center window

hi

I want when I strat a form no mather what is the screen resolution the form to be in the center. Is there something like that. thankz in advance

toni

You could set the form's startUpPosition to CenterScreen
then set the form's moveable property to false.

I really don't know why you want to do this though, it
is very user unfriendly.

can you send me the code
I'm new

There's not any code. What he suggested is done via the forms properties.

try this in the form load event...

Me.Move (Screen.Width - Me.Width) / 2, (Screen.Height - Me.Height) / 2

Better yet, place that code in the form_resize event.

I am trying to something similar but am having difficulty if the form is an MDI Child?

I cant use the center screen start up property

I like the idea of the resize code that Robby provided, but it for some reson is not centering my forms

If the form is an mdichild, you should use the mdiform scalewidth and scaleheight properties instead of screen.width and height....

Agent, the problem with putting it in the resize event, each time the user resizes the form, it will move to the center.:(

I think that was his point, though. This way, the form will still be centered when you resize. You could still move the form manually if you wanted. But then if you moved the form and then resized it, it'd move it back. It wouldn't be too hard to write some code that would recenter a form on it's current center point after resizing.

But I think that's getting away from the Thread Starter's point. :rolleyes: