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Can a Pane be Any Kind Of Object?

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Topic: Can a Pane be Any Kind Of Object?

Posted By: kent_t
Subject: Can a Pane be Any Kind Of Object?
Date Posted: 24 September 2008 at 4:12pm

Going through the Docking Pane examples I have confused myself as to what type of control/Window can be a "pane."

In the "Docking Containers" example the panes appear to be derived CWnd's. I thought they were going to be a specific class written by CodeJock to work within the framework. If they aren't, I do not have a proplem with that at all. In fact, I would think it's very cool.

Question: Can panes be any resonable window or dialog?

What I have to do is create a dockable "button bar/pane" with labels for each button. It needs to dock to each side of a MDI main window. It's a really simple design. Pressing the buttons will call functions that bring up other various dialog boxes for user interaction. It kind of like a "TooBox" type thing.

Can I use a borderless CDialog as a pane and then have the PaneManager control the docking actions?

Thank you.

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Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 25 September 2008 at 2:09am

Hi,

Any CWnd class can be Pane.

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Smucker
Date Posted: 25 September 2008 at 11:08am

I had problems using CDialog (sorry I can't remember exactly what they were -- perhaps just the scrolling) and switched to CFormView for dialog panes.

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