Windows Application Form with PictureBox and Scalling Issues

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Windows Application Form with PictureBox and Scalling Issues

~OSD~ 2,201

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Hi,

I have a visual basic Windows Forms application.

Form1 has one PictureBox, PictureBox1.

**Problem Description:** When this application is used on different screen resolutions the picture box /picture shows the wrong position.

What I have done so far is to configure the Form1 properties AutoScaleMode=DPI

PictureBox properties are shown below, anything need to be changed /adjusted?  
Or how to configure the picturebox that if the resolution changes, it remain in a good position.  
  
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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2024-01-07T21:44:59.4133333+00:00

What position is considered good?
José Pablo Ramirez (a. k. a. webJose) 440 Reputation points

2024-01-07T22:19:54.6533333+00:00

Show what's considered good and what's considered bad. You also mentioned "scaling" in the title, but not in the detailed explanation. Are you seeing incorrect scaling somewhere?
~OSD~ 2,201 Reputation points

2024-01-07T22:32:44.1533333+00:00

@Viorel
Center or middle of the form is good for me.
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Jiachen Li-MSFT 34,221 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-01-26T09:59:25.2866667+00:00

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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2024-01-07T21:44:59.4133333+00:00

What position is considered good?
José Pablo Ramirez (a. k. a. webJose) 440 Reputation points

2024-01-07T22:19:54.6533333+00:00

Show what's considered good and what's considered bad. You also mentioned "scaling" in the title, but not in the detailed explanation. Are you seeing incorrect scaling somewhere?
~OSD~ 2,201 Reputation points

2024-01-07T22:32:44.1533333+00:00

@Viorel
Center or middle of the form is good for me.
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Jiachen Li-MSFT 34,221 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-01-26T09:59:25.2866667+00:00

May I know if your problem has been solved or not?

If not, please It will be great if you can share more detailed information for us to better investigate this issue.

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Thanks for your cooperation.

Answer 1

Jiachen Li-MSFT 34,221 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @~OSD~ ,

You can handle the Resize event of the form and adjust the position of the PictureBox accordingly

Private Sub Form1_Resize(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Resize
    CenterPictureBox()
End Sub

Private Sub CenterPictureBox()
    PictureBox1.Left = (Me.ClientSize.Width - PictureBox1.Width) \ 2
    PictureBox1.Top = (Me.ClientSize.Height - PictureBox1.Height) \ 2
End Sub

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~OSD~ 2,201 Reputation points

2024-01-08T10:44:31.9666667+00:00

@Jiachen Li-MSFT Thanks ,
It should work, I will check that out.
I forgot to mention that there is a text /label at the bottom of the picture box that needs to be keep at the center of the picture box.

(PictureBox = Form's center)
(Label /Text = Picture's center).

I have not made any changes to the Label, just wrote a random text. Does this also require any special event handeling?
Jiachen Li-MSFT 34,221 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-01-09T01:30:24.6333333+00:00
Hi @~OSD~ ,

You can add the following code to make the Label close to the PictureBox below and centered.

Label1.Left = (Me.ClientSize.Width - Label1.Width) \ 2 Label1.Top = PictureBox1.Bottom
~OSD~ 2,201 Reputation points

2024-01-09T21:50:25.33+00:00

Thanks for your input @Jiachen Li-MSFT appreciated.
Jiachen Li-MSFT 34,221 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-01-10T07:07:13.01+00:00
Hi @~OSD~ ,

If the text in the label changes and you always want the text to be centered, then you can use the following code to adjust the position of the text as it changes.

Private Sub CenterLabelText() Dim textWidth As Integer = TextRenderer.MeasureText(Label1.Text, Label1.Font).Width Label1.Left = (Me.ClientSize.Width - textWidth) \ 2 End Sub Private Sub Label1_TextChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Label1.TextChanged CenterLabelText() End Sub

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