How can I have a window resize automatically to fit the screen on the monitor, using Visual Studio 13 and C#.
Have an application which displays the main window from which you can call up (Fig 1) and individually display different forms to be populated and then submitted.
On some computers, the complete form is shown (Fig 2); however, on a few computers, only about 80% of the page is displayed (Fig3). No side (up/down) scroll bar is displayed, so the users on these computers are unable to scroll up and see the rest of the page. This is occurring on several computer makes and/or models and not limited to a specific make or model. Is there a method to be able to automatically resize the page to fit the screen or to show a scroll bar?
Tried re-imaging an affected computer from scratch, but get the same results. Image is coming from a central area, so don’t believe it’s the software. Other machines are re-imaged with same central image without this problem.
Using Control Panel, tried adjusting the resolution for the monitor with no success, getting the same results. Using a larger monitor does not solve this issue.
Had users use other unaffected computer, and they are able to get the complete screen. Tried users from unaffected machines test affected machines and they are unable to get the complete screen. User account profile is probably not the issue.
I am new to Visual Studio, C# and programming. I am trying to maintain a legacy application and do not want to break the application 90% of users are able to see complete windows. Open to suggestions.
(Fig 1) Main window
(Fig 2) Functioning correctly, what window should look like.
90% of users get this window
(Fig 3) Functioning incorrectly, 10% of users get this window.
Bottom is cut off. No scroll bar
To Use Scroll bars for this purpose you have to select the panel which content is getting hidden and in the properties choose AutoScroll : True
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I am in need of a screenshot of an entire web page that has a height much greater than my physical screen. I am able to take multiple screenshots as I scroll down the page and then manually stitch them together on graphic design software, but ideally I could take a screen shot that does not require this extra step. Does anyone have any solutions, either first-party or through a third-party Mac application?
I have the task of testing a web application where it is given that this app should fit a screen with the resolution of 1280*1024.
My work monitor is, however, a 20 inch screen with resolution 1680*1050.
Will resizing the Firefox window to 1280*1024 meet the test criteria or should I always change the resolution of my monitor? (Obviously, the second option is not preferred).
And also: Is there a Firefox plugin which will help me to set the window size appropriately?
Sometimes asking the question out loud helps to realise what you really want :)
There is Firefox addon called More Display Resolutions which helps to show the page in given resolution, even in 1280*1024
After you install it, just go to Tools -> Web Developer- > Responsive Design View and here you can turn on the preffered resolution:
Ok, the above died. What now?
Since time of writing this answer I changed jobs and do not have to test specific resolutions. But I did quick google search and this site seems to be working: http://quirktools.com/screenfly/
Responsive Design Mode is a stock part of Firefox which is available from the Menu Bar: Tools -> Web Developer -> Responsive Design View in all Firefox versions (keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + M, (or Cmd + Opt + M on OS X)). No extension is needed to access this mode.
Within Responsive Design Mode, you can set the exact display area used for the webpage. There are several preset dimensions. Alternately, custom display dimensions can be used by either directly typing the dimensions in, or dragging the display to the size desired. What is being set is the pixel dimensions used for the area containing the display of the webpage.
These dimensions are not the same as setting the pixel dimensions used for the entire screen, which would include the Firefox user interface. If you set it to the dimensions of a specific physical display size it is the same as would be displayed using Full Screen mode (on desktop versions, keyboard shortcut F11). If you want to see what your page will look like including the Firefox user interface, you will need to determine how many pixels the user interface consumes at the screen resolution you are interested in and on the platform you are intending to use (e.g. desktop, Android, iOS). You will then need to use a custom display size. Note that the amount of room used for the Firefox user interface will depend on many factors which include—in addition to the OS and resolution of the physical display—any theme the user has installed, which toolbars the user has chosen to display, and, potentially, which add-ons the user has installed.
This is what Responsive Design Mode looks like:
i was wondering how can I handle screen rotations for windows 8 applications using c#?
I want to create several xaml files and just change them every time the screen orientation is changed. Is that even possible?
You can use the Device Window in Visual Studio to record state changes to your UI elements. In the Device Window you can select the other visual states (namely snapped, full screen portrait, full screen landscape, and filled) and then make the changes you need for the desired end state. Those changes are then captured in the VisualStateManager that's part of your XAML file. The obvious benefit here is that "it just works", you don't have to detect orientation state yourself or do any fancy XAML replacements/substitution.
Step 3 of Navigation, layout, and views tutorial has an example of this - granted, it's pretty simplistic, but should get the concepts across.
Open AppManifest file in your project and select the desired orientations .
Im writing an application for workers in our factory and one of requirements is that they should be able to take images using camera integrated in PDA with WM6.5.
The main difficulty is, that thay MUST NEVER EVER be able to enter windows, Start button, desktop etc. They are allowed ONLY to see my fullscreen application.
I succesfully deactivated BlueTooth + red, green and volume buttons (if you are interested, im pasting links here)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=546737
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb431750.aspx
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vssmartdevicesvbcs/thread/a4f9f41d-47a8-4080-8613-2c2ddcf4c012/
And now I have to implement the camera function. But as CameraCaptureDialog opens a new dialog and shows start button, task bar and allows user to open list of applications, I must not use it.
I must create my own dialog that will show the Live Preview in a panel or in an imageBox and photo will be taken using a button.
I searched the whole internet and found only DirectShow.NETCF (but people do not recommend it) and CameraCaptureDialog.
Can I somehow redirect the CameraCaptureDialog to my dialog? Or can I access camera directly via .NET framework? Or can I modify the CameraCaptureDialog not to show Start button, menu etc?
Looks like you have a bit of a challenge. I agree that Directshow is a questionable solution, but it may be your only option. I did get http://alexmogurenko.com/blog/directshownetcf/ to work, but only on low resolutions.
A better option might be to find a device that does not show the menu bar/start button. AFAIK, the HTC HD2 has a very clean Cameracapturedialog..
Good luck.
I have recently started on a project developing a window mobile/ce buisiness application. I have a ui design that uses a wizard to capture input data. To get the wizard started we open a windows form and maximize it. The form has one panel on it that is set to the size of the form. We pass a reference to the panel into the wizard controller as a container for the wizard user controls (each wizard step is a user control and the user control's size is set to that of the panel and thus the windows form. When viewed in a windows mobile emulator this works great the user control takes up the entire screen and the controls on the wizard step control are all visible on the screen with no vertical or horizontal scroll bars visible. When we load this onto one of the potential handheld devices the windows form doesn't fit exactly onto the screen as I would expect. There are both horizontal and vertical scroll bars and the controls aren't all visible. Does anyone have any hints and tips on getting around this problem? Is it possible to maximize a windows form in such a way that it exactly fills the screen on any mobile or ce device?
You need to check the screen resolution of your emulator and of your handheld device.
I suspect you are working on different screen resolutions.
If it's the case, then set the screen res for your emulator to match the screen res of your device. If for some reason this is not possible, just create your form to match the screen res of the device and try to fit all your UI in that limited space.
If you need to support many screen resolutions, you have 2 approaches:
1. Develop for the lowest res. This might look a bit ugly for higher res devices
2. Use anchors and control docking when defining your form layout.