Hide a property that isn't overridable...

Nick Rioux

I'm creating a control and don't want it to be resizable. Most people say to hide it from the designer and throw an error when it's called, but I can't do that because the Size property isn't overrideable! Right now I set the size back the the default height and width in the resize event, but this may be confusing to the user as it looks resizable. Thanks, Nick

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originSH

In c# it's the 'new' modifier. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/435f1dw2(VS.80).aspx[^] Not sure about VB.Net though.

Nick Rioux

Thanks! I ran the example code there through a translator and found out you use the shadows keyword.

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originSH

great :D

Luc Pattyn

not great, but shadows !

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TwoFaced

You can easily fix a controls size by overriding SetBoundsCore. It looks like this.

Protected Overrides Sub SetBoundsCore(ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal width As Integer, ByVal height As Integer, ByVal specified As System.Windows.Forms.BoundsSpecified)
    Const fixedWidth As Integer = 50
    Const fixedHeight As Integer = 50

    MyBase.SetBoundsCore(x, y, fixedWidth, fixedHeight, specified)
End Sub

I know changing the size back in the resize event will also work, but doing it that way actually allows the control's size to be changed and then it quickly changes it back. Overriding SetBoundsCore will prevent the change from ever occurring.

originSH

:rolleyes: