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Docking a pane can cover the minimized window

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Topic: Docking a pane can cover the minimized window

Posted By: rdhd
Subject: Docking a pane can cover the minimized window
Date Posted: 22 April 2008 at 6:26pm

In a MDI application I can minimize a window and the window will collapse to the lower left side of the client area.

If I have a floating pane that is docked on the left of the frame and I redock it, the minimized MDI window will have its position changed and it stays at the lower left of the (newly recalculated) client area. I have not found the exact mechanism that causes the window to reposition but at least it does.

But if the pane is re-docked at the bottom of the frame, the docking pane covers the minimized window.

How do I get around this problem?

One can also move the minimized window to the right side of the frame. Again, if a pane is then docked on the right side, it will cover the minimized window.

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Posted By: rdhd
Date Posted: 13 May 2008 at 8:21am

I solved the problem by sending the WM_MDIICONARRANGE message to the MDI client window. I added this in the frame's Recalclayout method. That way, even if the user resizes a docking pane, the resize does not cover the iconic windows.