Fixed Panel Height in a SplitContainer

Question

I have a WinForm containing a bindingNavigator at the top and a splitContainer with two horisontal panels below it. The splitContainer fills the space not occupied by the bindingNavigator.

I would like to set the bottom panel to a fixed height of, say 100 pixels, and have the top panel fill the rest of the space.

This is my current code:

kundeteamSplitContainer.SplitterDistance = kundeteamSplitContainer.Height - 100;

I would have thought that this would set the splitter distance dynamically to 100 pixels less than the total height at all times, making the bottom panel occupy the remaining 100 pixels. This does not work as intended though as the bottom panel keeps changing size when I re-size the form at run-time.

EDIT: I am sticking with the splitContainer if at all possible. Got a bunch of functionality related to hiding/showing the bottom panel already implemented and I don't want to do that work again.

Doucet

Answer 1

As pointed out by Lee:

Set the FixedPanel property to the panel you want to remain the same size.

This works like this:

teamSplitContainer.SplitterDistance = teamSplitContainer.Height - 100;
teamSplitContainer.FixedPanel = FixedPanel.Panel2;

Doucet

Answer 2

Set the FixedPanel property to the panel you want to remain the same size.

Decretal

Answer 3

Best way you can set isSplitterFixed Property to "True"

Dagall

Answer 4

I'd use a TableLayoutControl for something like this rather than a Splitter.

Brachial

Well.. that may very well be, but I'm not changing at this point. My more experienced colleagues told me to use a splitter, so I'll stick to it for now. – Doucet

Fair enough. I've only used the VS2005 version and found it a bit too buggy. – Brachial

@Sakkle: But if the only requirement is keeping the panel-hiding code, you can set the TableLayoutPanel's row height to 0 and it'd work pretty much the same... – Granado

Answer 5

If you want only show and disable the panel (no automatic resize, no resize by the user) add to the code by Sakkle this line:

teamSplitContainer.IsSplitterFixed = true;

Wideeyed