For anyone else wanting to know you have to set the commandbar to the dockingpane control so it knows it exists :

 

    Call objDockingManager.SetCommandBars(objCommandbars)

 

 

 

Many thanks

I have added a pane to a VB6 project that has had a ribbon bar added to it.  The layout was fine until the pane was added, docked to nothing on the left, but now the top ribbonbar is not against the left edge, but moved out to the right edge of the pane.

 

 

 

I cannot seem to find how to make it so the ribbonbar is fully left and not starting at the right edge of the pane.

 

I suspect it may be something to do with this code :

 

Private Sub objDockingManager_GetClientBordersWidth(Left As Long, Top As Long, Right As Long, Bottom As Long)

 

    Dim lngLeft As Long
    Dim lngTop As Long
    Dim lngRight As Long
    Dim lngBottom As Long

 

    ' Find the height of the statusbar
    If staMain.Visible Then
        Bottom = staMain.Height
    End If

    ' Find the height of the command bar
    If objCommandbars.ActiveMenuBar.Visible Then
        Call objCommandbars.ActiveMenuBar.GetWindowRect(lngLeft, lngTop, lngRight, lngBottom)
        Top = lngBottom
    End If

 

End Sub

 

 

The GetWindowRect seems to work fine for the bottom position of the ribbonbar.  Do I need to somehow set the left and right values also, and if so to what ?

 

Many thanks for your help