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Box In Container
Nov 14th, 2008 at 3:00pm
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Do you have a simple example (VB6) where you create boxes in a single flow, then place them in a container box? Having a little trouble with the putincontainer method.

Example, create 5 boxes with some text, create one more box and place the 5 in the 6th box.

Do you have a place on your site with examples not addressed in the samples you include with the control?

Thanks for the assist.
  
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Re: Box In Container
Reply #1 - Nov 14th, 2008 at 3:52pm
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Container boxes are available only in the Pro edition:
https://www.mindfusion.eu/FCXdemoPro.zip

You must call the method on the child box and pass the container as argument:

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Private Sub btnContainer_Click()
	fcx.ClearAll
	Dim b As box
	Dim i As Integer

	For i = 1 To 5
		Set b = fcx.CreateBox(0, 0, 30, 30)
		b.Text = Str(i)
	Next

	Dim c As box
	Set c = fcx.CreateBox(0, 0, 30, 30)
	For Each b In fcx.boxes
		b.PutInContainer c
	Next
End Sub


I hope that helps,
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Re: Box In Container
Reply #2 - Nov 14th, 2008 at 5:11pm
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Stoyo,

I have the Pro edition.

Your example helped - I had the impression based on your help file the container argument had to be enclosed in parentheses.

I am still getting weird behavior:
Arrow lines outside of the container
Inability to resize the container or move objects within

I have a small example I can send. Are you willing to examine it and help me out?
  
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Re: Box In Container
Reply #3 - Nov 16th, 2008 at 9:06am
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We implemented container boxes after a customer's specification. They use them to design racks, so containers size to their contents and you can only change the position of a child box in the column or row, but not place it at arbitrary location within the container. We can extend this to let you move child boxes to any location in the container, after we finish with the v4.2 release.

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Re: Box In Container
Reply #4 - Nov 16th, 2008 at 1:33pm
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Stoyo,


Thank you for getting back to me.

This was not a request for a new feature. I just recently purchased the control and I'm trying to learn its capabilities and trade-offs of various approaches before implementation. Your control is already rich with features - just trying to learn the best uses of it before commiting to a design.

It would seem it is better to use another flow control as a container than a box - more flexibility on its placement.

What about the other questions I asked - do you have a location on your forum/site where you have public access to examples in addition to the samples included with the download of the control?
  
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Reply #5 - Nov 17th, 2008 at 11:21am
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You might search for "_samples" using the search link above. That's the folder where we upload some samples to illustrate features discussed in the forum posts. Unfortunately there is no central location that catalogs and describes them. You might also look for "code:" to find posts that contain code snippets.

I hope that helps,
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Re: Box In Container
Reply #6 - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 4:56pm
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Currently I hide the boxes into a container but it could be useful to move them as I wish.

Could you implement this feature after v4.2?
  
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Re: Box In Container
Reply #7 - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 6:26am
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Yes, we can Wink
  
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