Decreasing size of Large Dialog Box.

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I have a dialog box which is very large in size and doesn't fit the screen. How can I decrease its size on initialization and use scroll-bar to access the remaining part.
In my program I have to monitor and display 5 different data from 30 devices which makes the dialog huge.

Posted 28-Jun-10 22:55pm

Gautam Raiker

Updated 29-Jun-10 5:49am

Johnny J.

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Johnny J. 29-Jun-10 12:06pm

Actually, come to think of it: This is the exact opposite problem of what people normally want to do... At least if all the spam mails I'm getting daily is anything to go by... :)

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2010-06-29T03:15:00

Solution 1

I have never tried this myself but there is an article in MSDN[^] that may help.

Posted 29-Jun-10 3:15am

Richard MacCutchan

Johnny J. · Answer 2 · 2010-06-29T05:52:00

I don't mean to be a spoilsport, but if I were you, I'd try to redesign the entire user interface.

Adding a scroll bar is a solution, but not a very good one. the user still doesn't see all of it at one time, so you might as well do a redesign to get a smaller and more easily overlooked form.

Or maybe it's possible to hide some less significant parts and access them on a need to basis?