Does a Pseudo-Group-Box Control Exist
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Topic: Does a Pseudo-Group-Box Control Exist
Posted By: Warren
Subject: Does a Pseudo-Group-Box Control Exist
Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 9:44am
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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 |
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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 2:47am
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Hi, In Xtreme Toolkit pro there is no such control but, you right it can be separate controls See Options page of Customise Dialog (you can find this line) CONTROL "",IDC_STATIC,"Static",SS_ETCHEDHORZ,122,9,101,1 ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: Warren
Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 7:54am
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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 |
Posted By: Warren
Date Posted: 17 November 2005 at 12:50pm
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This is resolved. I ended up writing this control myself (I wrote the whole thing myself - it's not based on any Codejock code) I posted the results as an article on CodeProject, if anyone else is interested in adding something like this to their project, the article is here: http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GroupLine.asp - http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/GroupLine.asp Codejock: If you want to add my control / any parts of it to the Xtreme Tookit, you're welcome to it... Warren |
Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 06 December 2005 at 9:27am
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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. ------------- Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS |
Posted By: Warren
Date Posted: 06 December 2005 at 10:43am
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Thanks Oleg ! I hated hardcoding that colour (as you could probably tell by the comment in my code), but I couldn't find the proper colour in the enourmous list of possible values for the theme API, and I didn't want to spend all day tracking it down. I found the documentation for the Theme API is unusually bad by Microsoft's standards - maybe they had a summer student write it up  I will update my code and article. Thanks again... Warren |