[Max GUI] window within a window
BlitzMax Forums/BlitzMax Programming/[Max GUI] window within a window
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| Wow this is embarrassing. I'm sure this is easy but after two hours of searching through the docs and the community I can't even find a reference to it, (woods for the trees is probably apt)... I'm looking for a way to create a child window with MaxGUI that sits within its parent window and will not cross the parents window boundaries. It seems that wether a new window has a parent or not, it's free to roam about the entire desktop. Example of standard child window setup... ChildWindow=CreateWindow("Mini Window",300,300,300,300,Mainwindow) What I'd like to create would be something like a photoshop interface for my app. It would need windows which are locked within the main app window. Any ideas? |
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| T-Light, I believe what you want is a MDI interface. (Multiple Document Interface) as used in Microsoft Word, Photoshop etc. multiple-document interface (MDI) A technique for managing a set of windows whereby documents are opened into windows (sometimes called child windows) that are constrained to a single primary (parent) window. See also child window and parent window. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwue/html/gloss.asp I tried looking for a way to do this but then ended up using tabs instead. You draw a separate "window" to each tab so your user can tab between instances of the program. Just a suggesion, Seb |
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| Cheers Seb. Wasn't sure if this may have been a bug or not so I posted the question there. Skidracer came up with an undocumented flag... WINDOW_CHILD It does the business. :) ps I am using tabs, just didn't come across a way of attaching the various windows to the tabs without having to hide each window when a new tab was pressed. Cheers. |
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