Re: client rect (in sense of "client rect" ;-) of a Groupbox...
..rhavin grobert wrote:
On 13 Sep., 12:57, David Wilkinson <no-re...@effisols.com> wrote:
.rhavin grobert wrote:
There cant be a template. The Groupbox is created dynamical, because i
dont know before runtime how many groupboxes there're going to be...
.rhavin:
You seem very determined to keep telling me that the things I suggest cannot
work. Do you actually want to solve this problem or not?
Yes, of course;-)
How about create one groupbox and one button in the correct relationship on the
template, and use their dimensions at run time to determine the required
relative size of the groupbox and button?
hmm, thats worth a try;-)
I just thought that M$ implemented some direct way, like
CListCtrl::GetItemRect(), or that someone of the GUI-Programmers is
reading here and could reveal how a groupbox calculates its inner
rectangle. Would be much more easier than playing with templates.
..rhavin:
Since dialogs are laid out using dialog units, in general the only reliable way
to modify them in code is to base calculations on the run-time positions of
controls placed on the template. This is true even for placing simple controls
like buttons. So your groupbox problem does not require much beyond what is
normally required anyway.
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP
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