[fxruby-users] MDIClient with ScrollArea

[Aaron Caza]

Jeroen,

Thanks for your response and your insights.  As for the reasoning behind the
scrolling, it is intended as a way to give the user...flexibility.  In this
case, I will have users that have various screens configured (a "screen" in
this instance refers to the widgets a user has chosen to display in the
current view).  For users that move between machines (home and work, for
example, with server-based user preferences), this will eliminate the
problem of resolution changes causing (unwanted) screen layout/configuration
changes.  Then, at the user's option, they can manually select a
"Fit-to-Display" button to resize should they desire.

Cheers,
Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen van der Zijp [mailto:jeroen at fox-toolkit.org] 
Sent: June-04-07 9:15 PM
To: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org
Cc: Aaron Caza
Subject: Re: [fxruby-users] MDIClient with ScrollArea

On Monday 04 June 2007 13:10, Aaron Caza wrote:
> Gentlemen,
> 
>  
> 
> I'm trying to determine if it is possible to make an MDI interface in
FXRuby
> which is capable of supporting large work areas whether they're virtual
(eg.
> panning on one monitor) or multi-monitor capable.  I've tried modifying
the
> mditest example code to use an FXScrollArea
> (FXMainWindow->FXScrollArea->FXMDIClient) but I couldn't get it to work.

I see no reason why you'd want to scroll FXMDIClient, but if you do, it
should
be inside FXScrollWindow, not FXScrollArea.

I have used dual-head configured machines with FXMainWindow stretched over 
both screens.  That works fine.  Your FXMDIChild can thus span two screens.

> So, what I'm wondering if a) this is actually possible with FXRuby and b)
> how I should go about doing this.

FXScrollArea is really meant as base-class for scrolled widgets.  For
scrolling
GUI, use FXScrollWindow.  It expects a single child, and that child will be
scrollable.

	Regards,

				- Jeroen

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