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Topic: How to make pane caption != tab caption?

Posted By: MichaelN
Subject: How to make pane caption != tab caption?
Date Posted: 17 September 2010 at 9:06pm

I would like to have a caption in the pane's titlebar but I don't want any text (or not that same text) in the pane's tab. I used pane::SetTitle("mycaption") and it sets both, so then I tried following that with SetTabCaption("") but the tab caption remains "mycaption". Is there a way to do what I want?

Michael

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Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: 18 September 2010 at 7:02am

Hi,

I'm using ActiveX and VB and there's a property .TabCaption

So there's a difference between .Title (caption bar) and .TabCaption (when docked in container shown as tabs) maybe you have something simular with MFC...

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Product: Xtreme SuitePro (ActiveX) version 15.0.2
Platform: Windows XP (32bit) - SP 2
Language: Visual Basic 6.0

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Posted By: MichaelN
Date Posted: 02 October 2010 at 8:51pm

Why no reply from Support on this one? I posted this 2 weeks ago.

The methods provided simply do not work. After creatng a pane, I use the returned pointer to set the 2 strings. Try this in one of the sample apps:

CXTPDockingPane* pPane = m_paneManager.CreatePane( foo )

pPane->SetTitle(_T("A"));

pPane->SetTabCaption(_T("BBB"));

When I run the App, I see "A" on the tab. I also get "A" for the pane title. What is SetTabCaption() supposed to do?

In reality, I want only an icon on the tab but a text title on the visible pane. It is not working.

Posted By: MichaelN
Date Posted: 02 October 2010 at 11:43pm

CodeJock developers:

You need to change this so it allows empty tab caption strings:


CString CXTPDockingPane::GetTabCaption() const

{
  if (m_strTabCaption.IsEmpty())

    return m_strTitle;

  return m_strTabCaption;

}

and also a few other methods that use m_strTabCaption or call GetTabCaption(). At present, (13.4.1) there's no way to have an icon-only tab. I'm setting the caption string to " " as a workaround, but that puts the icon off-center.

Michael

Posted By: MichaelN
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 10:30am

Is this something CodeJock plans to fix in the next version?

Michael

Posted By: pate
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 3:07pm

"I'm using ActiveX and VB and there's a property .TabCaption"

Thanks Aaron, I was not aware that I could use longer names for the pane caption and short ones for the Tabs. To date, my caption titles have been very short.

-Merv

Posted By: MichaelN
Date Posted: 05 October 2010 at 3:13pm

My problem is that CXTDockingPane code explicitly prevents using a zero-length text caption for the tab (see CXTDockingPane code I posted previously). I tried spoofing it using a derived class but it goes deeper than that. I believe this is something CodeJock needs to change for the upcoming version. What are the reasons to support not allowing an icon-only tab?

Michael