Windows C++ dialog resizer class

Question

I\'m looking for a really good dialog resizer class that will stretch and shrink individual items as needed as the screen is resized. Stephan Keil has a good one (DlgResize

Answer 1

I've tried many and finally settled on http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/layoutmgr.aspx. It doesn't do the 'intelligent' layouting that you suggest though. I've never seen that in any library, on any platform - I don't see how it would work without having lots of under the hood magic that'd have to be overridden half of the time anyway.

Answer 2

The Ultimate Toolbox MFC library (here on CodeProject) includes a layout manager. I haven't used it myself, but it looks like it does what you want.

Answer 3

We use CResize class from CodeGuru to resize all controls automatically. You tell how you want each control to be resized and it does the job for you.

The resize paradigm is to specify how much each side of a control will move when the dialog is resized.

SetResize(IDC_EDIT1, 0,   0,   0.5, 1);
SetResize(IDC_EDIT2, 0.5, 0,   1,   1);

Very handy when you have a large number of dialog controls.

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Answer 4

You can use wxWidgets. It completely replaces MFC, is multi-platform, and gives you a layout-based dialog mechanism.

Answer 5

You can look at Professional GUI we use their class library for resizing our dialog controls. I think that is part of their free version.

Answer 6

This is a free solution also from CodeProject
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/dlgresizearticle.aspx
It's just a set of simple macros that position controls as the dialog resizes.

Edit - following the OPs comments. I don't know of any general sizer support like QT/WX for MFC, it doesn't seem to be present in new frameworks like Winforms either.
It is in QT/WX because it is necessary for multiplatform where widgets may be a different size, which explains MS lack of it. But it is also vital for multi-language ports, eg. where the German for cancel is 30 characters long.