Subj : Slider Problems To : David Noon From : Vitus Jensen Date : Thu Nov 02 2000 06:12 pm Moin David! 30.10.2000, David Noon wrote a message to Vitus Jensen: VJ>> There is a slider inside a dialog, the dialog was created via IBM's VJ>> Dialog Editor (see progress.dlg). The Dialog Editor isn't able to VJ>> define ticks or scale texts. So I'm doing it by hand (see VJ>> drverify.cpp). None of the calls fail but the result is ugly: VJ>> 0 20 40 60 80 10 VJ>> | | | | | | VJ>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DN> Are "40" and "80" really justified differently from the others? Those DN> 2 are right justified and the other tick values are left justified. DN> Does the justification alternate from one tick mark to the next? No no. I just had problems doing the correct display in ASCII. All numbers are centered above their ticks. DN> Basically, what you want is the text to be right justified on all tick DN> marks, or at least the last one. If the justification does alternate DN> left and right, reducing the number of ticks by one might give you DN> the desired result: DN> 0 25 50 75 100 DN> | | | | | DN> +=====+=====+=====+=====+ How do you change the justification (on any text)? I searched the WinSetPresParam() documentation but there is no attribute "justification" listed. VJ>> The problem is that the "100" is cut after the first zero. Questions VJ>> are: why and how do I avoid this? Answers? DN> Another possible work-around would be to re-label the dialogue as DN> "Percentage remaining" instead of "Percentage done", and have the DN> ticks go from 100 down to 0. This doesn't solve the underlying DN> problem, but is possibly a quick kludge. DN> Otherwise you are faced with what Udo has said: shorter text DN> [unlikely], smaller font, or a static text control for your tick DN> marks' text. Just crude hacks... You could also place all ticks by hand (SLM_ADDDETENT) and make sure there is enough room for "100". Currently I'm using a different aproach: 20 40 60 80 | | | | | | +====+====+====+====+====+ The user has to guess that the two empty ticks contain the values "0" and "100". Bye, Vitus --- * Origin: Request VRAID - Software RAID for OS/2! (2:2474/424.1) .