Using BBox

A BBox is a purely cosmetic and organizational view that draws a labeled border around its (view) children. The border and label are drawn within the BBox's frame rectangle.

The current pen size of the view determines the width of the border; by default it's 1.0 coordinate unit.

The label is drawn in the current font, which by default is the system bold font.

The label is drawn in the current high color; the default high color is black.

The BBox's label can be a string or it can be another view, such as a control. For example, a popup menu might be used as the BBox's label, to let the user select a group of options to view in a preference panel:

Archived Fields

: The Archive() function adds the following fields to its BMessage argument:

Field	Type code	Meaning
"_frame"	B_RECT_TYPE	The BBitmap's bounds rectangle.
"_cspace"	B_INT32_TYPE	The color_space of the data.
"_view_ok"	B_BOOL_TYPE	Always true, indicating the BBitmap accepts views (only present in deep copy archives of BBitmaps accepting views).
"_data"	B_RAW_TYPE	The bitmap data (present only if "_view_ok" not present).
"_continguous"	B_BOOL_TYPE	Whether the BBitmap requires memory in one contiguous chunk.

If the "_view_ok" field is present, the child views of the BBitmap are additionally archived in the "_views" array of BMessages. See the description of the BView Archived Fields for more information on those fields.