Scale all control to window size

Question

I have a dialog based application which contain controls such treectrl,listsctrl and group box contain all the buttons control. I am working in Visual Studio 2010 Professional Edition.All controls are placed in the Dialog at design time and no control is created at run time.

Using

int desktopW = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXVIRTUALSCREEN); 
int desktopH = GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYVIRTUALSCREEN);

got the width and height of window, then found the relative position of the controls.

Using SetWindowPos try to change the width and height of various control, if new width and height is less than old control width and height.

But that involves a lot of calculation.

Is there exist any easy way to change the control position/scaling based on window size?

I used to use this before the new IDE resizing features: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/11538/Resize-Reposition-the-Controls-in-a-Dialog-at-your — Andrew Truckle, Sep 20 '19 at 18:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '19 at 11:34

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Use Dynamic Layout for the controls.

See the Properties of each control. Then by using the Moving Type and Sizing Type properties you can specify how the control must move and/or resize as the dialog frame resizes.

answered Sep 20 '19 at 11:34

acraig5075

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I am working in VS 2010 Professional Edition and can't see the above settings. – VickyCool Sep 20 '19 at 11:47
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This is only available from VS2015 on. – Jabberwocky Sep 20 '19 at 14:01
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@Jabberwocky Yes correct, but that info was only added to the question after my answer. Leaving it here for posterity. – acraig5075 Sep 21 '19 at 07:21

Scale all control to window size

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