RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Hierarchical controls

[Jeremy W. <jez...@ho...>]

>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.