How do I scale my windows form to be full screen no matter the resolution?

[chinniwhites]

I have a program that when launched always launched maximized. This is exactly what i want. The problem is if the user's resolution is 800x600, parts of the program are off the screen (program window too big for resolution). How do I make so no matter what the screen resolution, my program always looks the same?

[SouthernCodeMonkey]

Use Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.

This will allow you to dynamically size your form.

Regards.

[Andy Tacker]

best way is to make your program for the minimum resolution... say 800x600 or 1024x768
and use "Anchor Style" property... then you will have the desired view.

[chinniwhites]

I wrote the program using 1024x768 resolution. I dont see the Anchor Styles in the properites window. So how would I go about this using either of methods suggested above this post?

[chinniwhites]

System::Drawing::Rectangle screenRectangle = Screen::PrimaryScreen->WorkingArea;
this->Size = System::Drawing::Size(screenRectangle.Width-10, screenRectangle.Height-10);

I used this in my initializecomponents section of my windows forms code. It still did not scale my program to fit the screen at 800x600. Any suggestions?

[SouthernCodeMonkey]

Did you try using Use Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds?

Regards.

[chinniwhites]

Is that it? Just put the following statement somewhere in my code:

Screen::PrimaryScreen->Bounds;

Please let me know!

[SouthernCodeMonkey]

Sorry, it was an assumption of mine that if you were given a method to obtain the desktop resolution, you would be able to use that to scale the form.

Seeing as I have no intimate knowledge of your GUI design and how it should look, I will have to leave that to you.

Good luck.