Can't change control position in dialog

[danparks]

I'm having a problem changing the position of a control in a dialog. I've stripped things down to a very simple example, but still can't get it to work. I thought that calling SetPosition() on the control in the dialog's PostLayoutDynInitL() is all one had to do. The resource defines a dialog with one control - a label:

RESOURCE DIALOG r_help_dialog
{
flags = EEikDialogFlagNoDrag |
EEikDialogFlagFillAppClientRect |
EEikDialogFlagWait |
EEikDialogFlagCbaButtons ;
buttons = R_AVKON_SOFTKEYS_OK_EMPTY;
items =
{
DLG_LINE
{
id = EHelpDialogLabel;
type = EEikCtLabel;
control = LABEL
{
txt = STR_HELP_SECTION_HEAD_1;
};
}
};
}

In PostLayoutDynInitL() I get the control, then move it over and down:

void CHelpDialog::PostLayoutDynInitL()
{
CEikLabel* label = static_cast< CEikLabel* >( ControlOrNull( EHelpDialogLabel ) );

label->SetPosition( TPoint( 10, 50 ) );
}

When the app runs the label text appears at ( 0, 0 ), as if SetPosition() did nothing. Ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

[datha_k]

Did you solve your problem related to positioning.
-Datha

[datha_k]

I learnt that dialog line in RSS file, literally is dialog line. If dialog controls are built by multiple dialog lines, their extent is set in line pattern.
I solved my problem of placing controls anywhere in Dialog, by having a dialog line which is container for other controls.
'Other controls' which i used are CEikLabel, CAknBitmapAnimation. The position and extent can be set by calling SetExtent() and SetPosition().
SetRect() does not have any effect on positioning.
I did my layout planning in CMyDialog::PreLayoutDynInitL() and CMyDialog::HandleResourceChange().
I think i can do in single place that is CMyContainer::SizeChanged(). I did not try this SizeChanged() yet...

But still, it was harder to do layout plan of resource in S60. We need some easy layout planning tool.

-Datha