Thread: resizing x and y evenly

I'm using MFC and I have a multi view document with wizard generated child frames and docs and views. When a child frame appears, I would, when the user clicks on any of the sides of the window to try to resize the window, increase or decrease the x and y positions evenly. I would like the child frame to remain a square, and if the user tries to resize one side, have it remain a square and not turn into a rectangle. Does solving this have something to do with handling the ON_WM_SIZE message that is sent?

Thank you.

you can do the following (inspired by the previous poster's post)
place the code in the WM_MOVE message

RECT rc;

GetScreenRect(hwnd,&rc)

x = rc.right - rc.left;
y = rc.bottom - rc.top
if(x>y)
y=x;
else
x=y;
MoveWindow(hwnd,rc.top,rc.left,x,y,true);


Good Luck

Oskilian

I appreciate both of your suggestions, but neither of them work for me when I try to implement them. Some weird stuff happens when I try to resize the window, and it doesn't work. This is the code I tried to implement:

void CChildFrame::OnSize(UINT nType, int cx, int cy)
{
//CMDIChildWnd::OnSize(nType, cx, cy);

CClientDC dc(this);
CRect rc;
GetClientRect(rc);
rc.top+=20;

int x = rc.right - rc.left;
int y = rc.bottom - rc.top;
if(x>y)
y=x;
else
x=y;
MoveWindow(rc.top,rc.left,x,y,true);
}