CDialogBar - Prof-UIS

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I was referred by a colleague to a description of a Microsoft like CDialogBar supported by another toolkit vendor.  It is not possible from the description/demo to see if the class supports InitDialog, DDX and resizable attributes, which most desirable CDialogBar derivatives do, but it sounds and looks as if it does.  Any chance of getting something like this in ToolKitPro?

The following is a description of this class from their website:

"In Prof-UIS, there is a CExtPanelControlBar class that has similar features to MFC's CDialogBar. CExtPanelControlBar implements a toolbar-like window, which owns only one child window and has a size that is determined by the size of this child window. In most cases the panel control bar is used as a dialog container.
In the FixedSizePanels sample application you can find that the m_wndPanelDialog property of CMainFrame, which is created in CMainFrame::OnCreate() is an instance of the CExtPanelControlBar class. The m_dlgForPanelDialog property of the main frame is a child dialog whose parent window is m_wndPanelDialog."

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Kenneth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 May 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 256	Post Options Post Reply Quote Kenneth Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: CDialogBar - Prof-UIS Posted: 13 July 2007 at 4:22pm
	I was referred by a colleague to a description of a Microsoft like CDialogBar supported by another toolkit vendor. It is not possible from the description/demo to see if the class supports InitDialog, DDX and resizable attributes, which most desirable CDialogBar derivatives do, but it sounds and looks as if it does. Any chance of getting something like this in ToolKitPro? The following is a description of this class from their website: "In Prof-UIS, there is a `CExtPanelControlBar` class that has similar features to MFC's `CDialogBar`. `CExtPanelControlBar` implements a toolbar-like window, which owns only one child window and has a size that is determined by the size of this child window. In most cases the panel control bar is used as a dialog container. In the FixedSizePanels sample application you can find that the `m_wndPanelDialog` property of `CMainFrame`, which is created in `CMainFrame::OnCreate()` is an instance of the `CExtPanelControlBar` class. The `m_dlgForPanelDialog` property of the main frame is a child dialog whose parent window is `m_wndPanelDialog`."

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 July 2007 at 1:04am
	Hi, Form description I see that it works like our Bar - just container for another CDialog. I can't understand why its problem for you - you only need create additional dialog with all DDX, etc and put it to CDialogBar.
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Kenneth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 May 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 256	Post Options Post Reply Quote Kenneth Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 16 July 2007 at 8:56am
	I downloaded and tested the Prof-UIS bar and it is like a real Microsoft CDialogBar with theme support. That is, I can make a bar the same height as a CDialogBar. With the Codejock CXTPDialogBar I end up with a double height bar; the first bar is more like a caption bar, followed below by the dialog bar itself. Perhaps I do not understand how the CXTPDialogBar works and I am not setting it up correctly. Below is an image that contains two images. The top one is my attempt to create a CXTPDialogBar with some buttons. I end up with "two" bars; the top being more like a caption bar, the second being the dialogbar itself. What I really want is one much like the second image, a single bar containing the buttons. The double bar height perhaps is not all that bad if you only had one bar per window, but if you have several, a lot of space is wasted when compared with a normal Microsoft CDialogBar.