Can a Pane be Any Kind Of Object?

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   Going through the Docking Pane examples I have confused myself as to what type of control/Window can be a "pane." 

In the "Docking Containers" example the panes appear to be derived CWnd's. I thought they were going to be a specific class written by CodeJock to work within the framework. If they aren't, I do not have a proplem with that at all. In fact, I would think it's very cool.

Question: Can panes be any resonable window or dialog?

What I have to do is create a dockable "button bar/pane" with labels for each button. It needs to dock to each side of a MDI main window. It's a really simple design. Pressing the buttons will call functions that bring up other various dialog boxes for user interaction. It kind of like a "TooBox" type thing.

Can I use a borderless CDialog as a pane and then have the PaneManager control the docking actions?

Thank you.

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kent_t Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 15 July 2008 Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote kent_t Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Can a Pane be Any Kind Of Object? Posted: 24 September 2008 at 4:12pm
	Going through the Docking Pane examples I have confused myself as to what type of control/Window can be a "pane." In the "Docking Containers" example the panes appear to be derived CWnd's. I thought they were going to be a specific class written by CodeJock to work within the framework. If they aren't, I do not have a proplem with that at all. In fact, I would think it's very cool. Question: Can panes be any resonable window or dialog? What I have to do is create a dockable "button bar/pane" with labels for each button. It needs to dock to each side of a MDI main window. It's a really simple design. Pressing the buttons will call functions that bring up other various dialog boxes for user interaction. It kind of like a "TooBox" type thing. Can I use a borderless CDialog as a pane and then have the PaneManager control the docking actions? Thank you.

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 September 2008 at 2:09am
	Hi, Any CWnd class can be Pane.
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Smucker Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 02 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 156	Post Options Post Reply Quote Smucker Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 September 2008 at 11:08am
	I had problems using CDialog (sorry I can't remember exactly what they were -- perhaps just the scrolling) and switched to CFormView for dialog panes.
	Product: Xtreme Toolkit Pro version 13.2 (Unicode, static build) Platform: Windows 200x/XP/Vista/Win7 (32/64 bit) Language: Visual C++ 9.0 (Studio 2008)