c# - Defined max. and min. size is somewhere overridden -

i developing gui content defined in specific xml file. have called widgets. these widgets have it's own implemented logic plus have defined width , height. both, minimum , maximum size, fix , cannot changed. widget usercontrol.

screenshot showing fix max. , min. size:

for right unknown reason size during runtime different. seen on following screenshot:

beside designer file of singleplayerwidget own source code, of singeplayerwidget, following:

using system; using system.drawing; using system.windows.forms; using racetrack.controller;  namespace racetrack.view.widgets { public partial class singleplayerwidget : usercontrol {     private gamecontroller controller;      public singleplayerwidget()     {         initializecomponent();         this.extendedtextboxplayername.setplaceholder("choose playername");     }      public singleplayerwidget(gamecontroller controller)     {         initializecomponent();         this.controller = controller;         this.extendedtextboxplayername.setplaceholder("choose playername");          this.colordialogcarcolor = new colordialog();         this.colordialogcarcolor.color = color.black;         this.panelcarcolor.backcolor = this.colordialogcarcolor.color;     }      private void menubuttonchangecarcolor_click(object sender, eventargs e)     {         this.colordialogcarcolor.showdialog();         this.panelcarcolor.backcolor = this.colordialogcarcolor.color;     } } } 

and designer source code:

namespace racetrack.view.widgets { partial class singleplayerwidget {     /// <summary>      /// required designer variable.     /// </summary>     private system.componentmodel.icontainer components = null;      /// <summary>      /// clean resources being used.     /// </summary>     /// <param name="disposing">true if managed resources should disposed; otherwise, false.</param>     protected override void dispose(bool disposing)     {         if (disposing && (components != null))         {             components.dispose();         }         base.dispose(disposing);     }      #region component designer generated code      /// <summary>      /// required method designer support - not modify      /// contents of method code editor.     /// </summary>     private void initializecomponent()     {         this.labelwidgetheadline = new system.windows.forms.label();         this.labelplayername = new system.windows.forms.label();         this.colordialogcarcolor = new system.windows.forms.colordialog();         this.labelcarcolor = new system.windows.forms.label();         this.panelcarcolor = new system.windows.forms.panel();         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor = new racetrack.view.forms.menubutton();         this.extendedtextboxplayername = new racetrack.view.forms.extendedtextbox();         this.suspendlayout();         //          // labelwidgetheadline         //          this.labelwidgetheadline.anchor = system.windows.forms.anchorstyles.none;         this.labelwidgetheadline.autosize = true;         this.labelwidgetheadline.font = new system.drawing.font("microsoft sans serif", 13.8f, system.drawing.fontstyle.bold, system.drawing.graphicsunit.point, ((byte)(0)));         this.labelwidgetheadline.location = new system.drawing.point(14, 8);         this.labelwidgetheadline.name = "labelwidgetheadline";         this.labelwidgetheadline.size = new system.drawing.size(188, 29);         this.labelwidgetheadline.tabindex = 2;         this.labelwidgetheadline.text = "your character";         //          // labelplayername         //          this.labelplayername.anchor = system.windows.forms.anchorstyles.none;         this.labelplayername.autosize = true;         this.labelplayername.location = new system.drawing.point(17, 58);         this.labelplayername.name = "labelplayername";         this.labelplayername.size = new system.drawing.size(87, 17);         this.labelplayername.tabindex = 3;         this.labelplayername.text = "playername:";         //          // labelcarcolor         //          this.labelcarcolor.anchor = system.windows.forms.anchorstyles.none;         this.labelcarcolor.autosize = true;         this.labelcarcolor.location = new system.drawing.point(17, 120);         this.labelcarcolor.name = "labelcarcolor";         this.labelcarcolor.size = new system.drawing.size(69, 17);         this.labelcarcolor.tabindex = 5;         this.labelcarcolor.text = "car color:";         //          // panelcarcolor         //          this.panelcarcolor.anchor = system.windows.forms.anchorstyles.none;         this.panelcarcolor.location = new system.drawing.point(20, 140);         this.panelcarcolor.name = "panelcarcolor";         this.panelcarcolor.size = new system.drawing.size(80, 37);         this.panelcarcolor.tabindex = 8;         //          // menubuttonchangecarcolor         //          this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.anchor = system.windows.forms.anchorstyles.none;         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.backcolor = system.drawing.systemcolors.gradientinactivecaption;         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.flatappearance.bordersize = 0;         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.flatstyle = system.windows.forms.flatstyle.flat;         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.location = new system.drawing.point(119, 140);         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.name = "menubuttonchangecarcolor";         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.size = new system.drawing.size(75, 37);         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.tabindex = 9;         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.text = "change";         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.usevisualstylebackcolor = false;         this.menubuttonchangecarcolor.click += new system.eventhandler(this.menubuttonchangecarcolor_click);         //          // extendedtextboxplayername         //          this.extendedtextboxplayername.anchor = system.windows.forms.anchorstyles.none;         this.extendedtextboxplayername.location = new system.drawing.point(19, 83);         this.extendedtextboxplayername.name = "extendedtextboxplayername";         this.extendedtextboxplayername.size = new system.drawing.size(180, 22);         this.extendedtextboxplayername.tabindex = 4;         //          // singleplayerwidget         //          this.autoscaledimensions = new system.drawing.sizef(8f, 16f);         this.autoscalemode = system.windows.forms.autoscalemode.font;         this.backcolor = system.drawing.systemcolors.window;         this.borderstyle = system.windows.forms.borderstyle.fixedsingle;         this.controls.add(this.menubuttonchangecarcolor);         this.controls.add(this.panelcarcolor);         this.controls.add(this.labelcarcolor);         this.controls.add(this.extendedtextboxplayername);         this.controls.add(this.labelplayername);         this.controls.add(this.labelwidgetheadline);         this.maximumsize = new system.drawing.size(225, 325);         this.minimumsize = new system.drawing.size(225, 325);         this.name = "singleplayerwidget";         this.size = new system.drawing.size(225, 325);         this.resumelayout(false);         this.performlayout();      }      #endregion      private system.windows.forms.label labelwidgetheadline;     private system.windows.forms.label labelplayername;     private system.windows.forms.colordialog colordialogcarcolor;     private forms.extendedtextbox extendedtextboxplayername;     private system.windows.forms.label labelcarcolor;     private system.windows.forms.panel panelcarcolor;     private forms.menubutton menubuttonchangecarcolor; } } 

my gameconfigurationview has autosize = false. widgets have same property value , source code (i exclude designer file of question length). i know source code needs cleaned later.

as can see following source code assign size well, when initializing new widget. not work either.

using system.drawing; using system.windows.forms; using system.xml; using racetrack.controller; using racetrack.view.widgets;  namespace racetrack.view { public partial class gameconfigurationview : form {     protected gamecontroller controller { get; set; }     protected mapselectionwidget mapselectionwidget { get; set; }     protected singleplayerwidget singleplayerwidget { get; set; }      protected point guibuildernextlocation { get; set; }     protected size guibuilderfinalsize { get; set; }     protected int guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow { get; set; }     protected int guibuilderwidthofcurrentrow { get; set; }      public gameconfigurationview(gamecontroller controller)     {         initializecomponent();         this.controller = controller;         this.guibuilder();         this.menubuttonstartgame.width = this.width;         this.size = this.guibuilderfinalsize;     }      private void gameconfigurationview_formclosed(object sender, formclosedeventargs e)     {         this.controller.showstartview();     }      /// <summary>     /// builds gui based on configuration of selected gamevariant.     /// </summary>     protected void guibuilder()     {         xmlnodelist configuration = this.controller.selectedgamevariant.gameconfigurationview;         this.guibuildernextlocation = new point(0, 0);         this.guibuilderfinalsize = new size(0, 0);         this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow = 0;          (int = 0; < configuration.count; i++)         {             this.buildonerowfromgamevariantconfiguration(configuration[i].selectnodes("elements/element"));         }     }      protected void buildonerowfromgamevariantconfiguration(xmlnodelist widgets)     {         this.guibuildernextlocation = new point(             this.guibuildernextlocation.x - 1,             this.guibuildernextlocation.y - 1         );         (int = 0; < widgets.count; i++)         {             this.guibuildernextlocation = new point(                 this.guibuildernextlocation.x - 1,                 this.guibuildernextlocation.y             );             string elementtype = widgets[i].selectsinglenode("type").innertext;             string elementwidth = widgets[i].selectsinglenode("width").innertext;             switch (elementtype)             {                 case "singleplayerwidget":                     this.addsingleplayerwidgettogui();                     break;                 case "mapselectionwidget":                     this.addmapselectionwidgettogui();                     break;                 case "multiplayerwidget":                      break;                 case "networkclientwidget":                      break;                 case "networkhostwidget":                      break;                 case "startbutton":                      break;             }         }          // after row reset & update         this.guibuildernextlocation = new point(             0,             this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow + this.guibuildernextlocation.y         );         if (this.guibuilderwidthofcurrentrow > this.guibuilderfinalsize.width)         {             this.guibuilderfinalsize = new size(                 this.guibuilderwidthofcurrentrow,                 this.guibuilderfinalsize.height + this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow             );         }         else         {             this.guibuilderfinalsize = new size(                 this.guibuilderfinalsize.width,                 this.guibuilderfinalsize.height + this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow             );         }         this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow = 0;         this.guibuilderwidthofcurrentrow = 0;     }      protected void addsingleplayerwidgettogui()     {         // add gui         this.singleplayerwidget = new singleplayerwidget(this.controller);         this.singleplayerwidget.backcolor = systemcolors.buttonhighlight;         this.singleplayerwidget.location = this.guibuildernextlocation;         this.singleplayerwidget.name = "singleplayerwidget";         this.singleplayerwidget.size = new size(225, 325);         this.singleplayerwidget.tabindex = 1;         this.singleplayerwidget.show();         this.controls.add(this.singleplayerwidget);          // update next location         this.guibuildernextlocation = new point(             this.singleplayerwidget.width + this.guibuildernextlocation.x,             this.guibuildernextlocation.y         );          if (this.singleplayerwidget.height > this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow)         {             this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow = this.singleplayerwidget.height;         }         this.guibuilderwidthofcurrentrow += this.singleplayerwidget.width + 1;     }      protected void addmapselectionwidgettogui()     {         // add gui         this.mapselectionwidget = new mapselectionwidget(this.controller);         this.mapselectionwidget.backcolor = systemcolors.buttonhighlight;         this.mapselectionwidget.location = this.guibuildernextlocation;         this.mapselectionwidget.name = "mapselectionwidget";         this.mapselectionwidget.size = new size(510, 325);         this.mapselectionwidget.tabindex = 0;         this.mapselectionwidget.show();         this.controls.add(this.mapselectionwidget);          // update next location         this.guibuildernextlocation = new point(             this.mapselectionwidget.width + this.guibuildernextlocation.x,             this.guibuildernextlocation.y         );          if (this.mapselectionwidget.height > this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow)         {             this.guibuildertallestelementincurrentrow = this.mapselectionwidget.height;         }         this.guibuilderwidthofcurrentrow += this.mapselectionwidget.width + 1;     } } } 

i appreciate :)

i have managed things working.

what did do? due oop have implemented basewidget containing label(s), configuration etc. available/required on every widget. basewidget has following settings:

• autoscalemode = font
• autosize = true
• autosizemode = growonly
• size = 275; 193 though size overridden in respective subwidget

in each subwidget add forms anchor = anchorstyles.none

the gameconfigurationview defined follows:

• autoscalemode = none
• autosize = true
• autosizemode = growonly

to honest not sure of these settings necessary have these settings , works. have more information edit answer.