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DLL Talk / Blue Gui - Screen / Work area dimensions / scrolling

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BatVink
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Posted: 10th May 2007 14:06
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Does anyone know how to retrieve / calculate the work area dimensions? For example, I have a Menu bar, tool bar and status bar. I want to add a panel down the left hand side of the screen, but need to know how to calculate the top and bottom.

The second issue is this: What Gadget would you use to make a scrollable panel, and whow do you enable the scrollers? Say I have a panel that cannot fit all of the information into the space designated, I'd like to scroll the panel contents.

Thanks in advance.

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Alquerian
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Posted: 10th May 2007 19:34 Edited at: 10th May 2007 19:43
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Quote: "The second issue is this: What Gadget would you use to make a scrollable panel, and whow do you enable the scrollers? Say I have a panel that cannot fit all of the information into the space designated, I'd like to scroll the panel contents."


This one is a fun one. What I do is put all of the gadgets that I want to scroll in a panel, then put that panel inside a parent panel. Lets call them ParentPanel and ChildPanel, so ChildPanel is inside ParentPanel then you can reposition ChildPanel and you will see ChildPanels contents 'scroll' inside the ParentPanel.

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MSon
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Posted: 10th May 2007 22:57 Edited at: 10th May 2007 23:07
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The First Issue

To calculate the required height you need the height of the window, IE: GadgetHeight(Main) and you take away the height of the Statusbar or Toolbar
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I dont think you need to remove the height of the MenuBar, (I dont)
and you should be able to do the same with the width if needed, IE: -GadgetWidth(ListView)

Hope this helps in some way

Edit: Hi Alquerian, That sounds like a good way, I change the YPos for Every Item instead of putting them in a second panel.

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BatVink
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thanks guys

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