How do I make the pages bigger

[Guest Joe Gaultois]

Hi; I just bought a copy of Visual Basic net and am a bit of a novice. In the properties windows you can type in the size of the form . However whenever I type in more than 492 it goes back to 492. How do i fix this.

[liquidspaces]

The only way that I know to correct this is to increase your resolution. After you resize the form, you can change your resolution back and the size changes should still be there. If there's a better way, hopefully someone will tell us.

[divil]

Try going in to the code generated by the Windows Forms designer, and changing the size there. Why you'd want to make your form larger than your available screen size, I can only imagine.

[liquidspaces]

I have a form that has to print out at 8.5x11. The screen size wasn't large enough to accomodate. Stupid feature if you ask me. They should let us set the size to whatever we want, regardless of our monitor settings. I pity the guy stuck at work with a 600px monitor. Poor fella.

[Derek Stone]

Have you thought about using scrollbars or splitting up the form into different tabs? Or is that not feasible for your project?

[liquidspaces]

I actually haven't played around with the scrollbars yet, as I haven't had time to try and figure them out. Probably really simple, I'll get to that hopefully tomorrow.

 

I've broken the information down into 4 seperate tabs. But on the final tab, it was necessary to put everything on the screen at the same time because these forms need to printed and sent with the invoices.

 

I know that I could make some sort of printing template, but I don't have the time for that right now. Maybe next week.

 

Kevin

[Bucky]

The Panel control can be scrolled if the controls in it are larger

than its size. I'm not sure how you can go about printing the

entire contents of the Panel... but it's something to think about. :)