On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:38:51 +0200
Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Bisma Jayadi wrote:
> > Hi all...
> > 
> > I used to use this trick to get a panel as container for a form on 
> > Delphi (7). This trick works very well on Delphi. The trick is about 
> > displaying a form (TForm) inside a panel (TPanel) as the form container.
> > 
> > It's like TFrame but we can attach any regular forms instead of a frame 
> > and we can attach any forms on runtime.
> 
> As you said yourself, it is a trick. The support for tricks is very low.
> On win32 this works since all window widgets can have a window widget as 
> parent. This means that you can put a form on a form (including borders)
> On GTK this won't work. There is a far more strickt checking on what 
> parent you set. The only thing I can think of is that we're going to 
> support borderless forms to be placed on a form. In that case the form 
> can be a gtklayout or so.
> I wonder if this isn't already supported.

The gtk intf implements a TForm as gtk_vbox enclosed by
a) if Parent=nil: a gtk_window
b) if Parent<>nil: a gtk_hbox

This is why docking works under gtk, but the forms do not have a frame yet.
It is planned to add a border with some buttons.

Mattias



> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > The code is like this...
> > 
> > procedure TParentForm.AttachForm(AChildFormClass: TCustomFormClass);
> > begin
> >   // FChildForm is a private TCustomForm of TParentForm
> >   FreeAndNil(FChildForm);
> > 
> >   // assign other form to FChildForm and attach it to a panel
> >   FChildForm := AChildFormClass.Create(nil);
> >   FChildForm.Top := 1;
> >   FChildForm.Left := 1;
> >   FChildForm.BorderStyle := bsNone;
> >   FChildForm.Parent := PanelContainer;
> >   FChildForm.Show;
> > end;
> > 
> > But the code seems not work on Lazarus (I use 0.9.14.1). No errors is 
> > raised, but the panel is empty (the child form failed to attach).
> > 
> > Is there any explanation about this? Thanks.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > -Bee-
> > 
> > has Bee.ography at
> > http://beeography.wordpress.com
> > 
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