Re: [Fxruby-users] How to size a minimized MDIChild?

[jeroen <je...@fo...>]

On Thursday 19 February 2004 10:22 pm, Hal Fulton wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> This is my first post to this ml. Remains to be seen whether it will
> work.
>
> I'm confused about something. I want to change the (minimized) size
> of an MDIChild window so that the children will "tile" inside the
> parent like bricks.
>
> I see no way to do it. I can resize the child while it's in "normal"
> mode, but that seems to have nothing to do with the minimized size.
>
> I'd also be interested in simply *detecting* the size of the minimized
> window.
>
> Any ideas?

You can subclass FXMDIChild, and overload its getDefaultWidth() to return
the size of your "brick".

> Actually the MDIChild seems fairly "unmanipulable" anyway. AFAIK there
> is no way to get rid of the little icon on the left of the title bar
> or the three "sizer" icons on the right.

Yes, that's true. Your overloaded FXMDIChild could probably hide them.

> Is there some way to put little independent windows into a bigger
> window without using this mdi stuff?

You're not required to use FXMDIClient and FXMDIChild at all.


	- Jeroen


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