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    xDialog button align

    Sure seems that most of my questions here end up being ones regarding xDialog! :-)

    I want to align different height buttons centered horizontally.

    Example:

    Code:
    result=ui_dlg_box("Title",<<%dlg%
    {font=Arial,10}
    {region}
    Enter your firstname, last name and occupation: ;
    {endregion};
    {region}
    {justify=right}First Name: |{justify=left} .20firstname;
    {justify=right}Last Name: |{justify=left} .20lastname;
    {justify=right}Job: |{justify=left} .30occupation;
    {endregion};
    {region}
    <&OK> {font=Arial,7}<12,0.1"Cancel>;
    {endregion};
    {font=Arial,10}
    %dlg% )
    I want the Cancel button to be centered by height to the OK button.

    Any ideas? I have tried {region}, {lf=}, {Row} and {Col} to no avail. The {Justify=} is only for labels/text I found with no analogous command for doing the same for the controls in an xDialog.

    Although the example is with two buttons, I am actually trying to center vertically a series of radio buttons with a normal button but the same solution I am sure will work for both and other cases as well.

    Am hoping someone has wanted to do what I am asking and is simple (right! lol).
    Mike
    __________________________________________
    It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
    It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
    Henry David Thoreau
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    #2
    Re: xDialog button align

    Like this perhaps?
    {lf=} and {sp=} might do it
    Edit.
    Nope, I misread the intent. Doesn't seem to be an incremental {lf=}
    Any reason the buttons can't all be the same size?

    Edit again. A shower moment!
    One of my apps has a logical view of the tables, menus and processes. This is built in Visio, and saved as a.png.
    Clicking on a HotSpot which overlays the different components, carries out the appropriate action.
    It works a bit like Xdialog and you can overlay fields on the .png image.
    That way you can design whatever size shape or orientation of buttons as you wish.
    I haven't tried putting it in an xdialog region, but it could be possible.
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    Last edited by Ted Giles; 09-14-2018, 06:03 AM.
    See our Hybrid Option here;
    https://hybridapps.example-software.com/


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      #3
      Re: xDialog button align

      Thanks Ted. I should have placed the radio buttons into the example as it then shows the disproportionate heights of the radio compared to the button height required to make the two controls centered when placed on the same line. The reason for the small button was to make the entire line a bit more unobtrusive for choices that are right above a large button.

      I was hoping that I simply missed a way to do this in xdialog. And you are right on when thinking to use the {lf=} incrementally as that was the very first thought I had as well...there have been many times I have wanted to use such a missing feature and figured it was time to ask the message board.

      What I will do if no one has a simple way is in the attached image...the button is a bit larger than wanted and not quite centered but doesn't look too bad. The button is the "Make Default" button to the right of the Excel, PDF, Both radio controls. Another place I would like to be able to do this is for the Import button located on the bottom left of the xdialog. Other reasons for making a button smaller is a form's real estate as you will notice other small buttons which, if larger, just would not look right and make the height of the form even larger.

      Thanks for responding...utilizing an image with a hotspot could be doable by creating a transparent image with the correct alignment I guess but then it would present other aspects that would be inconsistent with other buttons that would have to be dealt with (onflyover, cursor changing, ...).



      AlphaMessageBoard_xDialog.jpg
      Last edited by MikeC; 09-14-2018, 08:42 AM.
      Mike
      __________________________________________
      It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
      It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
      Henry David Thoreau
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        #4
        Re: xDialog button align

        I think you might be able to do something with columns and rows.

        OK button in column 1, just one row. Cancel button in column 2, row 2 of 3.


        Image 4.png

        Seems like a lot of work.
        Last edited by Stan Mathews; 09-14-2018, 11:30 AM.
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          Re: xDialog button align

          I think it looks PDG as it is Mike.
          Correct Stan, not just this time, but maintenance and customer changes become a nightmare.
          See our Hybrid Option here;
          https://hybridapps.example-software.com/


          Apologies to anyone I haven't managed to upset yet.
          You are held in a queue and I will get to you soon.

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            #6
            Re: xDialog button align

            Thank you Stan. I had tried both Col and row....but not together! I have found xdialog to be a lot of work to obtain good aesthetics, especially compared to regular forms. But once a method is known (thanks again!), it really is not hard or very time consuming. I like the portability of xdialog and in some cases I have found them to be necessary as a regular form has caused issues when dealing with multiple QuickBooks refreshes.
            Mike
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