Greg Ercolano wrote: > MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK) wrote: >>> Of course! >>> I changed from 'thin down frame' to 'no bok', and now it works! >> >> OK, that sounds like it was an easy one then! >> >> For what it is worth, I would go for a "flat box" style rather than a >> "no box" style - I suspect the "no box" style might also prove >> problematic (in a similar way to a "frame" style) in some cases. > > Right. > > OP, if you do go with "no box" or "frames", then you > you'd have to tell the /parent window/ to redraw instead, > so that the background gets redrawn. (with a no box or frame, > you basically 'see through' the help widget to the window's bg, > so telling the widget to redraw isn't enough) > > To tell the help view widget's window to redraw: > > yourhelpview->window()->redraw(); > > But this can be avoided if you leave the help view widget's > box() set to a regular 'box' instead of one of the "see-through" > 'frame' or 'nobox' types. Then you can just tell the widget to > redraw(), or it may even draw itself correctly without that.
Thank you, both of you. You have been very helpful. The box/frame stuff have always been a mystery to me (except for the obvious visual changes), now it's much clearer. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
