rsegal
13th May 2003 19:29 UTC

Installoptions and check boxes
Is there a way to specify different locations for a check box and its associated text? I know Microsoft Access can do this. Visual C++ and Visual Basic cannot which seems bizarre. I'm thinking it may be possible to do be sending messages tot he checkbox although I'm not sure what message I would send it exactly. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Joel
13th May 2003 22:48 UTC

I don't understand.
You mean like this:

[X]Text --> Text[X]
(Normal) --> (Changed)

rsegal
14th May 2003 05:00 UTC

Not really. I'll explain my question with a bit more detail. When you create a check box you specify some text to be displayed beside the checkbox. The position of this text in relation to the checkbox cannot be changed in anyway, I think. Its position is defined by the size of the area you define for the check box.

I want to to be able to change the position of this text indepently of the position of the check box.

So maybe have something like this,

[X] (bunch of spaces here) Text

So that the text would not be positioned directly beside the check box.

Actually I just figured out a way you could do this. You could use a checkbox with no text and a label. This way you would have two controls whose position on the dialog could be modified independently.

Joel
14th May 2003 16:26 UTC

Is possible
Yep, is possible.
Check the attach image.
If it is, here is the code
that I use in the IO page:

[field 5]
Type=checkbox 
Text="                                             Space"
Left=14 
Top=101
Right=176  
Bottom=155