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"Mark Morrisson" <mark4@NO_SPAMvoila.fr> wrote in message
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> Hi Gary,
> I really don't know how to thank you for the time you've spent on my
> problem.

You pay by helping the next person :-)

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> Anyway, you'll perhaps be able to advise me. I'm using raw APIs. I have a
> window that has 3 screens with curves that will be drawn inside. To draw
> each curve, I need to know the top coordinate of the window (which is
> obtained by summing the height of several elements). If I ever had to add
> something between 2 screens, I would have to change all the drawing code !
> That's not a good coding style. So, I thought that it would be cleaner to
> create
> 3 independant windows instead of drawn rectangles. This way, each window
> would draw its own data, and there wouldn't be any need to know the y
> coordinate of these client areas. Is it a frequent way of solving such
> problems ?
>
> I hope I haven't explained too badly.
>
> Thanks again and have a very nice day,
> Mark
>
Based just on what you said, as long as most of what you need is available
to the individual 'window', I would make them paint themselves.

By the way, the child windows of a dialog are usually called controls. In
your case they are custom controls.

Glad to be of help,
Gary