placing controls

[Luc Benninger]

I am dynamically creating controls on a vba userform. Now I had to face the
fact, that even though I use integers to place these controls using their
TOP, LEFT, HEIGHT and WIDTH properties, there is almost always a slight
different from the actual view to what I try to draw. This is best seen if
there are several controls that have just a small space between them. The
userforms then look really improper.
Has somebody experience with this issue? Do I have to put my controls into a
certain grid to get better results?
Thanks for any hints.
Luc

To reproduce this issue create a userform, put following code into its code
panel and show it. The created rectangles SHOULD have a constant spacing of
2 point.

' *** start of code ***
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
With Me.Controls.Add("Forms.Image.1")
.Top = 5
.Left = 5
.Height = 50
.Width = 50
End With
With Me.Controls.Add("Forms.Image.1")
.Top = 7
.Left = 7
.Height = 46
.Width = 46
End With
With Me.Controls.Add("Forms.Image.1")
.Top = 9
.Left = 9
.Height = 42
.Width = 42
End With
With Me.Controls.Add("Forms.Image.1")
.Top = 11
.Left = 11
.Height = 38
.Width = 38
End With
With Me.Controls.Add("Forms.Image.1")
.Top = 13
.Left = 13
.Height = 34
.Width = 34
End With
With Me.Controls.Add("Forms.Image.1")
.Top = 15
.Left = 15
.Height = 30
.Width = 30
End With
End Sub
'*** end of code ***

 

[Dave Peterson]

I think I'd just create the userform manually exactly the way I want to see it.

Then hide those controls that need to be "added" later.

And make them visible instead of creating them.

 

[Vic Eldridge]

It must be a rounding issue I suppose. Somewhere behind the scenes Excel has
to round your given values to the nearest available pixel. I don't know of a
way to work out when & which way that rounding will go. But FWIW, you'll see
better results if you increment by 1.5 points or 3 points instead of 2.

Regards,
Vic Eldridge

 

[Luc Benninger]

Great Vic! The values for Width and Height properties of the controls must
be a multiple of 0.75!
Thanks, Luc