From: Glenn W M. <gwm...@gm...> - 2006-01-17 14:56:54
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Thanks, Jez. I hadn't thought of that! What styles do you use for the child container windows? Does tabbing work as I had hoped? Glenn -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy White [mailto:jez...@ho...] Sent: Tuesday, 17 January, 2006 06:19 To: gwm...@gm...; per...@li... Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Hierarchical controls >It would be convenient to declare a groupbox and then identify the groupbox >as the parent control for other controls to facilitate positioning and >operations on the entire group (I think this would also be useful for >tabstrips, per the question the other day). The example below shows how >moving the groupbox also moves the child controls on resizing the main >window. However, I've noticed a couple of problems: >The first point isn't major, but I wonder if the second two aren't related >to it. Are these bugs, unimplemented features or do I misunderstand >something? I must admit that I didn't know you could do this. I also noticed a problem when displaying your example when running with XP styles turned on, so something is not quite right. To achieve a similar effect, I use child windows as "containers" for a group of controls. In your example, I would create a child window which has the group box and the other controls. Moving the child window would move all the controls. Cheers, jez. |