Codejock Developer Community : Saving MDI layout http://forum.codejock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:57:15 +0000 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:38:37 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 forum.codejock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=19659 <![CDATA[Codejock Developer Community]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_images/codejock-logo.gif http://forum.codejock.com/ <![CDATA[Saving MDI layout : Thanks for the reply Graham. I&#039;ve...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19659&PID=69362&title=saving-mdi-layout#69362 Author: Andyman
Subject: 19659
Posted: 05 December 2012 at 10:38pm

Thanks for the reply Graham. I've only just got around to trying out your suggestion (6 months later, ha!), but I can't get it to work. I was kind of hoping to use the property exchange stuff to save and restore also, but no luck with that either. 

I tried modifying "XtremeToolkit\Samples\ToolkitPro\MDITabWindow" as below...

Left file: C:\Users\amanessis\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$DR89.840\Samples\ToolkitPro\MDITabWindow\bncvw.cpp
Right file: C:\Source\XtremeToolkit\Samples\ToolkitPro\MDITabWindow\bncvw.cpp
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> static CString str; 
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< 
< CColorDialog dlgColor(pDoc->m_clrBall);
< if (dlgColor.DoModal() == IDOK)
< {
< pDoc->SetCustomBallColor(dlgColor.GetColor());
< pDoc->ClearAllColors();
< pDoc->m_bCustom = TRUE;
< MakeNewBall();
< }
---
>   
>   /// TEST STUFF...
>   
>   CMainFrame *f = (CMainFrame*)AfxGetMainWnd ();
>   CXTPDockingPaneManager *manager = &f->m_paneManager;
>   CXTPPropExchangeXMLNode px(FALSE, 0, _T("Settings"));
>   if (px.OnBeforeExchange()) 
>     {
>     CXTPPropExchangeSection custom(px.GetSection(_T("CustomLayout")));
>     CXTPPropExchangeSection pxDockingPane(custom->GetSection(_T("DockingPane")));
>     manager->DoPropExchange(&pxDockingPane);
>     str = px.GetEncodedXML();
>     }
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< 
---
> 
>   // TEST STUFF...
> 
>   CXTPPropExchangeXMLNode px(TRUE, 0, _T("Settings"));
>   px.LoadFromEncodedString(str);
>   if (px.OnBeforeExchange()) 
>     {
>     CXTPPropExchangeSection sec(px.GetSection(_T("CustomLayout")));  
>     CMainFrame *f = (CMainFrame*)AfxGetMainWnd ();
>     CXTPDockingPaneManager *manager = &f->m_paneManager;
>     CXTPPropExchangeXMLNode px(TRUE, 0, _T("Settings"));
>     if (px.OnBeforeExchange()) 
>       {
>       CXTPPropExchangeSection custom(px.GetSection(_T("CustomLayout")));
>       CXTPPropExchangeSection pxDockingPane(custom->GetSection(_T("DockingPane")));
>       manager->DoPropExchange(&pxDockingPane);
>       manager->RecalcFramesLayout();
>       manager->RedrawWindow();
>       manager->RedrawPanes ();
>       }
>     }
>   return; 

]]> Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:38:37 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19659&PID=69362&title=saving-mdi-layout#69362 <![CDATA[Saving MDI layout : Yes it is. You hammer through...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19659&PID=68013&title=saving-mdi-layout#68013 Author: grahamf
Subject: 19659
Posted: 18 April 2012 at 11:05am

Yes it is. You hammer through the document list and save the document/frame/view information for each. This is a snippet of what our XML 'workspace' file looks like:

<Documents Count="2">
  <Document0 docpath=".\\ELB Sale Pad 2.ksp" docguid="<docprogid1>" doctitle="ELB Sale Pad 2.ksp" docapplet="Sale Pad">
    <Frames Count="1">
      <Frame0 paneid="0">
        <Placement showcmd="1" minposition="-1, -1" maxposition="-4, -23" normalposition="0, -8, 1019, 268"/>
        <Views Count="1">
          <View0 isactive="0" isvisible="1"/>
        </Views>
      </Frame0>
    </Frames>
  </Document0>
  <Document1 docpath=".\\ELB Analysis Pad 2.kap" docguid="<docprogid2>" doctitle="ELB Analysis Pad 2.kap" docapplet="Analysis Pad">
    <Frames Count="1">
      <Frame0 paneid="0">
        <Placement showcmd="1" minposition="-1, -1" maxposition="-1, -1" normalposition="1, 266, 1020, 591"/>
        <Views Count="1">
          <View0 isactive="1" isvisible="1"/>
        </Views>
      </Frame0>
    </Frames>
  </Document1>
</Documents>

The Placement tag is done by deriving a new class from CXTPWindowPos that serialises via DoPropExchange() - why that is there I don't know...

The docguid attribute is the document template progid-like string - necessary only if you use multiple document templates.

The paneid attribute is necessary only if you dock CView derivatives.

The only other thing to note is the path is saved relative to the 'workspace' file itself - that way they can all be picked up and moved/copied to other directories without having to worry about absolute path nonsense.

]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:05:09 +0000 http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19659&PID=68013&title=saving-mdi-layout#68013 <![CDATA[Saving MDI layout : Hey Guys Is it possible to...]]> http://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=19659&PID=68001&title=saving-mdi-layout#68001 Author: Andyman
Subject: 19659
Posted: 17 April 2012 at 4:19am

Hey Guys
Is it possible to save and restore the layout of an MDI application. Eg. In the GUI_VisualStudio example to be able to restore the 3 new view tabs....
 
Cheers
 
 
 
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