Controls placed by Resource Editor are different size than controls placed programmatically?
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Does anyone know why on like 3 of 40 of the computers my company has, the controls placed on a dialog programmatically via MoveWindow are sized different than if they were just placed in the .RC file with the Resource Editor? I have an image to show what I mean. On the right hand side I have what a normal machine looks like. on the left hand side is a screwed up machine( you'll notice all the top controls which are placed in the resource editor are much larger, where the bottom controls which are placed with MoveWindow function end up in the correct place) http://www.john-moses.com/img/artviewer_bug.jpg[^] So I have a dialog that has several controls on it, most of which don't need to be resized, only 2 of the controls on the dialog need to be resized. All the controls on the dialog that don't need to be resized I just place in the .RC file with the Resource Editor, and don't bother making member variables for. For the 2 controls that need to resizing, I'll place in the Resource Editor, but in the OnSize function I'll call MoveWindow on the 2 control's member functions to resize them. This works just fine on like 98% of the computers are my company, but for like 3 people, for some reason this mix of Resource Editor/MoveWindow placed controls causes some kind of visual bug. Any Ideas what could cause this? I looked at the machines "Desktop Properties -> Display Properties -> Advanced", and all our fonts and sizes are the same. We all do have different processors and video cards, nothing we can do about that. We're all running Windows XP Pro eh?
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Does anyone know why on like 3 of 40 of the computers my company has, the controls placed on a dialog programmatically via MoveWindow are sized different than if they were just placed in the .RC file with the Resource Editor? I have an image to show what I mean. On the right hand side I have what a normal machine looks like. on the left hand side is a screwed up machine( you'll notice all the top controls which are placed in the resource editor are much larger, where the bottom controls which are placed with MoveWindow function end up in the correct place) http://www.john-moses.com/img/artviewer_bug.jpg[^] So I have a dialog that has several controls on it, most of which don't need to be resized, only 2 of the controls on the dialog need to be resized. All the controls on the dialog that don't need to be resized I just place in the .RC file with the Resource Editor, and don't bother making member variables for. For the 2 controls that need to resizing, I'll place in the Resource Editor, but in the OnSize function I'll call MoveWindow on the 2 control's member functions to resize them. This works just fine on like 98% of the computers are my company, but for like 3 people, for some reason this mix of Resource Editor/MoveWindow placed controls causes some kind of visual bug. Any Ideas what could cause this? I looked at the machines "Desktop Properties -> Display Properties -> Advanced", and all our fonts and sizes are the same. We all do have different processors and video cards, nothing we can do about that. We're all running Windows XP Pro eh?
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Oh thanks pal, you da man. I went for the placeholder like solution as it was quicker for me in this case, but next time I run into this (which I'm sure is soon), I'm going to follow the article.
I normally go for the place-holder solution myself.
Steve
