Moving form resets "CenterOwner" or "CenterScreen" during design time 1

[Karl Blessing]

I am working with Visual Basic 6 pro, in an SDI enviroment, whenever I move the forms around, or any changes to their placement, their StartUpPosition attributes are reset to Manual, I want to be able to lock down their CenterOwner or CenterScreen attribute, I tried making it during runtime before any of the forms are shown to set those attributes to '1', but unfortunatly this attribute can only be changed during design time, any clues? <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[NickBulka]

Karl,<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That's just the way it works.&nbsp;&nbsp;As soon as you change the top or left property (which you're doing implicitly by moving the form) the StartupPosition property gets reset.&nbsp;&nbsp;Locking the form only locks the controls on the form, not the form itself.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This has bothered me too, so I just went back to the old tried and true method of centering the form in the form load event:<br><br>me.move (screen.width - me.width)\2, (screen.height - me.height)\2 <p>nick bulka<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[Karl Blessing]

unfortunatly at the moment I am using MultiMonitor. would be a little hard to test. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[Drone38]

Insert this code in the FormLoad() sub :<br>Form.StartupPosition =&nbsp;&nbsp;what you want<br><br>Try my game against pokemon : <A HREF="

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[NickBulka]

you can't set this property at run time <p>nick bulka<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[Karl Blessing]

Drone , you didnt read it all, I said why I cant do that, cause i've tried <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[MikeLacey]

Karl,<br><br>Have you considered saving the top and left properties of your forms in the registry?<br><br>On form_load you would say &quot;me.top=getsetting(...&quot;<br><br>And in the *_unload events &quot;savesetting(...&quot;<br><br> <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

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[Karl Blessing]

in distributed applications, that isnt exactly a pratical method, I'll probally just end up making sure I set all the forms to that property before building it. <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[MikeLacey]

&quot;in distributed applications, that isnt exactly a pratical method&quot;<br><br>not sure i understand you - why is that? <p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

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[Karl Blessing]

during design time on my computer, the top and left are going to be negative numbers(multiple monitors) also the numerous different screen res people will be using, well saving a set # into the registry entry, wont do, since the person's resolution can be different everytime, and the first time run, is usally going to be the only time run(its a WebSaras instalation folder, installs a Web Application onto their webserver, and sets it up for them) <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[XapkoB]

There was a clue in the very first message of this thread.
Karl said that he is working &quot;in an SDI enviroment&quot;!
Go and switch the VB design environment from SDI to MDI (Tools -> Options-> Advanced) and the StartUpPosition property will be set just fine!

- XapkoB