Re: Questions about IDE and perhaps Win32Lib
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:52:16 +1200 (06/24/03 17:52:16)
, Ray Tomes <rtomes at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
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> Hi All
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> I have been having great fun with IDE and Win32Lib.
Yeah, so have I 
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> 2. I cannot understand what a ReBar is, can someone please explain to me.
It is a Resizable Toolbar. See the demo\rebar.exw example with comes with
the win32lib library.
> 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?
Win32lib also allows for some other predefined placement parameters, such
as Center, w32Edge, w32AltEdge too.
> 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.
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> How do other people deal with this? I see some windows that when resized
> a big gray area appears which is pretty useless.
This is never an easy thing to do. The basic trick is to keep the 'normal'
layout simple so that when you have to resize things, there is not much to
do and very little interactoin between controls. It is not normal to alter
the font sizes though.
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cheers,
Derek Parnell
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