Subj : Slider Problems
To   : Udo Zaydowicz
From : Vitus Jensen
Date : Thu Nov 02 2000 06:45 pm

Moin Udo!

01.11.2000, Udo Zaydowicz wrote a message to Vitus Jensen:

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 UZ>>> To avoid this, the PM Guide and Reference recommends the
 UZ>>> use of:
 UZ> [...]
 VJ>> "static control" is very urgly to handle (not worth the
 VJ>> effort in my case), 

 UZ> Yes. But is it at all necessary to have the text?
 UZ> I assume, that you are using the slider only as a status bar !?

Yes, it's a status bar.  But the process displayed could run some hours: it's 
the verification of an RAID >0 array.  I'm testing with 200MB disks but users 
may try VRAID with some 40GB disks...

When thinking about my specific use of a slider something like the windows 
solution would be nice: display the percentage value as a number inside the 
slider.  Is there source code how to subclass a slider to build such a beast?  

....
 VJ>> Idea: if you take a look at the setting notebook of
 VJ>> c:\os2\apps\klondike.exe (options) you will notice that the
 VJ>> slider has three ticks but the left one isn't located at
 VJ>> the left margin.  Probably the ticks are placed using
 VJ>> SLM_ADDDETENT. 
 UZ> Possibly, unfortunately I don't have enough time to check it myself.

 UZ> Just an idea: Did you try, if at all possible, to strcat a few spaces
 UZ> (" ") to the "100", ending up with something like "100  ". Maybe it
 UZ> helps to shift the second 0 a bit to the left.

Genius!  That's it, I've added 3 spaces and the last zero is now located 
directly above the tick mark.  Just like the value "0".


Bye,
   Vitus

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