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Re: A box appears round an Fl_Help_View instance Albrecht Schlosser Jul 14, 2022  
 
On Am 7/14/22 20:16 schrieb Albrecht Schlosser wrote:

Unfortunately this widget uses FL_DOWN_BOX internally if you don't set a box type or set it to FL_NO_BOX.

Instead of disabling the box(), try setting it to FL_FLAT_BOX.

Yep, that's probably the best way to work around this "special feature". I don't know why this was done but it's this way since Fl_Help_View was added to FLTK around 2001. Thus it can't be changed but I documented this special behavior a few minutes ago.

Thinking about it again, I believe we could set the boxtype to FL_DOWN_BOX in the constructor and then remove the "special feature" to replace the box type internally. Most users wouldn't notice the change if they didn't set the boxtype explicitly to FL_NO_BOX.

This change would have the benefit that users could set FL_NO_BOX if they want to do so (for whatever reason, background image or anything else) and if they make sure that the text wouldn't scroll, i.e. it would fit in the widget.

Greg and others, what do you think? Should we change this?

Although I wrote before that it couldn't be changed I believe now that his proposal would not do any harm but be more like expected.

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