I'm working on a project where the main form is quite long (I'm converting a form that is currently in Excel.) The plan is to use a scroll bar to scroll the form (just as it is now in Excel) and I have that part running now.
So I'm now adding controls to the lower part of the form and it appears that I can't make the height of the form in the editor any larger than about the vertical resolution of my screen. I usually use a small Acer laptop that is 1360 x 768 resolution. I checked this theory out on my desktop and I can make a form taller on that. I don't know the ultimate height yet but lets say 1600 for round numbers.
Now the program will compile fine, but of course you can't easily add controls on the part of the form you cant see. Now of course I could have split the controls over several forms but I'd like to keep it similar to the original excel sheet.
I would think that within reason a form could be considerably larger than the screen. The editor scroll bars let you access the top and bottom. Is this a bug?
UPDATE: Well I tried this in VB6 and had the same problem. Even using the editor's scroll bars it wouldn't let me create a form the was larger than the screen height.
So I suppose I either need to use multiple child forms, or change to a tab control.