Does a Pseudo-Group-Box Control Exist

Easy Question. Maybe an easy answer?

I'm looking for a control that draws a divider line, like Microsoft uses (the image is from the Word 2003->Tools->Options dialog). I call it a Pseudo-Group Box, because the colours/theme are the same as a group box, but it's just the top edge of the group box.



Is this in the Xtreme Toolkit? I've looked around, but the Toolkit has so much functionality that I though I might have just overlooked it.

I could make them out of separate controls (e.g. a divider line overlapped by some static text, that is coloured differently), but I didn't think that was very elegant. What I was hoping for is one static control, that I could stretch out to the whole width, and the control would put the text on one side, and just draw the line from a slight bit past the end of the text to the other side of the control.

Thanks

Warren

Yes, that's the work-around I have used before (i.e. the horizontal etched line), but that doesn't give the text the "Themed" Blue text, and the horizontal etched line is a bit darker than the pseudo-group-box control used by Microsoft.

If I think of a good solution, I'll try to post something...

Warren

Hi,

Hint for you article:

I saw in you code color of group box hardcoded. to get color you can use:

COLORREF clrLine;

GetThemeColor(theme, BP_GROUPBOX, GBS_NORMAL, TMT_BORDERCOLORHINT, &clrLine)

 

ps... We implemented our version of CGroupLine :) for CommandBars Customize Dialog.