ComboBox Design Time Spacing

[borismatthews]

Using VS2017 on Windows 7 the ComboBox control spacing at design time is correct but when using a Windows 10 and VS2017 the spacing around the ComboBox at design time is expanded but looks OK when the application runs. If you make the space equal at design time then at run time it is not correct.

See screenshot of how this looks at design time to get equal spacing at run time, clearly not so easy to position controls at design time due to this issue.

[Smurf-IV]

I suspect it is the theme that is being used at design time is different from the one used at runtime, especially if it based on system.

[borismatthews]

I have tried using various global palettes and ensured that I am using the same at design and run time but it makes no difference. This was all fine when using a Windows 7 laptop for my development system so it seems to be something about the way that they are rendered in design time on Windows 10.

[Smurf-IV]

Left is the app running with the Global Palette set to Sparkle,
Right is the designer with the default blue theme.

It appears that it is the Text Box that is not "Drawing as High"

So from the pictures that you are inferring, and the Theme that I am using, that it is theme problem!

[Smurf-IV]

KryptonManager theme to Professional -System gives this:

Which on Zoom gives this:

[Smurf-IV]

Workaround:
Place controls into a Table and set the Row's To AutoSize, And a final Row, set to 50% to allow Runtime to take up the extra space. Now the Runtime has even spaced controls

[borismatthews]

I get the same result if the palette used in design and run time is the same so not sure why you say that it is the palette that is causing this issue. Anyway, with the info you have established about the text box I have found another (probably easier) solution and that is to set the minimum height of the text box to 23 and that seems to fix the issue. From: Simon Coghlan <notifications@github.com> Sent: 25 July 2019 13:46 To: Wagnerp/Krypton-NET-5.470 <Krypton-NET-5.470@noreply.github.com> Cc: Andrew Matthews <andrew.matthews@setek.co.uk>; Author <author@noreply.github.com> Subject: Re: [Wagnerp/Krypton-NET-5.470] ComboBox Design Time Spacing (#211) Left is the app running with the Global Palette set to Sparkle, Right is the designer with the default blue theme. [image]<https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2418812/61875162-f141b280-aee1-11e9-9bfc-65b92a0e9847.png> It appears that it is the Text Box that is not "Drawing as High" [image]<https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2418812/61875392-6c0acd80-aee2-11e9-90a5-3d3a9afc94ee.png> So from the pictures that you are inferring, and the Theme that I am using, that it is theme problem! — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#211>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMFO36LH6PFOMEPXDHWTRFTQBGOALANCNFSM4IEXRJIA>.