[Mono-winforms-list] Splitter

Jackson Harper jackson@ximian.com
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:29:34 -0700


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:12 -0400, Jonathan S. Chambers wrote:
> 	Here's an update. The resize bar is now drawn correctly (I
> needed to set the Text and MinSize properties on the Form I display. Any
> clue, anyone?). You still can't drag the splitter to the left as
> described below.

Hi Jon,

	These patches look good to me. Please feel free to commit. As for your
bug, could you put a bug report in bugzilla?

Also could you remember to send patches as a diff file in the future
though?

Thanks
Jackson


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> S. Chambers
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> Subject: [Mono-winforms-list] Splitter
> 
>        I use the splitter in the property grid control, and made a few
> changes to it. Most importantly, instead of resizing the controls as the
> splitter is dragged, I display a bar on top of the controls (how MS SWF
> does it) indicating the position and only resize the controls when the
> mouse button is released. It works well running against .Net, but it has
> a few idiosyncrasies with Mono.
>        
> 1. In horizontal mode, the splitter works well except that the bar is
> not drawing correctly (some sort of painting issue).
> 2. In vertical mode, the splitter works fine moving to the right, but
> not to the left (when docked to the left). This appears to be a
> MouseMove event issue though. When moving to the left past the original
> position of the splitter, the mouse event args start out good (they
> become negative), but after moving slightly to the left of the
> splitter's original position, the mouse event args values become large
> (63546 or some number like that, perhaps some sort of signed/unsigned
> issue?).
> 3. There are some other smaller issues, but the control seems to behave
> slightly better than before since it doesn't try to resize the controls
> every time the mouse moves. (Drawing the bar indicating the position
> took a while to figure out. On windows, MS probably gets the DC to the
> desktop and draws on it. I know of no cross platform way to do that. I
> tried handling the splitter's siblings paint event, and drawing the bar
> on each control. That didn't work. Currently, I create a form with no
> border and with a checkerboard pattern background. I move this with the
> mouse moves)
> 
> It's not perfect, but it helped me in my work on the propertygrid. Give
> it a try and let me know if you want me to check in the changes, etc. 
> 
> - Jonathan
> 
> 
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