4.5 General-purpose layout managers

The Abaqus GUI Toolkit includes three general-purpose layout managers that have similar layout capabilities:

FXPacker

FXPacker is a general-purpose layout manager.

AFXDialog

AFXDialog provides similar capabilities to FXPacker. As a result, you do not need to provide a top-level layout manager as the first child in a dialog box; you can use the layout capabilities of the dialog box instead.

FXGroupBox

FXGroupBox provides the same capabilities as FXPacker. In addition, FXGroupBox can display a labeled border around its children. Abaqus/CAE uses the FRAME_GROOVE flag to produce a thin border around the children of the group box.

For example,

gb = FXGroupBox(parent, 'Render Style', FRAME_GROOVE)
FXRadioButton(gb, 'Wireframe')
FXRadioButton(gb, 'Filled')
FXRadioButton(gb, 'Shaded')

Figure 4–3 An example of a group box with a labeled border from FXGroupBox.