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    Posted: 2010 Feb 13 at 10:37am

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Cinema 4D Version:   11.530 
Platform:   Windows  ;   
Language(s):     C++  ;  

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Hi,

can somebody tell me how to use "GroupBeginInMenuLine()" correctly? I try to recreate the default "Coordinate Manager" layout. This has three descriptive text elements in its menu line.

Here's the "Coordinate Manager" dialog:



And here's my dialog:



This is the code to generate the menu line entries: 


GroupBeginInMenuLine();

          GroupBegin(0,BFH_LEFT,3,0,"",0);

          AddStaticText(0, BFH_LEFT | BFH_SCALEFIT, 0, 0, "Position", 0);

          AddStaticText(0, BFH_LEFT | BFH_SCALEFIT, 0, 0, "Scale", 0);

          AddStaticText(0, BFH_LEFT | BFH_SCALEFIT, 0, 0, "Rotation", 0);

          GroupEnd();

          GroupEnd();


How can I orient them left and spread them out to match the coloumns of the editfields?

Thanx alot in advane, best manuel
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The menu of the coordinate manager is actually no menu but just a normal dialog group. What makes it appear as menu is the WINDOWPIN dialog element.

This is the resource code of this line:

GROUP
{
COLUMNS 1;
  SCALE_H;
SPACE 4,0;
    GROUP
    {
        ROWS 1;
        SCALE_H;
        
        WINDOWPIN { ALIGN_LEFT; ALIGN_TOP; };
        STATICTEXT IDC_HEADLINE1 { SIZE 100,0; SCALE_H; }
        STATICTEXT IDC_HEADLINE2 { SIZE 100,0; SCALE_H; }
        STATICTEXT IDC_HEADLINE3 { SIZE 100,0; SCALE_H; }
    }
    SEPARATOR { SCALE_H; }
}


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Thanx Matthias, I'll try this.

Is there a possibility to make this work if the dialog is hard coded as in my case or do I have to use descriptions? I know, using external resources is best practise, but for prototyping in house tools doing it by code is often faster.

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It is possible to hard code it. Have a look at the code below. Make sure to remove the menu bar in the dialog's constructor.


class ListViewDialog : public GeDialog
{
    public:
        ListViewDialog(void);

        virtual Bool CreateLayout(void);
};

ListViewDialog::ListViewDialog(void)
{
    C4DOS.Cd->AddGadget(Get(),DIALOG_NOMENUBAR,0,NULL,0,0,0,0,NULL,NULL); //removes the menu bar
}

Bool ListViewDialog::CreateLayout(void)
{
    // first call the parent instance
    Bool res = GeDialog::CreateLayout();

    GroupBegin(0,BFH_SCALE|BFH_LEFT,0,1,String(),0);
        C4DOS.Cd->AddGadget(Get(),DIALOG_PIN,0,NULL,BFH_LEFT|BFV_TOP,0,0,0,NULL,NULL); //add the window pin
        AddStaticText(0,BFH_SCALE,100,0,String("Position"),0);
        AddStaticText(0,BFH_SCALE,100,0,String("Scale"),0);
        AddStaticText(0,BFH_SCALE,100,0,String("Rotation"),0);
    GroupEnd();

    return res;
}


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Posts: 41 		Post Options Post Options   Quote mnu Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 2010 Feb 15 at 6:04am
That's very helpful. Thank you very much for your fast answer.

Best Manuel
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