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In article <2vFnM5j025n@khantazi.welly.gen.nz>, banksie@khantazi.welly.gen.nz (Philip R. Banks) writes...

>> 2) How do you embed one dbox within another - again as in the Impression Style
>> Editor dbox?
> 
>   These are pane windows. A pane window is one that is associated strongly
>to another window that it should move when the other window moves and be
>closed when the other window is etc... These require a certain amount of
>work to be done by your application to implement. Have a hunt through the
>PRMs looking for the word 'pane' should help.

Basically, when the main window sees a wimp_EOPEN event, open the pane. You'll
need to adjust the wimp_openstr bounding box to make the pane window follow the
main window. Also, the order of opening can be important - otherwise you'll get
a lot of redrawing in the pane window!

To catch wimp_EOPEN events in a dbox, use dbox_raw_eventhandler and look for
wimp_EOPEN and wimp_ECLOSE. Make sure you return FALSE in both cases otherwise
dbox will assume you've handled 'open'/'close' and not bother to do it for
you! I've not tried this, but it ought to work.

Pete Goodwin
goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com