Shoutbox

Today I had a browse through the Scripting Docs and found some elements whose meaning is somewhat unclear to me. Maybe (probably) anybody knows what they do or how they react.

• ButtonControl/Attributes/DwmAnimations
  The only explanation is "Specifies if transition animations are allowed for this control in Windows Vista and above."
  
  
• ComboBoxControl/Attributes/OwnerDraw
  Allowed options are None, Fixed or Variable.
  
  
• Control/Position/Origins
  Description is "Allows to specify a size that's relative to the opposite border of the window."
  
  
• Window/@TranslationSection
  How to use this property in scripts?
  
  
• AllowRTL for ComboBoxControls
  For RichEditControls, there is the XML node RichEditControl/Attributes/AllowRTL to display a control in LTR mode even in an RTL window. How can this be done for ComboBoxControls?

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Originally posted by mynetx
ButtonControl/Attributes/DwmAnimations
The only explanation is "Specifies if transition animations are allowed for this control in Windows Vista and above."

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This is the animation that vista puts on windows as you open/close/minimise/maximise/etc

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Originally posted by markee

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Originally posted by mynetx
ButtonControl/Attributes/DwmAnimations
The only explanation is "Specifies if transition animations are allowed for this control in Windows Vista and above."

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This is the animation that vista puts on windows as you open/close/minimise/maximise/etc

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Why on earth would it be under ButtonControl then?

It controls fade in/out animations for when you hover over the button and also fading when you press it. Easy to see the difference if you make a small window with 2 buttons, 1 allowed and 1 disallowed.

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Originally posted by mynetx
Window/@TranslationSection
How to use this property in scripts?

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I think it's for internal use only.

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Originally posted by mynetx
Control/Position/Origins
Description is "Allows to specify a size that's relative to the opposite border of the window."

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That description is pretty terrible actually but here's what it does:

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<Control xsi:type="ButtonControl" Id="TestButton">
  <Position Top="20" Left="10" Height="20" Width="100">
    <Origins Width="Reverse"/>
  </Position>
  <Caption>Test Button</Caption>
</Control>

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The space with the red arrows is what is specified in Position/@Width, the width between the right edge of the button and the edge of the window's client area.