OpenEuphoria

Re: Toolbar and Statusbar

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM> Jan 23, 2001
• 447 views

On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:19:21 +1100, Derek Parnell <ddparnell at BIGPOND.COM>
wrote:

>Hi win32lib developers,
>just a bit of advice.
>
>I recommend that any toolbar and statusbar controls be created immediately
after their parent window is created.
>
>This is because these control types effect the location of the Client
Area. And as the X,Y parameters on the create() function are relative to
the client area, you could get "misplaced" controls if you create some
before the toolbar/statusbar and some after the toolbar/statusbar.
>
>Thanks to Judith for discovering this effect.
>
>I suppose a workaround inside win32lib would be to automatically adjust
the location of controls created before a toolbar/statusbar - but that just
might cause other side-effects.
>
>------
>Derek Parnell
>Melbourne, Australia
>(Vote [1] The Cheshire Cat for Internet Mascot)
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