Snap panes to screen edges

Hello,

is there any way to achieve a snapping effect of docking panes so that when a pane is moved by the user, then it will automatically snap to the closest edge of the screen? Or can it be made only by overriding OnMoving() of the tabbed container?

Thanks for your help, in advance!

Thanks, my snapping is finished now. However it's not the CXTPDockinPaneTabContainer but CXTPDockingPaneContext what must be changed a little bit.

akur wrote: Hello, is there any way to achieve a snapping effect of docking panes so that when a pane is moved by the user, then it will automatically snap to the closest edge of the screen? Or can it be made only by overriding OnMoving() of the tabbed container? Thanks for your help, in advance!

Hi - just saw this thread. Will you be snapping to the edges of the screen (monitor) instead of the main frame? This would be a rather fantastic feature.

akur wrote: Yes, I needed snapping to edges of the screen, and to edges of the MDI Client area, too. But I really mean snapping and not docking here. That is, to make a floating pane "jump" (by adjusting its position) to the edges, keeping the pane still undocked. Something like what Photoshop does with its non-modal dialogs. If it'll be part of 10.3, it's great. At what time horizon can we await this feature approximately?

Wow!

[Warning - hope this makes sense]

Many of my users have dual screens, so I could run my MDI app on screen 1 and snap my many dialogs to screen 2?

I would dearly like to be able to drag a MDI view from the MDI app on screen 1 so that it snaps / docks to screen 2. If Codejock and jockettes achieve this then - Wow!

Standard Windows MDI support for dual monitor systems isn't great. I have essentially two main views, the ability to press a button, have the app go full size across both monitors and put a view on each monitor is very desirable.

SetStickyFloatingFrames  method.

Simon HB9DRV wrote: oleg wrote: SetStickyFloatingFrames  method. OK - I'll see if I can change a sample (any suggestions?), if not I'll be back!

Sorry - I'm too stupid to understand. In the ActivePaneView sample I changed CMainFrame but don't see any change in the program

    // Initialize the docking pane manager and set the
    // initial them for the docking panes.  Do this only after all
    // control bars objects have been created and docked.
    m_paneManager.InstallDockingPanes(this);
    // Set Office 2003 Theme
    m_paneManager.SetTheme(xtpPaneThemeOffice);
    m_paneManager.SetStickyFloatingFrames(TRUE);

OK, I modified the DialogPanes sample and see how floating panes stick together. I don't see any stickyness to the screen (monitor) edges.

Having stuck three panes together it would be nice to be able to drag them three around the screen in one 'lump' somehow.

Hello Oleg,

I'm really glad you've implemented one of our requests.
I'd like to have two questions about this pretty new feature, to see if we ought to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.3:

1. Do StickyFrames support multimonitor desktops?
2. Any built-in support for snapping to MDI client edges? (or any possibility to push in a custom overridden class to achieve this functionality without rebuilding the XTP library?)
   

Thanks for your answers, in advance!