Form - controls is placed different on Vista than in XP

19 Nov 2007 8:35 AM

Kenneth

Hi

Have made simple form which consists of two controls besides of each
other. It looks fine for me on my XP machine but when I run the app on
a Vista machine the controls is not besides anymore but one of the
controls is a little bit on top of the other! Why does this happen?

Kenneth

19 Nov 2007 12:41 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Kenneth" <andersen.kenn***@gmail.com> schrieb:
> Have made simple form which consists of two controls besides of each
> other. It looks fine for me on my XP machine but when I run the app on
> a Vista machine the controls is not besides anymore but one of the
> controls is a little bit on top of the other! Why does this happen?

I suggest to describe the problem im more detail: Which controls are you
referring to (control type, anchoring, docking, ...)? Are visual styles
enabled on the Windows XP machine? Are the controls positioned at design
time or at runtime

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19 Nov 2007 1:00 PM

Kenneth

It is actually very simple. Create a new project -> a new form ->
place a text box (multiline) besides a MonthCalendar control. Nothing
else is changed.
I start the application on my XP mashine and it looks as I placed them
in my design.
When I run the same application on a Vista maschine the monthCalendar
control is placed a little bit more to the right a little bit above
the textbox.

Visual styles on the XP mashine? What is this? The difference between
windows runnning XP or 2000 layout?

Kenneth

On Nov 19, 1:41 pm, "Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-
h***@gmx.at> wrote:
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> "Kenneth" <andersen.kenn***@gmail.com> schrieb:
>
> > Have made simple form which consists of two controls besides of each
> > other. It looks fine for me on my XP machine but when I run the app on
> > a Vista machine the controls is not besides anymore but one of the
> > controls is a little bit on top of the other! Why does this happen?
>
> I suggest to describe the problem im more detail: Which controls are you
> referring to (control type, anchoring, docking, ...)? Are visual styles
> enabled on the Windows XP machine? Are the controls positioned at design
> time or at runtime
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

19 Nov 2007 1:37 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Kenneth" <andersen.kenn***@gmail.com> schrieb:
> Visual styles on the XP mashine? What is this? The difference between
> windows runnning XP or 2000 layout?

Yes, exactly.

Unfortuntately I do not have Windows Vista installed yet, so I am not able
to repro the scenario.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>