Tutorial C# center your controls

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C# center your controls - chunky - 12-29-2017

Introduction:
I just wrote this little function for one of my tools and I thought it might be useful.

Parameters:
accessControl - The control you wanna center
parentControl - Thre control that's around the accessControl
centerX - boolean that defines whether you wanna center your control horizontally
centerY - boolean that defines whether you wanna center your control vertically

Function:

Code:
public void centerControl(Control accessControl, Control parentControl, bool centerX, bool centerY)
{
    int newX = accessControl.Location.X, newY = accessControl.Location.Y;

    if (centerX)
    {
    newX = (parentControl.Width - accessControl.Width) / 2;
    }

    if (centerY)
    {
    newY = (parentControl.Height - accessControl.Height) / 2;
    }

    accessControl.Location = new Point(newX, newY);
}

Example usage:
Call the function in the Form_Resize event in order to automatically center it in case the user is changing the form size.

Code:
centerControl(pictureBoxSinisterly, panelMain, true, true);

Result:

[Image: 2017-12-29_21_59_47-_Sinister.ly.png]

RE: C# center your controls - Confidential - 04-29-2018

This saved me from committing suicide, thanks.