Another groupbox curiosity

[hal9k]

I have several groupboxes in a window.  I've noticed that the upper line of the groupbox is a double line.  The curious part is that the double line is not consistent.  Some boxes have the double line for the entire width and some only go part of the way to the upper right corner (the rest of it is a single line).  I'm curious about why it does this.  At first, I thought it was just the very wide boxes that had this issue, but I then noticed that I have 4 groupboxes that are exactly the same size.  The first three have the double line at the top and the fourth one has it briefly to the left of the groupbox label while everything to the right of the label is a single line.

Again, not a big deal, but it is curious...

[Walt Decker]

That may be a glitch in the LB implementation. Since a group box is in the windows button class it has several button styles properties. LB may not be reading the properties correctly or honoring the properties in all the boxes. For example, if I set the stylebits to BS_CENTER, LB ignores that. Other languages do not.

PS:  You do not need group boxes to manage radio buttons.  If you set the stylebits of the first radio button to WS.GROUP (HEXDEC("&H00020000"), the first button in the next group to WS.GROUP, etc., the radio buttons will manage themselves.

[hal9k]

No radio buttons involved - just grouping text and combo boxes to show a relationship. Thanks again.

[Brandon Parker]

Can you provide a simple example that demonstrate what you are talking about?


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Brandon Parker

[hal9k]

The issue is solved. The suggested use of stylebits did the trick.

Here is what I used to display an ampersand and to have the top border of the box displayed as a double line:

STYLEBITS #Plants.GroupLoc, _BS_CENTER, 0, 0, 0
groupbox #Plants.GroupLoc,_
"Location(s) && Qty", 50, 140, 1260, 130

[Brandon Parker]

May 20, 2023 10:45:48 GMT -5 hal9k said:

The issue is solved. The suggested use of stylebits did the trick.

Here is what I used to display an ampersand and to have the top border of the box displayed as a double line:

STYLEBITS #Plants.GroupLoc, _BS_CENTER, 0, 0, 0
groupbox #Plants.GroupLoc,_
"Location(s) && Qty", 50, 140, 1260, 130

I was looking for something that specifically shows the double-line issue you were describing. The code posted does not produce double lines with/without the Stylebits being active. Do you have any code that reliably shows double lines? I am just looking to see what is going on...


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Brandon Parker

[david]

I have seen this myself. No special code required just standard LB instructions. It has been mentioned years ago on the earlier forum. I could have multiple group boxes on one window, most OK but one would have the double lines. Just a quirk of LB and Windows.