Re: Accessing all parts of too big dialog box

From:

"David Ching" <dc@remove-this.dcsoft.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:12:35 -0800

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"J.K. Baltzersen" <jornbalt@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:32c9f0b3-4020-4e8e-a203-6da1c1239799@21g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...

The problem is that I cannot put the title permanently outside the
screen. It keeps jumping back.

This seems to occur only when you use the system menu's Move function. I
have an app that lets you click anywhere in the client area to drag-move the
window (it does this by returning HT_CAPTION in the WM_NCHITTEST handler).
And if I drag the window so the top runs off the top of the screen, the
window stays there. Perhaps the same occurs if you call MoveWindow()
programmatically when a button or something is clicked.

A potentially better solution is for you to show the dialog resource as a
modal CScrollView so that the user can scroll through the entire dialog when
it doesn't fit on the screen. More modern frameworks like WinForms and Qt
have the concept of layout panels which resize listboxes, etc. to be smaller
when the window becomes smaller, but unfortunately I think CScrollView is
the best you can do in MFC, short of reauthoring the dialog entirely (which
is no good because it cheats the users with higher resolution).

-- David