making forms larger than screen size

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From: Zaher Zeidan

is there a way to resize a form so that it's bigger than the screen size of the windows??
I mean if you run your windows with 780x1024 resolution you won't be able to set your height or width to any thing larger than this..
this is really stupid from the IDE to prevent developers from resizing the form larger than the screen area since this would enable you to get a lot of space in design time and/or using scroll bars to put lot of controls in one window..

Old Visual Studio didn't have this limitation..

anyone knows a workaround for this???

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Rodger
Sat Apr 02 00:22:51 CST 2005

You can set the size of the form using the Size property in the Properties
window. I just tried it and it allows you to set the size larger than the IDE
window.

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Zaher Zeidan via .NET 247 wrote:
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> From: Zaher Zeidan
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> is there a way to resize a form so that it's bigger than the screen size of the windows??
> I mean if you run your windows with 780x1024 resolution you won't be able to set your height or width to any thing larger than this..
> this is really stupid from the IDE to prevent developers from resizing the form larger than the screen area since this would enable you to get a lot of space in design time and/or using scroll bars to put lot of controls in one window..
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> Old Visual Studio didn't have this limitation..
>
> anyone knows a workaround for this???
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Herfried
Sat Apr 02 05:33:25 CST 2005

"Rodger Constandse" <rodgercngNOSPAM@effexis.com> schrieb:
> You can set the size of the form using the Size property in the Properties
> window. I just tried it and it allows you to set the size larger than the
> IDE window.

Forms cannot be larger than the screen. When entering a value greater than
the form's size it will be reset.

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Stoitcho
Sat Apr 02 11:51:40 CST 2005

There is no OS limitations.
The size of the form is corrected inside the Form's SetBoundsCore virtual
portected method. I've been told that this problem had been fixed for .NET
2.0.


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"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:OGur5d3NFHA.2736@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> "Rodger Constandse" <rodgercngNOSPAM@effexis.com> schrieb:
>> You can set the size of the form using the Size property in the
>> Properties window. I just tried it and it allows you to set the size
>> larger than the IDE window.
>
> Forms cannot be larger than the screen. When entering a value greater
> than the form's size it will be reset.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Herfried
Sat Apr 02 12:34:30 CST 2005

"Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]" <100@100.com> schrieb:
> There is no OS limitations.
> The size of the form is corrected inside the Form's SetBoundsCore virtual
> portected method. I've been told that this problem had been fixed for .NET
> 2.0.

Mhm... But why does this limitation apply to other applications (Notepad,
Internet Explorer, Visual Studio .NET, ...) too? The limitation still
exists in VS 2005 February CTP.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Chris
Mon Apr 04 08:35:15 CDT 2005

Do you know if VS2005 will support multiple monitor setups? It would
be cool to put the form designer or code editor on one screen and the
toolbox, server explorer, etc. on the other.

Stoitcho
Mon Apr 04 17:41:24 CDT 2005

There is no limitation in Notepad or any application. The tracking size is
limited by the OS, which means you cannot drag and resize a window bigger
than whatever
GetSystemMetrics for SM_CXMAXTRACK and SM_CYMAXTRACK returns. The last can
be controlled via processing WM_GETMINMAXINFO message.
Though, programmatically you can set any size you want. The size is limited
only by the datatype that windows API uses - 32 bit integer for WinNT
platforms and 16 bit integer for Win9x if I'm not mistaking.


"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:O4sKMJ7NFHA.2704@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> "Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]" <100@100.com> schrieb:
>> There is no OS limitations.
>> The size of the form is corrected inside the Form's SetBoundsCore virtual
>> portected method. I've been told that this problem had been fixed for
>> .NET 2.0.
>
> Mhm... But why does this limitation apply to other applications (Notepad,
> Internet Explorer, Visual Studio .NET, ...) too? The limitation still
> exists in VS 2005 February CTP.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

Danny
Tue Apr 05 02:41:34 CDT 2005

Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP] wrote:

> Though, programmatically you can set any size you want. The size is limited
> only by the datatype that windows API uses - 32 bit integer for WinNT
> platforms and 16 bit integer for Win9x if I'm not mistaking.

Hey, it's a good job they've double the size of that integer - imagine
the panic we'd have had when our new monitors support > 32k pixel
resolutions!! ;-D

Jean-Piere
Mon Apr 11 07:17:54 CDT 2005





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