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How to: Set the Size of Status-Bar Panels

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The ToolStripStatusLabel control replaces and adds functionality to the StatusBar control; however, the StatusBar control is retained for both backward compatibility and future use, if you choose.

Each instance of the StatusBarPanel class within a StatusBar Control control has a number of dynamic properties that determine its width and resize behavior at run time.

To set the size of a panel

  1. In a procedure, set the AutoSize, MinWidth, and Width properties (or any subset therein) for the status-bar panels using their index passed through the Panels property of the StatusBarPanel collection.

    Public Sub SetStatusBarPanelSize()  
' Create panel and set text property.  
   StatusBar1.Panels.Add("One")  
' Set properties of panels.  
   StatusBar1.Panels(0).AutoSize = StatusBarPanelAutoSize.Spring  
   StatusBar1.Panels(0).Width = 200  
' Enable the StatusBar control to display panels.  
   StatusBar1.ShowPanels = True  
    End Sub  

    public void SetStatusBarPanelSize()  
{  
   // Create panel and set text property.  
   statusBar1.Panels.Add("One");  
   // Set properties of panels.  
   statusBar1.Panels[0].AutoSize = StatusBarPanelAutoSize.Spring;  
   statusBar1.Panels[0].Width = 200;  
   statusBar1.ShowPanels = true;  
}  

    public:  
   void SetStatusBarPanelSize()  
   {  
      // Create panel and set text property.  
      statusBar1->Panels->Add("One");  
      // Set properties of panels.  
      statusBar1->Panels[0]->AutoSize =  
         StatusBarPanelAutoSize::Spring;  
      statusBar1->Panels[0]->Width = 200;  
      statusBar1->ShowPanels = true;  
   }

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