How do I determine which Pane is active?

Hi,

I have a number of panes containing different forms, but sharing one toolbar.

What I want is to capture when a particular pane/form is selected and rebuild the toolbar appropriately depending on what form is currently active. Also when selecting a menu option or tool event I need to know which pane is active  to fire the relevant action on the active pane. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to determine this. I have even tried workarounds such as manually setting a global active pane variable on the forms got focus event, which unfortuantely never seems to fire.

I read elsewhere that a selected event would be available in 8.62.

I am currently using 8.70 with VB6.0.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to get the selected pane but it seems the selected property is true for more than one pane.  Using the code sement below:

 int numSelected = 0;
 // Find the selected pane
 for ( int x = 1; x <= m_spPhotoPanes->PanesCount; x++ )
 {
  if ( m_spPhotoPanes->Panes[ x ]->Selected == VARIANT_TRUE &&
    m_spPhotoPanes->Panes[ x ]->Hidden == VARIANT_FALSE )
  {
   spSelectedPane = m_spPhotoPanes->Panes[ x ];
   numSelected++;
  }
 }

The numSelected variable is greater than one.  How can more than one pane be the active one?

Is there a better or different way to get the active pane?

So does Codejock plan to implement a solution for this?  I've seen this topic come up several times over the past year, many new updates to DockingPanes have been released, and there still hasn't been a solution to truly determine which pane is active.

Ideally, an event should be triggered when a pane is selected, and there should be a property that also returns the active pane.

I figure you're probably gearing up for another release very soon.  Is this something Codejock can implement for that release?

First let me say thank you to Codejock for continuing to support the Active-X version of your controls it is really appreciated.  The release notes document is also very well put together.

 I have been putting off wrestling with a way to get the active pane hoping a new event would be added in 9.6.  The new HighlighActiveCaption property is great and now I can see which the active pane regardless of the theme.  However, I still can't find a way to programmatically determine what the active pane is.  I need to enable/disable various menu options depending on what the active pane is.  Am I missing something?

Thanks,

- James

It is very nice that two new actions PaneActionActivated and PaneActionDeActivated will be included! Keep on going with the good work...

Could you tell me when the next release is released?

Thanks,

Thierry