Screenlayout for Codeblock component configuration cutting off parts

[Hefaistos68]

The buttons at the bottom are cut off and only partially visible, one has to guess whats under it.
Display at 1366x768 with 100% scaling

[EWSoftware]

I'm slowly converting everything over to WPF (#344). The property pages have been done and a few of the component configuration forms but I still need to find time to do the rest, this one included.

[EWSoftware]

It turns out, this one was converted 3 years ago in the initial set. Based on the screenshot with the raised buttons, I'd say that's the old Windows Forms version. If you're using SHFB version 2017.12.30.0 or later you'll have the newer WPF-based forms and property pages.

[Hefaistos68]

Sorry to say, I have version 2020.3.6.0 installed and the screenshot is absolutely from this version.

[EWSoftware]

I tried it on my desktop and in a VM at that resolution and scaling and didn't see any clipping. It's WPF and I've never seen WPF not scale things correctly. What OS are you using? As I noted, the screen shot is showing raised buttons rather than flat style so perhaps some other system setting is affecting the layout.

[Hefaistos68]

Windows 10 Home, latest updates, Asus VivoBook 15. For reference, the screenshot shows that the VS app settings show nice flat buttons, the SHFB settings dont. And that in the very same IDE and project.

And to avoid any version doubts:

[EWSoftware]

Are you perhaps not using the latest SHFB package in Visual Studio? It's version should match the SHFB tools. You might try uninstalling and reinstalling it. Have you tried it on another PC?

[EWSoftware]

I did a little more checking. Try adding the IntelliSense component and the Syntax component and open their configuration forms. Do they get clipped? I don't see any clipping but if I'm right, for you the IntelliSense one will but the Syntax Component one won't. I suspect there's something related to whether or not the overall set of controls are of a fixed height versus forms with controls that can vary in height.

[Hefaistos68]

You are right, but interestingly, some dialogs have flat buttons, some not.

Look at the difference in window layout, depending on the selection in the left list. This difference happens for all SQL and ESENT entries.

[Hefaistos68]

ok, sorry, its bad to see here. Have to put the two screen shots side by side, one is higher than the other, both lists stretch.

[EWSoftware]

The dialogs without the icon in the upper left are Windows Forms still. I think the issue with the WPF forms is that they are using a fixed height. I found a setting today that tells the form to size itself to the content so that will probably fix the issue for those. The ones with resizable content like the syntax component one must take some space away from the resizable controls so everything fits. The property page layout is flexible too. There's less text in the component description so the bottom text box shrinks a bit thus giving more space to the list boxes.

I'm not sure why the WPF property pages and dialogs aren't using the flat style on your system. On mine and in a VM I use for testing, everything uses the same flat style. I only know enough about WPF to put some basic stuff together so this sort of thing is beyond me unless I can find something that might fix it like the size to content property.

[EWSoftware]

I've applied the change that should correct this issue in the latest release.