SketchFlow allows for the changing of the Height property for the TextBox and ListBox controls. However, I seem to be unable to change the Height property for a ComboBox. The Height property can be changed in the Properties window but it has no effect (at design or run time).
You shuold open sketchstyles.xaml in notepad or visual studio. Then find the style for combobox-sketch. You will find 2 places(once in outermost grid definition and another in the end) of min-height in the style, set them both to what you want.
Are you sure you have the combobox item selected in the Objects and Timeline panel? I tried this and it works fine for me. Are you able to resize it using the mouse and adorners?
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I'm currently working on a project that utilizes an MDI Form. What I would like to achieve is that when the user hovers over one of the menu options in the MDI menu, a ToolTipText appears describing what can be found in said menu. I'm aware of the fact that in some options for VisualBasic 6, ToolTip is supported. However, I can't seem to add this to the MDI Form, or add a label control for that matter. Has anyone ever run into this problem, and if so, is there a workaround or a solution?
Please let me know if you have any additional questions or comments. Thank you in advance.
I'm not aware that any true menus on a VB6 for (even non-MDI) have a tool-tip property; hence, neither does the MDIForm when one its child forms has its menu displayed.
However, there are a few controls that can be put on the MDI parent form. The most useful of these is probably the PictureBox, into which you can then place any type of control, such as CommandButtons. It must be "docked" to either the top or bottom of the MDIForm, using the PictureBox.Align property. Controls within the PictureBox can be located any way you wish, and can have their normal ToolTip properties set.
Another MIDForm-usable control that I've had good luck with is the ToolBar control, which comes in as part of the CommonControls component. Like the PictureBox, it has a .Align property to set it to the top or bottom of the MDIForm. You can put any reasonable number of "buttons" on it, and have reasonable control over their appearance (graphics, etc.); apropos the OP's query, you can assign a ToolTip to each button. It wouldn't be difficult to have the buttons change depending upon the currently-active form, just as the MDI menus normally do.
One other alternative that can be considered (but may be quite tedious to implement) could be reading the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y properties for each MDI menu and setting the captions of a Label control (or TextBox) using the Mouse Hover event.
You'd need to find the top left and bottom right points for each MDI menu and if it is within the box, you can show your label control with the intended caption. But note that you can't just put any controls on an MDI Form except maybe PictureBoxes, Toolbars and Coolbars, etc.
So the Label or TextBox control would have to be first placed on top of a PictureBox control which can be top aligned.
I am trying to make a NSSearchField taking up the whole width of a toolbar in a NSWindowController.
I created a new NSWindowController using Xcode storyboard, add a toolbar to it, when add search field to the toolbar.
I drag the search field from allowed toolbar items to default toolbar items
Set toolbar item's max width to a large number say 1000
I build the app and run. The search field shrinks when window width shrinks, but does not expand beyond a certain width when window width expands.
The question is how to make search field expand and take up all remaining space of the toolbar?
It doesn't sound to me like the toolbar is really what you want to use here. The purpose of the toolbar is to allow multiple UI elements to be included in a user-configurable way. If you want to force one element that takes up the entire width, I suggest just putting it in the window's content view and setting up the layout constraints to pin to both the left and right sides. If you set the "Textured" check box in Interface Builder, it should look roughly the same as it would have looked using the toolbar.
I am using Visual Studio 15. I am unable to view the entire width of the property page and hence the scroll bar on the right and property buttons on the right. I have dragged the page horizontally as far as it will go. Are there any options that will solve this? I already looked in Fonts and Colors.
My Windows text is 170% of the default normal size which is probably responsible for this but I need text this size because of my eyes.
I am trying to add a TRectangle object to a Firemonkey control in the style designer to give the control a background color. I can add the TRectangle and size it manually, however then the style does not work if the control changes size in the designer. Is there a way I can make the TRectangle automatically take up the size of it's parent control?
Please make sure that property "TRectangle.Align" is set to "Client"
Background: In a certain dialog there are several controls in a row. I would like all of them to have the same apparent height. However for a combobox with the CBS_DROPDOWNLIST style and no CBS_OWNERDRAW* I am having trouble changing the apparent height.
Question: How can I change the apparent height of such a DROPDOWNLIST combobox?
I am aware that the combobox does not allow changing the height with SetWindowPos. I was however under the impression that sending a CB_SETITEMHEIGHT message with wParam= -1 should modify the height. This method does work for comboboxes with the CBS_OWNERDRAWFIXED style set (I wanted to avoid setting this style though to preserve the "button-like" look).
Environment: My Win32 application uses Common-Controls 6.0 and I am concerned about the appearance in an environment where visual styles are enabled (Windows 7, Aero).
I don't think this is possible.
As you mention, neither SetWindowPos nor MoveWindow work like you expect. That's because the height of a ComboBox includes the height of the drop-down. The control automatically resizes itself according to the size of the font it uses. So to change the size, change the size of the control's font by sending it a WM_SETFONT message.
But I don't understand why this is a problem. You say that you want a series of controls to have the same height, but unless you're changing the height of the other controls, they should already match. Since all controls on a dialog generally use the same font, combo boxes and text boxes should all have the same height already. When you use v6 of the common controls and Visual Styles are enabled, they'll be applied to all of these controls and they should have a uniform appearance. You shouldn't have to mess with the heights manually.