How to layout a dialog that is smaller than its components?
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Hello; here's a weird one:
Normally, a dialog is at least as big as the sum of its content according to the layout. It does not matter which layout flags you use (FIT, SCALE, SIZE) - it will not get any smaller, even when embedding the dialog into a screen Layout or moving the dialog's borders.
You can use a SCROLLGROUP to include a subarea that is larger than the dialog itself, yes. But what if I just don't want "overhanging" items to show? No scrollbar, no enforced size, just clipping. I know it is possible because the toolbars behave like this; icons outside of the current toolbar just disappear when the toolbar is resized too much.
Apparently that doesn't work with an external layout file?
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Hi,
you can enforce the size of a
GeUserArea
. So I assume toolbars take advantage of that feature/effect.edit: That was a bit ambiguous, what I meant was: Buttons in a toolbar are probably encapsulated in a GeUserArea.
Cheers
zipit -
hello,
If i understood correctly you want something like this but with a .res file ?
ScrollGroupBegin(1000, BFH_SCALEFIT | BFV_SCALEFIT, SCROLLGROUP_VERT | SCROLLGROUP_HORIZ | SCROLLGROUP_NOSCROLLER | SCROLLGROUP_NOBLIT, 64, 64); { GroupBegin(0, BFH_SCALEFIT | BFV_SCALEFIT, 0, 0, ""_s, 0); { AddButton(1001, BFH_LEFT, SizePix(256), SizePix(256), "Big Button"_s); } GroupEnd(); } GroupEnd();
Cheers,
Manuel -
Yup, something like making SCROLLGROUP_NOSCROLLER and other flags available in the .res file. I haven't tried yet to define a GeUserArea through the .res file.
(It's a question out of interest only... a dialog where stuff is foreseeably too large for the dialog is most likely based on automatic generation of dialog components anyway, so I can go a step higher and create the non-scrolling scrolling area through code as well...)
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hello,
I've sent an email to ask, I'll be back when i got something
Cheers,
Manuel -
hello,
really sorry for the delay of this answer and a negative one.
There's no equivalent for SCROLLGROUP_NOSCROLLER to use in a .res file.Cheers,
Manuel -
Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I'll use an empty group then and fill in the scrolling group in the code.