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    <p>I am starting to use C# and am trying to create a Form which will contain many different controls. In order to keep things simple, I am using a <code>TableLayoutPanel</code> to deal with the formatting. However, I'd like all the controls to be centralized within their respective cells. After some searching, I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/491399/c-centering-controls-within-a-form-in-net-winforms">this page</a> which shows that to do so, you can merely set <code>control.Anchor = AnchorStyles.None</code> and the control will be centered in its cell.</p> <p>This does indeed work quite well, but I've now found an odd behavior. I'm starting to build the form now, so it's completely bare bones, with a simple graph above and a single Textbox below it. Once I'm done, the graph will occupy the entire first row of the panel and all the rest of the controls will be distributed below it.</p> <p>Therefore, I was going to simply set <code>panel.SetColumnSpan(graph, 2)</code> (in the case of two columns). That works just as expected, except that now the TextBox below is no longer centralized.</p> <p>Here's the code I have so far:</p> <pre><code>using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Form form = new Form(); form.AutoSize = true; form.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog; Chart chart = new Chart(); chart.Anchor = AnchorStyles.None; //... TextBox text = new TextBox(); text.Text = "A"; text.Anchor = AnchorStyles.None; TableLayoutPanel box = new TableLayoutPanel(); box.AutoSize = true; box.RowCount = 2; box.ColumnCount = 2; box.Controls.Add(chart,0,0); box.SetColumnSpan(chart, 2); box.Controls.Add(text,0,1); form.Controls.Add(box); form.ShowDialog(); } } } </code></pre> <p>Here are the results with the <code>box.SetColumnSpan</code> commented out: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WN5zM.jpg" alt="Commented out"></p> <p>And with it active: <br> <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JxeOc.jpg" alt="Active"></p> <hr> <p>UPDATE: Setting the TextBox with ColumnSpan(2) as well works, but it somewhat beats the point. For instance, if I want to have two TextBoxes on the second row, I'd want them each centered within their respective cells.</p> <p>In this case, I now add a second Textbox:</p> <pre><code> TextBox text2 = new TextBox(); text2.Text = "B"; text2.Anchor = AnchorStyles.None; </code></pre> <p>And add that to the panel:<br></p> <pre><code> TableLayoutPanel box = new TableLayoutPanel(); box.AutoSize = true; box.RowCount = 2; box.ColumnCount = 2; box.Controls.Add(chart,0,0); box.SetColumnSpan(chart, 2); box.Controls.Add(text,0,1); box.Controls.Add(text2, 1, 1); </code></pre> <p>However, once again the result is unsatisfactory: each Textbox is clearly "left-justified". <a href="http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6924/38679737.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Both Textboxes are left-justified http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6924/38679737.jpg</a></p>
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