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RE: Combo surrounding rectangle

• Posted by Mike <vulcan at win.co.nz> Apr 08, 2005
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Pete,

I think the Combo control is being used in a way never anticipated by 
M$. I noticed that although the Y coordinate is the same for both List & 
Combo the edit field of the Combo is visibly higher than the top of the 
list. Perhaps M$ thought it wasn't necessary to make provision for a 
focus rectangle bordering the Combo because it is composed of 2 separate 
controls. I substituted PushButton in the control type and found a 
similar problem in that the button takes up the entire specified 
rectangle so the focus rectangle infringes the border. I guess this is 
why they put the focus rectangle inside the button itself.

What you've done to accomodate this anomaly may be the best solution.

Mike



Pete Lomax wrote:
> 
> 
> I am trying to draw a focus box around a control, but hit a snag with
> Combos. I have the same results on Arwen and win32lib.
> The problem is that the rectangle seems to be {-1,-1,1,-3} adrift (you
> may have to look quite closely to notice it). If you put the commented
> out fudge back in, it works as I expected it to.
> I have displayed a ListBox (which does not need the fudge) next to it
> for comparison. Is this a known feature of the windows API (98) or am
> I doing something wrong?
> 
> I'd also appreciate comments on how this works with/without the fudge
> on later versions of windows.
> }}}
<eucode>
> without warning
> include win32lib.ew
> constant main=create(Window,"Combo Box Rectangle",0,410,0,245,350,0)
> constant mainHwnd=getHandle(main)
> constant lbtn=create(Button,"Press me",main,15,15,95,30,0)
> constant lbox=create(ListBox,"",main,26,60,95,208,0)
> constant cbox=create(SimpleCombo,"",main,126,60,95,208,0)
> constant lpRect=allocate(16)
> procedure drawRect(integer ID)
> atom hwnd
> --sequence dbg
> 	hwnd = getHandle(ID)
> 	VOID = w32Func(xGetWindowRect, {hwnd, lpRect})	
> --if ID = cbox then
> --dbg=peek4s({lpRect,4})
> --dbg+={-1,-1,1,-3}			-- << fudge
> --poke4(lpRect,dbg)
> --end if
> 	VOID = w32Func(xScreenToClient, {mainHwnd, lpRect})
> 	VOID = w32Func(xScreenToClient, {mainHwnd, lpRect+8})
> 	VOID = w32Func(xDrawFocusRect, {getDC(main), lpRect} )
> end procedure
> procedure mainHandler(integer id, integer event, sequence Params)
> 	if id = lbtn then
> 		drawRect(lbox)
> 		drawRect(cbox)
> 	end if
> end procedure
> setHandler(lbtn,w32HClick,routine_id("mainHandler"))
> WinMain(main,SW_NORMAL)
> abort(0)
> without warning
> include arwen.ew
> constant main=create(Window,"Combo Box Rectangle",0,0,410,0,245,350,0)
> constant mainHwnd=getHwnd(main)
> constant lbtn=create(Button,"Press me",0,main,15,15,95,30,0)
> constant lbox=create(ListBox,"",0,main,26,60,95,208,0)
> constant cbox=create(ComboBox,"",0,main,126,60,95,208,0)
> procedure drawRect(integer ID)
> atom lpRect, hwnd
> --sequence dbg
> 	lpRect = allocate_Rect()
> 	hwnd = getHwnd(ID)
> 	void = c_func(xGetWindowRect, {hwnd, lpRect})	
> --if ID = cbox then
> --dbg=peek4s({lpRect,4})
> --dbg+={-1,-1,1,-3}			-- << fudge
> --poke4(lpRect,dbg)
> --end if
> 	void = c_func(xScreenToClient, {mainHwnd, lpRect})
> 	void = c_func(xScreenToClient, {mainHwnd, lpRect+8})
> 	void = c_func(xDrawFocusRect, {getPrivateDC(main), lpRect} )
> end procedure
> function mainHandler(integer id, integer msg, atom wParam, object
> lParam)
> 	if id = lbtn then
> 		drawRect(lbox)
> 		drawRect(cbox)
> 	end if
> 	return 0
> end function
> setHandler({main,lbox},routine_id("mainHandler"))
> WinMain(main,SW_NORMAL)
> abort(0)
> </eucode>
{{{

> 
> Regards,
> Pete
>