Pane Location

How do you determine the location of a pane in a window.  I'm looking to customize the way a pane is pinned.  When a control is pinned, I want it to pin inside a control that is already at that location.  I'm catching the action event of the docking manager, but I can't seem to find a way to find out which control is actually docked in that location.  Although the GetLayout() methods of docking manager gets the layout, it only allows you to get a count of the amount of Panes.  If there is no way to do this, this is a serious limitation.
Thank you in advance for your prompt reply.

Here is a tutorial on to programmatically dock a pane and move it around by code.
http://www.codejock.com/support/articles/com/dockingpane/dp_2.asp

Also, you can attach docking panes either by attaching the docking pane control inside the control or encapsulating the control and docking pane in a picture box.

To attach a docking pane to a control use:

DockingPaneManager.AttachToWindow Control.hwnd


Or dropping the docking pane control on a picture box with the other control, where the control becomes the client.

What version are you working with? If you have 10.4, then check out what these properties do: Pane::Position, Pane::ParentContainer and Pane::Type properties added

Plus in 10.4 they added new pane actions in which you can possibly catch where it's being docked, attached to, and pinned. Unpinning action sends when pane Entered to AutoHide mode and Pinning when exit from AutoHide mode

I'm taking it that your issue is that a user can move a pane around and hide it without knowing where it's at due to no tabs?

Oh, 9.81 I haven't used that version since last april. Try using a popup control message off the pinning or pinned action of each docking pane