The Fl_Group class is the FLTK container widget. It maintains
an array of child widgets. These children can themselves be any widget
including Fl_Group. The most important subclass of Fl_Group
is Fl_Window, however
groups can also be used to control radio buttons or to enforce resize
behavior.
The destructor also deletes all the children. This allows a
whole tree to be deleted at once, without having to keep a pointer to
all the children in the user code. A kludge has been done so the
Fl_Group and all of it's children can be automatic (local)
variables, but you must declare the Fl_Groupfirst, so
that it is destroyed last.
The Fl_Group widget keeps track of the original widget sizes and
positions when resizing occurs so that if you resize a window back to its
original size the widgets will be in the correct places. If you rearrange
the widgets in your group, call this method to register the new arrangement
with the Fl_Group that contains them.
The widget is removed from it's current group (if any) and then
inserted into this group. It is put at index n (or at the end
if n >= children(). This can also be used to rearrange
the widgets inside a group.
current() returns the currently active group. The Fl_Widget
constructor automatically does current()->add(widget) if this is not null.
To prevent new widgets from being added to a group, call Fl_Group::current(0).
begin() sets the current group so you can build the widget
tree by just constructing the widgets. begin() is
automatically called by the constructor for Fl_Group (and thus for
Fl_Window as well). begin()is exactly the same ascurrent(this).
The resizable widget defines the resizing box for the group. When the
group is resized it calculates a new size and position for all of its
children. Widgets that are horizontally or vertically inside the
dimensions of the box are scaled to the new size. Widgets outside the
box are moved.
In these examples the gray area is the resizable:
The resizable may be set to the group itself (this is the default
value for an Fl_Group, although NULL is the default
for an Fl_Window), in which case all the contents are resized.
If the resizable is NULL then all widgets remain a fixed size
and distance from the top-left corner.
It is possible to achieve any type of resize behavior by using an
invisible Fl_Box as the resizable and/or by using a hierarchy
of child Fl_Group's.