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Issue 1.1

REVIEW

WindowSplitter 4.0

Issue: 1.1 (August/September 2002)
Author: Brian Jones
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 4,558
Starting Page Number: 10
Article Number: 1019
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There are many applications in which a lot of information needs to fit in a small window. A perfect solution for this problem, used in many popular programs such as email clients and instant messaging software, is the use of a bar that can be dragged to resize different areas of the window. Users can expand areas as they need them and then shrink them in order to conserve window real estate. It is precisely this solution that Einhugur Software's WindowSplitter plug-in makes exceptionally easy to implement.

WindowSplitter 4.0 can achieve basic functionality using just one method. Imagine creating a window with a ListBox control on the left and an EditField control on the right with a WindowSplitter control in the middle. In the WindowSplitter control's Open event simply type these lines:

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