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Form refuses to center

We have large program with at least 30 forms that except one display properly in the center of the screen when asked. This one, and only one (naturally one most used) is errant. It always jumps up to the top of the screen. Most annoying. Have tried all manner of options in properties, nothing seems to work. There must be something different in this one, but can't find any difference between this and others. It works OK when maximized.

Thanks in advance?

Arthur_Wood

I assume that you have the StartUpPosition property of the "errant" for set to 2-CenterScreen ?

Is ther any code in the Form_Load event that would change the StartUp position?

Arthur Wood

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dhammond-ku

Hi forrestx,

Here is code that you should work to center the form on the screen, no matter what is happening with the CenterScreen property. You could either put it in the Form_Load procedure, or after the code in which the form is loaded:

FormName.Left = (Screen.Width - FormName.Width) / 2
FormName.Top = (Screen.Height - FormName.Height) / 2
FormName.Show

Hope that helps...

Danny Hammond
hammond@ku.edu

PaulHews

dhammond-ku, I notice you are new here.

The etiquette in this topic area (as in most topic areas here at EE is to comment rather than answer.

Also, if there is code in Form_Resize that sets the top and left properties of the form, your code is going to be as useless as the StartUpPosition property.

dhammond-ku

Thanks for the tip about comments...I hadn't actually realized that there was a difference at first (It was VERY late at night when I signed up).

Danny
hammond@ku.edu

alaplume

Is the form embedded in some other object (ocx maybe). That could cause problems when centering.

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