CONTROL ADD FRAME

[marcuslee]

I found the CONTROL ADD FRAME page in the help file, and I was wondering its purpose.

From this thread (http://community.thinbasic.com/index.php?topic=125.0):



Maybe FRAME as a control could be fine, it can easily optically differentiate sections in dialog


Is that the only purpose of a FRAME? To show a difference from two parts of a form? Kind of like a group box? In fact, is it the same as a group box?

Mark :)

[ErosOlmi]

From Power Basic help file:
"This is also known as a "group" control, and is typically drawn around controls to indicate a visual association between such controls. A frame control is often used around related Option controls."

I can say that it is programmer responsibility how to design User Interface but of course on this matter there is tons of article and materials.
Just Google "user interface design" and you will get a lot of info.

[ISAWHIM]

Sounds like it is a duplicate object, with one specific use.

Used to simplify drawing four lines. (Since it is not a grouping container, there is no other function.)

You can hide it without hiding the controls which it surrounds. (As opposed to hiding a framed group, which would hide those grouped controls.)

You could use it to indicate FLOW, as items are selected, or as the mouse moves over items.

Where you might have groups, this could contain them visually, without being an additional group of groups. Thus, creating the structure of the UI, as opposed to being a structure of the controls.