Anybody written a class to workaround the groupbox bug?

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Has anybody written a class to workaround the groupbox bug? Maybe there should be a class that possibly uses something like ContainerControls to workaround the bug.

I find the bug really annoying and I am having trouble working around the bug. It does not seem to let me use the old ‘me.parent = nil’ workaround. I need something more productive to my workflow.

Thanks

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[quote=133420:@Oliver Scott-Brown]Has anybody written a class to workaround the groupbox bug? Maybe there should be a class that possibly uses something like ContainerControls to workaround the bug.

I find the bug really annoying and I am having trouble working around the bug. It does not seem to let me use the old ‘me.parent = nil’ workaround. I need something more productive to my workflow.[/quote]

Which bug are you talking about ? ‘Groupbox’ leads to many bug reports …

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Groupboxes within groupboxes. Thanks

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And what bug is that?
If you are going to state something as a bug, it might help to explain the precise situation to keep people from guessing.

A groupbox inside a groupbox… ok… works fine for me… not a design paradigm I use often…

I do seem to recall it did not work about 4 versions back or so… but it works fine now…

So if you think there is still a problem… be as specific as possible… post some code that fails,
does it blow up?
does it look visually incorrect, but work other wise?
etc.

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[quote=133449:@Dave S]And what bug is that?
If you are going to state something as a bug, it might help to explain the precise situation to keep people from guessing.

A groupbox inside a groupbox… ok… works fine for me… not a design paradigm I use often…

I do seem to recall it did not work about 4 versions back or so… but it works fine now…

So if you think there is still a problem… be as specific as possible… post some code that fails,
does it blow up?
does it look visually incorrect, but work other wise?
etc.[/quote]
In Windows the text is bold for the caption of a groupbox within a groupbox.

Thanks

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OK.
Can you remove the caption from the embedded group box and emulate it using a Label?

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[quote=133502:@Jeff Tullin]OK.
Can you remove the caption from the embedded group box and emulate it using a Label?[/quote]
Thanks Jeff. This works. Good idea.

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From what I understand, the display issue on Windows with a GroupBox within a GroupBox is a Win32 issue and is not specific to Xojo. A workaround is to set the Parent property to Nil for the GroupBoxes in the Open event handler of the Window.

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Paul is correct. Xojo is not the issue. You can draw a custom groupbox using a canvas. XDS also has canvas based group boxes to reference from.

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Thanks. That sounds all right. Or I could create a ContainerControl with a label and a groupbox.

Thanks for the suggestions.

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That’s the way I did it, and just stuck in a lot of properties to handle the look and feel.

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Thanks