How to Dynamically Change the Size of Dialog Window

HerzogVonWiesel

While you're here, for this script I'd love to implement a toggle-able option and I've come so far as to hide the elements that are affected, however the dialog won't resize to the new, smaller size no matter what I do. I've tried LayoutChanged, different initializations for the dialog and a lot of googling.. is it even possible? How would I best go about doing this so the plugin window doesn't start up with a big empty blob where the extra options would be?

Thank you in advance!

ferdinand

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About your Question

I assume you want the dialog window to dynamically change size based on how you reconstruct the layout at runtime. Doing this is not possible, you have no control over the size of a dialog window except for the arguments for the width and height you can pass to GeDialog.Open. Once the dialog is open, you have no control over its size.

When you have a dialog where you do not know how large it will be when you open it with GeDialog.Open, set defaultw and defaulth both to 0, the dialog will then automatically scale to its minimum size.
Doing the same at runtime is not possible (for example when the layout is dynamic), as this would result in windows "magically" resizing themselves, which is a big no-no UX-wise.
You can use the layout flags of your gadgets to place elements in a more aesthetic manner when there is excess space. You could for example do something like this:

DIALOG MYDIALOG
{
  NAME IDS_MYDIALOG;

  GROUP ID_GROUP_MAIN // The outmost layout group.
  {
    SCALE_H; SCALE_V; // It will consume all space in the dialog.

    GROUP ID_GROUP_ITEMS // An inner group which contains all the options of the dialog.
    {
      FIT_H; // It will only consume the space it requires horizontally, i.e., the height of two
             // text edit gadgets.

      EDITTEXT ID_EDIT_A { SCALE_H; SIZE 256, 0; }; // A gadget with a fixed height, no SCALE_V
      EDITTEXT ID_EDIT_B { SCALE_H; SIZE 256, 0; }; // A gadget with a fixed height, no SCALE_V
    }
    //
    //  ... Cinema will render here whitespace when the dialog is taller then 2 edit fields + a button
    //

    // The "Run" or "Do Stuff" button of the dialog, it will always stick to the bottom of the
    // dialog window.
    BUTTON ID_BUTTON { ALIGN_BOTTOM; NAME IDS_BUTTON }
  }
}

You do not need to use a dialog resource for that you can do the same with the methods of GeDialog.

Cheers,
Ferdinand

HerzogVonWiesel

Thank you again @ferdinand !

Sad that resizing windows is not a possibility. Would've been nice to have the options pop up once you toggle the extra options on! Now I've implemented them as a modal dialogue so you can choose them and close it again.

Thank you for your help!