Some Q before purshase

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   Hi,

I'm seriously considering to invest in the Xtreme Suite but have a few
questions. Toolbars and Property Grids I pretty much knows about but a
new to working with Docking Panes and how to work with them as well
what can be acomplished. I have read most of the documentation but this
are a few things unclear to me.

If I have undertood it right after reading some of the documentation
it's pretty much the concetp of a normal Tab Control, but instead
putting controls on it, you attache it to a form that have have all the
controls. Is this correct, in a general sense? 

Reading the Tutorials in the trail version there examples for both MDI
and SDI, but the SDI example says "Make sure to select the
MDI...",  is this a typo or does my application need to be of MDI
type, meaning I have to revert it from SDI to start use this control?

Also, I currently use a resizer control from C1, will this cause me any
problems with the Pane control? I figure it might be a problem at least
were I have it to fill the whole form... this is my main form I'm
thinking of where I'm thinking of to put the pane control. But appart
from that, if I attche a form that have a sizer filling it, would that
cause any problems?

Well I guess that was just it, at least for the moment. And I must say your tools look really promising as well :-)

Thanks

JS

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JSram Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22 October 2004 Status: Offline Points: 42	Post Options Post Reply Quote JSram Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Some Q before purshase Posted: 22 October 2004 at 12:42pm
	Hi, I'm seriously considering to invest in the Xtreme Suite but have a few questions. Toolbars and Property Grids I pretty much knows about but a new to working with Docking Panes and how to work with them as well what can be acomplished. I have read most of the documentation but this are a few things unclear to me. If I have undertood it right after reading some of the documentation it's pretty much the concetp of a normal Tab Control, but instead putting controls on it, you attache it to a form that have have all the controls. Is this correct, in a general sense? Reading the Tutorials in the trail version there examples for both MDI and SDI, but the SDI example says "Make sure to select the MDI...", is this a typo or does my application need to be of MDI type, meaning I have to revert it from SDI to start use this control? Also, I currently use a resizer control from C1, will this cause me any problems with the Pane control? I figure it might be a problem at least were I have it to fill the whole form... this is my main form I'm thinking of where I'm thinking of to put the pane control. But appart from that, if I attche a form that have a sizer filling it, would that cause any problems? Well I guess that was just it, at least for the moment. And I must say your tools look really promising as well :-) Thanks JS

SuperMario Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 18057	Post Options Post Reply Quote SuperMario Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 October 2004 at 12:51pm
	Docking panes are somewhat similar to a tabs in a tab control when they are attached in a group, but you can float, dock, and auto hide docking panes. They can be placed in groups (looks similar to tab control), or they can be pulled apart and docked to various places on you application. No, Docking Panes can be uses in both MDI and SDI applications...must be typo I would just try to use it with your sizer control, if you have problems, just ask

JSram Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22 October 2004 Status: Offline Points: 42	Post Options Post Reply Quote JSram Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 October 2004 at 1:21pm
	Ok thanks for fast reply, will head on to test it more, so far only tested the toolbar and Grid. But just to be clear on a point, a pane HAVE to be attached to a form right or can it use any other container? Also when loading the container form, is it possible for the pane to autosize according to the form? If not, that would be a nice feature for coming versions

SuperMario Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 14 February 2004 Status: Offline Points: 18057	Post Options Post Reply Quote SuperMario Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 October 2004 at 1:33pm
	I would thing it could attach to any container as long as it has a hwnd. Haven't tried with anything other than forms. You can use the min and max functions to set the size of the pane. Generally the pane will occupy the entire left, top, right, or bottom unless another pane is attached. In the samples we usually size the form to the pane as it is resized.

JSram Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 22 October 2004 Status: Offline Points: 42	Post Options Post Reply Quote JSram Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 October 2004 at 2:12pm
	Ok lets see now if I have got it right and I'm sorry if I'm a pain but english isn't my native language... With "attach to any container..." do you mean what is "hosted" inside of the pane or were the pane is "hosted" aka aligned to? or would it go for both scenarios? I also looked at the tabcontrol and see it seam to use pretty much the same concept as the pane, attaching a form to it self for each tab, which it seams have to be created at runtime (the tabs)? It's a rather new way of working for me, but maybe it's not bad at all, to design the different parts as forms that will display inside an other form, instead of blow up on top as an "external" process. It's to make use of the forms for what they are, objects. Ok I will pull out my card and bump over to your shop,... and rewrite my project Thanks