Re: Center a panel on a screen
From: Edward G. Nilges (spinoza1111_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/12/03
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Date: 12 Dec 2003 13:47:04 -0800
gswork@mailcity.com (gswork) wrote in message news:<81f33a98.0312120510.1d3c5547@posting.google.com>...
> spinoza1111@yahoo.com (Edward G. Nilges) wrote in message news:<f5dda427.0312112150.50331ea2@posting.google.com>...
> > joeleibel@sprintmail.com (Joe) wrote in message news:<cd2dcfcb.0312110751.5c554a85@posting.google.com>...
> > > I am using vb.net and need to center a panel on the screen. When I
> > > resize the screen I would like to remain centered. Thank You
> >
> > Where frmForm is the form, frmForm.CenterToScreen does the job.
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> > Of course, the urge to center the form shows I think an unfortunate
> > dislike for the margins of the screen. This is profoundly
> > petty-bourgeois and expressive of the New Democrat effort, which was
> > doomed, to present an alternative to hard-right politics (hey, gswork,
> > I don't think your idea is gonna fly :-)).
>
> It may not be a flying start, but it does read quite amusingly!
>
> I think, for the OP's benefit, there's scope here to avoid the
> Blairist 'third way' approach to panel centering and develop a
> positioning object that is sensitive to the user and their
> preferences, a fairly simple relative coordinate system with the usual
> checks for insensible requests. Perhaps there's no scope for user
> preference in the scope, though
>
> Isn't it petit-bourgeois btw?
The technical discourse of "user preference" doesn't tell me who the
user is. Actually, many sysadmins don't like the "ordinary" user to
change preferences.
Ultimately the "freedom" provided by a lot of options becomes rigidity
which is caused by the freedom. We don't want users to change aspect
ratio because this makes our jobs more "complex" we think.
However, an overly simple system causes problems on the developer's
end, as when he cannot test the software on a laptop because of fixed
and large screen sizes.
The answer is to provide as much flexibility as possible even if it
can't be justified by "the needs of the business", in part because
those "needs" don't stay in one place.
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