Creating a panel subwindow
Left-click on the panel icon on the object palette, and left-click again
on the object editor, inside a frame object. The panel properties editor
will be shown, with the following controls.
- Name
- The name of this panel instance.
- Description
- A textual description of the panel.
- Class name
- The name of the C++ class that will be created for
this panel.
- Border
- If checked on, the panel will have a border.
- Resize strategy
- One of Fixed, Proportional and Grow.
See subwindow tiling.
- Width
- The width of the panel.
- Height
- The width of the panel.
- % frame
- If Resize strategy is Proportional, this value specifies
the proportion of the frame for determining the subwindow size.
- Fit contents
- If checked on, the panel will fit itself to its
contents.
- Horizontal labels
- If checked on, the default labelling orientation
is horizontal, otherwise it is vertical.
- Label font
- The name of the font to be used for panel item labels.
The font should have been created previously using the font manager,
accessible from the GDI menu.
- Button font
- The name of the font to be used for panel item contents.