❔ visual studio windows form app, how can i allow a panel to extend out of the form itsself?
I have a custom dropdown menu i'm making for a windows form application, and i'm wondering if it's possible to have it extend out of the form itsself because the form is too small, and it'd have to be gigantic to hold the dropdown menu.
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define "extend out ofbthe form itself"
so, if you have a dropdown menu for example right
and you open it on a small window
the dropdown menu would extend out of the window because the window is too small for all of the contents
i'm wondering how i can do that without actually having a dropdown menu, but with a custom one i'm making
out of the window meaning actually being drawn outside of it?
let me show you an example
a dropdown menu would be able to act like this right
drop outside of the window
yeah
I don't see why not
but you can't do that with a custom dropdown menu i don't think
try it and find out
thats why im asking here??
why not?
i'm not sure there's a way to do it lmao
content inside of a window extending outside of the window it's in
just seems impossible, or at the least very hard to do.
there must be, if a built-in control can do it
unless it's an actual dropdown menu
i guess. just cant figure out how i'll be able to make it do what i need it to
define "it"
drop outside of the window itsself, like the picture i showed
yes, you said thst
that's what you want to do
define the "it" that you want to do thst
i just did, that's what i meant
to make "it" do what I need "it" to
i don't know how to make the custom dropdown menu drop out of the window itsself
what's your custom dropdown implementation?
you click a textbox, a dropdown menu extends (flow panel layout) with buttons in it
yes, how are you implementing that
it's already implemented, i just don't know how to make it extend out of the window because the window is too small, that's what i need
how are you implementing the flyout part?
also what do you mean how am i implementing it, sort of explained it here right?
I mean, in code
where is this?
in form1.cs
oh
newbutton is just adding buttons into the dropdown
so you don't have a custom dropdown at all
you have a form, with some controls in it
what did you think i meant when i said a custom dropdown?
a custom control
well, really, I wasn't sure either way, that's why I asked
so, you can't
controls attached to a parent cannot be drawn outside of their parent
the way a dropdown makes it work is that the popup is... a popup
it is not attached to the form, it exists completely outside of the form's hierarchy
possibly even the window's hierarchy
give this a look
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C# Winform how to allow panel draw outside the panel's parent?
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This is a dumb question maybe, but what's wrong with the default behavior of a scroll bar in the combo box? This scales better than your idea. What happens when your combo box extends past your monitor?
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