Question

I have a WinForms empty panel, and I’m adding images dynamically to this panel.
To center the first image added, I just:

• Get the width (WP) of the panel and divide by 2;
• Get the width (WI) of the image and divide by 2;
• WP – WI = Left position of image X;

But I can’t figure out some dinamically way to set this position when I have more than one image. Is there a way to calculate this X ? Am I right about this? Is there a easier way?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Well if you have only one row, some where you can have a collection of Image objects, say

List<Image> images.

And method

void PositionImages()
{
    int totalWidth = images.Sum(img=>img.Width);
    int startX = (panel.Width - totalWidth)/2;
}

Should work to you, but you will need to check it. For example I suppose here that tolalWidth of all images in collection is always less then panel.Width.