Can you dock a child window control in C++ win32 API (like are there WS_* styles or something), or do you always have to listen for the WM_SIZE message on the parent window and manually re-layout/fill all the children?
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Can you dock a child window control in C++ win32 API (like are there WS_* styles or something), or do you always have to listen for the WM_SIZE message on the parent window and manually re-layout/fill all the children?
There is nothing directly available in the WinAPI that will automate this, it’s generally implemented by framework wrappers (like MFC…). However, there are a few libraries (such as this one) that you could use as an alternative to implementing it from scratch.