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Topic: Get Active Pane

Posted By: developer
Subject: Get Active Pane
Date Posted: 05 August 2004 at 10:50am

I am trying to determine what pane is currently selected/active, regardless of whether it is docked or hidden or floating. I have a custom Theme that changes the selected/active Panes title bars color to orange when it is selected/active. I want the function to return a ptr to that Pane. I didn't find a function that did what I was looking for so I tried to write one but it is not working. I need this so that I can set focus back to what last had focus during certain situations. This is what my current function looks like. Any suggestions or does anyone know of any other function that already does what I am looking for?


CXTPDockingPane* CMyManager::GetActivePane()

{

  CXTPDockingPaneInfoList& paneList = m_paneManager.GetPaneList();

  POSITION pos = paneList.GetHeadPosition();

  

  CXTPDockingPaneTabbedContainer* pContainer = NULL;

  CXTPDockingPane* pPane = NULL;

  while (pos)

  {

    pPane = paneList.GetNext(pos);

    pContainer =  ((CXTPDockingPaneTabbedContainer*)pPane->GetContainer()); 

    if (pContainer && pContainer->IsActive())

    {

      return pPane;

    }

  }

  return NULL;

}

Replies:

Posted By: SuperMario
Date Posted: 06 August 2004 at 7:25am

I believe you can use the IsSelected and Select methods defined in XTPDockingPane.h or IsPaneSelected defined in XTPDockingPaneManager.h.

Posted By: developer
Date Posted: 06 August 2004 at 9:34am

I tried that. Every pane seems to return true for IsPaneSelected. I think IsPaneSelected tells you which pane is selected if the tabs are showing (meaning, more then one pane is attached to another.) I also tried IsSelected but IsPaneSelected calls IsSelected on the pane.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 10 August 2004 at 5:29am

In your method replace:

if (pContainer && pContainer->IsActive())
    {
      return pPane;
    }

if (pContainer && pContainer->IsActive())
    {
      return pContainer->GetSelected();
    }

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: developer
Date Posted: 10 August 2004 at 9:47am

When the item is floating. GetContainer() returns NULL. How do I find the selected pane at that point? Thanks.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 11 August 2004 at 2:20am

It can't be truth. Container for DockingPane is always CXTPDockingPaneTabbedContainer if it visible.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS