Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Win32 nested group

[Foster T. B. <fbr...@ad...>]

I have checked in this change and it'll roll out today in the 1.0.13 =20
release. Things look much better than they did before. Your continued =20=

support of the project is greatly appreciated Ralph -- thanks again!

Blessings,
Foster


On Feb 2, 2006, at 01:24a, Ralph Thomas wrote:

> I took a look at the nested group issue on Win32 this evening. The
> issue was that groups inside groups used the wrong font when visual
> styles were enabled (they calculated metrics for the correct font, but
> then went and used the "System" font to draw text). I think that this
> is actually a bug in Win32 (it seems to be exposed in some versions of
> Windows.Forms, according to newsgroups).
>
> To partially address the issue I now do not send the WM_SETFONT
> message to the group box control in set_theme, this means that the
> group box will draw with the font given to it in response to the
> WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC message it sends out. This has the distinct
> disadvantage that the nested groups no longer seem to be able to
> measure the text they have correctly, and thus draw the group line
> behind the group title text (but giving the group a font via
> WM_SETFONT means I can't work around the Win32 bug with
> WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC).
>
> So what I have checked in is better than what was happening before,
> but still not perfect. Hopefully there is a message that I can do
> something with to ensure that the text measurement is correct (but I
> didn't have time to look tonight).
>
> Ralph
>
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