tg2r@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Todd Greenwald) (08/09/90)
Another puzzlar from UVa... Here's some PM mental gymnastics (at least for me!!) The problem: How to relatively draw the controls within a resizable modeless dialog box. An Example: For those with the IBM toolkt12, take a look at the dialog2.exe example. If you change the resource file by adding FCF_MINMAX | FCF_SIZEBORDER to the DIALOG statement "Modeless Dialog Example" the dialog becomes resizeable. However, the controls within the modeless dialog keep their x, y, cx, cy relative to the dialog. The dialog acts as a 'shutter' over the controls, instead of the controls resizing relative to the dialog. Proposed solution: I'm reasoning that all I need to know is the ratio of cx(old) / cx(new) and cy(old) / cy(new) and by multiplying the x, y, cx, cy of every control, they should all scale up (or down). WM_SIZE gives all these values and should feed WM_PAINT nicely. The Problem: I can't get the modeless dialog procedure to recogneze WM_SIZE. (WM_ADJUSTPOS and WM_PAINT are received.) The Question: Is my logic correct, or am I oversimplifying? Is there something special re dialog processing that screens out WM_SIZE (or is there a prerequisite flag to be set either at registration or at DIALOG)? Thanks !! Todd Greenwald