3D PLM Enterprise Architecture

CATDialog
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The Frame

The frame is the basic container to gather controls, and possibly other containers. These objects should be related to each other, as shown in the figure beside. A frame can be visible or invisible. A visible frame is displayed as a rectangular box, and can have a title, such as the lower frame beside.

Use frames whenever you want to group objects that relate propose to to each other.

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Programmer's Guide

The frame is the basic container you can use to gather controls.

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Constructing a Frame

The different kinds of frames can be constructed:

• Visible and with a title, its layout is managed using tabulations

  pFrame = new CATDlgFrame (this, "FrameId");

• Visible and without a title, its layout is managed using tabulations

  pFrame = new CATDlgFrame (this, "FrameId", CATDlgFraNoTitle);

• Unvisible, it has no title and its layout is managed using tabulations

  pFrame = new CATDlgFrame (this, "FrameId", CATDlgFraNoFrame);

• Visible and with a title, its layout is managed using a grid

  pFrame = new CATDlgFrame (this, "FrameId", CATDlgGridLayout);

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Managing the Layout Using a Grid

This is the recommended way of arranging controls and possibly other containers inside a frame. This is explained in Arranging Dialog Objects Using Grid. Layout using a grid is available only if the CATDlgGridLayout style is used in the frame constructor. 

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Setting a Title to a Frame

The frame title should be set by the resource file using a key built with the identifier you declare as the second parameter of the frame constructor.

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History

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