Dialogue Box Margins

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

Is there a way to decrease the margin width inside a dialogue box? By default, there's a rather thick margin when producing dialogue boxes with DCL, but I noticed some the acad "help file" dialogue boxes are very thin. Is it possible to manipulate the margin settings inside dialogue boxes with DCL?

Thanks in advance!!

Frank

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

Use the fixed_width = true; attribute on your tiles to decrease the size of you dialogs.

HTH

Bill

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

Thanks, Bill!
I already have that attribute in place. What I'm trying to do is increase the amount of useable space within a given dialogue box by decreasing the margins. Any suggestions on how this can be done?

Thanks again!!

Frank

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

Can you post an image?

What do you mean "usable space"

Bill

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

Try this and see if it helps:

children_fixed_width=true; children_fixed_height=true;

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Thanks, Bill!
I already have that attribute in place. What I'm trying to do is increase
the amount of useable space within a given dialogue box by decreasing the
margins. Any suggestions on how this can be done?

Thanks again!!

Frank

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

vertical_margin = none;
horizontal_margin = none;

wrote in message news:4966704@discussion.autodesk.com...
Is there a way to decrease the margin width inside a dialogue box? By
default, there's a rather thick margin when producing dialogue boxes with
DCL, but I noticed some the acad "help file" dialogue boxes are very thin.
Is it possible to manipulate the margin settings inside dialogue boxes with
DCL?

Thanks in advance!!

Frank

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

Thanks for all the help!! I really appreciate everyone's time and energy!! Mataeux's vertical_margin = none; and the horizontal_margin = none; did the trick!!

Best regards,
Frank

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

Careful! From Developer help:

The following tile attributes are restricted. Do not use them in your DCL
files:
- horizontal_margin
- vertical_margin
- type

See attached image.
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Daniel J. Altamura, R.A.
Altamura Architectural Consulting
and SoftWorx, Autodesk Authorized Developer
http://partnerproducts.autodesk.com/popups/company.asp?rdid=2139
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wrote in message news:4967264@discussion.autodesk.com...
Thanks for all the help!! I really appreciate everyone's time and
energy!! Mataeux's vertical_margin = none; and the horizontal_margin =
none; did the trick!!

Best regards,
Frank

Anonymous · ‎09-26-2005

that just means that those names cannot be used for user-defined attributes
because they are used in the base dcl. yesno? if not, i invite autodesk to
sue me!

; "R.A." wrote in message
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Careful! From Developer help:

The following tile attributes are restricted. Do not use them in your DCL
files:
- horizontal_margin
- vertical_margin
- type

See attached image.
--
Daniel J. Altamura, R.A.
Altamura Architectural Consulting
and SoftWorx, Autodesk Authorized Developer
http://partnerproducts.autodesk.com/popups/company.asp?rdid=2139
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wrote in message news:4967264@discussion.aut
odesk.com...
Thanks for all the help!! I really appreciate everyone's time and
energy!! Mataeux's vertical_margin = none; and the horizontal_margin =
none; did the trick!!

Best regards,
Frank

Anonymous · ‎09-27-2005

Perhaps you are right. I don't know. This was just something that I
noticed and wanted to pass on for consideration.

Dan
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Daniel J. Altamura, R.A.
Altamura Architectural Consulting
and SoftWorx, Autodesk Authorized Developer
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"mataeux" wrote in message
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that just means that those names cannot be used for user-defined attributes
because they are used in the base dcl. yesno? if not, i invite autodesk to
sue me!

Anonymous · ‎09-27-2005

IMO: Those attributes are not needed.

I have yet to construct a dialog box that has the problem that you describe.

Here's an example of what most of mine look like:

Anonymous · ‎09-27-2005

here are two examples of linked lists where it useful to push the list boxes
together with no margins.

wrote in message news:4967758@discussion.autodesk.com...
IMO: Those attributes are not needed.

I have yet to construct a dialog box that has the problem that you describ

Anonymous · ‎09-27-2005

Looks like you're on XP.

That could be the difference.

Bill