On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Marcus <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought VS2008 form designer was WYSIWYG. It appears not to be > though, and I dont know what to do about it. > > I have looked at some properties of the form and of the components > placed on it (ListViews, linklabels etc) trying to find out if there > is a property that is causing this behaviour. > I got somewhat closer to WYSIWYG by setting "None" as anchor on all > components, but some components still has a somewhat different > position when running the application compared to design mode. > > Is there a downside with setting anchor property to "None" on all > components that are contained in the form (my FormBorderStyle is > FixedToolWindow, so the user will not be able to resize the form)? > > Is there a better way of getting WYSIWYG (that works on all components > on the form)? > > As it is now, it all seems so arbitrary how my GUI ends up looking at > runtime. ---------------------------
You might try <div> tags and css to enforce layout like you thought that WYSIWYdontreallyG was doing for you. <http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=div+tags+css> -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell
