VS 2003

Hello,
I have the following problem, which seems to be simple, but I see no
solution.

If I have for example:

MessageBox.Show(......)

this messagebox is allways in the middle of the screen. But on a screen with
1920x1200 pixel this is not very good because the application
is for exampel in the top right corner.

Is there any way to have the messageBox in the middle of the parent form?

Must run under .net 1.1 / VS2003.

Thank you for any help.
Rolf Welskes

ManishBafna
Mon Jun 04 23:51:01 CDT 2007

Hi,
There is nothing you can do about it.All you can do it make your own form to
simulate messagebox and set its start position to CenterParent.For example:
Form1.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterParent;
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Hope this helps.
Thanks and Regards.
Manish Bafna.
MCP and MCTS.



"Rolf Welskes" wrote:

> Hello,
> I have the following problem, which seems to be simple, but I see no
> solution.
>
> If I have for example:
>
> MessageBox.Show(......)
>
> this messagebox is allways in the middle of the screen. But on a screen with
> 1920x1200 pixel this is not very good because the application
> is for exampel in the top right corner.
>
> Is there any way to have the messageBox in the middle of the parent form?
>
> Must run under .net 1.1 / VS2003.
>
> Thank you for any help.
> Rolf Welskes
>
>
>

v-lliu
Tue Jun 05 02:57:12 CDT 2007

Hi Rolf,

I agree with Manish that it may impossible to set the location of a
standard System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox.

To get what you want, you could create a new type from
System.Windows.Forms.Form and set its StartPosition property to
CenterParent before you show it.

I find a sample of implementing a custom message box in the code project
web site. The custom messge box is derived from System.Windows.Forms.Form.

You can get it from the link below:

'Custom Message Box'
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/CustomMessageBox.asp

Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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v-lliu
Thu Jun 07 06:00:05 CDT 2007

Hi Rolf,

How about the problem now?

If you need our further assistance, please feel free to let me know.

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Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support