Codejock Developer Community : ShowPane without Activation http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 22 May 2026 17:54:13 +0000 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:27:21 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=11224 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[ShowPane without Activation : Hi, I&#039;m glad you didn&#039;t...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37471&title=showpane-without-activation#37471 Author: Aaron
Subject: 11224
Posted: 27 June 2008 at 3:27am

Hi,
 
I'm glad you didn't try to create a sample because I could't open your project anyway, I have only VB6.0 installed. Maybe an option for you is to change your signature like I did so all members can see what version, platform and language you use. 
 
Try to set the focus to the pane (with listview in it).
 
In the DockingPane_Action event you can select the pane
 
Select Case Action
    Case PaneActionActivated
        DockingPane.Panes(ID of the pane with listview in it).Select
End Select
 
 
]]> Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:27:21 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37471&title=showpane-without-activation#37471 <![CDATA[ShowPane without Activation : I guess to be even more specific,...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37469&title=showpane-without-activation#37469 Author: jemery
Subject: 11224
Posted: 27 June 2008 at 3:00am

I guess to be even more specific, imagine a list of items like:

Ball
Turtle
Yellow
Moon
Green

When you use the keys to go up and down through the list you might want to show a property pane tied to the height and age of an object if the item is an object.  If it's a color you might instead bring the color wheel to the front in order to see what the color looks like.

As it stands now I don't know how to do that as you would lose active control of the listBox whenever a pane is shown.  Meaning when you press up to reach 'Turtle' the property pane takes over control because it has showPane called on it.

This is really abstract but it seems like a simple example of why you wouldn't want to have showPane take away control.

Maybe 'showPaneSilently?'
]]> Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:00:51 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37469&title=showpane-without-activation#37469 <![CDATA[ShowPane without Activation : Hmm. I would have to create a...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37468&title=showpane-without-activation#37468 Author: jemery
Subject: 11224
Posted: 27 June 2008 at 2:51am

Hmm.  I would have to create a new one from scratch as I can't giveanything out (NDA).

I'd think it was a very simple issue if I can get it across.  When youuse showPane it makes the pane you are bringing to the front the activeform for the application (I presume it calls Activate() on it).  That'swhat I want to avoid.  I don't want the pane to become the active formbut I still want to bring it to the front in the docking system.

We have lists of things in another pane that users want to be able toscroll through via the scroll wheel or arrow keys, but showPane stealsthe focus away whenever they select an item in the list.  Admittedlyit's a nicety to be able to bring relevant panes about that item to thefront, but that feature vastly speeds up their workflow and we don'twant to lose it (it's useful enough that being unable to scroll throughthings is worth suffering through).

Here's a quick example straight from our app:

selectedIndexChanged event:

            Pane thisPane = DockingPaneManager.FindPane(WindowID.DOCKING_WINDOW_GROUP_VIEW);
            if ((!thisPane.Hidden) && (!thisPane.Closed))
            {
// This code makes the pane active, stealing focus from our currentwindow and making our users unhappy :)             DockingPaneManager.ShowPane(WindowID.DOCKING_WINDOW_GROUP_VIEW);
            }

            // Setting focus back immediately does nothing as focusappears to be lost right after this code finishes execution, perhaps inanother thread.
            this.ListView.Activate();

I've tried puzzling through other things like making it hidden/unhidden but all other commands also seem to automatically call Activate() on the pane being shown.  I can't seem to find anything to avoid that.
]]> Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:51:18 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37468&title=showpane-without-activation#37468 <![CDATA[ShowPane without Activation : Hi, Can you upload sample project?...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37467&title=showpane-without-activation#37467 Author: Aaron
Subject: 11224
Posted: 27 June 2008 at 2:24am

Hi,
 
Can you upload sample project?
 
 
 
]]> Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:24:23 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37467&title=showpane-without-activation#37467 <![CDATA[ShowPane without Activation : I have an application I&#039;m...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11224&PID=37465&title=showpane-without-activation#37465 Author: jemery
Subject: 11224
Posted: 27 June 2008 at 1:42am

I have an application I'm working on where we have, say, a list of items you can scroll through and other windows display information about those items.

When the selectionChanged event is fired in the listView I want to bring the relevant data windows to that selection to the front of whatever set of windows it's in (basically make sure it's visible).

Unfortunately, the showPane function automatically takes focus away from the listView and setting back focus immediately doesn't seem to do anything (so far).

What I want to do is find an alternative (or a passable option parameter) for showPane that does -not- make the associated window active so that I can allow users to, say, scroll through the items.  I've tried other possibilities like setting them hidden and the like, but all roads so far lead back to having to use showPane, which I do not want to do.

Is there something I'm overlooking?
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