It is very nice that two new actions PaneActionActivated and PaneActionDeActivated will be included! Keep on going with the good work...

Could you tell me when the next release is released?

Thanks,

Thierry

First let me say thank you to Codejock for continuing tosupport the Active-X version of your controls it is really appreciated.  The release notes document is also very wellput together.

 I have been putting off wrestling with a way to get theactive pane hoping a new event would be added in 9.6.  The new HighlighActiveCaption property isgreat and now I can see which the active pane regardless of the theme.  However, I still can't find a way toprogrammatically determine what the active pane is.  I need to enable/disable various menu optionsdepending on what the active pane is.  AmI missing something?

Thanks,

- James

Thanks for the reply, it's great to get such fast feedback.

Although getting the active pane would seem a useful addition, perhaps there is an alternate way to do what I am interested in.  I would like to be able to open a new pane as a tab in the currently active pane.  Can anyone think of a work-around that would accomplish that?

I will investigate JScram's solution.  We're using ATL but I assume the VB activate event is just generated by the standard windows message.

*edit*

It looks like the contained window gets a  WM_IME_SETCONTEXT message as well as the WM_SETFOCUS and WM_KILLFOCUS messages.  As a work-around I think I can use these to manually keep track of which pane is active.

*edit*

Thanks again,

- James

So does Codejock plan to implement a solution for this?  I've seen this topic come up several times over the past year, many new updates to DockingPanes have been released, and there still hasn't been a solution to truly determine which pane is active.

Ideally, an event should be triggered when a pane is selected, and there should be a property that also returns the active pane.

I figure you're probably gearing up for another release very soon.  Is this something Codejock can implement for that release?

I am trying to get the selected pane but it seems the selected property is true for more than one pane.  Using the code sement below:

 int numSelected = 0;
 // Find the selected pane
 for ( int x = 1; x <= m_spPhotoPanes->PanesCount; x++ )
 {
  if ( m_spPhotoPanes->Panes[ x ]->Selected == VARIANT_TRUE &&
    m_spPhotoPanes->Panes[ x ]->Hidden == VARIANT_FALSE )
  {
   spSelectedPane = m_spPhotoPanes->Panes[ x ];
   numSelected++;
  }
 }

The numSelected variable is greater than one.  How can more than one pane be the active one?

Is there a better or different way to get the active pane?