docking pane appearance

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   Okay, now I'm playing around a bit with the paintmanager, panelpaintmanager, and tabpaintmanager properties for my docking pane. I'm working with an sdi forn in vb6. Making changes to many of the properties (e.g., appearance, color, hottracking) don't seem to have any effect on the appearance of my panels or tabs. I am settng these properties in my form_activate event. Are there certain combinations of settings that must be used together? Is there a particular order that the properties must be set? Do I need to do anything after setting the properties (I have tried recalclayouts, redrawapanes, etc.)?

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johnp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 21 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 49	Post Options Post Reply Quote johnp Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: docking pane appearance Posted: 22 February 2008 at 10:27am
	Okay, now I'm playing around a bit with the paintmanager, panelpaintmanager, and tabpaintmanager properties for my docking pane. I'm working with an sdi forn in vb6. Making changes to many of the properties (e.g., appearance, color, hottracking) don't seem to have any effect on the appearance of my panels or tabs. I am settng these properties in my form_activate event. Are there certain combinations of settings that must be used together? Is there a particular order that the properties must be set? Do I need to do anything after setting the properties (I have tried recalclayouts, redrawapanes, etc.)?

SuperMario Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 18057	Post Options Post Reply Quote SuperMario Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 February 2008 at 11:58am
	Be sure you are making these changes AFTER setting the theme: DockingPaneManager.VisualTheme = ThemeOffice2007 DockingPaneManager.PaintManager.CaptionFont.Underline = True DockingPaneManager.PanelPaintManager.Appearance = xtpTabAppearanceExcel etc...

johnp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 21 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 49	Post Options Post Reply Quote johnp Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 February 2008 at 12:14pm
	That's great... seems to work better. BTW... while these seems pretty obvious is it anywhere in the documentation?

SuperMario Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 18057	Post Options Post Reply Quote SuperMario Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 February 2008 at 12:20pm
	It is, but it is kinda buried: Each time a VisualTheme is applied, the color settings will be updated with the colors for the selected theme. If the theme is changed, the the members of ColorSet must be updated to show the custom colors. The Color and Appearance properties can be used to mix appearances and colors.

johnp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 21 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 49	Post Options Post Reply Quote johnp Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 February 2008 at 12:32pm
	Thanks!