Re: Splitting a frame on command?

Looking through the archives I found someone else that had a similar
"issue" back in 2002. Turns out that I needed to pass
SPLITTER_REVERSED as an option to the splitter during construction.
Thanks for all the help. Happy 4th!

On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM Roland Hughes
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Devin,
>
> I don't have a FOX Toolkit example for you and I haven't coded much in
> this API for a while. It's the start of a long holiday weekend here in
> America so odds are low many will look at your request until Tuesday.
>
> Having said that, the description of your problem sounds more
> architectural than syntax. Believing that I'm pointing you towards code
> have using CopperSpice which architecturally is what you have to do.
>
> Look at this source file and follow the m_splitter variable.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/reddiamond/code/ci/master/tree/src/edteditwidget.cpp
>
> CopperSpice has a QSplitter class and FOX has an FXSplitter. Syntax will
> be different, but the flow should not be. If it turns out I'm talking
> out my arse I sincerely apologize.
>
> Note how I create the splitter in the constructor and add the primary
> edit widget to it. The splitter gets added to a layout along with other
> widgets and the layout is basically assigned to the parent widget.
>
> Down around line 354 you will note that I add the widget which will
> appear in the "split" to the existing splitter widget after defining the
> direction of the split.
>
> In the GUI world, everything I've ever worked with operates in this
> manner. You don't "split a window", you stick a splitter inside a widget
> and add things to it.
>
> In the MS DOS, RS-232 terminal days of Unix/Linux/VMS/etc. yes, we
> "split a window." We did not have graphical cards with memories. We had
> a token few ASCII commands that could be sent to the terminal and then
> you hoped the terminal did that.
>
>
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