create pane in same spot it was destroyed

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How can you tell if a pane is docked with a neighbor or not? For a
single pane, I can get the dock direction, window rect,
float/hidden/docked status and put the pane back in the same spot it
was destroyed if I save all this information, but with two panes, it
does not work since you can dock panes with neighbors. For example, if
I have a two panes side by side at the bottom of the window, destroy
and recreate one of them, it will appear either above/below the
existing pane or completely on the left/right side of the window, not
left/right side by side of the existing pane at the bottom, unless I
manually specify the proper neighbor pane when creating the new
pane.  But I do not see a function to retrieve what the neighbor
pane is or how to do this?

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Ark42 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 October 2003 Status: Offline Points: 291	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ark42 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: create pane in same spot it was destroyed Posted: 16 May 2004 at 6:49pm
	How can you tell if a pane is docked with a neighbor or not? For a single pane, I can get the dock direction, window rect, float/hidden/docked status and put the pane back in the same spot it was destroyed if I save all this information, but with two panes, it does not work since you can dock panes with neighbors. For example, if I have a two panes side by side at the bottom of the window, destroy and recreate one of them, it will appear either above/below the existing pane or completely on the left/right side of the window, not left/right side by side of the existing pane at the bottom, unless I manually specify the proper neighbor pane when creating the new pane. But I do not see a function to retrieve what the neighbor pane is or how to do this?

brianh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 83	Post Options Post Reply Quote brianh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 3:40am
	Hi, I'm sorry I don't have an answer to your question but I was hoping you could help me. I'm trying to find the first pane that's docked to the bottom of the frame, I can enumerate the panes and find the ones that are docked but I can't see how to get the dock direction. In your question you mention that you can find this, can you tell me how? Thanks. Edited by brianh

Ark42 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 20 October 2003 Status: Offline Points: 291	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ark42 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 May 2004 at 11:58am
	XTPWM_DOCKINGPANE_NOTIFY ... XTP_DPN_ACTION ... XTP_DOCKINGPANE_ACTION pAction = (XTP_DOCKINGPANE_ACTION )lParam; CXTPDockingPane *pPane = pAction->pPane; ... switch( pPane->GetID() ) ... case IDR_YOURPANE: ... switch( pAction->action ) ... case xtpPaneActionDocking: ... m_yourpaneDockSide = pAction->dockDirection;

brianh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 30 April 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 83	Post Options Post Reply Quote brianh Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 18 May 2004 at 3:38am
	I had already found the 'action' callback and the dockDirection member but my problem is that when I want to add a new pane I have to go through the pane list and identify, for each pane, where it is currently docked, so I don't have an XTP_DOCKINGPANE_ACTION object. I suspect that the dockDirection member is only valid when actually docking a pane (I know for some other actions it just defaults to 'left'), so I guess I could add a map to associate each pane to a dockDirection and maintain it in the 'action' callbacks but it just seems like a lot of work. I would have thought there would be a way to get the dock direction from the pane object itself but I can't see it if there is. Thanks for your help, and sorry to have gone off topic.