Solved How to layout a dialog that is smaller than its components?

Hello; here's a weird one:

Normally, a dialog is at least as big as the sum of its content according to the layout. It does not matter which layout flags you use (FIT, SCALE, SIZE) - it will not get any smaller, even when embedding the dialog into a screen Layout or moving the dialog's borders.

You can use a SCROLLGROUP to include a subarea that is larger than the dialog itself, yes. But what if I just don't want "overhanging" items to show? No scrollbar, no enforced size, just clipping. I know it is possible because the toolbars behave like this; icons outside of the current toolbar just disappear when the toolbar is resized too much.

Apparently that doesn't work with an external layout file?

Hi,

you can enforce the size of a GeUserArea. So I assume toolbars take advantage of that feature/effect.

edit: That was a bit ambiguous, what I meant was: Buttons in a toolbar are probably encapsulated in a GeUserArea.

Cheers
zipit

hello,

If i understood correctly you want something like this but with a .res file ?

		ScrollGroupBegin(1000, BFH_SCALEFIT | BFV_SCALEFIT, SCROLLGROUP_VERT | SCROLLGROUP_HORIZ  | SCROLLGROUP_NOSCROLLER | SCROLLGROUP_NOBLIT, 64, 64);
		{
			GroupBegin(0, BFH_SCALEFIT | BFV_SCALEFIT, 0, 0, ""_s, 0);
			{
				AddButton(1001, BFH_LEFT, SizePix(256), SizePix(256), "Big Button"_s);
			}
			GroupEnd();
		}
		GroupEnd();

Cheers,
Manuel

Yup, something like making SCROLLGROUP_NOSCROLLER and other flags available in the .res file. I haven't tried yet to define a GeUserArea through the .res file.

(It's a question out of interest only... a dialog where stuff is foreseeably too large for the dialog is most likely based on automatic generation of dialog components anyway, so I can go a step higher and create the non-scrolling scrolling area through code as well...)

hello,

I've sent an email to ask, I'll be back when i got something

Cheers,
Manuel

hello,

really sorry for the delay of this answer and a negative one.
There's no equivalent for SCROLLGROUP_NOSCROLLER to use in a .res file.

Cheers,
Manuel

Thanks for the confirmation. I guess I'll use an empty group then and fill in the scrolling group in the code.