Thanks, Jez. I hadn't thought of that! What styles do you use for the child container windows? Does tabbing work as I had hoped?
Glenn -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 17 January, 2006 06:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Hierarchical controls >It would be convenient to declare a groupbox and then identify the groupbox >as the parent control for other controls to facilitate positioning and >operations on the entire group (I think this would also be useful for >tabstrips, per the question the other day). The example below shows how >moving the groupbox also moves the child controls on resizing the main >window. However, I've noticed a couple of problems: >The first point isn't major, but I wonder if the second two aren't related >to it. Are these bugs, unimplemented features or do I misunderstand >something? I must admit that I didn't know you could do this. I also noticed a problem when displaying your example when running with XP styles turned on, so something is not quite right. To achieve a similar effect, I use child windows as "containers" for a group of controls. In your example, I would create a child window which has the group box and the other controls. Moving the child window would move all the controls. Cheers, jez.