Nested Window Problem

Question

Hopefully someone out there can help solve this one.
How do you get a child window to automatically resize within a parent
window?
On their own both the child window and the parent window behave as
expected but once we attempt to load the child window into the parent
window the child window is sized to some unknown but excessively large
size.
Can this be solved with some creative use of parent size relationships
or do we have to programmatically size the child window?
Any help/comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Sean G. Germain

Answer 1

Glen,
Thank you for the prompt reply.
We have already done what you suggested (My explanation was not very
clear ... sorry) to no avail.
Any more takers and/or ideas anyone?
Thanks,
Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Glen A. Whitbeck [SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 1998 2:47 PM
To: GERMAIN Sean
Cc: 'Forte Users Group'
Subject: Re: Nested Window Problem
You may need to dynamically tell the child window what its parent is (such
as a named grid that exists on the parent window). Setting the child
window to size to its parent should work once the child window knows who
its parent is. You should be able to put your window into that grid at
specified row and column coordinates. To reset the parent and position a
widget in a grid, you do something like the following:
<Widget>.Parent = NIL;
<Widget>.Row = 1;
<Widget>.Column = 1;
<Widget>.Parent = <TargetGrid>;
I believe that you should be able to do the same thing for a window, too
(using "Self.Window" instead of "<Widget>").
Glen
GERMAIN Sean wrote:
Hopefully someone out there can help solve this one.
How do you get a child window to automatically resize within a parent
window?
On their own both the child window and the parent window behave as
expected but once we attempt to load the child window into the parent
window the child window is sized to some unknown but excessively large
size.
Can this be solved with some creative use of parent size relationships
or do we have to programmatically size the child window?
Any help/comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Sean G. Germain<< File: vcard.vcf >>