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Re: Windows values??

• Posted by "Patrick Barnes" <mistertrik at hotmail.com> May 20, 2004
• 446 views

Or, to do automatic resizing, check out my autosizing library in the 
archive...</plug>

http://www.rapideuphoria.com/autosize-1.1.zip

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>From: Derek Parnell <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: Re: Windows values??
>Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:48:26 -0700
>
>
>posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
>
>cklester wrote:
> >
> >
> > Derek Parnell wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > When values between 0 and 1 are used, it refers to the fraction
> > > corresponding parent dimension. In your example, you are specify a
> > > Window whose left edge begins 20% (0.2) of the screen width, and
> > > the top edge is 20% of the screen height, and the width is 60% of
> > > the screen width and height is 60% of the screen height. So if your
> > > screen is 800x600 pixels your specification is equivalent to ...
> > >
> > >  create(Window, winName, 0, 160, -- 20% of 800
> > >                             120, -- 20% of 600
> > >                             480, -- 60% of 800
> > >                             360, -- 60% of 600
> > >                      0)
> > >
> > > There are even more variations available for specifying relative
> > > dimensions. Check out the documentation for the create() routine.
> >
> > Derek, do the "child" controls maintain their relative size and
> > position when the parent control changes its dimensions?
>
>No. This is only the initial dimensions. To do auto resizing you can trap
>the resize event for the parent and then call setRect() for those controls
>you need to reposition. eg...
>
>procedure Resize_MainWin(integer self, integer event, sequence parms)
>   setRect(fld1, 0.2, 0.2, 0.6, 25, 1)
>   setRect(fld2, {w32AltEdge,-40}, 5, 40, 0.25, 1)
>end procedure
>setHandler(MainWin, w32HResize, routine_id("Resize_MainWin"))
>
>--
>Derek Parnell
>Melbourne, Australia
>
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