oleg wrote: Another option is to create member CreateLayout and move all calls there. to reset just m_paneManager.DestroyAll(); CreateLayout ();

And the CreateLayout() would contain the code that's normally there to create the docking panes and such?

Another option is to create member CreateLayout and move all calls there.

to reset just

m_paneManager.DestroyAll();

CreateLayout ();

Hmm, there's still a problem - it now works fine in the sense that it does restore the layouts of the main MDIFrame and all MDIChildFrames (I have a separate pane manager in each child frame, so I save/load layouts for each of them), but it now screws up the insides of the docking panes that I have inside those child frames. Am I still missing something, or..., do you have docking panes in your frames?

Thanks.

jimmy wrote: Hi, In there registry there is only saved one copy of layout settings. I create the pane to a default setting. Save this to a member variable. And then load the panesettings from registry to another member variable. In the registry there is only saved the current pane layout. And not the default.     Jimmy

Ah, ok I understand now!  Before doing a Load() of the layout from the registry, you store the default one as a local variable. Yes, that could work (going to go give it a try now) - thanks!

jimmy wrote: Hi, After create all pane, i create a new Layout and save the current settings to this layout.     m_pDefaultLayout = GetDockingPaneManager()->CreateLayout();     GetDockingPaneManager()->GetLayout(m_pDefaultLayout); and set it to default with void CMainFrame::Panes_SetToDefaultLayout()     {     GetDockingPaneManager()->SetLayout(m_pDefaultLayout);     }     Jimmy

I think I understand, but then you'd want to do this only the first time the program is run, so you should keep track of that, correct? It does seem a bit of a waste of registry space, because I'd have to keep 2 versions of the layouts there - one which is the "fresh" one (which would be the same if the registry would just be cleared) and the current one.

At the moment, it's easier to just erase the relevant registry entries, but I want to see if there's a more elegant solution

Thanks!

Hello,

I'm loading and saving the layouts for all my docking panes and MDI children, but is there a way to somehow "reset" them? I could delete them from the registry directly, but that wouldn't accomplish anything, because the current layout wouldn't be updated and when I exit the program, it would save whatever it was. Is there any better way I can solve this?

Thanks,