Question about the spawning position of the form (eVB)

In eVB, is there a way to make my main form spawn in the very center of my screen? It often pops up at the top or top left, which is a bit annoying

If there is a way to get the screen resolution, maybe you can divide it by 2 and get the offset with it?

-stingraze

I think if you can change this, it will work.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19392083/center-form-on-screen-or-on-parent

This is only available in desktop VB, not eVB sadly.. The documentation mentions Form.StartUpPosition with 2 being "centered", but nothing happens when I try to implement it

Yeah. I thought so. If you set the Window size targeted for 640x240 for example, I think you can divide it by 2 and offset it with

and

It depends on the Form size etc.
If you can get the window size of the device that would be best, but maybe you can make it so that users can select the resolution, then set it centered based on it.

-stingraze

You can use the following one-liner in Form_Load to center your form on the screen on startup:



Unfortunately this is not perfect, as it does not take the height and position of the taskbar into account.
It should be possible to get the height of the taskbar with the SystemParametersInfo, I'll try to post a more complete example later.

Thank you, this works great!