Questions about IDE and perhaps Win32Lib
Hi All
I have been having great fun with IDE and Win32Lib.
1. One thing that I have found is that it is difficult to know in advance
how things will fit in a window with lots of controls, and with multi-tabs
the problem can be even greater. Big ask coming up ...
Ideally I would like to be able to cut and paste a control (especially a
group control) from one tab to another (BTW the tabs are virtually full
window size). I cannot find any way to achieve this inside IDE so this
might be a request for a new feature. If such a feature is considered it
might possibly be useful to allow multiple pastes (haven't actually had a
need for this - just a simple MOVE is all that I really need) in which
case the control numbering would need to be adjusted each time after the
first.
2. I cannot understand what a ReBar is, can someone please explain to me.
3. In Win32Lib a control can be declared as EITHER a number of pixels OR a
proportion of the parent size e.g. .25 for a quarter. I tried to do this
also in IDE but it didn't work. Is it possible to do this in IDE?
My problem is that I am designing for a 1024x768 screen size but want to
be able to have it work on any screen size and for everything to scale
correctly. I don't mind calculating the correct font sizes etc myself.
How do other people deal with this? I see some windows that when resized a
big gray area appears which is pretty useless.
One thought that I had was to use say an 8 grid on 1024x768 and this could
rescale to 6 or 10 or 12 for other screen sizes without any odd fractions
developing. Fonts would also be changed by the same proportions so that
the text filled buttons equally.
The problem is that if a window has fonts suitable for a 800x600 screen
size then the fonts are far to small on a 1280x960 screen size and if the
font size is increased then the buttons will also need to be larger (in
pixels).
Ray Tomes
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